Re: Pismo LCD Problem

2004-01-03 Thread David de la Hunty
Joel: sorry, old thread, been off email over silly season. The only word of advice on the pismo screen is don't even think about replacing the screen if you are looking for a cheap option... I replaced a damaged G3/Bronze screen last year (insured fortunately!) and they nailed me for 2 grand

re: Flaky monitor

2004-01-03 Thread Rod Lavington
Hi Bill, Do yourself a *big* favour and recycle this monitor! They are the pits and will cost you more money than buying a decent 17 PC display with a 12 month or 3 year warranty. The sooner this attempt for a display disappears, the better the world will be! Honestly, they were poorly

Re: Aple Mac's Mail v Outlook Express

2004-01-03 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 02/01/2004, at 5:26 PM, Gyn Solomon wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to OS 10.3, I would welcome your comments on the advantages/disadvantages of using Mail v. Outlook express for email. Thanks Gyn First one, straight off the top of my head - Mail is MacOS X native; OE works only

iMac DV networking

2004-01-03 Thread Brenton Kotz
Hi I have an iMac DV that has networking issues. When connected to my other iMac DV it allows kilobytes of data through (33k to be exact) and then dies off as in freezes the other machine and confuses itself etc. The iMac with issues is a grape running 9.2.2 and the other is a Blueberry

printing on a small Ethernet with 8.6 and 9.2

2004-01-03 Thread Tom Lewis
I'd be grateful for advice on the following problem. i have a small home network made up of: - a G3 running 8.6 - two imacs running 9.2 - an Ethernet switch - a Xerox laser printer. The printer is currently connected to the G3 and prints fine. I can see all three of the computers in the

Locking nested folders

2004-01-03 Thread Severin Crisp
I wish to make nested folders Read Only but when I set the outermost, parent, folder as Read Only the inner ones remain Read and Write. What am I missing? 10.3.2 by the way. Severin Crisp __ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP,

Re: Flaky monitor

2004-01-03 Thread Craig Ringer
Rod Lavington wrote: Hi Bill, Do yourself a *big* favour and recycle this monitor! They are the pits and will cost you more money than buying a decent 17 PC display with a 12 month or 3 year warranty. Where do you /get/ a decent 17? The good manufacturers seem to have stopped making their

Yellow dog linux

2004-01-03 Thread Michael Bradley
Hi Wamuggers, and a Happy new year. maybe someone can help me? a few days ago there was a post from a guy who was looking for info on Yellowdog linuxI'd like to contact him either he can write to me or does anyone still have that post and his email address? thanx Mike

Re: Aple Mac's Mail v Outlook Express

2004-01-03 Thread Steven w
One item I miss with Mail is the ease of acessing alt.auto's newsgroups. If there is a way hopefully someone will correct me. steven w --- Gyn Solomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to OS 10.3, I would welcome your comments on the advantages/disadvantages of using Mail

Performa monitor very dark

2004-01-03 Thread Jude
Hi All - Happy New Year :) I am in the process of cleaning up an old Performa 580cd to give to a single mum that I know so that she can do some simple word processing and let her son play a few games. The computer runs well, stripped back to 7.5.5 and very bare on all other junk, but the