Re: Low Battery Warning on iBook

2004-05-27 Thread Susan Platter
The battery runs for three or four hours before disappearing. It has been suggested to me that the age of the battery (three years plus a bit) may be a factor in the Low Battery message no longer appearing. It used to appear, it seems, and it is not clear why this ceased. Susan Platter

Re: Low Battery Warning on iBook

2004-05-27 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 27/05/04 07:50, Susan Platter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The battery runs for three or four hours before disappearing. It has been suggested to me that the age of the battery (three years plus a bit) may be a factor in the Low Battery message no longer appearing. It used to appear, it

Re: Low Battery Warning on iBook

2004-05-27 Thread Susan Platter
When I first began using it, I spent some time updating, as my husband had not done any; now, Software Update and I are on first-name terms! ;D It is a 500MHz iBook, with 18.65GB indicated. Susan Platter Swindon, Wiltshire England On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 08:35 AM, G-Books wrote: Check

Re: Low Battery Warning on iBook

2004-05-27 Thread Susan Platter
I have no problem with the battery not charging, or not giving me a good run for my money. I just want to know where the low-battery warning has gone! :D Susan Platter Swindon, Wiltshire England On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 05:48 PM, G-Books wrote: Is a dual-USB iBook? The Apple discussion

Re: Will this Apple Sodimm work in a Wallstreet PDQ (Series II) ?

2004-05-27 Thread George Mogiljansky
I was able to find this info about the Samsung sodimm: K4S510832C KC75/C1H/C1L KL75/L1H/L1L 64M x 8 LVTTL 8K 3.3 ± 0.3V D D P TSOP2 54pin Now --- George Mogiljansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the seller, the following is sold by Apple. But will it work in a WS 300 MHz

Re: Low Battery Warning on iBook

2004-05-27 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 27/05/04 08:04, Susan Platter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first began using it, I spent some time updating, as my husband had not done any; now, Software Update and I are on first-name terms! ;D It is a 500MHz iBook, with 18.65GB indicated. And the OS version is 10.1 ? 10.2 ?

known common problems with PB G4 550

2004-05-27 Thread Mikael Byström
Are there any known common problems for the PB G4 550, not DVI, that one should keep in mind? -- 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

Re: Will this Apple Sodimm work in a Wallstreet PDQ (Series II) ?

2004-05-27 Thread Mikael Byström
George, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But will it work in a WS 300 MHz Series II PDQ ? What is the density of the module? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Re: Opinions on CDs

2004-05-27 Thread Mikael Byström
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1. Brand matters little I disagre. Experience will tell some brands are better IMHO. The question is which ones. and pricing is definately not an indication of quality. Some stores seem to carry better quality discs than others. My overall fav is

wear and tear on 15.2 PBG4 display and cures

2004-05-27 Thread Mikael Byström
Considering the common problem of the early PB G4's with the keyboard scratching the display surface: Are there any finishes one can (re)apply to diminish the problem or other cures? On most displays this isn't visible under normal operation as the light drowns or masks the problem, but when

Re: PB G4 fan replacement, options?

2004-05-27 Thread Mikael Byström
Jeff, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There is a little bit of room on top of the heat sink, but not very much. Are you talking about a fan that is 2mm thick? That wouldn't move very much air. No, I was more aiming to remove the fan and put another in its place with a thin heat detector connected to

How to get 9 on disk w/o drivers

2004-05-27 Thread Run Vzel
CCC is not the only solution...you can just drag a 9 set up directly to your disk. Pull the system out of the system folder, drop it back in, you are set. Worked for me. Subject: Re: Partition with 10.2? Hi JR, Your only (?) possible solution is Carbon Copy Cloner. George --- John A [EMAIL

Re: How to get 9 on disk w/o drivers

2004-05-27 Thread John A
On May 27, 2004, at 3:42 AM, Run Vzel wrote: CCC is not the only solution...you can just drag a 9 set up directly to your disk. Pull the system out of the system folder, drop it back in, you are set. Worked for me. Subject: Re: Partition with 10.2? Hi JR, Your only (?) possible solution is

Re: How to get 9 on disk w/o drivers

2004-05-27 Thread John A
On May 27, 2004, at 3:55 AM, John A wrote: On May 27, 2004, at 3:42 AM, Run Vzel wrote: CCC is not the only solution...you can just drag a 9 set up directly to your disk. Pull the system out of the system folder, drop it back in, you are set. Worked for me. Subject: Re: Partition with 10.2?

