Re: iBook clamshell speed bump ? (*)

2004-05-16 Thread Larry le Mac
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Fast User Switching. . .

2004-05-16 Thread Zoltan
Hello All, Am I doing something wrong? Is there something I need to click on? Fast User Switching is working great on my Pismo running 10.3.3, but I don't get the cool 3D cube effect. Instead, the screen just goes blue for a second or two then changes to the other profile. Any ideas would

Re: Fast User Switching. . .

2004-05-16 Thread Eugene Lee
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:29:07AM -0700, Zoltan wrote: : : Am I doing something wrong? Is there something I need to click on? : Fast User Switching is working great on my Pismo running 10.3.3, but I : don't get the cool 3D cube effect. Instead, the screen just goes blue : for a second or

Re: WiFi range?

2004-05-16 Thread Beniamino Cenci Goga
This is my situation: Airport Extreme G5 2x2 Aluminum 15 occasionally Wallstreet, Kanga, 5300ce with the Lucent 802.11b thing. Bricks and concrete house. These are the results: I can never get the 100% signal, even when the Airport is 1 inch far from the Mac... in any case the airport cannot

PISMO main battery

2004-05-16 Thread Jeff Greffe
Told you I was new around G3 powerbooks ... After a lot of searching on the net about my particular machine (pismo) I found a little article that states a pismo cannot work without a main battery in one of the bay since I have no battery and only the AC as my power source, I am missing a

Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-16 Thread lily
I also have a pismo. it has a battery which won't function on its own. the computer works with AC in. But I would like a battery. Why not get a new battery rather than an eBay battery which might have little life in it? Lily. on 5/16/04 8:50 AM, Jeff Greffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Told you

Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-16 Thread Jeff Greffe
This powerbook was bought for almost nothing, and I want to keep the cost down ... it will probably serve as a webcam server, or for crunching video files in no hurry, so it will be plugged in all the time. When I am on the road, I have my TiG4 ... so I don't need a very good battery. Jeff On

...WiFi why?.....

2004-05-16 Thread Jim Scolman
Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and at least two Apple Stores. I am getting ready to go home wireless with my Pismo, and in reading the Sunday paper and all of the ads, my question is this;

Yet Another Wallstreet hinge repair technique

2004-05-16 Thread Dan K
. . . using a clutch from a 12 display's hinge: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/ws_hinge.html Dan K . http://macdan.n3.net/ carracho://dankephoto.dhs.org:9700 hotline://dankephoto.dhs.org:9500 . -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Are my fears justified?

2004-05-16 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Friday, May 14, 2004, at 10:09 PM, Zoltan wrote: Hello all. . . I've got a Pismo/500, 1gig RAM, 30 gig HDD and I'm currently running Jaguar 10.2.8. I mainly use my beloved laptop for online web design and I'm usually connected on the field via my cell phone through Bluetooth. Folks,

Re: ...WiFi why?.....

2004-05-16 Thread MTH
On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 12:43 PM, Jim Scolman wrote: Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and at least two Apple Stores. I am getting ready to go home wireless with my Pismo, and in reading the

Re: ...WiFi why?.....

2004-05-16 Thread Harry D . Corsover
On May 16, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Jim Scolman wrote: Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and at least two Apple Stores. I am getting ready to go home wireless with my Pismo, and in reading the Sunday

Re: ...WiFi why?.....

2004-05-16 Thread Frank P. Eigler
On Sun, 16 May 2004, MTH wrote: On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 12:43 PM, Jim Scolman wrote: Good morning All, I live in the Seattle area and we have all of the electronic and office big box stores, independent Apple dealers, and at least two Apple Stores. I am getting ready to go home

Re: Adding RAM to WS II

2004-05-16 Thread Bigbikerbo
Side note on the 83/66mhz comparisons. I was just on the Wegener Media site looking for that info on the 1400 series LCD (mentioned in another thread). Well, it seems they've got a G3/400mhz card for the Wallstreet, and there is a benchmark chart showing a pretty decent speed difference

Re: ...WiFi why?.....

