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2002-10-26 Thread Dan Knight
The bad news: lemlists.com was down for nearly a week due to sarcasm on our dear friends at Network Solutions. sarcasm off The server changed to a new IP address last Saturday, but it took NSI nearly a week to update their records. This is one reason I refuse to use NSI for domain

Re: PB1400 PC card woes

2002-10-26 Thread Mike Amato
on 10/25/02 3:48 PM, victoria brandon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Schario wrote: Not long ago, I purchased a PowerBook 1400C. I love it. It came to me with a Global Village 56K Modem/Ethernet PC card. Upon sliding it into either card slot however, I receive the following error

Re: PB1400 PC card woes

2002-10-26 Thread victoria
victoria Hi I have one of these cards in my 3400 now it connects through my dial up at 33.6 or 48.8 depending on what time of day i connect. It works with out the software useing the built in gv 56k script in the os. I have the software also on a cd but you would need a tomb installer to load

Re: Changing IE's Search selection to Google

2002-10-26 Thread Jeff Hubatka
Or there is a resedit hack you can use to change the search button to give you Google, since MS doesn't include it as one of the choices. Search on resexcellence.com to find it. -- JSH Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:34:57 -0400 Subject: Re: Changing IE's Search selection to Google From: Mike

Re: Request for PB 145b repair manual

2002-10-26 Thread Chuck
A few days ago I requested a pdf manual. Folks seemed to come out of the woodwork with it. I was overwhelmed with the consideration of all who helped or offered to. I'm thinking there are a lot of people here like myself who are lurking and learning. Now, if only I had a laptop to go with each

Souping Up My PB 190: RAM Startup Disk

2002-10-26 Thread James Greenidge
Greetings! To Any Mac maven: In the Battery Tips section of my PB 190's Help feature, it mentions setting up a RAM Disk as a startup disk to minimize hard drive use but doesn't explain how you turn a RAM Disk into a startup disk. Any ideas? Thanks! JimWG --

Can't turn VM off ???

2002-10-26 Thread Tina Holm
I just installed a fresh 9.1 on my 1400/G3, and wanted to use RamDoubler instead of Virtual Memory, but the system won't let me turn VM off, gives me an alert saying that the 1400 doesn't have enough memory to run without VM, and that I should buy more memory...! The system takes up 14 mb of the

Re: Wireless PB 1400?

2002-10-26 Thread Joe Arcuri
On 10/24/02 3:52 PM Steven Schario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am considering a wireless network for my PowerBook and PM 6500. Anyone who would be willing to share any positive and/or negative experiences would be appreciated. Thanks again, Steve Steve, The Orinoco card should work with the 1400

Re: Souping Up My PB 190: RAM Startup Disk

2002-10-26 Thread victoria brandon
James Greenidge at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Battery Tips section of my PB 190's Help feature, it mentions setting up a RAM Disk as a startup disk to minimize hard drive use but doesn't explain how you turn a RAM Disk into a startup disk. Any ideas? First you assign the RAM disk

Re: Souping Up My PB 190: RAM Startup Disk

2002-10-26 Thread Mehdi El Gueddari
Hi James, First you assign the RAM disk enough memory to hold your entire system folder (you'd better have memory to burn!), if you have not enought memory to use your hard drive 's system folder (which may be very big) you can use instead the network access floppy image from the Apple site 's

Re: 1400 no backlight on startup

2002-10-26 Thread John McGibney
Some 1400s needed a software fix for the backlight controls, brightness and contrast. One of mine had similar problems: extremely dark screen, contrast and brighter controls didn't work. It also came on for a few seconds at normal brightness before blacking out. The file is called PowerBook 1400

Re: Can't turn VM off ???

2002-10-26 Thread Greg M
--- Tina Holm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed a fresh 9.1 on my 1400/G3, and wanted to use RamDoubler instead of Virtual Memory, but the system won't let me turn VM off, gives me an alert saying that the 1400 doesn't have enough memory to run without VM, and that I should buy