Re: USB sharing

2002-07-24 Thread Walter R Basil
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 10:09 PM, (G-Books) wrote: Sorry to make you do it, but TBMK OS X doesn't support the printer sharing like *nix does (yet) maybe with Jaguar it will. I kind of doubt that, although I would *love* to be wrong. I think his Jobsness would have mentioned it, as

Re: USB sharing

2002-07-24 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Tuesday, July 23, 2002, at 10:09 PM, (G-Books) wrote: Sorry to make you do it, but TBMK OS X doesn't support the printer sharing like *nix does (yet) maybe with Jaguar it will. I kind of doubt that, although I would *love* to be wrong. I think his Jobsness would have mentioned it, as

Translators

2002-07-24 Thread Stuart Saunders
I seem to have lost the ability to translate doc files (said ability just arrived with 10.1 or 10.1.2). Not sure if this happened with 10.1.5 upgrade as I don't use it very often. Anybody else lost it? More importantly, can we get it back? Or is it something

Re: USB sharing

2002-07-24 Thread Andrew Chong
We have a shared multi-printer HP OfficeJet [it's the cousin nobody speaks about], which is shared between 3 machines using a USB switch from Belkin. The only drawback - it's manual. You have to push a button to switch machines. An inellegant solution but it works. -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: USB sharing

2002-07-24 Thread Andrew Chong
Missed that! -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books

Re: OS 10.2 and beyond...

2002-07-24 Thread Nick
I have a 500 MHz Powerbook G3 (a.k.a.Pismo or 2000 edition or Firewire), 256 Meg RAM, and have hesitated to switch to OS X. Any comments or personal experience would be appreciated from people who made the switch. I heard that under OS X I would not be able to play DVD movies on my Powerbook,

Re: iBook vs. PowerBook

2002-07-24 Thread Thomas Ethen
Stout just started it this year and I really don't know about all of the other schools in the UW system, but they are firm about having to purchase a PC. Students that are in the Arts get a Mac instead, but they also get no choice, even though they already are getting the best laptop for the job.

Re: OS 10.2 and beyond...

2002-07-24 Thread James
If you can afford it go with a gig of ram it is a huge improvement. I got my gig when the price was $75 apeace for the 512s now i think it is down to around $100 now from near $200 a few months ago. I would not recommend running OS X with less than 512 megs of ram or at least a min of 256 or 384.

Re: OS 10.2 and beyond...

2002-07-24 Thread Jeremy Derr
During a break in my moving, Remy Davison wrote: Granted, no s/w DVD decoding on Lombard/Wallstreet, but I'm probably one of the few who couldn't care less about that. I can watch VCDs in X now, and that's what counts (using MacVCD - QT doesn't work as there's no s/w MPEG-1 decoder in X).

Re: OS 10.2 and beyond...

2002-07-24 Thread Jeremy Derr
During my break in moving, Remy Davison said: There's even MPEG-2 decoding in OS X MPEG-2 decoding in OS X (and various versions of Apple's DVD player on Pismo and later) is in software, not hardware. Apple added DVD player in OS X 10.0.3 or something (?). In OS 9, QT provides a software

Re: OS 10.2 and beyond...

2002-07-24 Thread Jeremy Derr
During my break in moving, Remy Davison said: Granted, no s/w DVD decoding on Lombard/Wallstreet, but I'm probably one of the few who couldn't care less about that. I can watch VCDs in X now, and that's what counts (using MacVCD - QT doesn't work as there's no s/w MPEG-1 decoder in

Pismo doesn't see FireWire QPS Que!

2002-07-24 Thread Sam Donaldson
Hi all, after a long break I'm back with the same problem (sort of). Yesterday my Que! 8x4x32x cdrw rose from its 6month slumber and surprised me by successfully burning CDs in both iTunes and Toast 5.1 (OS9.1, 192Mb, 20gb no other FW devices). This morning the drive didn't even appear in the

Re: Warning: .mac may change your privacy preferences

2002-07-24 Thread Ryan Coleman
Dan announced this a few months back. That's just another reason why we started the LEMlists.com email. Each day we improve the email, and soon will have web-based email and other options via HTML. Just a little heads up for new .mac users. Apple changed my preferences so that 3rd party

Re: Pismo doesn't see FireWire QPS Que!

2002-07-24 Thread Kevin Stevens
There's a brand new (yesterday) Update that addresses CDRW drive compatibility improvements; is it possible that one machine had it and the other didn't? KeS On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Sam Donaldson wrote: Hi all, after a long break I'm back with the same problem (sort of). Yesterday my Que!

Re: OS 10.2 and beyond...

