Re: Advice on Firewire Enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread Gary K . Doty Sr .
try pcmicrostore.com On Friday, February 13, 2004, at 01:44 AM, markemmanuel wrote: I'm in the market to buy a firewire enclosure. I plan to install a 3.5 200GB hard drive in it. It's mainly for backups, store music, and documents. I'll probably use it maybe once a day for an hour or so.

Re: Advice on Firewire Enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Stamsen
About Advice on Firewire Enclosure, at 0:44am -0600 on 2/13/04, markemmanuel stated: I'm in the market to buy a firewire enclosure. I plan to install a 3.5 200GB hard drive in it. It's mainly for backups, store music, and documents. I'll probably use it maybe once a day for an hour or so.

Re: Advice on Firewire Enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 13/02/04 01:44, markemmanuel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the market to buy a firewire enclosure. I plan to install a 3.5 200GB hard drive in it. It's mainly for backups, store music, and documents. I'll probably use it maybe once a day for an hour or so. I'm looking for a high

Re: Advice on Firewire Enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread Steve Fuller
on 13/02/04 01:44, markemmanuel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the market to buy a firewire enclosure. I plan to install a 3.5 200GB hard drive in it. It's mainly for backups, store music, and documents. I'll probably use it maybe once a day for an hour or so. I'm looking for a high

Re: Advice on Firewire Enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread markemmanuel
that's a good point thanks. Other than the 911 chip supporting ATA-6, are all ext. firewire drives made the same? Some enclosures support two drives but i've noticed that some wants one drive to be slave and the other master. Others claim they have a separate firewire bridge for each

A real Stupid Question

2004-02-13 Thread dan_A
Hi Listers- I'm new to this list because I just received my purchase of a used (and my first) G4/800 MHz Titanium 15 power book. The seller didn't send me the manual, but I was able to download the Acrobat file from Apple. I guess that my question is so basic that the manual doesn't answer it.

Re: Backing Up Itunes Music to La Cie External

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Burke
I actually have a couple of 160 Gb LaCie drives, for something similar to what you're thinking about. First thing to say is that I think these are great drives - very solid and , yes, attractive-looking, so well worth the money. I use mine as follows:- drive 1 is actually a big data drive -

Re: A real Stupid Question

2004-02-13 Thread pixie
-Original Message- From: dan_A [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 02:49 PM To: 'G-Books' Subject: A real Stupid Question I put the power cord and the adapter cords together to charge the battery. My question is: For what purpose is the adapter cord used by

Re: Wallstreet dead? How to resuscitate?

2004-02-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 12/02/04 16:54, Jack Countryman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had a bottom of the line G3 series Wallstreet given to me. I helped get it to boot some time back and pulled data off of it...so I know it had a dead pram battery then. I eventually got it to boot then by leaving it plugged in

Re: Advice on Firewire Enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread Steve Fuller
It takes a special bridge board to handle two drives at one time. I have one case like that, but it only handles drives up to 128GB. If you get a case like that, you HAVE to have one drive master and the other set as slave because you have two drives on the same IDE bus. They can't both be a

Re: A real Stupid Question

2004-02-13 Thread dan_A
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Those power adapters come with a socketed normal AC style plug that can be removed and then the longer cord can be inserted as an extension. --Kyle Hansen Hi- Thanks for the reply. So, the extra cord is merely an extension, as I thought, and to charge the battery

Re: findbycontent

2004-02-13 Thread gf sciacca
I've had the same problem on the Lombard 333 and found the culprits to be Netscape/Mozilla cache files (which were encripted). I wiped them clean and was able to index, albeit not in a blitz (it took some time). On the 1GHz TiBook, indexing is fast even with fully loades cache. You might want to

Re: Adhesive for Foot pads?

2004-02-13 Thread Phil Burk
On Feb 12, 2004, at 6:14 PM, markemmanuel wrote: What's a good adhesive to apply to the original feet and keep it there. I'm looking for an adhesive that won't ruin the plastic on my pismo's case. This one's easy. Hot glue gun. Phil Burk

Re: Backing Up Itunes Music to La Cie External

2004-02-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 12, 2004, at 4:49 PM, markemmanuel wrote: So what if we don't want the entire drive cloned and only our user directories? My brother shares my powerbook with me when he's home from college. I want to backup our files to a hard drive but not the entire drive which would include the OS

Re: Backing Up Itunes Music to La Cie External

2004-02-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 13/02/04 11:31, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 12, 2004, at 4:49 PM, markemmanuel wrote: So what if we don't want the entire drive cloned and only our user directories? My brother shares my powerbook with me when he's home from college. I want to backup our files to a

Re: Adhesive for Foot pads?

