Buy new PowerBook or add a new PC?

2004-07-18 Thread Les Riess
I currently have a Pismo 400 with OS 9.1, however, because of a new career that I started, I either want to buy a new PowerBook or add a PC to my inventory. I'm selling real estate and the Real Estate Board website (Multi-list system) is only accessible if you use the absolute latest version of IE

Is an external Hard Drive a good solution?

2003-12-18 Thread Les Riess
I have a Pismo for home and travel and a G4 desktop at my office. I am thinking about getting a portable external firewire drive, 40, 60, or 80 GB, mainly for backing up my important files and also for moving data between the 2 computers. CDs don't have enough capacity aand I don't want to do the

OT: Google Spam

2003-10-01 Thread Les Riess
I recently visited friends in Germany and was introduced to a friend of theirs who is a computer consultant and self-styled expert. During the conversation, I remarked that Google is a pretty good search engine, to which the computer expert replied, Not so good. Too much spam.. Puzzled, I asked

Re: Update Netscape for Pismo?

2003-08-25 Thread Les Riess
Curious though...how come you aren't running MacOS X on your Pismo? Because if you are, you get the goodness of Safari right there in the OS. Pismos run MacOS X very well. All you need to do is get some more RAM in there I have 320 MB of RAM. Sufficient for Netscape 7, or not? I'm not

Update Netscape for Pismo?

2003-08-23 Thread Les Riess
I have a Pismo 400, OS 9.1, and am using Netscape 4.75. I am increasingly having trouble loading some, but not all, Web pages and wondering if it might be tied this older version of Netscape. I have a G4 desktop at my office and I use Netscape 7 and it works great. I'm not interested in making any

Re: Using SCSI serial devices with Pismo

2002-12-18 Thread Les Riess
I had a problem receiving the digests for a day, so I've had to go to the archives and cut and paste to reply to the responses to my original post. Hal wrote: I'm using a Laserwriter 360 with my Pismo and my G4 Cube without problems. I picked up a Dayna EtherPrint Adapter (connects

Using SCSI serial devices with Pismo

2002-12-16 Thread Les Riess
I have some older equipment that I would like to use with my Pismo. The LaserWriter 360 is serial and the film scanner is SCSI. Can I use them with the Pismo and what would I need additionally to do so? If there is a choice, would a USB or Firewire adapter be better? -- Regards, Les --