Re: Trading oversea

2003-02-25 Thread GĂ©rard Mittaux-Biron
I was just trying to share an experience and did not mean to start a lengthy useless discussion. I believe that powerbook technical matters are more positive aspects to discuss and deserve us spending bandwidth rather than my own small misadventure. I did not expect to find solution,

Re: Pismo dvd drive/was Re: Playing CD's

2003-02-25 Thread Ryan Stewart
This is what I have for swapping drives: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/PB_G3/oem_combo_drives/build_guide/build_combo_dr ive.html LOL, That's it! thanks for doing my homework Tom! =) I would like to keep this thread very active as lots of people have Pismo (firwire 2000) laptops. If apple is

Is the Powerbook G3 Enabler necessary after upgrading the CPU or OS?

2003-02-25 Thread Gary Goldberg
Shannon's query got me wondering, especially after I couldn't find this file in my System Folder. Since buying my G3/250 Wall Street, I've upgraded it to a G4/500 with Sonnet's WS Crescendo CPU upgrade and to OS 9.1 and now this file isn't there any more. I've been

Re: Pismo dvd drive/was Re: Playing CD's

2003-02-25 Thread Ryan Stewart
Ryan, Just curious...what are the so many problems that you have with your Pismo? Mike Kochkodin Oh let me count the ways: (Day.month.year) Computer purchased on 12.1.2001 27.4.2001 Battery will not hold charge. Replaced 5.11.2001 LG-8080B (DVD) stopped mounting DVDs, CDs shortly after.

Re: Is the Powerbook G3 Enabler necessary after upgrading the CPU or OS?

2003-02-25 Thread Phillip Burk
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 02:58 PM, Gary Goldberg wrote: I've been experiencing some strange things since: momentary freezes of the cursor (about 3 seconds) in various programs and occasional freezes when shutting down (necessitating a reboot). Sometimes I get a shutdown

Formac DV

2003-02-25 Thread Matthew B. Dwyer
Hi Folks, I've checked out the Formac DV/TV converter http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_converters_studiodvtv And it seems like an amazing product: turns your Mac into a Tivo, eh? Does anyone have any experience with this product? Thanks, -Matthew (of the BeerBook) -- G-Books is

Re: Formac DV

2003-02-25 Thread Seth D Lumnah
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 08:19 PM, Eric D. wrote: on 25/2/03 4:02 PM, Matthew B. Dwyer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've checked out the Formac DV/TV converter http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_converters_studiodvtv And it seems like an amazing product: turns your Mac

That GNX 5400 rpm hard drive

2003-02-25 Thread Jim
Hi folks, I've been waiting for them to come in... I just thought I'd let ya'all know that a certain mail-order vendor has gotten in a fresh supply of the fast quiet IBM/Hitachi 5400 rpm (8 MB Cache) 40GB, notebook hard drives, and they're only $149, with FREE shipping. I just ordered

Re: Beige G3 Slow Down

2003-02-25 Thread Jim Schulze
On Monday, February 24, 2003, at 04:19 PM, bobshutts wrote: Hello G-Listers: Here is my strange tale. We are running a G3 Desktop (333 mhz model) with 256 megs of RAM. The unit is networked to our LAN (three volumes are usually on the desktop.) The applications are Office 2001,

Re: Formac DV

2003-02-25 Thread Eric D.
on 25/2/03 8:28 PM, Seth D Lumnah at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The $300 version is the Studio DV, the $400 version is the Studio DV/TV. The addition is basically a tv tuner. The quality is great, its hardware encoded and is at full dv. What speed of computer do you need to do this? Will any

Re: Beige G3 Slow Down

2003-02-25 Thread Eric D.
on 25/2/03 9:24 PM, Jim Schulze at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Next step is to isolate the offending app if possible. Since you've tried killing 2 of the 4 and that didn't help, you may have narrowed it down to Office 2k or Quicken 2k. I would try shutting those down and see if that helps

Re: Formac DV

2003-02-25 Thread Seth D Lumnah
On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 11:08 PM, Eric D. wrote: on 25/2/03 8:28 PM, Seth D Lumnah at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The $300 version is the Studio DV, the $400 version is the Studio DV/TV. The addition is basically a tv tuner. The quality is great, its hardware encoded and is at full

Re: Pismo dvd drive/was Re: Playing CD's

2003-02-25 Thread Jon Glass
on 2/25/03 1:41 PM, Ryan Stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love my Pismo, I just wish it didn't have so many problems. In my case, this is my only problem! I haven't had the bad screen--yet, but my drive went bad just weeks out of warranty, and just when I didn't have the money to either

Re: Pismo dvd drive/was Re: Playing CD's

2003-02-25 Thread Jon Glass
on 2/25/03 9:24 PM, Ryan Stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh let me count the ways: Ouch! Boy did you get a lemon! I have never seen such a list of problems for any Pismo or any other computer for that matter! :-) (with the possible exception of 5300s???) I would have given up long before.