At 02:13 PM -0400 06/14/2005, Timothy Luoma wrote:
On Jun 14, 2005, at 1:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also, you bring up a good point, why do people leave all those
stickers on their computers? Are they some sort of badge of honor?
Inertia is a powerful force.
Plus, taking them off
At 10:33 PM -0500 06/12/2005, Kristina wrote:
on 6/12/05 9:12 PM, Pacer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
By the appearance of the thunderstorm outside and the propensity for my
DSL to go down in severe lightning, maybe mother nature will stop me .
Since I have had the Linksys Gateway G ADSL
At 11:37 PM -0400 06/03/2005, Brian wrote:
A coworker has an 8? 10? month-old 15 powerbook, he said he had to
buy a g router for home use as the g card in the PB did not perform
well with his old b router. Much slower than b should be.
He said his g router worked fine with b cards, but not
At 04:15 PM -0500 06/05/2005, Steve Fuller wrote:
Broken router issues aside, Linksys sux. Time and again, I've seen
their older routers (built before the Cisco buyout) provide poor
performance. The problem is either they use really slow processors
( 66-MHz mostly) or their wireless
At 08:33 AM -0400 06/01/2005, John McGibney wrote:
On Jun 1, 2005, at 8:14 AM, alienbill wrote:
I recently did a clean install of OS 9.2.2 upgrading from 9.1. Since then
my internal VST zip disk doesn't see a disk in it until I have rebooted
with disk inserted. After doing that the zip icon
At 11:29 AM -0500 05/28/2005, Claire Hart wrote:
Having read the posts on what to do with old CRTs and also the
dangers of photon beams zapping out of the ray guns and getting us
all, I am left with questions on two trains of thought:
(1) Is it wiser to buy a flat-panel monitor? Are we
At 07:33 AM +0700 05/27/2005, Stuart Saunders wrote:
Just like to suggest that you check your mail account
regularly if you use .Mac mail; while they are generous, (let my
total get up to 130 megs out of 100 set!)
130 MB is generous
before they started bouncing, there was no warning
At 02:02 PM +0100 04/10/2005, walter wrote:
suggestions about good (and cheap) remote backup options for Macs.
I considered .Mac, of course. But at the moment the MB allocation
seems rather paltry. SpyMac offers a lot of space for email but not
so much for storage (I think it's again 250MB). One
At 11:43 AM +0800 04/04/2005, Lawrence Sarah Ballew wrote:
My latest PB is the first one with a wireless option. I'm pretty
much ignorant about how it works to simply sit outside a library and
tap into their network. Don't I need a password and stuff like that
in order to get on line?
Depends
At 10:04 AM -0700 04/04/2005, peter webster wrote:
[top posting corrected]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 11:43 AM +0800 04/04/2005, Lawrence Sarah Ballew wrote:
My latest PB is the first one with a wireless option. I'm pretty
much ignorant about how it works to simply sit outside a library
and
At 02:16 AM -0400 04/04/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 11:43 AM +0800 04/04/2005, Lawrence Sarah Ballew wrote:
My latest PB is the first one with a wireless option. I'm pretty
much ignorant about how it works to simply sit outside a library
and tap into their network. Don't I need a password
At 05:39 PM -0500 01/25/2005, w miller wrote:
Lombard 400/384/60G HD, OS 9.2.2 on main partition.
letter i often doesn't respond.
Before trying to replace the keyboard, take the time to try to clean
the key. Just carefully pop the keycap off, clean under and around
it, then re-apply.
- Dan.
--
At 11:00 AM -0600 01/17/2005, Kristina Rost wrote:
Hello from chilly -12 Lake Michigan area,
I have spent the last week upgrading from 8.6 to 9.1 on my G3 beige (does
this machine have a nicer name...like my Lombard?) and the same on the PB.
