Short Name...uers

2003-11-14 Thread Gordon Bruce Lawson
I have just purchased a Lombard/bronze... the previous owner gave me the password which allowed me to change the admin name... however, the short name which is also the name of the main user is still the name of the main user's directory... i would like to change that to mine... Can't seem to

Re: Short Name...uers

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Smykla
Gordon, Check here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106824 Rick I have just purchased a Lombard/bronze... the previous owner gave me the password which allowed me to change the admin name... however, the short name which is also the name of the main user is still the name of

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-14 Thread Kochkodin
Follow up. If the CD plays on other units it MAY not be your unitIIRC, I recently saw an article in the Register that several co.'s have installed that new copy protection on their cd's w/out notifying the public. This May be the case w/your cd...There were reports that these cd's

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-14 Thread Kochkodin
Laurent, All I know is that when I had a similar problem last year, I called A/C and the very next day a box was here via Airborne and I sent it out the same day...Got it back 2 days later.Called Monbox arrived and sent Tues...Pismo was back Thurs at about 2pm w/ a new player

Re: Lombard Troubles

2003-11-14 Thread Acting Fire Chief
Laurent wrote: That sounds like a bad seated processor daughtercard or a loose RAM chip. Did you try to re-seat those? -Laurent. A/C writes: I've never tried to reseat the daughtercard. Do youo have a link where I can see a pic/diagram? I will try to reseat the memory module. Thnx, A/C

Re: Need help with Booting problem

2003-11-14 Thread Melvin Watts
Gary E Davis wrote: Hi all I have a 266Mhz wallstreet with 384meg ram and a 20 gig drive Running OSX 2.8. I installed OS92.2 on the second partition for Classic apps but if I try to get it to boot OS9 off the second partition it halts after the Smiley mac and reboots back to OSX.. What do I have

Re: Short Name...uers

2003-11-14 Thread Melvin Watts
Gordon Bruce Lawson wrote: I have just purchased a Lombard/bronze... the previous owner gave me the password which allowed me to change the admin name... however, the short name which is also the name of the main user is still the name of the main user's directory... i would like to change

Re: Lombard Troubles 2

2003-11-14 Thread Luis Sequeira
Dear List members, Please excuse me for my first post. I forgot to say Hello and Thank you. This list was recommended to me by a MAC enthusiaist. He could not help me with my beloved Lombard. If any one here knows what the problem is I would really appreciate your help. It might be the

wallstreet and 256mb ram module = update

2003-11-14 Thread john hudak
Hello folks. I didn't mention in my previous note before (see quoted below) that my Wallstreet 266 has a Powerlogix G3/466 upgrade card. So OWC took back the the two Ram modules, and sent back two new ones, with a note that said that the other two tested good, which made me wonder whether

Re: wallstreet and 256mb ram module = update

2003-11-14 Thread Matt Halter
John, My understanding when I bought my Powerlogix upgrade was the card would not officially support more than 128mb ram in either slot (256 total) Although I believe a few folks were able to have more recognized, it seemed to be hit or miss. The Sonnet upgrades recognize 512mb. How much do

Pismo rubber feet

2003-11-14 Thread Brent Baeslack
Hi. Please share with me what is the racket going on with replacing the powerbook rubber feet for a Pismo? I've visited at least three websites where they are trying to sell replacement stick-on rubber feet for close to $20. The lowest price at one site wanted $10 for the strip of four black

Stuffit Deluxe

2003-11-14 Thread tivo
I've only used the free download of Stuffit since I've used a computer, and it's always worked for my purposes, which are few. Any particular reasons for a light user like myself to use the Deluxe version? Thanks, T -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Combo drives for WallStreet

2003-11-14 Thread Christine
Hi. I was wondering if anyone would know where one could obtain an expansion bay combo drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) for a WallStreet G3. There seems to be no shortage of such drives for Lombards and Pismos (I'm guessing the similar drive bay design helps), but I haven't had any luck finding one for

Re: Virtual PC Update

2003-11-14 Thread James Rohde
On 11/13/03 6:59 AM, Kelly Johnson enlightened us by writing: I think you guys are missing the boat on MS's intentions. I think it is a simple matter of them knowing that a significant number of mac users, given sufficient experience with windows, will become comfortable enough with it to

Re: Virtual PC Update

2003-11-14 Thread James Rohde
On 11/14/03 5:41 AM, Bruce Johnson enlightened us by writing: Softwindows was written by Insignia under license from Microsoft. Insignia got the deep access to Windows source code. In return Microsoft got significant rights to Insignia's code. FWB owns the SoftWindows product, but they can't

Too much memory?

2003-11-14 Thread Ely Zimmerman
Hello again folks, Got a Lombard recently and put in two 256MB, a low and a high profile. Machine gets real hot, then crashes and won't reboot even when cooled off. When I take out the top chip it works fine. Is there something wrong with the chips or can't the Lombard handle the 512? --

Re: Reasonable turnaround time to replace DVD-ROM module?

2003-11-14 Thread Geoffrey Loeffler
I explained the problem and they said they would order another one for me on AppleCare. What got me upset is that they quoted me 4 to 8 business days before receiving the replacement DVD-ROM module. But worst, they insisted to keep the one I had for the exchange. That's bad because if I ever need

Re: Last iBook/PowerBook that starts up on OS9?

2003-11-14 Thread Geoffrey Loeffler
15 TiBook. 867Mhz or 1GHz. I believe they're the last th boot into OS9. Discontinued, of course... These certainly can boot in OS 9 and are awsome machines (I own one :-)), though the reduced airport range is true (though not a big deal for me). But I have to concur with a previous suggestion: