Have I Become O.T.?

2002-11-01 Thread J.S. Garrison
This message comes from a Umax 500C-180. I can't be a 1st-Powermacs guy. Do I qualify for the first removed rule? ;^) Jeff -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras

Problem found. was: nubus ethernet

2002-11-01 Thread Luigi Elia
Gregg wrote: At the least, update the drivers for it on the computer it's connected to. Another way around it is to get a 10/100 managed switch with several ports. That way you can connect the DSL modem to the switch and program the switch ports for what's connected to each one. The switch will

Re: Trying To Recover From a IIci Crash!

2002-11-01 Thread dan_A
At 10:43 PM -0500 on 10/31/02, Bryan Kattwinkel wrote: Did you remove the AppleShare Prep and AppleTalk preference files? Or just move/rename the Preferences folder and replace it with a blank one. Bryan Kattwinkel mailto:kattwinkel;lemlists.com -- At this point I don't remember if I pulled

Re: newer printers with older macs

2002-11-01 Thread mart
Hi all, Jay wrote: what keeps tripping me up is that the printer OEM's and the third party software makers keep wanting the mac to be at least a power pc. In a place where I have worked , the Epson printer (a model 1500 machine (A3) from 1997 or so) was connected to a 200 MHz PowerMac (system

Re: Have I Become O.T.?

2002-11-01 Thread the pickle
At 12:46 -0800 on 31/10/02, J.S. Garrison wrote: This message comes from a Umax 500C-180. I can't be a 1st-Powermacs guy. Do I qualify for the first removed rule? ;^) You can be a PCI-powermacs guy... -- the pickle FAQ http://macfaq.org/index.shtml Software Archive

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread the pickle
At 23:13 -0500 on 31/10/02, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:06:25PM -0500, the pickle wrote: I had a look at this cups stuff and the ghost thing but I didn't know what to do with it. Just install it. It seems to be a bit daunting for non-UNIX people. However,

Re: was: nubus ethernet

2002-11-01 Thread the pickle
At 21:06 -0800 on 31/10/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: http://www.speedtouchdsl.com/support.htm Driver updates and User's Guides for Alcatel DSL modems. There you should find how to access the modem's settings, most likely by using a Web Guuuh. Alcatel has the worst Mac drivers EVER.

Re: Trying To Recover From a IIci Crash!

2002-11-01 Thread dan_A
At 9:47 PM -0800 on 10/31/02, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Tried connecting the dead internal drive to your S900 to see if it can be seen there? Make sure the internal drive is actually spinning. -- I did get MountEverything and Anubus to see the drive and report no volume can be found on it. I'm

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread the pickle
At 00:13 -0600 on 01/11/02, Robyn Lyons wrote: only need to replace to cart every few months. Cheap Lexmarks suck though, and Compaq did have a killer warranty in place, they would Which, unfortunately, is most of them, or most of their inkjets, anyway. -- the pickle FAQ

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread Marten van de Kraats
At 23:13 -0500 on 31/10/02, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:06:25PM -0500, the pickle wrote: I had a look at this cups stuff and the ghost thing but I didn't know what to do with it. Just install it. It seems to be a bit daunting for non-UNIX people. However,

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread the pickle
At 14:34 +0100 on 01/11/02, Marten van de Kraats wrote: I did that too. But I don't see a program, nothing seems to be changed in the print center. How further? How can I access this software? Just pick a printer in Print Center. (Note that I don't think it does anything for printers you don't

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:37:06PM -0800, Gregg Eshelman wrote: Go to Radio Shack or other store that sells home electronics and buy some S-Video cables. They work great as ADB cables. :) cussword! Well, I appreciate that little note. I had no idea. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Vintage Macs

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 09:38:24PM -0800, Gregg Eshelman wrote: I finally got my old Epson 800 printing today after dripping Windex down the pipe that connects to the ink tank, scrubbing the rubber cap for the printhead and [snip] Ah, interesting. I have to repair someone's Epson C60. It's

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread Charles Shannon Hendrix
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 08:09:45AM -0500, the pickle wrote: Yeah, uh, I'm definitely not a UNIX person, and all I did was click two package installers for OS X and GhostScript and gimp-print are now installed. Yep. The problem for non-UNIX people comes when there is no package for their

OT_test#3

2002-11-01 Thread Scott Barber
testing -- Scott Barber http://www.chebucto.ca/~az627/webWader.html [EMAIL PROTECTED] If we can't learn to live together as brothers, we will die together as fools. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I just saw this link about how to share some brother printer connected to a os x machine with a windows 98 pc, that sees the printer as a network printer: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2002103106290511 Because nothing in the article suggested that on the pc any extra driver

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread Scott Holder
Cups is the Common Unix Printing System. It handles all the various printing related tasks. Works quite well :) Scott Holder -Original Message- From: Vintage Macs [mailto:vintage.macs;mail.maclaunch.com] On Behalf Of Marten van de Kraats Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 5:37 PM To:

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread Marten van de Kraats
Cups is the Common Unix Printing System. It handles all the various printing related tasks. Works quite well :) I have grasped that much of it so far. But does it support print sharing over appletalk? I wanna know if one can actually use it to have a 68k mac running system 6 or 7 to a new

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread Shannon
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:46:34PM +0100, Marten van de Kraats wrote: Cups is the Common Unix Printing System. It handles all the various printing related tasks. Works quite well :) I have grasped that much of it so far. But does it support print sharing over appletalk? I wanna know if one

Re: older macs with newer printers--different question

2002-11-01 Thread Marten van de Kraats
I should soon be free enough to do the Mac-Netatalk-CUPS test over the weekend. I am looking forward to the results. I really wish someone would make a CUPS driver for the 68k Macs. Aren't there any MacOS programmers here? :) After some years on these lists I have given up hope waiting for

Re: was: nubus ethernet

2002-11-01 Thread Mark Benson
On Friday, Nov 1, 2002, at 13:11 Europe/London, the pickle wrote: Guuuh. Alcatel has the worst Mac drivers EVER. Definitely get a router. I'll second that, but at least the HAVE mac drivers. offtopic Our server we had in our house when i was at university had an Alcatel Speedtouch USB

Re: was: nubus ethernet

2002-11-01 Thread the pickle
At 00:52 + on 02/11/02, Mark Benson wrote: On Friday, Nov 1, 2002, at 13:11 Europe/London, the pickle wrote: Guuuh. Alcatel has the worst Mac drivers EVER. Definitely get a router. I'll second that, but at least the HAVE mac drivers. Not in the US. At least not that I had found

via ppp

2002-11-01 Thread Scott Barber
blackbird and johnHenry online! I've finally added ppp to my community net account and have a IIfx and an SE30 online with OT and FreePPP. The SE30 (68mb ram) is running 7.1 and the IIfx (32mb ramhas 7.5.5. I'm using: Eudora Light 3.1.3 iCab Preview 2.8.1 MacTelnet (NCSA Telnet 2.6) -ideas on

Re: More Mac IIci wierdness...

2002-11-01 Thread the pickle
At 22:23 -0500 on 01/11/02, Shannon wrote: After installing the 128MB of memory, a power-on startup takes a long time. The computer sites for a couple of minutes before booting. Yep. That's the POST for the RAM. No way to turn it off, but it's normal. -- the pickle FAQ