Re: Rules

2006-02-04 Thread Bill Williams
In G-Books Digest #2675, the person identified as Tim Collier [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully said: Please don't attribute the first statement to me. I did not make it. Fine, I give in! I'll 'attempt' to bottom post out of courtesy to the rest of you. I don't like it, but I like this

Re: Cable internet and Macs

2005-12-31 Thread Bill Williams
In G-Books Digest #2610, the person identified as Caleb Cupples [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully said: I'm finally taking the jump and going to broadband internet access, but I'm wondering if anyone has had any problems with the cable monkeys looking at a Mac like it's a Pandora's Box or not.

Re: Firewall

2005-12-28 Thread Bill Williams
The person identified as Michael Levin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully said: Last week, we installed a wireless router for our Power Book (OS 10.4) and Windows XP. We would like to put in a firewall. Is there software that is recommended or should be avoided? Is there anything to keep in

Re: Reminder about static electricity

2005-11-30 Thread Bill Briggs
At 6:49 PM -0600 11/30/05, Howard Katz wrote: I'd have no qualms about that, but the adapters I've seen, both the Apple-supplied one and the replacements on the market only have 2 prongs. :) True of older models, but my new PowerBook (purchased in July of this year) has a genuine case ground.

Re: AVI files

2005-09-21 Thread Bill Briggs
At 1:24 PM -0700 9/21/05, Dylan McDermond wrote: On Sep 20, 2005, at 12:41 PM, Bill Briggs wrote: If you find and download version 5.1.1 of DivX it will work with QuickTime 7 and Tiger. There is a bug in 5.2. I know version 5.1.1 is still available out there as I directed someone

Re: AVI files

2005-09-20 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:48 PM -0700 9/20/05, Robert Eye wrote: Bill, The DivX site Bruce links to, below, shows 5.1.1 as an available download option, but it says it's for Mac OS 9. What's a body to do? :-) It's carbonized to run on OS 8.6 through OS X. I've got 5.1.1 running on Tiger 10.4.2 and it works fine

Re: upgrading my wallstreet

2005-08-31 Thread Bill Briggs
At 10:39 AM -0700 8/29/05, david wrote: i've been meaning to fix my 250 wallstreet for some time now, i've got the sound card/power supply part to replace, i'm getting more ram to install (2 x 256), and now i'm thinking... is it worth it to buy one of those sonnet crescendo upgrades? owc lists

Re: pleasant surprise after upgrading to Tiger

2005-08-28 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:58 PM -0500 8/27/05, Claire Hart wrote: Has anyone else noticed a better wireless connection from your Airport Extreme after upgrading to Tiger? In terms of the graphic showing more bars lit, yes. But the signal itself is unchanged. The places where I lost my signal around the house

Re: Partitioning and formatting

2005-08-14 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:42 PM -0500 8/6/05, Howard Katz wrote: Re: that 200 GB USB drive I got: I've got it reformatted, but it seems that it'll only reformat as an MS-DOS drive (186.x GB, too). I've tried it using a variety of the Mac OS choices, and it keeps failing--repair and verify both keep giving me error

Re: Partitioning and formatting

2005-08-14 Thread Bill Briggs
At 10:27 PM -0600 8/14/05, Harry Corsover wrote: On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Bill Briggs wrote: Maybe you can find someone locally who has the tools that ship with a LaCie Drive. They can certainly do the different partitions with different file systems on them. What are you using

Re: Partitioning and formatting

2005-08-04 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:36 AM -0700 8/4/05, Howard Katz wrote: I thought this would be easy, but I seem to be going in circles with this: I just got a 200 gig USB drive (I really need to find an eBay Recovery group :) ), and wanted to partition it into two partitions--one for me and the Mac, one for someone else

Re: Partitioning and formatting

2005-08-04 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:50 AM -0500 8/4/05, Howard Katz wrote: On 8/4/05, Bill Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The disk utility will let you partition internal or FireWire drives and assign whatever format you wish to each partition. Not sure if it works on USB drives or not. I have three external FireWire

