Re: Are there any alternatives to Aqua window manager?

2003-06-23 Thread Illovox Media
on 4/22/03 3:15 PM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to ask if anyone knows of a solution to this, like an alternative to Aqua window manager or a way to drop the eye candy - quartz extreme does not work on the Pismo so every transparency and every shadow is CPU computed - the

Re: Webcam and NetMeeting ?

2003-06-23 Thread Peter Nacken
I got to play with a GREAT webcam app today: EvoCam ... Works like a dream in OSX and my iBot FW cam ... That was what I was looking for ... But nothing really like netmeeting P on 6/23/03 2:34 PM, macnifico at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I remember that I was using iVisit for Mac. It has a

Unreal Tournament on Pismo?

2003-06-23 Thread Andrew McCall
Hi, I have a Pismo upgraded to 1Gb RAM, 900MHz G3, and I was wondering if Unreal Tournament would work OK on this setup? I'm not too sure if the graphics card can handle the game. I really miss multi-player mode over the Internet Andrew.

Wallstreet osx infrared

2003-06-23 Thread Christopher Hack
Hi all, Taken my wallstreet on the road for the first time since I installed OSX. Wonderful of course. Only problem is I cant seem to get the infrared port to work to dial up tot he internet using a nokia mobile phone. It used to work fine with OS9.2. Is it the wallstreet, or a config problem?

Re: Unreal Tournament on Pismo?

2003-06-23 Thread Matt Peacock
Yes you'll be fine, UT is very CPU dependent, and you have no problems there. Your 8MB will render an excellent 640x480 game and a very good 800x600 game, you'll find you can set the detail levels quite high as-well. For internet play, you might want to knock down the number of players by a

Re: Wallstreet OX 10.2.6 Wireless Won't Connect to Internet

2003-06-23 Thread Joe Ellis
- Original Message - From: Robert Benjamin Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 6:58 AM Subject: Wallstreet OX 10.2.6 Wireless Won't Connect to Internet To the list: I have sure you have had this question before so please forgive me.

Re: Unreal Tournament on Pismo?

2003-06-23 Thread Michelle Klein-Hass
On Monday 23 June 2003 02:24 am, Andrew McCall wrote: Hi, I have a Pismo upgraded to 1Gb RAM, 900MHz G3, and I was wondering if Unreal Tournament would work OK on this setup? I'm not too sure if the graphics card can handle the game. I really miss multi-player mode over the Internet

Re: Unreal Tournament on Pismo?

2003-06-23 Thread Andrew McCall
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:39, Matt Peacock wrote: That is, if you are talking about the original Unreal Tournament. If you are talking about UT2003, forget it. People with dual 1.25GHz are getting crap frame-rates out of it, hopefully patches will bring it up to speed. No, it was the

Re: OT - Sticky' Page elements on eBay?

2003-06-23 Thread Jeff Drummond
Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is OT as strictly it has nothing to do with Macs per se at all, but I can't think of anywhere else to ask the question. So my apologies, and I ask for your indulgence. I frequent eBay.co.uk. In recent months I;ve noticed a strange phenomenom, in that

Re: Ram upgrade crashing in OSX Lombard

2003-06-23 Thread Michael Thompson
I tried to post to G-books (for the first time) and it bounced back my message, ill havta figure that one out later. As many as 10% of all of the first 1999 powerbook lombards had (have) a daughtercard that has a faulty chipset. The problems manifest themselves in the RAM upgrades. It has

Re: Ram upgrade crashing in OSX Lombard

2003-06-23 Thread Brian Deuel
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 13:12, Michael Thompson wrote: I tried to post to G-books (for the first time) and it bounced back my message, ill havta figure that one out later. Check your character encoding. I posted a message from linux and the list won't accept UTF-8 encoded text. Brian --

OT: Look at the pretty pictures!

2003-06-23 Thread Mark Kippert
The new PowerMac G5: http://www.apple.com/powermac/gallery/side.html No G5 PowerBooks yet though. Looks like Safari is now out of beta today. There's also a preview of OSX Panther (10.3). iChat AV looks cool as well as the new iSight camera. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/

Re: Webcam and NetMeeting ?

2003-06-23 Thread Mark Kippert
Matt Peacock on 6/21/03 10:46 AM wrote: Although not much help at the moment, OS 10.3 (Panther's) version of iChat contains inbuilt support for web-cam conversations. Looks like you can download iChat AV beta: http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/ichat.html Check out the new iSight camera

Battery dead

2003-06-23 Thread Laurent Daudelin
Well, it looks like one of my Pismo battery is dead, or almost dead. I noticed a few weeks ago that if it would sit on the shelf for a few days, the next time I would put it in my Pismo, I would get the last LED blinking, usually indicating that the battery is depleted. Usually, it would recharge

Re: Battery dead

2003-06-23 Thread Gary D. Adams
The same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago. Battery Reset got the same response, too. I ended up buying two BTI batteries from MacConnection (with overnight shipping) for a little less than $300. Make sure the batteries at $120 aren't reburbed... but carry the full one-year

Battery Amps

2003-06-23 Thread Byron Gardner
I have three Wallstreet PB batteries. I am trying to test the amperage and voltage. I need help with the proper way to test these batteries using a Digital multimeter. Can anyone give me the settings to test on for the multimeter? Which of the 5 connectors do I use? The battery shows a + and a -

Re: Battery Amps

2003-06-23 Thread jdc
You can test the voltage but DO NOT test the amperage, you'll blow your multimeter and/or the battery. Joaquim Byron Gardner wrote: I have three Wallstreet PB batteries. I am trying to test the amperage and voltage. I need help with the proper way to test these batteries using a Digital

Re: Battery Amps

2003-06-23 Thread Byron Gardner
Okay, ex-nay on the amp testing but which of the five connectors on the battery do I need to test from? Byron on 6/23/03 5:52 PM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can test the voltage but DO NOT test the amperage, you'll blow your multimeter and/or the battery. Joaquim Byron Gardner

Re: Battery dead

2003-06-23 Thread Nick
My Pismo Battery is slowly dying, I'm lucky if I get 20 minutes out of it. I bought a new battery from Madsonline for 150$, now I get 4 hours on my Pismo 500/1Gig/40Gig Nick on 6/23/03 5:53 PM, Gary D. Adams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago.

Re: orinoco silver drivers for mac OS X

2003-06-23 Thread Ryan Coleman
Does anybody know where to get drivers for a Orinoco Silver card for mac X. Nothing on the manufacturer's site. thanks http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net It is covered on their list. -- Ryan -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

G5

2003-06-23 Thread |n|i|c|k|
Although this forum doesnt really discuss powermacs i just gotta say something check out www.apple.com/powermac and read the specs..its got a 64 bit prossesor and 8gb memory cap It is the fastest home computer in the world!!! I mean the G5 wow!!1..I'm still shocked... n --

Re: G5

2003-06-23 Thread John Beringer
It's been a long time coming...looks like apple finally managed to whiz past the performance put out by wintel... Right on! JB On 6/23/03 10:16 PM, |n|i|c|k| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although this forum doesnt really discuss powermacs i just gotta say something check out