On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:52:30AM +0200, Mikael Bystr?m wrote:
Adam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The good news is that I already tested with a battery and eliminated
this as a possibility... unless the AC board has magical powers to
prevent a boot from a battery, which doesn't seem entirely
There is a software app that can create bootable CD images that you can
burn. These include a full Finder interface and you can include your
own apps, but hasn't been updated for Panther yet.
http://www.charlessoft.com/
On Mar 3, 2004, at 10:01 AM, Andrew wrote:
So nobody knows how to make a
On Jan 27, 2004, at 7:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would it be possible to exchange or fit the motherboard of a Ti G4 867
into the frame of a 400 ?
What would be involved if it is indeed possible ?
Not possible. They are not interchangeable.
That's curious, any information as to why this
Well, you can get a new one from SmartDisk for 70$. They got the rights
to reproduce the Yo-Yo from Apple when apple decided not to make them
anymore. www.smartdisk.com
On Jan 25, 2004, at 6:33 PM, Mark Rath, LSW, Director wrote:
My YO YO adapter is going YO YO - I think I have a lose
Should be possible now... although in a different form factor of sorts.
The largest battery shipped with an Apple Laptop since the Kanga G3
seems to actually be the Lombard/Pismo shipping with 4800mAh batteries
(and you can get up to 6600mAh from 3rd party batteries), and recently
the 17
Problem is that the Lombard only has one slot. I wish I could remember
of some sort of 'breakout box' for PC Card slots, but I am not seeing
anything.
On Jan 23, 2004, at 10:45 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had to do that will my old wallstreet. All I remember is I had to
get a
firewire card
On Jan 19, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Daniel Garcia-Rivera wrote:
Second: Does anyone know where I could get a DVD playback kit (cardbus
card, dvd-rom drive, any software enablers necessary)? The computer's
previous owner kept his for some reason, giving me a CD-ROM instead.
(can't
complain though, he
On Jan 17, 2004, at 8:12 PM, Tsuki Hoshijima wrote:
I was thinking about getting a 256 and using it with my 128 for a
total of
384. Think that would be enough?
And I'm sure this problem has been discussed before, but I have heard
often
that any more than 256 megs of RAM in a Lombard causes
/04 20:04, Krevnik at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 15, 2004, at 2:40 AM, Stephen Kerney wrote:
Is OpenGL supported for Mac OS 10.x on a Wallstreet II and if so,
where can I obtain it for installation? I find OpenGL extensions et
all my Mac OS 9 partition but the only OpenGL item I find on my
On Jan 15, 2004, at 2:40 AM, Stephen Kerney wrote:
Is OpenGL supported for Mac OS 10.x on a Wallstreet II and if so,
where can I obtain it for installation? I find OpenGL extensions et
all my Mac OS 9 partition but the only OpenGL item I find on my 10.2.8
partition is a framework entry. All
Hmm, no complaints here from a battery getting more than 4 hours in
Panther on a Lombard...
Adam
On Jan 13, 2004, at 8:27 PM, Mark Edward Attew wrote:
And add a PowerLogix Bluechip G3 900 to the mix and you've got
Pismobluechipapoptosis.
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Hmm, does this iBook really have Firewire? If so, you can get a LaCie
Firewire CD-RW drive, and those currently burn at about 52x for a CD-R,
and 24x for an RW or faster. If you don't actually have Firewire, then
you are pretty much SOL.
On Jan 10, 2004, at 10:01 PM, Mark Rath wrote:
I have
Yes, most definitely make sure the connections are good. I installed a
40GB Hitachi recently and had to re-format a second time because the
drive connector came loose and would not get recognized by any piece of
software. Before closing up the machine, double and triple check BOTH
connections
On Jan 6, 2004, at 7:24 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 06/01/04 22:20, V. Lee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
anyone have any experience hooking up a Pismo to a television set
with
any success?
Watched a few DVDs last week with my Pismo. Didn't have any problem,
except
that initially, there was
I just pointed that out, because I found that certain playback methods
don't work that well when mirroring versus 2 monitor setups. Of course
this was on a Lombard, but hey, you never know.
On Jan 6, 2004, at 9:45 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 07/01/04 00:30, Krevnik at [EMAIL PROTECTED
Hmm... well, can you install or is this problem starting straight from
the install CD?
