Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-17 Thread Lawrence Weeks
Once upon a time (Wed Sep 15), geno endicott wrote: 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. I decided to check it out. Signed up late last night with a unique email address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] This morning, I have

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-17 Thread Timothy Luoma
.. Original Message ... On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:54:58 -0700 Shane Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No its not an advertisement...its legitjust type in free ipod conga in google for more info. When you post a message about it and then include your referrer number in the URL then it

Virus protection?

2004-09-17 Thread Samuel Frost
I have a Bronze G3 powerbook, with OS 9.1, do I need to install any virus protection while surfing the net. I heard Apple designs were fairly resistant to most types of viruses. Sam _ Stay in touch with absent friends - get MSN

Re: Virus protection?

2004-09-17 Thread Timothy Luoma
On Sep 17, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Samuel Frost wrote: I have a Bronze G3 powerbook, with OS 9.1, do I need to install any virus protection while surfing the net. I heard Apple designs were fairly resistant to most types of viruses. 1) There are no OS X viruses, so no you don't need anti virus 2)

Re: Virus protection?

2004-09-17 Thread darm0k
At 03:45 PM -0400 09/17/2004, Timothy Luoma blithered: 1) There are no OS X viruses, so no you don't need anti virus Incorrect. See other threads about anti-virus softwares posted on these lists. See the long discussion about 'em on TidBITS-Talk. 2) Some will tell you that you must have it

Re: Virus protection?

2004-09-17 Thread darm0k
At 06:31 PM +0100 09/17/2004, Samuel Frost wrote: I have a Bronze G3 powerbook, with OS 9.1, do I need to install any virus protection while surfing the net. I heard Apple designs were fairly resistant to most types of viruses. For the most part, IMO, you don't really gotta gotta gotta have an

Re: Virus protection?

2004-09-17 Thread Al Poulin
Samuel Frost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Bronze G3 powerbook, with OS 9.1, do I need to install any virus protection while surfing the net. I heard Apple designs were fairly resistant to most types of viruses. With OS 9.1, I would not bother unless you receive Microsoft Word documents

Re: Virus protection?

2004-09-17 Thread Dan Palka
Other than the lab virus some company invented that cannot re-distribute itself and isn't in the public anyway, what viruses for OSX are you talking about? On Sep 17, 2004, at 3:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incorrect. See other threads about anti-virus softwares posted on these lists. See

Re: Virus protection?

2004-09-17 Thread Dan Palka
I haven't ever used Virus protection on any of my 70+ macs running OS 6 - OS X ever in my entire life, nor do I ever plan to, and have never had a problem. I don't think its worth the money or hassle or hard drive space. Do what makes you feel safe. Simply using a Macintosh makes me feel safe

Re: Virus protection?

2004-09-17 Thread Andrew F.
I got hit very hard by the autostart worm aroiund 1997 or 98, and lost all sorts of data. Since then, I run virus protection on both my Macs and PCs. Andrew On 9/17/04 4:02 PM, Dan Palka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't ever used Virus protection on any of my 70+ macs running OS 6 - OS X

Wallstreet

2004-09-17 Thread Steven J Haack
will the DVD player on the wallstreet read your average CD or do you need a sperate player to do that?? I am working on a unit now and it wont read CD's at all. Its just makes a thumping type sound and that it. The DVD player works just great with DVD's Thanks for you help Shaack -- G-Books is

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-17 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/17/04 8:00 AM, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: When you post a message about it and then include your referrer number in the URL then it certainly looks and walks like an advertizement. That is exactly my opinion and I am one of the nannies here. This thread

Re: Wallstreet

2004-09-17 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 17/09/04 20:27, Steven J Haack at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: will the DVD player on the wallstreet read your average CD or do you need a sperate player to do that?? I am working on a unit now and it wont read CD's at all. Its just makes a thumping type sound and that it. The DVD player works

Re: Wallstreet

2004-09-17 Thread Dan Palka
Yes, they do read CDs. Either your CD is an unsupported format or your drive is broken. On Sep 17, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Steven J Haack wrote: will the DVD player on the wallstreet read your average CD or do you need a sperate player to do that?? I am working on a unit now and it wont read CD's at

WTB: Firewire Driver for External Hard Drive

2004-09-17 Thread Jim Scott
Well, here goes another learning curve. I bought an external Yamaha firewire case that originally held a CD/RW from a fellow swapper. I found that it works just fine with my G3 700 iBook running 10.3.5 when I put a Memorex 52x32x52x CD/RW burner in it. However, when I put a hard drive in the

Re: WTB: Firewire Driver for External Hard Drive

2004-09-17 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 17/09/04 21:16, Jim Scott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, here goes another learning curve. I bought an external Yamaha firewire case that originally held a CD/RW from a fellow swapper. I found that it works just fine with my G3 700 iBook running 10.3.5 when I put a Memorex 52x32x52x

Re: Wallstreet

2004-09-17 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 8:13 PM -0500 9/17/04, Dan Palka wrote: On Sep 17, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Steven J Haack wrote: will the DVD player on the wallstreet read your average CD or do you need a sperate player to do that?? I am working on a unit now and it wont read CD's at all. Its

Re: Wallstreet

2004-09-17 Thread Dan Palka
I said this: Either your CD is an unsupported format or your drive is broken. Then Bob wrote this: Wow, that's a mighty big leap without knowing what kind of CDs I thought my statement was fairly generalized to cover pretty much any circumstance. (are they be Windows CDs?) This would fall under