Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread K.
Ryan Coleman wrote: > Yes, but I find this to be grossly inaccurate. Some batteries cannot > hold a charge for long, the system doesn't handle the charge well > anymore, etc. > > It would be best to just install the battery monitor into the menu bar. Did that...Also checked out "My Battery" at K

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread Ryan Coleman
At 16:06 -0400 6/13/03, Andrew King wrote: >Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:01:49 -0400 From: "K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Battery Monitor Question If you want a really quick check of the battery state press the little button on the battery itself and see how many LEDs ligh

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread Andrew King
>Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:01:49 -0400 >From: "K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Battery Monitor Question If you want a really quick check of the battery state press the little button on the battery itself and see how many LEDs light up. On my Lombard 4 LEDs is full

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread KADaggett
My Reply follows quote. On 13/06/2003 08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K.) > >Thank you all for the helpful infoI will try to get a chance to look >there sometime today. Driving to Boston (8hrs) tomorrow am for up to 2 >weeks and have an inverter to use in the c

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread K.
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Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread K.
David Clark wrote: > There's another option if you don't want to use the control strip. Go to > the control panel which controls the menu bar clock (um... I forget which > one it is. Date & Time or maybe General Controls... it's been a long time > since I used OS 9!). You can tell it to display

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread David Clark
There's another option if you don't want to use the control strip. Go to the control panel which controls the menu bar clock (um... I forget which one it is. Date & Time or maybe General Controls... it's been a long time since I used OS 9!). You can tell it to display your battery status next to th

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread K.
Thank you all for the helpful infoI will try to get a chance to look there sometime today. Driving to Boston (8hrs) tomorrow am for up to 2 weeks and have an inverter to use in the car... will be times it will be running straight battery. I am running 9.2.2 1GB Ram and 10GB HD...Just checked

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 10:01 PM, K. wrote: hhhmmm. I never use the control strip...I am running 9.2.2 on the Pismo and have never even opened the control strip thingy...Don't know anything about it.. In fact that ext/control panel...whichever it is, is turned off. I will have to take a

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 10:13 PM, James Rohde wrote: Mike, you didn't say what MacOS you're running, but if it's 9.x, there is a control strip module that I believe (from its info in the Finder) is installed with 9.2.1 (and later?) called Battery Monitor. This will show your battery life

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-13 Thread Kurt Appling
RE: may I ask what OS ? as example OSX in energy saver has that feature and can be shown in upper border,either as time or percent,I have noticed it disappears in classic On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 08:31 PM, K. wrote: A quick one for the list Does anyone know if there is a program avail

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-12 Thread Jon Glass
on 6/13/03 5:01 AM, K. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hhhmmm. I never use the control strip...I am running 9.2.2 on the Pismo and > have > never even opened the control strip thingy...Don't know anything about it.. In > fact that ext/control panel...whichever it is, is turned off. I will have to >

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-12 Thread James Rohde
On 06/12/2003 6:35 PM, Mike K wrote: > >A quick one for the list >Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power >remaining when running a Pismo or other laptop on battery? I know that >there is a feature in Norton Windows that does this because I have used it >on a

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-12 Thread David
Maybe you should use the control strip. David On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, K. wrote: > hhhmmm. I never use the control strip...I am running 9.2.2 on the Pismo and have > never even opened the control strip thingy...Don't know anything about it.. In > fact that ext/control panel...whichever it is, is tur

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-12 Thread K.
Kathryn Odell wrote: > I'm still not running X, but in 9 you can look at the battery icon in the > control strip to get an estimate of how much time you have left. > Kate > > hhhmmm. I never use the control strip...I am running 9.2.2 on the Pismo and have never even opened the control strip thi

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-12 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 12/06/03 20:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My Reply follows quote. On 12/06/2003 17:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > said: > >> A quick one for the list >> Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power >> remaining when running a Pismo or other lapt

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-12 Thread KADaggett
My Reply follows quote. On 12/06/2003 17:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >A quick one for the list >Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power >remaining when running a Pismo or other laptop on battery? I know that >there is a feature in Norton Windows that does t

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-12 Thread Kathryn Odell
I'm still not running X, but in 9 you can look at the battery icon in the control strip to get an estimate of how much time you have left. Kate > > A quick one for the list > Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power > remaining when running a Pismo or other lap

Re: Battery Monitor Question

2003-06-12 Thread matt dudek
On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 01:31 am, K. wrote: A quick one for the list Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power remaining when running a Pismo or other laptop on battery? I know that there is a feature in Norton Windows that does this because I have used