Re: Wireless and my 1400

2005-04-27 Thread Gary Zamzow
On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:21 PM, Dave Foshee wrote: The problem with that is that many mobile businessmen would live in Starbucks and suck the bandwidth all day. x5 and you have a lot of bandwidth. Go to a busy Starbucks and everyone would be better on dial-up. But this way, they can charge you and

Re: Wireless and my 1400

2005-04-27 Thread Gary Zamzow
On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here in Thailand, Starbucks charges about US$3.75 for one hour - very expensive. There are several independent coffee houses here in my town which have free WiFi access. Hi ACFX44501, Sounds like a nice town, and I guess that I should shop

Re: Wireless and my 1400

2005-04-27 Thread Clark Martin
At 11:42 PM -0700 4/26/05, Gary Zamzow wrote: On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here in Thailand, Starbucks charges about US$3.75 for one hour - very expensive. There are several independent coffee houses here in my town which have free WiFi access. Hi ACFX44501, Sounds

Re: Wireless and my 1400

2005-04-27 Thread Howard R. Katz
There are a lot of places that offer free wifi these days. If there's a Panera's cafe near you, try there. Also, if you go to maps.google.com and then the local directions option, then type in wifi yourtown,ST (state) you'll be presented with a list of wifi spots. Also try out local public

Re: Wireless and my 1400

2005-04-27 Thread Howard R. Katz
At the Panera places I frequent, you open your browser (yes, iCab works well here :) ) and you're presented with a page where you accept their usage conditions. Clicking agree then takes you to that webpage. It also opens your connection to other functions like ftp or telnet. One thing to

Hard drive question

2005-04-27 Thread Ge'
Thanks Adrian for your response. The 'network' I connect to is only a router that gives several users internet access. I very rarely connect to another Mac on that router, and that's all regarding 'servers'. Did you do a search for files with the included word that you called the other machines

Can't install 7.5.3 / OS for Powerbook 5300

2005-04-27 Thread Ge'
TCP/IP: Logging on to a same or higher OS over Ethernet is easy from OS 7.5.3. With my 500PPC running 7.5.3, with OpenTransport 1.1.1, I can log on to a G3 running 9.2.2. I specifically upgraded to 7.5.3 because it seemed pretty complicated to do that with earlier systems. LocalTalk is easier

Re: Can't install 7.5.3 / OS for Powerbook 5300

2005-04-27 Thread John Perry
Ge' wrote: Can you now get files onto your 190 with the program association intact? No, but ... I wrote some instructions on how to change the FileType if you have FastFind in your Norton Utilities Toolbox, but do you still need that? Here's the beginning: Mac OSes older than OS X use hidden

Re: Hard drive question

2005-04-27 Thread Fluxstringer
Remember on each startup the OS goes through a list of machines to look for. Any idea where that list could be found? ___ I am running OS 9.1. In this system server names connected by ethernet( and others?) are inthe path; system folder / servers And sure enough the old

Re: Wireless and my 1400

2005-04-27 Thread Gary Zamzow
On Apr 27, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Clark Martin wrote: At 11:42 PM -0700 4/26/05, Gary Zamzow wrote: On Apr 26, 2005, at 10:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here in Thailand, Starbucks charges about US$3.75 for one hour - very expensive. There are several independent coffee houses here in my town

DVD Playback for Kanga, et. al.

2005-04-27 Thread ACFX44501
Granted that the Kanga, et. al., have a zoom video PCMCIA slot, which is apparently compatible with that same slot on the Wallstreet, that same slot where the Wallstreet's DVD decoder card is inserted. Granted that the Kanga, et. al., do not have a DVD drive available for them. Granted that

Re: Wireless and my 1400

2005-04-27 Thread Ken Norris
Hi Gary, From: Gary Zamzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wireless and my 1400 Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:25:58 -0700 I ask a question in California about Starbucks, and I get an instant reply from Thailand! :-D Try a live Chat sometime, when you can get your 1400 up. All the best, Ken N. --

Re: Wireless and my 1400 - Howard

2005-04-27 Thread Gary Zamzow
On Apr 27, 2005, at 4:40 AM, Howard R. Katz wrote: There are a lot of places that offer free wifi these days. If there's a Panera's cafe near you, try there. Also, if you go to maps.google.com and then the local directions option, then type in wifi yourtown,ST (state) you'll be presented with

Re: Wireless and my 1400 - Howard

2005-04-27 Thread Fluxstringer
check out another lister's site on wifi for PBs. http://home.earthlink.net/~macwireless/ -- Adrian -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook!

Re: Wireless and my 1400 - Howard

2005-04-27 Thread Clark Martin
At 5:08 PM -0700 4/27/05, Gary Zamzow wrote: On Apr 27, 2005, at 4:40 AM, Howard R. Katz wrote: There are a lot of places that offer free wifi these days. If there's a Panera's cafe near you, try there. Also, if you go to maps.google.com and then the local directions option, then type in wifi

Re: Wireless and my 1400 - Howard

2005-04-27 Thread Howard R. Katz
I never said it the list was comprehensive. :) But it does give some good starting points if you've going someplace new. Later.Howard Computer n. A pocket calculator with a glandular problem. -- PowerBooks is

My wife is starting work at Apple

2005-04-27 Thread cyber corsair
Great News my wife got in at Apples's Call center here in the Sac area. I worked there as a Re-work tech when they builded the systems but i been doiung dasta recovery and consulting sence I left but wanted back in lately. . They don't build the systems there but hey do fix them and do re-work

Re: DVD Playback for Kanga, et. al.

2005-04-27 Thread Dan K
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped introduction A Kanga was configured with an external SCSI drive, an EIDE/UATA DVD drive converted as described above. The Apple DVD Player 1.3 software was installed on a clean install of Mac OS 9.0. A Wallstreet DVD decoder card was inserted into the Kanga. The

dead 20 gig Travelstar......

2005-04-27 Thread Brian
Well, my PB1400 had been freezing up occasionally, I thought it was 'cos I was running Outlook and Eudora and Mozilla a lot at the same time :) but it failed to come back one time, and the HD is not spinning upit tries but fails to come up to speed. I have a spare 10 gig IDE that I can

More on my PB 190cs

2005-04-27 Thread John Perry
Hi, all, With the help of several list members, I got my new PB up again, and got OS7.5.3 installed and working. Thanks! I ran across a Sandisk CompactFlash PC card adapter yesterday, for $12. Since I already had a CF USB adapter for my other machines, I bought it and tried it. IT WORKS!