Re: Battery Time Left (Pismo)

2006-01-20 Thread John McGibney
, John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SlimBatteryMonitor, it loads a menu icon that can be color coded, shows time left till empty, shows percent charged while charging and pops up a dialog box when the battery gets to 10% left. And its donationware, pay only if you want to. John John, I

Re: Battery Time Left (Pismo)

2006-01-20 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Jan 20, 2006, at 6:05 AM, John McGibney wrote: I use it on a TiBook and an AlBook both with 10.4.4. I've never had a problem with Panther nor Tiger. Tjhis is a Pismo-specific Tiger issue. My wife's Pismo was also unable to calculate the remaining battery/charge time after the update

Re: Battery Time Left

2006-01-19 Thread Daniel Colwell
On Sunday, Jan 15th, I started this thread: For some reason I can no longer get info on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating... or is just a blank, depending on which program I

Re: Battery Time Left

2006-01-19 Thread John McGibney
I use SlimBatteryMonitor, it loads a menu icon that can be color coded, shows time left till empty, shows percent charged while charging and pops up a dialog box when the battery gets to 10% left. And its donationware, pay only if you want to. John On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:02 PM, Daniel

Re: Battery Time Left (Pismo)

2006-01-19 Thread Daniel Colwell
On Thursday, Jan 19, John McGibney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use SlimBatteryMonitor, it loads a menu icon that can be color coded, shows time left till empty, shows percent charged while charging and pops up a dialog box when the battery gets to 10% left. And its donationware, pay only if you

Battery Time Left

2006-01-15 Thread Daniel Colwell
For some reason I can no longer get info on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating... or is just a blank, depending on which program I use to measure it. I have show battery

Re: Battery Time Left

2006-01-15 Thread Van Snyder
what you find out. thanks and good luck! --Van On 1/15/06, Daniel Colwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason I can no longer get info on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating

Re: no Battery Time Left on Pismo

2006-01-15 Thread Andrew in Ann Arbor
For some reason I can no longer get info on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating... or is just a blank, depending on which program I use to measure it. I have show battery status

Re: no Battery Time Left on Pismo

2006-01-15 Thread John McGibney
on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating... or is just a blank, depending on which program I use to measure it. I have show battery status in the menu bar checked in the Energy Saver

Re: Battery Time Left

2006-01-15 Thread Frank Cornew
Colwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason I can no longer get info on how long my battery has left in hours and minutes. I can get the info in percentage, but if I ask for it to be shown as time left, it says calculating... or is just a blank, depending on which program I use

Re: Battery Time Left

2006-01-15 Thread Alan Miller
My Pismo, w/ clean install of OS X.4, original apple batteries, and the computer always says Calculating. too. -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer °°.°.°.°. http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/ Pismo400, 1G RAM, OS X.4.3 eBay ID uwphotoer Live each day like it is your last

Re: Battery Time Left

2006-01-15 Thread mike kochkodin
My Pismo, w/ clean install of OS X.4, original apple batteries, and the computer always says Calculating. too. Stupid question/comment for you all...I had this happen once with Panther...It seemed to correct itself by running a combo of DiskWarrior and also simply repairing

Re: Battery Time Left

2006-01-15 Thread mike kochkodin
My Pismo, w/ clean install of OS X.4, original apple batteries, and the computer always says Calculating. too. Stupid question/comment for you all...I had this happen once with Panther...It seemed to correct itself by running a combo of DiskWarrior and also simply repairing

Pismo w/Tiger - battery time reduced and not calculated

2005-05-19 Thread Van Snyder
All - I had been running Jaguar and Panther (for a short time) and was getting 3+ hours of runtime with AirPort enabled. After upgrading to Tiger, I've noticed a couple things. First, it doesn't calculate how much time is left on the battery. It will show percent, but not time. This has

Re: Pismo w/Tiger - battery time reduced and not calculated

2005-05-19 Thread Nima
It's interesting. I experienced the same issue at the beginning but then I got to exercise my battery by draining and charging it several times and it seems to be working fine now--giving me both time and percentage. ___ NBT On May 19, 2005, at 13:32, Van

Re: watermarking groups of photos at same time?

