Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-22 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 22/04/04 01:07, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/21/04 5:45 PM, Kurt Appling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: RE; I know what you mean about comp-usa, the store in tampa is just awful,yet the superstore a couple of miles from me has been excellent, they really

Re: Wallstreet question

2004-04-22 Thread Wayne
Does anyone know where I can get a manual for a Wallstreet. I need to know how to take it apart and upgrade the hard drive for a friend. I've done this on my Pismo but I can't seem to get the Wallstreet apart and don't want to force the issue. Any help appreciated.

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-22 Thread Wayne
RE; I know what you mean about comp-usa, the store in tampa is just awful,yet the superstore a couple of miles from me has been excellent, they really vary alot here. Funny. The Tampa store on Hillsborough as well as the one on Dale Mabry the one in Clearwater and the one in Brandon are

Re: WallStreet fan on when asleep in OSX

2004-04-22 Thread Jack
I've got copy of Panther which my wife uses on her iBook. Have tried XPoatFacto - but something seems to go wrong during installation. Have an 8 GB partition for OSX; a separate 20 GB partition for Classic; and another 2GB on a removable HD for OS 9.2.2. No luck so far. Since I bought Panther

Re: iceBooks melt; board-level repairs, anyone?

2004-04-22 Thread Paul Nicholson
There are a handful of different active SCSI termination IC's. I'd suggest Googling the numbers on the IC's around the SCSI port. You should be able to see a bad SCSI line with voltmeter. Just look for signal pins not pulled up. If you find a terminator IC with a low signal pin on it, replace

Re: on WS PMUs going bad

2004-04-22 Thread Margaret McCloskey
PRAM battery is new. The battery shows that it is fully charged though it calculates its time left as only 30 minutes or so. It is one reason I've come to suspect the PRAM. J Sanderson On Wednesday, Apr 21, 2004, at 16:45 US/Central, George Mogiljansky wrote: What about the Pram battery?

Re: WallStreet fan on when asleep in OSX

2004-04-22 Thread Mikael Byström
Jack, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Have tried XPoatFacto - but something seems to go wrong during installation. Have an 8 GB partition for OSX; Is that the exact size? I seem to recall one should aim for more like 7.3 GB. Also, have you been using XPF 3a9 or 3a14? Those are the only versions that have

Re: WallStreet fan on when asleep in OSX

2004-04-22 Thread darm0k
At 04:27 PM +0100 02/15/2004, Mikael Byström wrote: Jack, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Have tried XPoatFacto - but something seems to go wrong during installation. Have an 8 GB partition for OSX; Is that the exact size? I seem to recall one should aim for more like 7.3 GB. Good point. The Apple TIL

Pismo problem

2004-04-22 Thread Dean Reichert
Hi I have a Pismo 500Mhz that cant find the startup drive when I do a restart, but is fine if I do a complete shutdown. Does anyone know if it's possible to re-flash the ROM with the same version that its already on it, or with an earlier version. The reason I'm looking at the ROM is that it

Re: Pismo problem

2004-04-22 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 22/04/04 14:02, Dean Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a Pismo 500Mhz that cant find the startup drive when I do a restart, but is fine if I do a complete shutdown. Does anyone know if it's possible to re-flash the ROM with the same version that its already on it, or with an

Re: Verrrryy Interresting..

2004-04-22 Thread Eugene Lee
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 01:47:58PM -0400, K wrote: : : [The Windows API] is so deeply embedded in the source code of many : Windows apps that there is a huge switching cost to using a different : operating system instead. It is this switching cost that has given the : customers the

Re: Pismo problem

2004-04-22 Thread Dean Reichert
Yes, I did try a different hard drive. both apple ROM'd by the way. I also should have mentioned that the hard drives wont spin back up after a restart. Also, if you have a system install CD in the DVD drive, it will find that and start but the HD wont show up on the desktop because it has

Re: Verrrryy Interresting..

2004-04-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 22, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Eugene Lee wrote: Old news. Among software developers, momentum is known to be very hard to stop once started on the path of a particular API. We saw the ruckus back in the Rhapsody days when Apple tried to convince Mac developers to switch from the Mac Toolbox

Re: Verrrryy Interresting..

