On 27-Nov-03, at 4:14 PM, tivo wrote:
I'm using an iBook 900MHz OSX purchased new in June '03. Just ran newly
purchased DiskWarrior. It showed 28% fragmentation of the hard drive.
Is
this normal for five months' use?
Very normal. I service the Macs at the newspaper monthly - I've never
had a
On 27-Nov-03, at 8:12 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
I think you can logon with shift key down, but that will only prevent
startup items to launch.
It does a bit more than that, but I still doubt it would help since
this isn't a startup issue. Still, wouldn't hurt.
Since Jaguar, holding down the
On 26-Nov-03, at 11:39 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Aliases will have to be recreated, anyway, if you're switching over to
the new drive.
Might I recommend Skytag's File Buddy as a useful tool for reconnecting
lost aliases, as well as the thousand other things it does for you...
in OS 9 and in OS
On 20-Nov-03, at 8:52 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
FYI, I have ASM 2.1b5 installed on my Pismo running 10.3.2 and have no
problem with menubar display.
10.3.2?
Cheers - Steve K.
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On 14-Nov-03, at 10:47 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote:
Is there any drawback using OS 9 programs under X start up machines
only
Does performance lag under Classic mode
The benefit I see in OS 9 bootable would be 2 different system
folders, but does this cause the machine to be slower and or
On 12-Nov-03, at 1:54 PM, Kurt Appling wrote:
Hi all, I want to know more about panther,Ive looked at the ad's and
most of the new features I dont need,my question is does it work any
better? thanks in advance
Much faster on my Pismo. And, to tell the truth, many of these features
that might
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 11:11 PM, Edward Jackson wrote:
The Mac is a drastically less used, more expensive, and a slower
computer (sorry guysbenchmarks vs reality).
(Large amount snipped, but you get the gist)
It always distresses me when I hear a fellow Mac user buy into the dark
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 12:13 PM, Dwight Hines wrote:
Are there multiple exif files and depending on the retrieval program,
you
get different dates for creation, modification, moves?
need an exif expert.
I'm certainly not an expert, but I'll try to help.
If I understand your
On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 01:41 PM, Steve Kidd wrote:
Or you might want to join the Graphics Cafe list over at the List Moms
Cartel - you're certain to find some real experts there...)
I should have given the address when I posted. The Graphics Cafe list
can be found at:
http
Andrew Kershaw writes:
It can't _hurt_ to shut down your 'Book when it gets hot. That noise
you hear probably _is_ the fan. It comes on only when the PowerBook
heats up enough to trigger it.
I've got to disagree a little here. The fan is on for a reason, because the
PowerBook is excessively
w miller writes:
I raise the rear end with a little saucer. Am I being silly?
Definitely not silly, it's a good idea. But I thought I'd add my personal
experience with a PowerBook stand, the iCurve in my case, which I found
effective for increasing air circulation.
Here in fire-ravaged Kelowna
On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 05:03 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Start Terminal.
at the prompt type 'cd /' (without the ''s)
then type sudo rm -r Previous\ Systems
(or whatever the folder is called, exactly..if you start typing the
name and hit the tab key in the Terminal, it will autocomplete
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 05:54 AM, N. Stella Sloop wrote:
OK, after more than a week using OSX.2.6 on my 466mhz clamshell, I
haven't even accessed the OS9 stuff at all. Can someone tell me which
of the files in the applications folder and system folder listed below
might well be done
On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 07:59 AM, Andrew Kershaw wrote:
It seems to have been AAE. Disabling it seems to have stopped those
particular errors. Curiously, the problem (with the same OS) doesn't
occur on my Wallstreet.
It still may not have been AAE. I once had the same problem on a Mac
Lewin A.R.W. Edwards writes, quoting others:
: I've heard rumors that there is a work-around to get OS9 to boot on a :
12 Powerbook G4. Anyone have the details on the workaround/hack?
If said rumored work-around actually worked, it would become front- page
Has anyone tried to take a blank
On Saturday, August 30, 2003, at 01:03 PM, Steve Kerney wrote:
Thanks.
Steve K
Had me wondering for a minute just when I picked up a Wallstreet. Going
to have to change how I sign off, I think. 87)
Cheers - Steve K.
