Re: The USB hub issue. . .

2005-01-30 Thread Kyle Hansen
20W+. That drives you from the cheap wallwarts that cost [OEM] less than a dollar into the switcher supply realm If they are self-powered devices just daisy chain them. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: The USB hub issue. . .

2005-01-30 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 1/30/05 9:02 PM, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On Jan 30, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: If they are self-powered devices just daisy chain them. and then notice how many of your USB devices say do not plug into a hub or if plugged into a hub

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-25 Thread Kyle Hansen
company your own venom is clogging your brain, OS X iLife, Keynote, iWorks, Apple Works get the idea iMovie, the list goes on. I NEVER SAID THAT. I said that Applecare is a hardware warranty. Go buy a PC...really. You are making us look bad. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-25 Thread Kyle Hansen
. I look for *any* loophole to cover something. Not for a way *out* of covering something. Geoffrey is obviously having some problems. I bet he has the same problems with many companies. That's what happens when someone has unreasonable expectations. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always

Re: Backup computer (was: Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-25 Thread Kyle Hansen
Al PB goes in for repairs. FWIW I bought Applecare on my 17 and I am an Apple Certified Portable Tech. The parts are prohibitively expensive and Applecare is well worth it if even 1 part goes in those 3 years. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books

Re: Thank you

2005-01-25 Thread Kyle Hansen
really need to take a look at this thread in its context. You are having an isolated incident with Apple. I deal with hundreds of repairs a month. Coming in here and blathering to these people with your unbelievable and unreasonable complaints is not acceptable or encouraged. Kyle Hansen

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-24 Thread Kyle Hansen
. Dozens of them. The most common turn around time is 72 hours. This is an ISOLATED incident. And buying a $400 LCD would be a better buy? One should, however, always have a backup computer. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-24 Thread Kyle Hansen
work. But that has only happened a couple of times. I am an authorized Service Provider. It is me that you are speaking of. I do the work daily. You sound like something is not right in your head. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored

Re: Applecare, how long should it take?

2005-01-14 Thread Kyle Hansen
you a box via DHL? Or did you drop it off at a repair center? Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site

Re: Wireless router woes

2005-01-14 Thread Kyle Hansen
a suggestion? Yes. Dump the Netgear and get a Buffalo. Either that or an Apple Branded base station, but they are expensive. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: any experience with HP Photosmart 2610 networked inkjet?

2005-01-11 Thread Kyle Hansen
XP. This thing never fails...I love it. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks

Re: wireless for pismo: card or airport?

2005-01-10 Thread Kyle Hansen
wireless router choice. I have used their stuff for years. Very solid, very fast. Some or their PC cards work with Macs as well. Great products. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: screen sizes vs. reality

2005-01-04 Thread Kyle Hansen
the basketball team in your Suburban wants to watch a movie on the way home from an out-of-town game, that 17 screen is nice! : ) I wouldn't trade my 17-inch 1.33GHz for TWO 12-inch powerbooks. If I wanted a PDA I would buy a PDA...(or use a 2400 or a Newton). Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always

Re: Oh mega crap

2005-01-04 Thread Kyle Hansen
it to your new (empty) library you would have hope. There are programs that will suck the songs off of a full iPod, but not after it is erased...like yours is. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Less is more or Bigger is better

2005-01-02 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 1/2/05 8:25 AM, Al Poulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Is this also true after the first year warrantee expires, while the machine is under AppleCare? Yes. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http

Re: Dim display: inverter or backlight?

2005-01-02 Thread Kyle Hansen
. Dim = Backlight bulb White or stripes = Inverter or Inverter cable. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site

Re: Less is more or Bigger is better

2005-01-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
package. But if you didn't pay a premium and have Apple do it your warranty is now void. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives

Re: Less is more or Bigger is better

2005-01-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
negligence or abuse. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale

Re: Less is more or Bigger is better

2005-01-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 1/1/05 1:46 PM, Brian Rule [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: That seems a little excessive, don't you think? Brian I never said that I agreed with their policy... Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http

Re: Less is more or Bigger is better

2005-01-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End

Re: Entourage (Was: Apple Mail)

2004-12-26 Thread Kyle Hansen
shares Outlook/Outlook Express holes. There is not a single Entourage hole. It is far more secure than any other Macintosh Mail program including Apple's own. Kyle Hansen -- The best way out is always through. -- Robert Frost -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Transfer of saved e-mails/recommended e-mail app?

