Re: Airport problems

2004-11-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 16/11/04 01:42, Mike McGinnis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > I have been learning from this list for a while and I > now have a problem I haven't been able to solve on my > own. I have a Lombard with OS 10.3.6 which I have > recently decided to change to a Belkin G pcmcia card > from

Airport problems

2004-11-15 Thread Mike McGinnis
Hi All, I have been learning from this list for a while and I now have a problem I haven't been able to solve on my own. I have a Lombard with OS 10.3.6 which I have recently decided to change to a Belkin G pcmcia card from an Orinoco Silver B card, I uninstalled the sourceforge drivers I was usin

Re: First time Mac/Pismo owner questions

2004-11-15 Thread Pauline Turtle-Bear Guillermo
On Nov 15, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Kevin Bellerose wrote: Howdy, My name is Kevin and this is my first adventure into the Mac world. As a disillusioned windows user, I was turned onto Mac after buying an ipod and using my wife's ibook (she's a teacher) After much research I finally decided on a Pis

Re: recommend joystick?

2004-11-15 Thread John
Timothy Luoma wrote: I've just rediscovered some games and was wondering if someone knew of a good joystick to use with a Powerbook. These are relatively simple old games and my interest in video games pretty much peaked with Joust and Tetris, so I don't need anything too fancy, but using the k

Re: need game recommendation

2004-11-15 Thread Timothy Domst
On Nov 15, 2004, at 5:27 PM, Jeff Wiseman wrote: For a thinking game on planes, I like iconquer. It's risk, but there are a ton of different maps, and it can be saved and restarted at any time. Steve Or Civilization II. It ran well on my 1400 with 233/G3 upgrade. Still one of my favorite games.

Re: recommend joystick?

2004-11-15 Thread Timothy Domst
On Nov 15, 2004, at 3:34 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: I've just rediscovered some games and was wondering if someone knew of a good joystick to use with a Powerbook. These are relatively simple old games and my interest in video games pretty much peaked with Joust and Tetris, so I don't need anythin

Re: ibook

2004-11-15 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
> > So if the book is working fine but is not charging the battery but >> when the battery is put in another it charges and works fine whats wrong. I'd say a bad logic board, I've seen several with furring in the region of the battery contacts that don't charge batteries. Make sure the battery

Re: Tiger and G3 Pismo?

2004-11-15 Thread Ben Dyer
If you've got a DVD drive to install it with, it'll work just fine. You're not going to get *any* of the neat GUI hardware acceleration, though. Cheers, Ben On 16 Nov 2004, at 09:12, Sacredsystem wrote: Hi, I assume this has been asked in the past, but will Tiger be compatible with my G3 Pism

Re: Phishies (was Re: Virus)

2004-11-15 Thread Timothy Luoma
. Original Message ... On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:45:05 +0100 "Mikael Byström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Which is why a status preview is vital in HTML >email clients. > Opera solves by letting you prefer plain text over HTML and by alerting you to malformed URLs. and of course not usin

Re: need game recommendation

2004-11-15 Thread Matthew Cowgill
--- Jeff Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or Civilization II. It ran well on my 1400 with > 233/G3 upgrade. Still > one of my favorite games. > > JeffW. > Unfortunately he said he had no Classic so that leave out Civ 2 but Civ 3 works just fine on a G3 333 if you don't have all the ani

Re: Tiger and G3 Pismo?

2004-11-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 15/11/04 17:12, "Sacredsystem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I assume this has been asked in the past, but will Tiger be > compatible with my G3 Pismo? Any issues expected? > As far as I can tell, Tiger should work OK on a Pismo. -Laurent. -- ===

Re: First time Mac/Pismo owner questions

2004-11-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 15/11/04 16:48, "Kevin Bellerose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, My name is Kevin and this is my first adventure into the Mac world. > As a disillusioned windows user, I was turned onto Mac after buying an ipod > and using my wife's ibook (she's a teacher) After much research I finally > d

Re: need game recommendation

2004-11-15 Thread Jeff Wiseman
For a thinking game on planes, I like iconquer. It's risk, but there are a ton of different maps, and it can be saved and restarted at any time. Steve Or Civilization II. It ran well on my 1400 with 233/G3 upgrade. Still one of my favorite games. JeffW. -- G-Books is sponsored by

Tiger and G3 Pismo?

2004-11-15 Thread Sacredsystem
Hi, I assume this has been asked in the past, but will Tiger be compatible with my G3 Pismo? Any issues expected? Thanks sacredsystem -- Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs; He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. Ni

First time Mac/Pismo owner questions

2004-11-15 Thread Kevin Bellerose
Howdy, My name is Kevin and this is my first adventure into the Mac world. As a disillusioned windows user, I was turned onto Mac after buying an ipod and using my wife's ibook (she's a teacher) After much research I finally decided on a Pismo. Here is what I purchased http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayIS

recommend joystick?

