On 1/31/04 11:44 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, the subject line of this e-mail thread was written by you and it
was about how the tray loading iMac drive was flawed, that is what I
referenced [the CD-ROM drives] in my above statement, you reading OK?
Need some help?
On 2/1/04 3:28 AM, Bruce Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 2/1/04 3:21 AM, Robin Ashe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/1/04 2:16 AM, Bruce Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can the moderator please block further posts from this jackass? We don't
need a Mac hater on a Mac help list
On 2/1/04 12:06 PM, Frank P. Eigler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Forget that. I say we all meet at a Quake site and have at it! :-)
I'm more of an Unreal Tournament fan, but Quake would probably be better
considering it doesn't make good use of the second mouse button!
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On 2/1/04 10:42 AM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I realized you were a troll and that we were wasting people's time so I
apologized and stopped. Maybe when you grow up you can make big
decisions too.
Now, the list nanny has asked for this thread to stop as well ...
perhaps
On 2/1/04 9:20 AM, markemmanuel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't the main reason for new Apple hardware to run the latest BSD
stuff (sans FreeBSD), Linux, Windows (via VirtualPC), and other stuff
due to Apple's acceptance of Openfirmware while Windows based
manufacturers still rely on BIOS?
On 2/1/04 11:47 AM, Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This thread is dead. Drop it.
Seems like a valid question to me. Why is it dead?
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On 2/1/04 4:02 PM, JOHN.E.ABRAHAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Listers,
I am new to PowerBooks but not to Macs.
I suspect the PRAM battery has failed on my WallStreet 233 mhz
revised model with 512k cache.
The date keeps on needing to be reset every time I bootup. On my
desktop Mac
It was done at the same time as I sent the last couple of ones. It wouldn't
hurt to check the send time once in a while.
On 1/30/04 10:57 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
List nanny closed the topic so I didn't bother to read this. Nor
am I going to quote any of it below,
Are there any guides floating around the net on how to do this without
spending too much?
And yes, it's definitely more important. OS X won't help me write essays if
I can't print them out.
On 1/30/04 11:00 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can still convert it to ethernet
On 1/31/04 12:11 AM, John Acuff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All tray loading iMacs? Hmmm, last time I checked, the drive in my 333
iMac was still working fine. I know I'm not alone either..
It doesn't mean all of them will break
So you're saying that Apple should forget about
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 PC users put up with crap so that they can feel better about
themselves.
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On 1/31/04 9:30 AM, Jim Eddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:25 PM, Tom Ethen wrote:
I have used a Pismo with a built in Airport Card and the Orinoco card
and
they do work the same, but the range with the card is severely
handicapped
compared to the internal card with the
On 1/31/04 5:48 PM, Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
)
example.
Clear enough?
David
On Jan 31, 2004, at 8:11 PM, Robin Ashe wrote:
On 1/31/04 5:48 PM, Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
something I
never said or asked for.
Cheers,
Robin Ashe
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Do you have a source on that? I'd be interested in reading more about it.
On 1/30/04 4:35 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That said, the other real winner is ATI. The whole problem is due to a poorly
designed and faulty ATI Rage Pro chip, not by evil Republicans in the dark
than it should?
Thanks,
Robin Ashe
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No need to start flaming.
Of course they only cover certain models, which doesn't happen to include
the one my mom is having troubles with (as well as a large number of other
people).
Regardless, I wouldn't want a new Mac, I'd want an old one that has been
proven to be reliable. Of the 3 Macs my
On 1/30/04 8:08 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, in actuality there are three issues, one is the over heating
issue cited by Bigbikerbo here, the second is a cable routing issue
causing stress on the video ribbon cable, and the third is an off shoot
of the second where
On 1/20/04 2:55 PM, Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but under OS X you gotta have an Ethernet interface in order to get
to the printer at all. At least as far as I know. I suppose this is
because there is no Appletalk support for the localtalk connection under OS X.
Just out of
Thanks. I guess I'll have to do a Dual Boot. My printer is too good to give
up for OS X.
On 1/30/04 9:33 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, its not. Classic does not have direct access to hardware as all
hardware access is governed by Mac OS X's kernel. Therefore you would
Wait a second, anytime something is reported it is therefore
substantiated? Your logic is way beyond faulty on this one. Apple said
they were not aware of an issue, that has not been proven false.
