Re: Moving to Google Groups

interface at all. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig that says 'NI!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http

Re: Internet Explorer For Macintosh

On Feb 1, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: On 01/02/06, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did that happen...it's just a web browser, shouldn't mess with any system stuff at all. All I know is that Safari crashed, I rebooted the 'Book and X would hang at the Waiting

Re: Internet Explorer For Macintosh for ebay

source, it doesn't do that. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low

Re: Internet Explorer For Macintosh

On Feb 1, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Kenneth Vann wrote: This is from the Microsoft Web Site on Feburary 1, 2006 INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD Internet Explorer? I seem to remember some really crappy web browser by that name, sometime last century... :-P -- Bruce

Re: Mail client for OS8.1

, not so in 8.1. You can try Netscape 4.x, I can't remember if it supports TLS or not. Also MailDrop http://carl-bell-2.baylor.edu/~Carl_Bell/Mail_Drop/ may, again I can't remember. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: Internet Explorer For Macintosh

On Feb 1, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Caleb Cupples wrote: FYI, Safari wrecked my OS X Jaguar machine, which is why I don't use it. How did that happen...it's just a web browser, shouldn't mess with any system stuff at all. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks

Re: ibook / Powebook g3 pdq

On Jan 31, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Raymond Boger wrote: does the clamshell ibook (firewire) use the same powerplug as the powerbook wallstreet rev 2 Yes. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: clamshell help

is the one I used. Short instructions are pretty much Take everything off that isn't a hard drive. iBooks are a whirling b*tch to work on. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: PowerBook 5300c?

is subject to a lot of strain and is quite fragile. It's fixable, with some surgery: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan//5300power.html My opinion is that you'll be a LOT better off looking for a PB1400 or newer. The 5300 is a Road Apple. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni

Re: PowerBook 5300c?

On Jan 27, 2006, at 2:30 PM, yersinia wrote: Bruce Johnson writes, The 5300 is a Road Apple. H, I've seen this expression (Road Apple) a few times now, and forgive me for my stupidity, butI still don't know what it means. Can you tell me, please? ~Yersinia. You know those round

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

of the computers. -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- 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! | Support Low

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

On Jan 21, 2006, at 2:47 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Dream Mac Past: The original, the wonder, the 128K Mac cost $2495 in 1894. Cost in 2003 dollars: $4417 As farsighted as Jobs and Woz are, they did not, afaik, rig a DeLorean with a particle accelerator to introduce the Mac to the amazed

Re: desktop pictures

Pictures. I'm reasonably certain that that was another third party app, like Windowshade, that Apple bought and stuck in the OS. I know for certain I had such an init on my Mac Plus back in the System 7.0 days. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored

Re: Hard drive acting even weirder

files to a floppy just in case. Back up your data like RIGHT NOW! Quick, go on, stop reading this email any farther Yes this is a classic sign of impending disk death, the same path the original drive in my 540 took. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks

Re: PB 500 modem drivers

.sea.bin http://tinyurl.com/awfuc You can extract just the extension, and then the installer will run. Look in the list archives, we covered this in just the last week or so. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: PB 500 modem drivers

On Jan 5, 2006, at 10:20 AM, John Perkins Jr. wrote: It's the PowerPort Mercury (that's what the sticker in the back of the door says). Get the 2.5.5 upgrade for that from ftp.globalvillage.com and get at the contents with TomeViewer to install. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says

Re: Subject: duo modem driver

it laying about here. I'll fire up the ol' 540C to see if it's on there. -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot

Re: Question on disk formatting

email list I've ever been on. shrug -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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: USB and the 1400 ?

On Dec 22, 2005, at 3:51 PM, Ken Norris wrote: OOL? Hmmmthat's a new one ;-) (we know it's probably just a typo --- ) I was being polite...'Out Of Luck' -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: USB and the 1400 ?

card, you're OOL. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac

Re: Used PowerBook 165 - some questions

problem. Ideally you need an external CD-rom drive or Zip drive. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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

Re: Used PowerBook 165 - some questions

On Dec 15, 2005, at 9:53 AM, Váradi Zsolt Gyula wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:25:58 -0700 Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MacDrive always worked well from me. http://www.mediafour.com/ However, it only works with 1.44 MB disks, no PC reads 800K disks. Thanks, I haven't seen this one

Re: Observation: CF Boot Drive

of ram. My bogosity meter exploded when I first looked at that page, it pegged so hard. If this technology really worked, rights to his invention would have been snapped up by some memory manufacturer, and he'd be a very very wealthy man. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni

Re: Ethernet, Battery recondition and other things.

there are lots of PCMCIA modems around. If it does fit, then generic Hayes Modem settings and it should work. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: I think something's wrong...

probably did) Some folks have successfully used the SCSI-ATA bridges for the 500 series, so it fits, but again, those things are expensive (and probably rare by now, too). -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Linksys ethernet card on OS 7.5.3

, so I don't remember the exact model #, but I'm going to dig it out for my Turkey Day Dash. Almost certainly not, but it's worth a try; the worst that can happen is it won't work. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: How long can a PowerBook on battery last in Sleep?

latest PB's. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http

Re: Power Book 145B

to start, I think. Edge has it for $78: http://tinyurl.com/brn4o which is a little high, imo, to spend on a 145B, considering you can probably get something as high up as a WallStreet for that much money...You can certainly get something much more capable than the 145b for $78. -- Bruce Johnson

Re: 5300 combo display ethernet daughtercard

so my 5300 has sat unused for some time with no way to boot. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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

Re: PB5300 - NiMH on fire

catch on fire in consumer's hands a few years back. This is one of the most persistent Apple urban legends. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: noisier laptop drives problematic?

others...I swear, some drive manufacturers tie little maracas to their drive heads; they sound like a flamenco when they're working. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Internal modem won't work

is the driver. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http

Re: PowerBook 520c Trackpad

://home.mindspring.com/~danwr/downloads/clickpad- ii.html Unfortunately, the link in the page is dead. I vaguely remember finding it somewhere else; maybe on some MacAddict disks...I do have it at home, but it's on the 540... -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks

Re: Ethernet communication problem between OS 8.6 and 10.4.2

- something is not compatible. Is there a work-around or an alternative method to enable me to do file transfers between these two computers? Thanks! Upgrade your appleshare client (to, iirc 3.8), and connect to the G4 via it's IP address in Chooser. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig

Re: Trimming 8.6? Source for iTunes 1.x? Renaming bookmarks in Netscape?

the mouse button a long time ago. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low

Re: Pismo problem

to push hard enough to make it feel like you're going to crack something. Also check the pins on the processor card carefully, if you've got one bent over you've got problems. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: how do I get my 520c to surf?

.) OT was much more reliable. MacTCP may not work with the DHCP server in the modem. -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: how do I get my 520c to surf?

-archive.com/powerbooks% 40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: how do I get my 520c to surf?

with someone who had moved a couple of times and had had 4 different ISP's. Yep, that's right, 4 different installations of IE, too. -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: External SCSI CD-ROM drives for PB2400c?

drives are bootable? Apart from access speed, is there any reason why an old Apple 300e wouldn't serve my purposes (even though a 600e would probably be better)? Nope, that'll work just fine. --- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http

Re: 190 power connector woes...

On Oct 5, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Dan K wrote: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've also seen (but have been unable to find again) a website that showed how to refit the 520/190 with a power connector like that in a 1400, much more robust. That was it! Thanks Dan! That'd probably

Re: Help

with the advent of OS 7.0. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac

Re: Help

easily, though the version of microsoft on that 145 is likely to be quite old. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: 190 power connector woes...

to find again) a website that showed how to refit the 520/190 with a power connector like that in a 1400, much more robust. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: An Internal DVD/CD-RW burner for Lombard

mechanism sticks out a couple of mm towards the back of the Pismo where the case curves in, but it's nothing I've been too concerned about. -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: how to prep 1400cs for sale

On Sep 24, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Christie wrote: or sale (and other items) on the LEM-swap list; can anyone suggest other likely places I could post, especially that might include the Boston, MA, area? If you want a local sale, try Craigslist . -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go

Re: Installing OS on 1400c

for 8.1 ,8.6 or 9.1 Also, I'd be interested to hear thoughts on how many problems I'm likely to have with OS 9.1 on a 117 MHz PowerBook (w/48 MB RAM installed)? Thanks! lowww. With only 48 MB of Ram I'd consider 8.1 or 8.6 instead. -- Bruce Johnson

Re: TCP/IP Unaccessable

, try re-installing the driver A card issue, perhaps it died. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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

Re: TCP/IP Unaccessable

, if there is one. They may be soldered right to the logic board, in which case you're OOL. My advice would be to find another 1400 or move to a newer system. Events like that are rarely inconsequential to the system. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored

Re: TCP/IP Unaccessable

news is that if THAT was why you got the crackling noise and smoke smell from the PB, something on the logic board was doing the crackling and smelling. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: 550c

names for a freakin' DECADE now, why are we still stuck in the damned 8.3 world? Why do they have to go OUT OF THEIR WAY to make things difficult? -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: 550c

have Apple Enet, Appleshare and OT extensions. But ISTR the last time I tried to boot a HD system from a copy of the CD's System folder I got an error message, though I may be thinking of the Disk tools boot floppy. It's worth a try. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni

Re: Hard drive makes whining noise

of it. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com

Re: Verizon DSL and PB 540c

Powerbook myself. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http

Re: Hard drive makes whining noise

the computer together is stripped, so it would be hard if not impossible to open the case to put a new hd in as you can see, it's not worth putting money into, especially if you don't really have any. Let me guess, it's name is 'Lucky' ;-) -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks

Re: Hard drive makes whining noise

a particularly noisy server. all of a sudden we were hearing all sorts of 'new' noises. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

Re: 190 troubles.

, that solved the problem once and for all. He used a Wallstreet power adapter. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: Word processing on 68K.

Office 97, for Windoze. I do have ClarisWorks 4, but I don't like it very well. Try Nisus..they probably still offer the Version 4 for free. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig that says 'NI!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: Little OT

small HDD's that are a %#^@$%# to replace, need more more ram to run OS X, but they do run 10.3 quite happily. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: Little OT

of computers? Krylon makes a paint that specifically adheres to the plastics that make up a case. Google 'painting Mac case' for many, many examples. I knew someone who had a custom painted white iBook that was this amazing swirl of colors, kind of a marbleized effect. -- Bruce Johnson

Re: Powerbook User Group Listings

; it's essentially just a fluorescent bulb...if they're on, the clock is ticking. in most cases it's reasonably easy to replace if it does burn out and the bulbs themselves are pretty cheap. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig that says 'NI!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: Best Enclosure?

? invtid=DEM-1351cat=HDD $25, it looks nice, no problems with it so far (though its only been a couple of weeks.) -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: Best Enclosure?

On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Fabian Fang wrote: On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 4, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Dave Foshee wrote: I was wondering what would be the best firewire/USB 2.0 enclosure for a Seagate 300 GB drive? Circuit City is selling them at 30 cents a gig

Re: Best Enclosure?

On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Fabian Fang wrote: On Aug 4, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 4, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Dave Foshee wrote: I was wondering what would be the best firewire/USB 2.0 enclosure for a Seagate 300 GB drive? Circuit City is selling them at 30 cents a gig

Re: OT - OS X shadow files?

, thinking we'd been hacked, massively, since he saw them all over the Unix AND Windows file servers... -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: OT - OS X shadow files?

which correspond to the resource fork of applications. Those are created on any non-HFS filesystem. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: Outbound (was: Powerbook 100 screen)

screen 'This website pwned by Haxorgang' or some such. Then day before yesterday they were refusing connections and they still are. I'd be interested to know what OS/Server they were running... -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: Just Curious...

, but google about. I'm SURE there are people who know. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig that says 'NI!' -- 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

Re: ShrinkWrap on Classic mode

utility does not work with floppies, at least with my USB floppy reader. And I would like to avoid the workaround of moving the images to a Mac than can run OS 9: I would like toi create floppies from my iBook G4. Did you try Disk Copy under Classic? -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig

Re: I'm CHRONOLOGICALLY an adult, BUT.... (was Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

. There's a standalone version in the download that does work in 9.2. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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

Re: I'm CHRONOLOGICALLY an adult, BUT.... (was Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

On Jul 4, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Doc Holliday wrote: What I personally liked was being able to get my Mac to play the The Good Morning Vietnam!!! clip from the movie. That was my startup sound for a while. I also had the Warner Brothers Merry Melody theme as my startup, too. -- Bruce

Re: Best way to legally copy DVD

On Jul 3, 2005, at 12:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Time for Hollywierd to develop a new business model! Why? the one they have is working very very well for them. VAST sums of cash can be laundered through a business that 'loses' so much money... -- Bruce Johnson No matter where

Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

know one person who lost almost everything on his hard drive, thanks to that init and a determined three year old. -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

TheGrouch.sit on that page. -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- 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: Best way to legally copy DVD

On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:13 AM, Thoma Mattox wrote: Are there any options available for those of us still using OS9.2.2? Possibly Toast? Otherwise, not much, afaik. Certainly all the free apps won't work as they're all dependent on OSS unix libraries. -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go

Re: Best way to legally copy DVD

that discussed this in the documentation, but if it's not Mac the Ripper, I can't remember what it is. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: Best way to legally copy DVD

, 1.67 ghz, 1.5 gig Ram, ruiiing Tiggrrr! Mac the Ripper: http://www.ripdifferent.com/~mtr/ -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Wireless Networking

on the mac or PC MacLan on the PC. Much cheaper to use the emac as an intermediary. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Re: OS 9 Security ?