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On Monday, August 25, 2003, at 07:50 PM, Richard Smykla wrote:
For a good (free!) intro, see here:
http://homepage.mac.com/rgriff/files/osxguide2.pdf
And don't forget his main site,
http://www.macosxhints.com/
I found it (and still do) an invaluable resource for finding out how to
get things
On Sunday, August 24, 2003, at 04:51 PM, Les Riess wrote:
I'm not running OSX because the software that I use for my photo
business only runs on OS 9 for now. They have not updated for X yet,
but
are working on it.
One question and one comment, The question is what software are you
using that
On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 01:53 PM, Les Riess wrote:
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
On 8/18/03 2:26 AM, tivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Seems that a shareware driver had just come on the market out of Japan for
this (and other) devices.
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The USB Overdrive X is a driver for Mac OS X 10.2.4
USB Overdrive is a superb driver, been
On 8/17/03 9:49 AM, tivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish it were this easy. I understand what you mean by using the control key
to get the quit menu, as with Dock programs.
Snip
Until I'm certain, I continue to think that this is a Microsoft Office X
issue.
I haven't gotten an idea to
On 8/17/03 10:56 AM, tivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see what you mean about the right mouse button, although I don't use a
mouse. I have an Adesso keyboard attached and the upper button of the trackpad
does operate as the control key in producing the same menu.
Okay, I'm not too familiar
As I sit here watching a movie, I come across an interesting problem,
I think it would look more interesting in BW, but there doesn't seem
to be a setting for that in the monitors preference pane.
Am I just missing something, or is BW mode not possible on a Pismo
running OSeX 10.26?
Cheers -
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 12:27 PM, Thomas Ethen wrote:
I reset mine quite often and it is still there!
As is mine. (Pismo 500.)
on 7/21/03 11:39, Bruce Johnson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thomas Ethen wrote:
The serial number is also in System Profiler!
Only if the PRAM has never been
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 03:50 AM, Illovox Media wrote:
Well, Ryan, that's four accounts to the negative as well as positive.
And I
can report a 1400 I bought out of CA had a past police are interested
in...hard fact. EBAY did nothing. NOTHING. In fact, neither did the
police...
If
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 03:25 AM, Michel Treisman wrote:
I wandered onto eBay three weeks ago as a newbie, bought a bargain Ti
powerbook, never saw the goods
and lost all my money. Am I responsible for not knowing how things
worked, or the website for not warning me?
I know it sounds
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 09:13 AM, Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote:
The reason I dislike Canadian sales is the extra paperwork. I don't
even
know how to generate the right paperwork to send things UPS, so I
always
have to use USPS to send these items.
Hopefully you shouldn't have to fill out
I highly doubt it. And honestly? I think those signatures breach the
nettiquette on this server.
My cousin did. Won a $500 settlement.
And in what possible way would Michelle's sig breach nettiquette?
Cheers - Steve K.
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On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 01:15 AM, George Slusher wrote:
They are in the process of transferring their products to others (in
many
cases, to the original authors).
Funny, they don't say what's happening with Conflict Catcher - I guess
there's no market left at all for it? Or did they
On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 07:18 AM, Jeremy Derr wrote:
Good news at http://weblog.flora.org/
OpenOffice for the Macintosh is finally out of beta, just in time for
Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference.
Still using X11 though.
it's an X11 application. it'll probably always run through X11.
On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 05:38 PM, James G (Jim) Hardwick wrote:
Nice paperweight, or can these be rebuilt?
A local battery store here in the sunny Okanagan, Battery Direct, is
rebuilding Pismo batteries, at least. $40, with higher performance
cells than the original.
They're part of a
On Saturday, June 21, 2003, at 06:48 PM, Peter Nacken wrote:
Now If I could only find a good website telling me how to set up the
cam as
a webcam (that old style, non streaming, new pic every 10 secs), I'd be
happy ... Nowadays looking for that in google only reveals xxx stuff ..
Not if you
On Monday, June 16, 2003, at 08:08 AM, Tom Roth wrote:
Where do you get an OS 9 version of Mozilla? On their website I only
see download links for OS X.
You have to hunt for it a bit. The last version for OS 9 was 1.2.1, so
go to the 1.3.1
download page, and scroll down till you find it.
Lost track of who it was, but some is quoted as saying:
Alas the developer stopped development with the advent of OSX as OSX
pissed him off (Sure to start off a new round of flamage I'm sure :-(
Actually, Turly was one of the early OS X programmers - Apple let him
go when every hi-tech company
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