Re: G4 spill damage

2002-11-23 Thread wappling
Re; A pharoh who eats crackers in bed, is a crumby mummy :) I'll be quiet now,,lol In my computer classes one of the first rules is Do Not Have Any Liquid That Could Spill Near The Computers, which most people ignore when at home, but not in my lab! Any liquid spilled on a computer could

Re: Beerbook/Spill Damage

2002-11-23 Thread wappling
RE; perhaps, but I should mention lightning damage(florida) homeowners policy and insurance on lightning protection devices cover such a low (used) percentage amount,also at the cost of a raised insurance rate,coverage for electronics damage is poor at best,theft and fire are quite a bit

Re: Secure Delete

2002-11-23 Thread Tivo
I have ordered Secure Delete and will let you know how it works http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0204/09.securedelete.php Geoff Ah, great; please do. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives |

Re: G4 spill damage

2002-11-23 Thread wappling
RE; I think(my opinion) both smalldog and macreqQ,, you can replace the entire machine for less,gut or sell old one maybe for parts Well, while ripping my bartender's CDs to my Powerbook 550 I spilled some beer on the keyboard. Tekserve has cleaned it up and says the logic board must be

Re: Wallstreet acting flaky

2002-11-23 Thread Jon Glass
on 11/22/02 3:57 PM, Seth Austen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that suggestion, that appears to have been the problem! Palm had installed some instant palm desktop feature in the menu bar, I have disabled that extension, and everything has been running fine for three days since,

Re: G4 spill damage

2002-11-23 Thread Jon Glass
on 11/23/02 3:24 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've lost both an Acer laptop and a WallStreet over the last two years due to soft drink spills. I've also salvaged every single external keyboard that someone has spilled on by unplugging it, rinsing it under water, and letting it

Re: Beerbook/Spill Damage

2002-11-23 Thread Andrew Main
Some years back a friend/client tried washing his keyboard in water; when it didn't work afterward he gave it to me. I put it in a box with some other junk, and a year later found it worked fine. Just needed to dry out. Most important, I think, if anything gets wet, is to _immediately_ remove

Re: Secure Delete

2002-11-23 Thread Gene Merritt
Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: On Friday, Nov 22, 2002, at 08:05 US/Alaska, Tivo wrote: Aladdin Systems, maker of Stuffit has a product called Secure Delete. Does anyone have personal or experiential knowledge about this product's efficiency? It's worked fine for me. Gene

Migrating unresponsive key in Pismo

2002-11-23 Thread Dwight Hines
For a couple of weeks, it was my s key, lower case and caps, that was about impossible to make a mark with. Then the problem migrated to the F key, lower case and caps. Now I don't know where the nonresponsive key is located. It may be reloading. What does this mean? dh -- G-Books is

Re: Keyboards key names

2002-11-23 Thread Andrew Main
Dan Knight wrote: History: In the beginning was the splat/open apple/command key. It was simple. And it was good. And it was inadequate, so with the advent of the Plus (if memory serves), the option key was added to the keyboard -- along with other nice keys like Escape. Thanks to programs like

Re: wiping hard drive clean

2002-11-23 Thread Thomas Ethen
There was just a issue raised on the local TV station last week about this very topic, concerning Government HD's that were going to surplus sales and the safety of information that was previously on the drives. The conclusion of the story was that in order to be completely safe, the drive has to

Re: wiping hard drive clean

2002-11-23 Thread Thomas Ethen
on 11/23/02 12:57 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Can we move on to something more important? That thread is not leading anywhere. Come on, those are not the droids you're looking for. -Laurent. G-Books list nanny Sorry Laurent, I sent my reply before I read

Re: Secure Delete

2002-11-23 Thread James Rohde
Noticed mention in an ADC e-mail today about FWB's Privacy Toolkit. Anyone familiar with their other products or on this specific program? See: http://www.fwb.com/html/privacy_toolkit.html I'm also enclosing some clipped text from the page. Those of you who are interested might want to go

Catalog B Tree 3 error on CD-RW

2002-11-23 Thread John Fox
Hi Listers: I recently bought an Iomega Zip CD 650 4x4x6 drive from TigerDirect.com and I have been in heaven ever since ripping copies of my mp3s. However, the software (Toast 4) that came bundled with it is for OS 9 and can be run in Classic. The problem is that I won't recognize my CD-RW

Re: Catalog B Tree 3 error on CD-RW

2002-11-23 Thread Thomas Ethen
I have the same drive and Iomega told me that they don't support Toast in anything over 9.0 with their USB-2 drives. Neither Toast 4 or Toast 5 will see the Iomega drive, but my PM/8600, OS 8.6 sees it just fine in both 4 and 5, so what they told me seems to be the case. Tom on 11/23/02 9:46 AM,

