Re: What drive can I upgrade a 3400c with?
Tom W. wrote: Just wondering if the 3400c, and 1400c for that matter, will take the same size hard drives out of the lombards and pismos? Thanks Tom -- My wife makes itty bitty horse tack http://www.darkstormstudio.com http://editor.weeklyzone.com I put a new 5400 rpm 40 gig IDE in mine, no problem. Much quieter too. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Moving to Google Groups
On Feb 12, 2006, at 2:25 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote: Google can track me by IP, and I can't do anything about that. But voluntarily giving Google more info (like my email address, my proclivity for talking about Macs, etc) sounds like a bad idea. Right now, somebody has to go figure that out by adding up information from various websites. Using Google puts it all right there in Google's database. Is anybody else concerned about this, or am I just paranoid? - Oh, you aren't the only one concerned, but there isn't going to be much occurring that isn't _already_. The web archives of this list are open, and google is already indexing these lists. Same with some of the netbsd ones I'm on- I googled for ideas about a problem I was having, top on the list of hits, the post I'd made the previous day s to port-cobalt. Look, it took me 5 seconds to take a snip from your last email to this list (of Feb 4) and find you via google: (the h t t p part whacked to try and defeat list filters): www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=q=%22IOxperts+wrote+a+Prism+chipset +driver...%22btnG=Search What have you been *doing* for almost 2 weeks without a post here, Drew? Meeting with your radical Mac underground group? :) We will have to watch you more closely. Seriously, this search engine creep isn't a great thing, especially with the google toolbar sucking all you *documents* to their server for harvesting- unbelieveable! But moving the lists to google, while I don't like it either (will the darn footers get shorter as the big guy will get ad revenue now??? I hope so) won't obviously be that much different than what gets archived now. I guess you could count google's access to full email addresses as a change, since currently those are munged in the archive. The munging is a comparatively new thing though, IIRC they used to be put back intact. So all of our full email addresses persist in google forever from those days. Brian -- Typical traditional philosophical question: If a tree falls in the woods but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Bill Clinton's philosophical question: It depends on what the meaning of 'is', is. Bush administration's philosophical ponderings: If the person you are torturing is held in another country, is it still torture?? -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Files get bloated copying to 3400c
The old non-HFS+ filesystem wastes a ton of space if you have a small file, the minimum block size is comparatively large on the old filesystem format. On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:11 AM, Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: copy a folder that is just over 100MB from my G4 to the PB3400 over Apple talk and wireless and it turns into almost 1GB on the PB3400 full of tiny files was it? I make a stuffit file on the G4 of the just over 100MB folder. the stuffit file is approx 14.1MB I would say so. I copy the stuffit file to the PB3400 where it turns into 15MB Yah, that's about right, I think. There were commercial utils that would convert your HD from the one format to the other non-destructively. I ran it on my 6400 way back when and recovered a useful amount of space. Many 10's of megs anyway, if not more. You don't mention the OS of filesystem on the 3400 but I'm pretty sure this is what you were seeing- especially with the data comparing the folder vs. the single file. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Files get bloated copying to 3400c
On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:03 AM, Matthew S. Carpenter wrote: Brian McEwen wrote: The old non-HFS+ filesystem wastes a ton of space if you have a small file, the minimum block size is comparatively large on the old filesystem format. Oh! I didn't reformat the drive when I upgraded the 3400 from OS 7.6 to OS 9.1 so it's still just HFS rather than HFS extended. I need to change that. The 100MB folder has a folder in it that is full of sub 1MB files over 1,000 of them. Thank you. -Matt I think it was Alsoft? That had the little conversion utility. Should be really cheap by now :) Anyway that would save a reformat etc. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Cleaning a display?
On Jan 31, 2006, at 10:56 PM, Noah Wood wrote: I usually just get a soft piece of paper towel and dab one end with a little windex and wipe it off, works on my 1400, then it dries without need to wipe again. As for getting into corners like what I'm guessing you want to do, I'm not so sure there. cleaners like that can be really bad for soft plastics. Displays have several layers of coatings to them, these cleaners can damage some of them. I'd use a cleaner that's safe for laptop displays and glasses (similarly vulnerable anti-glare coatings on your glasses can also be damaged by glass cleaners). B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: New Low End Mac email lists
Andrew Kershaw wrote: The Macintel list, which covers all Intel-based Macs... [snip] Once the MacBook Pro ships, we're ready to launch the MacBook List. I've also set up a Mac mini List. Does anyone else find it even slightly amusing that LOW END Mac is running these lists? ;-) Peace, Drew At the pricing levels I've seen for the Intel Mac, I'd say they were pretty low end! $1499 is right in my budget and my budget certainly is low end. :) What's really funny, to me, is the twice as fast claim. While it's probably true, I liken it to those Chevy ads from the '60s where they claimed Now that's more like it! It's a whole new world out there for Macs now and I'm glad to see that lem is right on top of things. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: New Low End Mac email lists
yersinia wrote: It's just that I wish there was a list for people like me. ~Yersinia. I've been looking all my life for one of those for me! LOL BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: OT - Wireless Access Point info
Don Wakefield wrote: This post is a bit off topic, but I hope someone can help. I have a House Branded Wireless Access Point purchased at CompUSA approximately 2 years ago (when they were blowing out the 802.11B only products to make room for the 802.11G's) At first, since I was the only kid on the block with wireless, I set it up naked and ran without wired equivalent protection settings. Recently I have noticed another signal in the neighborhood and it is now time that I locked my unit down! The problem is that in the two years since installing it and letting it sit, the unit no longer responds to the password I gave it. My guess is that it has regressed to the default settings possibly from one of our past power outages. I have pushed the reset button on the unit, (just to be sure we were starting from scratch,) and now need to have the Default password to get in. Naturally I cannot find the instruction manual and I am hoping that somebody in the group will have a similar unit and will be able to provide me with the missing password. Any ideas on how to start over would be appreciated. This is what I know about the unit: MAC address: 0008A1425AD7 DA CompUSA SKU: 295105 My guess is that it was originally made by CNet Technologies (but they no longer admit to any products before G's.) Any router I have used has the default password unset, you just type in 'admin' and leave the password section blank. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Subject: duo modem driver
On Jan 1, 2006, at 8:40 PM, Tom and Lisa Peters wrote: Well, nuts. I dloaded it, and its only an updater. Where do I get 2.5.X ? I vaguely recall some sort of trick with this software. Mad Dog IIRC, GV liked to SAY it was an upgrade file, but it really contained all the stuff you would need. I had a GV modem in my 6400. I'd just install it and I'm quite sure that all will be well. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: USB and the 1400 ?
On Dec 22, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Ken Norris wrote: OOL? Hmmmthat's a new one ;-) (we know it's probably just a typo --- ) AYPI ? Just a WAG, it's because SOL is ruder :) He's Outta Luck. LOL . AFAIK. But GMTA. HTH, HAND. -Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: CF boot drive and hard drive spin-up problem persists
Check out this : http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/hardware/pb150/PB150_and_CompactFlash.html CF replaces hard drive. This is from hackaday. Pertains, I hope, to the current discussion except the CF actually replaces the hard drive. Fairly technical but just reading it provides some details on how the chain works. Any real techies out there might want to check out hackaday now and then. There are some very good hacks on things we all use. If you live in an apartment building, the elevator button hack works really well! It's hackaday dot com if anyone is looking for something different. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Ethernet, Battery recondition and other things.
Ed Gibson wrote: I'm using a program on my XP unit called PC Maclan and can share PDF's, Word Documents, Pictures, and many other things over a network (or through a RJ45 crossover network cable). Don't remember what it cost but I don't believe it was very expensive. Ed I should get something like that. My scsi scanner is on my G3 so when I scan I have to email the .tif to myself. By times I can connect to my pcs with OS X but that is spotty. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
1400/9.1/appletalk won't start
Hi all; I've had this problem once before, but I can't remember nor search the fix this time. I have a 1400/G3/9.1 with a working Orinoco gold 802.11b card or a 3COM ethernet card for connectivity. For whatever reason, the appletalk is not loading, I can't even get it active enough to try a serverIP connect. Opening appletalk cdev and picking the wireless card give an error, an error occurred using Orinoco, please check your network settings are correct. Someone here posted last time the name of a hidden (invisible) file to delete that I think cleared this; either that, or I did another clean install of OS9 and copied all my system stuff back over.I hope the former!! I've trashed all the regular prefs but it hasn't helped. Thanks for help; Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Ethernet, Battery recondition and other things.
