LG DRN-8080B Pismo DVD UK source

Found this source online awhile back when I thought my DVD was going out. Turns out it wasn't. With some of the discussion as of late regarding replacement of Pismo DVD drives I figured this might be useful to someone. go down to the section labeled "Notebook an

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

Kyle Hansen wrote: >> I checked and it would not be covered since it is Apple OEM. It falls >> into the 1 year warranty only category. 'K, so it's _NOT_covered_at_all_ by IBM/Hitachi? It's just covered as part of an Apple system? But then Hal wrote: >I checked the warranty, and it expires thi

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

On 2/27/2003 10:17 PM Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>Then my Pismo's AppleCare has been voided, oh, 3 times for the drives, >>how many times for the lower RAM, and how about that AirPort card? > >Yes, the upgrade for the Pismo is not a standard job. I tried. I >failed. I couldn't do i

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

At 10:08 PM -0700 2/27/03, P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo wrote: >On 2/27/2003 3:35 PM RogueWriter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On Thursday, Feb 27, 2003, at 17:17 America/Indianapolis, Brian L. >>Matthews wrote: I have only 500MB unused on my computer's hard drive. I was thinking about u

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

On 2/27/2003 3:35 PM RogueWriter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On Thursday, Feb 27, 2003, at 17:17 America/Indianapolis, Brian L. >Matthews wrote: >>> I have only 500MB unused on my computer's hard drive. I was thinking >>> about upgrading it with a larger HD next fall BUT I was afraid that I >>>

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On 2/27/2003 9:58 PM Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is this just for the PowerBooks? I pulled a problem (Apple branded) >> Maxtor from a friend's 2 year old G4, replacing it with a new and larger >> drive. I got an RMA, sent in the old Maxtor still under warranty, and got >> a replacem

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On 2/27/03 11:52 PM, "P. Turtle-Bear Guillermo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > On 2/27/2003 6:30 PM Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Not if it is an Apple OEM drive. Apple buys drives from the major >> manufacturers and the manufacturers wipe their hands of them. I

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On 2/27/2003 6:30 PM Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Not if it is an Apple OEM drive. Apple buys drives from the major >manufacturers and the manufacturers wipe their hands of them. If you buy an >IBM drive from a company like transinternational then you get the full 3 >year warranty.

Re: Hosting Recommendations?

on 27/02/03 23:01, Stephen Bright at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a website design customer who wants to host her site with either > Earthlink or Time-Warner (Roadrunner), as she already has accounts with them > both. Does anyone have any hosting experience with either of these? I had my web

Re: Airport Extremely Frustrating

> > What kind of Powerbook do you have? > >Pismo G4/500 (40GB GNX), and I think the cables are crossover, as I bought >them to connect computers to the switch. The cable that came with the modem >did not work, and I suspect that is a direct connection cable, as it is >meant to connect the modem to

Re: Airport Extremely Frustrating

> What kind of Powerbook do you have? Pismo G4/500 (40GB GNX), and I think the cables are crossover, as I bought them to connect computers to the switch. The cable that came with the modem did not work, and I suspect that is a direct connection cable, as it is meant to connect the modem to 1 compu

Re: Airport Extremely Frustrating

At 10:09 PM -0600 2/27/03, Stephen Bright wrote: >My new AE base station has a fondness for 1 particular ethernet cable to >connect from the modem to the WAN port. It won't work with any of my other 5 >cables, and it took me about 6 hours to figure that out (the other cables >work fine with other c

Airport Extremely Frustrating

My new AE base station has a fondness for 1 particular ethernet cable to connect from the modem to the WAN port. It won't work with any of my other 5 cables, and it took me about 6 hours to figure that out (the other cables work fine with other computers and my 10/100 switch). Even with its favori

Hosting Recommendations?

