Re: More on my PB 190cs

Fluxstringer wrote: MB= Megabyte Mb= Megabit There are 8 bits in a byte Was there a point to this? jp -- 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: More on my PB 190cs

Fluxstringer wrote: MB= Megabyte Mb= Megabit There are 8 bits in a byte Was there a point to this? jp -___ I didn't bother to do the math but it seemed the figures quoted could be for one in Megabytes and the other in Megabits which might account for the amount used being

Re: More on my PB 190cs

John, LineFeeds/word processing: I think Caleb's suggestion is good. If you have Word 5, you exchange documents with Linux not as TextOnly files, but as RTF or as Word docs. Newer versions of Word can save for older versions, or alternatively, there is a plugin for Word 5 for importing docs from

Hard drive question

Thanks for the tips, especially Malcolm, because yes, that was the culprit! I'm lazy and 7.5.3 doesn't have spring-loaded folders, so I put aliases of all my important (and big) folders in the Apple menu, including one alias of the entire disk. Some experiments show that the time taken during

Re: PowerBook 180c Power + Screen

I recently acquired a PowerBook 180c. It came with a power adapter and a battery. I plugged it in (without the battery) and pushed the power button. The screen came on and it made the start up sound and then it just turned off. I took it apart and tried several things with it in pieces.

Re: PowerBook 180c Power + Screen

no one has any solution? how about this question, can a screen be dropped or something so that an entire section of it doesn't show or is this most likely a firmware or connection issue? On 4/29/05, Jeffrey Bergier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently acquired a PowerBook 180c. It came with a

Re: More on my PB 190cs

Fluxstringer wrote: Fluxstringer wrote: MB= Megabyte Mb= Megabit There are 8 bits in a byte Was there a point to this? jp -___ I didn't bother to do the math but it seemed the figures quoted could be for one in Megabytes and the other in Megabits which might account for

Re: Hard drive question

To make the story short, a friendly guy at Seagate finally told me that it sometimes happens that a harddisk doesn't 'hold the partition' and in such a case, the disk 'needs to be replaced'. Perhaps the most vulnerable portion of a hard drive is the first physical track or tracks. The

Re: More on my PB 190cs

Fluxstringer wrote: Fluxstringer wrote: MB= Megabyte Mb= Megabit There are 8 bits in a byte Was there a point to this? jp -___ I didn't bother to do the math but it seemed the figures quoted could be for one in Megabytes and the other in Megabits which might account for

OT - yellowdog on a 3400c

Someone here suggested Yellowdog on a 3400c a couple of weeks ago more or less. Since then I've downloaded the isos and now I'm trying to install it. Could anyone who has done this please email me offlist please? Thanks. Can't seem to figure out how to boot from the CD. Thanks! BM --