Re: Real computers

2005-12-07 Thread Aaron Willems
, Viruses, and Spyware, because it kept them employed. Too Funny. -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator Lieberman Productions From: david [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 16:39:04 -0500 To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Subject: Re: Real

Re: Macs and eBay

2005-12-04 Thread Aaron Willems
I'm also in the IT field and all my Macs and PCs at the office have Firefox installed. Whenever I have a problem with Safari I just load up Firefox, and I'm good to go. Cheers. Aaron Willems IT Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television On Dec 4, 2005, at 11:37 AM, Harry

Re: external monitor on iBook

2005-06-20 Thread Aaron Willems
the same thing. If you want your external monitor to support higher resolutions, and be treated as separate device, you need to get a PowerBook. Hope that makes since. -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator Hi. I finally got my best friend to switch and she wants to buy an iBook but she wants

Re: Tiger without Appletalk issues

2005-06-17 Thread Aaron Willems
of Mac OS 9. See KB 106461. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106461#sec4 A solution for Mac OS 7 and 8 is Shareway IP. http://www.opendoor.com/shareway/ -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator Lieberman Productions -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Fax programs for Tiger

2005-06-17 Thread Aaron Willems
There's a Fax program built in Tiger. Select the Apple Menu and scroll down to System Preference. open it. Select Print Fax. In there you can set up your computer to send and receive faxes. Requires you have an analog line and printer. -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator Lieberman Productions

Re: Is Apple really moving to x86 architechture?!

2005-06-12 Thread Aaron Willems
Who cares if PowerPC is slower than Intel. Business Cares. You can't stay in business if the compitiation is ahead of you. No matter how you feel this is the best move Apple could make. There's nothing you can do about it, so it would be best to move on. Besides your still going to be able to

Re: Is Apple really moving to x86 architechture?!

2005-06-11 Thread Aaron Willems
and other PC venders on price. It may not be the world's best processor, but it's hard to tell someone that an iBook running at 1.33 GHz for $1199 is better than a Dell Notebook running at 2 GHz or faster for $799 is better. Do the math, Apple made the right move. Aaron Willems On Sat, 11 Jun 2005

Re: WMP won't play on 10.4

2005-05-13 Thread Aaron Willems
Check out the Tiger Compatibility list from Macintouch. http://www.macintouch.com/tigerreview/incompatibility.html -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator Lieberman Productions on 13/05/05 07:41, Andre Balogh at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since I upgraded to OS X 10.4 WMP will not run. Any

Re: Doesn't anyone wait anymore?!

2005-05-04 Thread Aaron Willems
a matter of perspective. http://www.macintouch.com/tigerreview/incompatibility.html Cheers. -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator Lieberman Productions From: Amber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 12:46:34 -0700 To: G-Books G-Books

Re: Tiger Release

2005-04-13 Thread Aaron Willems
I'm going to order mine with iLife 05 and iWork 05. You get all 3 for $250. A savings of $50 dollars. -- Aaron Willems I ordered the Family Pack. It'll be here by April 29, hope everybody orders theirs soon too. Tim -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Tiger Release

2005-04-13 Thread Aaron Willems
If you look at the Upgrade chart from Apple, I don't see the Pismo. You might be out of luck. http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.html -- Aaron Willems I heard that Tiger will NOT install on G3/Pismo's even tho they have the required: G3+, built-in Firewire. Apple does not list

Re: Recording records/tapes (thanks)

2005-04-07 Thread Aaron Willems
I second that. Technics 1200 turntables are a must. -- Aaron Willems I would never digitize vinyl with an iMic! It's inferior sound quality. Do you guy hate music or what? Cheeezh! 24 bit / 96Khz is minimum standards these days for recording and is only a few hundred dollars, less

Re: Recording records/tapes

2005-04-06 Thread Aaron Willems
Mixer Board. I then use Peak and SoundSoap Pro to clean up the audio. From there I use Jam to master the CD's. This is on the high end of what your probably looking for, so other people on the list I'm sure will have a cheaper solution. Regards, Aaron Willems Hi, I was wondering if anyone had any

Re: ibook

2005-03-25 Thread Aaron Willems
would void your Apple warranty. Apple turns this feature off on purpose to separate it from the PowerBook. -- Aaron Willems From: victoria.duggan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:06:46 + To: G-Books G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-25 Thread Aaron Willems
, and would have been a burden to take back to the Apple Store. So a technician came out to my apartment. He fixed my new G5 in 30 min. None of this would have happened if I hadn't had AppleCare. There are always two sides to a coin. Regards, Aaron Willems Sorry to be bearer of bad news

