Re: Virus Software Recommendation

2004-09-21 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 1:01 AM -0400 9/21/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:09 PM -0500 09/20/2004, John Slavin wrote: I haven't own virus software for quite some time, but my wife is attending seminary and in order to connect our iBook to the school's network, we have to have

Re: Pismo vs ibook?

2004-09-21 Thread Mikael Byström
Kyle Hansen said: The bus speed is the same 100mhz. Actually is is 66mhz and not 50mhz! http://www.lowendmac.com/pb2/ibook3.html The system bus speed on a Pismo (powerbook FW2000) is most definitely 100MHz. You are incorrect. But it was the iBook 500 that was said to have a bus speed of

Re: Pismo vs ibook?

2004-09-21 Thread michael Vogt
I just went through the same ? that you are asking I had Lombard Then I was tying to decide on the pismo or the iBook the main thing I wanted was to run Apple DVD Player in Panther I was not sure about the Pismo doing that one person it would then anther said it would not so that was the

Re: Pismo vs ibook?

2004-09-21 Thread John Slavin
I'm surprise no one has mentioned screen size. I'm assuming the ibook has a 12 screen and I'm assuming that the pismo has a 14 screen. I can tell you that from first hand experience that for ordinary web browsing, when I'm sitting on the couch at home with our ibook on one table and the old

Re: Pismo vs ibook?

2004-09-21 Thread John Slavin
hehe You know it doesn't change. It still comes down to looking at what you need. I would have absolutely agreed with you until January two years ago. Over the course of about a month, my eyes changed. Now my arms are just long enough to get a piece of paper to the point where my eyes can

lombard battery

2004-09-21 Thread vicki
Hi all this is a quick question just to satisfy my mind. Battery times in variuos OS, why does it vary so much? for example my lombard in OSx.1.5 with cdrw/dvd rom (internal) fitted gives 40mins constant use useing cds. In OS9.2.2 1hr 0mins. but in os 8.6 on the second partition of the 20gb

Re: lombard battery

2004-09-21 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 21/09/04 11:53, vicki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all this is a quick question just to satisfy my mind. Battery times in variuos OS, why does it vary so much? for example my lombard in OSx.1.5 with cdrw/dvd rom (internal) fitted gives 40mins constant use useing cds. In OS9.2.2

Virus Software Recommendation

2004-09-21 Thread walter
Given the ongoing discussion re virus software: in our home, we have three Macs on an Aiport network that connects to the internet via an Airport Extreme Base Station. My understanding is that the Base Station provides some level of security, inasmuch as it 'masks' our Macs behind its IP

Re: Virus Software Recommendation

2004-09-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 21, 2004, at 10:39 AM, walter wrote: Given the ongoing discussion re virus software: in our home, we have three Macs on an Aiport network that connects to the internet via an Airport Extreme Base Station. My understanding is that the Base Station provides some level of security, inasmuch

Re: Virus Software Recommendation

2004-09-21 Thread darm0k
At 06:39 PM +0100 09/21/2004, walter wrote: Given the ongoing discussion re virus software: in our home, we have three Macs on an Aiport network that connects to the internet via an Airport Extreme Base Station. My understanding is that the Base Station provides some level of security, inasmuch

Re: Virus Software Recommendation

2004-09-21 Thread darm0k
At 01:50 PM -0400 09/21/2004, Laurent Daudelin wrote: I had a number of Macs on broadband access for quite a few years now and never had any problem. If you have a NAT Router then your wife probably never got hit by Blaster et al. :) My wife, who insisted to have a PC, has all kind of problems.

Re: Virus Software Recommendation

2004-09-21 Thread darm0k
At 11:07 AM -0700 09/21/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote: All email viruses these days come from someone you know, or someone who has your address in their address book Except for the ones that come via harvest lists and dictionary attacks. - Dan. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...