Re: Pepsi Australia Offers iPod an Hour thru July 11

[Dark Servant]

Yeah it'd be pretty hard to find a 2nd hand iPod.  Your only chance  
really would be older models (1st, 2nd G ) and the batteries on them  
would probably be on the way out anyway.  iPods are so cool I don't  
think anyone would want to sell them ever unless something was wrong  
with it, if it was stolen or if you were upgrading but there isn't  
really much need to upgrade with iPods.  Your son might have to start  
saving his pennies but it'd be well worth it.


Good luck anyway
Ruben

Well you might win one too Mark but I desperately need to win one for  
my
15yr old son as I've had no replies to my recent request for a  
secondhand

iPod.
One big drawback to this competition that I can see, is that it would  
be a
worldwide one & they'd probably get thousands of messages every hour.  
Can

only try!!

Denise Williams-Photographer
Ph/fax 08- 9447 3468
Mob 0417 184592


on 3/6/04 12:29 PM, Mark Secker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


if I win  3 or four I might have enough iPods to last a year. (OK
I'm cranky because I'm about to take in my 2nd iPod for the 2th time
in less than  4 months after the first was taken in twice in 3
months.)


Hi all
Don't forget to drink Pepsi to win a 15gig iPod
Pepsi are giving away an iPod every hour.

I'm just going to the store to win wish me luck and of course  
everyone else.


http://www.pepsi.com.au/v3/ipod.htm

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2004/06/01/pepsiipod/ 
index.php?redirect=

1086170576000

CYA

Bart


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Re: Less Battery Life After Update to 10.3.4

[Richard Kay]

Looks like I posted a bum link.

Oh well ... sorry ... info below:

CALIBRATING YOUR BATTERY

You can calibrate your iBook or PowerBook computer's lithium ion  
battery for best performance.


The battery has an internal microprocessor that provides an estimate of  
the amount of energy in the battery as it charges and discharges. The  
battery needs to be recalibrated from time to time to keep the onscreen  
battery time and percent display accurate. You should perform this  
procedure when you first use your computer and then every few months  
thereafter.


1. Plug the power adapter in and fully charge your computer's battery  
until the battery indicator lights turn off and the adapter plug ring  
goes from amber to green, which indicates that the battery is fully  
charged.


2. Disconnect the power adapter and use your iBook or PowerBook. When  
your battery gets low, you will see the low battery warning dialog on  
the screen. Continue to use your computer until it goes to sleep. At  
that point the battery has been sufficiently drained for calibration.


3. Connect the power adapter and leave it connected until the battery  
is fully charged again.


You have to fully charge and then discharge your battery only once to  
calibrate it. After that, you can connect and disconnect the power  
adapter when the battery is at any charge level.


Tip: When the battery reaches "empty", the computer is forced into  
sleep mode. The battery actually keeps back a reserve beyond "empty",  
to maintain the computer in sleep for a period of time. Once the  
battery is truly exhausted, the computer is forced to shut down. At  
this point, any open files could be lost. Therefore, it is important  
that you find an electrical outlet and connect the adapter before the  
forced shutdown occurs.

---
Richard Kay
Fremantle
Western Australia


On 06/06/2004, at 6:09 PM, Richard Kay wrote:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html  
artnum=86284&sessionID=anonymous|255035&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com%3a8 
0%2f

Re: Less Battery Life After Update to 10.3.4

[Richard Kay]

See this Apple Article entitled 'Calibrating your computer's battery  
for best performance':


http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html  
artnum=86284&sessionID=anonymous|255035&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com%3a80 
%2f

---
Richard Kay
Fremantle
Western Australia


On 06/06/2004, at 2:50 PM, Christian Kotz wrote:

How do you recalibrate a battery? can it be done on a clamshell? I  
think I noticed this on my 466 iBook SE


Regards Christian
On 06/06/2004, at 10:10 AM, Richard Kay wrote:

I've gone back to 10.3.4 notwithstanding the minor bug affecting loss  
of the LCD Profile when the OS X default screen saver kicks in as  
documented here in the thread 'Recalibrating after 10.3.4 Update' (I  
just couldn't help myself):


http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.6893e46d

I've also noticed that on my 12"iBook G4 1GHz my battery is draining  
faster post-update. I've recalibrated the battery but it still seems  
to be draining faster than under 10.3.3. One other user has picked  
this up at:


http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.6894640e

He writes: "any suggestions? I used to see 5 or 6 hours after full  
charge, now I see about 2.5 hours. the only change to my ibook is the  
system update. I have repaired permissions, recalibrated the battery  
and restarted. what else?"