On Jan 4, 2004, at 7:06 AM, Stephen Peterson wrote:
I am unable to get X to load (or run after loading) on a Lombard I
just purchased. After installing, the book begins to load X, then 2
wide wrinkled
Oh, most definitely safer, because it doesn't muck with allocation
tables and other stupid garbage. Journaling is designed to happen
slightly above the normal Filesystem 'layer', where operations can be
tracked and passed onto the filesystem. A copy of the change record is
stored in a file
802.11g cards do no work under MacOS 9 currently. The Buffalo card does
work with the Airport 3.1 drivers (available under 10.2.6 or later),
but those drivers were never back-ported to OS 9. So, if you want to go
802.11g on the WS, you have to upgrade to Jaguar (or Panther with
XPostFacto).
get the Buffalo card to work with my 15 Aluminum PB in
the cardbus port? I put it in and it won't startup. I can later add it
and it recognizes the PC card but can't get it to find the base
station.
Byron
On Dec 29, 2003, at 7:40 PM, Krevnik wrote:
802.11g cards do no work under MacOS 9 currently
The Travelstar is just as good from Hitachi as it is from IBM... I am
using a Hitachi Travelstar 40GB, and it is just like what others have
said about the IBM.
On Dec 27, 2003, at 7:48 PM, Paul Nicholson wrote:
The IBM's are quiet. Highly recommended! I put one in my WallStreet
and my tiBook
The biggest problem you will face is that there won't be a Mac version
made in this fashion. EasyX uses WMP APIs like an app would use
Quicktime to convert movies without needing Quicktime Pro. Those APIs
aren't available for use on the Mac version of WMP, so it is a no-go
from the start. One
, 2003, at 11:39 AM, Andrew, a Mac Freak wrote:
On 12/26/03 12:24 PM, Krevnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think it is a problem, however, I don't think there is much of
an answer other than to return the camera if possible. ASF is so
horribly neglected by the PC community that created
I don't think it is a problem, however, I don't think there is much of
an answer other than to return the camera if possible. ASF is so
horribly neglected by the PC community that created it, that the chance
of stumbling over some Mac software to convert it is lower than getting
struck by
You actually need something that conducts heat well, not metal that
stays cool. Steel doesn't conduct heat very well if I remember
correctly, so it isn't the best idea. Aluminum seems to be used in the
heatsink plates in the Lombard and Pismo, but copper is a very good
heat conductor. A lot of
Be careful of some of the newer CD-R discs as well. My Lombard cannot
read some of the newer and cheaper CD-R discs, but reads my 4x CD-RWs
and pre-48x CD-Rs just fine too. The Wallstreet uses a similar
mechanism which might not be able to even read RWs, but will still have
problems with the
Uh, I don't think you will get a black border... however, the highest
you will be able to go on the monitor is 1024x768, despite the fact
that the monitor can go higher. And to clarify, screen resolution is
described in pixels, rather than dots per inch.
On Dec 23, 2003, at 11:24 AM, Illovox
If you really want 802.11g, you can get the Buffalo 802.11g notebook
cards, but it won't work in your airport slot. I saw one available for
51$ after a mail-in rebate on ebuyer.com
On Dec 17, 2003, at 5:14 AM, Scott Crick wrote:
On 12/16/03 10:35 PM, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looking
Yeah, definitely check those connections inside the system. I had my HD
'disappear' when the cable came loose.
On Dec 16, 2003, at 12:04 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
On 16/12/03 15:01, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried it with just a good battery, just the ac adapter, with both,
with
Actually, the entire PPC line is derived from a lot of IBM's POWER
series, hence the name: PowerPC. The 970 produces a lot more heat
because IBM went with a fairly power-hungry widedeep pipeline. As
power consumption in a silicon device increases, so does the heat
produced. IBM didn't exactly
~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist is your Bookmark file... just back
that up.
As for Eudora mail, not sure... you could get away with backing up your
entire ~/Library folder, which would get all your preferences at the
same time and you can piecemeal stuff back in on the new drive.
If you have
Actually, I was just expressing my annoyance that the Pismo is going up
to 900Mhz/1Ghz on their G3 chips (so you get to decide between G3/900
and G4/500 as upgrade options)... while the Lombard users get to choose
between G3/500 and G4/500 as upgrade options. The G3/900 chips aren't
different
On Nov 26, 2003, at 6:01 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 06:30 AM, Joe Crow wrote:
Hey, folks.