Re: Utilities

2005-07-31 Thread Bill Briggs
At 3:38 PM -0600 7/30/05, Andrew Main wrote: uControl (which I use to allow trackpad scrolling; it doesn't work in 10.4 Trackpad scrolling is built into 10.4. At least on my new PowerBook. You just use two fingers instead of one and you can scroll vertically or horizontally. - web --

Re: Utilities

2005-07-29 Thread Bill Briggs
At 8:49 AM -0500 7/29/05, Howard Katz wrote: I'm new to owning a G4 powerbok (been a 5300c owner for years, but it finally died), and am in the process of tweaking my new machine, and Tiger. I'd like to get some disk utilities--I've previously owned TechTools and was going to get the OSX

Re: PC viruses on Macs with Virtual PC??? (was: real estate situation)

2005-07-14 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:15 PM -0500 7/13/05, Claire Hart wrote: I really appreciate everyone's feedback on my Macs in real estate dilemma. Having weighed all of the info, and having already purchased Virtual PC, I'm wondering at this point if I even WANT to put Virtual PC on my computer. Several people

Re: large .iso and OS X?

2005-07-09 Thread Bill Briggs
At 8:28 AM -0700 7/9/05, Bruce Johnson wrote: Now all I have to do is figure out how to move the divx to a format quicktime can handle Just get the DIVx codec and QT should handle it, at least it has in the past. There was a problem with the current version of DivX working with QuickTime

Re: real estate situation

2005-07-05 Thread Bill Briggs
At 5:00 PM -0500 7/5/05, Claire Hart wrote: He says that if he has to support my computer to keep it current and to keep it virus-free, I will have to pay additionally for his tech support. Okay, tell me why you would want to pay someone to support your Mac who by his own admission doesn't

Re: surge suppressors revisited

2005-06-23 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:06 AM -0400 6/23/05, Peter Saint James wrote: Several months ago, we discussed using or not using surge suppressors with Powerbooks, and I found out the hard way that we came to an erroneous conclusion. We concluded that the power adapter would protect the Powerbook from a

Re: surge suppressors revisited

2005-06-23 Thread Bill Briggs
At 1:11 PM -0400 6/23/05, Michael J. Amato wrote: Would a lightning rod have helped? Or is it just too much power? There's a lot of controversy about the efficacy of lightning rods, and how they work. There are two modes of operation, based on whether it's a blunt rod or a pointed one.

Re: surge suppressors revisited

2005-06-23 Thread Bill Briggs
At 2:48 PM -0700 6/23/05, Robert Gruber wrote: I understand that preachers for years refused to put them on their churches, contending that they implieda mistrust of god; it wasn't until insurance companies quit covering them without lightning rods that they all put them up. One of the local

Re: Problem with Wallstreet HD install

2005-06-22 Thread Bill Briggs
At 3:31 PM -0400 6/22/05, David Lesher wrote: At 02:53 PM 6/22/2005, you wrote: Decided today to try to get a little more life out of the old Wallstreet by putting in a new hd. I had a 30g Hitachi i bought six months ago and stuck it in. Holding down the C key I tried to boot to the 10.2 disk,

Re: Decisions, decisions... PowerMac G4 or Mac Mini?

2005-06-21 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:33 AM -0700 6/21/05, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 21, 2005, at 11:22 AM, simon goslin wrote: the final thought: i'd love a powermac g5 but i have a life outside of design and would rather spend my cash on other things such as beer, women, food and surf trips. Consider the iMac? I'd

Re: hope of Wall Street revival

2005-06-20 Thread Bill Briggs
At 8:02 AM +0900 6/21/05, Carl Freire wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 21:55:19 -0300 From: Bill Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: hope of Wall Street revival snip The screen, keyboard, plastics, all look superb, and I replaced