Wrong! They said There is no known issue. In other words the issue didn't
exist. You shouldn't
On 1/30/04 9:30 PM, David M. Ensteness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh? A CD design flaw. What was the flaw and what model we talking about
... ?
iMac Rev B. All the tray loading iMacs had this problem. They were very
fragile. The standard CD drive that came in my PC that was manufactured
around
. That and there are ways
to get a LocalTalk printer on an ethernet network ...
David
On Jan 31, 2004, at 12:32 AM, Robin Ashe wrote:
Thanks. I guess I'll have to do a Dual Boot. My printer is too good to
give
up for OS X.
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On 1/28/04 9:39 PM, Dave Bonhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FW is not an option to me. I don't have any FW devices nor FW equipped
machines. And my biggest SCSI drive is too small for a complete clone.
I was hoping to connect to the 'Family' iMac and create my back-up on
a partition of its
with the Apricorn EZ USB 2.0
and whether the USB Overdrive drivers would let me use it on my Wallstreet.
Thanks,
Robin Ashe
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On 1/29/04 2:22 PM, Al Poulin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See:
http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/
It's about time.
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will be perfectly happy
with the way Apple dealt with the problem. I would have been if they had
been honest, but 2 out of 5 macs in my immediate family going bad doesn't
make me feel like being a repeat customer even if they had admitted the
problem from the start.
Robin Ashe
On 1/29/04 8:26 PM, David M
It looks good?
On 1/28/04 6:45 AM, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just what is the advantage, if any in purchasing an Airport Base Station
instead of the far less expensive wireless routers that are available for
PC's?
Tom
You could probably save some money. I have a fairly
How are you overclocking? Are you just increasing the CPU speed or are you
increasing the bus speed? Both can have problems, but they're especially
likely if you're increasing the bus speed. You'll put everything else out of
whack. I would suggest at least while you're installing Panther that you
There's nothing stopping them from designing a new northbridge, or even
building it into the CPU like the A64. The problem lies in the fact that at
best you get 60% extra performance for each extra CPU. So 4 CPUs would give
at best 220% of the performance of a single CPU. Not really worth it
On 1/27/04 12:37 PM, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone tell me how long it takes to
encode a minute of MPEG-2 on a 1.6 GHz G5 tower system?
1.6GHz system might as well be a G4 with a G5 CPU thrown in. Apple has been
following a trend lately of sticking previous generation tech in the
Interesting point. I know the G4 hardly outperformed the G3 at the same
clock speed unless the software was specifically written to take advantage
of the G4 AltiVec engine.
Anyway, this sounds like a question to be asking the guy at BareFeats.com
On 1/27/04 12:37 PM, Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/27/04 9:06 PM, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anybody help me find a site that lists the current value for a Titanium
Powerbook G4 666 30 gig HD? In Canada if that makes a difference.
TIA
Everymac.com usually has prices. I'm not sure how up to date they are, but
for the most
On 1/25/04 10:57 PM, Jackie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on 25/01/04 06:51, Robin Ashe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip!]
How would she go about setting her iBook up as an external HD? I live in a
different city from her, so the easier the instructions are the better so
that something doesn't
that something doesn't get lost in conveying the instructions to her.
Also, if there are any other suggestions you might have for getting the data
copied off before it goes completely dead?
Thanks,
Robin Ashe
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I don't have a Pismo or a Mini iPod so I can't say for sure, but it seems to
me that most USB 2 hardware is USB 1.1 compatible, although it's much slower
running on USB 1.1. I don't know if the iPod or the Software would insist on
USB 2.0 though. I wouldn't be surprised considering the mandatory
On 1/24/04 11:01 AM, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I own a wallstreet and beige g3 tower. I'd like to upgrade them to OSX. I
recall reading that these two computers were only able to run early
versions of OSX. What is the latest OSX version each of these computers can
run?
TIA
For
Is there any software that would let me watch MPEG-4 movies or VCDs on a
wallstreet without a DVD drive?
Thanks.
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On 1/20/04 2:16 PM, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone recommend a 802.11G pccard to be used in a Pismo Powerbook?
All I can find here(Netherlands) only have Wintel-drivers.
Marc
I'd say go for a Lucent/Proxim/Orinoco or rebranded one since AFAIK that's
what the Airport is anyway.