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-25 Thread Aaron Willems
You know something, I might get some slack from the List Nanny, but I have to say it. What are you doing on this list? You sound like a PC user, who's feels obligated to join a Mac group, to start up something. I believe they have a name for that. It's called a troll. Aaron For what it costs

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-25 Thread Aaron Willems
Well Spoken. I'll leave it at that. Peace. Aaron The reason I came to this site is I am going to hot-rod these machines. Why? For the same reason someone hot-rods cars, because I want to. I don't want to buy a new Porshe, I want to hot-rod my old Corvette. Yes, they are out-dated, yes,

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-24 Thread Aaron Willems
My 12 PowerBook has been in the shop for over a week. They told me before I checked it in, that they were backordered on parts. They quoted 2 weeks. It seems the whole system is back ordered for parts. So I'm sure your not the only one suffering. Hang in there. Aaron On Mon, 24 Jan 2005

Re: Airport Extreme (was To iBook or AlBook, that is the question

2005-01-19 Thread Aaron Willems
No issues with the Distance. But I'll tell you what happened on my Home Network. I have Comcast cable. When I had it plugged into a Snow Base Station, I only got about a 187 kps download speed. When I upgraded to Airport Extreme, my download speeds jumped to 378 kps. I have a 17 PowerBook with an

Re: Airport Extreme (was To iBook or AlBook, that is the question

2005-01-19 Thread Aaron Willems
Technically your right. It should make no difference. All I can tell you, is that both base stations were in the same spot, and I was only 12 feet away right from the base distance, direct sight, no wall interference. I can't explain it, but I'm much happier now. Aaron Hmm, na.. You had 187

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-15 Thread Aaron Willems
These things happen. I send my PowerMac G5 to the Apple Store a week ago. I was told that the holiday repairs were still being processed, and that I might have to wait a week or more. Hang in there. I know how you feel. Aaron Willems On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 21:34:05 -0800 Kyle Hansen [EMAIL

Re: new ipod shuffe and 867 PB

2005-01-12 Thread Aaron Willems
You can use old USB, it will just be slow. The other option is to purchase a USB 2.0 PCM card for your PCM slot. Regards, Aaron hey guys my daughter and I have older powerbooks and were wondering since we do not have usb 2.0, can we still use the new shuffle or would it be too slow in

Re: OT-trouble with webpages loading

2005-01-06 Thread Aaron Willems
There's no way your going to get a shinny new G5 for cheap. But you could get a slightly used one on eBay. I saw an ad today, for a Dual 1.8 G5. The person needs to sell it ASAP. Might be able grab it for a reasonably price. Aaron Anyone know where I can get a shiny new G5 cheep! Dean

Re: Printing problems - OS X - router - HP LJ ???

2005-01-05 Thread Aaron Willems
Might be a Postscript error. I have various HP printers here at the office. The issue you described happened a lot when we first moved to OS X. I traced the problem to a Postscript font that we carried over from OS 9. Once I got a new version of the font, the problem went away. Might be worth

Re: Touchup paint for the Ti-book

2005-01-05 Thread Aaron Willems
Your welcome. The touch up kits looks nice. I have a few Ti Bks here at the office that could use it. On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 15:03:55 -0800, Aaron Willems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Dan, A simple search on Goggle reveals this. Check it out. http://www.welovemacs.com/0155044349.html

Re: Touchup paint for the Ti-book

2005-01-04 Thread Aaron Willems
Hey Dan, A simple search on Goggle reveals this. Check it out. http://www.welovemacs.com/0155044349.html -- Aaron Willems Hi list- I was wondering if anyone has experience using the touch up paint for the Ti-book chipping syndrome. I just purchased the paint and before I use it I would

Re: Apple menu additions

2005-01-03 Thread Aaron Willems
You can't modify the Apple Menu in OS X. That's what the dock is for. You can however spend some money and purchase a program called Fruitmenu. This program will allow you modify the Apple Menu. -- Aaron Willems Is it possible to add an alias or other items to the Apple menu in OS 10.2.3

Re: Apple Mail

2004-12-24 Thread Aaron Willems
stragglers. I'll leave it at that. Happy Holidays. Take Care. Aaron Willems http://www.macmanifest.com So if you are in a position of controlling over a 100 Macs, which I honestly respect, get Apple on the phone, tell them the problems, maybe they have a solution you have not thought of. Your a player

Re: Transfer of saved e-mails/recommended e-mail app?