Re: question about PowerBook model names

2005-06-19 Thread Bill Briggs
At 3:38 PM -0700 6/19/05, Clark Martin wrote: Those are power supplies, not chargers. They do supply power to the charger IN the laptop. The same power supply is used in the 1400, 3400, Kanga (original G3), WallStreet, Lombard and Pismo and clamshell iBooks. The battery chargers were

hope of Wall Street revival

2005-06-19 Thread Bill Briggs
Hi. I may have asked this a while back - three years ago - but it's come up again. I've got a Wall Street that is in nearly perfect condition physically. It's a 13.3 inch screen model, 250 MHz G3 with gobs of RAM and a 32 Gig Travelstar drive in it. And I used it 60 hours a week for 4.5

Re: hope of Wall Street revival

2005-06-19 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:58 AM + 6/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried reseating the CPU ? Yes, I've reseated the CPU card and the RAM. You also need to remember that if you swap parts, the 250 MHz CPU (Wallstreet1) wont work on the new motherboard (Wallstreet2). Are you sure? All of these

Re: Is Apple really moving to x86 architechture?!

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Briggs
Well, there are some clues if you read enough of the fine print. I too (as a poorly paid professor of electrical engineering in a Canadian university and an Apple shareholder) would be rather annoyed if Apple actually sold x86 Macs. But there is a more interesting possibility. Back when DEC

Re - My battery doesn't seem to calibrate

2005-05-09 Thread Bill Fuller
-- Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 18:37:42 -0500 From: Frank Cornew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Doesn't anyone wait anymore?! [snipped[ My newer tech 6600 mAH battery doesn't seem to calibrate. Time remaining for full discharge/charge never gets calculated in menu bar display -

Re: Blank disks solved!

2005-03-30 Thread Bill Howard
? Cheryl Yes, indeed they are. Bill -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists

Re: adding memory to Wallstreet

2005-03-08 Thread Bill
Thanks everyone for the help w/ the Wallstreet memory install. Went in without a hitch. :-) William -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on

adding memory to Wallstreet

2005-03-07 Thread Bill
Want to take apart a Wallstreet to add some memory into the bottom slot. Is there a guide I can download, or website I can peruse to help me do this? Thanks William -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives |

Re: BELKIN USB card in a wallstreet (BUSPORT MOBILE)

2005-02-06 Thread Bill Buckhaults
Pete; I have used the Belkin USB (mod.F5U022) for over two years, and it performs well on my Wallstreet-233-96m ram-under OS 9. I am told I need OS x for the card to work on USB 2.0 peripherals. Hope this helps Bill PETE wrote: Several months ago I installed the above mentioned card in my

Re: Hrm... notice anything strange in this picture?

2004-12-18 Thread Bill Gau
Hey, the original flash presentation is available here: http://www.northerspeed.com/winxp_tour2_mobility.swf On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:59:10 -0500, Richard Smykla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, that's a G3 Powerbook they're using in the ad for WinXP. Guess Microsoft is looking for a more robust

Re: Applecare for Powerbooks

2004-12-17 Thread Bill Gau
Amber: I get AppleCare on every piece of hardware I buy and consider it essential. A matter of course. Like buying a new car: would you get one without an extended warranty? Craftsmanship on electronics is predictable, but you always have components that go bad. On my 15 Albook, I have

Pismo HD - Wallstreet HD - The same?

2004-12-17 Thread Bill Gau
Following the discussion on the Pismo HD replacement with considerable interest. I am wondering if the harddrive specs for the Pismo are the same for the Wallstreet Rev. 2 (PDQ). Someone who is in the know please let me know. Thanks. On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 09:11:03 -0700, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL

Wallstreet LCD - compatibility?

2004-12-17 Thread Bill Gau
To all: Getting ready to replace a failing LCD on a PDQ (i.e., Rev. 2, 2nd generation Wallstreet) and I am wondering if there is compatibility betw. the Lombard LCD and possibly the Pismo LCD. Same dimensions, ribbon cables, etc. Does anyone know? Just the LCD itself, not the entire lid. I

Re: Orinoco Gold and TiBook G4

2004-12-16 Thread Bill Gau
Indeed, I just went down this road yesterday. NONE of these cards are supported as per their website: ORiNOCO 11a/b/g ComboCard ORiNOCO 11b/g PC Card ORiNOCO 11b Client Gold PC Card (8420-wd) ORiNOCO 11b Client Silver PC Card (8421-wd) These are the latest cards as identified by the rounded

Re: G4 AlBook as a desktop ???