2004-02-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 13, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Phil Burk wrote: On Feb 12, 2004, at 6:14 PM, markemmanuel wrote: What's a good adhesive to apply to the original feet and keep it there. I'm looking for an adhesive that won't ruin the plastic on my pismo's case. This one's easy. Hot glue gun. There's also some

Re: Backing Up Itunes Music to La Cie External

2004-02-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 13, 2004, at 9:32 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 13/02/04 11:31, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 12, 2004, at 4:49 PM, markemmanuel wrote: So what if we don't want the entire drive cloned and only our user directories? My brother shares my powerbook with me when he's home

Re: Backing Up Itunes Music to La Cie External

2004-02-13 Thread Shayne Croy
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 02:36 PM, tivo wrote: One of the main reasons I purchased the external drive is for music I just attempted the same thing... How can I tell if the music library is on the external drive? I'm still working on this one...Parts of files show up here and there,

Re: Faulty L2 cache in Lombard processors

2004-02-13 Thread Tom Meade
On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 09:23 PM, Paul Nelson wrote: Hi, List, I got stuck with a Lombard with the failed L2 cache in an ebay purchase about six months ago, and have been using it since as is, trying to find a replacement for a reasonable price with out success. I wonder if this has

Re: Adhesive for Foot pads?

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Morrison
Mark: I've tried epoxy, rubber cement and another high-strength adhesive from Home Depot with no luck. I've finally resorted, strange as it may seem. to using hot glue of all things (previous to this I've been a very anti-hot glue person) which actually seems to work well (got this idea off a

New Character Enters...

2004-02-13 Thread Michael Shaw
I just joined this list this week because I bid on a 256 MB 20 Gig Pismo 500 on eBay on Monday and fully expected to win it. Well...I didn't. Then I saw a PowerLogix accelerated Pismo with a 900 MHz G3 processor with a Buy It Now of $799.00 on Tuesday. I emailed the seller but by the time I

Re: Advice on Firewire Enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread Jim
Markemmanuel, PC Microstore is good, as Gary suggested. So are a number of others, such as NewEgg.com, geeks.com, and coolerexpress.com (who's selling a pretty BYTECC firewire enclosure right now for $46). And don't forget OWC (eshop.macsales.com), which is offering a very nice combo

2.5 drive enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Morrison
Howdy: Along the lines of firewire enclosures, anyone have a recommendation for 2.5 enclosures? I've bought a couple in the past but haven't looked recently. I'm aware of the usual suspects (newegg, owc, etc.) but if someone has a recommendation for a great drive at a great price I'd love to

safari ills..

2004-02-13 Thread Jason R
no matter what I do, on several computers, I seem to end up with a problem with safari. After a few loads, its stops loading pages, and every fix on the net I find doesn't seem to work.. this was on my iBook and Powerbook.. any thoughts? both have 10.3 by the way, if that helps... -- G-Books

CCC Truble.

2004-02-13 Thread invicta
Hello All, Today I cloned with the help of CCC one iMac Rev C 400 MHz running OS X v.10.3 on a FlatPannel 15 800 MHz iMac running also OS X v. 10.3 Everything went smoothly and CCC reported after 45 minutes that the job was done. When I restarted the target machine ( FlatPannel )

Quickbooks Quandary

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Morrison
Hi: I did something stupid and created a bit of a problem for myself today. I decided to move our old Quickbooks Pro accounting file to an older computer to free up the one it used to live on (it's been sitting there doing nothing for months). I backed up the data and then reformatted the

Re: CCC Truble.

2004-02-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 13/02/04 15:06, invicta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Today I cloned with the help of CCC one iMac Rev C 400 MHz running OS X v.10.3 on a FlatPannel 15 800 MHz iMac running also OS X v. 10.3 Everything went smoothly and CCC reported after 45 minutes that the job was done.

Re: Quickbooks Quandary Followup

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Morrison
Hi: FYI - this updater (Quickbooks Pro M12A) was a freely available update on Intuit's website way back when so, just to be clear, I'm not trying to steal anything here... just trying to avert a disaster. Also, I just ordered v6 Trial for Macintosh and the Quickbooks 2004 for our (ahem)

Re: CCC Truble.

2004-02-13 Thread Eric Morrison
Andre: The shudder means wrong name and password in case you weren't clear about that... At the risk of being insulting, did you make sure the Caps Lock key wasn't down? ... e On Feb 13, 2004, at 3:06 PM, invicta wrote: Hello All, Today I cloned with the help of CCC one iMac Rev C

Re: 2.5 drive enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread Jim
Eric Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Along the lines of firewire enclosures, anyone have a recommendation for 2.5 enclosures? I've bought a couple in the past but haven't looked recently. I'm aware of the usual suspects (newegg, owc, etc.) but if someone has a recommendation for a great drive

Upgrading from OS 10.2 to Panther

2004-02-13 Thread G Harris
I just purchased a G3 14 iBook with OS 10.2, and a CD for upgrading to 10.3. Are there precautions I should take prior to upgrading, any unexpected surprises? I've had the machine for less than a week so there's nothing irreplaceable. I read that there were some nasty surprises for people who

Re: Upgrading from OS 10.2 to Panther

2004-02-13 Thread geno
Install it, then do a system update. Everything should be fine. geno. http://www.barbaloot.com AIM: BARBALUT when you die, says a dark-haired woman at the next table, they can make you into diamonds now. It's scientific. That's how I want to be remembered. I want to shine. -neil gaiman --

Re: New Character Enters...