2004-12-21 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/21/04 1:07 PM, Michael Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Actually, it's a Wallstreet 266MHz... not that it makes any difference. Greetings, I bought my wife a 233MHz Wallstreet last year for her birthday, and she's used it so darn much that I'm getting her a

Re: Transfer of saved e-mails/recommended e-mail app?

2004-12-21 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/21/04 1:30 PM, Rowan, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: But the integration with exhange is undeniably rocking cool. I've never used apple mail, but did the pc to mac conversion about a year ago -- ms office for the mac made this possible (in a windows shop). Any

Re: ibook bright spots

2004-12-19 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/19/04 12:42 PM, Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Yeah, I believe that these are the infamous bright spots -- they are a result of the LCD mounted with an uneven stress distribution. I am not certain but I don't think they replace the LCd -- they just remount it. They

Re: Applecare for Powerbooks (extended warranty)

2004-12-18 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/17/04 11:39 PM, Amber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I wish I had the luxury of being able to buy a new one if something happens to this one but I don't. This is a year old G4 Powerbook. Of course, I am hoping that nothing goes wrong with it, with or without Applecare,

Re: Applecare for Powerbooks (extended warranty)

2004-12-18 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/18/04 1:11 AM, Amber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Since this is my first Mac Portable, this additional benefit of not having to take it in and wait - and the same day turn around - is fantastic. I had no idea they had that policy for turning it around the same day they

Re: Hrm... notice anything strange in this picture?

2004-12-18 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/18/04 1:17 AM, Larry le Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: From: Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] And the XP video shows an 8500 running windows XP too. It cracks me up. How does one get to that ??? I have a link somewhere... I'll look for it. Kyle H. Hansen -- Jesus

Re: Applecare for Powerbooks (extended warranty)

2004-12-18 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/18/04 10:41 AM, Frank P. Eigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Kyle Hansen wrote: On 12/18/04 1:11 AM, Amber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: [snip] PS. I read somewhere that you have to buy it within 30 days of the one year initial

Re: Applecare/when to buy

2004-12-18 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/18/04 10:36 AM, Frank P. Eigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Neither had I. I was pretty surprised - more so when the shop (that sold it to me) also told me that I couldn't purchase *their* extended warranty for the same reason. I was certainly led to believe it's an

Re: Applecare/education discounts

2004-12-18 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/18/04 12:14 PM, Amber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: What is the general rule of thumb regarding educational discounts from Apple? I was a student when I bought my Powerbook so obviously I got that on a discount. No problem. I thought you had to be a full time student

Re: Applecare for Powerbooks

2004-12-17 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/17/04 9:13 AM, Amber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: 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 extend it via Applecare. I am wondering how many people here have purchased Applecare on

Re: Applecare for Powerbooks (extended warranty)

2004-12-17 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/17/04 7:04 PM, Andrew F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Depends entirely on the price of the warranty. For $400 I wouldn't buy AppleCare, but at $50 or $100 I would. Of course, it doesn't cost $50 or $100, so I'll roll the dice on my 12 G4. At least if my jewel does go

Re: Hrm... notice anything strange in this picture?

2004-12-17 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/17/04 9:38 PM, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Got this from another list. look closely... http://files.joen.dk/fun/xptour/xptour2.png Yep. And the XP video shows an 8500 running windows XP too. It cracks me up. Kyle H. Hansen -- Jesus Saves...but

Re: What will happen? (I painted my iBook and it needs to go back)

2004-12-14 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/14/04 5:28 PM, PowerMac 5500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I painted my iBook a month or so ago. Now I need to send it back to Apple because it won't start unless I reset the PMU and take out the battery (this happens *every* time I want to use it). My problem is that I

Re: Pismo Questions

2004-12-02 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/2/04 10:29 AM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On 02/12/04 12:55, Rad Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just purchased a Pismo (two actually (one for little sis)) and I looked up the specs at apple.com but didn't find what I was looking for. I know it

Re: Wi-Fi, Pismo and Panasonic Cordless Phone

2004-12-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/30/04 2:16 PM, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: .. Original Message ... On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:38:24 -0600 macnifico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could the NetGear base be the culprit? I do not want to turn it off and get of the Internet every time I

