Re: Moving to Google Groups

2006-02-12 Thread yersinia
Drew writes, Is anybody else concerned about this, or am I just paranoid? You're not paranoid -- you're absolutely right, and I totally share your concerns. ~Yersinia. paranoia, n.: A healthy understanding of the way the universe works. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http

Re: Powerbook 1400 Problem update 2

2006-02-02 Thread yersinia
, actually -- both on my Powerbooks and on my desktop Macs. I love it. It took me no time to get used to it, and I found I actually DON'T like Netscape (my prior chosen browser, which I used from 1996-2003) nearly as much anymore. These days I only use Netscape as a backup browser. ~Yersinia

Re: I'm new

2006-01-28 Thread yersinia
regularly), and a G-Books list (this would cover your G3 Powerbook and probably your iBook as well)check the LEM site, there's a description of which lists to join for particular Macs. Happy to have you here! ~Yersinia. When Oxygen Tech played Hydrogen U. The Game had just begun, when

Re: PowerBook 5300c?

2006-01-27 Thread yersinia
knows how to make the aforementioned type of repair -- which it now needs, I'm still not sorry I bought it. I got mine for $30 plus shipping off the Swap List. ~Yersinia. Lead me not into temptation, I can find the way myself. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: PowerBook 5300c?

2006-01-27 Thread yersinia
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. Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test

Re: PowerBook 5300c?

2006-01-27 Thread yersinia
of which work on my 190, neither of which work on the 5300c now, and the connection is loose on the 5300c, so I assume this is the problem -- I guess I just can't see OTHER things about my 5300c which are bad design...just this one issue. ~Yersinia. Got mole problems? Call Avogadro: 602

Feeler: Floppy Drive Module for 1400

2006-01-23 Thread yersinia
Hiya Listers, Can anyone tell me approximately what one of these are worth? Thank you, ~Yersinia. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P.J. O'Rourke -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: New Low End Mac email lists

2006-01-21 Thread yersinia
for ALL Old Macs, Pre-OS X. I'm getting really tired of reading about OS X, G4s, G5s, Minis, Cubes, Intel Macs and so on. :vent: I know, I don't have to sub to the new lists, and I can always drop off the G-list too. It's just that I wish there was a list for people like me. ~Yersinia

Re: Which PowerBook is for me?

2006-01-03 Thread yersinia
with it. Eeesh. No G4s here of ANY kind, and given MY finances, not likely. LOL ~Yersinia. Only dead fish go with the flow. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

Re: Question on disk formatting

2005-12-20 Thread Yersinia
the backups. There you go, all done. :-) Good luck and have fun. ~Yersinia. Here I am. Now what are your other two wishes? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

Re: Thanks, one more thing :-P

2005-12-07 Thread Yersinia
Howard Katz writes, The only game I play on a regular basis is the shareware package Solitaire Til Dawn Me too. It's on both my Powerbook and my G3. ~Yersinia. If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

1400c OS Question

2005-11-22 Thread Yersinia
for your replies. ~Yersinia. -- 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/lists/support.html

Re: CD-ROM on 190

2005-10-14 Thread Yersinia
work the same way. ~Yersinia. -- 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/lists

Re: 190 troubles.

2005-08-17 Thread Yersinia
can honestly say: if you can't go with the preferred option of fixing your 190, I highly recommend getting a 5300c. You'll save money on batteries this way too, since the 5300c and the 190 take the same ones. ~Yersinia. I still miss my ex. But my aim is getting better

Re: OT - What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Yersinia
ended up one from a combination of a past Unix background, his lack of interest in spending what he considered exorbitant sums of money on a Mac, and he refused to do Windoze. ~Yersinia. Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense

Re: OT - What non-Macs do you own?