Upgrade by making a clean OS 9.1 system folder? Or did
At 04:37 PM -0500 01/16/2005, Anne Judge wrote:
On Jan 16, 2005, at 12:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After paying to have the ADB repaired *TWICE* in our Lombard
Wow, wonder what they were really doing for that money? Lombard
didn't have ADB - it was the first powerbook with USB (but still had
At 02:48 PM -0600 01/17/2005, Claire Hart wrote:
It just dawned on me, in reading about digital video hardware
requirements, that I don't know the speed of my AlBook's HD. How do
I find out from my computer? I pasted into Google the Hitachi model
number that I found in System Profiler, and
At 01:36 AM -0700 01/16/2005, Bob wrote:
Ken ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I were discussing last week whether
ADB peripherals on a Wallstreet PB could be safely hot-swappable. At
that time I didn't have any clear-cut references to support my
position. I since have run across the following unequivocal
At 08:52 AM -0800 12/19/2004, CR wrote:
With my 3400 running OS 9.1 I connect easily using TCP and DHCP.
But with the G4, DHCP provides an IP address and subnet mask but
does not identify a router.
Using Manual I copy in the numbers DHCP provides my 3400
and the Hub lights up as if a signal is
At 07:47 AM -0800 12/20/2004, CR wrote:
WiFi tower located line-of-sight atop the prominent mountain in the county.
We have a simple flat antenna with a coax cable to a DC power adapter and then
to a Linksky router. From there we had wires running to separate PBs
but the mice got to those cables
At 04:28 PM -0300 12/18/2004, Alejandro Desalvo wrote:
planning to upgrade my system.
I acctually own a PPC 9600/300 and it's getting stucked in time, poor it...
;) So my idea is starting to work with OS X and G4 technology. My
application area is sound/video (Pro Tools basically). So my
interest
At 12:00 PM -0800 12/11/2004, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
I have a 15 PowerBook, Mac OS 10.3.6.
Me too. Ran backups then went to 10.3.6 yesterday.
I need to install an older version of OS X to get around a bug in 10.3.6,
Which specific bug?
so I thought that I'd do an Archive Install of 10.3.0. I
At 04:02 PM -0800 11/26/2004, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
At 6:04 PM -0500 11/25/04, kochkodin wrote:
Any odeas about what needs to be done to get the Airport network to
see/work with the Gateway???
Mike, you're going at it the wrong way. They should replace both the
Dell the Gateway with
At 09:29 PM -0700 11/12/2004, Bob wrote:
2) But from terminal in Panther, you can view man pages that say full
UDF 1.5 is there, although it doesn't say CD or DVD specifically.
I'm currently puttering within to see if I can force a mount.
Does that pertain to Panther only (no Jaguar support)?
No
At 01:54 AM -0700 11/12/2004, Bob wrote:
I had occasion to check out
the Roxio web site today and I looked to see what updated information
I could pick up on any newer versions of the Adaptec UDF extension.
All I could find was version 1.0.4, which is the version that I've
had since 1999. When I
At 07:38 PM + 11/12/2004, Tom Burke wrote:
I don't have anything to offer on the particular question, but I'd
thought I'd just throw in an observation. In the last month or so, I
seem to have seen quite a few threads (here and on other discussion
boards/lists) about dead Lombards, dying
At 12:53 PM -0700 11/11/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Thursday, November 11, 2004, at 05:51 AM, PETE wrote:
The list (server?) sent me an attachment with a virus.
How is this possible?
All viruses for the last few years have forged the 'From:' header
Speaking of forged from headers...
There are a
At 04:54 AM -0800 11/11/2004, PETE wrote:
If on startup a mac makes the sound of glass breaking
what does it all mean? Can I fix the problem.
The ROM-based self test failed. When it passes, you get a bong.
When it fails, you get a sound that indicates the specific failure -
a thud, crash, or
At 04:07 PM -0700 11/08/2004, Bob wrote:
BTW, you may remember that in the past (OS 8.5/6) there was some
conflict between Adaptec's extension and Apple's UDF extension.
Re-ordering those two extensions so that Apple's preceded Adaptec's
solved the conflict (and the 3rd-party Joliet Volume Access
At 04:44 PM -0600 11/04/2004, Pat Heidingsfelder wrote:
I just got a used Wallstreet to play with. I am not very familiar
with OS 9. My MacLife started with OS X. So, this OS 9 will not
let me mount a UDF disc! It wants to initialize it. The UDF
extension is there but not working.
