Mac stores in Indianapolis (a little OT)

2002-04-23 Thread Jim Richter
I apologize for a topic without any real Powerbook content, but I have a question for any fellow Hoosiers on the list. I'm relocating back to Indiana after living in Austin, TX the last 3 years. I'm moving to Indy and would like to know of any Mac resources there (retailer, used Mac stores,

Re: Pismos booting firewire?

2002-04-23 Thread Christoffer Gustafsson
Den 02-04-23 05.28, skrev JustinLee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Would the machine run faster off of a 7200 rpm ATA-100 firewire drive (than when booted off of the internal 4200 RPM drive). I would think it would. Has anyone done this? Is there a significant difference? I dont think so, you have

Re: Swapping batteries with iBook

2002-04-23 Thread John K. Su
no. to save costs, apple didnt' include a little backup battery, so the computer will turn off if you pull out the battery. must shutdown. john I saw elsewhere on this list about being able to swap batteries while the laptop was sleeping. Is this possible with my iBook 500 DVD? Can I swap

Re: Mac stores in Indianapolis (a little OT)

2002-04-23 Thread Andrew Loy
Indy is still pretty much a wintel town. Other than CompUSA I don't know of any Mac friendly shops. I can give you the name of the best certified Mac tech. in the area (not in Indy, he's in Lafayette). If you need parts and pieces, your best bet is Goodwill or the IUPUI auctions. Andy ps.

Re: Mac stores in Indianapolis (a little OT)

2002-04-23 Thread Thomas Ethen
The entire Mid West is pretty much Wintel fixated, along with only purchasing American cars and TRUCKS! Tom on 4/23/02 8:53 AM, Andrew Loy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indy is still pretty much a wintel town. Other than CompUSA I don't know of any Mac friendly shops. I can give you the name

Re: Mac stores in Indianapolis (a little OT)

2002-04-23 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Tuesday, April 23, 2002, at 01:16 AM, Jim Richter wrote: I apologize for a topic without any real Powerbook content, but I have a question for any fellow Hoosiers on the list. I'm relocating back to Indiana after living in Austin, TX the last 3 years. I'm moving to Indy and would

Re: Installing Software/WS '98

2002-04-23 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 11:07 PM, BG wrote: I have an HP-855C printer which I was using with my Performa, and now would like to be able to print from the Wallstreet '98. Since the software for the printer came on two floppies, I copied them in their entirety to the Performa's HD,

Re: Lucent Turbo Silver LAN PCMCIA Card in PB 3400

2002-04-23 Thread Gary D. Adams
After messing around with this a week, I finally figured out how to do it. Since the card was made by Lucent/Orinoco, the same people who make Airport cards, if you use Tomeviewer and extract the three Airport Extensions (Airport Driver, Airport PC Card and Airport AP Support) and the

Re: Lucent Turbo Silver LAN PCMCIA Card in PB 3400

2002-04-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
Gary D. Adams wrote: After messing around with this a week, I finally figured out how to do it. Since the card was made by Lucent/Orinoco, the same people who make Airport cards, if you use Tomeviewer and extract the three Airport Extensions (Airport Driver, Airport PC Card and Airport AP

Re: Lucent Turbo Silver LAN PCMCIA Card in PB 3400

2002-04-23 Thread Gary D. Adams
No problem. I think it will work with 8.6, too, though. Gary Bruce Johnson wrote: Gary D. Adams wrote: After messing around with this a week, I finally figured out how to do it. Since the card was made by Lucent/Orinoco, the same people who make Airport cards, if you use Tomeviewer

Re: Mac stores in Indianapolis (a little OT)

2002-04-23 Thread John Cathey
Robert's camera downtown has a small niche on the side where they sell new macs. CompUSA is in Castleton. There's at least one other in the phone book, but I haven't checked it out. I'm not a hoosier, just stranded here for the moment on 4/23/02 14:30, (G-Books) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Service Manuals on freehost.nu gone?

2002-04-23 Thread Ryan Coleman
No dice. Doesn't even have WhoIs record. I just checked. Dunno what to say. -- Ryan Laurent Daudelin wrote: Anybody is able to get to http://www.freehost.nu/members/enigmac/appleman.html? I'm getting The specified server could not be found error in Explorer. I was looking for the Personal

Re: Installing Software/WS '98

2002-04-23 Thread BG
Brian Scott Oplinger of ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 4/23/02 1:40 AM: When I tried to install the Printer software on the WS, it got part-way through and then said Insert Disk #2 in order to complete installation. Well, naturally, since I do not have a floppy drive on the WS, there was no

Re: Service Manuals on freehost.nu gone?

2002-04-23 Thread Ryan Coleman
Well, regardless of us being shut down, Laurent posted a dead link. Apple will do nothing to a link that doesn't do the gig anymore. They can't. ::grin:: -- Ryan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives

Re: Service Manuals on freehost.nu gone? News on Sight

2002-04-23 Thread Matt Reiff
Someone a while ago gave me a service manual for a firewire G3 PB. I checked the URL and it gave a link to apple's FTP site. Last I checked, then, file read was permitted but file scan was not--in other words, if you knew the name of a file you could read it, but you were not permitted to get a