Re: Pismo has trouble accepting Java 1.4.2 Update.

2004-04-20 Thread Dan Colwell
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Here's a new one:  Just downloaded the Java 1.4.2 update, have already loaded the 1.4.1 update, all on 10.3.3 on a Pismo 500 w/1 gig ram, and every time I try and load the Java update it says I must install 1.4.1, which I have done 3 times now. 

Re: WMV

2004-04-20 Thread Mikael Byström
Eugene, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: : Okay... for those of us who are Pre-OSX; what do U suggest? VLC is a nice alternative. There is a OS 9 version of VLC? I wasn't aware of that. Did you try Media Player with your problem codecs? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and...

Re: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison

2004-04-20 Thread Phillip Burk
On Apr 19, 2004, at 7:13 PM, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 19:07:26 -0500, Phillip Burk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We'll have to wait until benchmarks are released... Well what about the difference between an 800 - 900 or 900 - 1ghz? That's not that easy of a comparison to make,

Re: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison

2004-04-20 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 09:20:02 -0500, Phillip Burk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not that simple, however. I left out the iBook bench numbers since there's a dramatic difference between the architecture of the iBook and a Powerbook, L2 cache being the primary difference. The new 1.5 GHz

WallStreet fan on when asleep in OSX

2004-04-20 Thread Dr. K. Gensberg
Hi folks, sorry to ask something that has undoubtedly been covered already, but here goes.. I have a WallStreet 266 which used to run all the time on OS 9.2, but I have increasingly been using OS 10.1.4. When I put it to sleep while in OSX, I hear a cooling fan (I think) start to run when

Re: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison

2004-04-20 Thread Mike Kauspedas
Simplified: HD speed and access improve speed (RAID, SCSI, SATA RAID) Amount of RAM (more you have the more the OS can use as cache instead of using the slower hard drive) CPU Speed system Bus Speed Amount of cache memory on CPU (for intensive tasks, cache stores commands) This goes for PC's

Re: Would be great feature

2004-04-20 Thread Jeff Hubatka
From: Stuart Saunders [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Would be great feature Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:33:33 +0700 In the Print Fax app on Panther, there is the option to email the fax to an email address. This would be really great for me, as I do a lot of traveling. However it doesn't seem

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-20 Thread Nikon's World
On Tuesday, April 20, 2004, at 11:04 AM, Wayne wrote: I want to purchase Applecare for my 700 mhz Ibook. It is my understanding you have up to 1 year from purchase to get this, am I correct? Do you have to go back to the original seller (in this case, Powermax, new factory sealed unit). I

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-20 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:04:30 -0400, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also heard about the extended warranty was not available in Florida due to laws we have here. ... Does anyone know how this all works in Florida? Only that I know it was true when I bought a computer from Dell whilst living

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-20 Thread Brian Scott Oplinger
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:04:30 -0400, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also heard about the extended warranty was not available in Florida due to laws we have here. ... Does anyone know how this all works in Florida? Only that I know it was true when I bought a computer from Dell whilst living in

Re: WallStreet fan on when asleep in OSX

2004-04-20 Thread Ken
My Reply follows quote. On 20/04/2004 08:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi folks, sorry to ask something that has undoubtedly been covered already, but here goes.. I have a WallStreet 266 which used to run all the time on OS 9.2, but I have increasingly been using OS 10.1.4. When I put it to

memory for g4 alubook

2004-04-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, i've recently mortgaged the farm and gotten a 15, 1.25ghz, 80 Gb alubbook which came with two 256 MB memory chips. to increase the memory i can get two 512 chips for $220 for total memory of 1 GB or a 1GB chip for $320 for total 1.256 GB memory. is it worth the extra $100 for the seemingly

Re: WallStreet fan on when asleep in OSX

2004-04-20 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 20/04/04 10:03, Margaret McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No fan in a Wallstreet, at least I didn't see one when I took mine apart to replace the PRAM battery. However, mine is a first generation WS. J Sanderson On Tuesday, Apr 20, 2004, at 10:45 US/Central, Dr. K. Gensberg wrote:

OS 9 WMV Player

2004-04-20 Thread illovox
on 4/20/04 9:26 AM, From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : What is the VLC Media Player? http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ : Does it have more feature than the WMP? http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html Okay... for those of us who are Pre-OSX; what do U suggest? There is a 9 version of Windows

Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today

2004-04-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 19, 2004, at 8:11 PM, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: You can still find a bunch of it at www.peak.org/~luomat/ [which you are only allowed to visit if you agree not to mock the web design. It was the late 1990s.) I wish there were more such 'mockable' web sites on the net...neat, easy to

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-20 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 4/20/04 9:04 AM, Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spew into the Cybertrough: I want to purchase Applecare for my 700 mhz Ibook. It is my understanding you have up to 1 year from purchase to get this, am I correct? Do you have to go back to the original seller (in this case, Powermax, new factory

Auto adapter for 3400 on a Pismo??

