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The bad news: lemlists.com was down for nearly a week due to sarcasm on our dear friends at Network Solutions. sarcasm off The server changed to a new IP address last Saturday, but it took NSI nearly a week to update their records. This is one reason I refuse to use NSI for domain registration. I've been very happy with aitdomains.com, and I know there are a lot of other good alternatives to NSI. The good news: lemlists.com has been resolving since Friday, which is more than I can say for all my domains at present. (See snide comments about NSI above.) This means I can finally read email from the lists. The bad news: I have received digests from Oct. 18 as well as digests dated yesterday, but none in between. I have a request in to the nannies to provide the missing digests if they have them. If they don't, I'll post specific requests to specific lists on Monday. And then I'll have a whole lot of email to wade through. The good news: We are extending the service period for all current LEMlist account holders by one month as our way of apologizing for this extended outage. -- next topic -- To clarify: the focus of these lists is not specifically hardware or an operating system. The focus of the lists is what we do with our Macs; the name of the list indicates what family of Macs or which OS we are dealing with. Explicitly off topic items include politics, religion, and pro-Windows postings. Discussion of things like posting etiquette, blogging, and even language are acceptable as long as they are related to our use of Macs (or Lisas, Newtons, Apple IIs on those lists) or our participation in the list. If they go beyond that scope, the nannies will generally step in, label them officially off topic, and ask for an end to discussion. -- next topic -- In the coming week we hope to announce the Low End Mac Network, which will be hosted at lowendmac.net. (Anyone with links to lowendmac.net should change them to lowendmac.com -- they are already broken.) LEMnet will serve two functions. First, it will be an a la carte alternative to Apple's .mac services. We will offer email accounts, Web space, file storage space, an equivalent to iDisk, and maybe (we're looking into it) WebDAV support for iCal. More details when we have them hammered out. The second function will be to archive Mac related websites that would otherwise vanish into the ether. We will provide free active archiving for defunct websites to keep valuable information from disappearing. Again, we're working on the details. We'll post more information at lowendmac.net -- and to the lists -- as it's available. -- next topic -- Low End Mac as a business has not been what I expected. I have been working three days (17 hours) a week at a local camera shop to supplement income from Low End Mac, which is essentially my full time (40-50 hours per week) job. Sometime in November, I will begin working with a new publisher in the education field. I'll be working 15-20 hours per week, generally M-Th noon until 5:00 pm, which will significantly curtail the amount of time I can spend on LEM during the week. I will be more dependent than ever on the nannies to keep the lists running smoothly. On the plus side, this job will pay a lot better than retailing cameras. On the minus, it will take me away from LEM more hours during the week. With site income where it is, this is a necessary tradeoff. Another plus: I won't have to work Saturdays. I can have my weekends back. :-) -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. http://cobwebpublishing.com http://lowendmac.com http://digital-views.com http://digigraphica.com http://lowendpc.com http://reformed.net Microsoft Windows instead of Unix? How 20th century! -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PB1400 PC card woes
on 10/25/02 3:48 PM, victoria brandon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Schario wrote: Not long ago, I purchased a PowerBook 1400C. I love it. It came to me with a Global Village 56K Modem/Ethernet PC card. Upon sliding it into either card slot however, I receive the following error message, The correct software you need to use the PC Card in the 'Upper/Lower PC Card Slot' is not installed. Do you want to eject the card now? And Brian (B.L. Renfrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]) answered: As I recall from my 1400 days, that message appeared with ANY PC card I inserted. If you just cancel through it, it worked fine. Have you tried that? I too have a GV combined PC card (28K upgraded to 33K, not 56K alas, so the drivers wouldn't be of any help to Stephen) and get this message from time to time, but only when for some reason (such as starting with extensions off) the correct software is indeed not installed. Cancelling through is fine, everything else works, but not, for obvious reasons, the modem or ethernet connection. Finding the upgrade was a major chore, so I hope the link posted yesterday is still in business. Best, Victoria You have to have the software/driver to use the card Try going to the mfr's home page. -- Mike Amato -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: PB1400 PC card woes
victoria Hi I have one of these cards in my 3400 now it connects through my dial up at 33.6 or 48.8 depending on what time of day i connect. It works with out the software useing the built in gv 56k script in the os. I have the software also on a cd but you would need a tomb installer to load it I never bothered with the 3400 (because it worked anyway) However it will not work with or without software on my 1400cs. Victoria. I can compress the software and mail it later if you want. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Changing IE's Search selection to Google
Or there is a resedit hack you can use to change the search button to give you Google, since MS doesn't include it as one of the choices. Search on resexcellence.com to find it. -- JSH Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:34:57 -0400 Subject: Re: Changing IE's Search selection to Google From: Mike Amato [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/25/02 7:40 PM, James Greenidge at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have IE 4.1 running on my PB 190 and I want to reconfigure the Search item on its button bar to launch Google, except IE doesn't seem to allow you to. Is there a way to swing this? Thanks JimWG Go to Google's home page, go under Sevices and Tools. You'll find a set of buttons you can put on your Personal toolbar. I did this, they have 3 different ones you can use on a Mac. They have a complete toolbar, but that is for pc's only. Very handy. -- Mike Amato -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Request for PB 145b repair manual
A few days ago I requested a pdf manual. Folks seemed to come out of the woodwork with it. I was overwhelmed with the consideration of all who helped or offered to. I'm thinking there are a lot of people here like myself who are lurking and learning. Now, if only I had a laptop to go with each copy of the manual I received. :-) Thanks to all for your time and generosity. Chuck -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Souping Up My PB 190: RAM Startup Disk
Greetings! To Any Mac maven: In the Battery Tips section of my PB 190's Help feature, it mentions setting up a RAM Disk as a startup disk to minimize hard drive use but doesn't explain how you turn a RAM Disk into a startup disk. Any ideas? Thanks! JimWG -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Can't turn VM off ???
I just installed a fresh 9.1 on my 1400/G3, and wanted to use RamDoubler instead of Virtual Memory, but the system won't let me turn VM off, gives me an alert saying that the 1400 doesn't have enough memory to run without VM, and that I should buy more memory...! The system takes up 14 mb of the 36 mb installed, I can't se why it complains that way. Any ideas about how to get around this stupidity? TIA Tina *^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^* Tina Holm, Pederstrup Djurs, DK. http://www.nehaia.dk/ I'll figure something out eventually, I guess... *^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^*^^* -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Wireless PB 1400?
On 10/24/02 3:52 PM Steven Schario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am considering a wireless network for my PowerBook and PM 6500. Anyone who would be willing to share any positive and/or negative experiences would be appreciated. Thanks again, Steve Steve, The Orinoco card should work with the 1400 as long as you're using 8.6 or higher software. The 6500 would require an internal wireless PCI card, I forget the name of the company that has them. Or you can use an ehternet/wireless bridge from Linksys if you already have Ethernet on the 6500. Above and beyond that you'll probably want a wireless Access Point with a router built in to share an internet connection. Not knowing the specifics of your network it's tough to generalize anymore, give a shout if you have specific questions. Joe -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Souping Up My PB 190: RAM Startup Disk
James Greenidge at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Battery Tips section of my PB 190's Help feature, it mentions setting up a RAM Disk as a startup disk to minimize hard drive use but doesn't explain how you turn a RAM Disk into a startup disk. Any ideas? First you assign the RAM disk enough memory to hold your entire system folder (you'd better have memory to burn!), then copy the folder over onto it, then go to the Startup Disk control panel and select it as the startup. Best, Victoria -- Regime change begins at home: VOTE! -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Souping Up My PB 190: RAM Startup Disk
Hi James, First you assign the RAM disk enough memory to hold your entire system folder (you'd better have memory to burn!), if you have not enought memory to use your hard drive 's system folder (which may be very big) you can use instead the network access floppy image from the Apple site 's older software downloads page : http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html That floppy contains a very light system 7.5 for any mac. Just add to that system all the extensions and control panels you really need. Booting from a RAM disk makes your mac being faster than ever. You can copy to the RAM disk the softwares and documents you use too. That way you will not need to read/write to your hard drive and you could put it in sleep mode which increases a lot the battery autonomy. regards, Mehdi -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: 1400 no backlight on startup
Some 1400s needed a software fix for the backlight controls, brightness and contrast. One of mine had similar problems: extremely dark screen, contrast and brighter controls didn't work. It also came on for a few seconds at normal brightness before blacking out. The file is called PowerBook 1400 PMU Updater. Its listed for OS 7.5 and 7.6 but I needed it with 8.6 also. I can send you the file if you think it might help. John on 10/26/02 3:32 PM, PowerBooks at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, My 1400 has started failing to light up the backlight on startup. At first it would come on for a few seconds, then fail. Given a few more boots it would come on. Now it seems to have given up the ghost all together. Any suggestions? Clae. -- -the lord is my shepherd, I shall not want - aum namah shivayam - allah u akhbar - - in memoriam for the people of all nations and faiths killed in Bali - -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Can't turn VM off ???
--- Tina Holm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed a fresh 9.1 on my 1400/G3, and wanted to use RamDoubler instead of Virtual Memory, but the system won't let me turn VM off, gives me an alert saying that the 1400 doesn't have enough memory to run without VM, and that I should buy more memory...! The system takes up 14 mb of the 36 mb installed, I can't se why it complains that way. Any ideas about how to get around this stupidity? TIA Tina 9.1 may take that much memory IF VM is turned OFF, but of course it takes far less RAM with VM turned ON. This is due to the file mapping characteristic of VM. You might try starting up with Extensions OFF or maybe just get rid of a lot of them and then see if it will let you turn off VM. Greg __ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:powerbooks;mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:powerbooks-off;mail.maclaunch.com For digest mode, email: mailto:powerbooks-digest;mail.maclaunch.com Subscription questions: mailto:listmom;lowendmac.com Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
