Re: Where Are Airport Cards?

2002-05-09 Thread John Slavin
Smalldog has another deal on reconditioned cards for $65.00 a piece. Offer expires today. On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 07:51 PM, Gary D. Adams wrote: Smalldog has a deal on two cards and 1 Airport 1 base station for $287. Take the deal and resell the base station! G [EMAIL PROTECTED]

VST 250-mb Zips on Sale

2002-05-09 Thread Diane Gamm
Subject: VST 250-mb Zips on Sale Question, though: Are the Sept. '98 Wallstreets (266mhz) designed/shaped differently from the '99-'00 models? The below description says this VST-Zip would go in the right expansion bay, and that is where the CD-ROM is on my '98/266 WS. Will this VST-Zip fit

Re: Where Are Airport Cards?

2002-05-09 Thread Jim Freeman
I wish, but I don't see anything like that on Smalldog's site. Jim On Thursday, May 9, 2002, at 05:47 AM, (G-Books) wrote: Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 19:51:33 -0500 From: Gary D. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Where Are Airport Cards? Smalldog has a deal on two cards and 1 Airport 1

Re: Where Are Airport Cards?

2002-05-09 Thread MikkiWokk
I do not have the original post from the person requesting an Airport card and don't know what the specific request was, but I have a never-used Rev. C card, including adapter. Contact me off-list. Michelle --- Michelle K. Wachtel, Apple Product Professional, Inspiration

Re: Broadband hardware - my 2¢

2002-05-09 Thread Kyle Hansen
makmac wrote: Bryan Forbes on 5/9/02 8:51 AM wrote: On this issue of supporting certain companies, I have to side with Kyle on this. Although I've never purchased a Linksys product nor had contact with them, I have had contact with Asante on different occasions and they have always

Re: Sorenson Squeeze

2002-05-09 Thread Maria Nekam
Has anyone any knowledge of a program called Sorenson Squeeze, which compresses video into QuickTime or Flash format? There's info about it here: http://www.corporatemedianews.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2002/05_may/reviews/squeeze2_4qt.htm I've got a ton of old movies and PBS shows and the

Re: zip same for 99 98 expansion bay ?

2002-05-09 Thread Sue Brown
Are the Sept. '98 Wallstreets (266mhz) designed/shaped differently from the '99-'00 models? The below description says this VST-Zip would go in the right expansion bay, and that is where the CD-ROM is s on my '98/266 WS. Will this VST-Zip fit there? nope! not from my experience with switching

Re: Where Are Airport Cards?

2002-05-09 Thread makmac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 5/9/02 1:38 PM wrote: I do not have the original post from the person requesting an Airport card and don't know what the specific request was, but I have a never-used Rev. C card, including adapter. Contact me off-list. Michelle It was a one day deal. Started on the

Common courtesy (was: Re: Broadband hardware - my 2¢)

2002-05-09 Thread makmac
Kyle Hansen on 5/9/02 1:52 PM wrote: Rather than swaying you to a pro-Mac company by pointing out the positive aspects of their product and support, he belittles list members by bashing their choice of product or limited knowledge of how to use their Apple product. He is often rude,

Re: Broadband hardware

2002-05-09 Thread DavidWedge
As an aspiring Wireless nerd, I contacted Linksys Tech suppt dept by phone, to ask about AppleTalk, and was told We don't have anything to do with Mac, and don't do support for Mac systems. I'd have to side with Kyle, as I was rather suprised that any company would be so prejudice. Thanks,

Re: Sorenson Squeeze

2002-05-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
Maria Nekam wrote: Has anyone any knowledge of a program called Sorenson Squeeze, which compresses video into QuickTime or Flash format? There's info about it here: http://www.corporatemedianews.com/cgi-bin/getframeletter.cgi?/2002/05_may/reviews/squeeze2_4qt.htm I've got a ton of old

Re: Broadband hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Kyle Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an aspiring Wireless nerd, I contacted Linksys Tech suppt dept by phone, to ask about AppleTalk, and was told We don't have anything to do with Mac, and don't do support for Mac systems. That is why I hate Linksys. I really couldn't *believe* the attitude I was

Re: Attn: mac.com users

2002-05-09 Thread R. Hannes Niedner
From: Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macintouch: Apple 'secretly' filtering Mac.com mail by ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac May 9th 2002 Don Frakes and Bruce Giles, both of whom are list moms (those who administer mailing lists) for a number of Mac and PC-related mailing lists, have