I have a website design customer who wants to host her site with either Earthlink or Time-Warner (Roadrunner), as she already has accounts with them both. Does anyone have any hosting experience with either of these? Thanks, Stephen -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Sm

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 06:43 PM, Beverly Woods wrote: > >> It depends. If you want the fastest drive available, I'd go with the >> IBM Travelstar 40GNX. It's a 40GB, 5400rpm drive with an 8MB cache. >> Tests on Barefeats.com rated it the fastest drive around. I have one >> in >> one

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

> It depends. If you want the fastest drive available, I'd go with the > IBM Travelstar 40GNX. It's a 40GB, 5400rpm drive with an 8MB cache. > Tests on Barefeats.com rated it the fastest drive around. I have one in > one f my Powerbooks and it's very fast. > > I've seen them for around $130. Chec

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

on 27/2/03 9:27 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm thinking we're talking about different things -- the "Password Security" > thingy I'm referring to is a control panel (installed by the default OS > 9.2.1/9.2.2 update on my gf's Lombard/333) which sets a password which is > requested a

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

on 27/2/03 7:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> From what I understand that's a Pismo-only thing. My girlfriend's >> Lombard >> 9.2.2 can be set to request a password on boot (never experimented from >> sleep though). > > No, no, no. I respectfully beg to differ. For one thin

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 04:25 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > On 27/02/03 18:45, "Eric D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> wrote: >> >>> Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many >>> of >>> us sadly

Re: Hot AlBooks?

I got mine last week, and I really, really hate to say it, but it gets too hot. Amazingly hot! The fan really isn't all that loud, but it doesn't seem to cool it down much either. The heat is mostly on the left side of the book, and I don't know what makes it better or worse, but it does see

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On 2/27/03 8:04 PM, "Malcolm Cornelius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: >> If I were to buy the drive from you there is no warranty. >> Even if Apple somehow extended the warranty to a 3rd person it would only be >> a 1 year warranty. If I were to buy that exact same drive from >>

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 05:04 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: >> If I were to buy the drive from you there is no warranty. >> Even if Apple somehow extended the warranty to a 3rd person it would >> only be >> a 1 year warranty. If I were to buy that exact same drive from >> Transinterna

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

> If I were to buy the drive from you there is no warranty. > Even if Apple somehow extended the warranty to a 3rd person it would only be > a 1 year warranty. If I were to buy that exact same drive from > Transinternational I would get a 3 year warranty. Doesn't IBM warrant the drive for 3 years

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:08 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: > On 2/27/03 3:34 PM, "Hal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > >> I thought I'd offer this one up to the list before I post it to any of >> the boards or eBay: >> >> This is an Apple OEM IBM Travelstar 60GB hard drive

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 04:05 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: > On 2/27/03 6:32 PM, "Dan K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the > Cybertrough: >> I think Kyle's point above regarding warranty was about the _drive's_ >> warranty, not that of the PB into which the drive would end up. AFAIK, >> App

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On 27/02/03 18:45, "Eric D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many of >> us sadly miss the Password Security (or whatever it was called) Control >> Panel utility that

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 03:45 PM, Eric D. wrote: > on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many of >> us sadly miss the Password Security (or whatever it was called) >> Control >> Panel utili

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

on 27/2/03 6:34 PM, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, superusers, when they log in via SSH, by default can do > anything. It is the equivalent of sitting at the box and logging in > as that super user. > > FreeBSD is a little different, though. You cannot SSH as a superuser > (with

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On 2/27/03 6:32 PM, "Dan K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > I think Kyle's point above regarding warranty was about the _drive's_ > warranty, not that of the PB into which the drive would end up. AFAIK, > Apple won't void your PowerBook's warranty for something which they > themsel

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many of > us sadly miss the Password Security (or whatever it was called) Control > Panel utility that was lost and never regained after 9.0.4 when >From what I under

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

I'm looking for the largest and most reliable hard drive for the lowest price. Speed isn't important. A warranty of more than one year would be ideal. --markemmanuel On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 05:02 PM, Hal wrote: > It depends. If you want the fastest drive available, I'd go with th

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

At 6:25 PM -0500 2/27/03, Eric D. wrote: >on 27/2/03 4:52 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> most/many unix distributions have a similar feature. in fact, >>booting any UNIX >> into Single User mode (doing this varies widely by vendor, ranging from >> horribly simple to horrifical

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

First "Hal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I thought I'd offer this one up to the list before I post it to any of >> the boards or eBay: >> >> This is an Apple OEM IBM Travelstar 60GB hard drive pulled from a >> Powerbook G4. This is the high end drive that was an option on the >> expensive. I