2005-02-14 Thread Luis Sequeira
Does anyone know of a MAC supported software that will do watermarking on batches of photos at the same time? All I can find is PC softwares :-( I know photoshop can do this, but that is one photo at a time. I have hundreds of photos that I need to do this to. Please respond off list

Re: watermarking groups of photos at same time?

2005-02-14 Thread Marcin Wichary
I know photoshop can do this, but that is one photo at a time. I have hundreds of photos that I need to do this to. Doesn't Photoshop feature Action/Batch functionality that can automate this? Marcin Wichary e:\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] w:\ www.aci.com.pl/mwichary Attached w:\ www.aci.com.pl

Re: watermarking groups of photos at same time?

2005-02-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 14, 2005, at 3:48 AM, Marcin Wichary wrote: I know photoshop can do this, but that is one photo at a time. I have hundreds of photos that I need to do this to. Doesn't Photoshop feature Action/Batch functionality that can automate this? Yes it does. -- Bruce Johnson University of rmacy

watermarking groups of photos at same time?

2005-02-13 Thread pace
Does anyone know of a MAC supported software that will do watermarking on batches of photos at the same time? All I can find is PC softwares :-( I know photoshop can do this, but that is one photo at a time. I have hundreds of photos that I need to do this to. Please respond off list. Thanks

Re: watermarking groups of photos at same time?

2005-02-13 Thread John McGibney
Does anyone know of a MAC supported software that will do watermarking on batches of photos at the same time? All I can find is PC softwares :-( I know photoshop can do this, but that is one photo at a time. I have hundreds of photos that I need to do this to. Please respond off

Re: watermarking groups of photos at same time?

2005-02-13 Thread Richard Clark
On 12 Feb 2005, at 4:28 PM, pace wrote: Does anyone know of a MAC supported software that will do watermarking on batches of photos at the same time? There is a program called iwatermark that does what you want to do. Richard Richard Clark http://rec.homedns.org NPDS: http

Lombard-Tech time troubles

2005-01-11 Thread Kristina Rost
been able to or had time to finger out any of these to a soothing workable endand I want world peace. Kristina ³In order to seek one¹s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.² -Plato PS. We bought the Canon at Best Buy who asked for donations to the Red

First time Mac/Pismo owner questions

2004-11-15 Thread Kevin Bellerose
Howdy, My name is Kevin and this is my first adventure into the Mac world. As a disillusioned windows user, I was turned onto Mac after buying an ipod and using my wife's ibook (she's a teacher) After much research I finally decided on a Pismo. Here is what I purchased

Re: First time Mac/Pismo owner questions

2004-11-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 15/11/04 16:48, Kevin Bellerose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, My name is Kevin and this is my first adventure into the Mac world. As a disillusioned windows user, I was turned onto Mac after buying an ipod and using my wife's ibook (she's a teacher) After much research I finally decided

Re: First time Mac/Pismo owner questions

2004-11-15 Thread Pauline Turtle-Bear Guillermo
On Nov 15, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Kevin Bellerose wrote: Howdy, My name is Kevin and this is my first adventure into the Mac world. As a disillusioned windows user, I was turned onto Mac after buying an ipod and using my wife's ibook (she's a teacher) After much research I finally decided on a

Network Time Error?

2004-11-09 Thread Stanton Mitrany
Hi, Gang! I've just received the following error message for about the sixth time in the last 24 hours: Network Time Error The Date Time control panel cannot open Open Transport. Use the system software CD to reinstall the Open Transport software. Why would this error message have come up

Re: Network Time Error?

2004-11-09 Thread John McGibney
It means that the control panel can't connect to the internet to do a time check. If you can use Netscape and/or check your email then Open Transport is working properly. Or possibly you're dialing up through AOL or the like and therefore bypassing Open Transport. You may have to connect

Re: Network Time Error?