Anyone seen this post-update?
---
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Fremantle
Western Australia


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Re: Less Battery Life After Update to 10.3.4

[Rob Davies]

On 06/06/2004, at 3:10pm, Onno Benschop wrote:


On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 16:41, Rob Davies wrote:

if it goes to sleep upon
awakening it seems to have acquired extra time?


Without knowing how the time is calculated, I can postulate that there
is likely a calculation based on the voltage that the battery is
"currently" at.
Likely to stop jitter this is averaged out over time.

When your computer is asleep it draws *much* less power than when it is
awake. Likely the battery voltage will increase to some degree with a
lower rate of power consumption, which then affects the calculation for
"time remaining".

So, when the computer wakes up, the voltage is artificially high and
thus the time remaining is also higher.
Thus, what you describe sounds perfectly reasonable.



Yep that is what I would figure, but under 10.3.3 as per the question 
was raised I would see no such occurrence, thus 10.3.4 does as one 
would predict on this Powerbook.





Note, this is all based on my understanding of how it works. For actual
facts, ask someone who knows, rather than me :-)


Thanks Ono, but since I was not posting said question merely providing 
information for person whom asked as points of reference for their 
particular requirements, why?


Cheers!
Rob Davies
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subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the 
manufactured objects." Sartre.

Re: Less Battery Life After Update to 10.3.4

[Onno Benschop]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 16:41, Rob Davies wrote:
> if it goes to sleep upon 
> awakening it seems to have acquired extra time?

Without knowing how the time is calculated, I can postulate that there
is likely a calculation based on the voltage that the battery is
"currently" at.

Likely to stop jitter this is averaged out over time.

When your computer is asleep it draws *much* less power than when it is
awake. Likely the battery voltage will increase to some degree with a
lower rate of power consumption, which then affects the calculation for
"time remaining".

So, when the computer wakes up, the voltage is artificially high and
thus the time remaining is also higher.

Thus, what you describe sounds perfectly reasonable.


Note, this is all based on my understanding of how it works. For actual
facts, ask someone who knows, rather than me :-)

Onno Benschop 

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Re: Less Battery Life After Update to 10.3.4

[Rob Davies]

I noticed something similar, but what I have discovered is if you turn 
the processor level to automatic their is a difference between settings 
since update, as under 10.3.3 I was actually seeing not much of a 
difference. In my case I have actually gained some time in battery 
mode, running automatic, it also takes a while to adjust its levels 
sometimes up to a minute or more, and if it goes to sleep upon 
awakening it seems to have acquired extra time?


On 06/06/2004, at 10:10am, Richard Kay wrote:

I've gone back to 10.3.4 notwithstanding the minor bug affecting loss 
of the LCD Profile when the OS X default screen saver kicks in as 
documented here in the thread 'Recalibrating after 10.3.4 Update' (I 
just couldn't help myself):


http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.6893e46d

I've also noticed that on my 12"iBook G4 1GHz my battery is draining 
faster post-update. I've recalibrated the battery but it still seems 
to be draining faster than under 10.3.3. One other user has picked 
this up at:


http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.6894640e

He writes: "any suggestions? I used to see 5 or 6 hours after full 
charge, now I see about 2.5 hours. the only change to my ibook is the 
system update. I have repaired permissions, recalibrated the battery 
and restarted. what else?"


Anyone seen this post-update?
---
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Cheers!

Rob Davies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

"It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a 
subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the 
manufactured objects." Sartre.

Less Battery Life After Update to 10.3.4

[Richard Kay]

I've gone back to 10.3.4 notwithstanding the minor bug affecting loss 
of the LCD Profile when the OS X default screen saver kicks in as 
documented here in the thread 'Recalibrating after 10.3.4 Update' (I 
just couldn't help myself):


http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.6893e46d

I've also noticed that on my 12"iBook G4 1GHz my battery is draining 
faster post-update. I've recalibrated the battery but it still seems to 
be draining faster than under 10.3.3. One other user has picked this up 
at:


http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.6894640e

He writes: "any suggestions? I used to see 5 or 6 hours after full 
charge, now I see about 2.5 hours. the only change to my ibook is the 
system update. I have repaired permissions, recalibrated the battery 
and restarted. what else?"


