Re: Japanese encoding in Mail

2003-12-09 Thread Paige H. Adams
On Dec 9, 2003, at 9:26 PM, bee4 wrote: For some reason mail will not let you choose text encoding after you click compose. This appears to be fixed in Panther. -Patch -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives

Re: Bookendz

2002-09-26 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 9/26/02 10:18 AM, Hottentot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know if the Bookendz have been updated to work with the newer PowerBook G4 (DVI)? I have the 800 MHz and would like to avoid unplugging everything at the desk. 2 USB, Firewire, Ethernet, Video and Sound all get tiresome

Re: Darkside question but all for the good

2002-09-08 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 9/7/02 12:15 PM, Dwight Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is [shudder] is that since there are a lot more of the 'other' side computers out there, and there is only one shop in north Florida that has Mac used stuff, and not much, is there a power supply that someone has found or

Re: Last question for today

2002-09-08 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 9/8/02 8:27 AM, Demetrius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard) a Pismo? The PB G3 Bronze is known as a Lombard. The Pismo is the PB G3 FireWire (although it does, in fact, have a bronze keyboard as well). How much to increase 400Mhz to 500Mhz? Powerlogix has a

Re: Pismo again/DVD............

2002-09-07 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 9/6/02 10:15 PM, Donald Keenan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pismo's have bad original dvd drives. The original model was discussed here some time ago...begins with an M (Japanese). IIRC, it's the LG models (Korean manufacture) that have been prone to failure. The Japanese Matsushita

Re: Pismo/PowerBook hard drive upgrade

2002-09-07 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 9/5/02 3:25 PM, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can pick up the right size Torx (#8) at a Sears store for about $3-$4. Looks like a precision screwdriver with the rotating head on top of the handle. Worth the investment if you open up things like this very often. Heck buy a set for

Re: Pismo/PowerBook hard drive upgrade

2002-08-26 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 8/25/02 6:44 PM, Randall Van Schepen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if anyone on list has had this experience upgrading a hard disk on a Pismo or other PowerBook. I was about to purchase a IBM 48GB hard drive on ebay from someone with a Pismo who was getting rid of it. Come to find

Re: Discount Airport Station?

2002-08-19 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 8/19/02 2:54 PM, Joe Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I first got my cable modem about a month ago, I tried to set it up directly to the ABS and ran into problems, I'm not sure why and maybe someone who knows more about networks can answer it. When I used the hub linking to the Cable

Re: Entourage question.

2002-08-19 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 8/19/02 4:59 PM, Greg Burkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not all of us have the money to afford the hardware updates this would entail, Joe. If your hardware doesn't support OS X, then I wouldn't hold my breath for good performance with Office 2001, either. It's pretty demanding on a system,

Re: OS 10.2 is shipping to preoders NOW

2002-08-17 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 8/17/02 5:18 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a invoice notice from apple today the 17th of Aug 2002 that my OS X 10.2 has been shipped out today. The notice said that item was shipped sooner than expected week ealier than privous release date anyone else get this notice? Yup.

Re: Pismos fry lid-down!

2002-08-10 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 8/8/02 4:33 PM, Chip Stafford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You _really_ don't want to operate the Pismo or its cousin the Lombard with the lid down. Most of the heat from the operation of the processor is dissipated up through the keyboard area. Perhaps Apple would like to sell a few more

Re: Pismo and external monitor

2002-08-08 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 8/8/02 3:55 AM, jarrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently running an external monitor and USB keyboard from my Pismo. Is there a way on any control settings that I can run the Pismo without opening the unit? I wish to run only one screen and have the Pismo underneath the monitor,

Re: Ok, dead DVD drive, what next?

2002-07-30 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 7/30/02 11:23 AM, Jon Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 7/30/02 8:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: did you see my site? we've got the Panasonic's in stock for it. I sent you a private email last week in reply to your email to me. I suppose you never got it for some

Re: Pismo DVD to Sony TV

2002-07-30 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 7/30/02 5:57 PM, Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 01:16 , Glenn Wiggins wrote: Which a/v cables do I need to connect my Pismo and it's DVD player to my new Sony TV? The TV has S-Video connectors. Thanks. --Glenn You need the little

Re: iBook vs. PowerBook

2002-07-22 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 7/22/02 8:33 AM, Miller, Kimberly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course I would appreciate the better screen and faster performance, but not sure I can justify the extra money if it's not likely to outlast the iBook in terms of becoming obsolete. Well I'll tell you, if it were me I'd get the

Re: Restricting Applications on MacOS X

2002-07-12 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 7/12/02 8:45 PM, markemmanuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a way to restrict the use of certain applications and services on my macintosh. My brother is abusing certain privileges on my computer like scanning photos for his friends, prints reams of photos for them, etc. I

Re: G3 Pismo Cooling and Desktop Use

2002-06-29 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 6/30/02 12:43 AM, Dan Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sold my iMac on eBay and bought Pismo 500. I got it so I could use one computer for both my at home desktop needs and on the road to do GPS and general portable stuff. At home it's connected to a 19 in. monitor, an external

Re: Pismo (Lombard) Desktop Use

2002-06-29 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 6/29/02 7:30 PM, Tom Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paige - with the CoolPad it doesn't look like a docking station can be used since the back gets pitched up. Is there a way to speed up cable connect/disconnect or do you just pull them one at a time? That's true -- probably wouldn't work

Re: Active links

2002-04-20 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 4/18/02 3:57 PM, Dan Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The best and most widely supported format for posting URLs in email and elsewhere is to put the entire thing between less than and greater than signs, like this: http://lowendmac.com More email clients will turn this format into an

Re: Taking apart a Pismo and component-level repairs

2002-04-12 Thread Paige H. Adams
On 12/31/69 8:33 PM, Peter Graening [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just finished a three hour stint of pulling apart my FireWire PowerBook and fixing the sound/power card with some touch-up soldering. All in all, I was a little squeamish about it, but, hey, nothing bad happened at all, the

Re: Camcorder backup

2001-07-22 Thread Paige H. Adams
on 7/22/01 10:53 PM, Mike Ferguson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, these are the same fragile tapes that I already trust many of my most precious memories to - certainly as important to me as the data on my hard drive. And I'm thinking more of archiving than anything I would want instant

Re: Totally OT - RE listmember's woodworking

2001-07-18 Thread Paige H. Adams
Yep, it's good stuff... I checked it out yesterday. Recommendation for him though: use JPGs instead of GIFs for your web pictures, so we can see the true beauty of your work, not just in 256 colors. I sure like those cherry bookshelves! Paige on 7/18/01 1:50 AM, dog b at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mac.com errors

2001-07-18 Thread Paige H. Adams
No, but I notice the Apple servers have been kind of finicky the past few days for some reason... iTools was down for maintenance 2 days ago. I'm sure it was just a temporary outage. I've received the below message several times with my @home account, since my server seems to go down for a few

Re: Slightly OT: Office 2001 Upgrade

2001-07-18 Thread Paige H. Adams
on 7/18/01 12:34 PM, /alan/thompson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would think that this would be a qualifying product, but have you checked out MS's site? Yep. I've dug all around there to no avail. I thought about e-mailing Microsoft to ask, but figured I'd pose the question here first.