Lexmark 6170 all-in-one on Mac

2005-04-18 Thread Barton Brown
Last year, after reading a couple reviews in Mac publications and Lexmark's promo literature, I got Such A Deal from BJ's that I bought a Lexmark 6170 printer/fax/copier/scanner/Bass-O-Matic... only to find when I got the pig home that there were no Mac drivers -- OS X or otherwise -- and both

Re: Here's a fairly dumb question...

2005-04-18 Thread Barton Brown
H... don't know how they got there, but I have FAXstf for OS 9.x AND FAXstf X in my Applications folder. Another mystery... Bart On Apr 18, 2005, at 8:47 AM, KxUx wrote: Opps. Did I imply that FAXstf is in the system? That is not the case. Apple delivers fax functionality in the system, but

Re: Here's a fairly dumb question...

2005-04-18 Thread Barton Brown
So, as I just found out after about a year-and-a-half, did mine! Doh! Thanks for the heads-up. Has anyone used FAXstf X in a one-line situation? What I'm looking for specifically is this: If the phone rings, and FAXstf picks it up after x rings and there's no modem tone, will it automatically

Re: replacing optical drive in G4 iBook?

2005-04-18 Thread Barton Brown
Avail yourself of the best deal in the world for replacing SuperDrives (and lots of other stuff: HDs, LCDs, etc.). Go to PowerBookResQ (part of MacResQ): http://www.powerbookresq.com/ and check out this, and many other, deals: PowerBookResQ 8x Dual-Layer SuperDrive 24 Hour Nationwide Full

Just a heads up...

2005-04-18 Thread Barton Brown
It was announced yesterday that the wienie phrase information superhighway has been dropped from the latest edition of the OED, and NOT before its time. Let us not lament its passing. Bart -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Here's a fairly dumb question...

2005-04-17 Thread Barton Brown
I have a PBG4 17 Aluminum, OS X 10.3.8. At my shop, I'm connected to the web by DSL (at home, by Airport to Cable Modem). Can I connect a phone line to the phone jack on the back of the PB, and send and receive e-faxes? I want to get rid of my huge, miserable, and non-Mac-compliant (though

Re: Here's a fairly dumb question...

2005-04-17 Thread Barton Brown
Thanks for the info -- I didn't even know Apple bundled FAXstf with OS X, and I've been using OS X since first release... guess you gotta look for these things! Have any problems *receiving* faxes? My problem is my shop has ONE phone line, but I think I can remember how to set the answer on x

Dead drive -- thanks for the helpful response

2004-09-14 Thread Barton Brown
For those who responded by asking what are you talking about, to my request for help concerning my defunct SuperDrive, may I humbly suggest that if you'd read my original post, instead of the snippets people quoted, you might have divined that I was talking about the SuperDrive in my PowerBook

Dead superdrive -- Oh, BTW...

2004-09-14 Thread Barton Brown
...my special thanks to the helpful gent who accused me of stupidity: Oh I am sorry that is for the 4X UJ-825 you want the slower UJ-815 which is $15 more from the same source. I'm looking for a solution to my problem, not necessarily a UJ-815, and certainly not a critique of my intelligence.

Re: Dead superdrive -- Oh, BTW...

2004-09-14 Thread Barton Brown
On Tuesday, September 14, 2004, at 03:40 PM, G-Books wrote: I'd say your chances of getting *anyone* to respond to future requests have gone down dramatically. Considering the quality of some of these responses and the attitudes those responses reflect, that eventuality is not necessarily an

Re: Designated Drivel on Dead Drives

2004-09-14 Thread Barton Brown
Clark and Mikael, you fellows have really hurt my feelings. I believe you owe me a big apology and a sloppy wet kiss. Your public and private excoriation will almost certainly cost me the G-Spot Popularity Contest. I know you're both among the the respectable number of knowledgeable people (or

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2004-09-11 Thread Barton Brown
I hope someone can help me. I have a just-over-one-year-old (of course) 17 G4 PowerBook with a SuperDrive. After a year of working flawlessly, reading and burning all brands of CD and DVD, yesterday I went to put in a blank CD to backup some data with Toast, and got an unhappy surprise: the