I just bought a CD/RW DVD drive and popped it into the sled from
my
original CD-ROM DVD drive. Everything seems to work fine, except for
burning
CD/RW's. Disk Burner
Oooo, Hitachi!
Seriously, I have a 4200 RPM 40GB Hitachi that I got for 100$. This
sucker is whisper quiet... My Lombard with the CD-ROM drive removed
makes NO noise above the background noise, even when grinding the HD
like crazy. So yes, that is the good drive to get.
Bare drives are not a
I just tried Win98 on my Lombard under 9 and X Under 9 I can almost
play Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun. The sound is choppy, and the
game runs slow, but it is just under playable. This game had a minimum
of a P166, and I have a G3/333... so if you don't need CPU-intensive
tasks done,
On Nov 23, 2003, at 10:54 AM, Tim wrote:
Newbie here (sorry) may have been discussed a million times
before, but too lazy (busy?) to search today.
Apparently I have an issue on my Lombard 333 between the CD drive and
OSX. Booting from my Jag disk, it seemingly takes 'para siempre' to
On Nov 20, 2003, at 7:34 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
On 20/11/03 10:06, Matthew B. Dwyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I just installed Panther on my TiBook, and now the menu bar is
screwed up.
The menus on the left side are fine, but all the little app icons on
the
right side (airport,
On Nov 20, 2003, at 8:51 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 20/11/03 23:28, Krevnik at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 20, 2003, at 7:34 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
On 20/11/03 10:06, Matthew B. Dwyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I just installed Panther on my TiBook, and now the menu bar
On Nov 18, 2003, at 4:36 PM, Clyde Kahrl wrote:
Brent writes:
Does anyone else have a suggestion for a reasonably priced
source of black powerbook feet?
A:Glue gun.
Problem is that not all of us have managed to KEEP the feet that have
fallen out. I lost a couple on our local bus system,
On Nov 17, 2003, at 6:35 PM, Mathew Peace wrote:
In my previous query on running OS X on the old clamshell iBooks, I
have read 2
replies that say they have upped the RAM on their old iBooks to 512MB,
when the
max I have read from Apple is 320MB.
How is it possible to exceed the factory
On Nov 11, 2003, at 3:53 PM, Jim Schulze wrote:
On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 09:29 PM, Krevnik wrote:
It doesn't mean that Linux will suddenly stop working. VPC is
designed so that you can't just set a magic flag that prevents an OS
from working.
ROFLMAO.
Uh, do you think that if you had
Unless they are dropping support for the Mac, then what they say about
VPC in general applies to the Mac version. They don't want to support
people using Linux, and that isn't surprising in the least. It doesn't
mean that Linux will suddenly stop working. VPC is designed so that you
can't just
Just plugging the iPod in does not work with most PCMCIA cards, because
most cannot provide power over the port. You can attempt to use it with
a FW card that can provide power through a power brick, or you can do
the following:
Plug the iPod in, press the Menu Play buttons and hold until the
of certain types to machines coming out the same year as OS
X. Sure they are a computer company, but that doesn't mean the decision
is always correct.
On Oct 28, 2003, at 9:28 PM, David M. Ensteness wrote:
On Oct 28, 2003, at 6:20 PM, Krevnik wrote:
Nope, sorry... don't buy
it was in version 10.1.5
and it included hardware 3D acceleration.
David
On Oct 28, 2003, at 5:31 PM, Krevnik wrote:
IIRC, Apple did provide 2D Rage support in 10.2.
Yeah, but the power of the Rage chip was in 3D, not 2D... and we have
yet to see 3D support from Apple, even on a basic level. I could
On Oct 28, 2003, at 5:01 PM, Hamlin Krewson wrote:
It's a moot point in any case, since Apple never promised graphics
acceleration (of any sort) on these older supported systems (nor was
it ever planned). It got added as a compromise (on Apple's behalf) as
a way of showing that they were
I know this is off-topic, but hey...
I have been looking for people who have dead expansion bay modules for
Lombard or Pismo systems. Dead CD drives, DVD drives, Zip drives and
Hard drive modules. I am going to build myself a couple modules from
bare drives, but I need the caddy for the bare
Yes. USB 2.0 devices work with 1.1-capable machines, and 1.1 devices
work with 2.0-capable machines.