2005-08-13 Thread Yersinia
. Time to go play with my new SCSI adapter. :-) ~Yersinia. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can change, and the weaponry to make the difference. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: PowerBook and Off road vehicles (slightly OT)

2005-08-04 Thread Yersinia
. :-) That's when I hit 'em with the Macintosh Grand Tour and tell 'em why I don't do Windoze. ~Yersinia. Just when you start to accept that Life's a bitch, she has puppies. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: GOT I-35

2005-08-04 Thread Yersinia
. However, this all disappeared with the 7200 when I got it up to OS 8.1. So that's is why I never even bothered to install it on either my G3 (started out with 8.1 but is on 9.2.2 now) or my Powerbook 5300c, which is on OS 8.6. ~Yersinia. Second on the food chain is dead

Re: Classic question

2005-08-04 Thread Yersinia
within the Classic framework. For instance, the Toast 5 Lite CD burning software I use to make my backups, which requires 8.6 or higher. ~Yersinia. Never accept a drink from a urologist. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: PowerBook 100 POP3 mail client

2005-07-22 Thread Yersinia
Ben writes, They are really nasty bugs, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis is another. Can we ask where does your name come from. Yeah, it is. Anyway, to answer your question, at the time I first got online and decided I needed a screen name, I was working as a microbiologist and I had a severely

Re: Powerbook 100 POP3 mail client

2005-07-20 Thread Yersinia
Brian McEwen writes, Does Claris support SSL SMTP sessions?? I have no idea what SSL SMTP sessions even ARE, so sorry, I can't tell you. Hmmm, so, what are they? ~Yersinia. What you call genocide, I call a day's work. -- Aamon Maritza while impersonating Gul DarHeel

Re: Powerbook 100 POP3 mail client

2005-07-20 Thread Yersinia
ISPs like Netzero, Earthlink or AOL (and I don't know if they actually require the SSL SMTP), but I have no problems with email when I make my occasional trips up north. Does that help? ~Yersinia. 'Eternal Vigilance Is The Price of Liberty' used to mean we watched the government

Re: PowerBook 100 POP3 mail client

2005-07-20 Thread Yersinia
, and the name has quite a melody. OTOH, the germ Yersinia enterocolitica can be a rather nasty guest (I'd better not go into further details). Someone managed to slip at least two typos into her sig that I will not let let go unnamed for the love of Tacitus: Firstly, it is Corruptissima which sounds quite

Re: Powerbook 100 POP3 mail client

2005-07-19 Thread Yersinia
Manfred writes, Claris might cause problems with some ISPs. Eudora then is the choice. I ended up with Claris Emailer because Eudora was giving me crap. Ten years later I'm still using Claris. My Powerbook 190 has 1.0, and both my 5300c and G3 have 2.0. Wouldn't dream of switching. ~Yersinia

Re: PB 5300c: Silly Question?

2005-07-11 Thread Yersinia
forward to getting my G3 back online so my 5300c can go back to its normal couple hours a day when the weather is nice usage pattern. LOL...only two more weeks tops, I hope. ;-) ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: PB 5300c: Silly Question?

2005-07-11 Thread Yersinia
PERSONAL computers, and I fully intend to keep them that way. Just my two cents. LOL ~Yersinia. -- 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

5300c...Monkey Puzzle?

2005-07-11 Thread Yersinia
the aforementioned keys. And how come my 5300 didn't ask me if I wanted to rebuild the desktop? ~Yersiniafeeling seriously foolish -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital

Re: 5300c...Monkey Puzzle?

2005-07-11 Thread Yersinia
email (in which case I turn it off and retype). I will try everything again and this time be certain it's off. Thanks! ~Yersinia. Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: 5300c...Monkey Puzzle?

2005-07-11 Thread Yersinia
. Even though the keyboard LOOKS clean and there are no other problems, I'm gonna break out the KeyboardKleen. LOL ~Yersinia. If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

PB 5300c: Silly Question?

2005-07-10 Thread Yersinia
transfer of some stuff, just in case. ~Yersinia. -- 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: PB 5300c: Silly Question?

2005-07-10 Thread Yersinia
replacing the floppy drive or HD, and I could probably add a RAM stick if I had to), there is no way in hell I'd dare to open up any Powerbook. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: PB 5300c: Silly Question?

2005-07-10 Thread Yersinia
? ~Yersinia. -- 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/lists/support.html PowerBooks list

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

2005-07-05 Thread Yersinia
). Wondering how it would look if a grown woman would throw a tantrum like a 2-year-old for whom it's normal to find things like MacBarf or The Grouch entertaining, ~Yersinia. ;-) -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

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

2005-07-05 Thread Yersinia
never really attracted my attentionbut I did used to have a little startup movie which consisted of bright pink motile E. coli, with one swimming right at me hee hee hee. Twisted and bizarre as well all too easily amused, ~Yersinia. A mighty creature is the germ, Though

Re: An Apple a day..Keeps us from being Win-Dumb

2005-06-30 Thread Yersinia
for the PPP to connect -- with both the 5300c and G3 next to me, the 190 on my lap, I felt like that girl in the movie The Net (whose laptop was also a Mac Powerbook, BTW). Hahahahaha. ~Yersinia. Never ask a man what sort of computer he drives. If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If not, why

Re: An Apple a day..Keeps us from being Win-Dumb

2005-06-29 Thread Yersinia
LoveThemBeatles2 writes, The Mac is FRIENDLY Aww, it likes you. :-D ~Yersinia. We have enough Youth, how about a fountain of Smart? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon

Re: 5300 blues

2005-06-22 Thread Yersinia
loved yours). So my suggestion is for you to drop him an email: R.A. Cantrell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~Yersinia. Don't drink and drive, don't drive and drink: accidents cause people. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: OS 8.5

2005-06-21 Thread Yersinia
Hi Donn, The above is all I get every time I send you an e-mail. Are your filters set to send me to the trash? Apologies for using up everyone's bandwidth. I don't have anybody at all from the LEM lists set to go to the Trash. Haven't had a reason to. :-) ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks

Re: Slow 190 browsing.

2005-06-19 Thread Yersinia
of OS and RAM upgrading. If you're not at 56K, I can only suggest you try to get up there if browsing speed is important to you. Good luck! ~Yersinia. Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control! -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: OS 8.5/8.6, AppleWorks 6, QuickTime and my 5300c

2005-06-15 Thread Yersinia
that was the only way to get the AW6 running on the 5300c. Well, thank you so much for all your helpful and informative comments. I'm going to go play with my 5300c and explore 8.6 a bit. ~Yersinia. Come, muse, let us sing of rats! -- James Grainger, 1721-67 -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http

Re: OS 8.5/8.6, AppleWorks 6, QuickTime and my 5300c

2005-06-15 Thread Yersinia
able to simply transfer WP files between the G3 and the Powerbook without having to do that extra saving maneuver. ~Yersinia. I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap. --Spanish Proverb -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

OS 8.5/8.6, AppleWorks 6, QuickTime and my 5300c

2005-06-14 Thread Yersinia
off upgrading it to 8.6 or just installing Quicktime 4.1.2 on it? Thanks in advance for your help and advice, ~Yersinia. I still miss my ex. But my aim is getting better. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: OS 8.5/8.6, AppleWorks 6, QuickTime and my 5300c

2005-06-14 Thread Yersinia
around if you can. This is a totally new one on me!! Isn't it usually the common practice to add features rather than subtract them when upgrading a software program? ~Yersinia. If you keep an open mind, people will throw a lot of garbage in it! -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http

Re: 5300cs battery question

2005-06-05 Thread Yersinia
a 5300c, I'm storing it (battery bay empty) in a bedside drawer which normally stays closed to keep it clean. ~Yersinia. If corn oil comes from corn, where does baby oil come from? -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: Junkyard 1400's Answering Yersinnia

2005-05-29 Thread Yersinia
if you can afford to buy one in running condition -- which, IF you could afford that (I know you can't, and BTW my own computer budget is also severely limited) -- you probably WOULD buy one that runs. But since you can't, you'll build one since that's less expensive. ~Yersinia. I'm

Re: Junkyard 1400's

2005-05-28 Thread Yersinia
the money to buy one that already works without your having to fix it up, why even bother to build one? ~Yersinia. -- 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: Pismo...upside down logo

2005-05-27 Thread Yersinia
, the logo is right-side-up again. This being the case -- if anyone ever makes a comment about my upside down Apple logo (which no one ever has), I shall therefore appropriate Howard's reply. Hope you don't mind, Howard. ;-) ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

Re: What macs do you have?

2005-05-25 Thread Yersinia
years I was on it. Problem was we were sharing it and we actually needed a second computer, so I bought the 7200 and gave him my 475. ~Yersinia. I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Off topic OT : Long weekend topic - what macs do you own?

2005-05-21 Thread Yersinia
. Powerbook 190 (works fine, but retired and being kept in a safe place as a spare). OS 7.5.5 2. Powerbook 5300c (primary use laptop). OS 8.5 3. Power Macintosh 7200/120 (retired but works: being kept in a safe place as a spare). OS 8.1 4. G3/266 Beige DT (primary use desktop). OS 9.1 ~Yersinia

Re: More on my PB 190cs

2005-05-04 Thread Yersinia
the 190. And, um, yes, there's no question I'd rather go back to my 190 than get a Windoze anything! ~Yersinia. -- 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: More on my PB 190cs

2005-04-28 Thread Yersinia
are and not taxing RAM or other resources to run a higher OS than you really need. Just a thought. :-) ~Yersinia. -- 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

OS for Powerbook 5300 (Was Re: Can't install 7.5.3)

2005-04-25 Thread Yersinia
You might have better results with a later OS. Just curious. What is the highest OS a 5300 can run on? (mine has 8.5 which is working out well, but I'm curious) ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: OS for Powerbook 5300 (Was Re: Can't install 7.5.3)

2005-04-25 Thread Yersinia
-- especially if the upgrade, as I was suspecting and as you two now confirm -- is likely to turn my computers into paralyzed snails. So, there it is then -- My Powerbook 5300c is running beautifully on OS 8.5, and I am NOT going to upgrade it. :-D ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http

Re: OS for Powerbook 5300

2005-04-25 Thread Yersinia
). ~Yersinia. -- 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/lists/support.html PowerBooks

Re: 190cs troubles

2005-04-21 Thread Yersinia
honestly, I'm happy with the 8.5, even though I'm running 9.1 on my G3 (the main computer). Just some thoughts from one who just went from a 190 to a 5300 ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: PB190 problems

2005-04-09 Thread yersinia
guys), I'd forward the info to you offlist (they sent it to me, and my boyfriend was able to open my 190 and know what would've had to be done surgically on the basis of that info), although my 190's problem turned out to be a dead power supply and needs no surgery). ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks

Re: 190 browsing

2005-03-30 Thread yersinia
, so that's how I ended up with iCAB. Yes, iCAB is slow and sometimes hangs or freezes (In addition to using it on the 190 I was also using it on my 7200, and then the G3 I got, though for now I'm back on the 7200), but it gets me where I need to be. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored

Re: OT - lost powerbook found, good story

2005-02-23 Thread Yersinia
if I'd reported the theft to police and been told they didn't have time to deal with it. ~Yersinia. -- 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: Drive names

2005-02-12 Thread Yersinia
system: my Zip disks are simply named Backup #1, Backup #2 and so on. H. I just got an idea...Mitosis #1, Mitosis #2 hey!! :-) I just might do that! ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter

Power Supply and Battery?

2005-02-10 Thread Yersinia
answers these questions. ~Yersinia. -- 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/lists

Re: Power Supply and Battery?

2005-02-10 Thread Yersinia
have is in the PB!). Thanks though -- I appreciate you taking the time to reply. However, I'm going to discuss this with my technically savvy boyfriend. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: Netscape 7 for Mac OS 8/9

2004-11-24 Thread Yersinia
which told me I needed a plug-in and offered a plug-in search. So my question now becomes, What plug-in do I have to find and download to be able to download and use the Netscape 7? TIA, ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Trackpad vs. Mouse (was Re: 5300c question)

2004-11-23 Thread Yersinia
and I here who like our trackpads enough not to use mice with our Powerbooks, do you prefer trackpads or mice? Do any of you actually take your mice with you when you go out with your Powerbooks?! ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: Trackpad vs. Mouse (was Re: 5300c question)

2004-11-23 Thread Yersinia
. ~Yersinia. -- 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/lists/support.html PowerBooks list info

Re: Trackpad vs. Mouse (was Re: 5300c question)

2004-11-23 Thread Yersinia
NOT like and never like was tappable trackpad-ing. I always accidently click on something or accidently drag something somewhere. Lucky for me, my trackpad has a clicker just below it. If I HAD to use a tappable track pad, sounds like it would drive me nuts! ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored

Re: Trackpad vs. Mouse (was Re: 5300c question)

2004-11-23 Thread Yersinia
not for so long as I live in one of the Heavy Traffic/Jerks On The Road Capital States of the USA. Equate the auto trans with the trackpad, the stick shift with the trackball. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Trackpad vs. Mouse (was Re: 5300c question)

2004-11-23 Thread Yersinia
Andrew Kershaw writes, NS 7 is available for OS 8/9. Please give me an URL so I can download this, please, oh please. I've been trying to find it on and off for weeks. Thanks in advance, ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Netscape 7 for Mac OS 8/9 (was Re: Trackpad vs. Mouse...)