Marcel Pierson wrote: Hi, How can i connect by ethernet (The powerbook has and expansion ethernet card) my powerbook 1400 and my Pentium III XP direct by net cable without a hub?, i read that if i run linux i can use SAMBA, so, MAC 8.5.1 (Or 9.1) to XP? Thanks, Marcel. By connect by ethernet, I assume you mean to the Internet, right? Easiest and cheapest is to buy a router and connect both computers to it. Can't really see any reason to connect to the XP computer since there wouldn't be anything to share between them. Even with OS X there is only one-way communication (Mac to PC). As far as I know PCs with XP or anything else don't know Macs exist. Welcome to the list. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Newbie having problems with 2400c - Help needed
Tom Wilkinson wrote: I found out from the seller that I could use a Duo adapter from my 280c, so I did this. Thanks Tom Believe me, don't trust what someone on the swap lists says. Check it yourself BEFORE you buy. The swap list is only slightly different from e bay. On e bay you have more recourse. IMHO that is. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Subject: Re: PB 160 - appears dead - Charlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Subject: Re: PB 160 - appears dead Electronics is my hobby and power supplies are my thing. In general I don't open up those wall warts. I have about 150 of them I've collected over the years, and can usually find one that matches my needs in this pile of tangled wires and plugs. But sometimes I can't, and it's time to pry the offender open and inspect the guts. I believe you have isolated your problem. Realize that the output from that plug will be somewhat higher than 7.5 volts when you check it with a voltmeter while it's not under load. When it's loaded (plugged into the computer, computer operating) the measured output voltage could be about 9 volts. If it's as much as 10 volts I'd be concerned. With some wall warts the components inside are potted. This means the components are imbedded in epoxy or another polymer. This also means that getting to the individual components is impossible. In extreme cases I have used a hacksaw to (carefully!!) cut the box away from the plate that has the plugs that go into the wall. Very carefully!! Sometimes a well-placed screwdriver will do the job. I would not start whacking away at it until totally convinced that there's a good reason to look inside. In high-quality power supplies there is a voltage control regulator... either a fairly large zener diode or a regulator chip that controls the output voltage. If it's not potted, then maythe zener diode may be easy to replace. In the best of worlds the zener diode has a number on it that can be looked up to learn (1) it's voltage and (2) its wattage. Replacing a voltage control regulator chip requires a lot of tender loving care. If you do open it, look for parts that seem to have been overheated. If you work with electronics, the trick is to load it with a high-wattage resistor across the output and check for parts that are getting too hot. Then check voltages at appropriate points, etc. I wonder whether the adapter you are using is putting out a good, solid 7.5 volts when it's loaded? From: Charlie H. Charlie, I just realized that my response yesterday was in error. When I switched the meter range from 10 to 50 volts, the reading was in the low end of the 50 range so you're right, it probably is sending out something more than 10 but not really high when the PS isn't under a load. The connecting pin seems very loose on the pin coming from the laptop so maybe there isn't sufficient contact to power up. I think this should be intermittent however instead of always dead. Thanks for the responses, I'll post again if I ever figure out what the problem is. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB 160 - appears dead
Christopher Cate wrote: Hi Brian - You do have to press the button in the back, as there isn't a power button on the keyboard. My first mac was a PB 160 (which I still have - though it's not in good shape anymore). Let me know if I can help further. -Chris Thanks for the responses. I did a check of the PS and it's shooting out way over the 7.5V that it's rated at. Then I hooked the 160 up with my ac/dc adapter, set at 7.5 postive tip and I got a screen. Lots of interference but at least I know it's the PS not the main unit. Probably a resistor gone in the PS I'm thinking. Has anyone taken the PS apart on these? Looks like the plug slides out somehow. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Subject: Re: PB 160 - appears dead
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Subject: Re: PB 160 - appears dead I wonder whether the adapter you are using is putting out a good, solid 7.5 volts when it's loaded? From: Charlie H. Thanks for the info Charlie. When I measured the output, no load, it was over 50 volts as far as I could tell. The needle bounced when set to 10V dc so I switched the settting to read 50+ and the needle went a couple of volts higher than 0. I have a digital meter somewhere, but the somewhere is the problem. If the voltage is as high as I think it is then I'm surprised that the main unit isn't fried. Is there a regulator inside it to stop too much power from getting in? As I said, when I hooked up the multiple lead adapter to it, set to 7.5V, the screen came alive. The adapter is the kind one would use for a radio or keyboard, variable voltage and head polarity and certainly not 2A I don't think. The other Mac transformer I have is from a 230 duo but the voltage is a lot higher so no use there. I have several other transformers that I will take a look at, never actually thought that one might work. Thanks for the tip! BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
PB 160 - appears dead
Hi Crew! I just picked up a 160 which looks like it's in great shape cosmetically, except it seems stone dead. There is no battery in it. Would that affect whether it boots or not? I doubt it. Then again, I don't even know how to turn it on, I'm guessing the button on the rear left but maybe there is a trick on the keyboard. Any suggestions as to what to look for first? Thanks. I consider this sort of a rescue since it was about to go in the trash at the Sally Ann store. Got it for 7 bucks. If it really is dead and someone can use it for parts, contact me off list. I'm in Toronto. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB 1400 CD ROM
Tom and Lisa P wrote: I remember someone on this list made a how-to on changing cable select CD ROM mechanisms to master/slave so they could work on a PB 1400. Anyone remember ? thanks, Mad Dog Isn't it just a jumper on the back? Everything I have, including my new dual layer DVD writer is set up with a jumper for cs/slave/master. Are there pure cs cd drives? BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB 1400 CD ROM
Brian Mahoney wrote: Tom and Lisa P wrote: I remember someone on this list made a how-to on changing cable select CD ROM mechanisms to master/slave so they could work on a PB 1400. Anyone remember ? thanks, Mad Dog Isn't it just a jumper on the back? Everything I have, including my new dual layer DVD writer is set up with a jumper for cs/slave/master. Are there pure cs cd drives? BM Ignore that, sorry. Makes no sense even to me. This might help : http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/ebms.html bm -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c Sleep light
Ian Nixon wrote: With much respect and appreciation, Ivy, I don't think you understand the problem. I hear the slight noise only when the LED is lit - no HD, not a power-up noise, etc. I really appreciate your help, but it's kinda *not* helping, if you know what I mean. Keep suggestions coming though! Something could be the answer... :-) Someone suggested something and the reply told them they weren't helping, 'if you know what I mean.' I'm sure we're all going to jump in now and try to help. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c Sleep light
On Nov 13, 2005, at 7:16 AM, Ian Nixon wrote: The light is an LED and the when they make a sound, they only do it once (when they blow up - personal experience). I hope this isn't what's happening - one more thing to add to the list to fix :-P (PRAM battery, PRAM battery cable, RAM card, etc.) I'll offer, with greatest regards, that a blown-up LED won't continue to light up, so is rather unlikely to make repeating popping sounds, rather, as Clark indicated, just one pop. After that, the magic smoke is gone and it no longer will work. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB5300 - NiMH on fire
On Nov 13, 2005, at 7:42 PM, matthew.j.ellis wrote: PB 5300c running OS8.6. A capacitor type whining from under the palm rest, and considerable heat building up. The battery had begun to cook around the positive terminal, plastic was decomposed and fused to terminal points within the battery bay. IIRC, the 5300 had a flaming battery recall for repair. Only one or two started cooking, but it was enough to bring them all back. A few years ago Apple was still repairing these but I think the drop dead date for all 5300 recalls finally has passed (the 7 yr window or whatever). When I was still using my 5300's I knew the stamps on the cases that indicated if they had had the repair or not; but now I do not recall. I should finally sell some of the neat old powerbooks I have... What is the history of this 5300? New to you? anyone able to help with the codes that show it had been in for the what, 2? recall/ replacement programs for the 5300? Maybe there were 3 things that could get replaced, even... Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB5300 - NiMH on fire
On Nov 13, 2005, at 9:26 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: My understanding is that the 5300 was planned to be released with Li-on batteries but a couple of the prototype batteries overheated due to manufacturing problems with the batteries. The 5300 was therefore released with Ni-Mh batts instead. Oh, that's right. and my 5300's had 2 stamps, one for the plastics, one for the MB swap for the power connector. Thanks. -B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: G3 Buying advice.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But in the tens of G3s I've worked on I've had FAR more issues with Wallstreets - non-booting, battery charging and power management problems - than on the Lombards and Pismos put together. Half the Wallstreets I work on have bad Power Manager boards. Very few have bad sound/power input boards. The price of Wallstreet Is and IIs on the surplus market is now so low that buying them just for the 14.1 screen (complete with working hinges) ... or working PMU ... or working whatever ... alone, is worth the price. Mind if I ask what the Wallstreet IIs are going for? Haven't found a way to check real sales except on that auction site. Are the prices on the everymac information pages legitimate or are they pretty outdated? The problem I have around here is that no one seems to know the names of the mac laptops. Without that it's hard to find out what they're selling. When you email the seller, they frequently know nothing beyond turning it on and using it. When you think about it, that's probably just the way it should be! BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c Li-Ion Battery?
On Oct 30, 2005, at 1:09 AM, Andrew Kershaw wrote: For Lithium Ion? WHERE?! I might pick up two or ten at that price! There's not huge point in stocking up on multiple Lithium batteries- their total capacity will degrade to 50% of original in 2 years whether you use them or not. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c Li-Ion Battery?
Brian McEwen wrote: There's not huge point in stocking up on multiple Lithium batteries- their total capacity will degrade to 50% of original in 2 years whether you use them or not. B Interesting suggestion. What is the source of your information? BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c Li-Ion Battery?
On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Brian Mahoney wrote: Interesting suggestion. What is the source of your information? BM Interesting factiod you mean? LiIon batteries have been around for a while, this has come up once or twice on any forum I've viewed, especially camera and PDA forums I guess. http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm is one good spot; the wikipedia entry for LiIon is pretty good. Googling finds others. Basically: LiIon batteries lose capacity over time whether you use them or not; storage condition makes a difference. 50% charged and cool helps a lot for storing, so if you have a spare battery that you don't use much that is a good thing to try for. for the battery you are using, it's best to keep it topped up rather than letting them go totally down. HEAT IS BAD for all batteries, but it has a marked effect on LiIon. It's a good thing to keep them cool at all times you can manage. So take that iPod out of it's protective case when charging, don't charge your laptop when it's on the sofa, put it on the wood table, etc. Replies I got from makers of replacement LiIoon batteries when I was buying spares indicated 50% loss of max capacity after 2-3 years wether they are used or not; so stocking up on many spares was not recommended, even by the guys who made the batteries I was buying (www.laptopsforless.com, battery for my Sony Clie UX-50 -I highly recommend these guys for batteries for many devices). HTH. Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c Li-Ion Battery?
