on 4/4/03 2:13 AM, Jon Glass at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 04:02 AM, Eric D. wrote:
They are ubiquitous, and more than half the population
has experienced Windows, but far fewer have experienced Mac.
This number is actually far greater than you are assuming. I
on 3/4/03 10:33 AM, Eric Morrison at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know what the heck you are going-on about how stupid Apple is
regarding OS X and sleep. What I do know is that it is
extremely,extremely simple and convenient to put my Pismo to sleep in
OS X (and doesn't require
on 1/4/03 10:58 PM, Marty Lindower at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to set the F keys on my Wallstreet to do functions? I
would like to set one to make the computer go to sleep.
geno.
1. Try KeyQuencer, which will let you program any keys to do nearly anything
you could want.
on 1/4/03 12:28 AM, John Beringer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To my dismay, after cleaning up the crash, zeroing the HD from CD (again),
reinstalling 9.0.4-9.1-9.2.1-9.2.2 (again) I still kept having freezes
and crashes with only:
Office 2001
IE 5.1
Stuffit6.5
Have you (a) updated
on 1/4/03 5:46 PM, Doug Neff at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I *think* that when I first got it, the track pad accepted tapping as
clicking, and double-tapping as double-clicking. Then, mysteriously, it
stopped doing that. I installed and configured several things over the last
few days, so I
From: Ed Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (G-Books)
Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:51:32 -0500
Subject: Re: Digital camera
Is there such a thing as a USB to ADB connector?
USB _to_ ADB. No.
ADB _to_ USB. Yes, and the most popular (and exceptionally well supported I
might add)
on 24/3/03 8:01 AM, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/24/03 4:35 AM, muir mackean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into
the Cybertrough:
Boy, Apple thinks of everything - by the time you are back from the washroom
your Pismo is up and running. Bet you couldn't get a PC to do that...
Hello, another question about PowerBooks and wireless:
(a) can two AirPort cards talk to each other, or do they need an Airport
Base Station?
(b) can two of any other PCMCIA wireless cards talk to each other, or do
they too need the (equivalent to a) Base Station?
(c) can Airport and
on 17/3/03 8:33 AM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a wireless connection to our ISP, which is how I've even
heard of
these things, but it seems to me, that this sort of thing is possible,
but
complicated. I know that our connection is very unreliable at the
moment,
and
Hello all, I am hoping someone can clarify an issue for me with respect to
WiFi networking.
I have read that it is not possible to link Airport Base Stations to an
internet connection in anything but a star topology.
This restriction makes me wonder whether it would be possible to daisy-chain
Well, I can force OS X 10.2.4 into a kernel panic, *nearly* at will.
That said, OS X 10.2.4 *can* be extremely stable, but only if the right
settings are used. Remember I posted a problem with dial-up internet access
where my Pismo would go into kernel panic if it tried to dial out without a
on 9/3/03 11:54 AM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
beach ball was active searching for apps). Anyway, when the Finder returned
it hadn't found an app to open with. Selecting fewer docs results in less of
a lag. I've developed a similar kind of strategy with folders I've placed
on 9/3/03 1:00 PM, David Clark at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some things that appear to speed it up (no, most of these aren't
practical...): unmount volumes not containing apps you want to use to open
the files, delete or archive unused apps, blah blah blah. I have NOT,
however, heard of any
on 9/3/03 12:03 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yuck, I really didn't proof read this e-mail very closely... what I meant to
say was:
I will avoid moving the mouse of sub-menus in a pop-up folder unless I need
access its contents or I know there are only a few files in the folder
on 3/3/03 10:22 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i don't find this to be a fault, actually, and i'm fairly sure Apple
doesn't either ... it's actually an intentional design choice. it works
like this...
first tab - last application used
next tab - order of open icons on dock,
Ok, I think I see what's going on: you had a 2.5 drive in you Beige G3 (for
some bizarre reason -- why?).
What you need to do is to reinstall the Mac OS 8.1 on the HD and make sure
you install for *all* Macintoshes. Then you might be able to insert it into
the Wallstreet successfully.