2004-11-09 Thread Stanton Mitrany
I'm using Outlook Express and Internet Explorer. I am connected to the internet, through Earthlink. I've tried to update my time with the server, to no avail. I'm also afraid to log off the internet, and afraid that if I do, I may not be able to reconnect to the internet. Is that a rational

Re: Network Time Error?

2004-11-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 9, 2004, at 2:12 PM, Stanton Mitrany wrote: I'm using Outlook Express and Internet Explorer. I am connected to the internet, through Earthlink. I've tried to update my time with the server, to no avail. I'm also afraid to log off the internet, and afraid that if I do, I may not be able

Re: Network Time Error?

2004-11-09 Thread Erik Ness
I had this annoying problem a couple of years ago. Seems to me I solved the problem by tossing a corrupted preferences file. I'm rusty on Classic now, though. Anyone care to guess the culprit? Cheers, Erik -- ### Erik Ness [EMAIL PROTECTED] 608-242-7604

Re: Possible it's time for a new Pismo display?

2004-07-28 Thread csean
come across info on replacing a Pismo LCD with a higher resolution screen? e.g., as in some PC 14 notebooks? This would be a fantastic upgrade to the superb Pismo. I'd even go back full time to the Pismo from my TiBook 800, which I love for the screen real estate, but not for the heat it generates

Re: Possible it's time for a new Pismo display?

2004-07-26 Thread Alejandro
REALLY DIM. Is it going out? Oddly, when it's by itself, it actually seems fine, but after looking at the display on the iBook and even another Pismo I had for another client, I have to say there is a noticeable difference. If I'm right, I guess it's time to go screen hunting

Possible it's time for a new Pismo display?

2004-07-25 Thread Zoltan Batiz
on the iBook and even another Pismo I had for another client, I have to say there is a noticeable difference. If I'm right, I guess it's time to go screen hunting online. I've seen entire top halves of Pismo's going for around $170.00 these days on eBay. Also, what if I don't? Will it just keep

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-18 Thread Harry D . Corsover
across and unchecked it. It's checked for me, and I have no problems with Safari crashing (although from time to time a banking site won't work right and I have to use IE for that). Regards, Harry Corsover === Harry Corsover, Independent Business Owner

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-13 Thread Bob Gir.
for any input, Maybe a re-install is in order? I've been using Safari as my main browser immediately after it came out and I rarely have a crash even though I use it all the time. Weird... -Laurent. I'll second that. I also have been using Safari and only Safari for the past several months

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-12 Thread Dan Colwell
as my main browser immediately after it came out and I rarely have a crash even though I use it all the time. Weird... -Laurent. I'll second that. I also have been using Safari and only Safari for the past several months and things have gone smoothly. I used to alternate between Safari and IE

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-12 Thread john
On Jul 11, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Dan Colwell wrote: Safari is giving me trouble. . .right after I decided finally to make it my default browser. Now, It won't even boot! Trash the Safari preferences, empty trash and reboot. John - -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-11 Thread Timothy Luoma
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

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-11 Thread Timothy Luoma
of the time that's all I need. If I need to see an image, I just right click - load it. TjL -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-11 Thread Bob Gir.
On 7/11/04 0:19, Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, stating: But today, I decided to play with the Font Manager (related? I dunno. . .) , and I downloaded a bunch of really cool fonts. . .some of the ol' video game themes and more. I used font manager to install them. It was after that

Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello, Safari is giving me trouble. . .right after I decided finally to make it my default browser. Now, It won't even boot! Everytime I try to boot it, I get the unexpectedly quit message. . .any ideas? All I did before was download some nifty fonts for OS X, now Safari won't boot anymore.

