Re: Msg reply

2004-11-24 Thread Byron Gardner
Can anyone tell me why I get this? I have scan my drive over and over and there are no viruses. On 11/24/04 7:05 AM, G-books [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ++ VIRUS BLOCKER MESSAGE STATUS ++ + Virus successfully cleaned out

Re: Msg reply

2004-11-24 Thread Byron Gardner
Thanks for the response and explanation. I have no fear. However... On 11/24/04 2:01 PM, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 24, 2004, at 11:28 AM, Byron Gardner wrote: Can anyone tell me why I get this? I have scan my drive over and over and there are no viruses. On 11

Re: Long life battery for wallstreet?

2004-06-26 Thread Byron Gardner
Good luck and if they succeed, tell us all. I have owned a WS for many years and there just is no way to get that kind of life from a standard module bay battery. An external battery may give you 6-8 hours. They are big, heavy and expensive. Best Regards, Byron On 6/25/04 11:21 PM, Ted [EMAIL

Re: 17 advice

2004-06-26 Thread Byron Gardner
I shopped and felt the 17 was nice but just too big. The 12 is really handy to cart around and very light. I settled on the in-between and got the 15. I bought one and had to add the Airport Extreme and more memory. Now the darn Extreme card comes standard. And the new 15 PBs are faster. Mine I

Re: Free Wi-Fi HotSpots

2004-06-26 Thread Byron Gardner
Most use T-Mobile. You can sign up for a pay as you go service which is .10 per minute with a minimum of 60 minutes or you can pay monthly or annually. Kinkos, Starbucks, many airports and parking facilities are using this service so your one time registering works everywhere. I do not work for

Re: LCD Screen on new iBook

2003-10-23 Thread Byron Gardner
I just recently bought a new Aluminum PowerBook G4. This is the most recent model with 1 GHz speed. The screen is 15 with a combo drive. I looked at both the iBook and PB screens and can tell there is a significant difference. So is the price. Let's face it, you have to pay for quality. The thing

Re: Wallstreet memory 192MB ?

2003-07-03 Thread Byron Gardner
on 7/3/03 9:03 AM, Laurence TeknoLiber at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeremy Derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] most people find that 256 chips work, though. Thanks! I'll try it. Is that 64 + 256MB ? I.e. is the 1st slot limited to 64 MB ? Laurence, I have two WallStreet. The 14 screen WS

Re: Casady Greene Bites the Dust

2003-07-01 Thread Byron Gardner
on 7/1/03 6:39 PM, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/1/03 4:15 AM, George Slusher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I just got notice from Casady Greene, who sell Spell Catcher, among other good utilities games, that they are closing shop in a few days. See:

FW: PLEASE HELP!

2003-06-29 Thread Byron Gardner
This wasn't just for Jay--can anyone help me? Byron All right, Jay here's one for you to ponder. I am trying to install OS X 10.2 on my WallStreet. The installation gets 2/3 of the way through and then the screen either goes dark or becomes light with no other image or has multicolored

Battery Amps

2003-06-23 Thread Byron Gardner
I have three Wallstreet PB batteries. I am trying to test the amperage and voltage. I need help with the proper way to test these batteries using a Digital multimeter. Can anyone give me the settings to test on for the multimeter? Which of the 5 connectors do I use? The battery shows a + and a -

Re: Battery Amps

2003-06-23 Thread Byron Gardner
Okay, ex-nay on the amp testing but which of the five connectors on the battery do I need to test from? Byron on 6/23/03 5:52 PM, jdc at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can test the voltage but DO NOT test the amperage, you'll blow your multimeter and/or the battery. Joaquim Byron Gardner

Airport 3.1

2003-06-21 Thread Byron Gardner
Is there a firmware update to this 3.1 Airport update? I am using a Wallstreet PB with an Orinoco Card and a Snow base station. I am using the third party driver from SourceForge.net. I updated the PB software to 3.1 okay but there seems to nothing to update the base station with. The latest

