Re: iBooks booting from CD?

2005-02-08 Thread Jacob
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:52:00 -0500, - drive - drift - dream - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My otherwise lovely new iBook came preinstalled with Panther, which unfortunately, I just found that one of my main apps won't run in, and there's no known fix. So I go and partition off part of the drive

Re: Erasing hard drive with two partitions

2005-01-30 Thread Jacob
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:12:48 -0700, Lowell Neudeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an iBook 800 with OS 10.2 on it. I have an external firewire drive which I originally formatted with two partitions. I would like to reformat the external drive to one partition only. How do I do that? TIA

Re: iBook or PowerBook

2005-01-16 Thread Jacob
Key question: Is your 17 TFT's (or any other monitor you may eventually want on your iBook) native screen resolution higher than your proposed iBook's? You can't drive an external monitor of any sort at a higher resolution than what the iBook is capable of displaying on its own screen, and

Re: New iBook memory ??? PC2100 same as desktop ???

2005-01-14 Thread Jacob
no, you need SODIMM type memory, same as PC laptops. Standard computer memory wont physically fit in the iBook (or any other laptop for that matter) On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:19:48 +0100, Larry le Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thinking of buying a new iBook 12 and would then like to add some

Re: Can Macs read DVD +R disks ?

2005-01-08 Thread Jacob
Yes you should be able to, I have burnt some +R discs and they are readable on my iBook. *However*, not all +R discs may work, a +R disc is apparently readable in 80% of dvd drives whilst -R is readable in drives. The general rule of thumb is that recent computers should be able to read pretty

Re: MP3 editor required - any suggestions?

2004-12-12 Thread Jacob
Audacity is quite good: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about.php There's quite a large list of audio programs on this website too: http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/mac/AUDIO_EDITORS/ On 12 Dec 2004, at 20:19, simon goslin wrote: howdy! i'd like to obtain a decent free mp3 editor that's

Re: FireFox

2004-11-03 Thread Jacob
What exactly happens when you try to launch it? I've tried both the preview release and the release candidate binaries on my icebook running both 10.3.3 and 10.3.5 and have had no problems whatsoeverthe disk image mounts, I copy it to my apps folder and it just works when launched. On Wed,

firewire networking

2004-10-11 Thread Jacob
Hi all, I have an icebook in which I wish to network to a PC using firewire. What's the best application on the mac side to allow me to do this? I usually would just network using the ethernet port, but the pc's being used as a server and so I cannot unplug it. Thanks in advance. -- G-Books is

Re: firewire networking

2004-10-11 Thread Jacob
FireWire. Just search the apple.com site for it. Cheers, Ben On 11 Oct 2004, at 18:54, Jacob wrote: Hi all, I have an icebook in which I wish to network to a PC using firewire. What's the best application on the mac side to allow me to do this? I usually would just network using the ethernet port

RAM compatibility

2003-12-11 Thread Jacob Saariaho
I just inherited a slot loading iMac 350 MHz that I want to upgrade to Panther. Question is, will the 128 MB DIMM that I took out of my 333 MHz G3 PowerBook work in it. - Jacob -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Jacob Saariaho
. I've attempted three more times with almost the same exact results, (one time the screen just went black). I've already used the discs to install Panther on my iMac, so I'm reasonably sure it's not a bad disc problem. Anybody have ideas or suggestions? Jacob -- G-Books is sponsored by http

Re: Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Jacob Saariaho
All of my ram is 3rd party. On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Steve Fuller wrote: Try formatting the disk before installing. You're doing a clean install, right? Turn on the option of zeroing all data if you can. Make sure to unplug any peripheral that might be connected to the

Re: Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Jacob Saariaho
a screensaver. Question is, once I'm done with the installation can I just pop the DIMM back in place and go about my business? - Jacob On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Krevnik wrote: I doubt the RAM is causing a problem at that point in the installation. When it is that late

Re: Camera Not Connected

2003-11-19 Thread Jacob Saariaho
This can't be entirely true. I use iMovie 2 on my Lombard 333 (No FireWire) and connect to my Canon DV Cam using a FireWire Card. On Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at 10:41 AM, Steve Moody wrote: On Nov 18, 2003, at 8:03 PM, Melvin Watts wrote: I got a Wallstreet [233] running OS 9.2, iMovie

Re: Improper off-list emails

2003-11-03 Thread Jacob Saariaho
You know what? Spam or no-Spam, off-list or on. This List has gotten very tiresome this past week I don't need my email clogged up with 40 part discussions on email propriety or geek debates on Apple and Microsoft politics. I thought this was a better alternative to slogging through message

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-28 Thread Jacob Saariaho
Look, I really appreciate all the corporate ass kissing and lawyer bashing, but I just wanted to know what exactly is claimed in the lawsuit? That Apple didn't offer support for G3 users? Falsely advertised compatibility for computers that weren't and then didn't offer refunds to customers who

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-28 Thread Jacob Saariaho
I have generally found that most large corp's (despite what your left-wing idiots in CA think) ARE interested in the little guy. I find this entire statement confusing, because (a.) I've never heard anyone claim that large corporations really do have the little guys' best interest at heart, and

Re: Giving up on Lombard OS X

2003-10-06 Thread Jacob Saariaho
more, could I get a faster machine? duh... but for a cheap portable solution I think it's a fantastic machine for running Jaguar. Jacob P.S. I should mention that I got the computer for free a couple of months ago. If I had spent $2500 on it 4 years ago I probably would have been saving my money

Lombard Upgrades

2003-09-26 Thread Jacob Saariaho
Finished my upgrades last night. I got a hand-me-down Lombard from a friend who was replacing it with a 15 TiBook. The screen was shattered and the battery was dead (I tried every fix I could find online and from previous G-Book messages, so I'm pretty sure it's really and truly dead). I

Re: Lombard Battery Memory

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Saariaho
I was going to upgrade my HD to a 20GB 5400RPM IBM TravelStar but Other World Computing was out of stock. I got impatient and went with with 30GB 4200RPM, was this a mistake? I'm hoping to get my Lombard up to speed to at least work iMovie and maybe Final Cut Pro. I don't expect it to cruise

Re: Lombard Battery Memory

2003-09-22 Thread Jacob Saariaho
I'm in a similar situation myself, with a Lombard I got as a hand-me-down. I just purchased both the high profile and low profile 256 chips from Otherworld Computing. With 128 MB my Lombard runs Jaguar surprisingly well, but it is slow. I'm also replacing the hard drive with a larger and

Lombard upgrade

2003-09-19 Thread Jacob Saariaho
I inherited a G3 PowerBook G3 with a cracked screen and a dead battery. I've already replaced the screen with an eBay purchase (good as new) and now am looking to do a series of upgrades. I'm about to place an order for a new battery, more RAM, a 20GB HD, and a firewire card from Otherworld