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

on 27/2/03 4:52 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > most/many unix distributions have a similar feature. in fact, booting any UNIX > into Single User mode (doing this varies widely by vendor, ranging from > horribly simple to horrifically difficult) gives SuperUser access to the > entire

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 02:17 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: I think the point that the original poster was trying to make was that > activating the screen saver every time the computer was put to sleep > was > just a way to secure the computer a little bit more than by having no > prot

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 02:46 PM, markemmanuel wrote: > I don't use my DVD drive often. One of the reasons my DVD drive is > under utilized is because all my music is now on my HD. So I guess it > wouldn't be a problem. If I got the the expansion bay adaptor, the HD > should be boot

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

I don't use my DVD drive often. One of the reasons my DVD drive is under utilized is because all my music is now on my HD. So I guess it wouldn't be a problem. If I got the the expansion bay adaptor, the HD should be bootable and hot-swappable right or would I have to restart every single ti

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

On 27/02/03 17:35, "RogueWriter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, Feb 27, 2003, at 17:17 America/Indianapolis, Brian L. > Matthews wrote: >>> I have only 500MB unused on my computer's hard drive. I was thinking >>> about upgrading it with a larger HD next fall BUT I was afraid that I >>>

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

On Thursday, Feb 27, 2003, at 17:17 America/Indianapolis, Brian L. Matthews wrote: >> I have only 500MB unused on my computer's hard drive. I was thinking >> about upgrading it with a larger HD next fall BUT I was afraid that I >> might void my Apple Care warranty doing so AND I not sure if there

Pismo Modem Question

Hi all - Speaking of Pismo's (as we have been doing a lot lately), does anyone have a recommendation for a really good modem script to use with the internal modem? We use the "Apple Internal 56k" script in my wife's Pismo, but are not real happy with it - lots of lost connections, refusals to con

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On 27/02/03 16:52, "Jeremy Derr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip!] > my point is, in the end, that you're trying to use inherently insecure methods > and add security to them. sleep is, by it's very nature, an insecure process. > booting directly to the desktop is an inherently insecure process. t

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

>I have only 500MB unused on my computer's hard drive. I was thinking >about upgrading it with a larger HD next fall BUT I was afraid that I >might void my Apple Care warranty doing so AND I not sure if there is or >isn't a heat issue with installing a larger drive. I'm pretty sure upgrading the

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:46 PM, markemmanuel wrote: > I have only 500MB unused on my computer's hard drive. I was thinking > about upgrading it with a larger HD next fall BUT I was afraid that I > might void my Apple Care warranty doing so AND I not sure if there is > or > isn't a

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:54 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > On 27/02/03 16:46, "markemmanuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have only 500MB unused on my computer's hard drive. I was thinking >> about upgrading it with a larger HD next fall BUT I was afraid that I >> might void my

Re: Pismo Hard drive advice

On 27/02/03 16:46, "markemmanuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have only 500MB unused on my computer's hard drive. I was thinking > about upgrading it with a larger HD next fall BUT I was afraid that I > might void my Apple Care warranty doing so AND I not sure if there is or > isn't a heat iss

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 11:52AM, Eric D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >PS I've heard of being able to do an admin password reset using the OS X >boot disk -- is there any way to disable this? Seems like a very dumb >feature for Apple to give easy access to (of course, how do you trade off

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On 27/02/03 16:10, "Kyle Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/27/03 3:34 PM, "Hal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > >> I thought I'd offer this one up to the list before I post it to any of >> the boards or eBay: >> >> This is an Apple OEM IBM Travelstar 60GB hard drive pul

Pismo Hard drive advice

I have only 500MB unused on my computer's hard drive. I was thinking about upgrading it with a larger HD next fall BUT I was afraid that I might void my Apple Care warranty doing so AND I not sure if there is or isn't a heat issue with installing a larger drive. Another option would be to buy

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On 2/27/03 3:34 PM, "Hal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > I thought I'd offer this one up to the list before I post it to any of > the boards or eBay: > > This is an Apple OEM IBM Travelstar 60GB hard drive pulled from a > Powerbook G4. This is the high end drive that was an op

Re: FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

On 2/27/03 3:34 PM, "Hal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > I thought I'd offer this one up to the list before I post it to any of > the boards or eBay: > > This is an Apple OEM IBM Travelstar 60GB hard drive pulled from a > Powerbook G4. This is the high end drive that was an op

Re: Hot AlBooks?

