Which nannies list what?

2004-02-11 Thread David M. Ensteness
Can anyone tell me a complete list of what nannies moderate what lists? Thanks, David -- 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: Safari 1.2

2004-02-05 Thread David M. Ensteness
So far it sounds like its a 10.3 only release ... not sure if Apple will release a 10.2 version, it seems unlikely since 10.2 is still at Safari 1.0 ... they should though. David On Feb 5, 2004, at 10:03 PM, simon goslin wrote: A question re: Safari 1.2... According to the blurb on the Apple

Re: Taxing times

2004-02-02 Thread David M. Ensteness
TurboTax [formerly MacinTax years ago] by Intuit and TaxCut [by a company whose name I don't recall] are both available. I know that TurboTax runs in 9 still, I don't know if TaxCut is OS X only or not. David On Feb 2, 2004, at 9:45 AM, Pete Gregory wrote: Sorry if this is not 100% related to

Re: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!

2004-02-01 Thread David M. Ensteness
I realized you were a troll and that we were wasting people's time so I apologized and stopped. Maybe when you grow up you can make big decisions too. Now, the list nanny has asked for this thread to stop as well ... perhaps this time you can not just rename it and keep plugging along Robin

Re: Wallstreet fixed in the PDQ? What is the PDQ?

2004-02-01 Thread David M. Ensteness
Actually I haven't ever heard of wide spread sleep issues on WS PBs. However there was a hinge problem with them. David On Feb 1, 2004, at 12:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the info about the Wallstreet 'sleep' problem. What's the PDQ? Any other problems I should be aware of with

Re: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!

2004-02-01 Thread David M. Ensteness
This thread was killed ... you should check your facts. David Robin: I wasn't the one who renamed it. Dan K brought it up again. Get your facts straight. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check

Re: Is this an urban myth? iBook funk after one year of use.

2004-02-01 Thread David M. Ensteness
No, its not true ... its silly though ;-) David On Feb 1, 2004, at 9:55 PM, tivo wrote: A Mac repair guy was telling me that iBooks develop a smell after a year due to the kind of plastic used. The heat makes the plastic stink. Anybody know if this is true? Jocelyn I'm sniffing mine as we

Re: iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program

2004-01-31 Thread David M. Ensteness
List nanny closed the topic so I didn't bother to read this. Nor am I going to quote any of it below, when a topic is closed, well I think its spose to be stopped. David -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished

Re: Personal LaserWriter LS on WallStreet

2004-01-31 Thread David M. Ensteness
. I have no network. I get my internet access via Wireless at my University (or in theory with the 20 hours of dialup they give me). On 1/30/04 10:36 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AHAHAHAH, I have to tell you, I can't relate. That and there are ways to get a LocalTalk printer

Re: AirPort- Software Base Station?

2004-01-31 Thread David M. Ensteness
Once you have an AirPort card installed you can just choose Create Network from the AirPort menu widget. Then you can tell other wireless equipped computers to connect to it. David On Jan 31, 2004, at 9:33 AM, Taylor Armstrong wrote: Is it still possible to run a software base station on a

Re: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!

2004-01-31 Thread David M. Ensteness
Very true. Although, it is curious that in 1999 Dell had to recall all of their newest series of laptops because they used that same Sony made Li-Ion battery and one did catch fire in the field ... I guess Dell's QA isn't quiet as pre-emptive ... even after they watched the PR issue the 5300

Re: MAC Re: Personal LaserWriter LS on WallStreet, and comment on printer repair...