Re: How to get 9 on disk w/o drivers

2004-05-27 Thread Larry le Mac
From: John A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, I just tried this. I put the OS 9.2.2 disc in the drive, then dragged the system folder from the CD to my Panther desktop. The system folder you have copied is the minimal startup system needed to start up from the CD-ROM. You need to back up an installed

Re: wear and tear on 15.2 PBG4 display and cures

2004-05-27 Thread larry Zasitko
Mikeal, There are screen protectors out there that you can put directly on the screen to protect it. I have also seen soft fabric sheets that cover the keyboard/trackpad etc and when closed will provide protection for the screens. This problem as far as I know was fixed for the latest

Re: Low Battery Warning on iBook

2004-05-27 Thread Susan Platter
Jaguar 10.2.8 Susan Platter Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 07:57:54 +0100 Subject: Re: Low Battery Warning on iBook From: Malcolm Cornelius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 27/05/04 07:50, Susan Platter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The battery runs for three

Re: wear and tear on 15.2 PBG4 display and cures

2004-05-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/27/04 9:34 AM, larry Zasitko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikeal, There are screen protectors out there that you can put directly on the screen to protect it. I have also seen soft fabric sheets that cover the keyboard/trackpad etc and when closed will provide protection for the screens.

Re: Advice RE: The Snow ABS

2004-05-27 Thread Jeff Drummond
Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I ran across someone wanting to sell a Snow (Dual Ethernet g) ABS. Not on eBay. They only had a partial model number, so neither one of us knew exactly what ABS it was. Now we're sure. They're wanting $150 for it. Is that a decent price? If you're happy paying

Can't import contacts correctly from Mail to Entourage

2004-05-27 Thread Mike Kauspedas
When I drag the contact from the address book into Entourage it doesn't grab the email address. So I get a name, etc, but no email address. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Are there 3rd party utilities I need to use? I got all my email with the tool form MS, but it doesn't import contacts.

Has anyone done business with PowerbookTech.com ??

2004-05-27 Thread Christopher Kolp
Has anyone on the list done business with PowerbookTech.com? I recently purchased a few parts from there, however, a week later I've got a tracking number that doesn't work and no way to contact them. No response to repeated emails. They charged my card in a timely manner, though! I had thought

Grapplin' w/ a Graphite (iBook)

2004-05-27 Thread COCCORP
Could y'all help me be a lil' sneaky?? ;-) A computer scrapper I work with frequently recently received someone's old office equipment, that contained what appears to be a smashed-LCD screen iBook. All I can tell about it is that it's graphite in color. I did not see it long enough to see if

Re: Grapplin' w/ a Graphite (iBook)

2004-05-27 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
Anyway, the only other thing I noticed about the graphite iBook is that the top of the screen display had iBook only on the inside, and the button below the trackpad was graphite also. Now, barring mix-match cases and internals, of course, can someone help me ID this puppy, if that's

os 9 install

2004-05-27 Thread illovox
From: John A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to get 9 on disk w/o drivers Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 03:55:29 -0500 CCC is not the only solution...you can just drag a 9 set up directly to your disk. Pull the system out of the system folder, drop it back in, you are set. Worked for me.

Re: os 9 install

2004-05-27 Thread John A
On May 27, 2004, at 2:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: John A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to get 9 on disk w/o drivers Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 03:55:29 -0500 CCC is not the only solution...you can just drag a 9 set up directly to your disk. Pull the system out of the system folder,

Re: Partition with 10.2?

