On Sep 27, 2004, at 11:00 PM, Dan Palka wrote:
If that makes me sound unprofessional or not serious enough, then you
need
to do one thing...
Lighten up!
He was trying to give you some advice that will enable you to get
better help and be taken more seriously. As with most things, if you
know
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On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:54:58 -0700 Shane Hartley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No its not an advertisement...its legitjust type in free ipod conga
in
google for more info.
When you post a message about it and then include your referrer number in
the URL then it
On Sep 17, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Samuel Frost wrote:
I have a Bronze G3 powerbook, with OS 9.1, do I need to install any
virus protection while surfing the net. I heard Apple designs were
fairly resistant to most types of viruses.
1) There are no OS X viruses, so no you don't need anti virus
2)
On Sep 15, 2004, at 2:24 PM, Dan Palka wrote:
Was this an advertisement?
Mail.app thought so. It called it junk mail.
Note the referrer. The whole thing is a scheme to get more people to
sign up through your referrer #
TjL
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On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:47 PM, Dan K wrote:
I've been using a couple of utilities which very nicely divine lots of
battery information, X-Charge and XBattery. Graphs and logs and stuff
with a proper GUI. None of that arcane grepping stuff for
dumb-as-a-post-lil'-ol'-me!! :-)
Yes, GUIs are quite
On Sep 15, 2004, at 1:45 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
Just as a thought on this, I'm not in electronics that much but I've
read a
few times that turning electronic equipment off is sometimes more
stressful
when you turn them back on because the current that is suddenly
applied to
the circuits.
On Sep 14, 2004, at 9:44 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
Or is your primary concern power surges? If that's the case then,
yeah, you either put your faith in surge suppressors or unplug it.
Or get a decent UPS unit, not one of those silly little extension cord
things that calls itself a surge protector
My only suggestion is to make sure that when you close it, you do so
firmly to make sure it makes a solid connection, and doesn't pop open a
little right when it first tries to sleep. That might confuse it.
Also, be sure to wait until the light starts to pulse before you move
it. I read that
As an Apple Certified Technician I can assure you that if you sent that
machine to my shop I wouldn't have looked at that printout for more
than a
second and then I would have gone about my merry way troubleshooting
it with
*real* utilities. Not lightweight consumer stuff like Techtool. Real
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On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 14:33:41 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But if the diagnostic test doesn't show up any problem the fun begins
The problem with that theory here is that TechTools reported a problem with
the HD (which I printed out and sent
As I think I've shared, I started having problems with my hard drive a
few weeks ago (about 2 I think).
Errors appeared in the system log about an UNDEFINED problem in disk0s3
that coincided with the system lockups that I was having.
TechTools reported Error -4 with the disk... no errors for
On Sep 2, 2004, at 9:06 AM, Gisela Drayton wrote:
Apple Care is a two-year extension of your original warranty and ends
three years from the date of purchase of your PB, i.e. if you bought
your PB today, 9/2/04 it would end 9/2/07. Apple Care is a two years
extension, not three years from
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On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:05:43 -0500 Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If you send any computer back to Apple for any work, it should go back just
as you got it RAM wise to avoid that issue with them.
yeah I actually forgot that it was in there, otherwise I
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On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 19:42:16 -0700 John Bohn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just out of curiosity, did you recently use Software Update to install the
10.3.5 patch?
I installed it a day or two after it came out, using the combo.
I suspect a bad sector on the HD.
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My Powerbook was acting very strangely this morning.
I put in a CD and tried to open a Word document but the system seemed
frozen. I rebooted and it was still slow.
I rebooted several times and it never got faster.
It was very slow, even Finder was hung, I restarted it several times.
Finally I
My computer (PB G4) has been acting up all day. Locking up, etc etc for
several minutes, all apps not responding, etc.
Then it will act fine again.
Then it will freeze.
I have checked the console.log and found this error MAN times in today's
system.log. It does not appear in any other day.