2004-01-31 Thread David M. Ensteness
BTW, thanks to whomever recommended Fixyourownprinter.com (?). I bought a kit from them to replace my main paper pickup roller and rehab/clean various parts inside. Worked like a charm. My NTX is alive again, no more paper pickup faults. Opt for the included how-to video on CD instead of

Re: iMac tray problem OSes

2004-01-31 Thread David M. Ensteness
The two tray loading iMacs I owned a couple years back were also just fine ... I can understand criticizing that they were fragile, because well, it was a tray loading drive, but that does not mean it was a flawed design. I am really confused by your statements, you claim to have more control

Re: Need clarification on Wallstreet PowerBook Series II. Thanks for car charger info

2004-01-31 Thread David M. Ensteness
That is a fair price. Now, whether its worth it, I don't know, depends on your desires for it. But I think its actually a very good price. Pismos are anywhere from $550-750 right now depending on what comes with em. Lombards are not far below, and honestly, 1400s and 3400s tend to pull in at

Re: iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program

2004-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
First, Apple never said anything about the problem publicly, that includes a denial, so they never lied about it. The 1889 signatures may or may not be accurate as online petitions are not the most accurate manners of protest in the world. Pending class action suit in this case is a nice way

Re: iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program

2004-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
I have read just about all there is available on it and have a bit of experience with it myself. No, my opinion is not changing based on anything you offered, nor are your retorts accurate, go do some more digging. While you berate Apple for not saying YEAH ITS BROKE. You don't take into

Re: iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program

2004-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
Ashe wrote: On 1/30/04 8:23 AM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read just about all there is available on it and have a bit of experience with it myself. No, my opinion is not changing based on anything you offered, nor are your retorts accurate, go do some more digging. So you

Re: iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program

2004-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
Well, in actuality there are three issues, one is the over heating issue cited by Bigbikerbo here, the second is a cable routing issue causing stress on the video ribbon cable, and the third is an off shoot of the second where the stress is focused on the inverter board for said cable. Oh, but

Re: iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program

2004-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
design). On 1/30/04 7:57 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh wait, thats what Apple did! Woohoo! Oh and they said they would pay back anyone who had already paid for the repair. Although I am sure Robin is mad they won't drive to each individual house hold and give them a new Mac

Re: Personal LaserWriter LS on WallStreet

2004-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
No, its not. Classic does not have direct access to hardware as all hardware access is governed by Mac OS X's kernel. Therefore you would still have the same problem and the same root cause in Classic as in Mac OS X. David On Jan 30, 2004, at 11:12 PM, Robin Ashe wrote: On 1/20/04 2:55 PM,

Re: Personal LaserWriter LS on WallStreet

2004-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
AHAHAHAH, I have to tell you, I can't relate. That and there are ways to get a LocalTalk printer on an ethernet network ... David On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:32 AM, Robin Ashe wrote: Thanks. I guess I'll have to do a Dual Boot. My printer is too good to give up for OS X. -- G-Books is sponsored

Re: iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program

2004-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
I am not assuming. This is getting repetitive ... I have said more than once that a known issue is not just something that can be said in passing, there are legal implications when a company makes that statement, its not defined the same way as you noticing something. Apple said they were not

Re: [all done] iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program

2004-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
Sure. David On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:37 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: Folks, Please, put it to rest. That thread has been going on long enough now. I declare it closed. -Laurent. List nanny. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program

2004-01-29 Thread David M. Ensteness
Well, they do have to narrow it down to a particular cause and figure out a solution for it before they release a plan to fix it, otherwise they are just blowing sunshine up our butts ... and wasting our time and their money in short term fixes. Besides, they are also reimbursing anyone who

Re: Passwords

2004-01-26 Thread David M. Ensteness
Keychain ... David On Jan 26, 2004, at 6:47 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: Dear List, Does anyone know of a good password-saver program? I have found a couple, but none for OS X. Thanks. Michael Richardson -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Buying an iBook

2004-01-16 Thread David M. Ensteness
Yes, I have used PowerMax and had a horrible experience, a good friend of mine had a similar experience [actually his was worse than mine]. Based on how bad it was I will not buy from them any more, if you are interested in what happened drop me a line. David On Jan 16, 2004, at 1:11 PM, G

Re: Printing In Reverse

2004-01-14 Thread David M. Ensteness
I only get it when I set it that way in the print options, its not an app specific option I don't believe, its in the pull down menu of any app when you hit print. Its under the heading paper handling. Sorry I can't offer more help. David On Jan 14, 2004, at 1:36 PM, Dr. John Pullyblank

Re: [OT] IPods / Unusually poor battery life compared to iBooks/Powerbooks

2004-01-14 Thread David M. Ensteness
I have to correct some of you statements Tom. Apple offered the replacement service two weeks before the domain name ipodsdirtylittlesecret was even registered, that was the domain of the people who ran the advertising campaign. That site also was connected to encouraging inflammatory

Re: I tried everywhere

2004-01-04 Thread David M. Ensteness
Uhm, from MCE ... last I looked they had em directly available. David On Jan 3, 2004, at 1:01 AM, Bob wrote: Does anyone know where in the world can I get a MCE Xcarét Pro 2000 Expansion Bay DVD/CDRW Combo Drive for my Wallstreet? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small

Re: My newly repaired pismo

2004-01-02 Thread David M. Ensteness
Couple years back there was discussion of pink LCD problems on some Pismos. Never happened on mine and as far as I could tell while it was real it was not very wide spread. I spose its possible you have one that has that problem, its a direction to look in. David On Jan 2, 2004, at 2:43 PM,

Re: Apples is NOT 'quite a bit more expensive'

2003-11-03 Thread David M. Ensteness
Very true. Many people will argue that Apple's hardware is so much more expensive and then if you seek out a PC with feature parity [often hard to find] and show them that the margin is very slim, the argument changes to well I don't need all that stuff. So in the end it makes them sound to be

Re: iTunes Music Store problem

2003-11-03 Thread David M. Ensteness
Email em, I have had to email the iTunes Music Store support with questions as have some friends of mine, all of us have received prompt responses that did answer our questions. Email em and see if they are slacking or keeping up the good work. David On Nov 3, 2003, at 8:40 AM, John Acuff

Re: Improper off-list emails

2003-11-03 Thread David M. Ensteness
Maybe I misread him but I got the impression he was talking about unsolicited e-mail of an offensive nature, not off list e-mail in general, but if you want to overreact, go ahead, most of the discussion on these lists is one person overreacting to another. David On Nov 3, 2003, at 2:23 PM,

Re: Improper off-list emails

2003-11-03 Thread David M. Ensteness
right, of course. What I was making fun of was the fact that Laurent didn't say he was talking about offensive emails in the original post; he just put the smackdown on all private email. On 11/3/03 3:27 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I misread him but I got

Re: Improper off-list emails

2003-11-03 Thread David M. Ensteness
Now that was the most reasonable thing said yet. I second it. David On Nov 3, 2003, at 3:02 PM, Thomas Ethen wrote: I agree with Laurent about using harvested e-mail addresses to send offensive comments to list members, which is similar to spaming! A member complained about receiving off color

Re: Improper off-list emails

2003-11-03 Thread David M. Ensteness
I disagree with Hamlin too, mailing addresses are public and free information, e-mail addresses are not. David On Nov 3, 2003, at 3:10 PM, Illovox Media wrote: on 11/3/03 12:16 PM, Hamlin Krewson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a freedom that everyone has access to no matter how smart or

Re: G3/Trust in Apple

2003-11-02 Thread David M. Ensteness
Look, people do have problems with Apple products, I do have problems with Apple products. They have made crappy software as well as great software, look at the past versions of iCal ... wow ... crap. But honestly the things you say and the way you say em you sound like a troll. A person just

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-11-01 Thread David M. Ensteness
On Nov 1, 2003, at 1:50 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote: Oh please, so every 18 months I am supposed to get a new computer just because Apple decides to go sideways. The good thing about Apple WAS that the were well built, software would run and upgrade for the last 9 years. This is a FORCED

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-29 Thread David M. Ensteness
The OpenGL/RAVE argument is moot because they are APIs, you can slap any API onto any chipset you like with interoperability. As shown by the support for Rage, RAVE, and OpenGL acceleration under OS 9 (Glide was 3dfx's answer to RAVE, before a standard 3D API came out, OpenGL). Heck, ATi could

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-29 Thread David M. Ensteness
You would catch more fish if you did your trolling in a boat. David On Oct 29, 2003, at 1:11 AM, Edward Jackson wrote: I think that all of this stems directly from the Mac culture itself. The Mac is a drastically less used, more expensive, and a slower computer (sorry guysbenchmarks vs

Re: legacy hardware and Jaguar/Panther

2003-10-29 Thread David M. Ensteness
On Oct 29, 2003, at 9:14 AM, Lorraine Kerwood wrote: Yes, I love Apple too, and OS X, and I would never want to have to go back to the PC (Winblows) world I used to live in, but this is one time that I really wish that Apple had done things differently. And I'm looking at the same thing all

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-29 Thread David M. Ensteness
Not to continue this thread, but how many times does one take a car into work in the course of ownership ... more than 2 times. They fixed it each time it was an example of service which was in question. That will be my last post on this issue. David On Oct 29, 2003, at 4:49 PM, [EMAIL

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-28 Thread David M. Ensteness
It was in 10.1.5 that they did it. David On Oct 28, 2003, at 4:42 PM, Hamlin Krewson wrote: I did follow the thread at the beginning before it turned into a class action. I think the original intent was to force Apple to complete the ATI RageLT driver so that those users would benefit from

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-28 Thread David M. Ensteness
On Oct 28, 2003, at 6:20 PM, Krevnik wrote: Nope, sorry... don't buy that. There is an ATIRagePro.kext and ATIRageProGA.plugin (2D acceleration) and the GA plug wasn't even activated for the Lombard until 10.2.4, you needed a hack before that. The RagePro.kext refers to a non-existant

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-28 Thread David M. Ensteness
Thank you for your common sense Kyle. It was nice to read that someone saw this in the same light I did. David This argument (and lawsuit) makes as much sense as people suing Apple because OS 9.2 will not run on their Quadra 700. Apple may have worded it wrong (as far as supported machines

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-28 Thread David M. Ensteness
Apple never said it would support the stuff covered in the settlement so that part of your post is simply false. On top of that, claiming that I should get better performance out of my hardware [like the RagePro chipset] than it is capable of simply because I think it should be so - that is

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-28 Thread David M. Ensteness
Not entirely, go look it up. And no, I am not going to look it up for you, I trust you can use Google just as well as I can. David On Oct 28, 2003, at 11:30 PM, Eugene Lee wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:59:10PM -0600, David M. Ensteness wrote: : : Excuse me I just sent an email clarifying

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

2003-10-27 Thread David M. Ensteness
It is my understanding they are the same but I haven't done it myself so I don't know for sure. David So, nobody knows about that question? I really need to decide quick, as I've been offered that processor, but without knowing if I can use it in my Pismo with my 400MHz heatsink, I'm a

Re: USB 2.0... [off-list sales wrong]

2003-10-26 Thread David M. Ensteness
According to the LEM rules one post per year on any list is allowed per member, but this isn't just one per list per year. He has done this on regular occasion whenever someone is looking for something he can sell. Those posts should be kept on the swap list as I understand it. If I am wrong,

Re: Updates to Panther

2003-10-10 Thread David M. Ensteness
I have run several different builds of Panther for the past several months and have not run into any major compatibility problems. David On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 05:15 PM, William Hatchell wrote: I too have a new PowerBook G4 15 (purchased Sept. 26) and successfully used the Up To

Re: usb adapter and OSX on a Kanga?