Also, try
on 28/2/03 10:38 AM, Shannon M. Smith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Does the Wallstreet REQUIRE an HFS+ startup disk (currently its an
HFS volume).
No, you can even run OS 9 on HFS.
2) Is what Im doing insane?
No
3) Anything I havent thought of?
Probably ;P (see my
on 3/3/03 1:13 PM, Obrecht, Jerry A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I would suggest that you do two things. First off, have you reported
the problem to Apple? using the built-in bug reporting too that is in Safari?
If not, don't expect the problem to get resolved. Two, re-install
on 3/3/03 12:53 PM, Obrecht, Jerry A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I finally got some time to test out the OS update. I installed 10.2.3,
repeat 3, and haven't seen a pointer freeze yet. One of the sleeps was
about 24 hours long, which before was long enough to cause a freeze.
Chickened
on 1/3/03 12:56 PM, Laurent Daudelin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, before I spend more time, would there be people interested in that
little extension to the screen saver? Basically, right now, in OS X, if you
put your computer to sleep while the screen saver is not active, then waking
the
I had two kernel panics yesterday (both related to dial-up *yet again*, and
both reported the same information as preceding kernel panics). The one was
spectacular in what it did to the display. Here's what I posted to Apple's
discussion forum it describes the second of the k.p.s (the first
FYI: PowerBook G3 Firewire (Pismo)/400 512 MB RAM 10.2.4 OS 9.2.2
Safari 60, Chimera 0.6 2003022508, Outlook Express 5.0.6, 28.8 dial-up
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What type of RAM does the Beige G3 take? I thought it was regular (new)
PC66 DIMMs but someone is telling me that the Beige takes old style 168
pin RAM compatible with the pre-G3 PPCs.
For some reason I thought that RAM from a BW could be put into a Beige. I
guess I'm wrong?
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G-Books is
on 27/2/03 4:52 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
most/many unix distributions have a similar feature. in fact, booting any UNIX
into Single User mode (doing this varies widely by vendor, ranging from
horribly simple to horrifically difficult) gives SuperUser access to the
entire
on 27/2/03 6:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Exactly. This topic was recently discussed on another list and many of
us sadly miss the Password Security (or whatever it was called) Control
Panel utility that was lost and never regained after 9.0.4 when
From what I
on 27/2/03 6:34 PM, Ryan Coleman at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, superusers, when they log in via SSH, by default can do
anything. It is the equivalent of sitting at the box and logging in
as that super user.
FreeBSD is a little different, though. You cannot SSH as a superuser
(without
on 27/2/03 7:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From what I understand that's a Pismo-only thing. My girlfriend's
Lombard
9.2.2 can be set to request a password on boot (never experimented from
sleep though).
No, no, no. I respectfully beg to differ. For one thing, my old
on 27/2/03 9:27 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm thinking we're talking about different things -- the Password Security
thingy I'm referring to is a control panel (installed by the default OS
9.2.1/9.2.2 update on my gf's Lombard/333) which sets a password which is
requested
One quirk my Pismo is haunted with is a blank screen saver on wake up. I
like the Flurry (yes, it's CPU intensive but it looks cool) and 3/4 of the
times on wake-up Flurry displays. But the other 1/4 I get a blank (white)
screen instead. Somehow or other the screen saver just stops. Password
on 26/2/03 1:43 PM, Keith Potter at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A few days ago, I upgraded to 10.2.4. Yesterday I installed a
whole suite of Adobe design programs. Upon restarting my computer, I
seem to have lost all my preference settings. The dock is moved to the
default setting and
on 25/2/03 8:28 PM, Seth D Lumnah at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The $300 version is the Studio DV, the $400 version is the Studio
DV/TV. The addition is basically a tv tuner. The quality is great, its
hardware encoded and is at full dv.
What speed of computer do you need to do this? Will any
on 25/2/03 9:24 PM, Jim Schulze at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Next step is to isolate the offending app if possible. Since you've
tried
killing 2 of the 4 and that didn't help, you may have narrowed it down
to Office 2k or Quicken 2k.
