Re: Backlit keyboards

2006-02-04 Thread John McGibney
On Feb 4, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Seth Austen wrote: On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Harry Corsover wrote: Just on the off chance that this is not already obvious: You do know about the two Fkeys that adjust the backlight brightness, right? F9 and F10. They do not seem to have any effect unless

Re: A cautionary tale for Sydney (.au) Macsters

2006-02-02 Thread John McGibney
On Feb 2, 2006, at 1:55 PM, Geoffrey Peters wrote: Well, I've a tale to tell. That nice, virtually mind condition Pismo I'd been given, isn't my Pismo. And the technician who fixed it for me has ripped me off, so myself, along with the machine's original owner and two officers from the

Re: CD-ROM booting

2006-02-02 Thread John McGibney
On Feb 2, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: Dear listers, I've got an old Toshiba 10X CD-ROM that I swapped into my Lombard, because the stock DVD-ROM was getting flaky, but it's not letting me boot from a known good SuSE Linux disc, even though it shows up in the Finder perfectly

Re: printing ?

2006-01-20 Thread John McGibney
Look for an extension called print Monitor, do a get info (Apple- I), select memory and triple the amount thats there. John On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:14 AM, Caleb Cupples wrote: How much RAM does she have? Also, it may be a bug in the printer driver, so I'd try updating. Of course, if there's

Re: Battery Time Left (Pismo)

2006-01-20 Thread John McGibney
, John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SlimBatteryMonitor, it loads a menu icon that can be color coded, shows time left till empty, shows percent charged while charging and pops up a dialog box when the battery gets to 10% left. And its donationware, pay only if you want to. John John, I

Re: system errors update

2006-01-20 Thread John McGibney
Do you have a second machine running X? If so link the 2 via firewire and start your problem machine while holding the T key. This will start it in target mode, the hard drive will show up as a firewire drive. Try running your diagnostics/repairs from the second machine. John On Jan 20,

Re: system errors

2006-01-19 Thread John McGibney
Three things to try before you nuke and install. 1. Use 'Preferential Treatment' to check your preference files. 2. Try Archive/Install without keeping network/user settings. 3. install 'AppleJack' and run it at startup. It loads in safe mode, follow instructions for use. both apps can be

Re: Battery Time Left

2006-01-19 Thread John McGibney
I use SlimBatteryMonitor, it loads a menu icon that can be color coded, shows time left till empty, shows percent charged while charging and pops up a dialog box when the battery gets to 10% left. And its donationware, pay only if you want to. John On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Daniel

Re: Airport network problem

2006-01-19 Thread John McGibney
try starting here. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300661 Also I had to use Hex vs ASCII for password mode in order to connect to a Windows router. It has something to do with how the Mac Windows handle password encoding differently. John On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:12 PM,

Re: no Battery Time Left on Pismo

2006-01-15 Thread John McGibney
Various upgrades to Tiger screwed up Apple's battery monitor software. Try using one of the freebee aftermarket ones found at versiontracker.com. They seem immune to the upgrade bug. John On Jan 15, 2006, at 6:42 PM, Andrew in Ann Arbor wrote: For some reason I can no longer get info on

Re: HD warranty question

2006-01-10 Thread John McGibney
On Jan 10, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Frank P. Eigler wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Mike Kauspedas wrote: I've had TechTool running for ~ 10 hours and it's showing 601 bad blocks (block 359040 of 156301488) so far. Mike Kauspedas Thanks, and understood. But if the problems are resolved with a

Re: G3 Wallstreet CDROM drive tray won't open all the way

2006-01-03 Thread John McGibney
I had a similar problem with my PB1400, it was the ribbon cable on the bottom. There was a kink in it. I had to tape it out of the way. John On Jan 3, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Edward Felberbaum wrote: I recently became the proud owner of an Apple G3 Wallstreet. The CDROM drive, M2451, has a

Re: Lombard won't boot

2006-01-02 Thread John McGibney
Isn't the Lombard too old a design for Open Firmware? According to Mactracker Hardware Test isn't supported. The Pismo is the first Powerbook that is. John According to Apple: Beginning with Power Macintosh computers with PCI slots, Power Macintosh computers rely on a firmware operating

Re: Cleaning wipes for PB

2005-12-19 Thread John McGibney
I used them regularly on my PB1400 for years with no ill results. John On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:25 AM, AMBER K wrote: I was wondering about the baby wipe idea. They are pretty cheap and if alcohol free, would they do any damage to the screen, short term or long term ? -- Only when the

Re: OT: Mac mini slowing down...

2005-12-19 Thread John McGibney
MacJanitor, Onyx (my choice) Cocktail, etc. can all be found at versiontracker.com. If you're looking for just about any software try there first. Including upgrades for commercial programs. John On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:30 AM, Caleb Cupples wrote: Well, the only programs he uses with any

Re: Cleaning wipes for PB

2005-12-18 Thread John McGibney
I'll add my 2 cents too! Non-alchohol baby-wipes. they're also good for cleaning ink off your printer. John On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: Now, here's my $0.02, but I've used several different methods to clean laptop screens over the years, but I've had no problems

Re: slow lombard OS9.2

2005-12-12 Thread John McGibney
Monday morning blsss. ; ( actually it was probably just a bunch of cache files hanging around long past their welcome wore out. John On Dec 12, 2005, at 1:55 PM, Kristina wrote: I turned it off and had spaghetti for lunch, turned it back off, runs fine now...spaghetti

Re: Macs and eBay

2005-12-04 Thread John McGibney
I use eBay with no problems. Tech support is woefully ignorant. you're back to keyboard/input problems. Make sure that you don't have Universal access enabled. Check in international settings for US/English. Try opening a new text document and type each key to make sure they all type

Re: Macs/Safari problems

2005-12-04 Thread John McGibney
On Dec 4, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Amber R. wrote: I am just curious about a couple of things : 1. On many websites, again when using Safari, when I try to enter my postal code, it will keep coming up as just 6's and 1's. 2. On the www.westjet.com site (airline, using Safari, it simply does

Re: Macs/Safari problems

2005-12-04 Thread John McGibney
you need a 3rd party utility like Safari Enhancer or Onyx both are available through Versiontracker.com John P.S. Amber, it was with Safari 10.4.3. Sounds like major directory, App, or pref. file problems with Safari. On Dec 4, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Shawn Harley wrote: How do you enable the

Re: Video bad after update to 10.2.8

2005-11-18 Thread John McGibney
Are you using a custom color profile for your screen? If so return to the Factory LCD profile and restart. John On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:52 AM, Clark Martin wrote: At 12:53 AM -0600 11/18/05, Hubert Phillips II wrote: Hi! I just updated my iBook G3/700 from 10.2 to 10.2.8. After the

Re: mac to windows printing

2005-11-15 Thread John McGibney
try these 2 apple docs at www.apple.com/support : Mac OS X: Cannot locate a shared Windows printer ... Utility will prompt you for a username and password when adding a shared Windows printer. These fields can be left blank if the computer sharing the printer is ... Document No. 301397

Re: Enabling Rendezvous printing

2005-11-15 Thread John McGibney
Check 'airport setup assistant' or 'airport admin utility' for printer sharing. John On Nov 15, 2005, at 4:10 PM, VICTORIA.DUGGAN wrote: Hi I think you need to enable printer sharing in the system prefs/ sharing this should enable the printer to be accessed by all the mac on the

Re: Mail.app and Keychain

2005-11-07 Thread John McGibney
Its a mail server problem. If mail can't connect to the server it asks for your email password again. It assumes that you entered it incorrectly or it has changed since the last connection. Ignore it and it will reuse the original one on the next mail check. John On Nov 7, 2005, at 11:42

Re: Airport problem with 10.4.3

2005-11-03 Thread John McGibney
Fairly common complaint for most upgrades. Try this: 1 access your base station via ethernet. 2 change the channel on the base station. 3 try and connect via your airport card. This should solve the problem. I usually fixed the problem in the past for most people that lost the connection after