2003-10-10 Thread David M. Ensteness
I dont know if you even can load OS X on it. You can go to the XPostFacto site and see if its on the list of supported Macs for that program but Apple doesn't support OS X on it. David 2. I am wondering if I should load OSX on the Kanga. Would anyone recommend it? Thanks. -- G-Books is

Re: When do you shut down your laptop?

2003-10-09 Thread David M. Ensteness
I haven't actually shutdown my Pismo for anything more than a restart since I added RAM to it ... that was in January. I never shutdown my Pismo basically. David On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 04:03 PM, Carl Testerman wrote: I've just purchased my first laptop, one of the new 12

Re: Moving from 9 to X

2003-09-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
If he were under NDA he couldn't even share what he said below. Apple's NDAs are fairly comprehensive, basically, if you don't already know, then I can't tell you. David On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 10:10 AM, Steve Fuller wrote: much. I'm currently running Panther on my Pismo and

Re: Moving from 9 to X

2003-09-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
that point, then by definition they would be at that point. David On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 10:23 AM, David M. Ensteness wrote: If he were under NDA he couldn't even share what he said below. Apple's NDAs are fairly comprehensive, basically, if you don't already know, then I can't tell you

Re: Moving from 9 to X

2003-09-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
Out of curiosity - what signs are you looking for? David On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 10:45 AM, Krevnik wrote: Apple hasn't even given signs towards a candidate seed yet... so there is work yet to be done on Panther. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Powerbook G4 Service Manual

2003-09-29 Thread David M. Ensteness
I know, I am an ACT and the site you download em from says stuff that would make you think you joined the CIA. I also know many people have them but many times in the past list nannies have said not to post to them on this list, I just thought I would try and help by restating that. The

Re: Powerbook G4 Service Manual

2003-09-27 Thread David M. Ensteness
You can't get there because its not publicly available information. David On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 11:30 AM, Geoff Doctor wrote: Could someone please email me the 15 G4 550-667 service manual? I cannot get into the apple system, and need to perform powerbook surgery. Geoff --

Re: Powerbook G4 Service Manual

2003-09-27 Thread David M. Ensteness
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. David On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 01:16 PM, B.B. Gunn wrote: We are also looking

Re: Mac OS X 10.2.8 update

2003-09-24 Thread David M. Ensteness
http://news.com.com/2100-1045_3-5081135.html Read that, Apple put out a statement. David -- 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: Apple's Naming Schemes [was Pismo... Powerbook or Powerbook G3 Series]

2003-09-23 Thread David M. Ensteness
Apple's naming scheme, in my opinion, has improved. 7500, 7200, 7220 WGS, 8500, 7600, 7300, 8600, 9600 ... huh what who where? iBook (Clamshell) - its descriptive, someone can look at it and go Yeah, mine looks like that. iMac (Colors), iMac DV, iMac Flat-panel, Power Mac G4 (PCI, AGP,

Re: Pismo... Powerbook or Powerbook G3 Series

2003-09-22 Thread David M. Ensteness
You run into the same problem with all the G3 and later machines. This is all thanks to Stevie. I can understand the idea of a common name but they really should have had some distinct, easily identified designation (such as model number). If you really want some fun, try identifying the

Re: Pismo DVD player ?

2003-09-19 Thread David M. Ensteness
I was just looking around and the same is stated in Apple's Knowledge Base so yeah you are right that either will work. David From LowEndMac: The Pismo PowerBook uses the same drive bay devices as the Lombard PowerBook G3, although its DVD drive cannot be used on Lombard. Laurence -- G-Books

Re: DVD-R/W in Pismo

2003-09-09 Thread David M. Ensteness
Depends on the model, some Macs for the past year have shipped with Sony DVD+/-RW drives and some have shipped with Panasonic DVD-RW drives. David On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 06:28 PM, JeffH wrote: From: Mark Edward Attew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DVD-R/W in Pismo Date: Mon, 8 Sep

Re: Safari Question on Pismo

2003-08-26 Thread David M. Ensteness
Grab the small icon to the left of the link in the address bar and drag it into an e-mail. Or highlight it and go to Safari/Services/Mail/Send Selection and OS X will create a new e-mail document for you with the link as the message body. Or you can cut and paste it into an e-mail. Services

Re: Update Netscape for Pismo?