2004-12-13 Thread Bill Gau
your powerbook to detect both the external display as well as the powerbooks LCD. As far as the energy saving settings I would recommend, since you must be connected to the A/C adapter to use it in desktop mode, just set all settings to never. FWIW. Bill On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:04:35 +0100

wanted looking for DVD Decoder PCMCIA card

2004-12-13 Thread Bill Gau
To all: I have run out of time to deliver on a Christmas Present and am in need of an old DVD Decoder card (PCMCIA) for a Wallstreet (Apple model M5163). If anyone has one they want to part with, please email me off-line. Regards, Bill -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Questions about replacing a G4 Ti Logic Board

2004-12-06 Thread Bill Gau
to do. I am wondering if there are any logic boards from succesive models that will work in this Powerbook, i.e., 550/667 Logic Mother Board (non-DVI), etc. If anyone has any experience using a different Logic Board in the 1st Generation Titanium, please let me know. Regards, Bill -- G-Books

Wallstreet question

2004-12-05 Thread Bill Buckhaults
firmware,2.0.1 to continue booting the Mac os type: BYE (return) to continuebooting from the default boot device type: BOOT (return) for open firmware serial i/o type TTYA io (return) ok o 3## 3_ Can someone explain to me what all this means and what I must do? Thanks for any help. Bill -- G-Books

oops-make that OS X

2004-12-05 Thread Bill Buckhaults
to continue booting the Mac os type: BYE (return) to continuebooting from the default boot device type: BOOT (return) for open firmware serial i/o type TTYA io (return) ok o 3## 3_ Can someone explain to me what all this means and what I must do? Thanks for any help. Bill -- G-Books is sponsored by http

Re: Weird sound out of my Albook

2004-11-20 Thread Bill Gau
Hey Brian: I've got the same set up . . . typically, you may have some app or function which has an alert sound set to ting . . . perhaps when your airport re-connects? On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:50:40 -0600, Bryan Forbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I've got an 15 Aluminum Powerbook running

Questions about DVD-ROM in PDQ - HELP!

2004-10-29 Thread Bill Gau
with the PDQ? Cheap, aftermarket versions? Thanks in advance. Bill Mesa, AZ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End

Re: How to control fan on Wallstreet in OS X ?

2004-10-29 Thread Bill Buckhaults
I use Gauge PRO from Newer Tech. on OS 9. My Wallstreet is currently running 131 degrees F. Nils wrote: Good morning, Does anyone know how to control the fan in the Wallstreet? An application for either OS X or OS 9. And by 'control' I mean a program that can either turn the fan on or off. Or

Re: Superdrive took dive

2004-09-13 Thread Bill Furnback
/paslsldvuj8.html 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 just used the UJ-825 to burn a backup of this summers photos, over two gb of data to a DVD disk and checking it out it worked just fine. Bill -- G-Books is sponsored

Re: 144 buck expansion bay DVD-R/RW

2004-08-19 Thread Bill Howard
to get iDVD... Peter, Do you have a link to the Patchburn II software? Would like to use it    with my upgraded Pismo. Thank you. Bill -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our

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

2004-08-12 Thread Bill Buckhaults
Can this happen by forwarding[ by Mac] an infected attachment to a pc user?? Bill Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 11, 2004, at 5:40 PM, B Gardner wrote: I hear you but I just can't seem to justify 100.00 (per year) for a virus program and other stuff I just don't need. I would rather spend 60.00

Re: G4 Titanium and Olympus C1400L

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Buckhaults
I use a USB card reader to download pics from my Olympus to a Wallstreet OS 9.1.Unload 68 pictures in under 30 seconds. Cost 11.00. Hope this helps Bill MMB wrote: Hi: I have an Olympus C1400L digital camera which uses SmartMedia (3.3V) cards. This is an older camera but takes marvellous images

Re: Installed OS X AND 9.2.2 without discs!

2004-08-06 Thread Bill Buckhaults
Thanks Mikael.-I have never understood that process before. I appreciate the reply. Bill Mikael Byström wrote: Bill, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How do you bless a system folder and be sure you copy all files? To bless the system, take out the Finder and the System file and put them

Re: Wallstreet G3 will not accept Netscape 7.02

2004-08-03 Thread Bill Buckhaults
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 1, 2004, at 6:30 PM, Bill Buckhaults wrote: Warren; I run a Wallstreet 233-G-3 with 96 megs of ram. I use 9.04 OK but I detest Netscape 7.02 on this Book. No trouble installing it but it is bloated, slower, and crashes. If I knew how to move all my info back

Re: Wallstreet G3 will not accept Netscape 7.02

2004-08-01 Thread Bill Buckhaults
cents. Hope the info helps. Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Netscape 7.02 downloaded to my Syquest drive loads to my G3 - 233 Desktop with no problems. I am running 8.6 on both the Wallstreet and the G3 Desktop. I purchased an OS 9.04 PowerBook Install Disk which also will not install

Re: Anybody's PB's crashing when removing CD/DVD drive?

2004-07-18 Thread Bill Howard
On 7/18/04 2:01 PM, Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The original thread stated all the obvious. If nobody knows yet as to what is causing this problem, then just say so. There's no need to waste server space in this list to criticize each other. My problem happens EVERY time I remove

Re: Wallstreet Crashes

2004-06-17 Thread Bill Buckhaults
and Laurent for their response. Bill Bob wrote: The National Enquirer reports at 3:00 PM -0400 6/13/04, Bill Buckhaults wrote: My trusty Wallstreet for the past five years is now driving me nuts. It frequently crashes while surfing with Netscape Navigator 7.1, but only when I try to use bookmarks

Re: Wallstreet Crashes

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Buckhaults
Laurent; Thanks for the response. I still use same HD. Problem started shortly after I went from Netscape 4.79 to 7.0. Problem only occurs when I use bookmarks, and then not always. Bill Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 13/06/04 15:00, Bill Buckhaults at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My trusty

Re: Wallstreet Crashes

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Buckhaults
Laurent; Have trashed Netscape 7.9 and disk first aid finds no problem. Have now trashed preferences for Mac OS, Finder, and Systems. Hope to test machine tomorrow. Thanks again for your input. Bill Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 14/06/04 15:39, Bill Buckhaults [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Laurent

Re: Wallstreet Crashes

2004-06-14 Thread Bill Buckhaults
Bob ; Thanks for the reply. I trashed the System preferences, Finder preferences, and Mac OS preferences. Hope to test machine tomorrow before trashing anything more. Will advise of results. Thanks again for the assistance. Bill Bob wrote: The National Enquirer reports at 3:00 PM -0400 6/13

Wallstreet Crashes

2004-06-13 Thread Bill Buckhaults
address error. I run OS 9.1 with 96 megs of ram on a 233mhz processor. Can someone please provide advise or suggestions? Any help will be appreciated. TIA Bill -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our

Re: Which pcmcia usb controller...

2004-05-24 Thread Bill Buckhaults
My Wallstreet uses an Oronoco gold card in the top slot with a Belkin USB Busport Mobile #F5U022 in the bottom slot. Card has a two port dongle. Works for me for two years now.. Hope this helps. Bill Nils wrote: I've been looking around for a pcmcia usb controller for my WS I. Yes

List mail bouncing message

2004-05-20 Thread Bill Briggs
I'm getting mail from the list server indicating that mail to my address is bouncing. Anyone else getting this? Mail comes to me just fine. My ISP is being run by management as the normal work force is out on strike, but apart from that there's noting unusual going on. - web -- G-Books is

After restart, cpu reduces speed almost half

2004-04-27 Thread Bill Horn
we who are having the problem with our 867mhz Powerbooks need to insist Apple pay attention to the problem. Eh? Bill G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

TiBook 550mhz

2004-04-27 Thread Bill
Thinking about getting a TiBook 550MHZ DVD. I vaguely recall hearing that some of the TiBooks had probs with heat and flimsiness etc. and wanted to get an idea from the listers if there actually were any probs with this model and what they were. TIA Bill -- G-Books is sponsored by http

TiBook 550mhz

2004-04-27 Thread Bill
AND how is Panther on the 550MHZ TiBook? Thanks Bill On Apr 27, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Bill wrote: Thinking about getting a TiBook 550MHZ DVD. I vaguely recall hearing that some of the TiBooks had probs with heat and flimsiness etc. and wanted to get an idea from the listers if there actually were

Re: Does D-Link Router support Appletalk?

2004-01-06 Thread Bill Buckhaults
I have used the 614+ for more than a year and am able to see the other computer and share files going both way. I use it wireless DSL between a G-3 Wallstreet and a Power Computing desktop 70 feet and 4 walls away. Runs good on OS 8.6, 9.0, and 9.1. Hope this helps. Bill Kris McGrath wrote: I

Re: Hard drive recommendations?

2003-12-27 Thread Bill Briggs
At 3:10 AM -0500 27/12/03, John Acuff wrote: The HD in my recently acquired Icebook just died, and I need to get a replacement. I would like to get a 30-40 gig drive. What brands or particular drives would you recommend? I have not needed to buy a new drive in a while, so I don't really have

Re: TiBook vs. AlBook ??

2003-12-26 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:13 PM -0800 26/12/03, Paul Nicholson wrote: I don't have an AlBook, but I do have a tiBook, and it's WiFi is miserable. It would barely do 25 feet straight line of site with no obstructions between my kitchen table and dining room table. Forget going an even shorter distance through a

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:33 AM -0800 22/12/03, Paul Nicholson wrote: Yes, you need a material that conducts the magnetic flux so it doesn't get to the magnetic reed switch. Precisely. It's got to be a ferromagnetic material with a sufficiently high permeability to contain the flux so it doesn't reach the reed

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:20 PM -0600 22/12/03, Andre Ruegg wrote: I recently went through this problem with a hard drive and went to my local hobby shop with a kitchen magnet and a paper clip. The metal that I found to be the most effective magnetic shield was tin. Brass has been recommended on a site but it did

Re: OSX on Wallstreet.

2003-12-22 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:35 AM -0800 22/12/03, Paul Nicholson wrote: NOT copper! You need to use steel. It has to be magnetic. That would be ferromagnetic. Paramagnetic materials would be too weakly magnetic to do the job. It's the relative permeability, or µr that matters. - web -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2003-11-07 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:09 AM -0700 06/11/03, Andrew wrote: Thanks to all list members for your helpful replies on this topic. From the emails I recieved it seems that the first thing I should try is replacing the PMU. Does anyone have a source for these? I've seen them online in the past for $20US, but I can't

Re: Improper off-list emails

2003-11-03 Thread Bill Briggs
At 2:40 PM -0800 03/11/03, Steve wrote: This list is a good, open forum. I've been on several of Dan's lists (and others) for many years now, and frankly, this one is one of the most enjoyable. I particularly liked the recipe for black-eyed peas that showed a while back - great example of an

Re: Pismo 400MHz heatsink compatible with a 500MHz processor?

2003-10-27 Thread Bill Howard
in advance! -Laurent. I had the G4 500mhz prosessor installed in my 400mhz Pismo they used the same heatsink the 400mhz came with. It runs cooler than it did before. Bill -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: TiPB can't see it's modem

2003-10-03 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:40 AM +1000 03/10/03, Wiebe Wilbers wrote: On 3/10/03 12:02 AM, Bill Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 11:39 PM +1000 02/10/03, Wiebe Wilbers wrote: Does the Apple System Profiler see it? No. Missing there as well. - web You can replace it of course, as was specified in a different

Re: TiPB can't see it's modem

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:39 PM +1000 02/10/03, Wiebe Wilbers wrote: Does the Apple System Profiler see it? No. Missing there as well. - web -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Re: TiPB can't see it's modem

2003-10-02 Thread Bill Briggs
At 8:26 AM -0700 02/10/03, JeffH wrote: The modem is a replaceable item - a little difficult to unplug, but it can be done. You'll have to take off the bottom (like with pretty much everything else on these!), and the modem is tucked into the corner beyond the Airport/PCMCIA cage. Thanks. At

Re: Powerbook G4 Service Manual

2003-09-29 Thread Bill Briggs
At 3:24 PM -0500 27/09/03, David M. Ensteness wrote: I hate to play list nanny when I am not one, but heads up, since these are not publicly available documents and in fact are private internal Apple ones, posting links to them on this list is not allowed. Well, internal Apple is not quite

Re: Powerbook G4 Service Manual

2003-09-29 Thread Bill Briggs
At 3:23 PM +0200 29/09/03, Tekno Liber wrote: From: Bill Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you service your own PowerBook then you void the warranty. Also, most of the Macs we're talking about here are out of warranty anyway. Indeed. The last time a certified Mac tech worked on my old Wall Street

Re: (no subject)

2003-09-29 Thread Bill Briggs
At 7:32 PM -0700 29/09/03, Don P. wrote: It might help others trace your lost post if you put a subject in the Subject Line. Many filters will justifiably discard emails without a Subject Line. I would have treated your missive as Spam. The lack of subject line was just a bit of an overanxious

Re:

2003-09-28 Thread Bill Briggs
Is this list moderated? I posted something in a thread the other day that never seemed to be posted to the list. - web -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Which Wallstreet?

2003-09-10 Thread Bill Miller
I recently inherited a wallstreet. How can I tell which model it is? Thanks. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support

Re: Notes from the List Mom

2003-07-23 Thread Bill Briggs
Pedant Alert!!! At 7:24 PM -0400 23/07/03, Dan Knight wrote: 2. Cycles are abbreviated Hz in honor of Mr. Hertz. KHz, MHz, and GHz are the correct abbreviations for kilohertz, megahertz, and gigahertz. Sorry, but the k in kHz is lower case. Check the SI units manual. The other two are correct

Re: warranties

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Grady
System Profiler shows my sn as not applicable and I have reset my pram many times (Wallstreet 266, os 9.2.1). Just FYI, I had the exact same issue with my 233mhz Wallstreet in every OS from 8.1 through 9.1! I'm fairly sure I was using the original HD, too. Bill Grady http://billgrady.com

Re: disappointing tiBook wireless

2003-07-22 Thread Bill Buckhaults
I have a D-Link 614+ that talks to my Wallstreet,via an Oronoco gold card,through four walls and 60 feet and it sits on the desk. Hope this helps. Bill Tom Roth wrote: Since you seem to have range problems when using the D-Link card or the Airport card I might suggest you consider

Re: Dead Bronze

2003-06-27 Thread Bill Vader
facility. It's not easy being in a small town sometimes. Bill -- An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind. Gandhi -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Derr Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:27 AM To: G-Books On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 3:14

Dead Bronze

2003-06-26 Thread Bill Vader
on where to go from here? Bill -- When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion. -- Abraham Lincoln -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site

Re: Dead Bronze

2003-06-26 Thread Bill Vader
Ok, I have the keyboard off again, is that the processor be under the heatsink in the lower left side of the under-keyboard area? If so, is that a handle that goes under the padded area next to the RAM? If that is so, why do they have to use tiny Torx screws? I can never find that bit. Bill

ADS PCMCIA USBX-501 Power Cable?