It *is*
From: E. Moorhead [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The desire to DE-FRAGMENT an OS/X'd Hard Drive,
as one would an OS/9, is to be STRONGLY AVOIDED!
Bad advice, IMO. While 10.2 and .3 do some of its own on-the-fly
disk optimizations of smaller files, it easily allows HDs with large
files to become BADLY
At 04:04 PM -0400 10/27/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:25 AM -0700 10/27/2004, John C. Swanson wrote:
I just found this company who sells UDF v1 - v2.0.1 drivers for both X
and 8.6 - 9. There website is here http://www.softarch.com/index.html.
If I can find a free driver I will let you
At 07:25 AM -0700 10/27/2004, John C. Swanson wrote:
I just found this company who sells UDF v1 - v2.0.1 drivers for both X
and 8.6 - 9. There website is here http://www.softarch.com/index.html.
If I can find a free driver I will let you know.
Thx John. I found the same site this morning via
At 10:54 PM -0400 10/26/2004, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
on 26/10/04 22:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why is it so hard to make Macs work in the real world?
Well, Dan, it depends. For me, my Macs work fine in the real world. I've
never had to read any UDF CD since I've been
At 04:17 PM +0200 10/27/2004, Marcin Wichary wrote:
AFAIK, You'll have to boot from OS 9 to get at those files.
By decree of L'Jobs, the new PowerBooks cannot boot OS 9.
Of course, you'll need to find a machine other than your PB to do it.
That doesn't help read CDs on the road -- which is the
We gots dozens of CDs here, in UDF format, that can't be read on our
brand new PowerBook... *grumble*
Apple's UDF driver only supports the older UDF versions. For CDs
written this century, one normally needs a UDF 1.5 compliant driver.
Roxio (who owns UDF, I guess) has a 1.5 driver for OS
At 07:50 PM -0400 10/26/2004, Richard Smykla wrote:
AFAIK, You'll have to boot from OS 9 to get at those files.
By decree of L'Jobs, the new PowerBooks cannot boot OS 9.
Of course, you'll need to find a machine other than your PB to do it.
That doesn't help read CDs on the road -- which is the
At 10:21 PM -0600 10/23/2004, Bob wrote:
Under the best of circumstances, drag-and-drop is the weakest method
of making a duplicate copy. The biggest danger is missing invisible
files that often don't get copied by this method.
Exactly what important invisible files get missed? (n/m; see below)
At 12:50 AM -0600 10/24/2004, Bob wrote:
-- some caches and other files associated with various software;
Caches, by definition, should never be copied.
Not sure I agree with you there. But it may depend on the precise
cache file(s).
hum. What caches are you thinking of?
-- some key code and
At 10:44 PM +0200 10/24/2004, Larry le Mac wrote:
I am picking up a Lombard tomorrow, but the seller says
that the DVD player has problems with CD-R media as
opposed to factory burned disks. He says that this is a
common problem with Wallstreets, Lombards and Pismos.
Is this true ???
If so, what
At 06:26 AM -0700 10/23/2004, Jeff Hubatka wrote:
For this particular problem it sounds like the OP probably didn't
install OS9 drivers after reformatting the HD to install OSX. Might
take another reformat to get it going.
And I agree +/- with above.
I remember now that I had the same sort of
At 05:57 PM +0200 10/23/2004, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A megabyte is 1 KB * 1 KB = 1024 bytes * 1024 bytes =
1,048,576 bytes.
A gigabyte is 1 KB * 1 MB = 1024**3 bytes =
1,073,741,824 bytes!
Sorry to have to correct you, but it's not 1 KB * 1 KB as
then you'd get Byte squared,
At 06:55 PM +0200 10/23/2004, Marcin Wichary wrote:
MB/sec = megabytes per second. There is NO MBps!
How come...?
I think because it's simply a bad abbreviation, too often confused
because people don't pay close enough attention to the cases.
