Re: Screen size and iBooks (was Re: New PowerBooks)0

2005-02-16 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 06:57 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Screen size and iBooks (was Re: New PowerBooks)0 But what do you get with a 14 display with a 1600x1200 res other than the right to

Re: Safari/Camino/non-IE browser problems?

2005-02-16 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of - drive - drift - dream - Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 10:38 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Safari/Camino/non-IE browser problems? I also have a lot of DNS issues even in IE, for a while half the sites I want to

Re: Hard Drive upgrade choices

2005-02-16 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Johnson Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 17:35 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Hard Drive upgrade choices http://tinyurl.com/6qcju This is PBFixit's page on iBooks, it only goes up to the 900 Mhz model, but I think

Re: Fuse in Yo-Yo?

2005-02-15 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Kattwinkel Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 00:12 To: G-Books Subject: Fuse in Yo-Yo? Is there a fuse inside the Yo-Yo power cord (for dual-USB iBook G3), and if so is there any way to get in there and replace

Re: Screen size and iBooks (was Re: New PowerBooks)0

2005-02-15 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 15:01 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Screen size and iBooks (was Re: New PowerBooks)0 There are many higher resolution 14 screens out there. IBM has 1600X1200 14 panels, and I'm sure

Re: iBook mini and PowerBook mini

2005-02-14 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dana Sibera Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 20:48 To: G-Books Subject: iBook mini and PowerBook mini I thought y'all might have a bit of a chuckle at this :). be well, dana

Re: iBook mini and PowerBook mini

2005-02-14 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Johnson Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 14:09 To: G-Books Subject: Re: iBook mini and PowerBook mini Gah, tablets are still failing in the general marketplace, I expect Apple's staying *out* of that morass.

Re: OSX 10.3.8 on Pismo?

2005-02-10 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rad Craig Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 13:23 To: G-Books Subject: OSX 10.3.8 on Pismo? I see that 10.3.8 just came out and x.3.7 wouldn't work on my Pismos, wouldn't recognize the CDs. I wanted to know if

Re: iBooks booting from CD?

2005-02-09 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of - drive - drift - dream - Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 22:20 To: G-Books Subject: Re: iBooks booting from CD? Why do they do that to the machines? I'm buying a new computer, why can't I install whatever OS

Re: iBooks booting from CD?

2005-02-09 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Johnson Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 10:53 To: G-Books Subject: Re: iBooks booting from CD? On Feb 8, 2005, at 8:19 PM, - drive - drift - dream - wrote: You may need to install the current Python package

Re: Printing and Wireless Connectivity

2005-02-04 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark D. Chapman Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:35 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Printing and Wireless Connectivity That is a good question. I don't know if the wireless router supports appletalk or not. It does

Re: Printing and Wireless Connectivity

2005-02-03 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark D. Chapman Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 21:32 To: G-Books Subject: Printing and Wireless Connectivity 4, If I chain the two routers together by plugging one of the ports on the wireless router into a Lan

Re: Wireless connectivity?

2005-02-01 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hector I.Macedo Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 18:49 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Wireless connectivity? Sorry, Bob, the card is 802.11b/Wi-Fi Wireless, its going to be used with System 9.22 to try to access a network

Pismo PRAM Battery

2005-01-31 Thread John C. Swanson
I am pretty sure my PRAM battery is going on my Pismo. The system clock loses the date and time if I remove power and the battery and I have been having booting issues. Can anyone recommend a cheap place for a replacement? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: MCE is at it again! 100 gig internal HDD for Pismo!

2005-01-31 Thread John C. Swanson
On Jan 29, 2005, at 5:39 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Oh ok. I didn't know we had internal drives that had broken the 80 gig barrier. Cool. . . Seagate even has a 5400RPM 100GB drive. It's 'only' $200 at NewEgg. Wow, it even has a five year warranty, I didn't realized that they increased the

Re: pine wood derby

2005-01-27 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Vogt Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 16:07 To: G-Books Subject: Re: pine wood derby Ok so I'm being dumb here I went to the web site and then I went to the download now I saw three options which one is the

Re: sticky keyboard

2005-01-25 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dylan Moore Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 00:34 To: G-Books Subject: sticky keyboard Hey, just to add to what laurent has said-- I would strongly advise AGAINST the use of soap- and just use water. why? If i

Re: Playing DVDs on a Wallstreet running OSX

2005-01-24 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Dyer Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 01:31 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Playing DVDs on a Wallstreet running OSX The Lombard and the Wallstreet were both able to play DVDs under OS 9 by virtue of a DVD decoder

Re: Painting AlBook ???

2005-01-20 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aase Marit Waage Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 17:57 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Painting AlBook ??? Anyway, maybe contacting Apple would be a better idea (Maybe they had a dead iBook to pull one from)?. I not only

Re: printer recommendations

2005-01-18 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Poulin Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:44 To: G-Books Subject: Re: printer recommendations On Jan 15, 2005, Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might consider an HP. Their print cartridge combines the

Re: 12 iBook (new) - external monitor resolution ?

2005-01-14 Thread John C. Swanson
At 8:04 PM +0100 1/14/05, Larry le Mac wrote: I am thinking of buying a brand new iBook when it comes with Tiger (saves me buying it seperately), though I have a question: If I connect an external TFT screen, not as mirror but expanded desktop, what resolution can the iBook 12 32MB VRAM go up to

Re: Upgraded PowerBook G3 Pismo as OS X Server?

2005-01-13 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew McCall Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 06:32 To: G-Books Subject: Upgraded PowerBook G3 Pismo as OS X Server? Can anyone tell me if its possible to tell the Pismo laptop not to go to sleep when you close the

Re: Dead Pismo

2005-01-13 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Richards Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 14:34 To: G-Books Subject: Dead Pismo My Pismo wont boot up, system is powered with AC adapater as well as having the M7318 battery inserted and charging (?) I have

Re: Wireless keyboard/mouse (was G4 AlBook as a desktop ???

2004-12-17 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harry D.Corsover Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:41 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Wireless keyboard/mouse (was G4 AlBook as a desktop ??? Can't help you with this one. I haven't tried their wireless mouse, since I

Re: Applecare for Powerbooks

2004-12-17 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amber Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:14 To: G-Books Subject: Applecare for Powerbooks The end of the first year of warranty is fast approaching for my G4 Powerbook and I am looking at have to pay almost $400.00 to

Re: G4 AlBook as a desktop ???

2004-12-13 Thread John C. Swanson
In my experience which granted, does not include 'AL'Books nor the new keyboards that don't have a power key, is that just hook the PowerBook up to everything with the lid closed and then use the power key on the keyboard. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: G4 AlBook as a desktop ???

2004-12-13 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcin Wichary Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 17:57 To: G-Books Subject: Re: G4 AlBook as a desktop ??? However, if you are using a LCD monitor, I'd recommend against never sleeping the monitor as you will

Re: Lombard Recommendations

2004-12-08 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 14:01 To: G-Books Subject: Lombard Recommendations Hello all. I just bought a used 333MHz Lombard for my daughter to use, mostly at home, along with a new Orinoco Gold card

Re: DV editing and dvd burning realistic on a Pismo?

2004-12-07 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurent Daudelin Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 16:35 To: G-Books Subject: Re: DV editing and dvd burning realistic on a Pismo? I am about to buy a DV camcorder and am hoping to edit movies on my Pismo, and burn

Re: Palm OS ugrade path for Pismo

2004-12-06 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 18:26 To: G-Books Subject: Palm OS ugrade path for Pismo I have Palm OS 2.5 on my Pismo and will be buying a Treo 650 soon. Will the new Palm OS be able to take all of

Re: Dead Pismo

2004-12-06 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurent Daudelin Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 17:36 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Dead Pismo On 06/12/04 17:32, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to figure out why my Pismo is not working.. and find best place to

Re: Dead Pismo

2004-12-06 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurent Daudelin Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 17:36 To: G-Books Subject: Re: Dead Pismo On 06/12/04 17:32, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to figure out why my Pismo is not working.. and find best place to

Re: Wi-Fi, Pismo and Panasonic Cordless Phone

2004-12-03 Thread John C. Swanson
Sorry to be so late answering all your helpful posts, but I learned the hard way the answer to my problem: Two days ago there was a BIG fire in a warehouse about 2 miles from my apartment. It was so big that burned the electrical and cable TV wires that feed a large part of my area. So I was

Re: OS X first timer - blank password

2004-12-03 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry le Mac Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 12:25 To: G-Books Subject: Re: OS X first timer - blank password From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Boot off of the install disk and you can set/change the password. Doesn't

Re: IceBook PowerAdapter trouble (again) ???