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread MacAddictvja
time. Is there any way to adjust memory on the G4 iBook, that might help? Or do I simply need to add the 1GB stick of RAM to max out the RAM at 1.25GB? On my old PowerMac 7300/500, I've had many applications open, and I only have 200MB of RAM. On the PM I run OS 9.1, Internet Explorer 5.1.7, iCab

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread John A
On Jul 10, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello, Safari is giving me trouble. . .right after I decided finally to make it my default browser. Now, It won't even boot! Everytime I try to boot it, I get the unexpectedly quit message. . .any ideas? All I did before was download some

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 10, 2004, at 5:18 PM, John A wrote: On Jul 10, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello, Safari is giving me trouble. . .right after I decided finally to make it my default browser. Now, It won't even boot! Everytime I try to boot it, I get the unexpectedly quit message. . .any

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread Clark Martin
At 2:39 PM -0700 7/10/04, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello, Safari is giving me trouble. . .right after I decided finally to make it my default browser. Now, It won't even boot! Everytime I try to boot it, I get the unexpectedly quit message. . .any ideas? All I did before was download some nifty

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread John A
for the PC world, it's just fine for Mac. . .always has been. H. . .what does that say about Microsoft? :) That's certainly your choice, however I refuse to use anything from the Evil Empire on principal, unless I simply have no other choice. I feel that every time someone uses a piece

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread Donald Keenan
I'm sorry that you're having such a hard time with Safari. I wish I were savvy enough to help you troubleshoot it. It's ok for me. Initially I thought that it was Safari's fault that I was having problems with ebay, but it's happening with Mozilla too. I still have IE and I guess I need

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread Laurent Daudelin
main browser immediately after it came out and I rarely have a crash even though I use it all the time. Weird... -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Ok, ok ok. . .this is what I surf the web with on a regular basis. . .IE, Netscape, Firefox, Camino, and (used to) Safari. Out of all of 'em, Safari was my favorite 'cause of it's polished look and feel. It was quick, but I have to say it folks, IE has always been the fastest browser out of

Re: Help, a CD was swallowed On May 15, 2004, at 8:12 PM, Bob wrote: You didn't say what OS you're using. But there are several options to try. Let me give you 3 OS X methods that other list-members may not suggest. Hi Bob and Jeff- Bob this is good info and I'm storing it. Thanks for taking the time. I'm using 10.3.3, sorry for leaving that out. Yesterday I had tried to eject going thru several warm reboots thinking that the the OS thought that a file was still open. When I wasn't successful I thought the slot might have gotten warped from all the heat generated and needed to cool down, to contract. Just before I got your OS X methods I did a shut down, waited for a while then restarted with the eject key held down and out it came. Whew! Thanks to you and all the others that responded.

2004-05-15 Thread dan_A
On May 15, 2004, at 8:12 PM, Bob wrote: You didn't say what OS you're using. But there are several options to try. Let me give you 3 OS X methods that other list-members may not suggest. Hi Bob and Jeff- Bob this is good info and I'm storing it. Thanks for taking the time. I'm using 10.3.3

Re: Is it time to upgrade?

2004-05-12 Thread Jeff Hubatka
From: Jim Eddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Is it time to upgrade? Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 23:25:18 -0400 I have a G3 Pismo. I'm pretty happy with it, but I do envy the screen space on my wife's 15 Al-book. I also wouldn't mind a bit of extra speed, but not sure how much bang for the buck I'd get

Re: Is it time to upgrade?

2004-05-12 Thread Kurt Appling
Re, this is just my opinion of course, but, I personally think that a pismo is reaching the age that money for upgrades would be better spent on a later model TI, leaving your pismo as is,while Im sure the 667 is a very good machine, I can also tell you panther is not very fast on a

Re: Is it time to upgrade?

2004-05-12 Thread Jim Eddy
On May 12, 2004, at 6:09 PM, Kurt Appling wrote: Re, this is just my opinion of course, but, I personally think that a pismo is reaching the age that money for upgrades would be better spent on a later model TI, leaving your pismo as is,while Im sure the 667 is a very good machine, I can

Is it time to upgrade?

2004-05-11 Thread Jim Eddy
I have a G3 Pismo. I'm pretty happy with it, but I do envy the screen space on my wife's 15 Al-book. I also wouldn't mind a bit of extra speed, but not sure how much bang for the buck I'd get to upgrade. I've been looking at the G4 667. Is the difference between the earlier ones and the

Re: Is it time to upgrade?