Additionally, a lot of publishing software, during
At 03:49 AM +1000 10/24/2004, Ben Dyer wrote:
No, actually... think about it: 4 kilometres * 4 kilometres = 16
kilometres^2. So, 4kB * 4kB = 16kB^2 (where 1 square kilobyte is
equal to a million square bytes, whatever that means). Simple
dimensional analysis ;) Correctly, it should read: A
At 07:49 PM + 10/23/2004, victoria Duggan wrote:
Actually guy's is this really needed??
you all know what is roughly meant ,do you have to pic fault with
the way it is put to paper as you are not helping the people that
need the help.!
Really by picking at the way they word there emails,
At 11:19 PM +0200 10/23/2004, Larry le Mac wrote:
From: victoria Duggan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i will need to back up all the info off of my Lombard to the Emac.
what will be the quickest way ?.
what will be the safest?.
If it had been a Pismo I would have said FW target mode, but the
Lombard only has
At 04:48 PM -0700 10/23/2004, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
Also, now that LaCie is selling 1 TeraByte hard drives,
LaCie lied: it's not really a 1 TB HD. It's four 250 GB ATA-133
drives in the one box. They're do an internal RAID-type array by
using some custom firmware (makes the box smell like
At 07:42 PM -0500 10/23/2004, CJ wrote:
Here is the web site for the correct units
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
so a giagbyte is a GiB, not a gb, GB. gB, or a Gb.
Good info there. Thx!
My understanding is that this is an interesting case of politics gone
wild. Their logic is
At 12:55 AM +0800 10/21/2004, Mark Philip wrote:
I'm using a Pismo 400MHz with 192MB RAM, running OSX 10.2.
If I was to upgrade the RAM to 512MB or higher, will there be a
significant difference in performance?
IMO, OS X is painful with anything less than 256 MB. I recommend 512
MB for normal
At 02:18 PM -0700 10/16/2004, Bruce Mitchell wrote:
If that's the case, how do you explain my getting bounce messages every day
ever since I've been on this list? I usually get one a day, sometimes
several. I'm on CharterCable and Earthlink, not Verizon.
Mailing list servers are especially high
At 12:15 PM -0700 10/15/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote:
While we're on this, how do you do this with iPhoto?
[snip]
iTunes worked just fine (I didn't even have to re-authorize it) by
dragging the old iTunes folder to the new directory.
Alas, iPhoto doesn't work this way. If I replace the iPhoto
At 08:46 PM -0700 10/08/2004, Don P. wrote:
Since the Digest Viewer site no longer exists
Eudora has some settings that talk about digests. I think it's
supposed to recognize an incoming digest and automagically break it
into individual messages, or something like.
- Dan.
--
G-Books is
At 07:57 PM -0500 10/05/2004, DPrice wrote:
While in OS X environment some 9.2 app's won't open: Nisus 4.6 for
one, Simple Text, however, MS Word does fine. Any suggestions or
advice? TIA
Make sure the app's prefs are in the right place and all the file
protections (permissions) give the
At 09:56 AM -0700 10/06/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote:
PDF on the stick
Um, is that fried?
Maybe with some hot sauce?
- Dan.
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives |
-- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks
At 08:34 AM -0700 10/03/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Sunday, October 3, 2004, at 03:05 AM, cwrayfield wrote:
I have a Pismo w/G4 upgrade, OX 10.3.5. I'd like to download photos
from an Olympus SmartMedia card. An OSB reader (by PNY) I bought at
Staples said it didn't need a driver, but it
At 11:13 PM -0700 09/28/2004, Clark Martin wrote:
At 12:33 PM -0700 9/28/04, Imal Tornapart wrote:
regarding unfamiliar meta keys:
I like heading the other direction from simple in times of frustration or
dire need.
(The key shortcut you want in that app is
ctrl - rightshift - beanie - option -
At 09:39 AM -0700 09/28/2004, Frank P. Eigler wrote:
On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Dan Palka wrote:
That's fine and dandy, and I usually do say Command when talking to other
Mac users, but to myself and other non-mac users I still say Flower out of
habit. I like saying flower, and if it was up to me,
At 04:07 PM -0700 09/28/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Sep 28, 2004, at 3:50 PM, MMB wrote:
I am a long-time Mac owner and have kept my previous machines happy
by regular desktop re-building. I have been using my Powerbook G4
867 for three months now and I am concerned. SOme cleaning up and
At 12:08 AM + 09/29/2004, simon goslin wrote:
Bonza!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/newseries.shtml
.
