Re: Apple Mail

any other POP3 client. Entourage can be regarded as an implementation of Outlook (not Outlook Express) on OS X. Tom Burke -- 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: Dead Lombard

I don't have anything to offer on the particular question, but I'd thought I'd just throw in an observation. In the last month or so, I seem to have seen quite a few threads (here and on other discussion boards/lists) about dead Lombards, dying Pismos, and totally fried WallStreets. Could it

Re: Does extra RAM make a significant difference in OSX?

machines indeed. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list

Re: True Processor Speed

Hmmm.. 53332 on a 867 Mhz 12 Powerbook. Tom Burke On 9 Sep 2004, at 13:48, G-Books wrote: I just came across this in a thread by accident somewhere; sysctl hw.cpufrequency I entered it via the terminal and came up with a speed? of 667 on my 1gHz titanium powerbook. I read a lot of back

Re: iBook G3

compressed; a 4 month-old 800Mhz G4 iBook won't cost that much more than a 12-month old G3 iBook. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale

Re: 2 512 sticks vs. 1 1-GB stick

that), it was necessary to install them into 386-class PCs as matched pairs (IIRC). Is it this that you're half-remembering? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Re: Ongoing problems with Lombard

On 28 May 2004, at 20:30, G-Books wrote: On 28/05/04 09:35, Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last night my daughter's Lombard appeared to give up the ghost. It just stopped dead - no sign of life at all - and would not restart - no chimes. Plus, when I lifted off the keyboard there was a smell

Ongoing Problems with Lombard

Lombard, 256 Mb Ram, OS X 10.2.8, and a Toshiba 20 Gb HD. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http

Re: Opinions on CDs

of them that have survived 100 years or more, even 150 years, in perfect condition, with only minimal storage care - basically, keep 'em dry in the dark. Could we see a swing back to film? Hmm, probably not, but archival storage of images is a serious issue. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http

D-Link network Card for PB

trying to locate where in the file system the driver would have been installed. Can anyone point me to the Darwin location where this can be checked? If it's at all like Linux there ought to be a configuration file pointing to driver files. can anyone point me in the right direction here? Tom Burke

Re: Ethernet PC Card for Lombard

On 9 May 2004, at 00:09, G-Books wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ethernet PC Card for Lombard Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 19:58:28 +0100 Following on from the built-in ethernet tale of woe, does anyone have any experience of using a PC Card (PCMCIA

Suspect lombard Ethernet Port

I emailed the list on Friday about the ethernet port on my daughter's Lombard. I now have the machine to hand. For quite a while this afternoon I couldn't get it to do anything on the network at all. Although phyisically connected (via an ethernet cable I know to be good, into a hub) there was

Ethernet PC Card for Lombard

(just about) but obviously our online suppliers are different. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End

Broken Lombard Ethernet Port

and use a wifi card in the Lombard' solution; that effectively sets our cost ceiling for repairing the Lombard's ethernet setup. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site

Re: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium)

redesign yet somehow maintaining compatibility, and above all b) pushing the cpu speed up to extraordinary levels. Hopefully IBM will be able to emulate this aspect of Intel's performance with regard to the PPC 970 cpu and its siblings. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com

OT : Image Capture v2.1

any reference to a separate Image capture 2.1 download. Can someone with 10.3 check their version of IC, please? Is IC 2.1 only available as part of Panther? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives

Issues Awakening Hibernating PB

the question is - when a PB with external equipment is woken up by means of an accidental keyboard operation, how can I can get the base unit to fully wake as well? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished

Re: Backing Up Itunes Music to La Cie External

need them I just plug the cable back in and hey presto they're back on the desktop. Oh, I have a Mk1 12 PB which only has one Firewire port, so in my case the two drives are daisy-chained. Tom Burke On Thursday, February 12, 2004, at 09:15 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 14:36:15 -0800

Re: Keep my Pismo?