2004-11-15 Thread Timothy Luoma
I've just rediscovered some games and was wondering if someone knew of a good joystick to use with a Powerbook. These are relatively simple old games and my interest in video games pretty much peaked with Joust and Tetris, so I don't need anything too fancy, but using the keyboard for games jus

Re: need game recommendation

2004-11-15 Thread Small Moose Ltd
Um, maybe Starcraft or Diablo? Or Airburst Extreme, that's a brilliant game. -- Nuts! General A. C. McAuliffe, Reply to German demand to surrender Bastogne, 22 Dec. 1944 -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished

Re: need game recommendation

2004-11-15 Thread Steve Fuller
For a thinking game on planes, I like iconquer. It's risk, but there are a ton of different maps, and it can be saved and restarted at any time. Steve -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our w

Re: ibook

2004-11-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 15, 2004, at 12:30 PM, victoria Duggan wrote: So if the book is working fine but is not charging the battery but when the battery is put in another it charges and works fine whats wrong. Possible messed up battery connections, perhaps the PMU section of the logic board is fried. There's n

Re: ibook

2004-11-15 Thread victoria Duggan
On 15 Nov 2004, at 19:09, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: Hi all i know this is a bit OT but what type of airport card does the ibook 14.1 600mhz take it is the 2002 model. also what type of ram does it take and how easy is it to change a pmu board in one of these. Original Airport, PC100 or PC133 144 pi

Re: ibook

2004-11-15 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
> > Hi all i know this is a bit OT but what type of airport card does the > ibook 14.1 600mhz take it is the 2002 model. also what type of ram does > it take and how easy is it to change a pmu board in one of these. Original Airport, PC100 or PC133 144 pin RAM. There is no PMU board. The only b

Re: ibook

2004-11-15 Thread victoria Duggan
On 15 Nov 2004, at 18:55, Andrew wrote: It takes the regular AirPort (not extreme) card. Ram should be PC100 or 133 SoDimm. so a ram chip from a lombard that is pc 100 so dimm should fit. -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Phishies (was Re: Virus)

2004-11-15 Thread David Lesher
The Phish wars are way past that... I see gif's with the URL embedded in the GIF & similar. I report them to that anti-phish clearinghouse... -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Re: ibook

2004-11-15 Thread Andrew
It takes the regular AirPort (not extreme) card. Ram should be PC100 or 133 SoDimm. --- victoria Duggan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all i know this is a bit OT but what type of > airport card does the > ibook 14.1 600mhz take it is the 2002 model. also > what type of ram does > it take

ibook

2004-11-15 Thread victoria Duggan
Hi all i know this is a bit OT but what type of airport card does the ibook 14.1 600mhz take it is the 2002 model. also what type of ram does it take and how easy is it to change a pmu board in one of these. TIA vicki -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronic

Re: Phishies (was Re: Virus)

2004-11-15 Thread Marcin Wichary
It's not possible to show the correct link and end up anywhere else if you use only text, but it's equally true of course that a HTML link may point to something else. Which is why a status preview is vital in HTML email clients. What would be even better? A warning when you are about to follow an

Re: Phishies (was Re: Virus)

2004-11-15 Thread Mikael Byström
Bruce Johnson said: >Most often you're shown a html mail, which will display the correct >link, or an obsfucated link which shows the correct link but actually >takes you to the wrong place. It's not possible to show the correct link and end up anywhere else if you use only text, but it's equal

Re: need game recommendation

2004-11-15 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 15, 2004, at 9:23 AM, Adam Russell wrote: I have to catch an airplane at the end of the week and was wondering what a good game I could get to entertain myself on the plane would be? The catch is, of course, that it must run on my G3 333mhz bronze powerbook with 128 mb of RAM. I don't typ

Re: need game recommendation

2004-11-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/15/04 11:23 AM, "Adam Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Too little info - are you a first person shooter or a thinker? Check out gamehouse.com for a few possibilities. david -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: need game recommendation

2004-11-15 Thread Andrew
Return to Castle Wolfenstein runs well on my 400MHz G4, very well actually, and would probably be good on your Lombard if you disabled some of the graphics enhancements (low detail, etc). Andrew --- Adam Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to catch an airplane at the end of the week > a

need game recommendation

2004-11-15 Thread Adam Russell
I have to catch an airplane at the end of the week and was wondering what a good game I could get to entertain myself on the plane would be? The catch is, of course, that it must run on my G3 333mhz bronze powerbook with 128 mb of RAM. I don't typically use a mouse with my powerbook but suppose

Re: Dead Lombard

2004-11-15 Thread Mikael Byström
Tom Burke said: >Is their day finished? Not in such a sweeping way as your way of putting it suggest. It's not the common Mac users that subscribe to a list such as this one. This is a specialist crowd. And the list cater to people that like older machines, right? So where else would you be more l

Re: new hd for pismo

2004-11-15 Thread Mikael Byström
Laurent Daudelin said: >You would certainly see an increase in speed. What 7200 HD's doesn't consume a lot more power than 4200 ones? Or is more power consumption unaviodable? Are Fuijitsu 5500 fast enough and is perhaps to be preferred to 7200? I remember Fuijitsu meant that because of how dense

Re: Successful overclock 250MHz -> 300MHz

2004-11-15 Thread Nils
Just an update for anyone who actually reads these posts. I had previously reported running my WSI 250MHz at 292MHz and having it overheat. I startedrunning OS 9 to see if it helped the situation any. The machine appeared to work ok, but would also freeze in 9 when it was sitting on my lap. I chec