On Oct 30, 2005, at 6:08 PM, Tom Lee wrote: Re-celling is hard to do. Because it's dangerous, you can't buy loose cells on the open market. If you do find some, just be careful. Don't solder to them (spot weld the battery connections), or you're risking rapid uncontrolled disassembly. This is *not* an operation for the casual hacker. Also, there's a electronic component on each cell that ends up optimizing that cell, is my casual understanding, and it's next to impossible to get naked batteries with that component assembly on the consumer market. It's not just like getting a NiMH cell or 6 and DIY. There are good resellers of assembled packs for most applications; not sure about old PB battery innards but I expect someone somewhere has figured out the form factor. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
OT but it's about browsers - (Re: Best web browser) plus wallstreet question
Haven't seen this mentioned on here, sorry if it has. There is a new beta browser offered for OS X, called Flock. Seems pretty cool, although I haven't really gotten into it yet. Much like Firefox but it's open source and seems to offer more 'social' features as they call them. Good for bloggers which is what I use it for. Question about my new wallstreet. :) (excellent deal btw.) With 128 megs of ram, is it worth installing Jaguar? I suspect it would bog it down too much. I'll have to investigate this. Since I sold my 3400cs, I was worried I'd have to ditch the group! Is there an archive for this group so I can check out future questions on my toy? Thanks. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: OT but it's about browsers - Apologies, I guess a wallstreet isn't a powerbook
Brian Mahoney wrote: Haven't seen this mentioned on here, sorry if it has. There is a new beta browser offered for OS X, called Flock. Seems pretty cool, although I haven't really gotten into it yet. Much like Firefox but it's open source and seems to offer more 'social' features as they call them. Good for bloggers which is what I use it for. Question about my new wallstreet. :) (excellent deal btw.) With 128 megs of ram, is it worth installing Jaguar? I suspect it would bog it down too much. I'll have to investigate this. Since I sold my 3400cs, I was worried I'd have to ditch the group! Is there an archive for this group so I can check out future questions on my toy? Thanks. BM I realized that as soon as I hit send. Gotta go to the G3 group, right? BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Powerbook 100 help
On Oct 25, 2005, at 4:58 PM, Kyle Koerner wrote: New to this list and new to the Powerbook world. I just purchased a Powerbook 100 in good condition from eBay, with the following issue: The hard drive is not seen. I have tried Disk Setup and SCSIProbe 4.3, and neither can see the drive. When the drive spins up, it makes the sound like it's trying to initialize, but it can't, then it tries again, and then it boots from the floppy. It's almost like the hard drive is stuck. This is a little hard: the drive sounds failed, although there are some things you can try in a last ditch hope to bring it back, this isn't good. In all likelihood the drive is dead; at best, if you can bring it back, it's not going to be trustworthy. The problem is that the pb100 uses a laptop (2.5) internal SCSI drive; made of unobtanium these days, you can only get very old ones. With the proper cables you could try booting it from an external SCSI drive though. Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Powerbook 100 help
On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Kyle Koerner wrote: Anyone care to elaborate on drive-rejuvenation voodoo ;-)? well, you can get whatever disk repair tools will work on that old of a system, could be it's just really trashed itself, but that is unlikely. Only tool I know of from back then was Norton. You can put it in a low temp oven to try and dry out the bearing grease; that's really a fix for a different era of desktop drives, the bearing grease would pick up moisture over time, become thick, and the drive motor would not spin it properly. Driving off the moisture could fix the grease. Really not likely for a pb100 drive though. You can freeze it briefly :) not sure of the mystic voodoo for that one, but you can google for success stories. You can keep booting from RAM disk :) Could be able to do that and still be abel to run Word 5.1a perhaps. You could try putting it in SCSI disk mode, hooked to a Apple desktop with SCSI port, and see if you can see the drive from the other computer (which might have better repair tools to try). You can keep an eye out for small laptop SCSI drives, used. I think you're stuck with Apple-ROMed ones, too. Others? regularly boot from an external drive, is all I can think of. luck, Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: nanny note Re: Service manual
On Oct 9, 2005, at 10:06 PM, John Perry wrote: That's a surprise. If Apple distributes these things over their web site, why on Earth would they object to someone telling someone else that they do it, and give the relevant reference? I found and downloaded the 190 manual on my own, but it would have been nice to have had it handy without threading through all those Apple search screens. Now, distributing the document itself is another matter entirely, of course. But the URL?? That's already public, if possibly not widely known. I'm not sure you actually got the TECHNICIANs service manual from Apple- which is what people were asking about. Maybe you did, but I suspect not. -B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: nanny note Re: Service manual
Don Wakefield wrote: Not to belabor a point, but I am curious as to whether or not it is even possible for someone in the lay community, to obtain: * ethically * legally * morally * unfatteningly or in any other way, secure a manual for insert your favorite Apple number or code name of your choice here. Probably not. You can get them but this list isn't the way to do it. If someone comes down hard, it's not that they're super-starched, it's because Apple could probably shut the list down somehow. On the 'net you can get anything you want, just like Alice's, if you look for it. Lists like this aren't the easy alternative to Google. Creative searching works for me. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Help
David I Hassett wrote: Hi I am a newbie to this list. I was given a Mac Power Book 145B. It has System 7.1 and Microsoft. I need some guidence on how to get files from my PC to the floppy drive on the Mac. I have some stuff I have dowloaded but I am having a hard time understanding it. Dave Someone will come up with something better probably but I have used Transmac for a few years. It formats a disc on your PC that can be read on your Mac. Good for mosts docs and the like. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB 1400, OS 8.1 and Wi-fi
On Sep 28, 2005, at 1:01 PM, Roger Andre wrote: - I do not have an Alternate Ethernet connection option in my Appletalk Control Panel. All I have are: Ethernet, IRTalk, Modem/ Printer, and Remote Only. This is a problem that you must resolve. Without an alternate ethernet option in appletalk and (whatever the regular netowrk control panel was called in 8.1) your card isn't available for use. What options do you have in the internet connections control panel (TCP/IP or network or whatever it was called in 8.1- the same place you select DHCP etc). Also, Appletalk is different than TCP/IP network settings, you want the other network control panel for your initial setup. -B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
3400c - two available
I have two 3400cs available. Email me off-list for details. I'm in Canada by the way. I'd love for someone to take both in one shot but I will sell them separately if necessary. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: OT- What non-Macs do you own?
Caleb Cupples wrote: I noticed it getting quiet and I was just curious to know what non-Macs all you have. Please list OS and processor type. Caleb While I have quite a few Macs and Apples, I think most of my collection is x86 based. I'll start with the newer ones then delve a bit into my collection a bit: AMD Athlon 2500/1 gig ram/2x80 gig drives in raid 0 and a new 16xSamsung dvd writer, Windows ME three Celerons for the kids, 466/700/700 with 98 in one and the others use ME a very cool and quick Toshiba 2615 laptop using ME, but with a DVD drive that is so smooth it is hard to believe it's a Celeron 466 with 128 ram. All of the above are networked with my g3/333 and my two 3400cs. My collection of oldies includes such unique items as a Toshiba 6066c semi-laptop with a DX2-66 486 chip and 98 as an os. Full size scsi CD drive/ IDE hard drive (3.5 inch) but no battery. Nice color screen. Gridcase 1520 286 - unknown OS - same unit as used in Aliens. It's a magnesium laptop, very solid, made for military use. A NeXT box, several PCjrs, several PS2 models from IBM both laptops and desktops as well as a huge server unit , several Commodore 128s/64s/286s/ as well as a KIM 1, Tandys of many descriptions including the small TRS80 and a couple of laptops with integral printers, several Apple clones including a Laser 128 as well as a Decider which is in perfect condition but I know nothing about it other than it's an Apple II clone, an Orange Micro, two Franklin Aces, several Hyperions which were 8088 based and were sold before the Compaq portable. The Hyperions were made and sold in Canada (some were later made in Houston) and the company had Michael Copeland on board before he decided to run and ruin Corel, an Alextel which is 8088 based as I recall and was a forerunner of the Internet here in Canada. You could subscribe to data from Bell and play games and check stocks/scores etc. The phone still works as does the screen but the subscription service is long gone. Ran around 1981 or just a bit later. Small unit with a 9 inch screen and flipdown keyboard/touchpad. If anyone here collects old computers, they may want to have their names added to the collector's list that I maintain in two places, one as a link from my geocities home page and the other as a geocities site on it's own. Tip : If you look up 'antique computers' on google, my site pops up in the fifth and sixth spot. Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want to be added to the list, DON'T reply to this email please. The list has some of the 'big' names in computer collecting on it so you'll be in pretty heady company if you decide to join. Hey, it's free too. Only serious collectors who are willing to perform rescues of equipment need apply! Thanks. Check out the collector's site here : http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/9107/collectors.htm or here : http://www.geocities.com/computercollectors/index.htm BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
OT - kind of quiet so here's a way to increase your wifi range
125 miles is slightly larger than the distance from my router to my back yard but some of you may have larger houses and lots. :) http://pasadena.net/shootout05/ There is also a site which describes the use of an wooden handled noodle strainer to achieve ranges of 10 k or so. If you have a USB wifi adapter and a reasonably long cable, you might be able to get free wifi access. Additionally, you can make a cheap pcmcia wifi card antenna from a fruit juice can and some small connector bits and pieces to increase the range of your pcmcia wifi card by at least two times. Pardon the intrusion but there appear to be some tinkerers on here who might enjoy experimenting. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
affect of bad battery? pb 230
My powerbook duo 230 has been useless since I got it last summer, bad keyboard, freezing after boot etc. Tried it again yesterday and it wouldn't boot at all. Bright idea this morning involved taking the battery out, batteries are long dead anyway. It booted up, no problem, and hasn't seized up yet. Would a dead battery actually negatively affect the computer so that it wouldn't run at all or freeze up after booting? Probably more the power manager or something but I'm wondering if some of the 'dead' pbs out there might be resurrected by removing the battery? I'll play around with this one today but it's never lasted more than a minute without freezing up. If this is old news, just ignore me, but I haven't seen this quick fix before. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: affect of bad battery? pb 230
Brian Mahoney wrote: My powerbook duo 230 has been useless since I got it last summer, bad keyboard, freezing after boot etc. Tried it again yesterday and it wouldn't boot at all. Bright idea this morning involved taking the battery out, batteries are long dead anyway. It booted up, no problem, and hasn't seized up yet. Would a dead battery actually negatively affect the computer so that it wouldn't run at all or freeze up after booting? Probably more the power manager or something but I'm wondering if some of the 'dead' pbs out there might be resurrected by removing the battery? I'll play around with this one today but it's never lasted more than a minute without freezing up. If this is old news, just ignore me, but I haven't seen this quick fix before. BM OK so it went for a couple of hours then the black bomb came up, sorry, a system error occurred. Finder floating point coprocessor not installed which sounds rather more serious than a dead battery. Well, at least it boots again. If anyone has any suggestions on the floating point error, that's cool, but not a huge deal. I suspect something on the board is fried. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Best Enclosure?