Re: jumping cursor

2005-11-02 Thread John McGibney
On Nov 2, 2005, at 4:47 PM, David Freels wrote: When I'm running Safari, at some point the cursor starts jumping wildly all over the screen. I have a saved search for com.apple.Safari.plist which I trash, empty trash and re-start Safari--until the jumping starts up again after about 30

Re: AFP

2005-10-31 Thread John McGibney
The Appletalk protocol in Sys 7 is not compatible with Tiger. You need System 9.1 or better for Appletalk to work. John On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:35 PM, Frank Cornew wrote: Hello List: Can't get my Pismo running tiger to appletalk to an 040 based mac running OS 7.6.1. Get an error

Re: Super Drive for Pismo

2005-10-24 Thread John McGibney
dealmac.com will list DVD sales on the net and in stores like bestbuy etc. The Pioneer 110 drive is down to about $50 from time to time. Add $25-50 for a USB-Firewire case. John On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter, Where would one look for these drives? Yours,

Re: Problem with Superdrive

2005-10-17 Thread John McGibney
Try running one of those cleaning CDs in the drive. Sounds like the eye is dirty. John On Oct 17, 2005, at 5:48 AM, Luis Sequeira wrote: Hi My machine is a Titanium PB G4, 1GHz with Superdrive. My Superdrive has developed a critical problem: it does not allow insertion of any discs: it

Re: Tiger and Safari problem

2005-10-14 Thread John McGibney
Sometimes I've had problems with safari after setting up an internet connection, a simple restart solved the problem. Relaunching Safari didn't always work. John On Oct 14, 2005, at 12:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings... and sorry for the cross post to this and the Ti list.

Re: Tiger and Safari problem

2005-10-14 Thread John McGibney
you can run software update to get the necessary updates, bypassing safari. John On Oct 14, 2005, at 2:46 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Bruce that might help but to receive the upgrades/ updates, I need to get online first with the TiBook that received the Tiger install.

Re: 12 Powerbook G4: an AppleCare and AppleStore assesment

2005-10-09 Thread John McGibney
On Oct 9, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Tobias Strohe wrote: Dear Listas/essas, I have been lurking mostly, but recent events warrant some verbage. I apologize right away, if (when) this gets lengthy. On my annual vacation this year my Powerbook G4 died (with some 500 not-yet-backed-up photos on it).

Re: Xpostfacto

2005-09-23 Thread John McGibney
I think it can get around the 8gig limit if you have a second drive thats less than 8gigs. You designate this smaller drive as a helper and all the limiting files are stored there. The majority of the System is located on your larger drive. go to the xPostFacto site for details.

Re: QT Pro Authorization?

2005-09-17 Thread John McGibney
the names must be identical to the name you registered under when you bought it. John On Sep 17, 2005, at 8:42 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just updated QT from 6.0.2 to 6.0.3 on my 8600/G3/500 by first removing all QT parts (saved on Zip carts), because the installer insisted updating

Re: Slow-down on startup: Was: OS 10.3.9 help!

2005-09-12 Thread John McGibney
It could also be due to lack of maintenance. Download Onyx and run the maintenance scripts. try running this Applescript: Now Yvan Koenig, a poster to Apple's Discussion Boards, has submitted an AppleScript that deletes several files implicated in increased startup time. The script has

Re: G5 - OSX lists?

2005-09-09 Thread John McGibney
Here's a few X lists X4u list http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macosx-support/ ClarisWorks/Appleworks http://awlist.macnuthome.com John On Sep 9, 2005, at 8:09 PM, John Siple wrote:

Re: Help! iCal died!

2005-09-06 Thread John McGibney
On Sep 6, 2005, at 6:59 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 06/09/05 01:52, Anne Judge at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I opened iCal tonight and it said it would be reset from .mac. I didn't want that (and didn't know why it would want to do so), so I canceled out of it. I reopened it, and had

Re: RAM Utility ?

2005-08-26 Thread John McGibney
If you're running photoshop in classic you have to adjust the ram allotment for photoshop. Highlight the app, Open the Get Info window (Cmd-I), select the memory popup and double or triple the # you find there. John On Aug 26, 2005, at 8:56 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: Using Tiger on a Mini

Re: help needed: extensions, open transport, etc.