2004-04-22 Thread K
Only posted it because I thought it was interesting.. Regards, Mike K Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 22, 2004, at 11:22 AM, Eugene Lee wrote: Old news. Among software developers, momentum is known to be very hard to stop once started on the path of a particular API. We saw the ruckus back in the

Re: Verrrryy Interresting..

2004-04-22 Thread George Mogiljansky
Which version of OS X are you referring to, Bruce? The one named Puma (10.0 up to 10.1.5, I believe), Jaguar or Panther? Or maybe Leopard? I'm told there are fundamental differences between or amongst all three (four). George (rushing in where angels fear to tread) --- Bruce Johnson [EMAIL

Re: Pismo problem

2004-04-22 Thread George Mogiljansky
Sorry, Dean, but could this be part of the ongoing Pismo problem? If so, I'm glad I settled for an ancient PDQ for a lot less. With regards to BIOS, check out this page - http://homepage.mac.com/ techedgeezine/cart_mac_pb5.html. Best George --- Dean Reichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did

Pizmo Start Up Problem

2004-04-22 Thread illovox
on 4/22/04 11:54 AM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Pismo 500Mhz that cant find the startup drive when I do a restart, but is fine if I do a complete shutdown. Does anyone know if it's possible to re-flash the ROM with the same version that its already on it, or with an earlier

Re: Verrrryy Interresting..

2004-04-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
Thanks, Mike, I found it interesting, and also the thread that developed gave me a bit of education. Here is the response of a friend who I forwarded to, describing a day to look forward to: mark my words: microsoft is dead as the dominant force. *nix will rise, gov'ts will go there and

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-22 Thread pjspop
At 7:30 AM -0400 4/22/04, Laurent Daudelin wrote: One Apple technician for 4 stores? I know that Apple hardware is of better quality, but that still seems a lot! Naw. The one in question is excellent. I bet the problems stem from under-educated staff. -- ;-) Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quadlist and

OT-Transferring iTunes songs

2004-04-22 Thread John Slavin
My daughter (who was given an iBook for graduation and which I now use, hahahahaha) goes to school at Wake Forest where they issue Thinkpads to all students at the beginning of their Freshman and Junior years. She has a bunch of songs on her iTunes for Windows most of which are also on her

Re: OT-Transferring iTunes songs

2004-04-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 22, 2004, at 3:25 PM, John Slavin wrote: My daughter (who was given an iBook for graduation and which I now use, hahahahaha) goes to school at Wake Forest where they issue Thinkpads to all students at the beginning of their Freshman and Junior years. She has a bunch of songs on her

Re: OT-Transferring iTunes songs

2004-04-22 Thread Hector I Macedo
John Slavin said: iPod and copy of the songs onto her new machine, correct? If not what's the easiest way to get her songs over to her new machine? She can burn a CD with the songs and then rip it to the new computer. Easy as pie. Hector I. Macedo

Re: Pismo problem

2004-04-22 Thread Ronald Romine
On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 01:02 PM, Dean Reichert wrote: I have a Pismo 500Mhz that cant find the startup drive when I do a restart, but is fine if I do a complete shutdown. [...] By the way, the Pismo functions perfectly in every other way. Any ideas? I had a similar problem with my

Re: OT-Transferring iTunes songs

2004-04-22 Thread John Slavin
Well, she has about 2000 songs on her computer. The CD route doesn't seem practical to me. On Apr 22, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Hector I Macedo wrote: John Slavin said: iPod and copy of the songs onto her new machine, correct? If not what's the easiest way to get her songs over to her new machine?

Re: OT-Transferring iTunes songs

2004-04-22 Thread Kathe Wittenberg
There are shareware and freeware apps. for the Mac where you can transfer songs from the iPod to your computer. I'm sure there are probably similar apps. that will work with a PC. Check the iPod lounge: http://www.ipodlounge.com/ On the left side of the main page, scroll down and there's a

Re: OT-Transferring iTunes songs

2004-04-22 Thread P. H. Adams
On Apr 23, 2004, at 4:43 AM, John Slavin wrote: Well, she has about 2000 songs on her computer. The CD route doesn't seem practical to me. On Apr 22, 2004, at 6:27 PM, Hector I Macedo wrote: John Slavin said: iPod and copy of the songs onto her new machine, correct? If not what's the