Time to break out a few pitchers of pangalacticgargleblasters!
And don't forget your towel!
- Dan.
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog Electronics
At 06:39 PM +0100 09/21/2004, walter wrote:
Given the ongoing discussion re virus software: in our home, we have
three Macs on an Aiport network that connects to the internet via an
Airport Extreme Base Station. My understanding is that the Base
Station provides some level of security, inasmuch
At 01:50 PM -0400 09/21/2004, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
I had a number of Macs on broadband access for quite a few years now and
never had any problem.
If you have a NAT Router then your wife probably never got hit by
Blaster et al. :)
My wife, who insisted to have a PC, has all kind of
problems.
At 11:07 AM -0700 09/21/2004, Bruce Johnson wrote:
All email viruses these days come from someone you know, or someone
who has your address in their address book
Except for the ones that come via harvest lists and dictionary attacks.
- Dan.
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
At 04:09 PM -0500 09/20/2004, John Slavin wrote:
I haven't own virus software for quite some time, but my wife is
attending seminary and in order to connect our iBook to the school's
network, we have to have virus software installed. I know Norton
Antivirus is still around, as is McAfee's
At 06:00 PM -0500 09/17/2004, Dan Palka wrote (lame top posting corrected):
On Sep 17, 2004, at 3:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Incorrect.
See other threads about anti-virus softwares posted on these lists.
See the long discussion about 'em on TidBITS-Talk.
Other than the lab virus some company
At 11:13 PM -0700 09/17/2004, Zoltan Batiz wrote:
I guess I'd throw in my two bits in this thread. There hasn't been
a publicly announced virus on the Macintosh platform in over 3 years.
So you missed all the bruha.
This doesn't mean that we will never see one, but it does mean that
the Mac in
At 03:45 PM -0400 09/17/2004, Timothy Luoma blithered:
1) There are no OS X viruses, so no you don't need anti virus
Incorrect.
See other threads about anti-virus softwares posted on these lists.
See the long discussion about 'em on TidBITS-Talk.
2) Some will tell you that you must have it
At 06:31 PM +0100 09/17/2004, 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.
For the most part, IMO, you don't really gotta gotta gotta have an
At 10:04 AM +0200 09/16/2004, Mikael Byström wrote:
What are the best and low priced places in your knowledge?
I donno about current pricing, but we've bought
quite a few of our replacement batteries from
eBatts.com
- Dan.
--
G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...
Small Dog
At 08:08 PM -0600 09/02/2004, Bob wrote:
The National Enquirer reports at 8:22 PM +0200 9/2/04, Larry le Mac wrote:
However, sending the 64 bytes every second, how will
that affect performance ?
It's not your performance that should be of concern. This is not said
in an accusatory manner, but it
At 02:19 PM + 08/28/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My friends who are into astrology would explain that this is all
happening due to Mercury being retrograde through Sept. 6th. I think
I'd attribute it to lousy planning on Apple's part regarding
back-to-school, end-of-summer purchases.
I
Hi All,
Well, my housemates have been traveling in their RV again. They
spent a month+ in Canada, and are now they're at a friend's in
Oregon...
Apparently their PowerBook (Lombard) got dropped. Now, when they
boot it, it gives a terse dialog that says there's a problem with the
cache, then
At 12:09 PM -0500 08/21/2004, Eugene Lee wrote:
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 01:01:42PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Is there an actual cache card in the Lombard? Something that a
: local tech can simply pull and reseat or replace? ...Lookin for
: a quick'n'dirty possibility to get it working.
At 10:26 PM -0500 06/26/2004, Gary Adams wrote:
I just subscribed to Google's Beta e-mail notification service. I
subscribe to various lists, but this list is the only one that
showed up as cataloged by Google. Could this be where most of my
spam originates?