I would try shutting those down and see if that helps
on 24/2/03 8:37 PM, Andre Ruegg at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This might be kind of simple, but I can't figure this out and I'm sure it
has a simple solution...
How or where can I customize the menu bar? In particular, I would like to
remove the Airport icon.
Thanks,
Andre
iBook 800
on 23/2/03 5:43 PM, Ryan Stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You probably have a more recent version than 0.4.4 because after reading
The 0.5.1a version does an excellent job with full screen AVIs on a 400 MHz
G3.
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Small Dog
Hello all, does anyone know how to turn off Rendezvous? I have a suspicion
that Rendezvous is what is causing my computer to 'spontaneously' dial out,
even when I haven't got a *single* application (other than Finder) open.
Thanks, Eric.
PS yes, I do know about 'Connect automatically when
Well, I answered my own question. You use:
/Applications/Utilities/Directory\ Access.app
to turn off Rendezvous.
I guess I can't find out right now if it works since I'm on a LAN but I'll
try it later on today at home and keep my fingers crossed.
Eric.
on 22/2/03 12:41 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL
on 22/2/03 1:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Network time, software update might also evoke a dial- up automagically.
Hmm. Hadn't considering those options -- I doubt software update is the
culprit since it runs on Wed, once a week.
Network time? Hmm. Unfortunately OS X
Some of you may remember (and may suffer from this ailment): Classic TCP/IP
DNS behave poorly after sleep, or when on a modem which is not connected to
the web on my Pismo/400 OS X 10.2.3/.4 (i.e. I get DNS not responding errors
that can only be fixed by restarting).
Well, it seems that those
on 22/2/03 1:56 PM, K. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not using Rend. but I had the same problem last year on my imac se 400 and
pismo 400...talked to apple tech and was told to shut off the network time
thing..it worked.. haven't had a problem since
hth
mike k
You'd think Apple could spend
on 20/2/03 12:23 PM, Obi-Wan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
*sigh*
This is very depressing
Why is that? The Microsoft Mac Business unit is in charge of it. They have
a proven commitment to the Mac platform and make fantastic products for the
Mac...better than the corresponding
on 20/2/03 9:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VPC is kind of an umbilical cord that would prolong such dependency and
notion that Apple has to fit in to the M$ world to survive.
I wish that were the case but it isn't -- I'm running so many different apps
under VPC that I'd
on 20/2/03 10:33 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VPC is kind of an umbilical cord that would prolong such dependency and
notion that Apple has to fit in to the M$ world to survive.
I wish that were the case but it isn't -- I'm running so many different apps
For me, that is.
--
G
I just discovered something very neat about my Pismo: I'm running it in
clamshell mode and it's doing video mirroring at a resolution not native
to its built in screen (1152*870).
This is one awesome little machine. At first I was kind of afraid I'd made a
mistake replacing my BW for something
sigh Kernel Panic #3 with 10.2.4! Stable? Yeah right!
It seems to be consistently related to dial-up (this time it happened b/c I
unplugged the modem to prevent auto-dial from interfering with a
conversation I was having on the phone. This is a bit of the info in the log
for each of the three
on 2/18/03 7:04 PM, Jeremy Derr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
second up is people doing weird crap to get around the OS X
installer... chiefly, trying to get around the 8GB Partition Limit by
first installing OS X with the drive installed in a non-8GB-limited
machine; i lump installing OS X on
Hello, has anyone else had problems with OS X 10.2.4 and kernel panics? The
update installed fine on my machine (Pismo/400 0.5 GB) but I've had two
panics in the past 24 hours -- one was apparently related to dial-up (I had
just been disconnected from the web when all of a sudden I had the panic
on 2/15/03 7:02 PM, Christopher D Helmkamp at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's certainly not something I've done. I don't screw with my computer
that much, and when I do, I have a great deal of knowledge how to do so
(former Unix programmer).
I was going to stay quiet and wait to see if it
on 14/2/03 11:15, Mark Kippert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Computer Geeks, I'm sure they are referring to the included software as
being unsupported by OSX (Jaguar). I would assume it will run in classic.
Extremely unlikely!!! That kind of software would require direct hardware
access and OS X
on 14/2/03 12:12, David M. Ensteness at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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.
catch). (3) Was the update
justifiable from a stability standpoint?