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On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 10:36:27 -0700 Imal Tornapart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of something similar for the Mac? My recently obtained PB
firewire is running low on room and I don't relish the idea of picking and
choosing from 20GB worth of
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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 18:50:36 +1000 kaldav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I am running OS 10.3.4 and using Internet explorer. When I double
click a saved web page, and Expose moves the Explorer windows to the
center, I see a file behind them which is labelled
It seems that the Powerbook does not work with the s-video to RCA that I
have.
Help suggests pressing Command+f2 and f7 but those didn't work either.
Oh well, not a big deal at the moment.
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On Aug 14, 2004, at 7:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I may know now what I was doing wrong and may be able to get
it to work on the base station, but for now I'll stick with the
working setup I have.
My father often says, Good strategy is that which works.
(i.e. the right course to
I too was concerned about that but think it was just the author being
overcautious. I haven't had any issues w/ it except when it expired and I
wondered why it stopped working. Went to the website and downloaded a new
version and that was it.
TjL
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:50:53 -0700 Jonathan Newman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But there is no de-facto must have accessories list? What do you guys
use with your iBook/PowerBooks?
LaunchBar :-)
I have an iCurve and Bluetooth keyboard/mouse which makes a nice
It's up to you. You can turn trackpad clicking on or off. Personally,
I use
it all the time and NEVER use the clicker button on my PowerBook...
But doesn't it get confused between the clicks and the finger
repositioning?
nope. At least not often.
For me. YMMV (before someone jumps all
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:57:19 -0700 Bruce Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To be truthful, Timothy also said he 'practices safe computing' which
would include keeping your systems up-to-date. Sasser exploited a hole
that had been patched several weeks or months
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 15:30:18 -0500 Mark Rath, LSW, Coordinator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was downloading RealPlayer and my connection was interrupted. Now I have
an incomplete file on my desktop that I would like to trash. When I try to
trash it I am told that
I have an S-Video to RCA adapter (which came with my Dell laptop). I
have a cable with 3-prongs (white/red/yellow) on each end. I plugged
the yellow into the VCR in RCA jack and plugged the other end into
the SVideo to RCA adapter and plugged that into my Powerbook.
I rebooted the Powerbook
On Aug 11, 2004, at 5:23 PM, Marcin Wichary wrote:
Yeah, I don't know why they get mixed up either, given that OS X is
so super-stable and all, but it seems they do.
See Tutorial: Permissions, Accounts, and File Organization
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20040107175410865
I read it,
On Aug 11, 2004, at 8:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried to get some help in the apple forums, but have had no luck so
far.
Have you tried the Mac OS X list at http://linuxprinting.org/macosx/ ?
They are the ones who helped me get my unsupported HP DeskJet to work
with Airport Extreme.
On Aug 12, 2004, at 8:03 AM, Luis Sequeira wrote:
That's one thing to consider when people are choosing between a new
iBook and a new Powerbook. Who knows what new technologies do arise in
the next few years?
The PC card slot on the Powerbook was one of the big reasons why I went
for a
On Aug 12, 2004, at 2:38 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
(Note, my disdain of AV software applies ONLY to Macs; it is an
absolutely *essential* piece of software on a Windows system.)
Only if one uses IE, Outlook (Express) and/or opens files of dubious
origin.
I consider AV a waste of $$ and RAM for
On Aug 12, 2004, at 2:40 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Aug 12, 2004, at 10:08 AM, John Slavin wrote:
But the 12 Powerbook doesn't have a PC card slot does it?--
I guess I should have said it was a reason I bought a 15 Powerbook
instead of an iBook.
No, it doesn't. An unpleasant surprise for one
On Jul 30, 2004, at 11:36 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Also a tip:
That URL above is tailor made for TinyURL http://www.tinyurl.com
This site lets you take that gigantic URL and turn it into this:
http://tinyurl.com/45sgr
Indeed, however, a few notes:
1) There are folks who war drive TinyURL...
Ok, well I keep forgetting my power cord for my Powerbook (home or
office) and would like to get a 2nd power cord so I can leave one at
home and one at the office.
Apple wants $79 for one of these, but I was wondering if there was a
quality 3rd party one which could be had for less.
