Re: Wallstreet battery problem revisited

2002-07-03 Thread Remy Davison
Does anyone know where I might get a new power management board (CHEAP) for my WallStreet 266? It seems to be eating batteries at a rate of one every three months, and the board seems to be the only thing I can think of (I've done the shift/option/apple/restart thing quite a few times). When

Re: Server as Firewall

2002-07-03 Thread Ryan Coleman
On 7/2/02 3:06 PM Ryan Coleman edified us all by writing: ... phreaking /freek'ing/ n. [from `phone phreak'] 1. The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls). 2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially,

Powerbook drives

2002-07-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
I wasn't in the market and so didn't keep track, but within the last couple of days someone posted some links to 40G powerbook drives pretty cheap? One of my users just asked me today about one... Anyone have those links handy? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

Firewire issues (TiBook) and something OT

2002-07-03 Thread Ryan Coleman
Has anyone experienced failure of the Firewire ports on their TiBook? Mine is dead but I do not have the hardware test CD for the book yet, I haven't gotten it from the original owner yet. I wanted to add something here, a little off-topic: I have been accused of having my head up my ass, but

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook) and something OT

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Bryan Bell
Has anyone experienced failure of the Firewire ports on their TiBook? I did... Twice actually. If you check the apple archives, it's one of the most common tibook failures. I did a bunch of research into it for awhile. From compiling information it seemed to have something to do with it being

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook) and something OT

2002-07-03 Thread Ryan Coleman
Also, who has been here since 1999? Do you remember me being on the powerbook list? Just curious. I apologize for this. I would like to nip this in the bud right now. I have explained to Kyle how I have been here since 1999. It's no big deal anymore, I got my ducks in a row now. -- Ryan

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook)

2002-07-03 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 08:01 PM, Michael Bryan Bell wrote: Well, the biggest thing you can do is check your cable. A lot of devices ship with el cheapo cables which go bad after awhile. If you have another comp to try the device on, that'll let you know. It's a pretty expensive fix

OS X mail quota

2002-07-03 Thread Donald Keenan
Hi folks. I got a mail message yesterday and today telling me that my mail quota was nearly full in the OS X Mail application. Granted, I do have 180 odd mail messages in my inbox, but had that many before and never received such a message. The message came to my inbox without a sender. I tried

Re: OS X mail quota

2002-07-03 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 03/07/02 21:36, Donald Keenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I got a mail message yesterday and today telling me that my mail quota was nearly full in the OS X Mail application. Granted, I do have 180 odd mail messages in my inbox, but had that many before and never received such

Re: OS X mail quota

2002-07-03 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 08:48 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 03/07/02 21:36, Donald Keenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I got a mail message yesterday and today telling me that my mail quota was nearly full in the OS X Mail application. Granted, I do have 180 odd mail

Re: OS X mail quota

2002-07-03 Thread Donald Keenan
Laurent: I have a road runner pop account. Shouldn't I be able to keep tons of mail messages in my inbox or mailbox folders? If road runner were sending me a warning message, wouldn't the message come with a return address? I'm confused. Donald I'd be surprised if there was a quota in Mail.

Re: OS X mail quota

2002-07-03 Thread Donald Keenan
Jeremy: Are the messages sitting in my inbox considered to be on the server? Do I have to simply put them in Mail mailboxes/folders to remove them from the server? Donald On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 09:54 PM, Jeremy Derr wrote: Exactly... this is a server message, not being generated by

Re: OS X mail quota

2002-07-03 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 09:02 PM, Donald Keenan wrote: Jeremy: Are the messages sitting in my inbox considered to be on the server? Do I have to simply put them in Mail mailboxes/folders to remove them from the server? Donald They may be. it depends on how you have Mail set up. If

Pismo HD upgrade...using both!

2002-07-03 Thread Gene Wright
Links: www.newegg.com and www.googlegear.com are both good sources for powerbook drives. I was fortunate enough to get an expansion bay 10Gb hard drive for my pismo a few months ago for about $50. I took it apart and discovered the 10gb drive was very easy to remove. Sold it and now will move

Re: OS X mail quota

2002-07-03 Thread Donald Keenan
Jeremy: I just checked the option to delete messages on the server after downloading. I got a pop alert telling me all read messages will be permanently deleted. When I think about it, I unplugged my laptop from the cable modem and hooked up my iMac and every message I had ever received with

Re: OS X mail quota

2002-07-03 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 09:21 PM, Donald Keenan wrote: I still find it odd that the quota message came into my inbox without an address displayed. That's just the way it is sometimes. The 'sender' of admin emails is fully configurable by the admin. For some unknown reason, some ISPs

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook)

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Bryan Bell
Well, the biggest thing you can do is check your cable. A lot of devices ship with el cheapo cables which go bad after awhile. If you have another comp to try the device on, that'll let you know. It's a pretty expensive fix without applecare, requiring a motherboard replacement. Apple's

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook)

2002-07-03 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 10:33 PM, Michael Bryan Bell wrote: Well, the biggest thing you can do is check your cable. A lot of devices ship with el cheapo cables which go bad after awhile. If you have another comp to try the device on, that'll let you know. It's a pretty expensive

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook) and something OT

2002-07-03 Thread Ryan Coleman
Ryan Yes firewire no longer responding on TiBook500 OSX, ...maybe associated w/ OSX upgrade? - can this be? Doesn't work under 9 either. Complete failure. X is trashed on my book right now. -- Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coleman Web/Internet Services http://www.coleman-web.net (612)

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook)

2002-07-03 Thread Ryan Coleman
Jeremy, that is great, but what about warranty stuff? I am not about to pay for a new logic board if it is under warranty. How does this apply to me? This is a warranty issue (and I won't pay it, it never worked for me, I would have the original owner to pay it). I spend considerable time

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook)

2002-07-03 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 12:49 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Jeremy, that is great, but what about warranty stuff? I am not about to pay for a new logic board if it is under warranty. How does this apply to me? This is a warranty issue (and I won't pay it, it never worked for me, I would

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook)

2002-07-03 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Thursday, July 4, 2002, at 12:49 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Jeremy, that is great, but what about warranty stuff? I am not about to pay for a new logic board if it is under warranty. How does this apply to me? This is a warranty issue (and I won't pay it, it never worked for me, I would

Re: Firewire issues (TiBook)

2002-07-03 Thread Michael Bryan Bell
I spend considerable time facilitating repairs in to Apple in just these situations, and arranging payment for them, as part of a very large installed base. Granted, probably larger than me (I only deal with about 10-15 apple returns/repairs through apple a year) but I've never been told