2005-08-20 Thread John McGibney
Open Transport utility lib is no longer needed. it is rolled into the OS. John On Aug 20, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Clark Martin wrote: 2 - i no longer have open transport utility lib operational, it will not start up -- I know that God won't give me anything I cannot handle, I just wish He

Re: extension problem: shared library manager ppc

2005-08-20 Thread John McGibney
sounds like its time for a clean install of System 9. john On Aug 20, 2005, at 9:23 PM, david wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Clark Martin wrote: 1 - the extension shared library manager ppc has gone funky and i've had to disable it You need to fix this or this is just going to be the

Re: extension problem: shared library manager ppc

2005-08-20 Thread John McGibney
from another computer (running 9.2, i'm running 9.1) onto a disk and use that? - if i do a clean install, will that wipe all my files, preferences etc. off the computer? On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, John McGibney wrote: sounds like its time for a clean install of System 9. john On Aug 20, 2005

Re: laserwriter driver

2005-08-18 Thread John McGibney
I think all of the LaserWriter drivers were incorporated into the LaserWriter 8 package. So one of the LaserWriter 8 downloads should work for you depending on your OS version. John On Aug 18, 2005, at 3:17 PM, david wrote: thanks for the link, but i couldn't find anything there. i've

Re: AirPort SW 4.2 update

2005-08-08 Thread John McGibney
download the 10.3.9 combo updater and reinstall it. then try the airport updater. john On Aug 8, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: I went to install this update on my G4 PowerBook that is running Mac OS 10.3.9. The update wouldn't install because it said that it needed Mac OS

Re: pismo

2005-07-25 Thread John McGibney
On Jul 25, 2005, at 8:30 AM, victoria duggan wrote: Hi All Quick Question I have a pismo that is set up with air port card running 10.4.2 and one that has the intel pro wireless card running system 9.2.2 what i want to do is make both of them see the network printers i use via

Re: connecting to ISP

2005-07-13 Thread John McGibney
its the ftp client you used to try to download the file. try deleting the temp file from your download location. if you used the finder delete/eject the ftp site folder from your desktop. john On Jul 13, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 13/07/05 10:51, Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: large .iso and OS X?

2005-07-07 Thread John McGibney
Try this: Launch toast, select copy select advanced from side window select image file drag and drop iso file John On Jul 7, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Scott Kelly wrote: Did you try using Disk Utility, then select the .iso, then click burn from the images menu? On Jul 7, 2005, at 8:16 AM, Laurent

Re: Can't restart

2005-07-05 Thread John McGibney
sounds like one of the memory sticks is loose, has dirty contacts, or the slot died. john On Jul 5, 2005, at 5:05 PM, dan_A wrote: Hi All- I have a Alum-book 12/865MHz running 10.4.1 This afternoon, after using it for an hour or so I shut it down and when I turned it back on it wouldn't

Re: printing/SimpleText problems

2005-07-03 Thread John McGibney
In the printer setup box is your printer under Epson USB not USB? Next navigate to: Library/Printers/Epson/Utilities to find the Epson Printer Utility for accessing printer cleaning, ink levels, etc. I made an alias of this and keep it in my Utilities folder hth John On Jul 3, 2005, at

Re: gamepad/controller for Tiger

2005-06-17 Thread John McGibney
On Jun 17, 2005, at 1:09 AM, Amber wrote: Hi, I am looking for a gamepad/controller for my Al PB which is compatible with Tiger. I do have the Macally iShock II but can't find a driver for it that will work in Tiger. Any suggestions would really be appreciated - I'd like to use it

Re: IPOD

2005-06-11 Thread John McGibney
In iTunes click the eject button next to the iPod icon or the eject button in the lower right. or drag the iPod to the trash, wait for the icon to disappear and unplug. John On Jun 11, 2005, at 6:13 PM, Jim Dynes wrote: Hi all, I just bought a 20 gig Ipod and it updated as soon as I