On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:45 AM, Howard R. Katz wrote: FYI, deals abound on ebay too. I just picked up a 200 GB unit for under $115, including shipping. (Still can't get those partitions to change format tho--disk utility only is giving me the MS-DOS choice.) What version of disk utility? (or OS I guess). B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Best Enclosure?
On Aug 5, 2005, at 7:58 AM, Howard R. Katz wrote: OS X tiger. I was able to use it to partition the thing - originally was goingto do one partition for the mac and the 2nd as MS-DOS for someone's peecee, but I may just reformat as one large Mac drive. :) I got the 2-partition thing to work, but I was fiddling- I set it up as one partition mac, once version unix, then changed the unix one to FAT32 on a PC. I've not done it from scratch on the Mac, but it should not be intrinsically much different than one Mac, one Unix partition... This was 10.2.8. Can you get one mac/ one unix partition set up at least? If not, that's just strange. Today or tomorrow I will get one more drive (Seagate 5 yr warranty 120gig $40 at Circuit City :) and set up one more external box, so I can play at that time. I think someone asked about what utility I used to do this a couple weeks ago, sorry I didn't get back about that. HTH. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
OT - OS X shadow files?
In a local computer advertising/information mag, one of the writers has a continuous column on switching from pcs to a mac using OS X. In the latest installment, he comments on the 'shadow' files that begin with ._ which are evident when transferring files from a mac to a pc. I know they are there when I switch files but he comments that Mac OS hides them, but win dows doesn't. Does Mac OS even have those files at all or do they stem from the transfer from mac to pc? Is there a setting which will get rid of them, a tweak on the mac side maybe? The files are all small and don't seem to relate to wind ows in any way but they are a pin. My opinion is that they aren't on the Mac sideand I'd like to correct the writer. If I'm wrong, of course, I will just shut up! :) Thanks. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: OT - OS X shadow files?
Bruce Johnson wrote: On the contrary, they ARE on the Mac. drwxrwxr-t 40 root admin 1462 Jul 28 15:33 . drwxrwxr-t 40 root admin 1462 Jul 28 15:33 .. See the .DS_Store, .Trashes files? The only files missing are the ._filename files which correspond to the resource fork of applications. Those are created on any non-HFS filesystem. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' Thanks Bruce, good answer! Say, those dots, the single and the double at the top of the root listing are in dos too, of course. Must be part of some cosmic web! Things will get interesting later in 2006 when there will probably be dual-boot intel macs using OS X and windows. Or pcs using OS X , although Apple says right now that this won't happen (but I bet it will. ) The intriguing part of this is that the change seemed to stem from powerbooks and the g5 heat issue. Will all future oses have unix running in the background? Stay tuned, I guess. Now back to Powerbooks! BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Types of suitable Wireless PC cards for Powerbook 3400c
Sorular wrote: G'day My first posting to this list even though I've been following it for over a year :-) I've decided to extend the life and use of my trusty-old PB3400c and wanted to ask for advice/recommendations to make few modifications to it. The only improvements that I'm aware are all related to its PC cards. My new Asus P5AD2-Deluxe box has a wireless router on it so first step: I wanted to get a Wireless PC card for my pb3400c (144mb ram/2gb hdd/Mac OS922) 1) Would Netgear WG-511 work on my pb3400? The Netgear product site doesn't say anything about MacOS9 compatibility (http://www.netgear.com/products/details/WG511.php) but this model is the cheapest I could find on the market. Is there a way to get it working on my pb? I'm aware that I'll need to shave-off the the pc card a bit to get it fit into the pb ~hasanito I use an Enterasys/Orinoco card on my 3400c. No need to shave it, just make sure it's in the bottom slot. Paid about 20 bucks US for it plus shipping. Comes with complete software and I use it on both 3400cs and my Toshiba Satellite pc laptop. Perfect! Got it off eba y and I assume the vendor still has some. Do a search, it's really an Orinoco silver with the enterasys name on it. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB 100 screen_follow up
On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The list was down so we probably missed the follow up. I did some testing. These are the results: a_known good LCD + bad MoBo 1 = no backlit b_known good LCD + bad MoBo 2 = no desktop contrast at max level c_known good LCD + bad MoBo 3 = the PB starts up as soon the adaptor is plugged and then have the symptoms of MoBo 2. Is there anything we can do on these aging MoBos? That's what I saw with my bad PB100 testing. Back when the pb100 mailing list thru Stanford? was still up, a couple people didn't think that was right (i.e. possible :) , but it repeated for me and now also for you. The post here about the 6? 8? leaky caps in the display is the most definitive thing I've ever heard about it. sorry it doesn't track to the display in our cases at least. -B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB100 Screen
I did go through and reheat all the solder points that looked safe do do so :) on one of my pb100's, to no avail. Shipping one across the country did resurrect it for a few months, so it could be a simple hot point/ loose connection thing. Pack it in a box, UPS ground from Seattle to Oklahoma, may be the hard way to get a temp fix :) B On Jul 28, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Robert Little wrote: I was the guy who posted on the caps, and to be honest, I gleaned that from Applefritter (plus another site; don't remember which). To be honest, just not too sure. We may need to look at the logicboard carefully and see if anything may have become unseated or looks odd (easy task... yeah, right). That's the only thing I can think of doing at this point. Rob --- Brian wrote: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Brian McEwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PB 100 screen_follow up Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:57:23 -0400 On Jul 28, 2005, at 9:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The list was down so we probably missed the follow up. I did some testing. These are the results: a_known good LCD + bad MoBo 1 = no backlit b_known good LCD + bad MoBo 2 = no desktop contrast at max level c_known good LCD + bad MoBo 3 = the PB starts up as soon the adaptor is plugged and then have the symptoms of MoBo 2. Is there anything we can do on these aging MoBos? That's what I saw with my bad PB100 testing. Back when the pb100 mailing list thru Stanford? was still up, a couple people didn't think that was right (i.e. possible :) , but it repeated for me and now also for you. The post here about the 6? 8? leaky caps in the display is the most definitive thing I've ever heard about it. sorry it doesn't track to the display in our cases at least. -B Robert Little Astronomy Space Artist I have loved the stars too dearly to be fearful of the night... Sarah Williams The Old Astronomer to His Pupil Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks% 40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Powerbook 100 POP3 mail client
On Jul 20, 2005, at 1:38 AM, Yersinia wrote: I ended up with Claris Emailer because Eudora was giving me crap. Ten years later I'm still using Claris. My Powerbook 190 has 1.0, and both my 5300c and G3 have 2.0. Wouldn't dream of switching. ~Yersinia. Does Claris support SSL SMTP sessions? B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Powerbook 100 POP3 mail client
On Jul 20, 2005, at 5:48 AM, Yersinia wrote: I have no idea what SSL SMTP sessions even ARE, so sorry, I can't tell you. Hmmm, so, what are they? ~Yersinia. most big ISPs now require you to use encryption when talking to their SMTP servers when you are sending email from some IP address that is outside of their network (when you are not at home, for exmaple, but at the StarBucks (assuming they don't provide service to the StarBucks). The encryption used is SSL, Secure Socket Layers. If you can't use thqat protocol, no more sending mail while away from home. This is what finally got me to buy a Clie UX-50 and use it more than my Newton 2100 when travelling. .sigh. (there is no SSL for the Newton). Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Just Curious...
Ian Nixon wrote: No. Apple didn't use VGA output until LONG after the Mac Portable's day. In fact I think the BlueWhite G3 was the first to offer a VGA output. Well, in the pictures the seller sent me, there's a monitor port on the rear, and it has the three rows of pins, just like today's standard VGA ports... Color me confused here. You asked if the monitor out was a vga out and several people said it wasn't. Two minutes of googling told me it was an hdi-15 out, 30 seconds more found an adapter for it. Did I miss something? :) Maybe it's the heat! LOL BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB100 screen
On Jul 18, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Robert Little wrote: This is not just one but possibly eight components that have failed; there are eight electrolytic capacitors on the back of the screen that age and leak, and once they do, you get the dark screen. I have a 100 in the same predicament, and based upon my digging, this seems to be the fate of most of them; the screens age and simply stop working. Replacing the caps shouldn't be that hard, but getting some of the exact value is. They are 5v 33uF, poloarized electrolytics. Mouser has them at a higher voltage, 16v, but I haven't tried it yet. In fact, I've not met anyone who has. Should note that Sun Remarketing had PB100 screens for a while. Rob They are on the back of the screen itself, then, not on the inverter or other control board (I forget what exactly is in there)? B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Gmail and OS 9.1
On Jul 18, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Krow Magnum wrote: It's been a while since I've tried any with OS 9 but Gmail would not let me sign in with any browser prior to Wamcom Mozilla. they've changed that somewhat, I just checked with lynx, they bring up a page that says current java is best but classic heml is here, type of thing. So more options may be open than before. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB 100 screen
On Jul 17, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: Suddenly the screen of this PB 100 stopped working. The PB 100 completes the boot either from the HD or the floppy, but on the LCD there is nothing, just the backlight ring works, while the contrast does not change anything. Ideas? Ben Let me guess, it looks like the contrast is turned all the way up? Alll the pixels are black, perhaps? (a little hard to tell maybe but watch it as it boots up). This is a common way for pb100's to die, in my experience. Something is loose somewhere perhaps, I've had this issue get fixed for a while by shipping them across-country via UPS :) I've taken my display all the way apart and checked the values on the dial that adjusts the contrast while I turn it, they do change, I'm not sure what the original values are supposed to be. If someone knows what component is failed, I have 2 pb100's that could come back to life. I like the pb100 a lot. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: PB 100 screen
On Jul 17, 2005, at 4:04 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: yes, next week I will try to replace the LCD and let you know, Ben I have swapped displays as well and thought this problem stayed with the mainboard. I could never find any reference to a mainboard part that was responsible/replaceable. could just be a simple resistor or capacitor somewhere, from the symptom. Since 2 of mine came back to life after shipping, I also resoldered all the components on the mainboard (that were realizticaly workable wiith a regular iron) to no effect. Let me know what you find! It's been a few years since I spent any time on it. Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.