Re: Bounce messages

2004-11-22 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/22/04 10:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I need to know what the deal is here. I'm getting bounce messages numbering in the dozens every day, and it's getting old. If you'll look at my email, you'll notive I'm on AOL, so every message i write on a

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-08 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/7/04 9:12 PM, David Thrower [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: One beep and no start in a Pismo means that the RAM is bad or unseated. Reseat the RAM and tell me what happens. Kyle H. Hansen hi - thanks Kyle, i tried reseating it again, with the same result... bad

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/7/04 6:07 PM, David Thrower [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: hello all, i'm putting together a Pismo for my daughter's Christmas present as i did for her older brother last year. as before, i decided to add a new 5400 rpm Toshiba drive, making sure of course that is is

Re: Consider this fair warning

2004-11-02 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/2/04 5:19 AM, Brendan Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: But it's OK to post an anti-Kerry sig complete with link?: Sig lines are considered personal. As long as they are not vulgar or profane and are kept to within 8 lines they are ok. It's called personal

Consider this fair warning

2004-11-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
For our American listmembers (aka the majority), As we head into a very controversial election here in the United States I must state the following: No political commentary will be tolerated on any of the LEM lists. Posting political commentary will result in an immediate banning. No matter

Re: Illuminated keyboards

2004-10-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 10/1/04 10:46 AM, Andrew F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On a related note, how easy is it to change keyboard on an aluminum PowerBook (mine is a 12). I frequently type in Korean and can buy the replacement part in Korea, but want to make sure it is easy to install first.

Re: Illuminated keyboards

2004-10-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 10/1/04 10:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: What exactly are the dimensions on a newer iBook G4 keyboard vs those of the latest powerbooks? I was sitting here typing away the other night and thought to myself Self, wouldn't be cool if I had an

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-17 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/17/04 8:00 AM, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: When you post a message about it and then include your referrer number in the URL then it certainly looks and walks like an advertizement. That is exactly my opinion and I am one of the nannies here. This thread

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-15 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/14/04 8:09 PM, Gary Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Should they be OUR reasons? Like Donald, I'd like to know if this is a good idea for others Leaving a machine sleeping is leaving it in a very limited on state. Meaning that the power management circuits are charged

Re: Free ipods?

2004-09-15 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/15/04 11:24 AM, Dan Palka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Was this an advertisement? Yes, and the person has been warned. Kyle H. Hansen -- Jesus Saves...but Gretzky grabs the rebound and backhands for a goal!!! -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-14 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/14/04 5:52 PM, MTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I don't have a powerbook, but my iBook has only been turned off once in the year and a half that I have owned it and that is when I shipped it back to Apple for service. I think that it would upset me to turn it off every

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-14 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/14/04 6:45 PM, Donald Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I'm an Apple Certified Technician and I shut mine off every night and unplug it from the wall. I have my reasons. Kyle H. Hansen Kyle: Unless your reasons are forces of nature, it would be a good

Re: Shutting down PBs at night

2004-09-14 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/14/04 6:45 PM, Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Afraid the black helicopters are going to read your Myst scores through the power line Kyle? :) H ha ha. I play BF 1942 and CoD. Myst is for those over 40. S. I hear a rotor. Where is my tin foil

Re: Wallstreet CPU Identification help

2004-09-06 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/6/04 6:32 PM, Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Can you guys help me with identification of an original Apple card? I have spare Wallstreet processor daughter card and lack a wallstreet I to verify what version it is. I testdrove this card once, but I didn't pay

Re: Applecare - impressed and not impressed

2004-09-04 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/4/04 4:38 PM, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I'm not sure what they replaced. All I know is that they sent it back with my Crucial RAM in a baggie and a note saying that my hard drive problems were caused by 3rd party RAM because all of the problems stopped

Re: Applecare - impressed and not impressed

2004-09-03 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/3/04 7:00 AM, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: The problem with that theory here is that TechTools reported a problem with the HD (which I printed out and sent along) plus Finder/cp showed problems on some files which I put in one folder on the Desktop called

Re: Applecare - impressed and not impressed

2004-09-03 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/3/04 12:02 PM, Mark Kippert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Kyle Hansen on 9/3/04 1:27 PM wrote: As an Apple Certified Technician I can assure you that if you sent that machine to my shop I wouldn't have looked at that printout for more than a second and then I would have