Re: Apple to switch to Intel chips

2005-06-09 Thread John McGibney
On Jun 6, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Dean wrote: Did anyone see this yet? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050606/ap_on_hi_te/apple_chips -- Oh yeah! There's been quite a heated discussion over on the TiBook list and elsewhere. The short version is IBM told Apple to get lost we're in the G5 for

Re: Lombard zip disk

2005-06-01 Thread John McGibney
On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:14 AM, alienbill wrote: I recently did a clean install of OS 9.2.2 upgrading from 9.1. Since then my internal VST zip disk doesn't see a disk in it until I have rebooted with disk inserted. After doing that the zip icon comes up, I can use files from the drive, put

Re: SwampThing

2005-05-31 Thread John McGibney
On May 31, 2005, at 4:20 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: If it's just the case plastics, I was successful in cleaning SwampThing's http://dbdev2.pharmacy.arizona.edu/swampthing/ swampthing.html innards out with regular dishwashing soap; Palmolive, if brand matters, though any one should work.

Re: Help w/ AOL, Jaguar, Wallstreet

2005-05-31 Thread John McGibney
Did you try selecting a different modem model? I don't remember which OS it was for but Apple had to create another modem profile for one OS version because of problems like this. It was long ago and my memory is getting shorter with age. John On May 31, 2005, at 8:02 PM, Andrew Kershaw

Re: 1.25ghz PB Hangs in Tiger

2005-05-29 Thread John McGibney
On May 29, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Dylan McDermond wrote: On May 29, 2005, at 6:45 AM, david wrote: You are (possibly) where I was about 18 months ago: A 15 PowerBook running the old OS just fine but choking on the new version. My RAM passed all tests - even when I took it into the shop

Re: OS 9 Outlook Express question

2005-05-24 Thread John McGibney
On May 24, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Dean wrote: I have a friend still using OS 9.1. He is having a problem opening links that people send him via Email. Outlook (version 5.02) will direct all links to simple text and then freeze untill he quits simple text. What preferances does he need to delete

Re: Outlook Express: Deleted Items deletion quandry query. . .

2005-05-23 Thread John McGibney
On May 23, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Stanton Mitrany wrote: Hi, Gang! I'm running Outlook Express 5.0.6 on my Wallstreet II with OS 9.2.2. Whenever I've purged the messages in the Deleted Items folder (by selecting the whole contents, and then pressing Delete), although they appear to be deleted

Re: Outlook Express: Deleted Items deletion quandry query. . .

2005-05-23 Thread John McGibney
On May 23, 2005, at 12:50 PM, Stanton Mitrany wrote: OK. I tried this, and here's what happened: 1. I quit Outlook Express. Then I relaunched it using the Mail button on Internet Explorer's menu bar (IE 5.1.7), while holding down the Option key. A dialog box appeared above the Outlook

Re: font becomes invisible

2005-05-12 Thread John McGibney
The font has been corrupted? Try deleting it and then reinstalling it. John How did the PB make out? Would any one know why a font, Texton that came with ATM4.0 Deluxe, would on the next startup be now invisible. In Quark, last time I used the document...and next time I get it out...the

Re: Battery life under Tiger

2005-05-10 Thread John McGibney
On May 10, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Harry Corsover wrote: I'm not sure that I've noticed a change, but I've never gotten more than about 1.5 hours to two hours with Airport running, even if I dim the screen, turn off Bluetooth if I'm not using it, etc. 15 AlBook G4 (1.25GHz) My guess is

Re: Lombard troubles cont.

2005-05-09 Thread John McGibney
Its probably a loose or defective ram chip. Open her up again and try to reseat the ram chip or chips. Try it one more time. If it goes through a full startup finally run a disk utility to check the desktop files before you get too involved. Then finally all should be good! (Please! Please!

Re: Battery life under Tiger

2005-05-09 Thread John McGibney
Yes and no. TiBook yes, down to one hour. I haven't tried any fixes yet, just found out about it. AlBook no, still 3hrs 40 min. w/ AirPort on. John Has anyone noticed a reduced battery life since upgrade to Tiger? ___ NBT -- Pinky, you've left the lens

Re: Lombard troubles cont.