Airport Update 3.1

2003-06-21 Thread Byron Gardner
Do I need to send this update to the base station? I updated my software on the WallStreet but the base station (Snow) does not ask for an update. Is 4.0.8 the latest firmware? Is there somnething that must be updated on the base station after updating to 3.1? Thanks, Byron -- G-Books is

Airport 3.1 update second try

2003-06-21 Thread Byron Gardner
Is there a firmware update to this 3.1 Airport update? I am using a Wallstreet PB with an Orinoco Card and a Snow base station. I am using the third party driver from SourceForge.net. I updated the PB software to 3.1 okay but there seems to nothing to update the base station with. The latest

Re: System profiler.

2003-03-22 Thread Byron Gardner
on 3/22/03 12:58 PM, Geno Endicott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running 10.2.4 on a Wallstreet Powerbook. My system profiler doesn't show me my RAM config. Nothing, not what's in what slot, not what size, etc. Why? Does anyone know of a program that will show me what RAM I have in my

Re: Wallstreet RAM question...

2003-03-13 Thread Byron Gardner
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 02:31 PM, Andrew Johnson wrote: On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 01:03 PM, Geno Endicott wrote: I have a Wallstreet with two PC-133 256meg chips. One is 2-2-2 and one is 2-2- 3. Does anyone know the difference. My laptop seems to be having problems with

Re: G3 233mhz M4753

2003-03-11 Thread Byron Gardner
Nick, I have a Maxtor Firewire Cardbuss card with a dongle for two FW ports. I can sell it to you. Make an offer. I used it on two separate G3 PBs with no problems. I no longer need it. The card comes with everything and is less than 6 months old. I will guarantee to work. Let me know, Byron

Re: Booting from pccard?

2003-03-10 Thread Byron Gardner
on 3/8/03 2:43 PM, Hal at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What powerbook are you using? In theory, I think you should be able to clone the CD to the microdrive and boot from it. I've got a PC card data shuttle hard drive that I used to use to boot my Pismo and an older lombard. The installers on

Re: fsck weirdness

2003-03-05 Thread Byron Gardner
on 3/4/03 10:58 PM, P.F.Grenier at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 23:55 US/Eastern, Keith Ronan wrote: Sorry to be a slow one...where can I find info on fsck? I have no idea what that is. I use a Pizmo 400, with a 48 gig IBM, and 768 megs of RAM. Keith

Re: Need help with wallstreet

2003-03-05 Thread Byron Gardner
on 3/5/03 12:40 AM, Gary E Davis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I'm running a 266Mhz wallstreet with 384 meg ram and a 20 gig disk. I have OSX 1.5 on partition 1 and I set up 9.1 on the other partition for Mac classic. Tonight the machine froze on me and after resetting and booting it

Re: Wallstreet firewire card.

2003-03-03 Thread Byron Gardner
on 3/3/03 1:31 PM, Geno Endicott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is a good cheap (under 40bucks) firewire PC card for the Wallstreet? Would love plug and play. geno. I have a good one from Maxtor with a two port dongle that I would be glad to sell you. I have two and don't need but the

Re: Wallstreet DVD OS X

2003-03-03 Thread Byron Gardner
on 3/3/03 9:12 PM, Ted Burford at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Jaguar on my 1998 Wallstreet 266 mhz powerbook with a DVD Decoder card and it did not install DVD player, so I re installed Jaguar using the DVD Drive instead of the CD ROM drive. DVD Player still did not show up. How /

Re: upgrade wallstreet

2003-02-20 Thread Byron Gardner
on 2/15/03 10:53 PM, Vicki Andreotti at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello i want to upgrade my wallstreet to a G3 or G4 any suggestions please and where is the best deals Thanks I just bought the Crescendo/WS G4 CPU Upgrade 1MB L2 for $388 + $7.50 shipping from www.tahoeperipherals.com

