You can't use any model that supports 802.11g and put it into monitor
mode currently. If you want a good USB wireless sniffer device, try
hunting down an old DWL-122 USB 802.11b. They tend to be a bit more
expensive (30$), but are worth it.
On Jul 20, 2005, at 12:14 AM, Brian McEwen wrote:
Well, I think what we need to remember is that our key vulnerabilities are
in available services. Those that don't run services are pretty much OK.
However, each service is only as secure as the developers make it
(apache/sshd have had problems in the past), and Apple does lag behind by
about a
Here is the weird thing... I have seen the key problem (which exists on
pretty much every Apple laptop between 1999 through the last couple years),
I have seen an airport antenna sliced, but haven't seen the video chip
unseating. Of course, it seems like the flaw for the video chip occurred in
rev
Heck, I did a little work on a /Lombard/ in Final Cut. Of course I had a
more powerful render machine, and simply used lo-res footage (320x240 MJPEG)
for the editing process, and reattached to the clean footage on the render
machine for the final render. I wasn't using the Xi, although the
Well, the part will be hard to find on places like eBay, and pbparts.com
doesn't even have anything that new listed yet. They have the 800Mhz logic
board for about 650$, which means that the price being quoted by Apple is
pretty close to what the part would cost through repair shops that will sell
The Pismo is better, hands down. It has the faster bus speed, and a
properly supported video card (mostly, it has a couple OpenGL glitches
with large textures, but those are from fairly new apps that are written
to ignore older cards like the Rage 128). Those two alone make it
worthwhile to
On Oct 12, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: Steve Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/virtualpc.aspx?
pid=whichver
I'm sure it will run Linux just fine.
Are you seriously telling me that you think M$ will sell a version of
VPC that will allow
and pain.
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the Sony CRX820E DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive in both a Lombard and
a Pismo. It is also the a model of drive used in the 2002 iBook, so it
supports burning in Toast, iTunes, etc...
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a
restart, then the fault is in Software Update on OS 9, as it downloaded
something with a bad checksum.
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an idea of exactly what you did from
the point you got the Software Update dialog, to the point where the
ROM flash progress bar started.
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On Sep 5, 2004, at 10:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/5/04 12:32:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now that is some
.
To be blunt the processor is not repairable without seeing if Apple
themselves are willing to fix a bad ROM flash, and they might charge
you more than it would cost to grab a 400Mhz processor.
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On Sep 3, 2004, at 5:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 9/3/04 5:31
light on your problem.
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using it on a Pismo with no
problems. Boots from CDs/DVDs, burns without problems, and the only
complaint is that the bezel doesn't match up at all. Doesn't matter
that much to me though.
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(after being problem free for a year after buying it
used) as you are describing which I could only see as processor cache
related. I never got the chance to actually see the later stages of the
failure myself, because the screen cracked and I have been using
another laptop since.
Regards,
Adam
that also decided
to go
south in the last few weeks.
Apple uses the CRX820E in the 2002 model iBooks, so it is a nice safe
bet to go with. No real need to thank me, as I pulled my information
from xlr8yourmac.com and their reader reports.
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your only option
if you have a firewire port on the iBook.
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HDI-SCSI adapter in free as it only cost me 2$ new. :)
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for my 8600, which still beats out the Rage 128 Mobility
in the Pismo), so the quality of anything 16-bit isn't great, but you
need 16-bit to get video speed from it. The firewire is a plus too.
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On Aug 6, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:
Adam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Making the installation, not much time, recovering your settings?
Tedious.
No, I can save my settings ina backup, make a fresh install and get
back
my settings along with all my files. No problem. Copying the system
that there isn't
really anything truly different in the OS installs, not even on some
hidden level, as I have mucked with the install CDs and installed OSes
on a couple different machines and could find no difference. Even the
kernel was 100% identical.
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are swapping out the internal drive.
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On Aug 3, 2004, at 8:20 PM, Alejandro wrote:
Well, The MOST important thing here is that you have a
working PowerBook and not is someone is right or not.
I'm glad I helped you.
Very true. My downtime was at a minimum (had to wait until the 3rd for
RAM so I could use OS X, but beyond that my
under 10.3.4 and enjoying it. The
tip given by Alejandro allowed me to reset the motherboard and get it
started. More RAM got me into OS X and boy is it night and day between
the Lombard and Pismo. :)
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board has magical powers to
prevent a boot from a battery, which doesn't seem entirely likely.
What I am trying to do here is figure out if it is the Logic Board,
Processor card, or battery board that could cause a completely cold,
dead, lifeless Pismo. It is as if it is a door-stop.
Regards,
Adam
I helped attempt to troubleshoot a Pismo awhile back, and while we
couldn't find the cause immediately, I have been offered the system.
This means that I would have a shot to resurrect it. I personally have
eliminated most possibilities (other than complete system failure)
except two:
This is precisely why, actually. Steve Jobs said that MacOS X would
'last us' through the decade at least, which is why it has been 10.x.x
for 5 years now. Another way to look at it is this:
MacOS x.y.z
x - Major Version Number - Represents a whole new core for the OS.
y - Minor Version Number
on the main partition, but on others. Saves me the headache of
having to muck with the partitions and simply do backups when needed.