2005-05-09 Thread John McGibney
Try this link on eBay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=11151item=519417727 4rd=1ssPageName=WDVW on 5/9/05 4:13 PM, John McGibney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its probably a loose or defective ram chip. Open her up again and try to reseat the ram chip or chips. after I

Re: Battery life under Tiger

2005-05-09 Thread John McGibney
I don't use it mush, its my son's. So I can't say when or why battery life is going. I'm going to try to resurrect it tomorrow. john Yeah, I have a TiBook... hmmm... Down to about 1 hour... interesting. ___ NBT On May 9, 2005, at 20:15, John McGibney

Re: Onyx replacement for Tiger

2005-05-05 Thread John McGibney
Cocktail which has a free trial. It should carry you until Onyx is upgraded. John Does anyone know of a good maintenance utility (preferably free) like Onyx that has been upgraded for Tiger? Andrew -- Pinky, you've left the lens cap on on your mind again - Brain -- G-Books is

Re: over quota notification from server

2005-05-02 Thread John McGibney
Actually the original post and answers were appropriate. The original poster had no idea what the message meant, why he still got it after troubleshooting, nor what his next step should be. John I am very happy with the current format and I am glad that a plethora of questions are being asked

Re: thermal transfer material in the Powerbook G4s

2005-05-01 Thread John McGibney
I used the white goo from RadioShack for my son's 55mhz TiBook so far no issues, its been about 8 months so far. John 550 Gigabit Ethernet Powerbook G4 and a 400 Mercury: I need advice on the best way to reapply thermal transfer material between the CPU and the heat exchanger. I only have

Re: Ditching OS 9

2005-04-30 Thread John McGibney
To delete 9 just drag the folder called System Folder to the trash. John Hi Laurent, Both are on the same partition so I'm guessing that will complicate things somewhat. I'm waiting on a new 40GB drive for the 'Book... of course it's taking forever to arrive and I really need the space

Re: Locked Folder

2005-04-23 Thread John McGibney
Go to versiontracker.com and download file buddy. Run it and do a Get Info on the offending folder. From there you should be able to delete it in File Buddy. John On 22 Apr 2005, at 19:00, John McGibney wrote: There used to be a utility called Folder From Hell that worked in OS 7 thru

Re: Locked Folder

2005-04-23 Thread John McGibney
Found 2 other utilities that you might try BatChmod http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12057 And Trash Locked Files: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18227 If File Buddy didn't help try these. John Looks like you might have to use a CD startup disk and get

Re: Locked Folder

2005-04-22 Thread John McGibney
There used to be a utility called Folder From Hell that worked in OS 7 thru 9 to delete problem folders. There's probably a utility like that for X. Check out this link and see if it helps: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10517 John On 22 Apr 2005, at 10:59, Bruce Johnson

Re: S Video Out 15AL (OS 10.3.9)TV?

2005-04-19 Thread John McGibney
That'll work too if you TV as an S-Video in. John On Apr 19, 2005, at 8:37 AM, John McGibney wrote: Use the adapter cable that came with your machine and plug the 2 wires together, one end into the AlBook's S-video port the other into the yellow plug on your TV's aux input. Get

Re: S Video Out 15AL (OS 10.3.9)TV?

2005-04-18 Thread John McGibney
Use the adapter cable that came with your machine and plug the 2 wires together, one end into the AlBook's S-video port the other into the yellow plug on your TV's aux input. Get a Stereo adapter cable with the stereo mini plug on one end and RCA plugs on the other. Plug the RCA ends into the red

Re: Misbehaving PowerBook G4 400MHz...

2005-04-17 Thread John McGibney
Start from the OS-X install CD and run disk utility. Try Techtool if you have it. If all else fails reformat re install. John From: John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sounds like the OS-9 drivers for the Hard drive weren't installed. Hold the X key to start from X. Yes, sounds likely

Re: Misbehaving PowerBook G4 400MHz...