Re: On the road again and again

2003-02-01 Thread Byron Gardner
I would interested to see what you have. Send what you can to me. I would appreciate it. Thanks, Byron On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 08:06 PM, Dan Pennington wrote: I use my Pismo, a Garmin Etrex GPS, and DeLorme Street Atlas for navigation while my wife and I are traveling in our truck

Re: On the road again

2003-02-01 Thread Byron Gardner
for,and not very expensive if it will work, hope this helps on 1/30/03 11:02 PM, Byron Gardner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The PowerBook is secured with a nylon strap running between the back cushion and seat underneath and back up to the front of the seat. Then I buckle it together after crossing

Re: Considering CPU upgrades for wallstreet

2003-01-30 Thread Byron Gardner
Gary, let me give you my experiences. I have two WS PB, a 14 in screen and a 13 in screen. I have put a Sonnet G3 500Mhz in both with easy installation and no problems in operation. I am running OS 10.2.3 on both as well as OS 9.2.2. Neither have had any problems. But be aware of something

Re: Considering CPU upgrades for wallstreet

2003-01-30 Thread Byron Gardner
30, 2003, at 11:33 AM, Byron Gardner wrote: Gary, let me give you my experiences. I have two WS PB, a 14 in screen and a 13 in screen. I have put a Sonnet G3 500Mhz in both with easy installation and no problems in operation. I am running OS 10.2.3 on both as well as OS 9.2.2. Neither have

Re: Considering CPU upgrades for wallstreet

2003-01-30 Thread Byron Gardner
What will be the advantage of your upgrade to that of Sonnet or PowerLogix? Byron On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 03:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, we're going to be releasing a 500mhz G3 card for the Wallstreet within 15 days, which will NOT require any software to run, as it

Re: Considering CPU upgrades for wallstreet

2003-01-30 Thread Byron Gardner
Battery life for me has been shorten but not excessively. As we all know there are some many variables when it comes to measuring battery life. I have a battery in each bay for both of my WS PB's and I can get on average 2.5 to three hours of life. Be advised that I use a PC card for Firewire

Re: Considering CPU upgrades for wallstreet

2003-01-30 Thread Byron Gardner
Hummm, I will have to look into that a little more then. I do remember Sonnet mentioning about the processor cycling problem but, you bring up an interesting thought. Byron On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 05:35 PM, P.F.Grenier wrote: On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 17:30 US/Eastern, Byron

Re: On the road again

2003-01-30 Thread Byron Gardner
too bad that Delorme has decided to drop support to Mac users. Even at version 6.0, my Street Atlas is still very accurate. And so it goes... Byron On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:38 PM, Tom Meade wrote: From: Byron Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using Street Atlas w/ a GPS

Re: wallstreet startup delay

2003-01-06 Thread Byron Gardner
Chris, I have a wallstreet also (actually two). I have notice some odd startup behavior with them both. Sometimes I get the long startup delay after the chime and sometimes I never get the startup chime but everything starts up normally. I have noticed that resetting the PRAM fixes the problem

Re: Wallstreet screen and Jaguar

2002-11-26 Thread Byron Gardner
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 02:29 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 25/11/02 15:02, Van Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My WallStreet's screen turns funny colors - vertically banded colors - when I shut down in Jaquar. Doesn't do it in OS 9.2. And the hard drive whines

Re: Should Wallstreet wake when lid is opened?