Can
On Jul 20, 2004, at 5:22 PM, Greg Gilmore wrote:
Shouldn't the unkind writer of this arrogant and crude drivel be banned
immediately from the list? I don't think anybody wants to read his
unfair
tirades against a fellow list member who is simply doing his best to
ask an
honest question in a
On Jul 19, 2004, at 3:51 AM, Marcin Wichary wrote:
Which media the newest PowerBook SuperDrive is able to burn to? I
don't know that much about DVDs, but apparently there are a couple of
incompatible standards. Apple's site mentions only DVD-R and DVD-RW
[1], but I was able to successfully
This has just started to happen, and doesn't happen all the time.
My PB (15/1.5ghz) is not going to sleep all the time when it is
closer. I pulled it out of my laptop bag tonight and it was HOT HOT
HOT.
The other day I pulled it out and the batter was nearly empty after
leaving the office
I have a recent 15 PB G4 (1.5Ghz)
I think something is wrong with the latch. I see a bit of silver
sticking out from the right, but not the left.
I took a picture of it here:
http://tntluoma.com/temp/PowerbookLatch.png
Can someone take a look and see if it looks right to them?
Thanks
TjL
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On Jul 18, 2004, at 4:03 AM, Alejandro wrote:
As I believe that is NOT a solution, I made the following: I installed
Jaguar and Panther from copies. I'm not going to spend another cent on
Apple's Incomplete Software (I believe X is). I will not pay again for
Apple Software until this issue gets
On Jul 18, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Alejandro wrote:
I will keep installing Apple Software from Copies and Apple will loose
some money because of that.
Exactly how many copies of OS X do you feel entitled to? You have one
G3, right? How many copies does that entitle you before you're just an
average
On Jul 17, 2004, at 12:41 AM, Michael Levin wrote:
On 7/16/04 10:00 PM, Timothy Luoma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, the old undeletable file test.
What happens when you goto Terminal and type
mv -f ./FILENAME ~/.Trash
Ding. Ding. We have a winner. Thanks a lot!
But can you delete it out
Ah, the old undeletable file test.
What happens when you goto Terminal and type
cd Desktop
rm -f ./FILENAME
OR
mv -f ./FILENAME ~/.Trash
or
mv -f ./FILENAME /tmp/
what errors are given?
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On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 20:50:33 -0500 Michael Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jul 13, 2004, at 12:33 PM, Claire Hart wrote:
I am not technically inclined at all, although I enjoy computers.
However, I've never heard of re-formatting a new computer. I just got
my new powerbook last week. Why is this recommended?
What language do you prefer?
Apple doesn't know, so it
On Jul 13, 2004, at 5:18 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
Does DeLocalizer work ok on Panther? Just downloaded it, but the
developer website said it's not tested on 10.3 and development has
stopped at this time. Let me know so I won't be afraid to use it.
Thanks!
It worked for me. Saved about 800mb
On Jul 10, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Donald Keenan wrote:
We should both probably consider installing Camino as our backup of
choice for OS X. It's cool that we have so many to choose from!
Don't forget Opera (www.opera.com) and OmniWeb (www.omnigroup.com). I
have been using both. I really like
On Jul 11, 2004, at 12:19 AM, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
IE has always been the fastest browser out of all of 'em. Now, the
others may be faster when it comes to dial up or something slow, but
the slowest connection I've had since '96 has been and average of 3M
down and 384K up. Back then I had the
I have an old (5-6 year) PC monitor that I would like to use with my
Powerbook as a second desktop (mainly for Virtual PC).
The only port on the Powerbook is a DVI, and the PC monitor has a
different connector on it (I don't know what it is called, but it's the
normal PC monitor connector
I'm wondering if anyone is using the Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse and
Keyboard, or the USB ergonomic wireless USB versions.
1) I'd like Bluetooth because it really is no wires
2) I'd like the USB version because it comes in an ergonomic version.
Anyone using either of these and care to comment on
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:27:31 -0500 Steve Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yes, I have used those with my laptop and they are great. I have one
made by 'Coleman' and another off brand with no problems from either.