Re: Applecare - impressed and not impressed

2004-09-03 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/3/04 2:55 PM, Tom and Lisa P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I use Apple's internal Service Diagnostics Software and a couple of Hardware Board testers and hard drive testing stations. The only retail Utilities I use are Diskwarrior and Hard Disk Speedtools. Apple has a

Re: Applecare - impressed and not impressed

2004-09-03 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/3/04 3:30 PM, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On Sep 3, 2004, at 3:24 PM, Kyle Hansen wrote: They are really well organized. Better than any PC company and I have many Certs on the PC side as well. That's odd, because I usually find Tums to be far more

Re: AppleCare question

2004-09-02 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 9/2/04 5:51 AM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Now that I've got a new PowerBook, I'm thinking later to get AppleCare. When I got my previous PowerBooks, close to 2 years ago, it still had over a year of AppleCare remaining because the original buyer was smart

Re: DEAD FIREWIRE PORT Re: External harddrive

2004-08-30 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 8/30/04 4:27 PM, Tom and Lisa P [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On 30/08/04 11:39, shane hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the Tibook 500mhz. My system profiler doesn't even recognize that I have a firewire port if I have something plugged into it. What can I replace

Re: Need to take apart a clamshell

2004-08-02 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 8/2/04 8:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: ...can anyone direct me to a .PDF manual? THanks, Craig W. Atlanta, GA Power corrupts. Absolute power's a blast. ­- John Fund Requesting of offering PDF manuals for take apart on list is against the TOS.

Re: this is getting redundant, isn't it?

2004-07-19 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 7/19/04 6:53 PM, Alejandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On my Lombard, OS 8.6 works better than 9.0.4, 9.1.1, 9.1.2, 9.2.1 and 9.2.2 I'm very happy with 8.6 and the FREE Panther (Tiger will be soon installed from the same source). Ok. Enough is enough. This thread is

Re: Subject: Re: The Fat Lady Sings: iBook Logic Board Repair Extension

2004-06-29 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 6/29/04 5:10 PM, robert stiefvater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: You need to check the rest of the story. Apple representatives told me that do to the fact who ever they have the contract with to pickup and deliver the faulty IBOOKS dual usb's don't cover my area, it is my

Re: 17 advice

2004-06-26 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 6/26/04 10:19 AM, Amanda Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Hi Claire, Of course, I think the 17 powerbook would be =way= cool, I couldn't imagine lugging it around with me all the time. Right now, I have a G3-Wallstreet with a 14 display and it's completely adequate for

Re: AC Sound board failure

2004-05-26 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 5/26/04 10:45 AM, lily [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: boards that fail in the wallstreet series. 1. Sound card 2. Charge Card 3. PMU Many times they will fail at the same time making troubleshooting them difficult. It's at a point now where fixing them isn't worth the

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-21 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 4/21/04 6:54 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Re; true,for some time now only buissness is allowed appllecare, the alternative is comp-usa offers their own warranty,there may be others also Does CompUSA offer their warranty even if you did not purchase the computer

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-21 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 4/21/04 5:45 PM, Kurt Appling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: RE; I know what you mean about comp-usa, the store in tampa is just awful,yet the superstore a couple of miles from me has been excellent, they really vary alot here. Funny. The Tampa store on Hillsborough as

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-20 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 4/20/04 9:04 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I want to purchase Applecare for my 700 mhz Ibook. It is my understanding you have up to 1 year from purchase to get this, am I correct? Do you have to go back to the original seller (in this case, Powermax, new factory

Re: Would be great feature

2004-04-19 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 4/19/04 5:33 PM, Stuart Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: In the Print Fax app on Panther, there is the option to email the fax to an email address. This would be really great for me, as I do a lot of traveling. However it doesn't seem to work. Has anybody been able

Re: iceBooks melt; board-level repairs, anyone?

2004-04-17 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 4/17/04 1:56 PM, George Mogiljansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Speaking of board-level repairs, anyone have sources (sites or newsgroups) I can consult? DT T in Fremont California does board level repair. Kyle H. Hansen -- Jesus Saves...but Gretzky grabs the rebound and

Re: 802.11g base units besides AirPort?