While it could account for some, I
At 02:44 PM -0700 06/06/2004,
supershanefx wrote, as an untrimmed top-post:
Anyone ever setup a powerline network or homeplug network? Which are the
best brands? I need to set up an internet network for pcs and macs in my
father-in-law's home.(just for broadband internet) I've been looking at
At 08:12 PM -0500 05/25/2004, Michael Levin wrote:
burn several CDs of pictures, music and documents on my PB G4
Is there are a good brand or bad brand on the market?
And at 10:39 AM +0100 05/26/2004, Tom Burke replied:
You might want to have a look at this article on photo.net:
peter webster wrote,
(originally as an unedited top post, doubling up on
the ads which cause our lists to be spam-blocked):
At 12:42 PM -0700 05/08/2004, peter webster wrote:
Here's a good idea-- bound to set the manufacturers and dealers
off on multiple tirades, but it's about being
At 11:25 PM -0500 05/07/2004, john slavin wrote:
I have scanned some very large, very old maps that genealogists are
interested in. From time to time people ask if there is some way
for me to print them. While this is not something I'd have a lot of
use for, I thought that maybe a black and
At 09:54 AM -0600 05/06/2004, Harry D. Corsover wrote:
On May 6, 2004, at 6:11 AM, Wayne wrote:
This was the red flag here, no legitimate site would ask you to log on from
the email, instead, they ask you to go there and log on on yourself.
My experience is different. At least two of my credit
At 11:55 PM -0400 05/03/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
iBook/600/2001 (snow, dual USB), and a later iBook/700/2001
When I build documents on any of my other Macs (6500, 8600's, 5300 laptop,
etc.), I can shuffle them about freely with no loss of formatting
nor distortion of any kind. All fonts
At 09:44 PM -0600 05/03/2004, Harry D. Corsover wrote:
On May 3, 2004, at 9:02 PM, Geoffrey Loeffler wrote:
Take one days junk and send all of it to you ISP support address,
with a letter from you saying I get this everyday, please stop it.
If this little mac mail can filter 50 or 200 and miss
At 07:25 AM -0700 05/01/2004, Dr. John Pullyblank wrote:
does anybody know of any history of problems with this application.
I find it difficult to find information on it, probably because most
users don't use it.
Apple shipped Panther with a major bug in FileVault. It corrupts the
keychain,
At 10:37 AM -0400 04/26/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am using the hotel's (Courtyard by Marriott) in-room Ethernet (yay!)...
Does Appletake HAVE to be on Ethernet in order for the Ethernet connection
to provide service to my Powerbook?
At home I think my PMac has Appletalk on to use my cable
At 07:45 PM -0700 04/24/2004, Paul Nicholson wrote:
As for the G5, moving 64 bit addresses around takes longer and used
more power than moving a 32 bit address.
The memory bus is parallel, not serial. All 64 address lines latch
simultaneously, ditto for the data responses.
As to raw bus speed,
At 06:55 PM -0400 04/24/2004, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
Ok folks, the Powerbook is arriving Monday (it is only 5 hours from
here right now but I'm guessing they won't let me just go over and
pick it up, so I'll have to wait).
I've seen a few must have lists around [1] [2] but I'd like to
hear
At 10:49 AM -0700 04/25/2004, George Mogiljansky wrote:
Speaking of Graphic apps, my buddy has lots of
problems using Photoshop 7 with Classic-era fonts. Is
there a work-around for this?
Maybe what's there is corrupted?
Any particular fonts or all?
Are they bitmap, truetype, opentype, or
On Sunday, April 25, 2004, at 06:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My son's Wallstreet, running OSX 10.2.8, cannot see its power supply
(yoyo) and consequently the battery has run down and the machine will
not work. I've tried two, both of which worked previously.
Anyone have (and solve) a
At 01:48 AM -0400 04/24/2004, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
Is it possible that a trackpad on a Pismo would slowly die?
