Trying so send HTML formatted email in Mail. . .

2004-06-23 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, I have pretty much given up with this email client from Apple. I have no idea how to send an HTML formatted email that WORKS. Everytime I've tried, the receiver gets the email in plain text. . .seeing all the HTML tags. Now in Yahoo, you used to be able to simply click on a check

Re: Trying so send HTML formatted email in Mail. . .

2004-06-23 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jun 23, 2004, at 3:56 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 23, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello all, I have pretty much given up with this email client from Apple. I have no idea how to send an HTML formatted email that WORKS. Everytime I've tried, the receiver gets the email

More than one external monitor on a PowerBook?

2004-06-24 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, Hey I've got an external monitor on my Pismo, which I use all the time when I'm home for more screen real estate. Is there a way to connect another monitor? Maybe through the PCMCIA slot? Just wondering. . . Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Which Bluetooth Mouse to Buy ??

2004-06-25 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jun 25, 2004, at 6:38 AM, MacAddictvja wrote: I'm looking for a wireless mouse to use with Bluetooth on my G4 iBook. Are there many choices of different wireless mice to use with Bluetooth? -- G4 iBook, OS X 10.34 Sure are! The easiest way to find out: Simply go to www.google.com and type

Free Wi-Fi HotSpots. . .

2004-06-25 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello All, Just found out my city has free Wi-Fi hotspots throughout. . .including but not limited to business (coffee shops) and parks. How does this work? Can I just waltz on over to a park, sit down, boot up my Airport enabled Pismo and surf? Is it that easy? Or are there configs?

Re: Free Wi-Fi HotSpots. . .

2004-06-26 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jun 25, 2004, at 7:24 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: First things first: What city are you from? That means the world to us. I'm in the City of Riverside, California. . .home of. . .er. . .oranges I think. :) Hello All, Just found out my city has free Wi-Fi hotspots throughout. . .including but

Re: Free Wi-Fi HotSpots. . .

2004-06-26 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Just so everyone knows. . .I got the info for the free Wi-Fi hotspots at this URL: http://www.wififreespot.com/ca.html -- 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: 17 advice

2004-06-27 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hi Claire and Amanda, Well ya' know you can always get a 12 and simply hook up a bigger monitor to it at home, and with a USB keyboard and mouse, use it while it's closed. I do that all the time at home on my Pismo 14.1. After I come to a point when I don't need two monitors anymore, I close

Customizing OS X. . .

2004-06-27 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hey folks. ..I have yet to find any pictures that will fit completely in my window backgrounds. It's always too short. I end up with a white area in my windows. Anyone know of a website that has backgrounds that fit? I've searched and have amassed a rather large collection of cool desktop

Re: Customizing OS X. . .

2004-06-27 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jun 27, 2004, at 12:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/27/04 1:27 PM, Tim Gochnour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 27, 2004, at 1:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/27/04 11:16 AM, Zoltan Batiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey folks. ..I have yet to find any pictures that will fit completely

Re: AirPort

2004-07-02 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 1, 2004, at 9:21 PM, Mark Rath, LSW, Coordinator wrote: I tried this once and got no response so - here goes again: I know very little about airport but I am slowly learning - I have a second generation iBook (indigo, firewire) and want to put an aiport card in it. I know I can't use

Re: AirPort

2004-07-02 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 2, 2004, at 7:44 AM, lilyplant wrote: Is this what I need for my pismo? Lily You'll need an Airport (non-Extreme) card, and if you want to buy one new, note that Apple have just discontinued them, so move quickly! TimH Too Late! Just checked Apple website, and it's gone! (the 802.11b

Re: OS X Refuses to Boot in 2 Different Machines...

2004-07-04 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 3, 2004, at 12:15 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting dilemma: Graphite iBook 466mhz Clamshell, tons of ram, 10 gig drive, successfully installed and ran Panther, but iMovie refused to load and then 9.1 off a Universal Installer would not load. Wiped, installed 9.2.1 then upgraded

How do you manually import bookmarks (favorites) into Safari?!

