Re: Wallstreet vs Canon PowerShot camera Help

2002-12-12 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Norm, I have a Canon s110, and a Pismo PB. It's much faster to use the CF PC-card reader/writer than the USB cable. The reader should be about $10 or so and it fits in your PB PC-card slots when not in use. Hope this helps, Vic I'm considering purchasing a Canon PowerShot digital camera

OS X on a firewire HD?

2002-11-26 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Greetings all, I'm sure someone has brought up this question before, so please forgive me. Is it possible to install OS 10.2 on my VST firewire HD? It's the 3.5'' desktop model. Thanks ahead for the answers! vic -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

More wireless questions

2002-11-07 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Greetings everyone, I have several more questions about the whole 802.11b thing: 1-Can someone explain why the D-link Wi-Fi D-614+ router is claiming 22mbs? Can any macs reach this speed with the current airport card? 2- Is there any way to secure my wireless router? (keeping other people from

Re: iBook vs. PowerBook

2002-07-22 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Kimberly, First of all, congratulations on medical school. I finished Architecture school about a year ago and took a different approach to the computer requirement. Since architecture school was a 5 year program, I knew that my machine would be obsolete in 3 years. So consider that you may

Re: connecting cable modem

2002-06-05 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Kate, I just got online with ATT Broadband, and could not for the life of me, register through the cable modem. I got the unable to connect window also. I tried connecting on my rev A I-mac and Pismo with no luck. Tired the TCP/IP control panel along with Apple talk and other confgurations.

Re: Broadband hardware

2002-05-09 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Thanks everyone for your responses! It's been extremely helpful to hear all the pros and cons, including experiences. I was given a MSN broadband modem a few months ago. It's an Arescom Model ND860VUE-MSN. I assume those MS folks want me to use their service, so they sent me a modem. My

Re: Good, inexpensive digital camera

2002-04-19 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Sony offers the DSC-S75, a 4 MP camera with a black body. It's pretty slick. Almost got one myself, but opted for the Canon s110 Elf. I love how small the camera is, and take it with me everywhere. All of Sony's camera are great. The biggest advantages of the designs come from their experiences

Re: OT topic of film vs. digital

2002-04-19 Thread Vic Viet Duong
I still shoot both ways out there in the real world, but I cringe and moan when the client insists on film. Interesting comment, my wife and I didn't even consider any photographer that refused to shoot digitally for our wedding. I read something the other day that a lot more couples are

VST Zip 100 Expansion Bay Zip Drives

2002-04-18 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Hello everyone, just noticed this and wanted to pass this along: VST Zip 100 Expansion Bay Zip Drives available for only $19.99 at MacZone Lombard/Pismo G3 PowerBooks (bronze keyboard -- FireWire). In other words, these drives fit 1999 and 2000 PowerBook G3s. Look for item number 00109510 at

Re: Good, inexpensive digital camera

2002-04-15 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Since we are on the subject of Olympus cameras, I've found this on www.macdeals.com The D-360 and 370 are excellent budget cameras... Olympus D-370L 1.3M digicam for $95 after coupon  11:49 am OfficeMax.com and OfficeMax retail stores offer the Olympus D-370L 1.3-megapixel digital camera for

Re: Good, inexpensive digital camera

2002-04-15 Thread Vic Viet Duong
My first digital camera was the old Apple QuickTake 7 years ago. The resolution was 600x800, not even 1 megapixel. I was able to use it to print fairly large architectural pictures of my models in college. As Bruce mentioned, it's the optics, AND it's the skills of the user that determines good

Re: Yo-yo Power Cable from RadShack?

2002-03-18 Thread Vic Viet Duong
Just out of curiosity, can't you buy an extra cord from Apple? -makmac Yes you can, but I think they are asking about $10 or more for the same cord Vic -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished