Re: Backup/recovery using PCMCIA Firewire adapter?

2003-12-22 Thread chueewowee
I can't on OS 10.15 22/12/03 3:24 pm +1100 Gavin Tiplady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew whether external drives attached via the PCMCIA slot using a firewire adapter could EITHER: 1) Boot the machine (have a feeling they cannot?) Regards, John Plum -- G-Books is

Re: Battery Problems

2003-12-22 Thread BA
Yup, have done all of those things. -Bob- Bob Angell 1238 Fenway Avenue, SLC, UT 84102-3212 v: 801.583.8544; cell/sms: 801.824.7343 email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Had Momma Cass Karen Carpenter shared that ham sandwich, they might be with us today! On Dec 21, 2003, at 9:39 PM, Laurent

Re: Battery Problems

2003-12-22 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 22/12/03 11:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yup, have done all of those things. -Bob- Bob Angell 1238 Fenway Avenue, SLC, UT 84102-3212 v: 801.583.8544; cell/sms: 801.824.7343 email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Had Momma Cass Karen Carpenter shared that ham sandwich,

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Paul Nicholson
NOT copper! You need to use steel. It has to be magnetic. On Dec 22, 2003, at 8:16 AM, chueewowee wrote: Yes, I seem to remember , that a ssheild can be placEd over the hard disc, of copper. It is easy to do. 21/12/03 10:17 pm -0500 Clyde Kahrl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, remember that

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Andre Ruegg
I recently went through this problem with a hard drive and went to my local hobby shop with a kitchen magnet and a paper clip. The metal that I found to be the most effective magnetic shield was tin. Brass has been recommended on a site but it did not work for me and the magnet was able to easily

Re: Backup/recovery using PCMCIA Firewire adapter?

2003-12-22 Thread peter webster
I do, too. Works fine, relatively inexpensive, and fairly simple technology (simple compared to a lot of current solutions. Gavin Tiplady wrote: I have a much loved and constantly used Wallstreet (256MB, 10Gb running 10.2.6) which runs my Tomcat, Apache and Mail servers 24 x 7. I'd like to

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Paul Nicholson
Yes, you need a material that conducts the magnetic flux so it doesn't get to the magnetic reed switch. However I think what you are calling tin is really plated steel. Elemental tin is not magnetic. Tin cans aren't tin anymore, they are coated steel. I trimmed the ends off an blank steel PCI

Re: Battery Problems

2003-12-22 Thread Illovox Media
on 12/21/03 7:53 PM, BA at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, I have one of the first G4 Powerbooks (400 MHz) that is only getting 40-50 minutes on a full battery charge. I have tried several times to cycle (on batteries) the machine to try to get the battery life to improve. I have also

Re: Backup/recovery using PCMCIA Firewire adapter?

2003-12-22 Thread Jeff Hubatka
On Dec 22, 2003, at 10:24 AM, G-Books wrote: From: Gavin Tiplady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Backup/recovery using PCMCIA Firewire adapter? Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 15:24:49 +1100 I have a much loved and constantly used Wallstreet (256MB, 10Gb running 10.2.6) which runs my Tomcat, Apache and Mail

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:33 AM -0800 22/12/03, Paul Nicholson wrote: Yes, you need a material that conducts the magnetic flux so it doesn't get to the magnetic reed switch. Precisely. It's got to be a ferromagnetic material with a sufficiently high permeability to contain the flux so it doesn't reach the reed

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:20 PM -0600 22/12/03, Andre Ruegg wrote: I recently went through this problem with a hard drive and went to my local hobby shop with a kitchen magnet and a paper clip. The metal that I found to be the most effective magnetic shield was tin. Brass has been recommended on a site but it did

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:35 AM -0800 22/12/03, Paul Nicholson wrote: NOT copper! You need to use steel. It has to be magnetic. That would be ferromagnetic. Paramagnetic materials would be too weakly magnetic to do the job. It's the relative permeability, or µr that matters. - web -- G-Books is sponsored by

9.1 problem

2003-12-22 Thread Dan Scanlan
A friend running OS X on some stuff, but mostly 9.1 is suddenly having a problem booting into 9.1 from a dead start. Wierdest thing... Boots fine into 9.1 with extensions off, but hangs up on booting with even only the Apple basic set of extensions on -- hangs up before any icons appear along

Re: OSX on Wallstreet

2003-12-22 Thread James Sanderson
I have the drive partitioned at 7.9 GB's, so I don't believe this is the problem On Sunday, Dec 21, 2003, at 21:50 US/Central, Gavin Tiplady wrote: The reason I asked is that are you trying to install on a partition larger than 8GB? Or a partition less than 8Gb but which -does not fall

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread James Sanderson
Thanks for the help about the above. Now, I have a more serious difficulty. For some mysterious reason the video display will start going haywire during the installation process. Most of the time--this may be the 3rd or 4th--it will simply go blank and give me a white-blue screen. This

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread B Gardner
Allow me to add my experience. I too have had the same situation with a 13 inch Wallstreet. When I try to install OS X, the installation proceeds until the last part of the process with Disk 1. I have watch it as it happens. The screen will dissolve to white or dissolve to many colors and go

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Richard Smykla
James, Smilar problem installing Panther on my Lombard. Removing top slot RAM allowed the install to take place. More pertinent to your situation perhaps, I recently had a conversation with a Wallstreet owner who said this worked: I read about someone installing XPostFacto on a Wallstreet

Video Problems on RagePro 'Books. (was OSX on Wallstreet)

2003-12-22 Thread Richard Smykla
Byron, This sounds all too familiar to me, running a Lombard 333 G3. Problems began with the 10.2.8 update, the 'bad' one that was pulled within hours of its initial release. As soon as I tried to repair permissions with Disk Utility immediately after the install, I got the 'color-mental'

Re: GPS on Pismo

2003-12-22 Thread B Gardner
Joe, I have an Aluminum PB G4 that I would like to use Street Atlas and GPS. I had been using a Wallstreet and it was working well but I keep getting the same dialog when I try to use the GPS in Street Atlas. It says there are no serial ports available. Duh!! Can I use GPSy somehow? Do you