2004-12-21 Thread Aaron Willems
and the Address book into Mail to make it a competitive application. Regards, -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator I personally love Entourage. Mail is lacking some very important features. Like the ability to read a thread and after deleting having it go on to the next message without opening a new

Re: Transfer of saved e-mails/recommended e-mail app?

2004-12-21 Thread Aaron Willems
for a large company, with lots of clients, compatibility is a must. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Ph acy Information Technology Group Regards, Aaron Willems IT Administrator -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: Applecare for PowerBooks

2004-12-17 Thread Aaron Willems
PowerBooks. If you PowerBook is in good condition, and you know you can keep it that way, then by all means purchase it. Having the hardware covered under warranty is always a plus. If you don't think that's going to happen, then you might want to pass. Regards, -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator

Re: OS X first timer - blank password

2004-12-03 Thread Aaron Willems
. -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boot off of the install disk and you can set/change the password. Doesn't say much for the security of OS X... Larry -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Aluminum and Alzheimer's

2004-12-02 Thread Aaron Willems
I can't believe you wrote this. Might as well stop using deodorant if your that paranoid. Did you know that Aluminum is an active ingredient of Right Guard? lol. -- Aaron Willems IT Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television Is there the possibility of absorbing aluminum through

Re: Default Application in OS X Panther

2004-11-17 Thread Aaron Willems
. Click that button and it will change Microsoft Word to the default application. Regards, -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television Hello. I have Microsoft Office 2004 and Nisus Express 2.1. Recently I upgraded my Nisus to the newest version (very nice

Re: Dead drive -- thanks for the helpful response

2004-09-14 Thread Aaron Willems
Don't sweat it. My first G4 had a DVD drive that failed after 4 weeks. These things happen. -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television For those who responded about what a great deal AppleCare seems now that the horse is out of the barn door, allow me to say

Re: Cant Delete A File

2004-08-12 Thread Aaron Willems
, and then use the rm command to delete the file. Regards, -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television I was downloading RealPlayer and my connection was interrupted. Now I have an incomplete file on my desktop that I would like to trash. When I try to trash it I am told

Re: DW or TTP? fork from Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-11 Thread Aaron Willems
with your AppleCare package. Regards, -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television The quote below raises the query: Which should I buy? Which is better, DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro? Are there price breaks for those that purchase one and want to try the other

Re: DW or TTP? fork from Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-11 Thread Aaron Willems
of Virex and a one year subscription to versiontracker.com. Might not be a bad deal, if your considering running anti-virus software on your Mac. Regards, -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television Aaron, may I borrow some more of your expertise? What would you

Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-10 Thread Aaron Willems
You have to purchase 10.3, Panther, in order this run this update. Aaron Since we are on the subject(somewhat,)can I update from 10.1.5 directly to panther? Or do I have to have Jaguar first? Michael -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-10 Thread Aaron Willems
That's fine. -- Aaron Willems My boot CD is only 10.3. Is this going to be a problem? Z THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-10 Thread Aaron Willems
It's standard policy. Whenever there is an OS update, you should always run disk permissions before you install the update. -- Aaron Willems Hi, how and why is this upgrade different from the others that we must do these procedures before the update? Thanks, Jim. On Aug 9, 2004, at 5:19 PM

Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-10 Thread Aaron Willems
Nothing. Most people, don't feel comfortable using the command line. So my policy, is to avoid it. -- Aaron Willems What is the difference between running repair permissions in the command line and using disk utility to run it?? Pat -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-10 Thread Aaron Willems
I disagree. You should read Macfixit more often. Many people have problems after installing an OS X update. Better to be safe than sorry. By the way, the advice I gave comes straight from MACFIXIT. -- Aaron Willems OSX isn't that fragile...heck *Windows* isn't that fragile! -- G-Books

OS 10.3.5

2004-08-09 Thread Aaron Willems
you install the update, be sure to boot off the CD one more time, and run disk permissions once again. By following this simple advice, you can avoid most major catastrophes. Regards -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television -- G-Books is sponsored

Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-09 Thread Aaron Willems
Excellent advice. For those people who don't feel comfortable in using the terminal, following my advice will work just fine. -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions Philo Television One could do this from the command line like so: sudo diskutil repairPermissions

Re: Has Everybody heard? Steve Jobs is doing fine in hospital!