2004-05-11 Thread Richard Bae
I don't have the exact knowledge of the specs on those Ti models, however if they have a video card that is quartz extreme compatible, you will notice some improvement in the way os x runs over an upgraded g4 pismo. Also it matters what type of programs are you running? If you are using

Re: Battery time on a wallstreet under OSX

2004-05-09 Thread Mikael Byström
with your battery unrelated to the early battery problem of 10.2.8 and that updating somehow triggered the error. Have you also recently taken apart your machine? What other actions have you done? My battery time on my WS II remain at about 2 hours with 10.2.x and 10.3.x. -- G-Books

Re: Battery time on a wallstreet under OSX

2004-05-09 Thread Gary E Davis
Actually I believe I just went straight to 10.2.8 My machine was attached to the net at the time and the window popped up saying it found the various updated software for my machine and 10.2.8 was listed. I told it to install. Gary -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Battery time on a wallstreet under OSX

2004-05-08 Thread Gary E Davis
Hi all I'm running OSX 10.2.8 on a wallstreet and I'm seeing battery drain faster then under OS 9.2.2 is there anything I can do? Thanks Gary -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web

Re: Battery time on a wallstreet under OSX

2004-05-08 Thread Mikael Byström
Gary, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm running OSX 10.2.8 on a wallstreet and I'm seeing battery drain faster then under OS 9.2.2 is there anything I can do? You haven't installed the old wrongly build of 10.2.8. I'd do a complete reinstall with reset of PRAM and Open Firmaware resets and then use

Re: Battery time on a wallstreet under OSX

2004-05-08 Thread Gary E Davis
Hi My Install CD is 10.2.4 and I installed the upgrade to 10.2.8 from the Apple update site. Gary -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mikael Byström Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 3:26 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Battery time on a wallstreet under OSX

New Battery Time?

2004-04-15 Thread Robert D. Shutts
Hello List Members: 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. (I do read the posts here!) I am still concerned it may

Re: New Battery Time?

2004-04-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 15/04/04 09:33, Robert D. Shutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List Members: 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

Re: New Battery Time?

2004-04-15 Thread darm0k
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

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-18 Thread Joe Crow
The chair recognizes Jeff Drummond at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Make it good... I'd say crap component accurately describes the Pismo LG CD/DVD drives. I know people who are on their third drive. :/ On my second, and it just crapped out a few weeks ago. So, soon, I'll be on my third. It's almost as

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-17 Thread Jeff Drummond
Kyle Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 11/16/03 5:48 PM, Peter Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: -- Here is where the problem arises. That module is about $330 with a core return. It costs $790 without one. I think you are more accurately describing Apple's problem in

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Geoffrey Loeffler
On 11/15/03 1:18 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Apple wanting to take away your cd rom is wrong and stupid, you use it for cds until the new one arrives. What's the problem with swapping the old drive when the new one when it arrives? How in any way

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/16/03 3:17 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: On 11/15/03 1:18 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Apple wanting to take away your cd rom is wrong and stupid, you use it for cds until the new one arrives. What's the

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/16/03 3:23 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: And actually, the next day, I called MicroCenter back and pleaded to a Mac technician. If I agreed to bring it in the same day they would receive the replacement, he agreed to have me take the DVD-ROM module

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 16/11/03 11:00, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/16/03 3:23 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: And actually, the next day, I called MicroCenter back and pleaded to a Mac technician. If I agreed to bring it in the same day they would receive

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Peter Stein
-- Here is where the problem arises. That module is about $330 with a core return. It costs $790 without one. I think you are more accurately describing Apple's problem in the first place - $790 for a slim dvd 2x-6x ??? I don't dispute your facts, I suspect that any computer company that

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/16/03 5:48 PM, Peter Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: -- Here is where the problem arises. That module is about $330 with a core return. It costs $790 without one. I think you are more accurately describing Apple's problem in the first place - $790 for a slim dvd

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/16/03 5:48 PM, Peter Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Here is where the problem arises. That module is about $330 with a core return. It costs $790 without one. I think you are more accurately describing Apple's problem in the first place - $790 for a slim dvd 2x-6x ??? I don't