2002-07-24 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Nick wrote: I have a 500 MHz Powerbook G3 (a.k.a.Pismo or 2000 edition or Firewire), 256 Meg RAM, and have hesitated to switch to OS X. Any comments or personal experience would be appreciated from people who made the switch. I heard that under OS X I would not be

Re: iBook vs. PowerBook

2002-07-24 Thread Dan Knight
João Loureiro writes: Hi, everyone! What book is the best buy Ti-Book G4/667? or iBook G3/700? The answer is Yes. Which is best depends on your needs. The TiBook is slim and has a positivley huge screen. The iBook is heavier, costs less, and displays less pixels on a smaller screen. The G4

Re: Pismo problems

2002-07-24 Thread Michel Treisman
Hi. I wonder if anyone else has this problem. I have a 500 MHz Firewire G3 Powerbook, with the hard drive partitioned, and I usually boot on the partition (PB X) that has Mac OS X 10.1.5 installed. For several weeks now, I have had the following problems from time to time. First, sometimes

Re: OS 10.2 and beyond...

2002-07-24 Thread R. Hannes Niedner
Bruce, It appears to me that this information still only promises the shipping of Endnote 6 for OSX for the end of July, as opposed to the windows version. I have also heard that beta versions have been released only to an exclusive test group. Did I miss something on the page? I'd love to get

Re: USB sharing

2002-07-24 Thread Ryan Coleman
Um, why not share on the Tower? By PSX I will assume OSX. yep I was saying it doesn't work in X, only under 9.x Control Panel there. Argggh misread the e-mail. Guess it's off to the store for a USB switch... -- Ryan Coleman Coleman Web / Internet Services http://coleman-web.net/

Re: USB sharing

2002-07-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 01:25 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: Um, why not share on the Tower? All right we've either got a major cross-communication here or we re talking about different threads ;-) That's what I was *trying* to do. Have:G4 Tower, OS 9.1 TiBook OSX

Update on printing wirelessly to LaserSelect 360 using Asante Products ...

2002-07-24 Thread Bryan Forbes
Partial Update/partially solved ... in short the original post was that I couldn't find my Laserwriter Select 360 over an Ethernet setup using OS 10.1.4 on a Titanium 667 Powerbook. Never was able to get this to work wirelessly or even wired via ethernet (under OS X 10.1.5) ... Appletalk is

Re: HD and Enclosure questions

2002-07-24 Thread Jeff Hubatka
Plus you'll need to buy a laptop/desktop drive converter so the 2.5 inch drive can get power through it's 44-pin connector. -- JSH From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G-Books) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:21:29 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G-Books) Subject: G-Books Digest #762 Now, Can I buy a 3.5

Re: Update on printing wirelessly to LaserSelect 360 using Asante Products ...

2002-07-24 Thread Obi-Wan
Bryan Forbes wrote: I was successful in getting to print via ethernet under 9.2.2 so that will have to work for now. I'm in hopes that Jaguar OS X 10.2 will take care of this Appletalk problem. If anyone else has suggestions to solve this without re-installing OS X, I'm game ... I

Re: OS 10.2 and beyond...

2002-07-24 Thread Joseph Ferrare
Just want to add my voice to the more RAM chorus. I went from 256 to 1 gig and noticed a nice difference. I did that after one of the RAM monitors showed I was using more than 300 meg and was paging out to virtual memory regularly. I'd also add that a 5400 rpm drive made a

Pismo CPU ugrade

2002-07-24 Thread T-Lo
Is there a Pismo CPU G4 upgrade available? If so, from whom is it available? I have a Pismo 400MHz G3 with 576 MB RAM running OS X. It is a great machine. Would a G4 upgrade, if there is one, provide a significant performance kick? T-Lo -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/

Re: Pismo CPU ugrade

2002-07-24 Thread d2photo
There is an upgrade supplied by PowerLogix a G4/500 - On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 07:11 PM, T-Lo wrote: Is there a Pismo CPU G4 upgrade available? If so, from whom is it available? I have a Pismo 400MHz G3 with 576 MB RAM running OS X. It is a great machine. Would a G4 upgrade, if

SERIAL printer sharing

2002-07-24 Thread Robert Easton
Similar to the USB sharing thread. will this work with a serial printer? I have a PowerCenter with an older EPSON 800 attached via the serial, and I have a TiBook on its way. TIA -- Robert G Easton Bad spellers of the world UNTIE! -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...

Re: Pismo CPU ugrade

2002-07-24 Thread Donald Keenan
This voids the warranty. Many of the 400mhz Pismos are just out of the warranty window amyway. Donald On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 11:04 PM, Gregory Cortelyou wrote: On 7/24/02 10:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an upgrade supplied by PowerLogix a G4/500 - If

Re: Pismo CPU ugrade

2002-07-24 Thread Michael Richardson
Actually, I have been looking at the upgrade market and I was wondering... If I still have my 66mhz bus in my lombard, will I truly get a G4/500 machine if I do the Powerlogix or Newertech upgrades? Wouldn't the 66mhz bus act as a bottleneck? How do they get the computer to process at 500mhz?

Lombard Memory Upgrade

2002-07-24 Thread Scott Moran
Speaking of memory...how cheap is too much for memory? Is it all the same or do some suck less than others? Just wondering... Scott -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Re: Lombard Memory Upgrade

2002-07-24 Thread Eugene Lee
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:37:16AM -0400, Scott Moran wrote: : : Speaking of memory...how cheap is too much for memory? : Is it all the same or do some suck less than others? The major name brands cost more, often twice as much as the off brand. Lots of people have no problems with the cheaper