at the moment. How much was a new Pismo three+ years ago? Compare that with the price of a new 14 iBook, then compare the specs - that's a good deal. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our

Re: iBook Mirroring

) do you have access to any other VGA-to-miniVGA adapters? Assuming the VGA lead is OK, the fault must lie with either the iBook miniVGA output slot, or the VGA-to-miniVGA adapter. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com

Re: Which book to buy?

this is fully documented on XLR8Yourmac.com. So - the iBook can take 1Gb RAM, and it can do monitor spanning. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks

iPod and non-Firewire PB

Hello the list! I raised this query a few weeks ago and was given a lot of helpful advice. I'm just reporting that I bought an iPod for my daughter plus a no-name Firewire PCcard, and this has worked just fine with her Lombard. So many thanks to the list for the helpful advice. Tom Burke

Re: iPods and non-Firewire PBs

Larry My understanding is that only 1st generation iPods can be used with OS 9; all later ones have to be used with OS X (or Windows, of course). Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our

iPods and non-Firewire PBs

, iPod generation, and card type? Many thanks. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http

Re: Kernel panics on 12 PB

On Monday, November 10, 2003, at 08:30 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:30:21 -0500 Subject: Re: Kernel panics on 12 PBook From: Meg St. Clair [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/9/03 5:33 AM, Tom Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (edited

Kernel panics on 12 PBook

I've heard much mention of in the Mac world, esp. not with new Powerbooks. Have others on the list encountered this sort of thing? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site

Re: iTunes Music Store problem

the region where it was sold, a config file somewhere. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http

G4 AiBook External Monitor settings

with both of them set to 800 x 600. Does anyone know why I should be experiencing this variable behaviour? Tom Burke PS I'm running 10.2.8, and it's a Mk 1 12 PB, so it's using the analogue video out port and the 'video to VGA' connector supplied with the PB. TB -- G-Books is sponsored by http

Re: Anyone moved to a new G4 iBook

On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:39 am, G-Books wrote: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:06:41 -0800 Subject: Re: Anyone moved to a new G4 iBook From: Illovox Media [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/29/03 7:33 AM, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED

Anyone moved to a new G4 iBook

mirroring and take the G4 iBook had it been available. I could have bought an iPod as well and still spent less than I did on the Powerbook! And the Applecare package is less, too - £199 as against £279. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

LCD Screen on new iBook

of the 500 and 667 Mhz Powerbooks and the early 14 IceBooks. Does anyone know if that was in fact true information? And if so, does anyone know if it's still true with the new iBooks? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: Which Powerbook?

caused screen ghosting, and had me worried for a while. Switching to a good VGA lead changed everything. Tom Burke -- 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: PB Networking

On Tuesday, August 5, 2003, at 12:38 pm, G-Books wrote: Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:17:47 -0400 Subject: Re: PB Networking Problems From: Lewin Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What does ifconfig en0 tell you, though? ipconfig getipaddr doesn't

Re: PB Networking Problems

with this - this is exactly the sort of thing I'm used to with PCs, and that I never had with my Lombard running 10.2.4 though ethernet and airport. Ah well. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check

PB network problem

getifaddr en0' in a terminal window gets this response: 'get if addr en0 failed, (os/kern) failure' Has anyone else ever seen this? Does anyone have any idea what might be causing it? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Problem with PB networking

this out a bit more before I contact them again. Anyone got any ideas or experience about this? Any further diags I can do? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished

Re: Ebay Powerbooks

issue I've had with ebay Macs has occurred recently - Derbyshire constabulary took a statement from me about the Powermac which I bought last November, and examined it took serial numbers. So that one may have a murky past. Tom Burke Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 08:12:07 +0100 Subject: Ebay

OT - Sticky' Page elements on eBay?

issue - it's the same using both Safari IE on my PowerMac, Safari on the Lombard, and even IE5.5 on a PC laptop. Does anyone else see such behaviour? Anyone got any suggestions as to why it happens? Reply off-list of you'd prefer not to take up list bandwidth. Tom Burke -- G-Books

UK List members: Did you buy from 'Samsud'?

