Re: G5 - OSX lists?

2005-09-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 9, 2005, at 3:38 PM, Jim Katz wrote: My wife, who is just beginning the learning curve on a new G5 desktop machine with Panther is going nuts with the usual small hassles. (such as losing all of her cropped and renamed photos from iPhoto when she tried to export them. Such as having

Re: OS X on a G3 333MHZ Bronze Keyboard

2005-09-09 Thread Herbert Goodfriend
Has anyone installed OS-X on a G3 Bronze Keyboard? I have tried several times to install OS x 10.2 without success. I have a 14 Gig hard drive and 256 megs of RAM. Art Richard (St. Petersburg, FL) Usually this is due to third-party RAM. If you have the original Apple RAM, re-install it

Re: G5 - OSX lists?

2005-09-09 Thread John McGibney
Here's a few X lists X4u list http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macosx-support/ ClarisWorks/Appleworks http://awlist.macnuthome.com John On Sep 9, 2005, at 8:09 PM, John Siple wrote: Jim

Re: G5 - OSX lists?

2005-09-09 Thread John Siple
Jim, The PPC list would work. I think they take more time with questions. She might want to look at the International preference panel for that French thing. There are some little differences and many of us are Tiger users and can't test out Panther questions on real machine. John John

Re: G5 - OSX lists?

2005-09-09 Thread Jim Manley
On Sep 9, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Jim Katz wrote: (such as losing all of her cropped and renamed photos from iPhoto when she tried to export them. Such as having the Appleworks always start up in French and not being able to change that preference somehow.) I can't help you with the list but I c

G5 - OSX lists?

2005-09-09 Thread Jim Katz
My wife, who is just beginning the learning curve on a new G5 desktop machine with Panther is going nuts with the usual small hassles. (such as losing all of her cropped and renamed photos from iPhoto when she tried to export them. Such as having the Appleworks always start up in French and not be

Re: G4 iBook won't start from Disk Warrior

2005-09-09 Thread bobgir2004
Bingo! That what is. What was I thinking? It's been a very long since I've started up from a CD and I mistakenly recalled it being Command/C and not just the C key alone. Grazie mille, Laurent. bob >> Have a G4 iBook running 10.4.9. >> >> Pop in my DiskWarrior CD v 3.0.2,

Re: road warrior?

2005-09-09 Thread Richard Clark
Using a Sony Ericsson k700i and a usb BT adapter. The phone connects then drops out but I'll persist with different scrpts and report back There is something you need to disable on your mac to keep it from dropping out on the ericsson's I had the same problem and changed a setting in the

erratic battery behaviour

2005-09-09 Thread Phil Hannath
Hi I apologise if I'm going over old ground here, but I have just bought a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet series II, 233MHz, 160Mb RAM, 20Gb IBM Travelstar HD from ebay. It all seems to work perfectly when the AC lead is plugged in, but within a few minutes of using it on battery power alone it cras

Re: OS X on a G3 333MHZ Bronze Keyboard

2005-09-09 Thread Jim Manley
On Sep 9, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Art Richard wrote: When I said "without success" in installing OS 10.2 on my 333 MHZ bronze keyboard, I have had the following happen: Freeze-up during install (several times), and Freeze-up at the completion of disk 1, unable to load disk 2. Art Richard (St. P

Re: OS X on a G3 333MHZ Bronze Keyboard

2005-09-09 Thread Art Richard
When I said "without success" in installing OS 10.2 on my 333 MHZ bronze keyboard, I have had the following happen: Freeze-up during install (several times), and Freeze-up at the completion of disk 1, unable to load disk 2. Art Richard (St. Petersburg, FL) On Sep 9, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Bruce Jo

Re: road warrior?

2005-09-09 Thread Brian L. Matthews
Have any of you ever used a cellphone with a Pismo (or any other Powerbook) to go online out in the wilds whether there's no wireless, phone jack or LAN point? If so, please let me know how it's done. What phones, software and connections between the two did you use? I've done it with my Sams

Re: road warrior?

2005-09-09 Thread Ian Moffatt
> On 09/09/05 15:03, "Bruce Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Gang > > > > Have any of you ever used a cellphone with a Pismo (or any other > > Powerbook) to go online out in the wilds whether there's no wireless, > > phone jack or LAN point? If so, please let me know how it's done. > > Wh

Re: OS X on a G3 333MHZ Bronze Keyboard

2005-09-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 9, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Usually, those installation problems resolve around using third party memory that are not working well enough for OS X or, I think, trying to install outside the first 8GB of a hard disk. According to Apple

Re: OS X on a G3 333MHZ Bronze Keyboard

2005-09-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 09/09/05 16:05, "Dijkwel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Same problem here on a 400 MHz bronze keyboard. I do get 10.0 as well > as 10.1 installed using the 64 MB memory the Lombard came with. > However, 10.2 and up requires more memory and then things seem to go > wrong. I've tried several diffe

Re: OS X on a G3 333MHZ Bronze Keyboard

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Fuller
I've installed 10.2 and 10.3 on a 400 Mhz Lombard powerbook without any problems. Using 512MB of non-Apple RAM. Steve -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished Power