2004-02-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 13, 2004, at 12:46 PM, Michael Shaw wrote: The FedEx site shows it going from Anchorage AK to Taiwan to Memphis TN to Winnipeg to Mississauga to Scarborough all within 72 hours. Wondered what the Pentagon did with all their surplus SR-71's ;-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona

Introduction and question

2004-02-13 Thread Hector I Macedo
Hi, I just joined the PowerBook list, I have a Wallstreet which seems to have week hinges, when the sdreen is pass the 90º it falls back. Are there any adjustments to the hinges? or do I need to get new ones. Thanks for your help. Hector I. Macedo Lord

Downgrade from Panther?

2004-02-13 Thread E.B. Cap Schwartz
I'm becoming increasingly unhappy at the way my Lombard has taken to Panther. It runs faster, yes, but only a little; my open windows disappear at random, though when I click the App icon they reappear; Print Explosion Deluxe regularly hangs the machine, and so forth. I intend to keep working with

Re: Upgrading from OS 10.2 to Panther

2004-02-13 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 13, 2004, at 2:53 PM, G Harris wrote: I just purchased a G3 14 iBook with OS 10.2, and a CD for upgrading to 10.3. Are there precautions I should take prior to upgrading, any unexpected surprises? I've had the machine for less than a week so there's nothing irreplaceable. I read that

Re: Introduction and question

2004-02-13 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 13/02/04 17:19, Hector I Macedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just joined the PowerBook list, I have a Wallstreet which seems to have week hinges, when the sdreen is pass the 90º it falls back. Are there any adjustments to the hinges? or do I need to get new ones. This is a known problem

Re: Introduction and question

2004-02-13 Thread Hector I Macedo
Laurent, thank you very much for your info. Hector I. Macedo Lord of the Flies Dallas, TX 75248 Piscaro Itaque dicet mendacium -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished

Re: A real Stupid Question/an off topic but hopefully encouraging answer . . .

2004-02-13 Thread Greg Gilmore
Dear dan_A, Just thought I'd share with you what somebody pointed out to me once: the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. Don't feel bad - nobody, at least on earth, knows everything there is to know and everybody needs to ask somebody else something sometime (and I speak from

Re: Faulty L2 cache in Lombard processors

2004-02-13 Thread Paul Nelson
At 1:28 PM -0500 2/13/04, G-Books wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:00:47 -0800 From: Tom Meade [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Faulty L2 cache in Lombard processors In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 09:23 PM, Paul Nelson wrote: Hi,

Re: safari ills..

2004-02-13 Thread Andrew in Ann Arbor
I use a lombard g3 333mz and i've had great results out of Mozilla FireFox 0.8 browser it's the fastest I've found for my Lombard give it a try!! Gary Gary Which OS are you running on the Lombard? -- Andrew in Ann Arbor technology is the answer, what was the question? -- G-Books is sponsored

Name Password

2004-02-13 Thread Stuart Saunders
Andre I had this problem when I installed Panther on my Bondi iMac. Very confusing, (The shudder) a dialogue box would be very helpful to the uninitiated! Anyway, found that enter 'root' as username, and use regular password, allowed mine to open. Now works v well. On 14 Feb 2004, at 5:11

Re: A real Stupid Question/an off topic but hopefully encouraging answer . . .

2004-02-13 Thread dan_A
eg Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear dan_A, Just thought I'd share with you what somebody pointed out to me once: the only stupid question is the one you don't ask. Don't feel bad - nobody, at least on earth, knows everything there is to know and everybody needs to ask somebody else

No smoking signon lombard at boot into OSX.3.2

2004-02-13 Thread Joe
What does this mean and how do I fix it? This is for my sisters lombard and it had been working fine, the only difference is I lent her my battery so she could use it to take notes in an especially long lecture class, it does not seem the battery should have effected to boot process, as it

Re: New Character Enters... (aka screwy FedEx [OT?] )

2004-02-13 Thread James Rohde
On 2/13/04, Michael Shaw wrote: ... It arrived about half an hour ago via the screwiest FedEx setup imaginable. The FedEx site shows it going from Anchorage AK to Taiwan to Memphis TN to Winnipeg to Mississauga to Scarborough all within 72 hours. Double check - it might have actually been

Re: 2.5 drive enclosure

2004-02-13 Thread James Rohde
On 2/13/04 4:11 PM, Eric Morrison wrote: Along the lines of firewire enclosures, anyone have a recommendation for 2.5 enclosures? I've bought a couple in the past but haven't looked recently. I'm aware of the usual suspects (newegg, owc, etc.) but if someone has a recommendation for a great