Re: system errors

2006-01-20 Thread sandra ragan
Thanks guys... will give the suggestions a try and let you know what happens... you are all GREAT! Sandra Ragan www.plumdigital.com On Jan 19, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 19, 2006, at 12:41 PM, sandra ragan wrote: I tried Protected mode but didn't try a different user...

Re: firewire horrors

2006-01-20 Thread Bruce Ryan
Dear G-bookers First, sorry to all (especially Howard) who got eye-strain from my colour-scheme In reply to Brian: Are the external cases FW 400 or 800? 400 Have you tried a FW card in the PCMCIA slot? not yet - can anyone lend/sell me one? In reply to John setting 30GB as slave (it

Re: printing ?

2006-01-20 Thread Woody Duncan
I would try moving data from her desktop to her hard drive. If that fails then dump from the hard drive to make more memory. If it's important stuff put it on CD's first. I too use an old i-Mac. I love it but it's like driving a 1957 Desota. Woody Gerald Abreu

Re: printing ?

2006-01-20 Thread John McGibney
Look for an extension called print Monitor, do a get info (Apple- I), select memory and triple the amount thats there. John On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Caleb Cupples wrote: How much RAM does she have? Also, it may be a bug in the printer driver, so I'd try updating. Of course, if there's

Re: Battery Time Left (Pismo)

2006-01-20 Thread John McGibney
I use it on a TiBook and an AlBook both with 10.4.4. I've never had a problem with Panther nor Tiger. Try deleting theorg.orange-carb.SlimBatteryMonitor.plist file from your user/library/preference folder. John On Jan 20, 2006, at 2:50 AM, Daniel Colwell wrote: On Thursday, Jan 19,

Re: printing ?

2006-01-20 Thread Gerald Abreu
Thanks for the suggestions I'll pass them on. I don't recall how much memory she has. I think on the iBook it's 256 You see I live in California and she in Texas. So I'm trying to help her with this problem long distance. Any help is appreciated. Gerald -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: firewire horrors

2006-01-20 Thread Howard Katz
On 1/20/06, Bruce Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear G-bookers First, sorry to all (especially Howard) who got eye-strain from my colour-scheme I refuse to admit that I'm getting too old to make out material on a website. :) I know this is a longshot--does the drive do what you want on

putting recording on PB

2006-01-20 Thread Amber Robey
I would appreciate some suggestions on how to do the following: I am canceling my regular phone service to have the digital phone service installed this weekend. I have a couple of important messages that I HAVE to save from my voicemail and I am wondering how to do it. I tried using the

Re: putting recording on PB

2006-01-20 Thread David Rodriguez
Hi Amber, I don't know if this will work, but using one of the sound recording applications, I wonder if by hooking up the phone jacks from your book to the outgoing jack of the answering machine, then playing msg, would transmit the voice msg to your book with Recording On? I have not

Re: putting recording on PB

2006-01-20 Thread David Rodriguez
I just noticed an app on VersionTracker called 'Audio Hijack'. Might enable you to do exactly what you want. This is an OSX App, but I don't recall off hand which OS you are using. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18611 There are several others there that you might try

Re: printing ?

2006-01-20 Thread darm0k
At 10:03 PM -0800 01/19/2006, Gerald Abreu wrote: my 70 year old mother is having a printing problem with both of her macs an ibook and an imac both running Mac OS 9. Every time she tries to print she gets an out of memory message. Does anyone have any info to a fix? or can point me in the

Re: putting recording on PB

2006-01-20 Thread Harry Corsover
I think in order to make use of this, you have to have a wired connectin rather than using the speakerphone. Radio Shack sells an inexpensive (about $20 when I bought one) device that plugs in between the base and handset of a wired phone. It can be used to play recordings to others over

Re: firewire horrors

2006-01-20 Thread Harry Corsover
I missed the beginning of this thread, but not all Firewire drives are bootable. I had to return two new ones to IOGear because they weren't bootable, but others are. At first they gave me a hard time since they didn't advertise the drives as bootable, but I prevailed eventually and they

Re: Two PBs, one problem...

2006-01-20 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
I have two G3 Pbooks: One Lombard, one Pismo. Both have the dreaded won't start up anymore problem, which appears to be an issue with the mini board containing the AC plug (female end). I've seen quite a few vendors selling replacement cards (a little under $40 for the Lombard, nearly $70

Re: My Pismo is dead

2006-01-20 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
Thanks for the responses . Even though I used it almost everyday, I guess I left it unplugged for a day or two when it stopped working. Resetting the Power Manager didn't do the trick. I've left it plugged in now for 3 days and today it booted up. Go figure. Recharged the PRAM battery, common

Re: Two PBs, one problem...

2006-01-20 Thread MorningAJ
Malcolm Cornelius writes: Are you sure the cards are the faulty e.g. obviously damaged or by checking them against a known good machine ? Have you tried removing the PRAM battery and the keyboards to see if they'll boot ? I haven't, but I will. That's some of the kung fu I'm looking

New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-20 Thread Dan Knight
We've created some new email lists, but they're different from the old ones. We're using Google Groups, which means you can sign up, change your status, and read postings using your browser. I hope to eventually move other lists to Google Groups as well. The Macintel list, which covers all

Re: system errors update

2006-01-20 Thread sandra ragan
No luck so far... Accounts hangs on opening in infinite cursor spinning, and Preferential Treatment hangs (no dialog box, shows icon in the doc but says it's not responding)... unless someone has another idea, the next step is a limited Archive Re-instal... : ( Sandra Ragan

Re: Installing a 120GB HD in a Titanium

2006-01-20 Thread Mark Kippert
Mark Kippert on 1/17/06 3:56 PM wrote: Is it safe to assume I can install a 120GB hard drives in a 667MHz Titanium PowerBook? Thanks! Well, still not sure about the 120GB and a Titanium, but I just ordered a 120BG drive. Hope it works, don't see why it won't. I'll post the results so others

Re: system errors update

2006-01-20 Thread John McGibney
Do you have a second machine running X? If so link the 2 via firewire and start your problem machine while holding the T key. This will start it in target mode, the hard drive will show up as a firewire drive. Try running your diagnostics/repairs from the second machine. John On Jan 20,

Re: Battery Time Left (Pismo)

2006-01-20 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Jan 20, 2006, at 6:05 AM, John McGibney wrote: I use it on a TiBook and an AlBook both with 10.4.4. I've never had a problem with Panther nor Tiger. Tjhis is a Pismo-specific Tiger issue. My wife's Pismo was also unable to calculate the remaining battery/charge time after the update

Re: system errors update

2006-01-20 Thread sandra ragan
will try that from my ibook... had to do that when I first upgraded to Panther the Big Al refused to boot after the first upgrade installation for some reason. Sandra Ragan www.plumdigital.com On Jan 20, 2006, at 12:40 PM, John McGibney wrote: Do you have a second machine running X? If