On Jun 28, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Doc Holliday wrote: I have also seen the WDEF virus, although I can't remember where it was. It was on a Mac running System 6 or lower, I can tell you that. WDEF was killed by System 7.0. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks

Re: OS 9 Security ?

. It exposes the user as the achilles heel of security but the user is ALWAYS the achilles heel of security. However, OS X is an Achilles with 2 legs and a good conditioning regimen, Windows is a freakin' millipede who thinks exercise is getting up from the couch to get another beer... -- Bruce

Re: pricing guidance/titaniums too fragile?

it be a mistake to buy a titanium? Not in my opinion. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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

Re: pricing guidance/titaniums too fragile?

just fewer of those have fallen over into the 'usable for parts only' category. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

Re: OS 9.1 Security ?

info back to their masters for nefarious purposes. Tell them they're talking out of their nether regions. -- Bruce Johnson No matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Getting PB 190 on Ethernet

The Focus internal card is likely to be the absolutely cheapest: Data Memory Systems has them for $9. http://www.datamem.com/viewcat.asp_Q_C_E_1048 Buried in the archives is my description of installing this in my 5300. It's pretty much the same, I think, in a 190. -- Bruce Johnson

Re: Powerbook 1400c

On Jun 22, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Paul Nelson wrote: At 4:29 PM -0700 6/21/05, Bruce Johnson wrote: Those upgrades are from PowerLogix and they seem to be out of the business. Have you taken a look at www.powerlogix.com? They seem to be very much in business, and have a service to upgrade

Re: Powerbook 1400c

. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http

Re: 520 broadband via cable

sharing on the ethernet port; attached the 540 via ethernet and downloaded via the OS X modem connection. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: Looking at Powerbooks, need opinions please

Won't ANYBODY trade their powerbook for my theoretically more powerful PC ?? -- Bruce Johnson no matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: 540c to broadband via cable (not wireless)

, and if you don't see the computers in the list, click on Server IP address, enter the IP address of your OS X macs, and you're golden. -- Bruce Johnson no matter where you go, there you are, B. Banzai -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: Craig's List

to Entourage to post to the list. Some things got lost in the translation. From memory, but: Preferences General Composition Check the box Plain text -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig that says 'NI!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: 3400c...huh?

in and reseat it. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac

Re: Maximized Legacy Software for PB190

. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com

Re: 520c connectivity problems

to initiate the connection from the 520c and know the IP address of the iMac. You can get Shareway IP from Open Door networks, but that's expensive. This is what Apple bundled with OS 9 to get IP file sharing. http://www.opendoor.com/shareway/ -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni

Re: eMailer

http:// ackmo.baylor.edu/~bellc/Mail_Drop/ Text only, but it's fast, light and runs superbly on low end Macs. It's my mail client on my 540C; I like it a lot. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: eMailer

strong feelings about it ;-) -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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! | Support

Re: eMailer

of that 'oh sh*t! my HDD just crashed, there goes all my e-mail!' I have four computers I use on a routine basis. Only imap lets me access ALL my e-mail from any of them any time I want. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: IMAP (was eMailer0

don't expose the IMAP functionality to the users.) -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- 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

Re: trackpad-no smooth

that the original matt finishing of the trackpad has been removed by use: is it possible? Yes. I've seen numerous trackpads worn shiny with use, they keep working, generally, though. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig who says 'Ni!' -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Lombard EIEE Target Disk Mode?

On Jun 8, 2005, at 11:24 AM, David Rodriguez wrote: Anybody here using a Lombard that is able to run their machine in Target Disk Mode (TDM) using a Firewire Cardbus? No, and you never will, since it's a rom issue, not the mere presence of a FW port. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig

Re: To buy a 1400 or not to buy a 1400...

the keyboard is a real issue. All help and advice would be appreciated. I'd get a g3 or g4, personally, but without knowing 'keyboard is a real issue' entails, it's hard to say. Certainly a G3 or G4 powerbook will enable using OS X; much better, imo than OS 9. -- Bruce Johnson This is the sig

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