Ich hatte am 27.2.2003 19:09 Uhr eine Nachricht von (G-Books) unter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> erhalten, in der es hieß: > Does the 12" G4 Powerbook even have a fan? I almost think I read that it > doesn't. > LOL, if you are in D=FCsseldorf you want a hot powerbook... > > Ryan If it doesn't (thought it

FS: 60GB Apple/IBM OEM Travelstar Hard Drive

I thought I'd offer this one up to the list before I post it to any of the boards or eBay: This is an Apple OEM IBM Travelstar 60GB hard drive pulled from a Powerbook G4. This is the high end drive that was an option on the Powerbook G4/800 last year. To my knowledge, it's the largest capacit

Re: Pismo VST Zip bay conversion?

Dear list, I currently have two VST Zip 100 expansions bays for my Pismo/400, one that works and one that doesn't. Is there anything else (hard drive/CDRW, etc.) that can be put into the expansion bay case if I remove the Zip drive from the non-functional one? BTW, I receive this in digest mode s

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

on 27/2/03 11:45 AM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> once again, Sleep is a convenience feature. convenience is just another >>> name for laziness, and thus is another impediment to good security. one >>> could probably write an applescript or simple haxie and add it to >>> whatev

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On 27/02/03 11:06, "Eric D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 27/2/03 10:23 AM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> once again, Sleep is a convenience feature. convenience is just another >> name for laziness, and thus is another impediment to good security. one >> could probably write an

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

on 27/2/03 10:23 AM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > once again, Sleep is a convenience feature. convenience is just another > name for laziness, and thus is another impediment to good security. one > could probably write an applescript or simple haxie and add it to > whatever kext gover

Re: Hot AlBooks?

> they do get hot, but i don't think they get anywhere near as hot as > some of the discussion boards and websites online are making it out. i > haven't measured the exact temperature on ours. it's definitely > noticeable, but not uncomfortable to me or any of my users. > >> And what about the fan

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

I can guarantee that this is a Mashita (or Matsushita) because of the SR-8174 in there. That is the Mashita model number, where the dying LGs number is LG-8080B. You might have good luck with that drive (but no guarantee =) I think a 9.5mm height drive will be no problem because the drives are sec

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On 27/02/03 10:23, "Jeremy Derr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > once again, Sleep is a convenience feature. convenience is just another > name for laziness, and thus is another impediment to good security. one > could probably write an applescript or simple haxie and add it to > whatever kext govern

Re: Hot AlBooks?

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 01:30 AM, Per Brodersen wrote: > I have been lurking around this list for a few days now since I would > like > to trade my iBook (late November 2001) for a new 12'' PowerBook. > As I heard there is a heat issue with the new machine - the thingie > gets as > h

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 09:16 AM, Eric D. wrote: > Plus, it's not overly secure and I have a feeling that pushing the > little > button at the back (PRAM reset?) will bypass that security feature ;). > But, > it does keep casual browsers at bay. Wow, Apple makes some pretty > unsecur

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 08:51 AM, Eric D. wrote: > If I am not mistaken, I wrote *prefer*. That is what I currently do > but I > would *prefer* not to have to do this because it is much more > CONVENIENT to > be able to have the machine boot into OS X automagically. that's fine. whe

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

on 26/2/03 10:06 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the screen saver is not really a security device; it's entertainment. > in fact, if you look around online, you'll find at least one way to > defeat it without doing a three-finger-salute. do not rely on the > screen saver for security

Re: Screen saver white on wakeup on Pismo

on 26/2/03 10:06 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 08:48 PM, Eric D. wrote: > > if security is THAT important to you, i would strongly (let me repeat: > STRONGLY) suggest disabling auto-login. period. If I am not mistaken, I wrote *prefer*. That is

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

Followed this thread with keen interest. My third DVD drive has packed up. I've located one - apparently refurbished by Apple, for £190 - whose numbers go "M5505" and "MKESR8171". Do people think this is an LG or a Matsushita? I do need this thing because I want to upgrade the HD and need it to boo