2004-05-16 Thread Timothy Luoma
as the owner of a pc and powebook and a Linksys and an airport extreme I feel I can offer the same reasoning that you use for owning other Mac products: it just works easier. Connecting a PC to Airport was simple. Connecting the Powerbook to an existing wireless network was simple. Getting

Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-16 Thread Amanda Ward
Hey all, I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media and read audio/data disks using Toast (Of course Iomega doesn't yet support OS X). While that's okay, I really wanted the RW capability and to be able to burn from

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-16 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 16/05/04 15:16, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media and read audio/data disks using Toast (Of course Iomega doesn't yet support OS X). While that's

pismo mirroring?

2004-05-16 Thread lily
Hi, I'm new to this list. Have an issue with video card on logic board of my pismo (G3 powerbook) and a 17 Sony Trinitron. Would someone with an external monitor and pismo please try to duplicate the issue? In mirror mode the refresh rate on the external monitor is awful. For example when open

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-16 Thread James Sanderson
If your in the market and have some dinero, go to easybuy.com. They have the latest Pioneer 107, a superdrive, for under $100 and free shipping. Got mine works great on 16/05/04 15:16, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the

Food For Thought. . .upgrading VRAM on Pismo, Lombard, Wallstreet etc.

2004-05-16 Thread Zoltan
Well, after discovering that the cute 3D animated user switching effect doesn't work on my Pismo due to lack of VRAM I started to wonder. . .up to this point, I was under the impression that the only reason I would ever need more than 8 MEG VRAM was to play games. Now computer developers are

Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-16 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 16/05/04 15:50, Jeff Greffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Told you I was new around G3 powerbooks ... After a lot of searching on the net about my particular machine (pismo) I found a little article that states a pismo cannot work without a main battery in one of the bay since I have

Re: Food For Thought. . .upgrading VRAM on Pismo, Lombard, Wallstreet etc.

2004-05-16 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
on 16/05/04 22:01, Zoltan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after discovering that the cute 3D animated user switching effect doesn't work on my Pismo due to lack of VRAM I started to wonder. Is it due to VRAM or the video chip that is fitted in that machine ? Hey here's an idea. . .anyone

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-16 Thread Amanda Ward
I was going to ask about the 107 model, they seem fairly abundant on Ebay. Is Pioneer reasonably Mac Friendly? Amanda On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 01:32 PM, James Sanderson wrote: If your in the market and have some dinero, go to easybuy.com. They have the latest Pioneer 107, a superdrive, for

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-16 Thread Amanda Ward
Hi Laurent, What software did you use for this... or did it work within OS X? Amanda On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 16/05/04 15:16, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said was Mac

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-16 Thread Jeff Hubatka
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 12:16:49 -0700 Subject: Mac CD-RW Burners From: Amanda Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey all, I recently bought an Iomega USB CD-RW burner that the packaging said was Mac Compatible. Well yeah, I can burn CD-R media and read audio/data disks using Toast (Of course Iomega doesn't

Re: Food For Thought. . .upgrading VRAM on Pismo, Lombard, Wallstreet etc.

2004-05-16 Thread Shawn Harley
Zoltan, Check out www.villagetronic.com They have a cardbus 32meg DDR DVI/VGA video card that works from Wallstreet up for about $250. I'm considering a G4/550 upgrade and had the same concerns as you (Pismo500/1gig, RAM/20gig HD, Panther). Will upgrade the HD to at least 40gig and now maybe

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-16 Thread James Sanderson
I realised that the address is wrong. That should be ESBuy.com On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 03:32 PM, James Sanderson wrote: If your in the market and have some dinero, go to easybuy.com. They have the latest Pioneer 107, a superdrive, for under $100 and free shipping. Got mine works great --

