[Duo2400] anybody wanna...?

2002-04-02 Thread flawed jai
excellent responses, you guys! i was hoping this was what i would hear back about my duo 2300c. dragoth, sorry to crush your illusions about the aluminum or magnesium spacer frame, but, no, I really think it ain't light metal. it's crummy plastic, colored like light metal. metal rings when you tap

[Duo2400] In RAM boot disk: Why does HD spin up/refuse to spindown?

2002-04-02 Thread Susanna
On my 2400, when I'm working in a RAM disk as the start-up disk, (system 7.6.1) and using applications that are on the RAM disk too, why does the hard-drive spin up sometimes? I know that some applications might write a temporary file to the harddrive, but that isn't the explanation here,because

[Duo2400] Plastic tab under key F3

2002-04-02 Thread Susanna
Hi, I've just started assigning functions to my function keys, and I'm noticing for the first time that the key "F3" isn't working properly: only the front edge of it goes down (and with some difficulty) when I press it. I can see the cause: there's a little plastic tab sticking out from a small

[Duo2400] Re: anybody wanna fix this for me?

2002-04-02 Thread Scott Holder
At 07:19 PM 4/2/2002 +, you wrote: >There's something admirable about this. It makes me happy to know that there >are still some people willing to fix something rather than just throw it >away and buy new. I wonder if someday there will be computer reenactors like >there are Civil War re enact

[Duo2400] Re: anybody wanna fix this for me?

2002-04-02 Thread Grizz
There's something admirable about this. It makes me happy to know that there are still some people willing to fix something rather than just throw it away and buy new. I wonder if someday there will be computer reenactors like there are Civil War re enactors now ;) Grizz > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Duo2400] Re: anybody wanna fix this for me?

2002-04-02 Thread Andrew Butitta
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 05:20 PM, flawed jai wrote: > > i charged the batteries up and put one in the bay. i reset the power > manager. i plugged in the a/c. i left it overnight. tried to power on > the next day. nothing. left it aother day. tried again. nothign. > checked the battery in th

[Duo2400] Re: anybody wanna fix this for me?

2002-04-02 Thread Mark Semon
flawed jai wrote: > powerbook duo 2300c. > found with hard drive torn out.copper sheilding torn in the process. i > trimmed back the sharp edges of the copper sheilding yesterday to a nice > blunt straight edge, flush with the bottom case edge. > > the IDE copper ribbon cable from the logic board

[Duo2400] Re: anybody wanna fix this for me?

2002-04-02 Thread flawed jai
(co posting at swaplist too) anybody wanna do this for me? yesterday i called the local mac repair store and put this to them. they didn't want to take my money and work on this for me. they wanted me to trash it and buy something from them. i don't wanna. i wanna fix this one. or get someone wh

[Duo2400] New Bluetooth-Mac discussion list.

2002-04-02 Thread Eric Prentice
Perhaps you, like me have been intrigued by Apple's recent commitment to Bluetooth. So the first thing I did was ordered an adapter, and the second thing is to start a list! ;-) (Maybe the list will help me find something to do with my new adapter!) You can join the list by sending an email to

[Duo2400] MAC OS X

2002-04-02 Thread Brad Lincoln
I thought the Duo List might be interested in this: -Brad Lincoln March 29, 2002 Ryan Rempel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version 2.2 of XPostFacto will be out soon. The main new feature is beta-level support for the original Powerbook G3, the 3400, and probably the 2400. Version 2.2 will also fix the "ker

[Duo2400] Thanx for Address Book Help

2002-04-02 Thread David Nelson
Thanks Tom and Eric for your assistance! This will prove invaluable to my gal. This particular crash has been an exceptional nightmare of the worst magnitude. I suspect we all feel that way when it happens to us, having been around a few, I can honestly say this one was tragic. But, hey, there

[Duo2400] Re: Address Book

2002-04-02 Thread Eric L. Strobel
at the temporal coordinates: 4/2/02 12:41 PM, the entity known as Tom Colbert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] conveyed the following: > In OE there is a command under the file menu to export > contacts. You can create a tab delimited text file > with that. Then open that file in Excel and clean it > up. Be

[Duo2400] Re: Address Book

2002-04-02 Thread Tom Colbert
In OE there is a command under the file menu to export contacts. You can create a tab delimited text file with that. Then open that file in Excel and clean it up. Be sure and label your fields with the same names in the same order as the database you will be sending it to. When it looks the way yo

[Duo2400] Duo battery question

2002-04-02 Thread pb
Thanks very much to David Linker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and to Paul Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for your replies (and pointers) to my questions about Duo batteries. I now have a few hours of fun ahead of me! PB Schechter -- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for us

[Duo2400] Re: 2400 vs iB2 Functions

2002-04-02 Thread Sidney Ho
>From a few days back, the devil's advocate's advocate will argue that since we presumably agree (maximum ease of) portability is the main interest of the Duolist, either you have the option of carrying the minimum (safe/required) configuration on the road for whatever tasks are anticipated, or, i

[Duo2400] Re: 2400 vs iB2 Functions

2002-04-02 Thread Sidney Ho
On 4/1/02 rlf9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can store multiple PC cards in a slide type sheet array... >>> What's a slide type sheet array? Sounds interesting. >> Just a multi-pocket PVC sheet out of a 3-4 ring binder used for large slides >> or small photos. You have to look around. > O

[Duo2400] Re: Address Book

2002-04-02 Thread David Nelson
Thanks again for speedy answers to my question. I posed the question for my gal, who happens to be, quite literally, 1/2 the world away, so I can't be there to attempt this. Her Windoze machine caught the flu and crashed bad. She is now trying to recover the files and transfer what's left to he