Re: odd battery behaviour -- is it dead Jim?

2004-01-23 Thread Ryan Schotte
> There's a long and insightful thread on the Apple Discussion board > about batteries and charging them. A fair few people have echoed the > issues that you have encountered. Have a peek at it: > > http://discusssearch.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.599c1f27 Thanks for the link Joel, there

Re: 7300/180 ports?

2004-01-23 Thread Stewart Woods
On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Express Powermac wrote: Hi Stewart Generic USB card for your 7300 are $35.00 Inc GST + $11.00 courier delivery. http://www.epowermac.com.au/product.asp?P_ID=290 In stock, ready for dispatch. OS 8.6 needed or above. And I think I will be purchasin

Re: 7300/180 ports?

2004-01-23 Thread James Mandy
Hahahahaha! this is great! I'm going to ring them up now and totally sh*t stir them some more James - Original Message - From: Stewart Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WAMUG Mailing List Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:32 AM Subject: Re: 7300/180 ports? > > On Thursday, January 2

Re: 7300/180 ports?

2004-01-23 Thread Mark Secker
never ever tell sale staff what you are going to put it in to as soon as you say Mac they panic or tell you it won't work. I had a sales man tell me that non Apple brand DVD-R disks wouldn't work with my mac - seriously. I'l tell them it's for my Pentium3 or what ever (not a lie as most o

Re: 7300/180 ports?

2004-01-23 Thread John Taylor
On 23 Jan 2004, at 10:32 AM, Stewart Woods wrote: On Thursday, January 22, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Express Powermac wrote: Hi Stewart Generic USB card for your 7300 are $35.00 Inc GST + $11.00 courier delivery. http://www.epowermac.com.au/product.asp?P_ID=290 In stock, ready for dispatch. OS 8

Blue & White Monitor

2004-01-23 Thread Phil Goodall-Smith
I have a Blue & White Mac with matching monitor which is crackling and popping and basically has died. Realizing this is not worth fixing, does any one have or know of one of these (in working order) that is no longer needed. Thanks in anticipation, Phil

Re: 7300/180 ports?

2004-01-23 Thread Craig Ringer
Stewart Woods wrote: "You ARE NOT putting this in a Macintosh, Sir" (yes, that's a direct quote! Not a question - a statement!) They're normally better than that when I'm looking for linux-compatable hardware - something that's typically been very difficult with hardware dealers. Given that

Re: Blue & White Monitor

2004-01-23 Thread Lisa Pitcher
Hi Phil I had the same problem with my blue & white monitor a while back and was told there was actually a problem with them. It may be worth your while contacting your Apple agent to see if it can be replaced as mine was. Can't guarantee this will still be the case after so long, but it would be

Re: odd battery behaviour -- is it dead Jim?

2004-01-23 Thread Greg Pennefather
Just for some feedback ... I tried the slow discharge last night and improved my battery calibrated capacity from 1.5 Ah to just over 2 Ah on my 2 yo TiPB 550. Not bad - a 33% improvement. I don't know if it translates to a real world improvement in battery life but it we'll see. Cheers Greg

Re: Blue & White Monitor

2004-01-23 Thread Rob Findlay
Computer Trade Centre know how to fix them and can at least tell you your options. I bought a monitor 17 " (wholsesale) for $150 the other day so it's not worth spending much. > From: Lisa Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:33:54 +0800 > To: "WAMUG Mailing List" > Subject: Re

Heard on the net

2004-01-23 Thread Rob Findlay
Apple decided to name their server X-Serve as their preferred name "i-Rack" had already been taken over by US forces.

Disconnecting

2004-01-23 Thread Lloyd White
I have a problem emailing a .jpg attachment of 800k. I am using Panther and entourage. Half way through the transfer the connection is dropped. I have tried using Mail and the same thing occurs at the same stage. It does not do this with Word attachments nor with downloading large files. Is t

Re: Disconnecting

2004-01-23 Thread logrythm
Who is your ISP? Paul On 23/01/2004, at 4:52 PM, Lloyd White wrote: I have a problem emailing a .jpg attachment of 800k. I am using Panther and entourage. Half way through the transfer the connection is dropped. I have tried using Mail and the same thing occurs at the same stage. It doe

Automated FM Radio Recording

2004-01-23 Thread Antony N. Lord
I currently have a requirement to record a number of regular shows on FM radio for playback at a later date. I'm looking for a more "all in one" solution than a "jury rigged" one. It needs to : be automated, have no user involvement other than programming the "slots", change stations, preferab

RE: Automated FM Radio Recording

2004-01-23 Thread Kathy Quinlan
> -Original Message- > From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Antony N. Lord > Sent: Friday, 23 January 2004 7:49 PM > To: WAMUG Mailing List > Subject: Automated FM Radio Recording > > > I currently have a requirement to record a number of regular shows on

OSX - BSD (was Automated FM Radio Recording)

2004-01-23 Thread Rob Findlay
> > Anyone got a spare legal copy of OsX they are not using, would be fun to > put it on my G3 and have a play to see how close it is to my beloved > FreeBSD (which all my servers run) > > Regards, > Kat. > > Regards, > > Kat. > Whilst I can't help you with a copy of OSX (that I'm not using

Re: odd battery behaviour -- is it dead Jim?

2004-01-23 Thread Paul & Caroline van der Mey
Did the slow discharge also on our 2 yo TiPB 550, had showed ~0.5Ah and now shows ~1Ah. Definitely ran longer probably close to double the time after the slow discharge. Paul Greg Pennefather wrote: Just for some feedback ... I tried the slow discharge last night and improved my battery cal

Re: odd battery behaviour -- is it dead Jim?

2004-01-23 Thread Robert Howells
And you may find that a followup slow discharge improves it even more. I have seen other info about this along these lines Bob On Friday, January 23, 2004, at 04:26 AM, Paul & Caroline van der Mey wrote: Did the slow discharge also on our 2 yo TiPB 550, had showed ~0.5Ah and now shows ~1Ah.

RE: OSX - BSD (was Automated FM Radio Recording)

2004-01-23 Thread Kathy Quinlan
Thanks Rob, I will book mark the two sites and read when I have some time :o) I do not profess to be knowledgeable on OsX but believed a lot of the technical hype I read :o( Will be interesting when I get my hands on a legal copy to see the differences :o) Regards, Kat. > -Original Message

Re: OSX - BSD (was Automated FM Radio Recording)

2004-01-23 Thread James Devenish
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:25:44PM +0800, Rob Findlay wrote: > > Anyone got a spare legal copy of OsX they are not using, would be fun to > > put it on my G3 and have a play to see how close it is to my beloved > > FreeBSD (which all my servers run) Perhaps have a lo

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2004-01-23 Thread Raymond Dale
Help! After 5 months on a PC I wish to go back to Macintosh. Trouble is after buying this PC I am absolutly disgruntled with the windoze O/S and cannot afford to buy a good so I am willing to do a swap for a Mac of simular value. It comes with the Adobe collection including Photoshop 7, Acroba