2005-04-16 Thread John McGibney
Sounds like the OS-9 drivers for the Hard drive weren't installed. Hold the X key to start from X. John I recently bought a cheap (dropped and dented) PB G4 TiBook with a non-working DVD drive, but it ran fine with OS X installed. I then installed OS 9 onto it through FW disk mode and now

Re: is my iBook screwed

2005-04-13 Thread John McGibney
If moving or squeezing the display corrects or worsens the problem its probably the display ribbon. There is a recall for G3 iBooks, see the Apple site for details. John Sigh, the day I am off on holidays my faithful G3 iBook seems to have developed terminal symptoms. The screen has

Re: Photoshop freeze on save

2005-04-12 Thread John McGibney
On 4/11/05 9:40 PM, Deaner Lawless [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try disabling fonts in your account. Yep, that's one of the things that has sadly occurred to me. I was hoping to avoid it, hoping that someone would shout out I had that problem! but perhaps not. I know I read about this

Re: Won't boot from DVD

2005-04-11 Thread John McGibney
Is the DVD a machine specific installer/bootable CD? John This is on a Titanium Powerbook. I did not know you could set the drive between master and slave. I did not see any jumpers on the drive when I examined it. Was it the original one that was in there ? Dunno if it is an issue,

Re: Won't boot from DVD

2005-04-11 Thread John McGibney
I am in 10.3 and open finder disc is there and I can read from it, but it will not boot. On Apr 11, 2005 1:47 PM, John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the DVD a machine specific installer/bootable CD? John This is on a Titanium Powerbook. I did not know you could set the drive

Re: Won't boot from DVD

2005-04-11 Thread John McGibney
displays the folder with a question mark for a second or two then continues booting off my hard drive. On Apr 11, 2005 2:07 PM, John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about selecting the DVD from the Startup Disk section of System Preferences? John No I have tried several different DVDs

Re: Photoshop freeze on save

2005-04-11 Thread John McGibney
on 11/04/05 18:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just about at my wits end. Shortly after I bought my G5 desktop I sat down to edit a couple desktop pictures in Photoshop and discovered that when I tried to save, Photoshop would freeze with the beachball from Hades.

Re: Won't boot from DVD

2005-04-11 Thread John McGibney
Is the DVD drive the original or an original replacement/upgrade. Maybe it needs a firmware patch to work with X. John 1. Yes tried a CD/DVD Cleaner 2. Yes reset PRAM 3. Yes reset NVRAM, both reset and reset all. On Apr 11, 2005 4:46 PM, John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you

Re: Photoshop freeze on save

2005-04-11 Thread John McGibney
On 4/11/05 7:34 PM, John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you add any extra utilities, system hacks, font utilities to your regular account that isn't enabled in the test account? Its probably a conflict somewhere. John -- You can't please everyone. But it is possible

Re: Apple Security Update (2005-003): PB crash!

2005-04-07 Thread John McGibney
Check system profiler or about this Mac and see if all your ram shows up. AlBooks are starting to show up with lower ram slot failures. Other possibility is the hard drive is failing. John It sounds like a fairly complex issue, so does anyone have suggestions about where to look (cryptic

Re: sync

2005-04-04 Thread John McGibney
I use File Synchronization. You can clone folders, copy one way or both ways or select single files to keep synced. You can have it delete orphaned files or not. I've been using it between my AlBook and my G4 tower for about a year with no problems. John Is there a cheap, inexpensive (actually

Re: ot?-apple m5120/ llc

2005-03-31 Thread John McGibney
Apple.com In the downloads section of the support area. Look under older software. Here's the link: http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html Also you can search for user manuals for your machine. John hi: i have just gotten an apple m5120 and a llc and i need need the

Re: Blank disks not recognized

2005-03-28 Thread John McGibney
So if you don't have a CD or DVD burner then how do you expect to burn blank CDs? And why worry that the system can't find the blanks? Or am I missing something?? If you have an older CD burner try PatchBurn anyway. John It is possible you have a hardware problem but it is quite possible we

