Re: OT:Gmail and Mail (and back on topic again)

2005-02-14 Thread Dan Colwell
Thanks to Jason, Timothy, Jan and Marcin and others for the input and instructions. I am set up and all seems to be working well with Mail. I set Gmail to archive after getting it with Mail so everything is saved in 2 places. After a couple of years with Mail I tried to back up my old mail

OT:Gmail and Mail

2005-02-06 Thread Dan Colwell
I have just set up a Gmail account (through Google). Sounds good, with 1GB storage and all. Anybody have this and set it up with Mail yet? How do you like it so far? Googled for this and no clear instructions yet I have not used Mail that much, it is set up for my Hotmail account with

Re: Dead Pismo

2005-01-18 Thread Dan Colwell
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 at 08:56:06 CHARLES RICHARDS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, Good morning all. I used the old paperclip method and opened the CD drive and inserted the Restore CD and hit the power key and the system booted up to OS9. The battery shows one light and so I tried to boot up from the

Re: I need some ideas/help

2004-10-11 Thread Dan Colwell
On Oct 10, 2004, at 7:43, Dennis B. Swaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Permissions? OS 9 don't need no stinkin' permissions. (With apologies to Mel Brooks) And in the to give credit where credit is due department, apologies to Gold Hat in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre -1948-. (Great Line! Mel

Pismo battery problems

2004-09-03 Thread Dan Colwell
I have 2 Li-Ion batteries that I swap monthly in my 400MHz Pismo G3 powerbook, 768 RAM, 40G hard drive using 10.3.5. One of the batteries doesn't lock in place and each time I lug it around between work and home it slips out some. This makes me have to reset the date and time. I had my PRAM

Re: Pismo Processor Temperature: What is normal?

2004-07-28 Thread Dan Colwell
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Hoju Han [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Previously, temperature monitoring (using the TAU on the PowerPC 750) indicated a temperature of around 30-40 Celsius. However, with the new CPU installed, I am getting CPU TAU readings of 90-114 Celsius (The internal IBM 40GB GN Travelstar

Re: Backing up over a WLAN

2004-07-13 Thread Dan Colwell
On Jul 13, 2004,Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, If you don't have an account with the same short (or login) name on the remote computer, you'll have issues with permissions all the time. If you really need to do it, then make sure that the files on your Mac are set to be read/write

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-12 Thread Dan Colwell
On Jul 11, 2004, at 6:43 AM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Safari is giving me trouble. . .right after I decided finally to make it my default browser. Now, It won't even boot! Everytime I try to boot it, I get the unexpectedly quit message. . .any ideas? All I did before

Backing up over a WLAN

2004-07-12 Thread Dan Colwell
I'm having some difficulties here. I have tried SilverKeeper, but it has changed ownership on some files. I have Retrospect, Synchronize! Pro X and CCCloner. I tried one of these with no luck and am confused on the setup of another. I'm frustrated. I don't need a bootable copy. I have a

Pismo fan

2004-06-22 Thread Dan Colwell
Is there a way to make the fan come on so that I can check to see if it works? Maybe an application that will turn it on? I took my laptop apart to replace the PCMCIA cage, among other things, and noticed that the wires were looped into the fan blades. So I'm not sure it would have come on even

Pismo Boot CD, wireless, etc.

2004-06-18 Thread Dan Colwell
A few things: I use BootCD (v0.6) for OS X. Up until recently there was no OS X version, but I just tried it again and although it took some time (6+ minutes), it worked. (another reason for me not to partition...) I have an airport card and a Belkin wireless router with an iMac and my son's

Re: ??? Wallstreet battery replacement cells ???

2004-06-06 Thread Dan Colwell
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 Laurent Daudelin wrote: Hi Laurent, Did you try Open Firmware commands ? George Nope, I didn't try OpenFirmware commands. Another user testimonial: I gave this a try on a Pismo battery I had given up on and now it appears to have been restored to almost new capacity! I am

Re: Pismo 400 DVD Drive Failure

2004-06-06 Thread Dan Colwell
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eugene, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You can get a better drive: http://www.wegenermedia.com/pismosuperd.htm : When I called A/C about the fact that they neglected to do anything last : fall about it I was told that since the A/C was over, I was SOL

Re: ...WiFi why?.....

