Re: Modem Port Unavailable

2003-02-18 Thread SCN User
Should have looked first...ZTerm has been updated for X... On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, SCN User wrote: > > I thought for sure I ran ZTerm through OSX once. I was trying to make an > ethernet connection to a 5300, and when I disconnected everything and > turned off the network controls, ZTerm no longer

Re: Modem Port Unavailable

2003-02-18 Thread SCN User
I thought for sure I ran ZTerm through OSX once. I was trying to make an ethernet connection to a 5300, and when I disconnected everything and turned off the network controls, ZTerm no longer worked. Anyway, I could have imagined using ZTerm--it was in my first days of using OSX and I could have b

erratic display Lombard

2003-02-18 Thread w miller
My Lombard screen spontaneously combusts fairly regularly all of a sudden. If I adjust the angle of the screen it will clear up. When it goes crazy, it looks like the old-fashion horizontal (or was it vertical?) hold on televisions. Any ideas? Display? Screen connectors? Something internal? I've ne

Re: OS X 10.2.4 stable?

2003-02-18 Thread Eric D.
on 2/18/03 7:04 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > second up is people doing weird crap to get around the OS X > installer... chiefly, trying to get around the 8GB Partition Limit by > first installing OS X with the drive installed in a non-8GB-limited > machine; i lump installing OS X

Re: Network printing

2003-02-18 Thread John Gaskell
You may need to load a generic laserjet driver for that printer. Look for available drivers/extensions/whatever in the chooser menu, and play with it to find the one that works. jg On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 11:32 AM, Jim Katz wrote: > Help! I am trying to get my Ti-400 system 9.2 lap

Re: Printing Font problem (slightly OT)

2003-02-18 Thread Stephen Bright
> I'm running OS9.2.2 on an iMac Bondi and am connected to an Apple > LaserWriter 8500. I'd guess it could only be a bad printer if the font is permanently stored in ROM in the printer's permanent mewmory. Times New Roman is usually a TrueType font, and those are not stored in many laser printers

Re: Trashing vs Shredding?

2003-02-18 Thread Ryan Coleman
At 10:37 PM -0600 2/18/03, Stephen Bright wrote: > > Good advice. But the article to which the original poster was >> referring identified drives that had been formatted but data was >> recovered anyway. > >Even a low level format with 'zero all data' checked? >Stephen There is only one secure

Re: Trashing vs Shredding?

2003-02-18 Thread Stephen Bright
> Good advice. But the article to which the original poster was > referring identified drives that had been formatted but data was > recovered anyway. Even a low level format with 'zero all data' checked? Stephen -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Trashing vs Shredding?

2003-02-18 Thread Phillip Burk
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 06:47 PM, Stephen Bright wrote: >> every OS should be made with a better way >> of un-installing programs/files/etc. > > I always thought that was what formatting the drive was for. If I were > to > sell a drive on ebay I'd format the drive, test it, and ship it.

Printing Font problem (slightly OT)

2003-02-18 Thread Mark_PHILIP
Hi all, I'm running OS9.2.2 on an iMac Bondi and am connected to an Apple LaserWriter 8500. Because I've acquired this printer only recently, I haven't had the chance to actually use it until last night. I have encountered this problem: When I print to the printer, some characters, such as quotes

Re: OS X 10.2.4 stable?

2003-02-18 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 05:41 PM, Eric D. wrote: > Wow. I guess you don't push your system much! I've managed to find > enough > kernel panics since OS X 10.0. The early ones were attributable to bad > RAM, > but that's been taken care of (JewelToy no longer crashes ;). i push my syst

Re: Trashing vs Shredding?

2003-02-18 Thread Stephen Bright
> every OS should be made with a better way > of un-installing programs/files/etc. I always thought that was what formatting the drive was for. If I were to sell a drive on ebay I'd format the drive, test it, and ship it. Stephen -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small

Re: OS X 10.2.4 stable?

2003-02-18 Thread Eric D.
on 2/18/03 5:40 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> These are the modules affiliated with the three panics I've had. I >> cannot >> *ever* remember this many kernel panics in four days, even in 10.0.x >> days! > > dunno what to tell you. sounds like maybe the patch to 10.2.4 got > goob

Re: Printing to Windows printservice

2003-02-18 Thread Carsten Marx
Yes it is possible. Go to Application / Utilities / PrintCenter Hold the Option-Key (key between ctrl and Command) while clicking add Printer. Then you can choose the "more options" and now you see the the option printing to windows via samba. There it is! greets carsten Am Dienstag, 18.02.03

Re: OS X 10.2.4 stable?