2004-05-27 Thread Mikael Byström
Another aspect, IMHO, Mac OS X 10.3.x with XPostFacto3 ( I use the a14 version) works much better on at least the Wallstreet II (PDQ) than do Jaguar. The only thing that doesn't work for me is sound going in, which probably can be solved with a new PCMCIA soundcard with a specific sound driver

Re: wear and tear on 15.2 PBG4 display and cures

2004-05-27 Thread Jim Katz
Let me add my voice - I have an original Ti-400. No keyboard 'scratches' ever, and I have not seen any on any other machines. The finger oil marks do clean off with moist wipes of different sorts, or screen cleaner if you want to spend money for brand names. No real marks in three years. The

Re: wear and tear on 15.2 PBG4 display and cures

2004-05-27 Thread Mikael Byström
Kyle, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The screen doesn't get scratched. If the machine receives pressure and there is dust, it can get scratched -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site

Re: Will this Apple Sodimm work in a Wallstreet PDQ (Series II) ?

2004-05-27 Thread Eugene Lee
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 10:54:37PM +0200, Mikael Byström wrote: : From: Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: Re: Will this Apple Sodimm work in a Wallstreet PDQ (Series II) ? : Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 22:54:37 +0200 : Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :

Re: Will this Apple Sodimm work in a Wallstreet PDQ (Series II) ?

2004-05-27 Thread Nils
I agree with the Eugene Lee. It's SO-DIMM. My replys to the Adding RAM to WS II thread will help answer your question. It looks like the part number you've provided is one from the top of one of the chips on the memory module. A Samsung K4S510832C. Now that we know the density of the chips, how

Re: Grapplin' w/ a Graphite (iBook)

2004-05-27 Thread larry Zasitko
Hi, There were two versions of the Graphite and both were called SE's. I have a first generation Graphite SE Clamshell so.. The first generation Graphite was 366 mhz, 4 meg video, 6 gig hard drive The second generation Graphite was 466 mhz, 8 meg video, 10 gig hard drive and the firewire

Re: Has anyone done business with PowerbookTech.com ??

2004-05-27 Thread Shawn Harley
I had great service from them, but it's been about a year since I used them. Found them to be priced right, honest and quick on my repair. I'll see if I can dig up the phone number and post it. I spoke with Daniel. On May 27, 2004, at 1:44 PM, Christopher Kolp wrote: Has anyone on the list

How to force shut down? (was: HD in Lombard running hot)

2004-05-27 Thread gf sciacca
I'm now stuck with a OS X installer CD as the only device the Lombard will start up from, the HD has disappeared altogheter from the installer and disk utility options and is quite hot, which indicates some weird activity inside. The question now is: how do I force a shut down in order to pull out

Re: Opinions on CDs

2004-05-27 Thread Clyde Kahrl
The kind of CD blanks you use is really important. It is particularly important if you want your disks to play in some machine other than the machine that burned it. Here is a reference to a site where people spend a lot of time on this issue.

TiBook 550mhz with vertical racing stripe on screen

2004-05-27 Thread Clyde Kahrl
I have seen horizontal stripes on G3 pbooks. These are typically caused by a bad ribbon cable connection or so I am told. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Re: How to force shut down? (was: HD in Lombard running hot)

2004-05-27 Thread Eugene Lee
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 03:52:18AM +0200, gf sciacca wrote: : : I'm now stuck with a OS X installer CD as the only device the Lombard will : start up from, the HD has disappeared altogheter from the installer and : disk utility options and is quite hot, which indicates some weird : activity

Re: How to force shut down? (was: HAD in Lombard running hot)

2004-05-27 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 3:52 AM +0200 5/28/04, gf sciacca wrote: I'm now stuck with a OS X installer CD as the only device the Lombard will start up from, the HD has disappeared altogheter from the installer and disk utility options and is quite hot, which indicates some weird activity