Regards,
Adam Thayer
On Jul 6, 2004, at 4:23 AM, Mikael Byström wrote:
Did you guys see this one?
I've worked out a work-around for the 8GB limit for system
, and found the cause? I am
starting to get really annoyed attempting to do compile work for people
on this laptop and having to restart every few files or so.
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similar lock-ups under 10.3.3?
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They will work better in Classic, and I would go with MacOS X 10.3,
personally. You have to purchase one of them, and it might as well be
the newest. 10.3 runs very well on my Lombard 333, with Photoshop 7
running well natively. I used Office 98 a few times, and it feels
almost as snappy as
Officially, the bottom slot can take a 128 low-profile DIMM and the
upper slot can take a 256. Unofficially, many people have put 256MB
low-profile DIMMs in the lower slot for a total of 512MB RAM. OWC seems
to be a good source for this because of the lifetime warranty and
guarantee that they
Sorry, the Volume Wrapper is actually an HFS+ specific thing. The
Volume Wrapper is a chunk of HFS information to allow the ROMs in older
machines to properly boot an HFS+ drive, since this wrapper is part of
the HFS+ specification, all HFS+ partitions have it. The significance
could be large
Yet, the damage doesn't need to come from bad formatting... the data
can corrupt just like any other file on the disk, as it is accessed and
changed by OS X periodically.
On Sep 20, 2003, at 12:17 PM, Hamlin Krewson wrote:
On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 11:52 AM, Adam Thayer wrote:
Sorry
Sorry, but at this point the only option is an expensive one. Drive
Savers can recover data from a drive like this (as long as you aren't
writing data to the disk!!!)... but they charge a very hefty fee to do
so, as they use clean rooms, special equipment and take your drive
apart to read the
Yeah, because the drive was erased, software will not restore it... but
erasing the drive usually does not do anything to the actual files. It
just destroys the directory listing where the files are on the drive.
Drive Savers can scour the entire drive for erased files, but it takes
time and
Well, if you are running OS X 10.2.x, I recommend the OWC
802.11g/802.11b card for 50$. Their stuff is cheap and I haven't had a
problem with their stuff.
On Sep 16, 2003, at 6:43 PM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:
It has to use a non-Apple wireless card, because the Apple AirPort
card
doesn't have an
On Sep 14, 2003, at 3:02 PM, Jim Eddy wrote:
On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 01:06 AM, Adam Thayer wrote:
I recently got a used Lombard, and although everything seems in great
shape, I am noticing some odd behavior with the trackpad button.
It occasionally gets stiff in certain areas
, at 07:44 PM, Adam Thayer wrote:
The Lombard has a rubber bumper on the trackpad button that makes it
feel quite stiff--there is no audible or tactile click with this
model. If the bumper is dislodged it makes dragging difficult and
makes clicking a hit or miss affair. Fixing involves about
On Sep 12, 2003, at 11:31 PM, Gary E Davis wrote:
Hey all
I need help.. I'm trying to go wireless in my home but can't find
anything about going wireless with my wallstreet? Which PCMCIA card is
best to use? And which Cable router would you recommend?
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... It
uses QT for the MPEG-1 encoding which is really slow and gives awful
quality compared to a semi-tuned ffmpegx encode. I do most of my
encodes on a G4/400 upgraded 8600 to get 30+ minutes of video encoded
into MPEG-4, MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 in under 2 hours.
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On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 12:04 AM, James G (Jim) Hardwick wrote:
20030908
As I was researching my recent problems with burning CDs, I came
across info
on how to burn multi session CDs without having to use Toast or some
other
third party software.
Ummm...is it possible under OS 9?
On Monday, September 8, 2003, at 04:51 AM, Ron van Veen wrote:
Be sure it is a DVD-R (Not a DVD+R), otherwise iDVD does not
recognise the drive.
When it is a DVD-R it should work fine. Maybe you need special drivers
for it.
Ron
I don't see any reason why you would not be able to make it work
Just a quick Q for you Lombard and Wallstreet users which sets of
video drivers are you guys using for OS 9, and how is the video quality?
(The Oct 2002 drivers from ATi seem to have these glitches... I set my
monitor to Millions, but it looks like it is still dithering down to
Thousands
Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work on
G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines.
I would love to hear from anyone who would like to try this on a
Lombard or Wallstreet that has a G4 in it.
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On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Tom Peterson wrote:
-Original Message-
From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam
Thayer
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:31 PM
To: G-Books
Subject: Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)
Hmm, I also forgot to mention
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 08:57 AM, Adam Thayer wrote:
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 02:22 AM, Tom Peterson wrote:
-Original Message-
From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam
Thayer
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:31 PM
To: G-Books
Subject: Re: DVD in OS X
This is my first post to the G-Books list, so I figured I might as well
contribute some interesting information to the list... how to use
Apple's DVD player in OS X with a Lombard (With a string attached!).
Now before you get your hopes up, there is a catch: You must be using a
G4 upgrade in
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