2003-02-18 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 10:46 AM, Eric D. wrote: > Kernel Panic #3 with 10.2.4! Stable? Yeah right! > > It seems to be consistently related to dial-up (this time it happened > b/c I > unplugged the modem to prevent auto-dial from interfering with a > conversation I was having on the ph

Printing to Windows printservice

2003-02-18 Thread Powerbook
Is it possible to print to a printshare on a windows-PC using smb or only through lpr? Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sal

Can't start Classic

2003-02-18 Thread Powerbook
When I try to start Classic (9.1) when I use OS X 1.5 I get this message: Insufficient priviliges to start /system/library/coreservices (or similar, it's in Dutch) Booting from 9.1 works fine. I can't find this error on the support-site. Anyone have any suggestions? Marc -- G-Books is spon

Re: Trashing vs Shredding?

2003-02-18 Thread Donald Keenan
You might all recall the story in the media about a month ago concerning a study by MIT graduate students on the security risk of information available on old hard drives. They bought hundreds of old hard drives (many on eBay) and found a lot of financial information left on them or easily rec

Re: Problems booting to OS 9

2003-02-18 Thread Dustin
Apparently the sh-2.05a# is a prompt!? I can type 'help' and other *nix commands. When I type help it says: "GNU bash, version 2.05a.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin6.0) These commands are defined internally. Type 'help' to see this list. Type 'help name' to find out more about the function 'name

Re: Modem Port Unavailable

2003-02-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
SCN User wrote: > When I start up with OS 10.2.3 on my Pismo and try to use ZTerm I get a > "Modem Port Unavailable" message and ZTerm quits. > > Process Viewer shows Open Transport running. Not sure why...I've turned > off AppleTalk and other networking controls. > > When I start up with 9.2, Z

Re: Problems booting to OS 9

2003-02-18 Thread Phillip Burk
On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 12:51 PM, Dustin wrote: > Thanks for all of the help. I got into OS 9...but not by anyone's > suggestion. OS 9 is the only working boot partition :-( > > After I updated to 10.2.4, and restarted, it crashed on shutdown. After > running Disk First Aid from OS 9 and

Re: Problems booting to OS 9

2003-02-18 Thread Dustin
Thanks for all of the help. I got into OS 9...but not by anyone's suggestion. OS 9 is the only working boot partition :-( After I updated to 10.2.4, and restarted, it crashed on shutdown. After running Disk First Aid from OS 9 and the OS X install CD and repairing everything, it still won't boot.

Re: mac spyware

2003-02-18 Thread Christoph Hammann
Am 18.02.2003 13:48 Uhr schrieb "Gene Merritt" unter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > A few months ago, on the VersionTracker site, someone, in the user > Review section, was claiming iGetter was spyware. Don't know if it's > True or not, or how one can tell. Well, You could run Ethereal, then start iGetter

Re: OS X 10.2.4 stable?

2003-02-18 Thread Eric D.
Kernel Panic #3 with 10.2.4! Stable? Yeah right! It seems to be consistently related to dial-up (this time it happened b/c I unplugged the modem to prevent auto-dial from interfering with a conversation I was having on the phone. This is a bit of the info in the log for each of the three panics I

Re: Problems booting to OS 9

2003-02-18 Thread Jim
Dustin, I see you've got a number of replies to your problem, but I'm not sure the terrific advice they've offered will help you much. I had a similar problme with my Pismo. Your symptoms are identical to what I experienced. The solution, though weird, is simple and reliable. It was not a

Problems booting to OS 9

2003-02-18 Thread Jack Putnam
Try resetting PRAM, then holding down the C key. Jack Putnam TechnoWarehouse, LLC > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (G-Books) > Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 00:52:02 -0500 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (G-Books) > Subject: G-Books Digest #1097 > > > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 21:19:14 -0500 > From: Dustin <[EMAIL

Re: mac spyware

2003-02-18 Thread Luca Rescigno
> A few months ago, on the VersionTracker site, someone, in the user > Review section, was claiming iGetter was spyware. Don't know if it's > True or not, or how one can tell. > > Gene Try looking for a program called "MacScan." Right now it's a Public Beta but go ahead and look for it. I install

Re: Can you run Jaguar on un-upgraded Wallstreet?

2003-02-18 Thread Luca Rescigno
> I have a 233 Wallstreet with 512 RAM and a 20 gig, Jag runs OK. > Actually everything is a little slow on this machine, when you compare > the the OS 8.5 it came with. However, I have the opposite problem - my > USB card doesn't work in OS9, although it shows up on the desktop. OS X > has no prob

Re: Can you run Jaguar on un-upgraded Wallstreet?

2003-02-18 Thread Jeff Hubatka
> Message-ID: <001001c2d6c4$f608c860$08f8fea9@desktop> > From: "Christopher Hack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Can you run Jaguar on un-upgraded Wallstreet? > Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:41:19 - > > I upped the ram on my wallstreet to 512, with a 40gb TravelStar drive > and > Jaguar runs r

Re: mac spyware

2003-02-18 Thread Gene Merritt
>> lots of peecee software is laden with myriad spywares. it's rather >> disgusting. it embeds itself in your system files, makes itself >> virtually impossible to delete, and sends joe-random-company details >> about your internet browsing habits, among other things. a great >> example of spyware