Re: OS 10 vs Windows?

2002-12-18 Thread George Gunderson
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 07:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 12/17/2002 11:45:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How did you get Jaguar on a rev A clamshell iBook? The Apple site says it needs 3 gig on the hard drive and that's the entire

Goodbye Pismo, hello iceBook

2002-12-18 Thread George Gunderson
Well, my iBook finally got here. Between the rotten weather here in upstate New York and FedEx not being able to find my house, it took them 11 days to get it here. It feels like forever since I've had a portable. After my Pismo gave up completely (it lost video the day before), the price

iBook Power Jack (Re: no subject)

2002-12-18 Thread George Gunderson
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 10:53 AM, Lohr McKinstry wrote: I'm hoping that all of you with snow iBooks can help me with a possible problem. I bought a refurbished iBook 600MHz (Dual USB). Everything about it is fine, except the AC adapter jack on the side. It is slightly angled,

Re: Goodbye Pismo, hello iceBook

2002-12-18 Thread George Gunderson
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 06:43 AM, wappling wrote: RE; congrats,it sound great, are you allowed to say what outfit it came from? thankyou in advance Sure, I found the deal right on LEM's Best iBook and PowerBook Deals http://www.lowendmac.com/ibook/deals.html I got it from

Re: OS 10 vs Windows?

2002-12-18 Thread George Gunderson
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 12:19 PM, Amber Rhea wrote: On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 11:18 AM, (G-Books) wrote: Compare this to Mac OS (9 or X) where you plug in a USB or FireWire drive and (*GASP*) it just works! I have to add to this discussion, too. A few weeks ago I was

Re: PowerBook vs. iBook

2002-12-03 Thread George Gunderson
On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 05:17 AM, B.J. Major wrote: The iBook is almost impossible to service other than the RAM chip and the battery, while the Pismo is very user friendly, takes more memory and has expansion bays which give you all sorts of options. Also, the screen on the

Video not working on Pismo

2002-11-29 Thread George Gunderson
PowerBook G3 Pismo 400 1GB RAM/40GB HD OS X v10.2/9.2.2 Yesterday my Pismo froze after playing a quicktime video, so I restarted it. The screen stayed black for several minutes, so I tried restarting it again, but still nothing. The third time, the screen flashed white for a split second,

Re: DVD writer for Pismo as an Expansion bay?

2002-11-02 Thread George Gunderson
On Friday, Nov 1, 2002, at 22:19 US/Eastern, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 01/11/02 20:42, Nick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know whether there exists a DVD-writer for the Pismo as an expansion bay? Never heard of any. I think part of the reason is that the current technology

Re: Yo-yo failures

2002-11-02 Thread George Gunderson
On Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, at 00:10 US/Eastern, Charlie Meyerson wrote: For the second time in less than a year, I've just received a replacement yo-yo adapter from Apple for my graphite iBook (SE). Two now have developed shorts or some other defect that prevents the iBook from getting a

Re: 99% charge

2002-11-02 Thread George Gunderson
On Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, at 08:26 US/Eastern, Jim Freeman wrote: For the past couple of days my Pismo has been showing a 99% charge even though I leave it plugged in all the time. What happened to 100%? My PowerBook won't show a time until charged, just Calculating... It seems to have

Re: 99% charge

2002-11-02 Thread George Gunderson
On Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, at 10:41 US/Eastern, Tony Jayms wrote: At 9:15 -0500 2/11/02, George Gunderson wrote: My PowerBook won't show a time until charged, just Calculating... It seems to have happened recently, so maybe it's a Jaguar thing? It does show a time until charged, it just takes

Re: Yo-yo failures

2002-11-02 Thread George Gunderson
On Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, at 09:42 US/Eastern, Nick wrote: Could you tell me where you got your BTI power adapter? I got mine from buymicro.com, but they're a pretty common thing. The Madsonline one is nice too, smaller than the BTI one. The BTI happened to be convenient for me to get at