On Jul 2, 2005, at 6:44 PM, The Real Seed Catalogue wrote: Since then, I've been hit twice more. Once was only a couple of years ago, I think on 8.5 (or was it still 7.5.5? - which was pretty good really) . This was an evil ***er that lurked in your system and only trashed the HD if you booted at a certain time of a certain day of a certain month. http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,261744,39200021,00.htm 50% chance it will take 12 min to be compromised, with a regular Windows box. 8000 new viruses in 2005 alone. Preaching to the choir, I know.. B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Best way to legally copy DVD
PETE wrote: [ ** ] http://www.nist.gov/ Who remembers when hollywood condemned the vcr and urged Congress to burn it. They are using the same arguments now and it seems to be working this time. What has changed? Pete. Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com What has changed? I'd answer that but this would instantly evolve into a more political discussion than it already is. Can we get back to PBs? The best information source for this whole discussion is probably afterdawn.com. Lots of downloads too. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Best way to legally copy DVD
On Jul 1, 2005, at 10:54 PM, Dan K wrote: First off, to legally copy a copy-protected commercial DVD you'll have to move to a country where it's legal, currently it's not legal in the good ol' USA. That said: I should have mentioned that I always waited for our day trips to Windsor. :) until Canada passed ther DMCA equivalent a few weeks ago B -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Best way to legally copy DVD
On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even features which are under 2 hours often produce more than 4.7 GB of data. Any specific recommendations as to authoring tools, to produce a DVD which will actually play? I've already encountered situations where a player would accept a +R but not a -R. And, what to do about the 4.7 GB limitation for a single-layer +/-R? You have to buy a commercial software that will let you remove extra audio modes, extras footage, languages, plus compress the video into a smaller space. there are no freebie tols for this. Popcorn (Roxio) and DVD2One (German) have great reviews. DVD2One is 80 Euros or so, so pretty expensive. It is much faster than Popcorn. Popcorn can be had from Roxio for $30 if you already own Toast or similar (even an old version). I bought Popcorn. It works well, 7 gig video_ts folder goes to a single layer DVD fine. You can use Popcorn to remove languages, unwanted materials but only if you chose the main feature only. On DVDs that have episodes, the only way to get every episode is to keep all the extra stuff and compress the video. The video compression works well and I can't really see much of a difference in output, which concurs with the reviews I read online. I've used DVD+R only for playable DVDs and had no compatibility issues or coasters so far. You can get reviews of both these softwares with a little googling. Hopefuly they will add some versatility to Popcorn, but if you feel wealthy the DVD2One is rated very well. HTH. Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Best way to legally copy DVD
On Jul 1, 2005, at 1:33 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: I know I have a program that discussed this in the documentation, but if it's not Mac the Ripper, I can't remember what it is. Mac the Ripper mentions DVD2One, Popcorn, and DVD Remaster. I read in a review of these utils that there is no freebie Mac equivalent for these tools, maybe there is one for Windows, I've not looked. You could extract just pieces using MTR but it seems a hit and miss affair. I am just making copies of some DVDs used in science labs, so that the teaching assistants can't lose the originals any longer. For ease of use and retention of all the navigational menus etc. I just rip the whole disk in MTR, which means perhaps 40% compression of the video via Popcorn. Still looks great. I'm pretty pleased. It works! :) Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Best way to legally copy DVD
On Jun 30, 2005, at 12:47 AM, Dave Foshee wrote: Hey Everyone! I want to go on a trip and take a couple of my DVD¹s with me. Anybody know a free, good program to use? We are driving about 24 hours and will need something to do to pass the time. My understanding is that there is no way to legally copy your DVD, even for home use/ backup copy// free speech/whatever rights we used to have. DMCA trumps them. See you in Guantanamo prison camp, you evildoer. That said, there is a great util, Mac the Ripper, which is perfect for taking DVD movie to your HD for playback on the airplane or driving or whatever. lots of people have positive things to say about it on macupdate.com www.ripdifferent.com HTH. Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Wireless Networking
Noah Wood wrote: Hey all! I have PB 1400 with a Wireless card. I have turned on File sharing and shared a folder, On of our computers is a Windows and it is on the network along with the 1400, is it possible to have the windows recognize the 1400 (PS I have Mac OS 8.1)? Thanks! Don'tthink so without a secondary app. There is one but the name escapes me. OSx works for one way communication from a Mac to windows but not the other way around (not for me anyway). Anything older is doubtful on a network, and probably will be corrected. The PB1400 should work fine on the net with a wireless router though. This is a test also, as one of my replies this weekend got bounced due to : It is composed using the 'windows-1252' character set, and this list accepts ISO-8859-1 only BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Craig's List
Doc Holliday wrote: First, my apologies for the first post in the Good Source of Used Computers, it was a little disjointed. I use Mozilla's Thunderbird on my G4 Sawtooth and it formats all emails with HTML, which the list won't accept. So, I have to go over to Entourage to post to the list. Some things got lost in the translation. Regarding Craigslist... I live in a very small town up on the continental divide in western Montana. Total population here in the valley is 700 people. I know of one other person on the local ISP that uses Macs - we have to be self-supporting because when you say Mac the local ISP's eyes just kind of glaze over and they mumble a lot. Anyway, that kind of limits my shopping in person for any used equipment. I did buy a TRS-80 laptop computer, of some sort, at a yard sale the other morning and I did get it to boot to a prompt, probably, in ROM. That's about the extent of the local market. Anyway, has anyone done business on Craig's List at a distance? I have looked at some of their ads in the San Francisco list and there is some good stuff, (and, most curiously, I even saw a couple of people trying to swap PC laptops for PowerBooks - they are must be what you call optimists). I am somewhat reluctant to send money without any mechanism to protect my investment. Thanks in advance... Doc There are scams on craigslist and you don't have the security of the online auction site. I've had good luck here in Toronto but one very scary experience too, so beware. If you stick to a location fairly close to you, and in Montana, I don't know what that would be, you might be able to get to know some of the sellers and figure out which ones to trust. Offering to purchase one item often leads to other items from the same purchaser. If you read through the lists frequently, you probably can figure out who sounds legitimate. With Powerbooks, you can tell who knows what they are talking about and who doesn't and, judging from this list, those who know what they are talking about can pretty well be trusted! On a side note, check out 'the best of craigslist' link at the left side of the page. Some very good and hilarious stuff there. There's one from Philly on March 18 or so that is outstanding, though a bit biased. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c...huh?
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 17, 2005, at 3:28 AM, Ian Nixon wrote: (For those of you that may have forgotten, my RAM card was not working after a drop)I did a re-installation of OS 9, and when I booted from the CD, things seemed a LOT speedier. So when I booted from the HD, I looked in the 'About this Macintosh...' window, and saw that the RAM card was, indeed, working. Could this mean a future problem, or am I set for now? What it means is it probably reset enough to start working again. More than likely it's a little loose, which means it may stop working again after a minor jiggle; I'd go in and reseat it. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' and don't forget to put a business card folded up or something similar to keep it from unseating again. Apple sold some kit for this (or gave it away) since the ram kept getting jostled out on the 3400c. Mine has a doubled up business card between the ram and the keyboard. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c fallen (Was: Re: Oh, no!)