2004-07-05 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Once again, I'm stuck wondering why Apple thinks everyone is gonna get all the answers they need in there incredibly lacking help program. According to it, Safari is supposed to import all my IE favorites the first time it runs. This is simply not true. It doesn't do anything except boot

Re: How to re-install OS 9.x, then 10.3 on a Wallstreet?

2004-07-05 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 5, 2004, at 8:28 PM, Rad Craig wrote: I'm still a mac newb, but learning. I finally got my Wallstreet upgraded from OS 10.2.8 to 10.3, but now half the stuff doesn't work, applications won't load, etc. So I bought a copy of OS 9.2 and it should be here to morrow. What I want to do is

Re: Elgato EyeTV 300

2004-07-08 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 8, 2004, at 2:11 AM, invicta wrote: Hello All, Elgato 300 is a firewire digital videorecorder working with satellite TV. You can have TV on your Mac, record the program on your HD and edit same before burning a DVD. Sounds like a nice toy but before I buy I would like to hear if any of

Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello, Safari is giving me trouble. . .right after I decided finally to make it my default browser. Now, It won't even boot! Everytime I try to boot it, I get the unexpectedly quit message. . .any ideas? All I did before was download some nifty fonts for OS X, now Safari won't boot anymore.

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 10, 2004, at 5:18 PM, John A wrote: On Jul 10, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello, Safari is giving me trouble. . .right after I decided finally to make it my default browser. Now, It won't even boot! Everytime I try to boot it, I get the unexpectedly quit message. . .any ideas

Re: Safari crashin' all the time!

2004-07-10 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Ok, ok ok. . .this is what I surf the web with on a regular basis. . .IE, Netscape, Firefox, Camino, and (used to) Safari. Out of all of 'em, Safari was my favorite 'cause of it's polished look and feel. It was quick, but I have to say it folks, IE has always been the fastest browser out of

Re: Safari Crashing - Repair Permissions ?

2004-07-10 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 10, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 10/07/04 21:22, MacAddictvja at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I have done the Repair Permissions about three or four times in the past 10 days or so. Have you tried to move the Safari folder out of your Library/Preferences folder? Don't

Font Restore Program for X?

2004-07-11 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Does anyone know of a font restore program for OS X? I want to wipe out all of 'em, and just put in the stock fonts, including all the fonts that came with Appleworks. Gonna do some searchin' online, if I find somethin', I'll let everyone know. Z THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored

Fixed Safari from crashin'!

2004-07-11 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hey folks, I managed to finally get Safari working and for that matter, Mail and iChat. I selected and deleted all the fonts I downloaded that were specifically ttf fonts. These are Windows True Type Fonts, and apparently, Apple apps don't like 'em. Although AppleWorks worked fine. . .but

Re: (more) New iBook questions :)

2004-07-13 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 13, 2004, at 12:27 AM, Joshua B. Watkins wrote: Hello all, thank you for your responses on my last post. have a few more questions here for the professionals. Is there any way to disable some of the fancy onscreen menu shading, and moving, etc, it seems to really slow up the computer

Re: (more) New iBook questions :)

2004-07-13 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 13, 2004, at 9:08 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jul 13, 2004, at 12:27 AM, Joshua B. Watkins wrote: Hello all, thank you for your responses on my last post. have a few more questions here for the professionals. Is there any way to disable some of the fancy onscreen menu shading, and moving,

Re: looking before leaping

2004-07-14 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 14, 2004, at 6:31 AM, Greg Gilmore wrote: Since my daughter has decided to continue her college education online, we¹re finally going to make the leap from 56K to broadband, and to obviate running cables between the 4 Macs that are regularly used for internet access throughout the house,

Re: looking before leaping

2004-07-14 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 14, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Steve Fuller wrote: On Jul 14, 2004, at 2:37 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: The only real benefit of g is being able to transfer tiles to and from the computers within the network. 802.11g is great if your source is a dedicated or sometimes shared T1. You are most likely

Re: looking before leaping

2004-07-14 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 14, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Steve Fuller wrote: On Jul 14, 2004, at 2:37 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: The only real benefit of g is being able to transfer tiles to and from the computers within the network. 802.11g is great if your source is a dedicated or sometimes shared T1. You are most likely

Re: www via Quicklink Mobile?