2004-08-02 Thread Aaron Willems
Yes, I saw it last night on the news. I'm sending my prayers his way for a fast recovery. -- Aaron Willems Latest news on Steve Jobs: I know this is off topic, but is it? This is afterall, Steve's Universe. Anyway, he had a rare form of cancer which he is recovering from

Re: How do you manually import bookmarks (favorites) into Safari?!

2004-07-06 Thread Aaron Willems
/Utilities/). 4. Type this in the Terminal. defaults delete com.apple.SafariNetscapeAndMozillaFavoritesWereImported 5. Press Return. 6. Type this in the terminal. defaults delete com.apple.Safari IEFavoritesWereImported 7. Press Return. 8. Quit Terminal. 9. Open Safari. -- Aaron Willems Once again

Re: Dual Boot MDD ??? (was:Apple Still Sells OS 9 Bootable G4s ( was: Can OS 9

2004-07-02 Thread Aaron Willems
I believe it can boot OS 9, but you have to install OS 9 from the original Restore CD that came with the computer. I don't believe you can install OS 9 from an OS 9 install CD. That's a shame they lost the CD. -- Aaron Willems Can this Mac boot into OS 9 ? Larry -- G-Books

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Aaron Willems
, and you select customize, you will see the option to install classic. Just remember all new machines only boot into OS X. I hope you are not under the impression that by installing classic on your new G5's, that you will able to boot into OS 9. Those days are gone. Regards, Aaron Willems -- G

Re: Can OS 9 be installed?

2004-06-28 Thread Aaron Willems
NO, when you install classic, you install a full version of OS 9. So as long as you have your software restore CD's, your good to go. And, yes Classic (OS 9) is an emulator under OS X, just like Virtual PC. -- Aaron Willems I'm confused though. I thought Classic could only be invoked if a full

Re: .wmv viewing?

2004-06-23 Thread Aaron Willems
://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=downloadlocation=/mac/downl oad/misc/windowsmediaplayer.xmlsecid=80ssid=4flgnosysreq=False -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions/Philo Television 455 9th Street San Francisco, Ca 94103 415-955-0855 [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Jim Katz

Re: Tutorials for learning Unix on OS X?

2004-06-23 Thread Aaron Willems
-Stocker and Kynn Barlett. To get an idea of some of the reading, check out this link. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/07/02/terminal_5.html Hope that helps. -- Aaron Willems Does anyone know of good beginner's tutorials (websites, books) for using Unix on the Mac. In particular I'd

Re: Transfer Bookmarks IE on G4 iBook???

2004-06-22 Thread Aaron Willems
on your iBook then place it under System Folder/Preferences. Regards, -- Aaron Willems Subject: Transfer Bookmarks IE on G4 iBook??? How can I transfer my old bookmarks from Internet Explorer 5.0.6 on my PowerMac 7300/500 to my G4 iBook (Internet Explorer 5.2)? -- G-Books is sponsored

Re: OS 10.3.4

2004-06-08 Thread Aaron Willems
do this, I avoid problems 99.99% of the time. My advice would be to boot off the CD, and do the same thing. Then reinstall the full 10.3.4 update. Regards, -- Aaron Willems Anyone having issues with OS 10.3.4? My TiBook 800 DVI (768MB RAM) was running happily with 10.3.3 but after I recently

Re: dead Pismo

2004-06-01 Thread Aaron Willems
that, they started up without incident. Might be worth trying. Regards, -- Aaron Willems On Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at 01:15 AM, Bob wrote: If it were me, I would try to reset the Power Management Unit (PMU). Go here to get specific instructions on how to do it for just about any portable: http

Re: Snow ABS specs

2004-05-26 Thread Aaron Willems
Bob. This one is tricky, check the URL below from Apple. It's the Snow one, Dual Ethernet. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106595 You can download the Manual PDF, it's labeled 034-1017. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50053 Regards, -- Aaron Willems I am

Re: Pismo Hard drive problems

2004-05-12 Thread Aaron Willems
your hard drive so you can back up your data before installing a new hard drive. Regards,. -- Aaron Willems Ok, I have a 500mhz Pismo. All has been fine, I tried to start it up, but all I get is click, click, click from the drive. It has a 48 gig Travelstar in it. After the clicking

Re: Microsoft on the Mac

2004-04-30 Thread Aaron Willems
want to start there with your crashing problems. Cheers, -- Aaron Willems Network Administrator Lieberman Productions From: Jim Scolman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 06:24:15 -0700 To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Micro$oft on the Mac