2004-11-23 Thread Yersinia
of Netscape 7 for OS 8/9, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you :-D ~Yersinia. -- 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: 5300c question

2004-11-21 Thread Yersinia
mean the same OS behaves differently on the two Powerbooks? ~Yersinia. -- 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

Re: 5300c question

2004-11-21 Thread Yersinia
Malcolm Cornelius writes, You can set the pad to act as a button click when tapped, presumably via the TP CP. Thanks. No need though. There's a clicker just beneath my track pad. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: Best OS for Wallstreet 233

2004-11-17 Thread Yersinia
Jake writes, When I first went to X I hated it. Wow, why? I ask because I have concerns about it myself, should the day ever come when I can afford to buy it, and the RAM I'll have to add to my Mac to run it. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Buying HDs on the LEM Swap List (was Re: Best OS for Wallstreet 233

2004-11-17 Thread Yersinia
the swap list, and it rather makes me hesitate to buy anything else there. So do you think I just ran into an exception, or do you and others who shop on the swap list regularly get both good HDs and/or other equipment at good prices from there as a rule? Thanks, ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks

Re: 5300 question

2004-11-17 Thread Yersinia
is going on at the website itself, not with your computer, not with how you connect to your ISP (I use a version of FreePPP my ISP had sent me) and not with your browser. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: iCab PB 3400

2004-10-04 Thread Yersinia
Dan writes, Thomas Much posted a progress report to the iCab Yahoo! Group in early Sept. iCab 3 is coming along.. Well, now it's early October, so I suppose iCab 3 is due out in Sept 2005? ~Yersinia -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: few more 170 questions

2004-09-03 Thread Yersinia
Colin writes, I have all of the 19 disks for system 7.5.3 now. So, do I just put them into the computer and open them and go ahead? Or is there something else I have to do first? I am currently running system 7.0.1. Try the install. Insert the first of the disks and double click on the

Re: Stalls

2004-08-13 Thread Yersinia
an email while I'm in the midst of a long download of something from the web. Unfortunately, however, it happens to me under OS 9 as well. No wonder I hate downloading and only do it when I'm desperate for something. Well, thanks for the info ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http

Netscape 7 on OS 9.1 (was Re: Mail application for PB 1400)

2004-08-10 Thread Yersinia
that interests me. ~Yersinia. -- 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/lists/support.html

Re: Netscape 7 on OS 9.1 (was Re: Mail application for PB 1400)

2004-08-10 Thread Yersinia
PowerPC 604e 266 MHz G3 or G4 Minimum RAM 64 Mb Thanks for the info. :-) ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot

Re: Need PB rechargeable battery

2004-08-07 Thread yersinia
on that model number. Though that is how I found Nexcomp when I was battery shopping. ;-) ~Yersinia. Come, muse, let us sing of rats! -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot

Re: Finder Speedup

2004-08-03 Thread Yersinia
still boot up with and use on a daily basis), I haven't noticed that my finder windows open particularly quickly.so I guess I'm baffled about it after all. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter

PB 190 OS Upgrade

2004-08-03 Thread Yersinia
have just finished upgrading my PB 190 from OS 7.5.2 to 7.5.5 Success :-D Thank you all so much for your help!!! :-) ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot

Re: Problems with 7.5.

2004-07-30 Thread Yersinia
to install the update to 7.5.3 Have fun! Will do. As soon as I scrape up 14 1.4 MB floppies. And to think, I'd thought I'd lucked out because I had five! ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

Re: powerbook serial numbers

2004-07-29 Thread Yersinia
Tom writes, But then again, it can be difficult to use logic, taxes, and government in the same sentence anyway Don't even try. It's not difficult, it's impossible. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Problems with 7.5.