Late reply, but my Juice power adapter works
Well rats. I've got a 9 hour car trip tomorrow and forgot to order a car
adapter for my Powerbook.
Does anyone know of a mainline computer/electronics store that sells an
auto-adapter for 15 Powerbooks? I'm going to be near Charleston WV and
expect they may have a Best Buy/Circuit City/etc.
On 6/22/04 11:53 PM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
username$ system_profiler -detailLevel -2 |grep Memory
Slick.
TjL
still looking for a way to do the same for FreeBSD and Linux.
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On 6/15/04 8:43 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
More to this post, can I use another D-Link wireless router connected to the
8600 by ethernet, and wirelessly access the router connected to the Cable
modem?
I'm not sure. I think the Airport units can do this, but I'm not sure about
others.
On 6/9/04 9:14 PM, Andrew F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can replace both in the 15 and 17 inchers, only the 12 has the on-board
memory soldered on (256MB).
duuude really? Excellent.
I can't remember the last time I was this happy to be wrong :-)
TjL
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On 6/9/04 11:45 PM, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First of all, the printer is *not* a network printer. It will have to
be used connected to one of the PowerBooks on the network. Secondly,
I'd like to be able to do this from various Operating Systems
(primarily 8.6 9.2.2, but eventually
I am using http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitor.html after a
suggestion from someone on one of these lists.
I noticed today while I was using it that my hands were getting hot. I had
not noticed this before. I am using the PB on my desk with nothing under
it, and it is running about
On 6/8/04 6:40 PM, Marcin Wichary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To get straight to the point: I am currently thinking of buying
a PowerBook G4 15 1,33 GHz Combo with 512 MB DDR 333 SDROM in 2 SO-DIMMs
and with a backlit keyboard (which as a touch-typist I don't really need,
but I just wanna
On 6/8/04 7:21 PM, Samantha Goodson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today I ordered a refurb 12 Ibook 800Mhz G4/256MB/30GB/Combo from the apple
store. This is a big jump for me, as I'm writing this on a 250Mhz G3 upgraded
1400cs running OS 8.6.
WOW! I once upgraded an office from 386/486 machines
On 6/8/04 2:21 AM, Andrew F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I still prefer the feel of the IBM Eraserhead Thingee, which to me is about
the best laptop pointing device out there.
Ick. Hate em. Love the trackpad. There may be something better out there
to be invented, but the eraserhead is awful.
Did someone here mention that there is another list for G4-powered laptops?
If so, where can I find out more about it?
Thanks
TjL
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On 6/2/04 4:13 PM, Larry le Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Harry D. Corsover [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Great! Can you tell us what did the trick?
Words may not be correct as I run a Swedish OS X...
1. Open Image Capture in Aplications folder
2. Go to Settings (Command-comma) and you'll
On 6/1/04 1:50 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 01/06/04 13:39, Larry le Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a PowerBook 15 Alu Mac OS X.3.4 and every time I plug
in my camera (USB) iPhoto launches.
Is there any way of stopping iPhoto from auto-launching ?
There is no
On 6/1/04 2:21 PM, Richard Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go in to the applications folder there is a program called image
capture launch that then open the prefs and you will find all you need.
Thanks! Set that to 'none' and will try it tonight when I get home!
TjL
Sent using the Microsoft
On 6/1/04 8:01 PM, Hal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I said, I'm doing the homework on this, but would really appreciate
any advice. Also, if anyone has thoughts on ordering the 128MB graphics
card or the 5400rpm hard drive options, I'd love to hear those as well.
I'm considering the 15/1.5
Does your iBook have firewire (I'm not up on the specs of all the various
machines), if so you'd be much better off getting a firewire drive which
would be faster and more useful if/when you upgrade hardware later
IMO
FWIW
TjL
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as the owner of a pc and powebook and a Linksys and an airport extreme I
feel I can offer the same reasoning that you use for owning other Mac
products: it just works easier.
Connecting a PC to Airport was simple. Connecting the Powerbook to an
existing wireless network was simple. Getting
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