2003-08-24 Thread David M. Ensteness
I haven't booted into OS 9 on my Pismo in ... a long time, but when I did have 9 on there I did run Netscape 7 for a short time without much of a speed issue. I have a 400 with 768MB of RAM. David On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 04:07 PM, Nick wrote: Netscape 7 is painfully slow on a Pismo.

Re: Buying new Powerbook

2003-07-14 Thread David M. Ensteness
The upside down Apple wasn't meant to be upside down. All PowerBooks had it set to face the user when they were sitting with it closed on their lap. The Pismo was the last to have it that way, starting with iBooks and the PowerBook G4 they flipped it so it would be right side up to observers.

Re: Ebay

2003-07-14 Thread David M. Ensteness
He isn't trolling. There have been several accounts by various people including different Mac websites about there being PowerBook auction scams. Mainly the conversation consists of why are so many scams for PowerBooks? followed by a bunch of guessing. In reality there don't seem to be that

Re: Buying new Powerbook

2003-07-13 Thread David M. Ensteness
Go for a Pismo over a Lombard. Pismos are very nice PowerBooks. They come in 400 and 500 G3 models as you know. They will take up to 1GB of RAM and will use PC-100 SDRAM SO-DIMMs. It can also use faster PC-133 RAM but can not use PC-66. Your Wallstreet can use PC-66, 100, and 133. As long as

Re: clean install

2003-07-07 Thread David M. Ensteness
Yes, I want to say its under custom install. Or options ... David On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 10:57 PM, |n|i|c|k| wrote: ok well... How do i try this clean install? is it on the 10.2 install disk? n -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: clean install

2003-07-06 Thread David M. Ensteness
Yes, 10.2 does have an archive and install option. If you do archive and install OS X places the System folder in previous systems and preserves your user's account and data. You're applications may or may not be affected, I haven't used it often enough to know. David On Monday, July 7,

Re: Advice on SoundSpeakers ??

2003-07-05 Thread David M. Ensteness
I have SoundSticks, they are USB, I don't know how you would hook em to an iPod, but I love mine. David On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 11:23 PM, Sean McGroty wrote: of about $30 on the iPod..Son has hooked them to the ipod...Outstanding How are they hooked to the iPod? Don't SoundSticks have

Re: iChat WebCam Combatibility?

2003-06-25 Thread David M. Ensteness
XLR8yourmac has reports about this same issue that are coming in throughout the day from people determining how necessary the processor speed is, go look there for real world accounts. David On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 09:22 AM, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:57

Re: G5

2003-06-24 Thread David M. Ensteness
That isn't a heat sink, look up the specs on the G5 and the heat it produces, its not all that hot a processor. David On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Mick Ring wrote: on 6/24/03 6:39, Brendan McAlpine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The real question is, when do we get G5 powered

Re: G5

2003-06-24 Thread David M. Ensteness
Instead of arguing over it you guys could just go look up the info ... David this regarding how much heat they make. -- 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: Are there any alternatives to Aqua window manager?

2003-06-22 Thread David M. Ensteness
Not to sound like a jerk, but that is like saying cause I want it different it should be. For example, I don't think Final Cut should take so long to render, but it does. The direct connection here is that it is saying a three and a half year old PowerBook [Pismos came out in 2000 and only had

Re: Are there any alternatives to Aqua window manager?

2003-06-22 Thread David M. Ensteness
Apple puts out one feature release OS every 15-18 months, been that way for years, they always charge for it ... David On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 05:19 PM, jdc wrote: What do you mean? I just bought 10.2 Is Apple is getting nastier than Microsoft? (just joking, no company can beat

Re: M/S Drops IE for Mac????