It's possible. But you might want to investigate software
possibilities first. Boot on OS 9 (if you were using OS X). Boot
with extensions off. IOW, eliminate / change the
At 09:29 AM -0700 04/24/2004, Nick Marshall wrote:
If the app you want to use supports it, have emails only from people in her
address book go to the inbox and the rest to the trash. You can't get email
from new people who want to contact you, but it might be an acceptable
trade-off. I get
At 01:47 PM -0400 04/22/2004, K wrote:
[The Windows API] is so deeply embedded in the source code of many
Windows apps that there is a huge switching cost to using a
different operating system instead.
ROFL
Like most things uttered by MS' forked tongue, it's a half-truth...
The point of an API
At 04:27 PM +0100 02/15/2004, Mikael Byström wrote:
Jack, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Have tried XPoatFacto - but something seems to go wrong during
installation. Have an 8 GB partition for OSX;
Is that the exact size? I seem to recall one should aim for more like 7.3 GB.
Good point. The Apple TIL
At 10:34 AM -0400 04/20/2004, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
The overall speed of a system is dependent on many different
factors, and L2/L3 cache makes the overall system faster, if I
understand correctly.
[just to confuse or clarify things a bit. :)]
Each subsystem has limitations, which become
At 12:38 AM -0600 04/18/2004, Mike Kauspedas wrote:
I got a Powerbook G3 Mainstreet/Wallstreet/pdq (its called all these
names across the web, but I believe Mainstreet is the real name).
Confusing PB G3 identification - Jobs' idea of a bad joke. :\
Here's how to tell them apart:
The 1998
At 08:33 AM -0500 04/15/2004, Robert D. Shutts wrote:
My trusty Lombard's battery shows a full charge, then goes to zero after 5
or 10 minutes of use. This is happening in OS 10.3.3 and in 9.2.2. I have
tried the trickle down technique and have reset the power manager.
It's either the battery or
At 03:33 PM +0100 04/15/2004, Michel Treisman wrote:
I have a Tibook whose surface has been marked, by water or something
similar. Is there some way to polish away such marks, or would
trying that just make it worse?
Should be polishable/cleanable. I vaguely recall an Apple TIL
article about
At 10:36 AM +1000 04/12/2004, kaldav wrote:
Secondly, last night I was transferring files from another powerbook
(OS9) via ethernet. It would not let me copy of the System folder
nor any file that might be in use for File Sharing, saying I did not
have the permission to do so. However, I have
At 07:25 PM -0600 04/12/2004, Andrew Main wrote:
A 500MHz FW PowerBook (Pismo) I'm working on has an annoying habit:
when the display first comes on, whether at startup or awakening
from sleep, the entire display is tinted bright pink/magenta. The
tint mostly goes away in the first 5-10
At 05:45 PM +0100 04/13/2004, vicki duggan wrote:
what is the best overall system. for day to day use.
snow 500mhz 256 cache ibook 256 ram. dvd . 15gb hdd.
lombard 400mhz 1mb cache 320 ram dvd. 6gb hdd
I prefer the iBook too. But I'd fik the snow case; too boring.
- Dan.
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At 01:00 AM -0700 04/11/2004, Anthony Perez wrote:
Mooof?
http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/m/Moof.html
and
http://www.storybytes.com/moof.html
Mof. :)
- Dan.
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At 05:22 PM -0500 04/09/2004, James Rohde wrote:
I recently got a Toshiba 60GB and installed it in my Pismo
Drive set to Master?
Cables seated firmly?
So I figured I needed to start up with my original Pismo (9.0.4) install
or restore CDROM(s). However, when I try to boot up with either of
At 11:01 AM -0500 04/10/2004, Greg Gilmore wrote:
Ran NDD on my wife's Lombard the other day and was informed that there are
irreparable bad blocks. Is this a harbinger of total HD failure and is
there really nothing that can be done about it?
A sector on a hard drive can go bad for a number of
At 09:38 PM -0700 04/10/2004, Anthony Perez wrote:
anxiously awaiting the arrival of my 1st Apple.
Mooof! Welcome to the Light!
1. Subscribed to MacWorld magazine. (Any others, worth noting, online, or in
hardcopy?)
I like MacAddict magazine. Just let my MacWorld subscription lapse.
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