2003-06-16 Thread Bill Grady
to the usb card? Bill Grady http://billgrady.com/ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http

Re: G4 Ti PowerBook can't see its modem port

2003-05-30 Thread Bill Briggs
At 8:51 AM -0400 29/05/03, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 29/05/03 06:24, Bill Briggs at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had this TiPB for about a year now, == SNIP == - web Are you running OS X? Some of the time, but this particular issue is with 9.2.2. I didn't boot into X to see

G4 Ti PowerBook can't see its modem port

2003-05-29 Thread Bill Briggs
I've had this TiPB for about a year now, and I'm not sure if I've ever tried to use it on a dialup connection before. I've got DSL/Airport at home, and high speed network and wireless at the University, so maybe I haven't tried to use the modem before. At any rate, I tried to use it yesterday

WallStreet Series 1 hardware question

2003-02-11 Thread Bill Briggs
First post to this list. A couple of weeks back I posted a note about this problem to MacWizards and the only constructive reply I got was to join this list. I'm not in a burning rush to solve this problem because I've got a Ti PowerBook to use, but I'd like to get the old WallStreet working,

Which Version MacOS for Pismo

2003-02-09 Thread Bill Hatchell
I borrowed another OS9 installation disc from a neighbor and could not boot using it either. It is exactly like mine (OS 9) so I suspect that Pismo will not boot on anything less than OS9.0.2 which is what it originally shipped with. Mine has Jaguar installed and I prefer to simply run it on

PowerBook Pismo MacOS Compatibility

2003-02-08 Thread Bill Hatchell
I posted the original help here trying to determine why my Pismo PowerBook G3/500 fails to boot using a MacOS 9.0 installation disk. I may have found why. In a review of the Pismo dated 22 Mar 2000 by Mike Breeden on www.xlr8yourmac.com lists the software included with the Pismo: MacOS 9.02

Re: Need Help w/Printer Sharing

2003-01-22 Thread Bill Buckhaults
Mike Amato wrote: on 1/21/03 1:41 PM, Bill Buckhaults at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forgot, the way I get around this is to send the item to the computer with the printer thru file sharing. -- Mike Amato Thanks for the response. I have tried this and can send to the desk top

Re: Need Help w/Printer Sharing

2003-01-21 Thread Bill Buckhaults
Mike Amato wrote: on 1/20/03 12:35 PM, Bill Buckhaults at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have OS 9.0 on a Mac desktop and laptop. They are collected via a wireless D-link router and a pcmcia Orinoco Gold card. File sharing Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forgot, the way I get around

Need Help w/Printer Sharing

2003-01-20 Thread Bill Buckhaults
cable works fine. I have tried for days to share this printer with the Laptop, but no luck even though the printer is selected in the chooser on each machine. Any help will be deeply appreciated. Reply on or off list. thanks Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

OS 10 vs Windows?

2002-12-17 Thread Bill Fischer
; Filemaker; BluePrint; Quicken; Now UptoDate Contact; Eudora; Explorer; Reunion; Route 66; Solitaire; Anyway, what am I missing? What are the real advantages of OS 10 over Windows? -- Bill Fischer Bigfork, Montana -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

dial-up connection with Powerbook G4

2002-12-02 Thread Bill Heaton
the modem dial 9 before dialing a local modem access phone number. Thanks, Bill Heaton www.heatondesigns.com -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks

Re: Only a Pismo?

2002-09-11 Thread Bill Howard
Firewire Ports *2 USB ports *VGA and S Video Out *Lithium Ion Rechargeable Battery *56 K Modem *Apple Power Adaptor *S-Video Output *Built-in Network adapter * thanks Demetrius Demetrius, what you have there is indeed a Pismo. Bill -- G

Wallstreet thread

2002-08-10 Thread bill wells
and then the num lock. The green light goes off and the keyboard functions. bill -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End

Wallstreet ram

2002-07-26 Thread bill wells
Al wrote concerning the Ram on a Wallstreet. Here is something i recently found out: bill At 1:18 PM -0500 7/1/02, Shane Buehn wrote: Hello Your computer can actually take 512MB. You will need a low profile and a high profile chips. I will list the price and part number of each. 256MB CL2

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