2002-11-04 Thread Byron Gardner
I have two Wallstreets and they have never waken when opening the lid. I have been through OS 8.1 up to 10.2.1. Byron On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 12:09 AM, Andrew wrote: (G-Books) wrote: Subject: Re: Should Wallstreet wake when lid is opened? Date: Sun, 3 Nov 02 06:50:18 -0500 From:

Re: 10.2 on Wallstreet

2002-10-28 Thread Byron Gardner
Jeff, same problems in the past here. I zap the PRAM and that helps. On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 10:06 AM, Jeff Spray wrote: Hi Everybody, I am trying to install 10.2 on my Wallstreet. I have a g4 upgrade card on the way. I can install 10.1 just fine however when I go to install 10.2

Airport Rookie

2002-10-27 Thread Byron Gardner
Got two Wallstreets setup with wireless cards in each (Lucent Orinoco Gold and a SMC). When I start an internet connection on one (dial up to the Airport) and booted up the second PB I found it to be connected as well. That was weird. How do I prevent that? (follow me on this?) Another issue

Airport and Wallstreet

2002-10-24 Thread Byron Gardner
I am using a SMC wireless card with an Airport Base Station (Snow) and a Wallstreet with OS 10.2.1. I am using the WirelessDriverBeta software from sourceforge.net and after considerable wrangling with settings etc I have managed to get up and running on the Net. OS 10.2.1 has Internet Connect

Airport List

2002-10-24 Thread Byron Gardner
Anyone know of any email lists out there pertaining to the Airport Base Station? Byron -- 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! |

Re: wall street power questions

2002-10-01 Thread Byron Gardner
Chris, I find that long delay in both my Wallstreets running OS 9.2.2 and I have found it due to networking configurations. If I disconnect the ethernet cable, the delay is much shorter. I see the same behavior with OS 10.2.1. But I know what you mean about long--it is really annoying. The

Re: wall street power questions

2002-10-01 Thread Byron Gardner
Good point about the RAM...the memory test can be turned off by holding down the Command+Option keys when opening the Memory control panel. On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 02:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, The reason for this is that your Wallstreet probably has a large amount of

Re: lemlists.com

2002-07-28 Thread Byron Gardner
I second that! Great work Dan and Ryan. We are fortunate that you care and take the time to do this. Keep up the great work!! Byron Gardner on 7/27/02 9:47 PM, Donald Keenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all the work to keep everything running for the benefit of us all. Donald

Re: airport question

2002-07-27 Thread Byron Gardner
Do you connect to a dial up modem with the Lucent card? Explain how as I have a PB G3 wallstreet series and would like to see about going wirless to get on the internet. Thanks, Byron on 7/26/02 4:49 PM, Robert Easton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Lucent card in a G3 and I used it to

Need help...or direct me to it, please

2002-07-11 Thread Byron Gardner
I know this is for G-Books but don't know where to turn to. I have a PB 180c that won't keep the right time. When I change it in the Date and Time CP it changes to something else right before my eyes. Never seen this before. Would a dead PRAM battery cause this behavior? I have done the

Re: Wallstreet battery problem revisited

2002-07-02 Thread Byron Gardner
on 7/2/02 5:34 AM, Dr. K. Gensberg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I might get a new power management board (CHEAP) for my WallStreet 266? It seems to be eating batteries at a rate of one every three months, and the board seems to be the only thing I can think of (I've

Re: Battery Problem-G3 Series

2002-04-29 Thread Byron Gardner
Used battery reset from the beginning...no go. From: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G-Books) Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 23:37:22 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G-Books) Subject: Re: Battery Problem-G3 Series on 28/04/02 17:24, Byron Gardner at [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: my intro

2002-04-29 Thread Byron Gardner
Rod, what happened to the Power Manager board that let you know something was wrong? I am having problems now with both batteries all of a sudden not showing a charge even though they show voltage at 16.85 and up. Both Batts are new. Hey, Todd. I've got an old Wallstreet like yours. I

Re: 10.1.3 broken on Wallstreet 'book

2002-04-04 Thread Byron Gardner
Did you upgrade the PB with a PowerLogix CPU BlueChip? Byron I have a 1998-09 Wallstreet powerbook with 288Mb RAM a 12Gb Toshiba drive, I've just updated from 10.1 to 10.1.3. From the time it rebooted from the update it hangs at the smiling Mac, there's no cursor or spinning disc. I've