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-16 Thread Thomas Ethen
Is the drive a direct replacement for the older SuperDrives, such as a Pioneer 104? Tom on 5/16/04 15:32, James Sanderson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If your in the market and have some dinero, go to easybuy.com. They have the latest Pioneer 107, a superdrive, for under $100 and free

Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-16 Thread Jeff Greffe
Directly from Apple support site: The original PowerBook G3 Series has the ability to use two expansion bay devices and run from the AC adapter with no main battery installed. Note: The PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard)and PowerBook (FireWire) do not have this capability. So, Malcolm and Tom, you

Re: Dan's post with the very long subject line...

2004-05-16 Thread James Rohde
On 5/16/04, Dan wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: dan_A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help, a CD was swallowed On May 15, 2004, at 8:12 PM, Bob wrote: You didn't say what OS you're using. But there are several options to try. Let me give you 3 OS X methods that other list-members

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners (For Powerbook G4?)

2004-05-16 Thread Mikael Byström
So what CD/DVD-RW is possible and preferred to replace the one in the early Powerbook G4's (400/500 and so on)? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks

Re: Dan's post with the very long subject line...

2004-05-16 Thread dan_A
On May 16, 2004, at 9:07 PM, James Rohde wrote: Dan, I'm not sure *how* you did it, but I think you just won the award for the longest Subject line sent by Emailer (that I've seen so far)! ;-) Jim Rohde AARGH! I know how I did it -a slip of the hand/brain. My message didn't go out because

Wallstreet DVD Drive

2004-05-16 Thread Ted
I had a 1998 Wallstreet Powerbook G3 with a DVD Drive and decoder card. It came with the DVD drive and now that I have sold the Wallstreet G3 I am selling the DVD drive and card. I thought the new owner may need an install CD for the drive. Does someone have the install software they can send me a

Ibook Airport card

2004-05-16 Thread Ted
I bought an iBook 366 MHz powerbook. What brand of airport card should I get and where should I get it (best price). Also can I add an antenna to it? Ted -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | --

Re: Ibook Airport card

2004-05-16 Thread MTH
On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 09:27 PM, Ted wrote: I bought an iBook 366 MHz powerbook. What brand of airport card should I get and where should I get it (best price). Also can I add an antenna to it? Ted -- For your iBook you need an Apple airport card, not the airport extreme card. The Apple

Re: Panther Reboot

2004-05-16 Thread Bob
The National Enquirer reports at 4:51 AM +0200 5/14/04, Mikael Byström wrote: Frank, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Sure miss conflict catcher For the Asteroids game I take it? BTW, did you lift out all of your Library pr made a new user? You can search for corrupted prefs with this in the

Re: PISMO main battery

2004-05-16 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 16/05/04 17:10, Malcolm Cornelius at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 16/05/04 15:50, Jeff Greffe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Told you I was new around G3 powerbooks ... After a lot of searching on the net about my particular machine (pismo) I found a little article that states a pismo

Re: Mac CD-RW Burners

2004-05-16 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 16/05/04 18:09, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Laurent, What software did you use for this... or did it work within OS X? Amanda On Sunday, May 16, 2004, at 12:24 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 16/05/04 15:16, Amanda Ward at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I

Re: Food For Thought. . .upgrading VRAM on Pismo, Lombard, Wallstreet etc.

2004-05-16 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 16/05/04 17:01, Zoltan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, after discovering that the cute 3D animated user switching effect doesn't work on my Pismo due to lack of VRAM I started to wonder. . .up to this point, I was under the impression that the only reason I would ever need more than 8

Re: Wallstreet DVD Drive

2004-05-16 Thread Stanton Mitrany
Hi! I'd be interested in buying that drive decoder card. All the best, stanton From: Ted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 19:11:45 -0700 To: G-Books [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wallstreet DVD Drive I had a 1998 Wallstreet Powerbook G3 with a