Re: 12.1 in. 1.5ghz powerbook

2005-09-14 Thread Meg St. Clair
Sorry for the late response. I love my 1.5ghz 12 inch. I had the original 12 inch. The one I have now has the built in SuperDrive. I love the size, the portability. I put in a 1gig memory chip. I find the speed just fine. I helped my housemate set up her new IBM Thinkpad tonight. It's

Re: 12 Powerbook as external DVD player for Television

2005-06-23 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 23 Jun 2005, at 7:42 AM, Francesco sciacca wrote: Thanks for the very clear explanation. I believe that I have the appropriate cables. But the one thing that still isn't clear is do I have the correct video adapter? Do you know if there's a way to tell? I guess the best way to find out

12 Powerbook as external DVD player for Television

2005-06-22 Thread Meg St. Clair
Hi, It seems as if this ought to be easy but I'm confused. What specific parts/cables to I need to hook my Powerbook up to a television so that I can play DVDs (commercial) and see/hear them on the television? The KB articles I've dug up are vague. I have an Apple Video Adapter but I

Re: 12 Powerbook as external DVD player for Television

2005-06-22 Thread Meg St. Clair
. Thanks, Meg On 22 Jun 2005, at 6:28 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:25 PM, Meg St. Clair wrote: It seems as if this ought to be easy but I'm confused. ... Given that I have the right one, what do I do next? What is a composite video port? If I use and S-Video cable, do I

Re: Opinion wanted

2005-05-19 Thread Meg St. Clair
Why on earth should Apple be responsible for this? The equipment was in no way defective. They didn't spill water in it. And, Laurent had tried to teach his daughter not to take food and beverages near the computer. I believe that the kind of action your suggesting actually decreases the

Re: Login issues with Safari

2005-05-11 Thread Meg St. Clair
I use nytimes.com as my homepage. Also, I use Salon Premium (subscriber version) a lot. I've never had the problem you're describing and I use Safari so I wonder if the problem is caused by something else. Sorry not to be able to help. On 11 May 2005, at 9:37 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on

Garmin Forerunner and Powerbook

2004-07-21 Thread Meg St. Clair
I have a Garmin Forerunner (small wrist top GPS unit). It comes with a serial cable for a PC. I have Virtual PC. What I'm not sure about is whether it's possible to get some kind of converter dongle to hook it up to the USB port. Garmin doesn't appear to sell a USB version of the cable. I'd like

Re: Garmin Forerunner and Powerbook

2004-07-21 Thread Meg St. Clair
/04 9:27 PM, C Mark Blatchley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meg You can get cable converters to USB and MacGPS Pro software. I'm not sure how far that will take you in the direction you want. I've gone farther than I have time to figure out. Mark Meg St. Clair wrote: I have a Garmin

12 inch seems crippled

2004-02-10 Thread Meg St. Clair
Help!!! Two days ago, my 12 inch PB suddenly slowed to a crawl. I ran disk first aid. I did an archive and install and updated everything. It's a little better. It only takes 20-30 minutes to get to the log on screen after a restart as opposed to an hour. Lots of spinning beach balls. If I

Re: Kernel panics on 12 PBook

2003-11-10 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 11/9/03 5:33 AM, Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): Yesterday I experienced a run of kernel panics on my 12 PB. After the first panic occurred I was unable to reboot successfully - 4 or 5 successive reboot attempts all resulted in another panic during the reboot.