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Dan K
it is turnaround time) before customer satisfaction? Have any suggestions for the best place to complain if a customer were dissatisfied with how this policy seems to serve Apple's penny-wise-pound-foolish interest above customer satisfaction? I'm totally sympathetic to AASPs caught between rock and hard

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/16/03 9:59 PM, Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I'm not up on the latest, AASPs were really getting jerked around with the implementation of Apple's newly imposed terms of a year or so ago. Hopefully Apple's lightened up (Kyle, even a little?) since then . . . Read

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-15 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/15/03 1:18 AM, Geoffrey Loeffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Apple wanting to take away your cd rom is wrong and stupid, you use it for cds until the new one arrives. What's the problem with swapping the old drive when the new one when it arrives? How in any way

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-15 Thread David Ensteness
Nice to know the reason why behind all that. I figured it was reasonable but I never understood the logic behind. David Here are a couple of reasons why. When a replacement is shipped and the customer gets a new one, the old/damaged optical drive has to be sent back to Apple as a dead core,

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-15 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 15/11/03 18:55, Kyle Hansen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!] See what I mean? There are many scenarios and I have seen them all. HE is really lucky that he hasn't had to leave the whole laptop there during the repair. And actually, the next day, I called MicroCenter back and pleaded

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-14 Thread Kochkodin
Follow up. If the CD plays on other units it MAY not be your unitIIRC, I recently saw an article in the Register that several co.'s have installed that new copy protection on their cd's w/out notifying the public. This May be the case w/your cd...There were reports that these cd's

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-14 Thread Kochkodin
Laurent, All I know is that when I had a similar problem last year, I called A/C and the very next day a box was here via Airborne and I sent it out the same day...Got it back 2 days later.Called Monbox arrived and sent Tues...Pismo was back Thurs at about 2pm w/ a new player

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-14 Thread Geoffrey Loeffler
Care Pismo, but they wanted 3 times as much to repair. I got blasted for this once but one more time. I found, people who had worked for Apple Care and other Apple customers who related that they also got this spilled liquid story is a common way to deny coverage when a product gets close

Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
After starting to experience a CD that wouldn't mount on the desktop when put in my Pismo, but would perfectly mount on somebody else Pismo, and since my AppleCare coverage is running out in mid-December, I decided to pay a visit to MicroCenter here, in Fairfax, VA. I explained the problem and

Re: Lombard Travel Time

2003-10-03 Thread JeffH
On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 10:06 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:27:58 -0500 From: N. Stella Sloop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lombard Travel Time On 10/2/03 at 6:23 PM -0500, the following message was received from Scott Crick: Although not free, Bejeweled is available

Lombard Travel Time

2003-10-02 Thread Tyler Krehbiel
Well, tomorrow I'm going to visit my girlfriend (yay!) Luckily I dont have to drive, its about a 4 - 5 hour drive so I'll br bringing my lombard with. I'm going to load iTunes up with music, and i downloaded a little Solitare Game which is alright. Are there any other little games that are good

Re: Lombard Travel Time

2003-10-02 Thread earthyfemme
I saw a nice chess program with nifty graphics on VersionTracker. -Original Message- From: Tyler Krehbiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Oct 2, 2003 3:23 PM To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lombard Travel Time Well, tomorrow I'm going to visit my girlfriend (yay!) Luckily I dont have

Re: Lombard Travel Time

2003-10-02 Thread Scott Crick
On 10/2/03 2:23 PM, Tyler Krehbiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bejeweled (for pc) is one of my fav little games to play, something like that? Although not free, Bejeweled is available for the Mac as well. http://www.popcap.com/macmain.php. It is available on a shareware basis, meaning you can try

Re: Lombard Travel Time

2003-10-02 Thread N. Stella Sloop
This is one of my favorite 'time-wasters,' although I have it on my Visor Prism, not my Mac. --stella -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale

Re: iBook 700 and date time error on start-up

2003-07-27 Thread Lewin Edwards
Sounds like your PRAM battery needs replacing. But the iBook doesn't have a PRAM battery, does it? It uses the main battery to power the RTC, and if you remove the main battery and wall power simultaneously for any length of time, it resets the clock, n'est-ce pas? -- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards

Re: iBook 700 and date time error on start-up

2003-07-27 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 7/27/03 9:02 AM, Lewin Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: Sounds like your PRAM battery needs replacing. But the iBook doesn't have a PRAM battery, does it? It uses the main battery to power the RTC You are correct. There is no PRAM battery in the iBooks. -- Kyle H.

