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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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
At 8:02 AM +0900 6/21/05, Carl Freire wrote:
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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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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.
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You can replace it of course, as was specified in a different
At 11:39 PM +1000 02/10/03, Wiebe Wilbers wrote:
Does the Apple System Profiler see it?
No. Missing there as well.
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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
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
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
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
Is this list moderated? I posted something in a thread the other day
that never seemed to be posted to the list.
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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
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 ==
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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
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
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,
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