2003-06-16 Thread David M. Ensteness
Dont fear it. David On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 02:07 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Tim Hodgson wrote: I found the second sentence quite, well, surprising. What's in it for MS? Long term? Bailing on the Mac platform entirely, I fear. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy

Re: building a better mouse (was 17 Powerbook)

2003-06-13 Thread David M. Ensteness
Not Invented There: Bluetooth, Airport, USB, OS X, SuperDrive, DVD Studio Pro, Final Cut Pro, iTunes... i don't know, I'm guessing they're quite a bit over not invented here syndrome, and have been for quite some time. Very true - but for AirPort, they co-developed it with Lucent. David --

Re: building a better mouse (was 17 Powerbook)

2003-06-11 Thread David M. Ensteness
I could stand the one button thing (possibly) but it is totally not acceptable to not have a scroll wheel these days. I prob spend 75% of my computer time on the net, and every house in my computer has a scroll mouse. Uhm, hate to say this, I used to hold back from saying it in fact when it was

Re: building a better mouse (was 17 Powerbook)

2003-06-11 Thread David M. Ensteness
Uhm, look closer and you will see they got over not invented here a long time ago ... David I'm using a two button scroll mouse and never want to go back to single button. It's time Apple, time to get over NIH (Not Invented Here) and make a two button scroll mouse. Paul -- G-Books is

Re: Laptop Sleep

2003-06-10 Thread David M. Ensteness
I havent restarted or shut down my Pismo in months, well, I will tonite, have to update to 10.2.6, I am behind, I just sleep it in Mac OS X. David On Tuesday, June 10, 2003, at 06:32 PM, Dr. John Pullyblank wrote: I'm surprised by people advising that the problems associated with sleeping

Re: 12 Speed and Stalinist tendencies (OT)

2003-06-06 Thread David M. Ensteness
Well said Jeff. David The Apple Discussion Forum belongs to Apple and they've chosen to make it publicly available. However, in so doing, Apple isn't obligated to air the rantings and accusations of every malcontented or malicious poster. You don't even have to be an Apple customer or to use

Re: Bouncing Messages...A Real Pain...

2003-04-05 Thread David M. Ensteness
Nothing about Dan or even LEM - but on this note I would love to direct the audience's attention to all the complaining about the free software and services that Apple has offered over the years ... all of that is OK, but someone says, you know this list isn't very useful when it doesn't

Re: System profiler.

2003-03-22 Thread David M. Ensteness
Actually its because they changed how OS X finds the info for the ASP. It used to be read from a machine profile file, now its read from the hardware, ie New World ROM Macs, which the Wallstreet is not. David On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Byron Gardner wrote: on 3/22/03 12:58

Re: 3 Pismos

2003-02-26 Thread David M. Ensteness
There were 2 models and 2 revisions, the revisions changed the drive size, RAM included, and system software loaded. It sounds like they are confusing them with Wallstreet PowerBooks. David On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Stephen Bright wrote: I got this from Powerligix tech

Re: Trading oversee (with WegenerMedia)

2003-02-24 Thread David M. Ensteness
As for PayPal - I actually had an issue with the reverse, I shipped someone something once on the swap list and PayPal refunded him because I could not prove that he did not get the item ... I felt taken, I was out the item and the payment. As for Wegener Media, I know that the owner is on

Re: CD Burner?

2003-02-15 Thread David M. Ensteness
Wow, you are way too upset about things, seriously, I get pissed when things don't work, but I am always confused, if you feel Apple is to blame then why buy Apple stuff? I am not saying put up or shut up, I am just confused, some people seem to say they feel towards Apple the way I do towards

Re: CD Burner?

2003-02-14 Thread David M. Ensteness
Uhm actually more 3rd party burners have been supported in each version of Mac OS X. If you really don't believe it I can look up the feature pages on the various updates and show you ... or I spose you could go look yourself. For example though 10.2.4 notes that it adds support for the 48x

Re: CD Burner?