Anyone seen this post-update?
---
Richard Kay
Fremantle
Western Australia

Ever Tried Murdoch University Library Wi-Fi on Your Mac?

[Richard Kay]

Has anyone on the list used their iBook or PowerBook to check out the 
Murdoch University Library's wireless access network?


I've downloaded the instructions which are very PC-based:

http://www.murdoch.edu.au/studentit/wireless.html

The gist of it all is set out in the following quote:

"The default settings [after using the Windoze XP CD provided by the 
library] should automatically connect you to the network, if not, enter 
the following configurations.


SSID:
MuWLAN
Wireless Mode:   
Infrastructure
Channel:
6 (South Street) or 11 (Rockingham)
Power Mode:
Continuous Access Mode"

For iBook AirportExtreme user would this mean just going to the 
AirportExtreme icon in the menu bar, choosing 'Other ... ', and then 
typing in 'MuWLAN' in 'Network Name' panel with nothing in the 
'Password' panel and then starting up Safari and getting access to the 
following Murdoch sites as per the instructions page?


Murdoch University Home Page http://www.murdoch.edu.au
Library Home Page http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au
Library Catalogue http://wwwopac.murdoch.edu.au
ITS Commuications http://wwwcoms.murdoch.edu.au
IT Services http://www.its.murdoch.edu.au

The library is open tomorrow so I thought I'd drag the new 12" iBook up 
there and have a bit of a play ... as a Wi-Fi neophyte.


Any advice from Uber-Users would, however, be appreciated.
---
Richard Kay
Fremantle
Western Australia

VPC economics

[Vladimir James]

The discussion involving Neil, VPC, Onno and others is most interesting.
Here's another view on emulation.

I have no need for MS products and don't use them, but I wanted a
strategy game (Darklords Rising) which was only available for Win98. It
looked like costing me close to $300 for VPC 6.1, so I looked into the
cost of a PC with Win98. I found a Pentium 3 with Win98, 256MB RAM, 80GB
HD, 48x CD-ROM for the same money. As I already had a spare monitor and
wasn't concerned about desk space, I bought the PC. The game is worth the
unusual expense.

Of course, I do not have the options available with VPC, but I can keep
my Mac for real work (writing and graphics), ie free of MS and games. The
PC is used only for the one game and general dabbling, which is
appropriate for the configuration IMO.

Vlad James

Re: [FS] ibook 800Mhz

[Onno Benschop]

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 23:27, KEVIN Lock wrote:
> This whole Mac/PC thing is a bit over the top!

No it really isn't. We live in a world where "common understanding" can
be totally incorrect and misinformed statements are taken to be the
truth.

In this world there is choice. Some prefer Macs, others don't.


> We are Mac people and have a few macs around the house and more 
> spread amongst friends, but my wife runs a Husqvarna sewing machine 
> programme on a PC laptop recently purchased new @ $1500.

Emulation software costs a fraction of that.


> Not worth the hassle of emulation software when the sewing machine 
> costs  $5000.00.

I do not understand this kind of statement at all. I've noticed in this
post and in those of others this sense of "Emulation is Hard", no it
really isn't.

The biggest problem I find people having is that they are unable to come
to grips with the idea that there are two computers running at the same
time when they are running an emulator.

One of those computers runs Mac OS, the other runs (likely) Windows.

My experience is that the issues that get raised time and time again is
a fundamental misunderstanding of this concept.

The issues you strike with your OS of choice every day don't baffle you
half as much as those of an OS you don't use. While I know that I'm
luckier than most having been around the block a while, I know more
about more OSes than many, it really isn't all that complicated.

So, for Kevin and others, do yourself a favour, imagine that when the
emulator is the front-most application, it's another computer entirely.
If you cannot think of it that way, perhaps imagine that you're
connecting to an invisible computer over the network using an advanced
form of telnet.


> The new Bernina sewing machine costs around $7000.00 and wont run on  Mac OS.

So, you can complain to the manufacturer about it, or you can buy an
emulator, or you can buy a PC. I know what I'd be doing, and buying a PC
isn't even close!


Onno Benschop 

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