2004-11-26 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 03:50 To: G-Books Subject: Re: IceBook PowerAdapter trouble (again) ??? Well when that happened to my 3400 I just had to solder the contacts where the power adapter

Re: AlBook Wacom Graphire @ startup ???

2004-11-26 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Lesher Sent: Friday, November 26, 2004 09:39 To: G-Books Subject: Re: AlBook Wacom Graphire @ startup ??? I'm hardpressed to believe this, as the USB driver chip controls the current, and Apple has to buy

Re: TiBook display repair (follow-up)

2004-11-02 Thread John C. Swanson
Laurent: Unless you have a spare ribbon cable, I'm afraid you'll need to pretty much disassemble the assembly display in order to test the new one you got. I'm confused on this one. What cable you refer to? The display assembly has all the cables it needs, so I should just be able to plug

Re: Warm + silent Pismo

2004-11-02 Thread John C. Swanson
Have you tried the reset button on the back of the laptop inside the port cover? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449 -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 11:22 To: G-Books Subject: Warm

Re: Wireless but not AirPort ???

2004-11-02 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry le Mac Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 12:37 To: G-Books Subject: Wireless but not AirPort ??? I am fixing a PowerBook Lombard or an IceBook for my wife and she'll probably want it to be wireless, but rather

Re: Wall Street and external DVD drive?

2004-10-29 Thread John C. Swanson
With the G4/500 it shouldn't be a problem, but I don't know about the USB 1.1 card. I've never tried playing a DVD over USB 1 but, you might need Firewire or USB 2. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Goldberg Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 14:32

Re: UDF CDs in OS X?

2004-10-27 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 17:05 To: G-Books Subject: UDF CDs in OS X? We gots dozens of CDs here, in UDF format, that can't be read on our brand new PowerBook... *grumble* Apple's UDF driver

Re: Compatibility of OS10 with the Wallstreet II 233

2004-10-27 Thread John C. Swanson
On 27 Oct 2004, at 23:36, Michael Clarke wrote: Thanks Ben and Bob, So if I were going to start from scratch and set up multiple partitions, would the install of OS X still be pretty straightforward? I mean, using XPostFacto to run the install, will it give me the option of choosing a

Re: New iBook and price protection?

2004-10-19 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 15:59 To: G-Books Subject: Re: New iBook and price protection? No such luck, different form factor on the cards. Still you are correct that the new iBook is a far better

Re: Display quality ibook vs. powerbook

2004-10-19 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sam Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 16:29 To: G-Books Subject: Display quality ibook vs. powerbook Looking for opinions on the display quality of the current generation iBook and Powerbook. Realizing LCD size, aspect

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread John C. Swanson
Yeah I really hope Apple releases a PowerBook with the new dual core processor. How cool would it be to carry around a dual processor laptop? Laugh at all those Windows users with their puny single processor laptops. I might even have to give up my beloved Pismo for one of those. -Original

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread John C. Swanson
. I would love to have my PowerBook be dual core and I would equally love my Dell Latitude to be dual core, though I see the first being available long before the second. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John C. Swanson Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11

Re: G 5 Powerbooks.

2004-10-15 Thread John C. Swanson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank P. Eigler Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 16:57 To: G-Books Subject: Re: G 5 Powerbooks. I thought that most of these issues would've been dealt with considering they have G5 servers.

Re: Interchangeability of ATA HDDs

2004-10-15 Thread John C. Swanson
On Oct 15, 2004, at 3:30 PM, G-Books wrote: Are ATA drives interchangeable so that I can use the Seagate drive in the Pismo? I have used Hitachi(IBM) and Seagate drives with no problem. I would recommend a 5400rpm drive as it will make things a little faster, and with prices so cheap now I

Replacement Pismo DVD

2004-10-13 Thread John C. Swanson
My LG DVD-ROM in my Pismo finally died, so its time to replace the drive. The problem I have is that I want a drive with a faceplate that matches the drive slot. All the Mac upgrade stores that I have looked at sell drives that have a standard flat faceplate at twice the cost of the drive. I am