2004-04-20 Thread Brian Braunschweiger
I have a new-to-me Pismo 400 mhz that is replacing a PB 3400. The added battery life is nice on the Pismo but there are still times an auto adapter on a long car trip would be better. I have a Lind Auto Adapter that works fine on my 3400. The part that plugs into the PowerBook seems to fit the

Re: WallStreet fan on when asleep in OSX

2004-04-20 Thread Tom
There is a fan in my first gen wallstreet. Easily overlooked outboard of the left hinge with the top of the bottom case removed -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurent Daudelin Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:40 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re:

Re: WallStreet fan on when asleep in OSX

2004-04-20 Thread Jack
I'm not sure it is the FAN. I have same problem. I think it is Hard Drive cycling rather than sleeping. A while ago I asked the following but got no replies: About a year ago I came across a patch to solve the problem: when i sleep my Wallstreet with OS 10.1.5, hard drive keeps spinning every

Re: WallStreet fan on when asleep in OSX

2004-04-20 Thread George Mogiljansky
Hi Jack, Have you tried version tracker? What is the key word(s) for this SW you mention? Is it maybe a Classic app? OS X can do funny things (this morning my 9500 booted into Darwin; I know text mode, but this isn't it). I would try my PDQ with OS X; my research so far shows mixed results.

Re: Applecare in Florida

2004-04-20 Thread Kurt Appling
Re; true,for some time now only buissness is allowed appllecare, the alternative is comp-usa offers their own warranty,there may be others also On Apr 20, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Wayne wrote: I want to purchase Applecare for my 700 mhz Ibook. It is my understanding you have up to 1 year from

wireless USB

2004-04-20 Thread Kurt Appling
Hi all, I am useing a TI800 and D-link wireless internet, my question is how well does lynksys wireless USB work for peripherals and mac's? i saw it in sams club,is it OK or is there better? TIA -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today

2004-04-20 Thread James Rohde
On 4/20/04, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Apr 19, 2004, at 8:11 PM, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: You can still find a bunch of it at www.peak.org/~luomat/ [which you are only allowed to visit if you agree not to mock the web design. It was the late 1990s.) I wish there were more such 'mockable'

Re: Auto adapter for 3400 on a Pismo??

2004-04-20 Thread Clark Martin
At 4:03 PM -0400 4/20/04, Brian Braunschweiger wrote: I have a new-to-me Pismo 400 mhz that is replacing a PB 3400. The added battery life is nice on the Pismo but there are still times an auto adapter on a long car trip would be better. I have a Lind Auto Adapter that works fine on my 3400.

Re: 'Would be great feature.

2004-04-20 Thread Stuart Saunders
Thanks Kyle Jeff for your responses. eFax is not a solution for me as although it has numbers outside the US, it doesn't service Taiwan, where I need it. And Jeff I need it to happen automatically, in Taiwan, and email to me when I am overseas, as the setup box appears to indicate is

Re: wireless USB

2004-04-20 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 20/04/04 18:54, Kurt Appling at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am useing a TI800 and D-link wireless internet, my question is how well does lynksys wireless USB work for peripherals and mac's? i saw it in sams club,is it OK or is there better? TIA I have no idea how well Linksys

: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison (was Re: New Powerbooks announced / I bought my first Mac today)

2004-04-20 Thread Clyde Kahrl
Doubling a processor speed usually does not result in doubling the computer speed because the rest of the computer does not keep up proportionately. With a powerbook, it helps to have a faster drive because of the slowness of the laptop drives in general. From what I have read, the G4s are

Re: wireless USB

2004-04-20 Thread Joe Sleeper
On Apr 20, 2004, at 9:59 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 20/04/04 18:54, Kurt Appling at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am useing a TI800 and D-link wireless internet, my question is how well does lynksys wireless USB work for peripherals and mac's? i saw it in sams club,is it OK or is there

Re: wireless USB

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew Kershaw
I have no idea how well Linksys wireless USB stuff works, but based on various comments I read about their networking products, they are not supportive at all for the Macintosh, so don't expect any support if you run into problems... Hi Laurent, I have a Linksys (wired) and when I tried to

pismo auto adapter

2004-04-20 Thread illovox
on 4/20/04 3:42 PM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Lind Auto Adapter that works fine on my 3400. The part that plugs into the PowerBook seems to fit the Pismo, although not nearly as snugly as the yo-yo adapter plug. I guess the main issue is the output of the Auto Adpater to

Toast 5 Burn Speed

2004-04-20 Thread illovox
on 4/20/04 3:42 PM, G-Books at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems like a problem with Toast, though, as Dragon Burn X (demo) lets me burn at 16x in 10.3.3. I also get a 24x burn option in iTunes in both 9 and X. Any ideas? Let's you burn... But have you successfully burned at those

Re: G4 to G4 Megahertz comparison

2004-04-20 Thread darm0k
At 10:34 AM -0400 04/20/2004, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: The overall speed of a system is dependent on many different factors, and L2/L3 cache makes the overall system faster, if I understand correctly. [just to confuse or clarify things a bit. :)] Each subsystem has limitations, which become