On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 12:55 PM, Eric D. wrote:
OS X 10.2 killed support for my drive ( I have had that verified from
another owner of the same drive): Sony 24/10/40 internal.
Question: Whose responsibility
Someone mentioned that 10.2.4 had added icons to the Dock that they'd
previously removed. I had the same experience. I find the iApps and web apps
to be next to useless so I remove them from the dock (Mail, iTunes,
AddressBook, iChat, iPhoto, Microsloth Internet Explorer) yet the update to
10.2.4
on 12/2/03 23:39, Mark Kippert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It doesn't happen to my BW G3 tower or to a Lombard/333. I was surprised by
this behaviour when it happened on my Pismo/400. Must be a new Mac thing
(i.e. post Lombard/BW era).
Perhaps it is on newer machines. I know it works on
on 12/2/03 00:11, Joe Ellis at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Eric;
I now follow what you are saying, unfortunately I'm afraid I can't offer an
answer. It almost sounds like expected behaviour for the conditions you
describe. I would suggest the following although I'm not sure it would help.
on 12/2/03 02:24, Jon Glass at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't used X or Classic in X yet,
so this may not be your problem, but it sure sounds similar to mine! :-)
It's probably the same basic coding/preferences problem but, you're right,
it's an OS X + Classic issue (when in OS 9 TCP/IP
on 2/11/03 10:05 PM, Eric D. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I swear this Pismo is possessed. I now have a mouse which only works in OS
9, and then only after OS 9 has got half way through the boot sequence.
Early in the boot process only the trackpad causes the cursor to move. It's
only after
Hello, I'm making the somewhat aggravating transition from LAN only (on a
BW G3/450 OS X 10.2.3; OS 9.2.2) to a mix of LAN and dial-up internet
access with a laptop (Pismo/400 OS X 10.2.3; OS 9.2.2; sweet little laptop.
A touch slower than the tower ( the difference in video RAM (8 vs 16 MB) is
on 21/5/02 18:02, Matthew D. O'Conner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
made a cup of tea in the meantime - reminded me of my old Mac SE when
using Excel 3.0's graphing feature), I restarted both machines and
then the disk images disappeared off of the two desktops.
What's the proper way to
on 18/5/02 14:37, ben at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
key command for opening the CD ROM drive on a pb Lombard?
(1) No CD in drive:
push the little button on the drive (middle of tray).
(2) CD in drive:
drag icon of CD to trash to eject disk open drive.
Running OS X? You have the additional
on 13/5/02 14:02, ben at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
7410 enabler had an error at boot:
failed to allocate nanokernel operator!
File: HelloWorld.cp
Line: 111
Error: - 1
what the hell does this mean??? it appears on start up of my girl friends
Lombard running Os 9.2.4
OS 9.2.4? Is this a
on 28/4/02 22:37, Donald Keenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder how long any G3 mac will be able to run OS X for the long
term. Supposedly OS 9 is the optimal OS for even my Pismo. I don't know
enough to speculate whether the window of opportunity to use pre-G4 macs
for OS X and UNIX
on 26/4/02 19:34, BG at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Gene Eric: I received 5 such emails from the LEM Swap list just now...
(Friday, 4/26); yet also one junk mail with no From address; and two
legit newsletters also not showing their From addresses...
If I understand Eric's reply below,
Hello, I've noticed some comments about people receiving blanks posts on
some LEM lists, and (I think) of people receiving virus-laden e-mails from
people whom they know, but who didn't send them. I suggest you check out
this link:
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,52055,00.html
Once
on 4/4/02 18:17, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
markemmanuel wrote:
Is there a free FTP client for MacOS X that I can use? I don't think it's
worth the money for what Fetch offers. All I want to do is upload files to
the virtual webserver I'm using. Thanks. :)
Since *when*
on 23/3/02 11:19, Paul Nicholson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a really nice browser called iCab, http://www.icab.de. It's still
under development and full support for java and style sheets is not done yet.
It's fast and has lots of features, but you'll still need another browser for
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