Re: Broadband hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Thanks everyone for your responses! It's been extremely helpful to hear all the pros and cons, including experiences. I was given a MSN broadband modem a few months ago. It's an Arescom Model ND860VUE-MSN. I assume those MS folks want me to use their service, so they sent me a modem. My

Expansion Bay products

2002-05-09 Thread bill wells
Expansion Bay for 1998 I contacted VST and they said sorry the zip drives would not work on the older (1998) powerbooks. However, I contacted the Smart Disk online store and they had expansion bay Zip 250s and also SuperDrive exapansions which take floppies and 120MB disks. Prices were a

Re: Clean Install Classic Crashes in X

2002-05-09 Thread Paul Nicholson
At 10:20 AM -0400 5/9/02, Laurent Daudelin wrote: One last thing, make sure you have the latest CarbonLib. -Laurent. Fresh clean install of 9.2.1 from the PBG4 factory disk. Immediately added 9.2.2 update and Carbon 1.5 update. Gets a bus error when Classic is started. Boots find has host

Disk First Aid...word to the wise.

2002-05-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
Some people have mentioned on these lists that you need to run DFA multiple times sometimes to fix a problem. Well, they're right. A user had a crash today, his Powerbook came back up with a flashing question mark. Booted from the system CD, ran DFA. It found a huge pile of problems

Re: Disk First Aid...word to the wise.

2002-05-09 Thread Kyle Hansen
Bruce Johnson wrote: Some people have mentioned on these lists that you need to run DFA multiple times sometimes to fix a problem. Disk First Aid is a *very* underappreciated program. I use it all the time. -- == Kyle H. Hansen

Belkin wireless Router Feedback

2002-05-09 Thread John Lyon
On 5/9/02 19:15, Diane Gamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: p.s. CompUSA has a Belkin wireless router on sale for $99 this week. I use the the Belkin wireless router at home, and connect to it with my TiBook and Orinoco Gold PC Card. Works just fine, but it seems to loose connection to our DSL router

Re: VST 250-mb Zips on Sale

2002-05-09 Thread Gary D. Adams
Remy Davison wrote: I officially declare, now, that Gary owns every possible expansion bay device for the Lombard/Pismo ;-) Actually, I don't have the CDRW the SuperDisk or the extra battery! ;-) Let's see what you could have: - Zip 250 and/or 100 (btw, noticed Mac Zone has the 100s

Re: Clean Install Classic Crashes in X

2002-05-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 09/05/02 19:38, Paul Nicholson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:20 AM -0400 5/9/02, Laurent Daudelin wrote: One last thing, make sure you have the latest CarbonLib. -Laurent. Fresh clean install of 9.2.1 from the PBG4 factory disk. Immediately added 9.2.2 update and Carbon 1.5

Re: Broadband hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Bryan Bell
They bashed ME *personally* on the phone on 2 separate occasions. I was told on the first, that since I was having problems that I should get a real computer and sell my Mac. On the second occasion I was told that they didn't support Macs because Apple was going out of business, and I

Re: Broadband hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Bryan Bell
As an aspiring Wireless nerd, I contacted Linksys Tech suppt dept by phone, to ask about AppleTalk, and was told We don't have anything to do with Mac, and don't do support for Mac systems. That is called covering their ass. If they can't help you, they don't walk to talk to you- they aren't

Re: Broadband hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Bryan Bell
As an aspiring Wireless nerd, I contacted Linksys Tech suppt dept by phone, to ask about AppleTalk, and was told We don't have anything to do with Mac, and don't do support for Mac systems. That is why I hate Linksys. Why are you so emotional about it as to actually hate an entire company?

Re: Broadband hardware - my 2¢

2002-05-09 Thread Michael Bryan Bell
On this issue of supporting certain companies, I have to side with Kyle on this. Although I've never purchased a Linksys product nor had contact with them, I have had contact with Asante on different occasions and they have always provided excellent service and stood fully behind their

Re: zip same for 99 98 expansion bay ?

2002-05-09 Thread BG
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 13:01:32 -0500 From: Diane Gamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: VST 250-mb Zips on Sale Question, though: ...Will this VST-Zip fit there?... Best regards/BG BG - No, the expansion bay drives for 99/00 models won't fit the Wallstreet; it's a different model. Do a

Expansion Bay products

2002-05-09 Thread BG
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 17:39:13 -0500 From: bill wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Expansion Bay products Expansion Bay for 1998 I contacted VST and they said sorry the zip drives would not work on the older (1998) powerbooks. However, I contacted the Smart Disk online store and they had