2004-07-29 Thread Yersinia
to two floppies, and 7.5.5 results in three. Other than having been able to download both of these OS's and make the floppies, that's the only success I've had. Good luck. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Problems with 7.5.

2004-07-29 Thread Yersinia
, free is well within my budget, and making floppies/installing things (so I thought!) are well within my technical abilities. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot

Re: Problems with 7.5.

2004-07-29 Thread Yersinia
Rob writes, In the long list of software from Apple at the link Fabian provided, the set of 14 disks I downloaded are at the very bottom, listed as Macintosh/System/System_7.5_Update_2.0/Sys_7.5_Update_2.0-01of14.sea.bin and so on... - From the document named Installing this Update: What

Error...Error! Re: PB 190 and AOL

2004-07-14 Thread Yersinia
to run the application), then she should go right to the RAM Disk suggestion and THEN, perhaps, increasing the memory on the applications. Sorry, Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win

iCAB (was Re: PB 190 and AOL)

2004-07-14 Thread Yersinia
will be fixed with the next release, is logging on to Google's gmail system. Something about a recursion error. Do you have any idea when this next release will be? I don't do gmail, but I would like to give iCAB another chance by trying the new version when it becomes available. ~Yersinia

Shutdown Curiosity

2004-07-02 Thread Yersinia
the one in the Apple menu instead? Thanks. :-) ~Yersinia -- 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: Shutdown Curiosity

2004-07-02 Thread Yersinia
and chat with AIM or IRC on the PB when I'm not home. ~Yersinia. -- 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: pb170 batery

2004-05-20 Thread Yersinia
i search a battery for my pb 170 and i don't know where to find one . can you help me ? thanks Try looking here: http://www.nexcomp.com I think you can run a search there and see if they sell the specific battery you need. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small

Re: pb170 batery

2004-05-20 Thread Yersinia
Roger writes, Batteries for the series 1XX PowerBooks are available from Gadget Power. OK, well, I got batteries for my PB 190 from Nexcomp easy and cheap so that's why I thought that other guy could find batteries for his 170 from there too. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by

Re: IBM formatted hard drive

2004-05-20 Thread Yersinia
easily with the Erase Disk function applied to the floppies in question. So I don't see why Drive Setup used to similarly format an IBM formatted HD should be any less effective. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: IBM formatted hard drive

2004-05-20 Thread Yersinia
HD. Anyway, the formatting worked out just fine, and the HD has been serving me well. Now if only my Disk Doctor and Speed Disk would work on it. sigh ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter

Re: PB520

2004-05-10 Thread Yersinia
the specific model number of the battery your PB takes this way). That's about all I can try to help you with, since I've never met a 520 in person and I don't use MicroBorg. ;-) Good luck. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: OS 7.6 Installation Curiosity

2004-05-05 Thread Yersinia
7.6.1 is a good choice for memory-challenged PowerBooks. I believe a 7.6.1 was available as a retail product. Hmmm, well, being that my PB is definitely memory challenged, maybe I'll try again with the 7.6 install before I attempt my 8.1 inspiration. ;-) I've recently exceeded my computer

Re: I need to share a silly powerbook story...

2004-05-05 Thread Yersinia
Dana writes, Then logic hits. 3 days ago I'd unplugged the power adaptor from the wall to use its kettle lead for another mac. How silly do I feel? :) Probably about as silly as I felt this afternoon when I couldn't use an app from the web because it required 64 MB of RAM, and the Mac I wanted

Re: q for compulsive owners of old pb...

2004-05-04 Thread Yersinia
are placed properly on the keyboard (whichever one), I can almost touch-type. So, my fingers invariably end up on the wrong keys at first when I switch keyboards, hence the amazing amounts of typos until I make the size adjustments. ~Yersinia. It doesn't take all kinds; we just have all kinds

Re: OS 7.6 Installation Curiosity

2004-05-04 Thread Yersinia
Roger writes, The OS 7.6 may not be a universal install set. What is a universal install set? ~Yersinia. -- 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: OS 7.6 Installation Curiosity

2004-05-04 Thread Yersinia
I helped him out with this weekend too), he never had a Mac of his own (he's Linux, not Windoze, so he's OK. LOL.) ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

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