Re: Kernel panics on 12 PB

2003-11-10 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 11/10/03 5:56 PM, Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): Meg, when you say 'it's not enough to interfere with the Airport functions but it causes the panics', what do you mean? Have you ever run the Test CD after a crash? What I meant was that even though the card was

Re: Airport and Digitizing Music

2003-11-10 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 11/10/03 7:07 PM, jacque greenleaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): 1) Got my new iBook w/out Airport, then found out that my favorite coffee shop offers free wireless internet. Will I void my warranty if I install the card myself? Can an iBook 700 use Airport Extreme? Airport

Re: temperature range

2003-08-11 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 8/6/03 6:16 PM, HAL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): I just got a 12 G4 PB and am using Temperature Monitor to monitor the CPU temp. I wanted to ask for feedback from list members using similar equipment as to what temperature ranges they are seeing. Also, is there any way to

Re: PB network problem

2003-08-04 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 8/3/03 6:11 PM, Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): I have a 12 PB with a wifi card. The PB has a static IP address. Occasionally I find that when using the ethernet connection the PB is no longer able to transmit or receive across the network - no browsing, no email, no

Re: PB Networking Problems

2003-08-04 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 8/4/03 4:10 PM, Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): I've just checked with my normal command (ipconfig getifaddr en0) and got the error message again - I'm on Wireless at the moment. Incidentally, when en0 is happy, that command returns the IP address currently in use on

Re: Wallstreet Start-Up Problem

2003-08-04 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 8/4/03 4:43 PM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): Powerbook Wallstreet, upgraded with Powerlogix 466, 256 Ram, IBM 20gig hd, Running system 9.1 Problem: After the system has been shut down overnight, the Powerbook will have several start up problems including bombs with

Re: New User

2003-07-20 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 7/20/03 4:56 AM, Jean-Marc Melchior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): I owe a big thank you, to all those who replied to this thread, especially Meg, you all helped me a lot! Jean-Marc People on this list have helped me a lot as well. Eventually, you'll be able to return the

Cloning to a new computer

2003-07-20 Thread Meg St. Clair
I admit that I didn't pay attention to this discussion the last time it came around (don't recall if it was this list or another). I think I will be getting a different Powerbook 12 inch, on with a Superdrive. I want to clone my current information to the new one. I have Carbon Copy Cloner. Do I

Re: Cloning to a new computer

2003-07-20 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 7/20/03 12:24 PM, Jeremy Derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 08:16 AM, Meg St. Clair wrote: I admit that I didn't pay attention to this discussion the last time it came around (don't recall if it was this list or another). I think I

Re: Cloning to a new computer

2003-07-20 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 7/20/03 4:46 PM, Rob LeFebvre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): You can also use Carbon Copy Cloner to make a backup of your home folder. That should be enough to cover your move to a new computer. Copying the main Library folder shouldn't harm things...but I might make a disk

Re: New User

2003-07-19 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 12/31/69 8:13 PM, Jean-Marc Melchior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): Hello List, I am new to the mac, I just recently bought me a little powerbook, now for getting started I need your help, it would be nice if somebody could tell me the essential downloads I need to make,

Re: pads of 12 PB gone (2 out of 4)

2003-07-17 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 7/17/03 2:37 PM, Benoit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): hi list, i 'm the proud owner of a 12 PowerBook but i realised earlier today that i lost 2 of the 4 pads there are at each corner. Has it happened to one of you? (by you, i mean 12 PB owners) i just wanted to know...

Little rubber feet

2003-06-09 Thread Meg St. Clair
One of the little rubber feet fell off of my PB 12. I have the piece. How should I stick it back on? I really don't want to send the whole thing back to Apple (which is what they wanted me to do when I had lost one of the little screws in the lid, which luckily, I found again). The rubber piece

Re: Little rubber feet

2003-06-09 Thread Meg St. Clair
On 6/9/03 6:54 PM, Hamlin Krewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited for length): On Mon, 09 Jun 2003 15:31:35 -0400, Meg St. Clair wrote: One of the little rubber feet fell off of my PB 12. I have the piece. How should I stick it back on? I really don't want to send the whole thing back

Kernel panics when moving

2003-06-04 Thread Meg St. Clair
I can't remember if it was on this list or another one that I read about this problem. Someone reported correlating their kernel panics with picking up the open Powerbook by the left side. I don't remember exactly what they decided the problem was or how they fixed it. Well, my PB 12 is now doing