Re: OS X on a G3 333MHZ Bronze Keyboard

2005-09-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 9, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Art Richard wrote: Has anyone installed OS-X on a G3 Bronze Keyboard? I have tried several times to install OS x 10.2 without success. I have a 14 Gig hard drive and 256 megs of RAM. Define "without success". That's a Lombard, probably, if you're using t

Re: OS X on a G3 333MHZ Bronze Keyboard

2005-09-09 Thread Dijkwel
Same problem here on a 400 MHz bronze keyboard. I do get 10.0 as well as 10.1 installed using the 64 MB memory the Lombard came with. However, 10.2 and up requires more memory and then things seem to go wrong. I've tried several different memory configurations, up to and including 512 MB but wi

OS X on a G3 333MHZ Bronze Keyboard

2005-09-09 Thread Art Richard
Has anyone installed OS-X on a G3 Bronze Keyboard? I have tried several times to install OS x 10.2 without success. I have a 14 Gig hard drive and 256 megs of RAM. Art Richard (St. Petersburg, FL) -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp:/

Re: road warrior?

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Fuller
I've done this from my 17" PB with 10.4.x and a Cingular Treo 650. I had to download a new bluetooth prc file to enable dialup networking for my Treo, after that it was a matter of pairing the devices up, and configuring internet connect to dial Cingluar's data network. It took maybe 30 min

Re: Lombard Power

2005-09-09 Thread Henry Taylor
Thanks for the help. I had it apart twice and made sure all parts were seated firmly. On a brighter note, I had the AC adapter checked, it's bad, no output power. Now to get another... Henry On 09/09/05 12:12, "Henry Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a Lombard 400, 384, 30 gig, th

Re: road warrior?

2005-09-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 09/09/05 15:03, "Bruce Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gang > > Have any of you ever used a cellphone with a Pismo (or any other > Powerbook) to go online out in the wilds whether there's no wireless, > phone jack or LAN point? If so, please let me know how it's done. > What phones, soft

road warrior?

2005-09-09 Thread Bruce Ryan
Hi Gang Have any of you ever used a cellphone with a Pismo (or any other Powerbook) to go online out in the wilds whether there's no wireless, phone jack or LAN point? If so, please let me know how it's done. What phones, software and connections between the two did you use? I have both 10.3

Re: g3 list?

2005-09-09 Thread Jim Manley
http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml is there a list for blue and white G3's ? --- Jim Manley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Albuquerque, New Mexico -- G-Books is sponsored by and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web si

Re: g3 list?

2005-09-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 09/09/05 13:24, "shane hartley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is there a list for blue and white G3's ? > > also I'm currently in Idaho and forgot my tiger disks at home (seattle) I > need them to help my brother with troubleshooting his mac. I dont know if > anyone is in the Nampa,Idaho area a

g3 list?

2005-09-09 Thread shane hartley
is there a list for blue and white G3's ? also I'm currently in Idaho and forgot my tiger disks at home (seattle) I need them to help my brother with troubleshooting his mac. I dont know if anyone is in the Nampa,Idaho area and has those disks they can lend me for the weekend? shane -- G-

Re: G4 iBook won't start from Disk Warrior

2005-09-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 09/09/05 12:35, "bobgir2004" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have a G4 iBook running 10.4.9. > > Pop in my DiskWarrior CD v 3.0.2, restart while holding down the Command > + C keys and after much churning, it ignores the CD in the drive and starts > from the HD. > > However, when I g

Re: Lombard Power

2005-09-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 09/09/05 12:12, "Henry Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Lombard 400, 384, 30 gig, that will no longer power up. I > was using it (iTunes, Mail, excell, and safari, and Konfabulator) > multitasking when it froze. I tries O-C-Esc, didn't help. I then used > Ctrl-Com-Power to shut dow

G4 iBook won't start from Disk Warrior

2005-09-09 Thread bobgir2004
Have a G4 iBook running 10.4.9. Pop in my DiskWarrior CD v 3.0.2, restart while holding down the Command + C keys and after much churning, it ignores the CD in the drive and starts from the HD. However, when I go to Startup Disk in System Prefs and choose the DW disk and restart, it w

Lombard Power

2005-09-09 Thread Henry Taylor
I have a Lombard 400, 384, 30 gig, that will no longer power up. I was using it (iTunes, Mail, excell, and safari, and Konfabulator) multitasking when it froze. I tries O-C-Esc, didn't help. I then used Ctrl-Com-Power to shut down and restart. It shut down, and will not power back up, it will n

Re: AL 'Book display repair

2005-09-09 Thread Steve Fuller
My guess is that the two LCDs are not interchangable at all. A quick check of the part numbers at one of the powerbook repair places should probably yield this information. Steve On Sep 9, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Francesco sciacca wrote: A friend got himself a 1st generation 1GHz Al 15" PowerBook

AL 'Book display repair

2005-09-09 Thread Francesco sciacca
A friend got himself a 1st generation 1GHz Al 15" PowerBook with a smashed screen. Backlight works fine, so I thought I could use the LCD from my 1GHz TiBook with fried backlight to get the Al Book in good order. Any experience as to opening up the Al book display assembly? Is it a pain as it is f