2004-03-29 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 3/29/04 9:25 PM, Brian Scott Oplinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Let me chime in perhaps late with nothing but good about the Buffalo brand available from CompUSA. I have 2 of these primarily for my ReplayTV units, but I also connect with my 802.11g PC card with my older

Re: External USB Drives question

2004-02-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
This thread is dead. Drop it. -- Kyle H. Hansen G-Books Nanny It's Always darkest... right before it gets totally black. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Re: OT: please stop rehashing this old myth!!!

2004-01-31 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 1/31/04 8:35 PM, Robin Ashe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On 1/31/04 3:28 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, as has been said, when Dell screws up, no one cares. I don't buy that. I think it's more likely that Mac users don't care or like to think that

Re: data recovery software

2004-01-13 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 1/13/04 11:20 PM, Bruce Alsobrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On Jan 13, 2004, at 4:22 PM, Dr. John Pullyblank wrote: Do keep in mind that anything you save to the hard drive after you have deleted a file may write over the data, so be careful. Yet another argument for

Re: wireless keyboard question

2004-01-09 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 1/9/04 10:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: hi all, i got my wife an icurve to place her ti-book on and a wireless surfboard brand wireless keyboard to go with it. it is an ibm PS/2 device, so i got an usb adapter for it. it works fine with my pismo, but

Re: TiBook vs. AlBook ??

2003-12-15 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/15/03 3:15 AM, P. H. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I've heard that, in the new AlBooks, sometimes the antenna is loose on delivery. It might help to open it up and reseat the card and the antenna to see if that fixes it before sending off for repair. Kyle, have you

Re: TiBook vs. AlBook ??

2003-12-14 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/14/03 7:58 PM, Jim Mekis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Is there an easy way to recognize the difference between the recent Titanium and the Aluminum case Powerbooks? (I understand that Airport works much better in the aluminum case.) Rounded edges. -- Kyle H. Hansen

Re: TiBook vs. AlBook ??

2003-12-14 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/14/03 9:46 PM, Harry Corsover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On Dec 14, 2003, at 5:58 PM, Jim Mekis wrote: Is there an easy way to recognize the difference between the recent Titanium and the Aluminum case Powerbooks? (I understand that Airport works much better in the

Re: Icebook--was Hey Kyle...

2003-12-11 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/11/03 8:25 PM, Mitch Hogg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: And if Kyle -- a trained professional -- calls it a nightmare, you'd best believe him. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I had never seen the insides of one, but my wife needed a bigger hard drive so I took the plunge.

Hey everybody.....

2003-12-10 Thread Kyle Hansen
How did the Bill Clinton and Powerbook thread spin off into 3 threads? There is no reason for that. Please do not rename a thread whenever you feel like it. It makes it hard to follow. Stick with the naming convention of the first poster. Thanks -- Kyle H. Hansen G-Books Nanny It's Always

Political threads...

2003-12-10 Thread Kyle Hansen
Please cease and desist all OT political conversations. -- Kyle H. Hansen It's Always darkest... right before it gets totally black. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Re: Hey Kyle...

2003-12-10 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/10/03 8:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On 12/10/03 8:16 PM, Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did the Bill Clinton and Powerbook thread spin off into 3 threads? There is no reason for that. Please do not rename a thread whenever you feel

Re: Re[2]: Hey Kyle...

2003-12-10 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/11/03 12:25 AM, Joseph Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Hello BA, Wednesday, December 10, 2003, 6:55:48 PM, you wrote: B Getting back on topic ... B Now, here is a dilemma that I face. I have an IceBook 500 that B probably needs to be repaired at a cost

Re: Bill Clinton and PowerBook

2003-12-09 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/9/03 11:37 PM, Donald Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: The current Onion www.theonion.com features a story on Bill Clinton googling himself. The story is accompanied by a photo of him (?) sitting in front of a PowerBook. Do all presidents use macs? Bill Clinton is

Re: External firewire DVD burners with Powerbook

2003-12-03 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 12/3/03 3:26 PM, Kayla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Hi, I am reconsidering the Superdrive model of the Powerbook and am now considering getting the combo drive with an external firewire DVD burner. I understand they are faster than the superdrive burner. They can burn

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
the problem with swapping the old drive when the new one when it arrives? How in any way possible does this course of action be detrimental to Apple. Except make one more loyal person a little unhappy. At 18:55 -0500 11/15/2003, Kyle Hansen wrote: Here are a couple of reasons why. When

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/16/03 3:23 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: And actually, the next day, I called MicroCenter back and pleaded to a Mac technician. If I agreed to bring it in the same day they would receive the replacement, he agreed to have me take the DVD-ROM module

Re: Last iBook/PowerBook that starts up on OS9?