2003-02-14 Thread David M. Ensteness
Wow, you are way too upset about things, seriously, I get pissed when things don't work, but I am always confused, if you feel Apple is to blame then why buy Apple stuff? I am not saying put up or shut up, I am just confused, some people seem to say they feel towards Apple the way I do towards

Re: Steve Jobs (revisited)

2003-02-07 Thread David M. Ensteness
One longer term idea might be that the seller is running these auctions in quick succession to drive the price up, keeping a really, really high reserve so it doesn't get sold, then after 3-4 of these get the fervor up auctions he may lower it to the price he actually wants and let it sell.

Re: Pismo to X, or not?

2003-01-30 Thread David M. Ensteness
All I have on my Pismo is OS X v.10.2.3, no OS 9 at all. I just upgraded the RAM and hard drive to 768MB/40GB 5400rpm but I had been running a 400MHz/320MB/10GB for about a year and it has been very well, I can't stand to work in 9 on it so I just took it off. 10.2 is very snappy for me.

Re: pcmica card

2003-01-22 Thread David M. Ensteness
All the PowerBooks since the Wallstreet have the features of the RoadRocket built in, so it became pointless to add a Cardbus video card. David On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 11:11 AM, Stephen Bright wrote: I'm wondering why nobody makes pcmcia video cards anymore. The last one I

Re: Changed Stat's

2003-01-22 Thread David M. Ensteness
They did officially say it by updating their specs that are available to the public. Had they shipped one with one set of specs and then changed it that would be a different matter. But they constantly revise their documentation and their hardware. Look at all the revisions of different

Re: Changed Stat's

2003-01-21 Thread David M. Ensteness
The 15 PowerBook can do 1x when unplugged, the drive does not get enough power to do 2x and actually completely burn a DVD, that is why PC laptops with DVD-RWs are 2x but can only burn when plugged in. Now the question is can Apple's PowerBooks burn at 2x when plugged in? Or is it 1x always?

Re: Changed Stat's

2003-01-21 Thread David M. Ensteness
Oh, and can you send me the PDF from the day they come out, I am trying to compile some info. Thanks, David On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 08:46 PM, Mark Loeffler wrote: Did anybody notice that apple changed the 17' Power Book apple specs?? in Particular the DVD will on record DVD-R

Re: Question about Airport Network w/ Pismo?

2003-01-18 Thread David M. Ensteness
There is a check box in the AirPort setup/admin/whatever its called utility to tell it if you want it to bridge the ethernet and the wireless networks. Do you have that checked? That would be the easiest fix so I would check that first. There may be bridging settings on the Netgear router but

Re: Question about Airport Network w/ Pismo?

2003-01-18 Thread David M. Ensteness
Jim, he means hooked as in connected to the network wirelessly through the base station. David On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:50 PM, Jim wrote: Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a Powerbook Pismo running OS X 10.2.3. It is attached to a graphite airport base station which is

Re: USB 2.0 Adaptec Card

2003-01-17 Thread David M. Ensteness
There are several USB 2.0 cards that do work in OS X ... PCI cards that is, one made by I/O Gear. With PC Cards I am not so sure but I would not be terribly surprised to find drivers outside of the company that made it. When it comes to OS X Open Source is doing great things, look at WaveLAN

Re:

2003-01-15 Thread David M. Ensteness
the money back. David M. Ensteness On Friday, November 15, 2002, at 12:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay - I am new here to the G-Books page and probably asking an old question. But I just bought a great little Pismo 400 with 320 RAM, open box - new (no warranty) from CompUSA. Everything

Re: external drive to use with Pismo

2003-01-15 Thread David M. Ensteness
Where did you get that info? If it is the case I would like to know about it, and if its not I would also like to know, but I have never heard anything to lead me to believe that Pismo FW ports are not true 400Mbps ports. David On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 12:11 PM, Thomas Ethen wrote:

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