2004-05-20 Thread Dan Colwell
On Thu, 20 May 2004 plain*clothes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think any other mfr. has a router that will let you print to a USB printer connected to the router like the airport extreme. If there is, I'd like to know. that's my concern as well. I'll be purchasing a wireless station in the

Dropped Pismo still works!!!

2004-05-09 Thread Dan Colwell
Thanks to Laurent and Malcolm for your responses. A VERY big thank-you to Darrin, who suggested reseating the CPU card. As I read it I remembered that I had this problem when I installed the new hard drive. A few minutes of panic then while I thought I had really screwed it up because nothing

Dropped Pismo, blank screen

2004-05-08 Thread Dan Colwell
Hello All, Late last night my Pismo slipped from my grasp onto my hardwood floor. Landed sideways on a corner of the lid. Popped the lid and DVD open. What a sick feeling Good News: it started up again, nothing physically broken. Bad News: blank screen, big gouge on top. I

Re: Pismo has trouble accepting Java 1.4.2 Update.

2004-04-20 Thread Dan Colwell
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Here's a new one:  Just downloaded the Java 1.4.2 update, have already loaded the 1.4.1 update, all on 10.3.3 on a Pismo 500 w/1 gig ram, and every time I try and load the Java update it says I must install 1.4.1, which I have done 3 times now. 

Re: A case for a Pismo

2004-03-11 Thread Dan Colwell
On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 douglas davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any good sources for a case for a Powerbook Pismo???   Check out http://shinza.com/product_info.php?products_id=46 I got the 15 for my Pismo and am very happy with it. Also the black matches what I think is still the best

Re: Dead Yo-Yo Revival

2003-12-31 Thread Dan Colwell
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Dante McLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side note, would I get a new one out of Apple if I mailed the adapter to them? Couldn't hurt to at least call them... I purchased a Pismo for myself last Christmas on Ebay. A couple of months ago my yo-yo adapter started sparking.

Thank you, may I have another?

2003-12-11 Thread Dan Colwell
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Re: Thank You, May I have another?

2003-12-11 Thread Dan Colwell
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Re: Thank You, May I have another?

2003-12-11 Thread Dan Colwell
Let's try this again... (serves me right for writing this at 3:30 am, but I couldn't sleep, so thought I would try to do something positive. I'll probably hate myself in the morning.) First of all, many many thanks for all the help and suggestions. I have been up and running in OS 10.2.8

Partition my drive or not...

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Colwell
OK I'm finally going to do it...I know I'm a late joiner here, but it's time for me to jump to OS X. I have a 400MHz Pismo, 768MB, 40g currently running 9.2.2. Should I partition my drive when I install 10.2? What are the pros and cons? Also any other hints for the installation process would

Re: Pismo HD question

2003-11-25 Thread Dan Colwell
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 18:54:47, DPrice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am considering buying the following drive from Googlegear.com because of positive reports on it that I have seen here. I am just making sure this is close to the one reported, if not the same. It is a bare drive. How problematic

Re: Yo yo bites the dust (cable that is)

2003-11-12 Thread Dan Colwell
On Sat, 08 Nov 2003, Doug Hinschberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that the cord/cable that goes from the wall to my yo yo adapter has a break in it right near the adapter end. Tonight I noticed that the battery wasn't charging, and when I moved the cable, there is this pretty little

PC card eject button ejected

2003-08-19 Thread Dan| Colwell
First of all, thanks to all who responded to my previous question on 'error msg of impending doom'. I guess I am going to take the big step to OSX as soon as I get back from a wedding in Phoenix (where gas prices are up to $3.99/gal due to shortages???) anyway As I was working on something

Error Msg of Inpending Doom?

2003-08-14 Thread Dan| Colwell
Hi all, I have a recurring error message. In the last 2 months it has shown up 5 times, the shortest span being 11 days apart. Here it is: There is a problem with the disk Macintosh HD. Some information may have been lost. Check any recently used files for data loss, and use a disk repair