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/16/03 7:28 AM, gf sciacca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: whuups, my understanding was that new AlBooks or the 1GHz TiBook won't run Classic at all? Have I completely mis-read that? (so I hope!). Does Panther include Classic mode as well? Panther supports classic. It

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/16/03 5:48 PM, Peter Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: -- Here is where the problem arises. That module is about $330 with a core return. It costs $790 without one. I think you are more accurately describing Apple's problem in the first place - $790 for a slim dvd

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/16/03 9:59 PM, Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I'm not up on the latest, AASPs were really getting jerked around with the implementation of Apple's newly imposed terms of a year or so ago. Hopefully Apple's lightened up (Kyle, even a little?) since then . . . Read

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-15 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/15/03 1:18 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Apple wanting to take away your cd rom is wrong and stupid, you use it for cds until the new one arrives. What's the problem with swapping the old drive when the new one when it arrives? How in any way

Re: New PB 17 Doesn't Charge to 100%

2003-11-11 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/11/03 10:08 PM, David Sinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Ditto on my new 15 PB David On 11/11/03 6:56 PM, Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same issue with my new 12 PB. It seems to max out at 97%. On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 07:33 PM, Tom Ohmer

Re: Yo yo bites the dust (cable that is)

2003-11-09 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/9/03 12:47 AM, Doug Hinschberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: It appears that the cord/cable that goes from the wall to my yo yo adapter has a break in it right near the adapter end. It's a common problem with users that unroll their power cable like a Yo-Yo. I have 3

Re: panther?

2003-11-06 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/6/03 11:18 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Panther is available, I got my copy my copy shipped from Apple and received it before the official launch at midnight at the local Apple Store on October 24th. All retail stores have it. -- Kyle H. Hansen It's Always

Re: please remove me from your e-mail list

2003-11-06 Thread Kyle Hansen
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Re: please remove me from your e-mail list

2003-11-06 Thread Kyle Hansen
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Re: Improper off-list emails

2003-11-04 Thread Kyle Hansen
Which part of THIS THREAD IS DEAD do you guys not understand. Drop it. DO NOT RESPOND. THIS THREAD IS DEAD. -- Kyle H. Hansen It's Always darkest... right before it gets totally black. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Improper off-list emails

2003-11-04 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/4/03 8:29 AM, P.F.Grenier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On Nov 4, 2003, at 7:04 AM, Kyle Hansen wrote: Which part of THIS THREAD IS DEAD do you guys not understand. Drop it. DO NOT RESPOND. THIS THREAD IS DEAD. -- Kyle H. Hansen It's Always darkest... right

Re: Trust in Apple

2003-11-01 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/1/03 10:47 AM, Clark Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Or Gateway. They don't even know how to put memory in their own computer. No wonder they didn't offer it pre-configured with more memory. Yes, and now Gateway has struck a deal to sell their machines at retail

Re: Rejuvenating Dead Pismos

2003-10-31 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 10/31/03 11:50 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I would think that any Apple center would not sell internal parts, even the pram battery for self install (unless they have changed in the last year). Nope. I manage a service center and we *can't* sell them. There are

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-29 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 10/29/03 2:11 AM, Edward Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I think that all of this stems directly from the Mac culture itself. Simply putMac user's spend a great deal of time talking about their Mac. Bragging even. And then they find that the $3000 they spent

Re: G3/Mac OS X Settlement

2003-10-28 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 10/28/03 11:03 PM, Krevnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: At the same time, they never said that features that were available before would suddenly NEVER be supported again. Graphics chipset support has come to be a very core part of basic OS functionality, and Apple realized

Re: kanga questions

2003-10-26 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 10/26/03 4:19 AM, kaldav [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Hello, I have a few questions about an original G3 (same form as a 3400). 1. I wish to replace the latch and have the part. I found pictures to assist with hard drive replacement at www.genchan.com about the 3400,

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