On Oct 26, 2003, at 4:10 AM, Tekno Liber wrote:
I am looking at buying an external FireWire harddisk to use with my FW
Mac.
However, there are a number of FireWire *and* USB 2.0 units
On Oct 26, 2003, at 4:31 PM, Dan K wrote:
Krevnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been looking for people who have dead expansion bay modules for
Lombard or Pismo systems. Dead CD drives, DVD drives, Zip drives and
Hard drive modules. I am going to build myself a couple modules from
bare drives
On Oct 22, 2003, at 4:35 PM, Wiebe Wilbers wrote:
Slower memory, slower processor, slower bus, graphics system not as
good,
superdrive not an option. I'm not sure it is that difficult a
question. I
suspect the faster iBooks will have about the same performance as the
first
generation 12 inch
Nah, it just means you are using some fairly new CD-R media.
My Lombard does the same thing, but only with more recently produced
media, along with my 8600. If you take a look at the newer media, it is
translucent when looked at from the data side. That combined with the
cheaper dyes being
It lacks built-in USB, so no. Sorry.
On Oct 20, 2003, at 2:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can Panther be installed on a Wallstreet?
Ramon.
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Apple has mentioned that the cardbus adaptors prevent a normal
connection from occurring. You need to place the iPod into disk mode
(read the manual for how) and it will do just fine. This is partially
due to the inability for the cardbus Firewire cards to provide adequate
power to the ports.
I would suggest that something else is causing this. My pismo fan has
NEVER turned on that I know of. Neither has the Lombard before it, or
the Wallstreet before that. The fans only turn on under extreme
conditions. Some other problem is causing your 'book to overheat. Do
you have a G4 upgrade
On Saturday, October 11, 2003, at 07:11 AM, G'kar wrote:
As an aside the laptop came with an Airport card (bonus!) but can this
be used with a non-apple base station? I would need a dial up modem
though as no adsl in rural UK so any recommendations would be useful.
Any 802.11b or g base station
Well, it sounds like either he had a dual failure of DVD-ROM module and
HD, or something with the logic board is going bad... I would see if
you can get an Apple Certified tech in your area to take a look at it.
On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 04:15 AM, Illovox Media wrote:
Er, maybe the drive
Well, sounds like some prefs got hosed... Here is the easiest way I
clean my prefs out:
Close all open apps but the Finder.
Move the Preferences folder for your user.
Take prefs one-by-one from that into a new Preferences folder at the
old location:
~/Library/Preferences
Here is the catch,
Hmm, two things come to mind... one is to make sure that jumpers on the
30GB drive are properly setup. For most drives, setting it up for cable
select is good enough, and requires no jumpers to actually be set.
The other is that by swapping the drives around like you did, confused
the machine.
Yeah, with a 400Mhz difference, I say the G3... even with Altivec I
don't think the G4/500 can keep up with a G3 at nearly double clock
speed. I have done tests, and a G4/400 can outperform a G3/500 with
Altivec code that I have written... but the numbers aren't anything
like a 900Mhz G3's
This guy is 'expert' in name only, and badly reciting something he
heard. Google *IS* linked to spam in one way: Spammers use Google to
crawl for e-mail addresses. So if you do a search for your e-mail
address on Google and it shows up, then spammers have a means of
getting your e-mail address
Apple hasn't even given signs towards a candidate seed yet... so there
is work yet to be done on Panther.
On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 06:09 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 30/09/03 04:05, Tony Coult at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm currently running 9.2.2 on a Pismo and a CRT iMac. I'm
, Krevnik wrote:
Apple hasn't even given signs towards a candidate seed yet... so
there is work yet to be done on Panther.
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It isn't too surprising if the wireless driver is attaching to the PC
Card Slot and is refusing to let go when the card is removed. What do
you use as a driver for your wireless card and under what OS?
On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 03:28 AM, ifab wrote:
Just FYI for anyone that has a
It also depends on the revision of 750 is in the Bluechip versus on the
original CPU card. The Powerbook G3s were pretty bad on the
power-efficiency compared to the current G3 crop. Even the first-gen
G4s had better power efficiency than the G3s the Lombard and Pismo came
with. (Just working
Hmm, IIRC, MacOS X is only supposed to give guests access to public
folders. Have you verified that they indeed can access and copy/use
files on the HD outside the public folders?
