Re: Mac Powerbook 520c CPU Upgrade info need

2003-02-16 Thread Tom Lisa P
Damn. All this talk of 500-series PowerBooks is making me want to go to the attic and put my NetBSD running, 68040 upgraded, 90 MHz 540C back into action, instead of writing code, like I should be doing... :-P ,xtG .tsooJ Whoa, did you say 90MHz? Do you mean 90/45 (as usual speed nomenclature

Re: Mac Powerbook 520c CPU Upgrade info need

2003-02-16 Thread Mike Hebel
Tom Lisa P wrote: It should be noted that the 68040's clock input runs at 2x the actual speed of the CPU, hence the dual speed nomenclature. A 66/33MHz 68040 is really only a 33MHz part. Still, intriguing. I'll bet you clocked your bus to 45MHz with a 80/40MHz 68040 installed. ;-) Peace,

OT: Mac Friendly Web Host

2003-02-16 Thread Cliff Rediger
I'm interested in your suggestions and experience regarding Mac friendly WebHosts and Domain Registrars. Thank you, Cliff -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host

2003-02-16 Thread Fabian Fang
On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 07:45AM, Cliff Rediger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in your suggestions and experience regarding Mac friendly WebHosts and Domain Registrars. http://www.godaddy.com has very good prices, and seems to be as friendly as most. -- PowerBooks is

Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host

2003-02-16 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Tee hee... Oh boy, me too!! ;-) So when you send that reply email, make sure both [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are in the To: header. Thanks, Drew -- Author of ClassicStumbler email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://homepage.mac.com/alk/ Want to know if your neighbor has Wi-Fi? Find

Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host

2003-02-16 Thread Fran Dollinger
Fabian Fang wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 07:45AM, Cliff Rediger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in your suggestions and experience regarding Mac friendly WebHosts and Domain Registrars. http://www.godaddy.com has very good prices, and seems to be as friendly as

Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host

2003-02-16 Thread Jim Arnott
The best of all: JMUG.org http://www.jmug.org Mac techs, Mac servers Jim Cliff Rediger wrote: I'm interested in your suggestions and experience regarding Mac friendly WebHosts and Domain Registrars. Thank you, Cliff -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small

Re: PB 540c battery

2003-02-16 Thread Paul Nelson
At 4:01 PM -0800 2/15/03, Alan O'Neil wrote: Sorry to post again, but I am still not clear on what to do. I just got a PB500 battery, which is not seen in my PB 540c. I will go to the Shack this week and buy a 9.6v RC battery an use it if I can get a personal confirmation that this will in fact

Re: Newbie and PowerBook 520 Question

2003-02-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 09:00 PM, Gary Sparkes wrote: shreve? Shreve Systems http://www.shrevesystems.com They used to be a big used Apple parts and systems dealer with high prices and sometimes good deals. They got out of the computer business a few months back, but still have

Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host

2003-02-16 Thread Chris Malanga
Might I suggest ItsAMac at http://www.itsamac.com. I used them for a corporate site and they were great. You can host on OS 9 or OS X. Plus, they are very reasonable. HTH... Chris Malanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 01:36 PM, (PowerBooks) wrote: From: [EMAIL

Re: OT: Mac Friendly Web Host

2003-02-16 Thread Cliff Rediger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Malanga) writes: From: Chris Malanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 15:07:52 -0500 Might I suggest ItsAMac at http://www.itsamac.com. I used them for a corporate site and they were great. You can host on OS 9 or OS X. Plus, they are very reasonable. Now

Re: powerbook 1400 ethernet

2003-02-16 Thread David Allen
I've had great success with Global Village units. I especially like the GV Ethernet/56 k modem card. Allows use of the easy to use GV software. I can either connect via ethernet to my network (standard cat5 RJ45 cable) or phone lines for modem use. (standard phone cable) It costs a bit more than

How to mirror a drive

2003-02-16 Thread Ken Norris (dialup)
What I want to do: Mirror my drive on to a new drive. Is there a connector to hookup an _internal_ drive to a PB 1400 through the card slot? Ken N. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: How to mirror a drive

2003-02-16 Thread John Smith
Don't know about the PC card slot, but I've heard of IDE to SCSI adapters, assuming you can find a way to power the drive, I guess that could work, but I have a feeling their price is more designed for permanent use... -- john On 17/2/03 10:59 AM, Ken Norris (dialup) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: PB1400 prob

2003-02-16 Thread djl
this is one bad pickle I didn't say before but I got to the extension manager using the space bar, then turned off the Time sync extension and continued booting only to get a different extension error (HP Background...) rebooted again back to the ext mgr, turned off that one, and got a

Re: How to mirror a drive

2003-02-16 Thread John Smith
My limited understanding of ATA drives is that the computer looks on the 'master ATA' drive first, then the secondary. You would probably have to set your powerbook HD to slave mode (using jumpers on the disk itself). Otherwise, like you say, the computer may start-up off the powerbook drive, or

Re: How to mirror a drive

2003-02-16 Thread Brian
OK, suppose I pull it from the PB and plug it into my G4 tower as a secondary drive. What will happen when I boot the G4. Will it know it isn't the startup drive? You'd have to buy a IDE 3.5 to 2.5 cable converter for sure- no big deal, $4 online from Computer Geeks or $10-14 from a local

Re: How to mirror a drive

2003-02-16 Thread Andrew Kershaw
Bigger Q is whether on your G4, did Apple get around to finally using a real IDE controller or their half-umm...way desktop implementation that only allows one IDE device per channel and not a true master/slave combo like all other ATAPI/IDE controllers on the planet. It might have started to be

Corrupted Downloads?

2003-02-16 Thread Macnifico Giganticus
Hi! I'm using my recently bought PB 190cs, with OS 8.1 and 40Mb RAM, no Virtual Memory. But found that Eudora 3 is a bit outdated. I need something that reads e-mail formatted with HTML. I d/l'ed v4.2.1 (68K ) from Eudora, but during expansion, StuffIt warned about some damage. Tried to use the