Re: iBook 700 and date time error on start-up

2003-07-26 Thread James Rohde
On 07/25/2003, Richard Smykla apparently wrote: Michael, Sounds like your PRAM battery needs replacing. R Hi, Our iBook 700 running 9.2.2 has developed the strangest error. On restart/boot, it gives a date time error message at finder launch that says the time zone is invalid. It also

iBook 700 and date time error on start-up

2003-07-24 Thread Michael Thompson
Hi, Our iBook 700 running 9.2.2 has developed the strangest error. On restart/boot, it gives a date time error message at finder launch that says the time zone is invalid. It also turns off Appletalk. Anyone heard of this before or know of a fix? I've searched but not found anything. Thanks

Ibook 700 and date time error

2003-07-21 Thread Michael Thompson
Hi, Our iBook 700 running 9.2.2 has developed the strangest error. On restart/boot, it gives a date time error message at finder launch that says the time zone is invalid. It also turns off Appletalk. Anyone heard of this before or know of a fix? I've searched but not found anything. Thanks

Re: OpenOffice for the Macintosh is finally out of beta, justin time for Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference.

2003-06-28 Thread Jeremy Derr
On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 9:08 AM, jdc 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. -- G

Re: OpenOffice for the Macintosh is finally out of beta, justin time for Apple's WorldWide Developer Conference.

2003-06-28 Thread Steve Kidd
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

more ram less time?

2003-01-29 Thread Christopher Hack
hi all. recently upgraded the ram on my WallStreet from 180 to 512mb. Suddenly the battery life (on two batteries) seems to have dropped from about 5 hours to less than 3 hours. Nothing else has changed on the machine so I assume it was the increase in ram that did this. Can anyone confirm if

DiskWarrior run time?

2002-12-19 Thread kahuna2
Tangerine iBook, OS 9.2.2, about 320MB RAM with what seems to be a hosed directory. I booted from a CD and am running DiskWarrior, and it's stuck on Step 6 - Rebuilding directory. The specific message says, Overlapped files detected. That's fine, but it's been chugging along at this step for over

Re: DiskWarrior run time?

2002-12-19 Thread Phillip Burk
On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 08:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tangerine iBook, OS 9.2.2, about 320MB RAM with what seems to be a hosed directory. I booted from a CD and am running DiskWarrior, and it's stuck on Step 6 - Rebuilding directory. The specific message says, Overlapped

Re: Smart media errors, this time with reference

2002-12-15 Thread Andrew
Which says (in part) Well, cards employ an MS-DOS file structure whether they are SmartMedia, CompactFlash or Memory Sticks. Fortunately, Macs have been able to mount and read DOS-formatted media for a long time and cards are no different. But the file systems of the two operating systems

Re: Smart media errors, this time with reference

2002-12-15 Thread Clark Martin
media for a long time and cards are no different. But the file systems of the two operating systems are quite different. Windows relies on the three character file extension of a filename (.xls for Excel spreadsheet, .txt for a text file, .jpg for a JPEG image, etc.) to tell what kind of data

Re: Time

2002-07-23 Thread Thomas Ethen
The time on my Pismo is correct, as it reads 10:14 right now! Maybe my ISP is screwed up again, as hey use only PC's Tom -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Re: Time

2002-07-23 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 23/07/02 13:14, Thomas Ethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The time on my Pismo is correct, as it reads 10:14 right now! Maybe my ISP is screwed up again, as hey use only PC's I don't know but as you can see above, it's still showing as being sent at 1:14pm today. -Laurent

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