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 07:44 AM, Luis Sequeira wrote:
Sorry for OT post, but at least this happens in
That won't work, although I won't stop you from trying... here is why:
The OS9 copy you are getting from cloning the drive is the exact same
copy you could install directly. The reason why these will NOT boot OS
9 is two-fold
1 - No proper support for the updated bus controllers and the
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 07:16 PM, Hal wrote:
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 07:20 PM, Wiebe Wilbers wrote:
I asked this earlier, but I'll ask again: Why do you want to boot
into 9 in
the first place? For me, on my iBook 500 OS 9 runs a bit snappier,
but the
difference in speed is
Okay, I was about to answer this with a sarcastic remark about how
Apple's site had an error... but I decided not to after I wrote it up
and it sounded a little too offensive.
But Apple's database is wrong about the 333... The Lombard never got a
second PC Card slot. There wasn't the room for
Make sure you have the latest version of the Firewire Cardbus drivers
(They aren't installed by default on 9) and that you have the latest
version of iTunes for OS 9 installed. I have gotten my 3rd Gen (no
longer mine, just sold) to be recognized under OS 9 through a PCI
Firewire card... does
Well, it should make a difference on the G3 series of laptops... they
are using the video drivers they have in development for Panther if my
version numbers are accurate. Also compiling with gcc 3.3 probably has
made a difference. Video is now MUCH smoother and creates less overhead
on my
The utility only works under OS 9... and not for every machine. It was
a solution to a problem that was never intended to solve every battery
problem, as some do truly die.
On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 07:49 AM, Stella wrote:
On 09/23/03 at 02:19 PM +, the following message was
Wow... I only remember Apple pulling a software update once so far,
when iTunes 3 ruined users with multiple HDs or partitions. They must
have raised the bar a little on their QA department... Anyways, I would
be happy to see a patched update released in the near future. A couple
apps are
The short answer: Laptops always kill batteries.
The long answer: The likely cause is the constant use these batteries
are seeing. LiIon batts only last for so long before giving up, and the
more frequently you drain and charge them, the shorter they last. With
daily discharges, and getting
There isn't any patch beyond that for OS X if I recall correctly. The
e-mail viruses require VBScript (Visual Basic Script) support to run...
and Microsoft didn't consider the Mac a viable platform for VBScript.
So, because they felt we were not worth dumping an extra scripting
language on, we
1) Sounds like a dead battery all right... but before throwing it out,
try Apple's Battery Reset utility. It might not be completely dead, but
only partially dead and revivable. BTI sells decent replacement
batteries, but like all laptop LiIon batteries, they are expensive.
2) I suggest 320MB
On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 07:51 PM, Ely Zimmerman wrote:
Thanks, Krevnik.
1. Is the reset utility the button on the battery itself? If not,
where do I
find this utility, I searched on the HD but did not find it?
Try looking at www.macupdate.com and searching for 'Battery Reset'.
2
Well, you will need a generic 9.x install CD... ones that come with a
specific machine (other than your Wallstreet) will not boot. The DVD player
will not run from Classic, because it needs access to the hardware, which
Classic does not provide.
You will need a generic 9.x install CD and install
From: Paul DiGiovanni [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I upgraded a Wall Street unit with a Sonnet Crescendo G4/500. I had
a problem with the PRAM battery (even before installing the processor
upgrade) which went away when the PRAM battery was replaced.
However, I am having the following problem: I can
From: nick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
yes on both...it does mount fineand work on other computers...and
before i installed os X on my computer i had os 9 working
perfictlythen (of course) it would boot into nine and onto a 9
cd...this only started now that i have os X on my HD...
Hmm, so
From: Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then what are the boot sectors for on an HFS(+) disk? I thought they
just pointed to the address of the bootable OS... (I guess that's
how OS 9 does it - why not OS X?)
OS X and the newer OF implementations on the BW/Lombard and later iMacs
don't
Sorry, but the Wallstreet and Lombard cannot play DVDs in OS X. OS X uses
the video card for DVD playback (so no PC Card decoders will work), and the
RagePro LT is woefully underpowered for that sort of thing... (And Apple has
incomplete LT drivers, as you probably know by now)
From: Emery
From: Steve Kerney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. Disk Partitioning: I've presently partioned my 40G drive into a just less
than 8 for X (yes the 1st per previous posts on this forum) and 3 others (1
for OS 8, 1 for OS 9 and 1 for Data). A) Will X load on a partion created
by 9 or do I have to
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