Last autumn there was a chap selling Powermacs on ebay.co.uk, with (IIRC) the ebay id 'samsud'. It could also have been 'umardegreat', and that was certainly his email address at that time - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I bought a 400 Mhz AGP graphics G4 Tower off him (one of several he was selling). I

Computer Capability - was Re: [OT] [PB]F key shortcuts

not in the case of the 12 PB), faster system bus, and all of these may well produce better performance for that sort of usage. So there are benefits from upgrading, though they may not be compelling ones. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics

Lombard Video in OS X (Was: lombard identification question)

, email and simple stuff like that. But what practical difference did the 10.2.4 upgrade make? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs

12 Powerbook Keyboard

, the keyboard layout was the same as on a 12 iBook next to it. So have they altered the kb since the publicity shots were taken? Or is this a UK thing? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives

Re: PowerLogix BlueChip Pismo G4/500 processor upgrade

I've never really ujnderstood why the Powerlogix G4 500 Mhz for the Lombard is a user-install, while the Pismo upgrade requires the CPU board to go to Powerlogix. Is there some difference between the daughter boards that I'm missing? Tom Burke (who's got a 333 Lombard is therefore very

Re: 17 PowerBook vs Pismo 500 Xbench

the G3 iBook - 3 time quicker in the case of the Photoshop tasks. That's where the benefit of the G4 lies, not in day-to-day browsing/ emailing/ wp, etc. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives

Re: 17 PowerBook vs Pismo 500 Xbench

subjective feeling about comparative performance in actual work? Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End

Re: Connecting two AirPort cards

need to do this? Have you got something else in the PC card slot? I've put a Linksys 802.11b card in the slot in my Lombard, I'm using the IOXperts drivers, and it works just fine. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp

Re: Airport questions

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 03:29 PM, Alan Miller wrote: I should be able to find this on apples site but... I know the pismo will take an airport card internally, but will a lombard? -- Alan Miller Underwater Photographer http://home.earthlink.net/~uwphoto/ 9600/233 w/ G3/400

Re: broken key on new 12

I haven't seen a 12 PB yet. How similar is the keyboard between the 12 Powerbook the 12 iBook? Tom Burke On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 05:08 PM, Steve Fuller wrote: FWIW, the 12 Powerbook at my local CompUSA had a couple of keycaps broken off if it already after just 2 weeks on the display

Strange Lombard 'Semi-Meltdown' event....

'in the community'? Many thanks for any words of wisdom! Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End

Re: Strange Lombard 'Semi-Meltdown' event....

Cornelius wrote: on 16/03/03 17:10, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happened to me recently when I was, umm, playing with the new Lombard. This was pretty worrying, of course, and not what I wanted to experience. Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Any knowledge about

Re: Strange Lombard 'Semi-Meltdown' event....

fire. So my responsibility, obviously. Tom Burke On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 05:26 PM, Malcolm Cornelius wrote: on 16/03/03 17:19, Tom Burke at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not unless you're also James Hendry! I bought the Lombard off him via eBay a few weeks ago, and I did go back to him

Re: DVD-ROM for CD equiped Lombard?

Well, I can't answer this on a technical level, but I know we can play DVDs quite happily on my wife's Pismo 400. That's in OS X, however - we don't have a native OS 9 to install, we have a retail Jaguar which doesn't include it. Tom Burke On Sunday, March 16, 2003, at 08:50 PM, Marc wrote

DVD-ROM for CD equiped Lombard?

. If this is true, this is a bit of a blow - I've already just put a Linksys wifi card in the PC Card slot, using the IOXperts OS X driver. Works fine. Oh, I'm running Jaguar with 192 Mbyte of RAM installed. RAM is next for the upgrade, I think. Tom Burke -- G-Books is sponsored by http