Ian Nixon wrote: Sorry...Last night, I sent the first copy, and it didn't arrive for about 20 minutes. So I sent the same message again without editing it. It was a PowerBook 3400c. I'm sorry for not telling it in the first place...I was kind of tired, going to bed at 12:00 AM being up at 5:30 AM yesterday... Anyway, I have reseated everything. Should I invest in a new RAM card, or investigate further? Talk to you soon... Ian I would doubt that a bang/bop/jar would hurt a ram module. Static yes, bang no unless there is a hairline crack somewhere but with the screen and the keyboard and the padding that is usually between the module and the keyboard (to keep the module from popping out) it seems unlikely that it's the module itself. Where are you? If you could find someone with a 3400, you could swap out the ram pretty quick and check it on another machine. If it's not that then the mobo might be injured. If you are in Toronto, you're in luck. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: New to group, help if you can.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone give me info on making my 3400c recognize operate via high speed internet connection, can't seem to find a way to chage it over to DSL in the TCP/IP the way it's supposed to. Do I need a PC Card? Are you using a router? BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Nervous Self Upgrader - G3 Lombard
paulmoshay wrote: I recently purchased a sweet G3 333mhz Lombard on ebay. I want to upgrade RAM (from 128mb). Looks like this would be a fairly easy self install from the Apple support pages, yet i'm unsure what to buy. for instance OtherWorld Computing lists two diff types of RAM; TechWorks PC133 SO-DIMM - OWC PC100 SO-DIMM Memory Modules - I read this PB could accept 512mb, though I don't think my needs absolutely will require maxxing it out. Hard Drive My Lombard only has a 4 GB drive and I want to run OS X and have lots of free storage for Docs, etc. How tough is self installing a HD ? Is current ebay item # 571548 http://tinyurl.com/84s6a HD on ebay a decent one ? Suggestions for a budget conscious somewhat capable self upgrader ? Thanks in advance ! Paul M. Don't know about the ram, although I have upgraded my 3400c a couple of times and it's easier than upgrading the hard drive. Neither one is tough if you can get a copy of the manual, which a list member was thankfully able to supply. I'd steer clear of the drive from e bay. You can pick up an 80 gig samsung drive with 8 meg buffer for for 133 at ncix.com. It is an oem drive, same as the other one, but ncix will stand behind it. Check it out here : http://www.us.ncix.com/promo/promosale.php?webid=grand2005 The drive you suggested isn't even named. The fact that it is described as an 'Apple' upgrade means nothing since your Powerbook will take just about any ide drive. Big money for a no-name drive. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Junkyard 1400's
I've been following this thread a bit, and I have a suggestion for anyone who is financially strapped and wants a newer computer/powerbook etc. Being the local bargain expert here are my suggestions : 1. Craigslist. Check it out. There is one list in virtually every city in NA and major cities all across the world. Personally, I just picked up a nice Toshiba laptop with a DVD drive that fills my wireless laptop needs perfectly for 100 bucks CDN. If you are in the states, check out other cities besides your own and ask the seller if shipping could be arranged. If you are in the San Fran (where Craig started) or New York areas, you should have tons of offerings to sort through. Check the electronic section as well as the computer section for leads, some people don't know what they have (although this almost never applies to Mac stuff, unfortunately.) 2. Toronto has a Buy and Sell rag which put me onto a 3400c for 50 bucks CDN. Most cities and areas have something similar but with a different name. Ads are free, sometimes there is a purchase price for the newspaper, sometimes not. I've sold cars and bought many Macs and had loads of fun reading through the buy and sell. It's amazing what people have for sale. 3. There are alternatives to e bay, although without the safety. Some universities have clearance sites where computers, electronic equipment and anything else you can think of are offered for auction. There is no online buying but you can certainly check out the items online and head off to the university/college later to do the deal. Some of the items offered boggle the mind. 4. Most universities have book shops which sell either computers or parts for pretty good deals. Students, always strapped for cash, often sell their equipment on BBs at the university or through the local newspapers. 5. http: //www. fatfingers.co.uk/ You never know what you'll find. (delete the spaces when you copy and paste the link.) 6. If you aren't stuck on Mac, and I think most of us are, try the online liquidators or the major online manufacturers for their clearance sites. Sometimes, not too often though, these sites offer tremendous deals on new or almost new laptops. Some are off lease, some are 'refurbished' but there are warranties on all of them. Dell just offered a complete new laptop for 599 CDN with free shipping in their ten days of savings special, for example. 7. Don't explode or yell at me for this one but, from everything I have heard it is a real deal. The online offerings of 'free' electronic products if you fulfill a certain number of obligations and refer a certain number of friends/relatives/etc. to subscriptions or movie deals. Kevin Rose on screensavers talks about it and the folks at hackaday.com say it works. Hackaday is anti-establishment to the extreme so if it works for them, it must be real. Not too much offered up here but in the States you can go wild! Worth a shot, anyway. 8. Living in a major city has its advantages and one of them is thrift stores. There are dozens in Toronto, from Sally Ann to Value Village. I'm a regular at many sometimes you luck out. Garage sales too but the hit and miss ratio there is much greater. I've been unemployed for a year and a half and the only way I get to spend money on anything is by squeezing the nickel. Works for me. Hope this helps someone. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Off topic OT : Long weekend topic - what macs do you own?
Rob wrote: I've got a few Amigas - several 500's and a 1000 (my original Amiga!). I've got several ST's and a half dozen UNIX workstations as well. I sold a couple of Commodore 8 bit machines recently (I never really used them) but I stil have an Atari 800XL, A number of PC's as well - but most of them are working machines and get jettisoned as soon as they serve no purpose... I think it's called obsessive compulsive disorder... My wife would like them *all* gone - but I try to keep them in small piles so that it doesn't look like there are so many... Cameron Kaiser wrote: Well, no one asked for my Commodore computer list. That's where I'm at. Last input from me, (since I started this thing!), I think my Kim1 is the oldest Commodore, got lots of 64s and 128s plus some Commodore PCs, Apple clones such as an Orange Micro, two Franklin Aces as well as something called a Decider which is actually two computers in one, with the normal Apple processor and a Z80 one as well, several TI-99/4a , Dynalogic Hyperions (4 at least) plus a storage tower as large and as heavy as my old IBM server, an Amiga 500, Laser 128, Apple IIc (2) , IIe platinum, Compaq portables, an Alex terminal which was used for an early form of the internet (kind of) up here in Canada, many Tandys including some cool tiny models sold from the RS catalogues, IBM PCjrs ... ok I'll stop. This was meant for Macs originally and it's been fun seeing what everyone has in that genre. Let's move on to PB troubleshooting! Thanks everyone who participated. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: best way to rebuild boot blocks?
On Monday, May 23, 2005, at 04:19 PM, Fluxstringer wrote: I think OS 9 drive Setup would insist on initializing. Thus wiping out the content. But a try at using the installer to install just the Os may also fail if the disk cannot be read or the remaining format can't be latched onto. IIRC of course. That was my recollection, too (drive setup would toast it). Unless you can make it just do the 'update disk driver' thing, but IIRC that only would show if the drive were mounted at the time. With an unmounted drive, I recall Drive Setup to be a little underfeatured in the past. However, using a combo of a 8.1 boot system on a CF card, and DW for OS 9, got things going, it seems fine now. Culprit appears to be WACom Mozilla temp file got way crosslinked, and then loss of system folder blessed status etc somehow. Thanks all for the help and emails; Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Off topic OT : Long weekend topic - what macs do you own?
It's a long weekend up here north of the 49th, still no hockey so I thought of asking everyone what Macs they own. Lots of powerbooks, for sure, but what else? Maybe ppcs and up? Powerbook Duo 230 (braindead) , 7200/90 , G3/333 beige, three 3400c pbs(2 complete and 1 for parts) for me (plus about 30-40 Apples, apple clones, early macs - no originals but a few SEs, SE30s, Classics etc. as well as a quadra 950 etc. ) Winner gets 24 hours of bragging! BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: fancy a large SCSI PB drive?
Dan K wrote: Seagate 73GB Savvio - ST973401LC http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/marketing/detail/0,1081,609, 00.html 2.5 and 73GBs of 10,000 RPM fun! Now to figger an adapter for the 80 pin SCA-2 interface . . . dan k . http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 . This post made me think of the old drive on my 3400c which is very thick. The new 40 gig one is about half the thickness. Has anyone ever heard of popping two drives in the same spot that one used to fill? There would have to be a y connector of some type but it probably would work. Probably a heat issue between the two drives also but I think the space is there. For the drive mentioned in the post, how would it have been deployed? Are there high end SCSI laptops/notebooks out there or is it for some sort of mini-multimedia use? I'd assumed that scsi was more or less dead. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Panther on 2400/3400?
PETE wrote: I find that 3400 just loves OS 8.6 Pete. --- Noah Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess part of all of this is trying something out just to try it out, which I do all the time (with computers that is.) My old G3 beige takes forever to boot with 10.2 Jaguar while my 3400cs take forever to boot with 9.1 and never ran on 9.22 so taking this farther, even with XPF in control would be really frustrating. But, like OS X on an Xbox, it would be fun to try. What's interesting to me in all of this is that if you use a powerbook as a truly portable system, and if the OS takes forever to boot and really wants to be left on all the time, shouldn't there be a special OS just for powerbooks, or a dual boot setup where you choose between a full boot or a quick and dirty boot for the bus/train/plane ride home? Carrying around a sleeping laptop seems dangerous to me and I'd rather just shut it down. I've just installed Linux on one of my pc laptops and it just cries to be left on 24/7, which can't happen. But, as with OS X, it is an incredible OS, pretty to look at and very fast and I can't go back to the original w 98 ever! Maybe this already exists and a true power user could tweak the settings for a faster boot on a powerbook but for the rest of us, a dual boot setup might be a real plus. bm -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Cheap wifi card 802.11b
Fluxstringer wrote: I have been looking for a cheap wifi for my 1400. I just snagged a Lucent Orinoco Silver for Mac from eBay for $ 10.00 They have been going for $ 20 or more. The downside is the seller only ships by UPS ground. Much cheaper by mail but I am still saving. have not seen any cheaper. The seller has more of these. I am not getting anything for telling this list . I just thought I would inform listers as these seem to bee in demand. The page I referred to the other day says the silvers can be flashed to Gold specs. If you are interested email off list and I will send info I picked one of these up a year ago for the higher price and convinced the seller to ship it via mail to Canada, UPS being even more ridiculous up here. They are incredible cards, working perfectly with all three OSes I have tried it with. Haven't tried the flashing to Gold but I'm only on B so it probably wouldn't change anything. Card is very fast and very stable. If the antenna is cheap, you might consider it as summer is coming (up here anyway) and the backyard beckons. Thanks for the notice, I may pick up another couple. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
3400c hard drive ?
Recently, I took a 5 gig drive from a Toshiba laptop and put it into one of my 3400c laptops. Now I'm trying to load 8.5 but after initialization, the OS installation stops about halfway through with the note that the new hard drive can't be used. Then I verify it and the message is : Test done. Problems were found but Disk First Aid cannot repair them. Problem : Keys out of order, 4, 17. This is with both standard and extended formats and with one or multiple partitions. Any thoughts? I've copied the System Folder to the drive and tried to boot but that won't work. Should it? Or should I copy the whole CD and then try to boot. I'm wondering if there is some boot info on the old drive which wasn't formatted before the switch from windows. Is there another utility to use? Thanks! BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c hard drive ?
Problem has been avoided, more or less. I switched back to the 2 gig drive that came with the 3400c and still had 9.1 on it. The 5 gig went to my Toshiba temporarily, as the drive just snaps in and out of it without a huge overhaul, and I loaded Mandrake 9.x on it. I wanted to get linux on the 3400c but that didn't seem to be working out. Now I'm on linux in gmail on a darkside (more or less) laptop replying to a powerbook problem which isn't really a problem any longer. Still don't know what was wrong with the 5 gig under 8.5 but the 2 gig runs fine now. Thanks for the help, crew. (Is a pc still on the darkside if it runs Linux??) BM On 5/1/05, Brian Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fluxstringer wrote: Recently, I took a 5 gig drive from a Toshiba laptop and put it into one of my 3400c laptops. Now I'm trying to load 8.5 but after initialization, the OS installation stops about halfway through with the note that the new hard drive can't be used. Then I verify it and the message is : Test done. Problems were found but Disk First Aid cannot repair them. Problem : Keys out of order, 4, 17. This is with both standard and extended formats and with one or multiple partitions. Any thoughts? I've copied the System Folder to the drive and tried to boot but that won't work. Should it? Or should I copy the whole CD and then try to boot. I'm wondering if there is some boot info on the old drive which wasn't formatted before the switch from windows. Is there another utility to use? Thanks! __ I forget, was OS 8.5 able to format a drive that big ? Could you try formatting with OS 9 ? Thanks but the problem is, I can't boot from OS 9. That's the OS I want to end up with but I have to go through OS 8.5 first, then upgrade. Shouldn't be any reason why I can't boot from 9.1 but I can't. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
OT - yellowdog on a 3400c
Someone here suggested Yellowdog on a 3400c a couple of weeks ago more or less. Since then I've downloaded the isos and now I'm trying to install it. Could anyone who has done this please email me offlist please? Thanks. Can't seem to figure out how to boot from the CD. Thanks! BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
dead 20 gig Travelstar......
Well, my PB1400 had been freezing up occasionally, I thought it was 'cos I was running Outlook and Eudora and Mozilla a lot at the same time :) but it failed to come back one time, and the HD is not spinning upit tries but fails to come up to speed. I have a spare 10 gig IDE that I can install to boot from, and a PC Card to laptop IDE adapter I'm borrowing, my thoughts were to put a big ol' SCSI drive on the back of this, boot to the 10 gig drive, then spend a long time putting the adapter in to the PCMCIA slot over and over again trying to get the 20 gig drive to spin up and once up, grab everything quickly. If it ever comes up again. I'm worried that my occasional lockups were my warning signs that I should have used for my backup opportunities. Anyway I don't know if there's a point in doing the freezer thing or anything with these comparatively newer drives; it's one of the quit, fluid bearing IDE drives, 3 or 4 years old. .sigh. Anyway 7.6.1 (the only installer CD I can find at the moment- my computer room is a shambles) is installing on the 1400 at the moment, after which I'll pop on the SCSI drive and start with the PCMCIA cable adapter thing. Other suggestions welcome! Freezing and flinging (rotationally) I'll leave until a last resort... mostly just checking to see if there's a new trick for newer drives. thanks, Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: XPostFacto
pasha wrote: OK... I have a bit of an oddity going on here... I have a Kanga, a #1 G3 Powerbook looking like the 3400. I know that it will only display 256 colors. I know that it will not support the PCMCIA cards. LAST NIGHT I installed 10.2 on there. the screen in thousands of colors, not 256. AND the PCMCIA card cage RECOGNIZED (according to MacOS X) there was a Lucent WaveLan card in there. a dumb thing then happened.. then I told the machine to update to 10.2.8 and stuff.. then the PCMCIA card failed to work. I attempting to re-install it now... I just wanted to know if anyone out there had a similar experience with these odd macs? -p Kanga screen, same as 3400, is 16 bit video not 8 bit. PCMCIA cage works fine on my 3400. Kanga is a newer model so I don't see what's peculiar here. Is it too early on Sunday morning or am I missing something? bm -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 1400 'upgrade' tips wanted - from a new user
Dear powerbook users, I'd like to ask the people who have 'messed around' with their pb 1400 for advice concerning how to make battery life last longer. Also I'd like to have some advice concerning -using Compact flash cards works great. With a little fiddling you can even boot from one. -using a ram disk I don't bother, not enough RAM on these things. -using OS 8.6, 9 (.1 and 2.2) and OS X (maybe somebody got this far...) 9.1 works great for me (1400 with a G3). 9.2 might work, OS X- never IMO. -Linux based OS' Exist but last I looked was missing support for major things- floppy for sure, maybe sound? and stuff like that as well. Not very well supported unless something new has come out. -External batteries Would be fun, 24V DC needed though, plus a connector from a dead 1400 P/S. -Ram Doubler I used a little with 8.6 but I think 9.1 has issues, does just as well with disk-based virtual memory, or both. -any other extremely cool things one can do, without knowing it. (besides Wifiying, please) 3com 589 series ethernet PC Card can be found for $10 and works well, with a patch of the free Farallon drivers (same chipset on both cards, but the Farallon is still kinda expensive for what it is). Wifi is still real cool, guess you know about that :) The G3 accel. is a life saver. 20gig or bigger laptop IDE drives are cheap and work really well, providing a speedup just in the faster HD times than in the stock model. My main powerbook is still my 1400/G3/60 RAM/20gig drive. I'm starting to thing about getting an older TiBook though due to poor browser support for the 1400/9.1, and some web sites are starting to have problems. Ebay for one, some people have problems with paypal, and my bank just updated their pages and I can't do that from my powerbook anymore, last I checked. I'd do the HD for sure, if you want to make a big commitment, RAM and G3 are about equally important upgrades. Without a G3, I'd think about staying with 8.6 myelf, depends on your patience. HTH. Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: technical stuff
Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: I use either this list and the G-book one. I have noted that users of the G-book list seem less interested in technical topics. I mean technical with the need to take a part the Mac. So most of the question about LCD replacement or similar issues have no reply, on the other hand these questions cannot be posted here if related to pre G3 stuff (with the exception of the Kanga, that, indeed, as we have already agreed, is a souped up 3400c) So I would like to study the feasibility to set up a list for technical topics regardless the pre/post G3 issue. Someting like powertech or similar. What do you think? Ben I subscribe to both also, plus a few other, smaller lowend lists. I find the powerbook list the most 'technical' and certainly the most helpful also. The G3, and this may be a fault of the nanny or the collective mind, is less forgiving and less tolerant. At times it seems to be more of an OS X list. While I still haven't figured out what is the not-on-topic powerbook model cutoff point, I like the feeling and sense of family in this group. But then I have a 3400c collection and until I get a newer model, I guess I don't have to worry about what's off topic, yet! If it's the same crew as populate this list, though, I'd sign on in a flash. Another suggestion, and one that is used in an antique computer list I am also on, is to break the whole group up into a 'talk' list and a 'tech' list. The tech list would be scrutinized closely while the talk list wouldn't. The group would soon get a sense of what's on-topic in the talk list and the tech list would have a very precise on-topic set of rules. Everyone would get the tech stuff but the talk part would only go to those who signed up separately. Might work well in the G3 list but this powerbook list seems fine as it is. 2 cents. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
os 9 download at apple site?
My age must be catching up to me or something. I recall that someone on this list (I think) mentioned a newsflash about the fact that you could now download a full version of os 9 at the apple site. I know the updates are there but this message said something about a full download. Does anyone recall that or am I really from Mars? BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: pb 520 hinge questions x2
Erich Zechar wrote: So I'm taking apart my 520c and I notice my hinge is a bit woblly. Sure enough one of the plastic bits that the screws attach through is cracked. Anybody out there have any tips to fix this, and prevent the other side from breaking? Should I loosen or tighten these screws? EZ Is there any way to lubricate PB hinges? I figure if someone knows the answer to Erich's question then maybe they might know about lubrication. WD40 won't do but maybe something else will. :) BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: OS8 and DOS floppies
Fluxstringer wrote: I know this is probably a stupid question, but is there any way that a DOS-format floppy can be read by a Mac or a Mac floppy read by a Windows machine. I have a lot of files I need to transfer from my Win XP machine to my OS8 machine, but I need to know if floppies will work or if I need to shell out the money for a couple of Zip drives. Caleb _ One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate logo: lust, knowledge, hope, and anarchy. -Jean Louis Gassee It has been a long time since i ran 8 . Try to format a floppy. And when the panel comes up giving the format options look for DOS on the scroll button. Transmac will read Mac files on a PC, format a Mac disk on a PC etc. Look for it through tucows or google. Shareware but it works very well, maybe not on XP but on any other version of windows. bm -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
OT and I mean totally OT but interesting for Mac folks (I hope) OS X on an Xbox
This link takes you to a site which explains how to hack an Xbox to install OS X.Pretty clever and good for those days when you've got absolutely nothing else to do. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ranma1/mac_install.html Sorry for the OT subject but I couldn't resist. I'll go back in my shell now. bm -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
On board memory for Powerbook
Generally, is the ram on the motherboard of a powerbook faster than the add-on ram? Not in hz but in the way the processor addresses it? If it is then a pb with the most onboard ram would be faster than a newer pb with, perhaps, less onboard but more in the slots. The reason for the question is my 3400c with 64 add-on ram doesn't seem much slower than the one with 128 add-on. My dark side notebook with only 64 megs just flies, but that ram is on the motherboard. Lastly, is there a pb with a good amount of standard ram on the motherboard? That model, whatever it is, would seem to be the best choice for an upgrade. Thanks! bm -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 1400:
It's pretty stupid to get a faster laptop on my slow connection speed. Anybody use their 1400 as their major Internet computer. If so, what browser is advised. Actually, not quite true. Web sites now have so much crud in them that the rendering time to parse all the stuff and make the formatted page is a pretty slow task on older machines. Sure, your dial-up speed is a big bottleneck as well. But I think you'd find it a lot nicer if you put a G3 card and more RAM in the 1400. Not that that is cost-effective at this time. With laptop prices as low as they are though I'd look at one of the Wallstreets, perhaps, I can't price things on ebay for you at the moment since I'm on my 9.1 1400 and I still haven't a browser that will let ebay work (not MOzilla 1.2.1, not Wacom mozilla, not IE5.1 anyway) (which is yet ANOTHER reason to get a newer laptop, something that can run XP or OS X) but I'd guess the Wallstreet II's would be a good deal and a very capable laptop, with SCSI etc. if you have old peripherals. Without going to X though for new browsers and other software I think we are going to be left behind pretty quickly. Office98 is still working fine for my needs, but I'm finding the browser issues to be a huge pain. Hope that helps; Brian -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 1400:
Dale Hill wrote: I have a 1400C with 16 megs of ram. It is to the point that I can no longer sit at a desk unit - austeoarthritic of the back. Non- operable. I live in podunk America, and the fastest speed I can get on the Internet is 26.4, but usually less. Seems to me that would be the Max Speed if I used the 1400. It uses 8.5.1 and I've got 50 megs as virtual memory. I've have put it on the Net in the past, but wasn't serious about it. Tomorrow I have an SSI hearing. It's pretty stupid to get a faster laptop on my slow connection speed. Anybody use their 1400 as their major Internet computer. If so, what browser is advised. Dale Icab is the only way to go, even then you'd have to turn off the graphics. Email me off list if you are interested in an upgrade to a 3400c. I've got two and I'm not using one at all. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
3400c wireless, OT question
Hey crew. If my router has 26 digit encryption and my Orinoco card has only space in the software for 12 or 13 digits, how do I encrypt the wireless signal? Got me baffled. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c wireless, OT question
Brian Mahoney wrote: Hey crew. If my router has 26 digit encryption and my Orinoco card has only space in the software for 12 or 13 digits, how do I encrypt the wireless signal? Got me baffled. BM Got it. Guess I ask too soon, huh? :) bm -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
3400c/wireless problem
My 3400c usually works fine on wireless, using the enterasys/orinoco card. Last night and this morning it couldn't connect to my router, the ip addy was set to 169.254.14.31 which was the same as the router addy. Subnet was 255.255.0.0. I've seen this dns before, it's there every time the card stops working but usually it sets itself up on rebooting. I checked the incorrect ip on a whois through network solutions and it's some isp in Marina del Ray. Then I did a google search just using the numbers and came up with one hit on groups where someone's pc card was showing the same ip and the same subnet. The solution there, from a guy in the microsoft mvp group, was that windows m.e. assigns itself an ip in the 169.254 range when it can't get an ip from the router. From this I can gather that the wireless card I'm using does the same. Moreover, I am using win m.e. on 3 of the pcs connected to the network. Coincidence? Anyway, I can connect through the ethernet connection but not through the wireless even when right beside the router. I thought distance might be the culprit but when I switch the tc/ip from the ethernet to the wireless nothing works and the same ip comes up. If I set the wireless up manually using the ip addy I get when on ethernet, it still does not work and resets itself to the bogus ip addy. I've reinserted the card also as that sometimes works. Any ideas? Is the 169.254.x.x ip a default ip for all systems? I thought the Orinoco software had something to sniff out networks but I can't find it on my 3400. I'm using 9.1 btw. Should I just ditch the software and load it all again? The card flashes when searching for the router's signal and the green light is steadily on most of the time but that's it. Thanks!! BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: 3400c/wireless problem now solved.
Ted Lovejoy wrote: Are you using internet connection sharing via one of the ME boxes? You might be getting you windows-style default IP address from one of them. No, I'm using a Dlink router. All other computers on the network are fine. I assume you usually have a 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x as your IP address, right? That's what would be coming from the router's DHCP. Yup. 192 etc. I, too have a 3400c in a mixed environment with Win 2000 boxes (is ME really 2000 without the steroids? -joke) and when internet connection sharing can't find a Real IP address, it gives itself that 169.154.x.x address. Can you access the router via a browser? Make sure it sees the 3400c. My router can with software for the PCs that will give a list of all attached nodes (the wireless router, that is). Doesn't see the 3400c, but sometimes I can access the router from the 3400 but not the Internet. Hope something here helps, Ted Moreover, I am using win m.e. on 3 of the pcs connected to the network. Coincidence? Thanks for the suggestions, Ted. I guess the adage here is 'when in doubt, check the hardware first.' I had reset the router many times and uninstalled then reinstalled the software drivers many times. The last thing I did, which solved the problem was to , uh, jiggle the wireless antenna. Tightened it a bit although it was pretty tight already. Go figure. It's in my workroom and no one touches it. Anyway, it's working! Thanks again, Ted. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Powerbook 1400c/133 Wireless?
Angus Chalmers wrote: Does anybody know what is the best place to get a wireless card that would work on a powerbook 1400c and a base station that would be compatible?CHEAP? I realize this probably will rock someone's boat but I've had more luck with ebay than with this list or the swap list. The reason is simply that there is no accountability on these lists where your rating, such as it is, of the seller on ebay means something to some people. In short, you've got no one to yell at here but on ebay you can squawk about poor service from a vendor. Plus you can check their other sales and see if there is something in the past to be wary of. I regret having made a recent purchase from this list but any of the purchases from ebay have worked out way better than I expected. Your mileage may vary but it's worked for me. To keep this on topic, I purchased an Orinoco card from ebay, I can send you the vendor off list, and it's worked very well on my 3400c. I think it was a silver one labelled Enterasys but it is the Orinoco card. 20 bucks US which was a steal as far as I can tell. (Release the hounds! ) BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: lists
vicki Duggan wrote: Hi my isp has been off line for email for 1 day and 20 hrs will i need to re sub to the list as i am now not getting any mail. vicki Vicki, I'm sending this to the list as well as to you so if you get one not the other, you'll know what to do. Good luck! -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Karma
T.A.Masters wrote: iPods, the two I originally bought unfortunately have the HP logo. What else they have is a windooze only format. When my 17 year old grandson could not repair his iPod online with HP and they would not replace it, he asked me to intercede. HP refused to assist me as I am using a Mac and the accompanying software to the iPod is PC. I am in a quagmire. HP will not get this iPod up and running and will not replace it. HP will not list the stolen one as stolen until they get a copy of the police report. The iPod was stolen at the High School parking lot. The school liaison officer handled the police theft report. My grandson did not get a copy. We are talking about a minor who has had incredibly rotten luck with what was meant to be a wonderful present from a loving grandmother. to boot he borrows his brother's and it is stolen. HP's attitude is not an asset for Apple. The whole situation sucks. I am trying to get replacement iPods for both of my grandsons, I am searching for the best online price. Gr Terrie This is from the HP site : *NOTE: *You can convert an iPod formatted for Windows into an iPod formatted for Mac by using the iPod for Mac Software Updater utility on the Apple Website http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/leavinghp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fipod%2Fdownload%2Fdesc=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fipod%2Fdownload%2Flc=encc=us . Note that once it is reformatted, it only works with Macs. You need Mac OS 9.2 or Mac OS X 10.1 or later to reformat an iPod for Windows into an iPod for Mac. Using the Apple iPod from HP on a Mac is not supported by HP. Good luck. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
OT (was Re: Good Karma)
All of this about the Ipod/HP duo, twigged my memory about something I read last week. This is very OT btw, but the tie between HP and Apple may be the tip of the wedge in some new relationships in the Apple/PC world. It started with this article: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1340996/posts which speaks of the author's impression that microsoft is rotting. Since Apple obviously isn't, given the success of the Mini, the Ipod and Itunes and OS X, then maybe some former PC partners may be jumping ship. Longhorn is very delayed. OS X just keeps getting better and better. Apple hardware is getting cheaper, if the Mini is a trend, so maybe, just maybe Apple is poised to take over the home PC world. Will we see OS X on PCs? Is there an Apple in everyone (elses) future? One of three computer teams is very dead right now, and under attack from hackers all over the world. The other two, Apple and Linux are doing quite well. Is all of this a sign of things to come? Where the heck is Nostradamus when we need him? I predict that in a year or two, microsoft will be a very different company than it is now and Apple will be a very large player on the world computing stage. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
OT - lost powerbook found, good story
This is from craiglist in Toronto. I figured everyone here would get a good smile from it. It was listed under 'free' , with the offer of good karma, shipping included. It was listed under anonymous so I figured it was ok to post. Read on : __ My laptop was stolen...my really nice Powerbook, that I got an awesome deal on because my friend works for a Mac dealer. So there I was, cursing my the dweeb that stole 2 semesters worth of notes and essays...basically a year of law school down the drain. The local police are no help. Despite being the highest paid police force in North America, they don't investigate personal property crimes. They don't have time. So, now I'm cursing the thief and the good-for-nothing-police force. Hoping for all involoved to break out in boils. Fast forward a week. I get a call from the police. Seems my laptop has turned up at a Mac dealer. They need me to come identify my property. The loser that stole it from me brought it to the same dealer I brought it from to have the memory wiped out, since he didn't need all that crap on it. Claimed he'd bought it from an English student at the local university. The whole time, he's feeding this line of bunk to the person I bought the thing from! So long story short, I got my laptop back, the police didn't do a thing to find it, and some moron is going to go to jail for a few months over it. I got my beloved laptop back all in one piece. All my notes! My essays! Everything else I keep on it! HOORAY! Clearly, I have good karma. What are the odds my laptop would end up at the same place I bought it, in front of my friend who instatnly recognized it? I think I should spread it around. So let me know where I should send my good karma to? Exams will be here soon, graduation is coming up, wedding season is starting to warm up - I'm sure you could use some good karma right about now. I'll be happy to send it to you - I'll even pay for shipping! -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: New battery still time not right
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bought a new pram battery for my G3/300 and set the time and date, and when I turned the machine on this morn - had to reset the time again. What else could be wrong?? - Confused!! Someone mentioned last week in this list that the power manager (board?) gets messed up by times and needs replacement. I think it was Bruce who suggested it. Alternatively, corrosion might be the culprit. I know on my 3400c that there was a fair bit of green gunk on the lead which I had to clean off. BM -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
