Re: Wallstreet battery woes

2003-09-26 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would venture that maybe the Power Management Unit has gone south... Try to reset it, if you haven't tried to do so. I remember reading about it, or at least seeing it mentioned, but as always, one doesn't take it in until one needs the info... Is that

Re: Pismo keyboard wobble

2003-09-26 Thread Tekno Liber
Check www.tracker-tracker.com under the Carracho section. You'll find a server called ONE STOP SHOP. Use Carracho to log in with the l/p: backup/serv I may actually have gotten hold of a copy. Is it called powerbook_fw.pdf and is 4.7MB in size ? Laurence From: Joe Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wallstreet serial number...

2003-09-26 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should also have a record of it in your original purchase receipt/bill of sale/etc. See if you can get that document from the seller... If not, then who knows. Maybe it's stolen, maybe it's not... Sayinjg that this Wallstreet is second hand is

Re: Yo-yo PSU

2003-09-26 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Scott Crick [EMAIL PROTECTED] my original yo-yo adapter died a slow and painful death. I've heard that the yo-yo isn't the best. Mine's ok, but what is the weak point, what should I look out for in a preventive way ? Laurence

Re: Yo-yo PSU

2003-09-26 Thread Scott Crick
On 9/26/03 2:34 AM, Tekno Liber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard that the yo-yo isn't the best. Mine's ok, but what is the weak point, what should I look out for in a preventive way ? I've heard of two different places that a problematic. The first is where the cord from the adapter to the

Re: Yo-yo PSU

2003-09-26 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Scott Crick [EMAIL PROTECTED] something came loose because the cord darkened as if burned right at that spot and the adapter only works if I hold the cord in a certain position. Not an optimal (nor necessarily safe) operating condition. I wouldn't call 24V unsafe however you handle it.

Re: Pismo keyboard wobble

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Ellis
- Original Message - From: Tekno Liber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:24 AM Subject: Re: Pismo keyboard wobble Check www.tracker-tracker.com under the Carracho section. You'll find a server called ONE STOP SHOP. Use Carracho to log

Re: Yo-yo PSU

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Ellis
- Original Message - From: Tekno Liber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:34 AM Subject: Re: Yo-yo PSU From: Scott Crick [EMAIL PROTECTED] my original yo-yo adapter died a slow and painful death. I've heard that the yo-yo isn't the

Re: Yo-yo PSU

2003-09-26 Thread Andrew Johnson
Speaking as an electrical engineer, voltages of any magnitude can be dangerous if mishandled. If the cabling/housing of the yo-yo was blackened by the fault, it could have just as easily ignited. While 24v isn't likely to injure you (unlike, say, 270v 3-phase AC) it can make things happen that

Re: Wallstreet battery woes

2003-09-26 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 26/09/03 03:16, Tekno Liber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would venture that maybe the Power Management Unit has gone south... Try to reset it, if you haven't tried to do so. I remember reading about it, or at least seeing it mentioned, but as

Re: Yo-yo PSU

2003-09-26 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 26/09/03 09:07, Andrew Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Speaking as an electrical engineer, voltages of any magnitude can be dangerous if mishandled. If the cabling/housing of the yo-yo was blackened by the fault, it could have just as easily ignited. While 24v isn't likely to injure

[OT] personal file sharing

2003-09-26 Thread Luis Sequeira
Sorry for OT post, but at least this happens in my TiBook, so... here goes I often use Personal File Sharing to mount disks from other macs and just now I realized that Guest option is active and I can have access to most of the HD on my macs (and so will anyone on the lan). I have looked and

Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Jacob Saariaho
Finished my upgrades last night. I got a hand-me-down Lombard from a friend who was replacing it with a 15 TiBook. The screen was shattered and the battery was dead (I tried every fix I could find online and from previous G-Book messages, so I'm pretty sure it's really and truly dead). I

Re: [OT] personal file sharing

2003-09-26 Thread Krevnik
Hmm, IIRC, MacOS X is only supposed to give guests access to public folders. Have you verified that they indeed can access and copy/use files on the HD outside the public folders? On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 07:44 AM, Luis Sequeira wrote: Sorry for OT post, but at least this happens in

Re: Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Ellis
- Original Message - From: Jacob Saariaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 11:02 AM Subject: Lombard Upgrades Finished my upgrades last night. I got a hand-me-down Lombard from a friend who was replacing it with a 15 TiBook. The screen

Re: Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 26/09/03 12:11, Joe Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!] How easy is it to go wireless with this model? Do they make an Airport Card that's compatible? What kind of range can I expect? I'm not sure where the Airport card installs on the Lombard, on my Pismo it installs above the area

Re: iBook Key

2003-09-26 Thread Thomas Ethen
I purchased the Apple key for a Clam Shell iBook from these people on ebay and it came with detailed instructions with photo's (It seemed a bit more complicated than the directions stated, but worked out well) and was fairly inexpensive compared to replacing the entire keyboard.

Re: Pismo keyboard wobble

2003-09-26 Thread Thomas Ethen
I had the same problem with my Pismo on one of the many times I had the keyboard off and could not see anything wrong with the way it was put back on the Laptop. After quite a few tries, it suddenly fit perfectly, so there was some obstruction somewhere that was causing the problem, and I would

Re: Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Tyler Krehbiel
Hey, I also have a Lombard. Good to see your happy with it. For wireless you have a few options. There is a 3rd party driver for OSX that works with several cards. However I never did get it wo work. I myself have a Cisco Air-PCM 350 card. I'm VERY happy with it. Great OSX support, and works well

Re: Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Ellis
- Original Message - From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:36 PM Subject: Re: Lombard Upgrades On 26/09/03 12:11, Joe Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!] How easy is it to go wireless with this model? Do they

Re: wireless with Lombard

2003-09-26 Thread Andrew in Ann Arbor
G-Books wrote:Subject: Lombard Upgrades From: Jacob Saariaho jacobsaariaho(a-t)mac.com I got a hand-me-down Lombard from a friend who was replacing it with a 15 TiBook. How easy is it to go wireless with this model? Do they make an Airport Card that's compatible? What kind of range can I expect?

Re: Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Steve Fuller
Then the question becomes; is there 2 slots for PCMCIA cards because he's already occupying one with his firewire card. There's also the question of his intended use for airport; how big is the WI-FI thing in Europe?(He lives in Sweden). Is he intending to network his home or is this for road

1400 HD in a Pismo

2003-09-26 Thread Michelle Martinez
So, still working on the Pismo reassembly...If I can get it up and running, I'd definitely want a larger HD, but since I'm trying to keep the initial costs low, I'd rather not invest in one if this reassembly doesn't work out. So I'm wondering, just for testing purposes, would it work to pull the

Re: 1400 HD in a Pismo

2003-09-26 Thread Hal
I believe that the Pismo requires 9.02 or 9.04. I don't think it'll run OS8. On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Michelle Martinez wrote: So, still working on the Pismo reassembly...If I can get it up and running, I'd definitely want a larger HD, but since I'm trying to keep the initial

Re: Yo-yo PSU

2003-09-26 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Andrew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Speaking as an electrical engineer snip If anyone would like to test this theory, just go out to your car and short your battery (only 12v!) with a large metal object, the resulting fire should serve as proof enough. Ok, if you're an electrical engineer

Re: Yo-yo PSU

2003-09-26 Thread Tekno Liber
From: Joe Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] The 2 weak points are where the wire comes out at the center of the spool and where it attaches to the back of the plug both these points tend to get a lot of wear. That's what I thought. I tend to try to keep a loop around the center so there is little or no

dead WallStreet

2003-09-26 Thread JP Kaytrosh
When I want to start my Wallstreet, all I hear is this fan, it's really loud, and I can't hear the HD spinning up. The only way to shut it down is to turn it off as if I were zapping the PRAM, but if I do that again, the same thing happens. Also, the machine appears to be in sleep when it has been

Re: OS9 on a 12 G4?

2003-09-26 Thread Hal
On Thursday, September 18, 2003, at 07:19 AM, Steve Fuller wrote: How about get the drivers off the 12 powerbook drive, remove drive. Use another machine to format and install OS9 on a new drive, install the drivers you took off the 12 powerbook and install the drive back into the new 12

Re: OS9 on a 12 G4?

2003-09-26 Thread Krevnik
That won't work, although I won't stop you from trying... here is why: The OS9 copy you are getting from cloning the drive is the exact same copy you could install directly. The reason why these will NOT boot OS 9 is two-fold 1 - No proper support for the updated bus controllers and the

Re: OS9 on a 12 G4?

2003-09-26 Thread Wiebe Wilbers
On 27/9/03 11:06 AM, Krevnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That won't work, although I won't stop you from trying... here is why: The OS9 copy you are getting from cloning the drive is the exact same copy you could install directly. The reason why these will NOT boot OS 9 is two-fold 1 -

Re: dead WallStreet

2003-09-26 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 26/09/2003 16:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: When I want to start my Wallstreet, all I hear is this fan, it's really loud, and I can't hear the HD spinning up. The only way to shut it down is to turn it off as if I were zapping the PRAM, but if I do that again, the same

Re: OS9 on a 12 G4?

2003-09-26 Thread Hal
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 07:20 PM, Wiebe Wilbers wrote: I asked this earlier, but I'll ask again: Why do you want to boot into 9 in the first place? For me, on my iBook 500 OS 9 runs a bit snappier, but the difference in speed is far outweighed by the difference in stability of the

Re: Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Clark Martin
At 1:42 PM -0400 9/26/03, Joe Ellis wrote: On 26/09/03 12:11, Joe Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!] How easy is it to go wireless with this model? Do they make an Airport Card that's compatible? What kind of range can I expect? Any of the 802.11b (including Airport) cards should be

Re: OS9 on a 12 G4?

2003-09-26 Thread Krevnik
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 07:16 PM, Hal wrote: On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 07:20 PM, Wiebe Wilbers wrote: I asked this earlier, but I'll ask again: Why do you want to boot into 9 in the first place? For me, on my iBook 500 OS 9 runs a bit snappier, but the difference in speed is

Re: OS9 on a 12 G4?

2003-09-26 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 26/09/03 21:20, Wiebe Wilbers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 27/9/03 11:06 AM, Krevnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That won't work, although I won't stop you from trying... here is why: The OS9 copy you are getting from cloning the drive is the exact same copy you could install directly.

Indigo iBook Boot Trouble

2003-09-26 Thread Kyle Lee
Hello everyone, Recently, my Indigo Clamshell 366 iBook began chiming 3 times at start up. In my research, I have found that this means no ram banks passed memory testing and I am not sure what to do. I have removed the RAM from the top side. Still the same thing. Does this mean a new mother

Re: Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread ifab
um...excuse me but the Lombard only has ONE pc slot..sorry. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac

Re: Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Shayne Croy
Not the one I'm typing this on...sorry. Shayne On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 07:59 PM, ifab wrote: um...excuse me but the Lombard only has ONE pc slot..sorry. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished

Re: Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Krevnik
Okay, I was about to answer this with a sarcastic remark about how Apple's site had an error... but I decided not to after I wrote it up and it sounded a little too offensive. But Apple's database is wrong about the 333... The Lombard never got a second PC Card slot. There wasn't the room for