Re: Shiira

2006-01-31 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 31/01/06 10:28, TmB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far faster than safari on many web pages but slower than Camino on my 867 PB like it so far, my two cents but what does open source mean? It means that it's free, that anybody can collaborate, that you can even download the source and make

Re: Shiira

2006-01-31 Thread MorningAJ
TmB writes: So far faster than safari on many web pages but slower than Camino on my 867 PB like it so far, my two cents Gotta' try this out, stat. but what does open source mean? The enlightenment you seek is located herein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source cheers,

Re: downloading movies

2006-01-31 Thread Peter Saint James
On 22 Jan 2006, at 9:03 PM, Lawrence Sica wrote: You the consumer, making one copy, are not performing a felony. And it's a fine distinction but the act of copying is not illegal in this case. The people selling the program are selling an illegal program possibly though. One major

Re: Shiira

2006-01-31 Thread Steve Peckey
Using this browser now for just a day I cant belive how fast it is. I am glad to see most of you have looked at it as a replacemet for safari. IE just is a nightmare and with microsoft no longer giving support or updates it is just taking up space on the computer. Shirra I think will give Firefox

Re: Shiira

2006-01-31 Thread Steve Peckey
PS For those of you who have older ibooks clam, snow this works great And for Tmb- open source software provides the code for the software that can be improved on by its users as well as not restricting free distribution for the software. I think for the Mac user open source developers is by far

Re: Shiira

2006-01-31 Thread Larry Sica
On 1/31/06, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31/01/06 10:28, TmB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So far faster than safari on many web pages but slower than Camino on my 867 PB like it so far, my two cents but what does open source mean? It means that it's free, that anybody can

Best Wireless Solution for Pismo?

2006-01-31 Thread mginn5
Anyone have an idea of the best solution to update a G3 500 Pismo with wireless capabilities? -- MacManMark [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Re: Best Wireless Solution for Pismo?

2006-01-31 Thread phoenix
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Anyone have an idea of the best solution to update a G3 500 Pismo with wireless capabilities? Old fashioned plain ol' dull boring Airport card. Works great in mine. A.J. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Best Wireless Solution for Pismo?

2006-01-31 Thread Michael A. Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have an idea of the best solution to update a G3 500 Pismo with wireless capabilities? -- MacManMark [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can confirm that the current version of the Linksys wpc54gs card works fine with the Airport software, no additional drivers

Hi! (and Pismo DVD-ROM issue)

2006-01-31 Thread Scott Lawrence
Hi all. I just joined. I recently came into posession of a broken G3 Powerbook Pismo. It seemed relatively complete (no hard drive, no keyboard, no psu, but cpu, ram, dvd-rom, battery). I borrowed a 3400 from work, and tried out the pismo with it, but nothing. I completely

Re: Best Wireless Solution for Pismo?

2006-01-31 Thread Caleb Cupples
I can confirm that the current version of the Linksys wpc54gs card works fine with the Airport software, no additional drivers required. Version 1 of wpc54g card also works fine but the Version 2 card does not as it does not have the Broadcom chipset in it. Also on the list of good cards is

further Lombard HD question

2006-01-31 Thread Dean A. Arnold
Okay, We've established that all HD's are dodgy in terms of quality. Now back to the tech end of things. I read in LEM that the HD for a Lombard must be ATA-5. Does that preclude the use of an ATA-6 drive or is that protocol backwards compatible. I'd prefer to hear from folks that have

Re: Hi! (and Pismo DVD-ROM issue)

2006-01-31 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
I just finally found my 10.4 DVD-R, and was about to install that over 10.2, to find out that for some reason, the DVD-ROM drive (the stock apple one) doesn't seem to read DVD-R discs... or at least, it doesn't read DVD-R discs that I've burnt. Is this a common problem, or am I doing

Re: Hi! (and Pismo DVD-ROM issue)

2006-01-31 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:44 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: I just finally found my 10.4 DVD-R, and was about to install that over 10.2, to find out that for some reason, the DVD-ROM drive (the stock apple one) doesn't seem to read DVD-R discs... or at least, it doesn't read DVD-R discs that I've

Re: Hi! (and Pismo DVD-ROM issue)

2006-01-31 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
DVD drive failure is common for the LG model DVD drives used in Pismos. Is there any way to repair it? Or should I just toss the drive and buy a new one? I tend to replace the mechanism, never tried to repair them. -- Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic

Re: Hi! (and Pismo DVD-ROM issue)

2006-01-31 Thread Tom and Lisa Peters
Hi all. I just joined. I recently came into posession of a broken G3 Powerbook Pismo. It seemed relatively complete (no hard drive, no keyboard, no psu, but cpu, ram, dvd-rom, battery). I borrowed a 3400 from work, and tried out the pismo with it, but nothing. I completely disassembled

Re: Hi! (and Pismo DVD-ROM issue)

2006-01-31 Thread James Sanderson
On 31 Jan 2006, at 16:44, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: DVD drive failure is common for the LG model DVD drives used in Pismos. I get many enquiries for replacement DVD drives, and often they show the symptom of reading CDs but not DVDs or vice versa. How do you know the LG model from any