Re: 99% charge

2002-11-02 Thread George Gunderson
On Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, at 11:02 US/Eastern, Tony Jayms wrote: At 10:55 -0500 2/11/02, George Gunderson wrote: Heh, my battery has been at 100% for two hours now and it still shows Calculating... Well if it is 100% charged it can't go to 101% can it :-) The CPU is using cycling all

Re: S key being difficult, help, also on s key

2002-10-30 Thread George Gunderson
On Monday, Oct 28, 2002, at 13:12 US/Eastern, Dwight Hines wrote: On my firewire Pismo, the s key is not as easy to get to make a mark on the screen as the other keys. Anyone have suggestions? It is a real pain because I have to rehit the key and that destroys my speed and accuracy

Re: Password Protection

2002-10-10 Thread George Gunderson
OS X and firmware passwords provide some protection, but can be easily worked around if someone has physical access to the PowerBook. You may want to look into encryption for the best protection, depending on how sensitive your data is. GmG -- Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords

Re: Where did you get the BTI adapter for your Pismo, cost and does anyone have an Apple tattoo?

2002-09-07 Thread George Gunderson
On Saturday, Sep 7, 2002, at 09:18 US/Eastern, Dwight Hines wrote: I am in the same budget range as you are, about $25, including shipping. This now should be possible since the PB1400, PB3400, the G3 series, the DUO 200 and Duo 2300 powersupplies will work on a Pismo. But where did

Re: power supply for PB1400 will work with Pismo?

2002-09-06 Thread George Gunderson
On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 02:24 US/Eastern, Ryan Coleman wrote: I would buy a G3 Series adapter (generally $20-30 less than the Pismo UFO adapter) because they are rated the exact same. Here, here! I have two yo-yo kills to my credit and am refusing to add a third to my credit. A BTI

Re: power supply for PB1400 will work with Pismo?

2002-09-06 Thread George Gunderson
On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 11:44 US/Eastern, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 02:24 US/Eastern, Ryan Coleman wrote: I would buy a G3 Series adapter (generally $20-30 less than the Pismo UFO adapter) because they are rated the exact same. Here, here! I have two yo-yo

Re: power supply for PB1400 will work with Pismo?

2002-09-06 Thread George Gunderson
On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 12:50 US/Eastern, George Gunderson wrote: Hopefully its going to end today with the arrival of the FedEx truck! sigh of relief I just discovered the BTI adapter on the front porch. Works fine. Not as nice as a Madsonline, but at least this one came complete

Re: DVD dysfunction

2002-08-17 Thread George Gunderson
On Saturday, August 17, 2002, at 12:04 , Jim Katz wrote: Upgraded to 9.2 on a TiBook, and lost the DVD. Tried downloadind upgrade 1.1 and then 2.7 and some of the error messages disappeared. Now it says it can't find DVDRuntimeLib--getBounds_7GWorldFV Anyone run into this and

Re: Pismo doesn't see FireWire QPS Que!

2002-07-30 Thread George Gunderson
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 04:05 , Sam Donaldson wrote: Thanks for the advice guys, but the Que! is just not showing up anymore, old cable or new cable. Nada. Never mind. Looks like I can kiss my FW ports goodbye... That stinks...my Pismo freezes up when I plug my Sony Spressa iLink

Re: Pismo doesn't see FireWire QPS Que!

