Re: Designated Drivel on Dead Drives

2004-09-15 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 1:45 AM -0400 9/15/04, Barton Brown wrote: drivel sniped I was initially going to post a don't expect much help from now on message. But I saw several others and didn't think I would add anything by posting another one. But after the last two diatribes from Mr.

Pismo Battery Won't Charge

2004-09-15 Thread Charles Estabrooks
The yoyo adapter on my Pismo recently broke at the connector to the book. Toward the end I had to wiggle the skinny wire to make contact, but instead of the standard icon with the lightening bolt which indicates battery charging, OS X shows a battery icon with an electrical plug, and the

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-15 Thread Clark Martin
At 7:54 PM -0700 9/14/04, Kyle Hansen wrote: On 9/14/04 6:45 PM, Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Afraid the black helicopters are going to read your Myst scores through the power line Kyle? :) H ha ha. I play BF 1942 and CoD. Myst is for those over 40. S. I

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-15 Thread Tom Ethen
Since I live in the Midwest and we have electrical storms quite often, I see no reason to tempt fate by leaving my laptop on or even plugged in when not in use. I sometime let them sleep when I travel so I can access the laptop quickly when I need to, but even then I turn it off more often than

Re: Dead Combo Drive

2004-09-15 Thread csean
on 15/09/2004 03:25, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: CJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dead Combo Drive Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:53:37 -0500 I've just received an iBook/500 (dual usb). The computer came with a dead combo drive. Does anyone know where

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-15 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/14/04 8:09 PM, Gary Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Should they be OUR reasons? Like Donald, I'd like to know if this is a good idea for others Leaving a machine sleeping is leaving it in a very limited on state. Meaning that the power management circuits are charged

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 15/09/04 13:33, Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/14/04 8:09 PM, Gary Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Should they be OUR reasons? Like Donald, I'd like to know if this is a good idea for others Leaving a machine sleeping is leaving it in a very limited on

Free ipods?

2004-09-15 Thread Shane Hartley
Just sign up at this link: http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8867012 then sign up for one of the offers and then cancel it after a week. My Brother did it and a couple weeks later an ipod was in the mail! I couldnt believe it! shane -- FREE IPOD!!! (my brother just got his!) Just

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-15 Thread Dan Palka
Was this an advertisement? On Sep 15, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Shane Hartley wrote: Just sign up at this link: http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8867012 then sign up for one of the offers and then cancel it after a week. My Brother did it and a couple weeks later an ipod was in the mail! I

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-15 Thread Marcin Wichary
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Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-15 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Sep 15, 2004, at 2:24 PM, Dan Palka wrote: Was this an advertisement? Mail.app thought so. It called it junk mail. Note the referrer. The whole thing is a scheme to get more people to sign up through your referrer # TjL -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-15 Thread geno endicott
One of my friends and a few guys from TechTV did the freeipods.com thing and it really worked. But you do have to join. Most people just joined InfoPhone or whatever it's called, cuz it's free. Then you just have to get 5 other people to join also. But they all got their iPods. -- G-Books is

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-15 Thread Shane Hartley
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Re: Capacity of laptop batteries

2004-09-15 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:47 PM, Dan K wrote: I've been using a couple of utilities which very nicely divine lots of battery information, X-Charge and XBattery. Graphs and logs and stuff with a proper GUI. None of that arcane grepping stuff for dumb-as-a-post-lil'-ol'-me!! :-) Yes, GUIs are quite

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-15 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Sep 15, 2004, at 1:45 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Just as a thought on this, I'm not in electronics that much but I've read a few times that turning electronic equipment off is sometimes more stressful when you turn them back on because the current that is suddenly applied to the circuits.

Re: shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-15 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:44 PM, Clark Martin wrote: Or is your primary concern power surges? If that's the case then, yeah, you either put your faith in surge suppressors or unplug it. Or get a decent UPS unit, not one of those silly little extension cord things that calls itself a surge protector

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-15 Thread Marcin Wichary
Just as a thought on this, I'm not in electronics that much but I've read a few times that turning electronic equipment off is sometimes more stressful when you turn them back on because the current that is suddenly applied to the circuits. Don't ask me to explain or elaborate, it's just what

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-15 Thread Frank P. Eigler
On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Kyle Hansen wrote: On 9/14/04 5:52 PM, MTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I don't have a powerbook, but my iBook has only been turned off once in the year and a half that I have owned it and that is when I shipped it back to Apple for service. I think

Re: Dead Combo Drive

2004-09-15 Thread CJ
Sounds good. If one comes with another manufacturer's face, can i adapt it to work with the iBook? Also, is there a firmware that must be flashed? - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 10:03 AM Subject: Re: Dead

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-15 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/15/04 11:24 AM, Dan Palka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Was this an advertisement? Yes, and the person has been warned. Kyle H. Hansen -- Jesus Saves...but Gretzky grabs the rebound and backhands for a goal!!! -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-15 Thread Donald Keenan
On Wednesday, September 15, 2004, at 01:51 PM, Shane Hartley wrote: Just sign up at this link: http://www.freeiPods.com/default.aspx?referer=8867012 Wired did a story on this and they deemed it legit. http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64614,00.html Donald -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Wallstreet PRAM Hack.......

2004-09-15 Thread BDavis
Dan K... Thanks very much for the advise on the PRAM batteries. You're correct... the individual cells at the price quoted aren't a cheap fix. And it may be like that of the main battery Li-ion cells... that it almost makes more sense to go the new route. That way there may be some warranty where