Re: Blank disks not recognized

2005-03-28 Thread John McGibney
Recent software update? Maybe the latest update broke something? Can you link the problem to the time you installed an update? Could the drive eye have gotten dirty? Try using a CD cleaner in the drive. Try a different cable. John Ok, so I tried PatchBurn, even thought the QPS (my external

Re: ibook

2005-03-25 Thread John McGibney
Try the F1 brightness control. John I don't believe so. The iBook can only mirror the display to the external monitor. In order to do that, you would have to leave the lid up. Hence you would have to leave the monitor on. I have heard of some hacks to the iBooks to allow the feature you

Re: iBook won't boot up from CD + more info

2005-03-23 Thread John McGibney
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: I was given an iBook (M6497, 2001) and am trying to get it to boot up into OS 9. The person who gave it to me started to install OS 10 but never finished the installation, so the iBook boots up into OS 10 but before getting to where I can access the Startup Disk

Re: List quiet today?

2005-03-07 Thread John McGibney
Is the list dead today? Haven't got anything all day.. Mike K Huh??? G'nite -- Be nice to your kids, for it is they who will choose your nursing home. For adult education, nothing beats children. If you have trouble getting your children's attention, just sit down and look

Re: USB Connector

2005-03-03 Thread John McGibney
Griffin iMic. Griffin Technologies. John Hello All, I need a USB to Headset connector ( adaptor ) sothat I can connect my headset to my ALPB 17 when using Scype. The headset has two connectors, one for the headphone and one for the mic. When I connect the headset to the laptop I insert

Re: losing internet connection

2005-02-28 Thread John McGibney
My first problem is trying to state what's really going on so you can understand. I'm using an indigo ibook along with an airport express; operating on mac os 10.3.8. I initially had some trouble getting the system to work with the airport express, but an apple tech walked me through a set

Re: OT..OS 10.3.8 Program help needed

2005-02-23 Thread John McGibney
Greetings 'Listas, Sorry for the interruption...Does anyone know of a program similar to the old PrintShop that will work in Panther? I used to use PS heavily before moving to Panther and need a similar program for cards, calendars, banners etc. I amrunning a Pismo 400 that has had Classic

Re: watermarking groups of photos at same time?

2005-02-13 Thread John McGibney
Does anyone know of a MAC supported software that will do watermarking on batches of photos at the same time? All I can find is PC softwares :-( I know photoshop can do this, but that is one photo at a time. I have hundreds of photos that I need to do this to. Please respond off

Re: New iBooks/PB's compared to Pismo's, etc.

2005-02-13 Thread John McGibney
On 2/12/05 11:12 PM, Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm greedy when it comes to screen real-estate, so I always have two monitors. The 17 didn't appeal to me due to the poorly designed keyboard. I couldn't believe that Apple never considered making the worlds first laptop that had

Re: Mac OS X 10.3.8 update.

2005-02-13 Thread John McGibney
on 13/02/05 12:37, Amber R. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcin, On 13-Feb-05, at 12:57 AM, Marcin Wichary wrote: I think it's not only you. In my case I also narrowed it down to power adapter -- if I disconnected it while my PB was sleeping, it was much more likely that it wouldn't

Re: G4 PBDVI Battery Monitor

2005-02-11 Thread John McGibney
Hello everyone, I have a 15 PowerBook G4/DVI that seems to get about 2-2.5 hours of battery time, under normal use. This battery was replaced under AppleCare about a year ago. The problem is that the battery monitor in the menu bar never reports accurately. It still shows 64% when the

Re: emergency word doc

2005-02-11 Thread John McGibney
I emailed the other day about my dead HD, which I sent off for data recovery. First, the data recovery guy said he could see the HD and sent it back to me, although I don't have it yet. Second, I put another working HD in the same computer and that one wasn't recognized, either, so the HD

Re: Trying to print from ibook g4 thru Airport Express to C80 onMac Clone

2005-02-10 Thread John McGibney
I have recently acquired an ibook g4 running Panther, and an Airport Express base station. The Express is connected to one port of an SMC Barricade 4 Port wired cable/dsl router, along with Mac Clones and an XP home PC. The two Mac Clones, a PowerCenterPro 210 and a PowerCenter 150, are

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