2002-07-30 Thread George Gunderson
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 04:46 , Thomas Ethen wrote: My Pismo sees my Spressa just fine, but really likes it when I already have it plugged in when I boot the PowerBook. If I plug it in after boot, sometimes it will see the Sony and sometimes it won't. I don't remember offhand if I

Re: new drive for pismo

2002-06-29 Thread George Gunderson
On Saturday, June 29, 2002, at 08:02 , Michael Ward wrote: I need a larger drive (30+GB) for the ol' pis. suggestions?? make, model, ups and downs, ins and outs In December I got a Toshiba 40GB and have been very satisfied. No problems, a very quiet drive, much quieter than the stock IBM

Re: Unsubscribe email

2002-06-23 Thread George Gunderson
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 05:21 , Ryan Coleman wrote: 2) My roommate niether feeds nor gives water to my cat. Thus: 3) She vomits. Maybe twice. UGH. I should skip paying rent for having to wash my floor (again). Ryan, One of my cats vomited this morning...I woke to the sound of

Re: Unsubscribe email

2002-06-23 Thread George Gunderson
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 06:58 , George Gunderson wrote: On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 05:21 , Ryan Coleman wrote: 2) My roommate niether feeds nor gives water to my cat. Thus: 3) She vomits. Maybe twice. UGH. I should skip paying rent for having to wash my floor (again). Ryan, One

Re: Test

2002-06-23 Thread George Gunderson
On Sunday, June 23, 2002, at 05:42 , Roger Shufflebottom wrote: Testing - new PB - anyone seeing this? Coming through loud and clear...enjoy your new 'book! Best Regards, George M. Gunderson editor-in-chief: thinkAAPL.com Macintosh News and Views -- G-Books is sponsored by

$50 Airport Cards

2002-06-02 Thread George Gunderson
Does anyone know where you can get the $50 Airport Cards currently? I finally went to buy one from OWC and they seemed to be gone...crossedfingersmaybe they'll renew their stock again!/crossedfingers GmG -- Obviously I was either onto something, or on something. -- Larry Wall

Re: Screen Probs

2002-05-24 Thread George Gunderson
On Friday, May 24, 2002, at 08:48 , JustinLee wrote: They just make the screen look bad when viewing from the side in certain lights. It's also really noticeable when the screen is dark while viewing a DVD. GmG -- Obviously I was either onto something, or on something. -- Larry

Re: and so it ends

2002-05-15 Thread George Gunderson
On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 11:32 , Jim Freeman wrote: What is it about landlords? I'm furious at mine right now because he's dragging his feet on some long promised repairs. Why not put the next couple month's rent toward that TiBook? Let's see...the sink leaks, the roof leaks, there's a

Re: Pismo DVD ROM acting up

2002-04-26 Thread George Gunderson
On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 12:42 , James wrote: So unless you can find one cheap (unlikely) Someone on LEM Swap had one about a week or two ago for under $200, FWIW... -- GmG ...the bounty hunters, who are gathered in spaceship BEBOP, will play freely without fear of risky things,

Re: Pismo replacement feet!

2002-04-25 Thread George Gunderson
On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 07:38 , Gene Wright wrote: someone mentioned that replacement rubber feet could be found at Home Depot, or some such place. Anyone remember? What works better than the feet is that foam rubber web stuff that's used to line your kitchen cupboards with. I

Re: VST Zip 100 Expansion Bay Zip Drives

2002-04-18 Thread George Gunderson
On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 02:14 , Vic Viet Duong wrote: Hello everyone, just noticed this and wanted to pass this along: VST Zip 100 Expansion Bay Zip Drives available for only $19.99 at MacZone Lombard/Pismo G3 PowerBooks (bronze keyboard -- FireWire). In other words, these

Re: Good, inexpensive digital camera

2002-04-15 Thread George Gunderson
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 09:54 , lee wrote: -- I'm looking to get a digital camera, but I'm not sure what's good considering how many different models are out there. I'm willing to spend no more than $300, so what could I get in that price range that would work with FireWire (I have a

Re: OT: kinda... Free GUI FTP client for MacOSX

2002-04-08 Thread George Gunderson
On Monday, April 8, 2002, at 12:09 , Bruce Johnson wrote: markemmanuel wrote: That's why I asked for a GUI FTP client. :) Well, here, I'll smear some peanut buytter on the screen, and voila' : A gooey FTP client! LOL, will Kleer Screen get that off my LCD? -- GmG ...the bounty hunters,