On 1/19/04 4:08 PM, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should a wallstreet be able to start up without the charge card (under
palmrest, charges the batteries) installed? My wallstreet still has it's
mystery startup problem, and the symptoms are different without that card
installed. Is that
On 1/18/04 5:33 AM, Billy Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Here's my problem.
I'm trying to connect from my Mac to my Window XP installation which runs on
my Virtual PC application. I can connect the other way (VP WinXP to my Mac)
On 1/17/04 3:37 PM, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should a wallstreet be able to start up without the charge card (under
palmrest, charges the batteries) installed? My wallstreet still has it's
mystery startup problem, and the symptoms are different without that card
installed. Is that
On 1/13/04 9:12 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am I the only one to receive mail error from email address
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'? I did set it as failed so that it should recover by
itself, hopefully, but was wondering if anybody else did receive these mail
error messages?
On 1/13/04 12:40 PM, Mark Rath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why am I getting the Digets (which I want) and the individual emails - which
I don't want?
Maybe you also need to unsubscribe? Don't hold me to that though. Contacting
the list mom would probably be best.
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On 1/13/04 4:50 PM, Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
My uncle sent me a driver from a OS 9.1
install and it works fine.
Would you please tell me exactly what driver, which works, that you use
from 9.1 under 9.2.2? I think I used an old OS 7 driver
I've been looking around for a while, and I haven't heard any news on
whether Ryan got Xpostfacto 3 to put Panther on a Wallstreet.
Has anyone heard any news regarding this?
Thanks
Robin Ashe
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That seems to have been the problem. My uncle sent me a driver from a OS 9.1
install and it works fine. For small files anyway, my PDFs still won't print
because I don't have enough memory for them.
On 1/11/04 2:59 AM, Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hmmm, that might be hard since the card is, according to Dell, a mini-PCI
internal card. Never heard of them, but that rules out testing them in a
PowerBook...
-Laurent.
That just means it's a standard PCI card as far as interface goes and is
just small enough to fit into a laptop. But
On 1/10/04 5:22 AM, Paul Stamsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 22:41pm -0800 on 1/9/04, Robin Ashe, contributed:
OK, I tried the LW 8 extension, it practically nerfed my system, so I
rebooted with all extensions on and trimmed away the ones that I was sure I
didn't need. I now have
On 1/10/04 1:23 PM, Andrew Kershaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/10/04 5:22 AM, Paul Stamsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 22:41pm -0800 on 1/9/04, Robin Ashe, contributed:
OK, I tried the LW 8 extension, it practically nerfed my system, so I
rebooted with all extensions on and trimmed
On 1/10/04 8:12 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I got this crappy laptop from work which I need to setup in the event I got
production support to do. It is a Dell Latitude D600 with the Dell
TrueMobile 1300, which is a 802.11b wireless card.
I have an ABS that works fine with
On 1/9/04 5:06 AM, Paul Stamsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 21:49pm -0800 on 1/8/04, Robin Ashe, contributed:
I'm having troubles getting my Apple Personal LaserWriter LS to work with my
Wallstreet.
I have the 300/LS extension active, the power cord is plugged in, I can turn
Stamsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 21:49pm -0800 on 1/8/04, Robin Ashe, contributed:
I'm having troubles getting my Apple Personal LaserWriter LS to work with my
Wallstreet.
I have the 300/LS extension active, the power cord is plugged in, I can turn
it on and get a green light
I'm having troubles getting my Apple Personal LaserWriter LS to work with my
Wallstreet.
I have the 300/LS extension active, the power cord is plugged in, I can turn
it on and get a green light. The toner cartridge is in and I've got paper in
the tray. The printer cable is securely plugged into
On 1/6/04 6:53 AM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you give me the location in Hong Kong? I live in China.
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I haven't been able to
of takeapart pics. :-)
to which Robin Ashe [EMAIL PROTECTED] replied:
I've come across two places that sell them, one is out of Hong Kong, the
other is out of Germany. Both are incredibly expensive though.
Expensive = ?? While a list price of ~US$400+ (my guess) might seem high
now, back when
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On 1/5/04 7:23 PM, Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John Abraham pointed me to some additional infos:
In the mean time a Google search has brought up a Lowendmac archive
with some useful info for a DVD ROM/CDRW for this model.
1: www.lowendmac.com/pb2/g3series.shtml
On the MCE Tech website I
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