Re: powerbook opinion

2002-11-23 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 23/11/02 02:08, wappling at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all,Im seriously looking at a new laptop,my most logical choice is a new I-book 800 12in screen at about 11:00 to 12:00 hundred range,howver the powerbook at 2000 is I think beutiful,besides the larger screen and made of metal,is

Re: Serve It Up

2002-11-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 10:47 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: once I get there the problems begin. This is what I have right now: UW PICO(tm)File:httpd.confModified I then do ^W(ctrl-W) to get the search line. After this, I type in php and then hit enter. It then

Re: Catalog B Tree 3 error on CD-RW

2002-11-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 08:46 AM, John Fox wrote: Hi Listers: I recently bought an Iomega Zip CD 650 4x4x6 drive from TigerDirect.com and I have been in heaven ever since ripping copies of my mp3s. However, the software (Toast 4) that came bundled with it is for OS 9 and can be

Re: Migrating unresponsive key in Pismo

2002-11-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 05:47 AM, Dwight Hines wrote: For a couple of weeks, it was my s key, lower case and caps, that was about impossible to make a mark with. Then the problem migrated to the F key, lower case and caps. Now I don't know where the nonresponsive key is

Re: CDR/DVD drive failure on TiBook

2002-11-23 Thread R. Hannes Niedner
On 11/22/02 6:58 PM, P.F.Grenier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, Nov 22, 2002, at 21:48 US/Eastern, R. Hannes Niedner wrote: On 11/22/02 6:41 PM, P.F.Grenier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried the manual eject button? Where is that located on the slot loading TiBook? /h

Re: Secure Delete

2002-11-23 Thread Gene Merritt
There's also SAFE SHRED : http://www.codetek.com/php/safeshred.php Codetek offers a suite of apps which also includes SAFE CLEAN and SAFE FILE. I downloaded SAFE SHRED and liked it but SECURE DELETE was offerred for free with Spring Cleaning 5, which i was already ordering, so I went with that.

Re: powerbook opinion

2002-11-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 12:08 AM, wappling wrote: Hi all,Im seriously looking at a new laptop,my most logical choice is a new I-book 800 12in screen at about 11:00 to 12:00 hundred range,howver the powerbook at 2000 is I think beutiful,besides the larger screen and made of

Re: CDR/DVD drive failure on TiBook

2002-11-23 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 23/11/02 12:43, R. Hannes Niedner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/22/02 6:58 PM, P.F.Grenier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, Nov 22, 2002, at 21:48 US/Eastern, R. Hannes Niedner wrote: On 11/22/02 6:41 PM, P.F.Grenier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried the manual eject

Re: Re Spill damage.

2002-11-23 Thread Paul Nicholson
At 10:18 PM -0600 11/22/02, Jeremy Derr wrote: also, you suggested that someone might use a blow dryer to dry off a wet circuit board. this is incorrect, and horribly bad advice. the added heat of the blow dryer can damage chips in the same way that lingering with a solder iron while soldering

Re: Re Spill damage.

2002-11-23 Thread Paul Nicholson
At 8:45 PM -0800 11/22/02, Bruce Mitchell wrote: I assumed I had inadvertently pushed some drops of water around to places they should not have been let to make contact. It frankly never occurred to me that the hair dryer itself could do damage. Never again! This doesn't make sense. Did you have

Re: CDR/DVD drive failure on TiBook

2002-11-23 Thread R. Hannes Niedner
On 11/23/02 10:09 AM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a TiBook 667 GHz Ethernet Port and I thought that this model maybe does not have a manual eject? Did you try restarting while maintaining the mouse button down? In previous systems, you could do that and any disk would

Re: Secure Delete

2002-11-23 Thread Tivo
SECURE DELETE Since folks are continuing this thread (I was afraid to go forth, for fear of the gallows), how's about response to one post that labeled such programs worthless because they don't really DELETE? Do they or donĀ¹t they? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...

missing disc space

2002-11-23 Thread chris thornton
Hello, Suddenly half of my hard drive space has disappeared. I was wondering if this is a bug in 10.2.2 and if anyone has any recomendations to get my space back. I tried running DiskWarrior but it didn't help, also tried running the latest Virex in case it's a virus but it found nothing.

Re: wiping hard drive clean

2002-11-23 Thread Obi-Wan
On 11/23/02 6:51 AM, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: There was just a issue raised on the local TV station last week about this very topic, concerning Government HD's that were going to surplus sales and the safety of information that was previously on the drives.

Re: wiping hard drive clean

2002-11-23 Thread Obi-Wan
On 11/23/02 6:53 AM, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: on 11/23/02 12:57 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Can we move on to something more important? That thread is not leading anywhere. Come on, those are not the droids you're looking

Re: wiping hard drive clean

2002-11-23 Thread Keith Ronan
Thank You Obi Wan and Laurent .. :-) Keith Ronan On 11/23/02 3:32 PM, Obi-Wan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/23/02 6:53 AM, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: on 11/23/02 12:57 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Can we move on to

Re: powerbook opinion

2002-11-23 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 10:40 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 23/11/02 02:08, wappling at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all,Im seriously looking at a new laptop,my most logical choice is a new I-book 800 12in screen at about 11:00 to 12:00 hundred range,howver the powerbook at

Re: Floppys on Jaguar

2002-11-23 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 03:36 PM, Tony Simons wrote: I have upgraded my wallstreet II to Jaguar and it runs really well apart from a couple of problems. I can't access the floppy module from Jaguar and the Zip drive module only now works in Jaguar not in 9.2 Any ideas anyone?

iBook (white) Firewire Port Failure

2002-11-23 Thread Larry Blodgett
I have discovered that my firewire port appears to have failed. I have tried everything I can think of in OS 9.2.2 and OS 10.2.1. Can mount anything (harddisks, CDs) . When I try to mount the iBook drive on another machine (command T starup), I get the firewire logo but it does not mount on

Re: wiping hard drive clean

2002-11-23 Thread John Haumann
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 02:19 AM, Obi-Wan wrote: I am not saying that this thread, or your concern, is invalid... or even that your question is invalid. What I am saying is that you are not EVER guaranteed safety of data without destroying the drive...basically. OK Obi-Wan,

Re: Floppys on Jaguar

2002-11-23 Thread Tony Simons
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 10:01 pm, Jeremy Derr wrote: On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 03:36 PM, Tony Simons wrote: I have upgraded my wallstreet II to Jaguar and it runs really well apart from a couple of problems. I can't access the floppy module from Jaguar and the Zip

Re: CDR/DVD drive failure on TiBook

2002-11-23 Thread Obi-Wan
On 11/23/02 10:23 AM, R. Hannes Niedner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On 11/23/02 10:09 AM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a TiBook 667 GHz Ethernet Port and I thought that this model maybe does not have a manual eject? Did you try restarting while

Re: wiping hard drive clean

2002-11-23 Thread John Haumann
On Saturday, November 23, 2002, at 02:30 PM, Obi-Wan wrote: There was just a issue raised on the local TV station last week about this very topic, concerning Government HD's that were going to surplus sales and the safety of information that was previously on the drives. The conclusion

Re: Catalog B Tree 3 error on CD-RW

2002-11-23 Thread Gary D. Adams
I've had two friends with the same drive and the same problem with Toast. One downloaded Hotburn from Iomega's site and it worked. The other had her CDRW replaced by Iomega as defective. Gary John Fox wrote: Hi Listers: I recently bought an Iomega Zip CD 650 4x4x6 drive from TigerDirect.com

Re: Re Spill damage.

2002-11-23 Thread Bruce Mitchell
on 11/23/02 10:20 AM, Paul Nicholson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 8:45 PM -0800 11/22/02, Bruce Mitchell wrote: I assumed I had inadvertently pushed some drops of water around to places they should not have been let to make contact. It frankly never occurred to me that the hair dryer

Installing OS X 10.2 on Wallstreet Help!

2002-11-23 Thread S.D. Weijand
I am trying to install 10.2 on my Wallstreet II 233mhz, 512, 320mb ram OS 9.1 20 GB Drive Partitioned with an open partition within the first 8 GB. When I start-up with the install in my cd drive a cople of things happen. Sometimes when the screen is about to go to the spinning disc under the

G4 Titaniium sighting

2002-11-23 Thread William Metcalfe
On the first page of the Weekend Journal in the Friday edition of the Wall Street journal, 11/22/02, there was a photograph of 3 people seated on a sofa watching a movie on, I believe, a G Titanium PB. (I am not that familiar with Windows laptops that might look similiar.) It is an illustration

Re: Installing OS X 10.2 on Wallstreet Help!

2002-11-23 Thread John Fox
Dear Sean, I personally feel that the best way to go is to reformat your HD if you have a viable way to back up your information. Then repartition with the Disk Utility within the Installer (only accessible from the Welcome screen before you start the installation process). I too have a