2004-07-16 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 16, 2004, at 1:35 PM, David Freels wrote: Does anyone have experience using Quicklink Mobile to access the Internet via Bluetoothed cell phones and a mac? See http://www.smithmicro.com/default.tpl? cart=10899955452231103group=product_full\ sku=QLMMAKEE The software supports many phones

Re: looking before leaping

2004-07-16 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 16, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Marcin Wichary wrote: True enough; but you're probably not going to get the full speed your cable/dsl company promises you either. ;) I would disagree here... Since I started with dial-up in 1997 I always got the exact maximum speed as given in the contract (that's

Re: this is getting redundant, isnt it?

2004-07-17 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 17, 2004, at 9:00 AM, Al Poulin wrote: Joshua Braddock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, and one more thing.. If I have OS X 10.3.4 Panther, will apple let me update to OS X 10.4.1 Tiger for free? Or will I have to buy that version? That will be a buy. Sorry. Apple will usually allow a free

Anybody's PB's crashing when removing CD/DVD drive?

2004-07-17 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, Just noticed something rather odd. I've got the Pismo, which is supposed to have the swappable expansion bays. I tried the Apple Tech section on their site, but found no matches regarding this. Everytime I pop out the CD/DVD drive, believe it or not, OS X Panther CRASHES! Any

Re: Anybody's PB's crashing when removing CD/DVD drive?

2004-07-18 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 18, 2004, at 3:59 AM, Mikael Byström wrote: Zoltan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Everytime I pop out the CD/DVD drive, believe it or not, OS X Panther CRASHES! Do you have disc in at the time? If you do, this could be the reason. C'mon folks. . .if there was a CD or DVD in the drive, I would'a

Re: Anybody's PB's crashing when removing CD/DVD drive?

2004-07-18 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 18, 2004, at 1:19 PM, Mikael Byström wrote: Zoltan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: if there was a CD or DVD in the drive, I would'a figured that one out. Sheese You didn't state that there obviously isn't a disc in there so obviously we must assume you may not know there can't be a disc in

iTunes 4.6 visualizer issue. . .

2004-07-22 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, I'm not sure if this is just a lack of video ram issue on my Pismo, but considering this wasn't a problem in older versions of iTunes who knows. . . The cool visualizer in iTunes used to work with multiple monitors. Before, all the user had to do was drag the iTunes controller to

A magical wireless Box. . .?

2004-07-24 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, Does this exist? Imagine: A small box that contains say two firewire 400 ports, two firewire 800 ports, two USB 1.1, two USB 2.0 ports, a VGA port AND a DVI port. This box plugs into the wall with included AC adapter for power. . .and there's an antenna popping up the middle for

Re: A magical wireless Box. . .?

2004-07-24 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 24, 2004, at 12:04 PM, vicki duggan wrote: If it is going to be wireless! why all the connectors? that is defeating the object i thought that ( wire - less !) meant that wireless. What makes this little box wireless is that you no longer need ANY cables connected to your laptop/home

Re: A magical wireless Box. . .?

2004-07-24 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 24, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Marcin Wichary wrote: AirPort Base Station already hosts USB, but only for printers. The main problem here is that 802.11 is currently too slow to host FireWire 400, 800 and USB 2.0, let alone VGA and DVI... and if the transfers get better, I'd rather have wireless

Re: A magical wireless Box. . .?

2004-07-24 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 24, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Marcin Wichary wrote: AirPort Base Station already hosts USB, but only for printers. The main problem here is that 802.11 is currently too slow to host FireWire 400, 800 and USB 2.0, let alone VGA and DVI... and if the transfers get better, I'd rather have wireless

Possible it's time for a new Pismo display?

2004-07-25 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello All, I think my display is on it's way out. :( Wanted to get opinions here just in case I'm wrong. Pismo 500/1gig. Had it now for almost two years. Great computer. . .trouble free. The other day I was setting up an iBook for a client, and he wanted some of my cool backdrops, so I did

Re: My new iBook G4!!

2004-07-28 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:09 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 28/07/04 02:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, i'm writing this on my brand spanking new handy dandy high speed low drag iBook G4, 14 screen, 768 megs RAM, OS X 10.3.4. This is the first actually new Mac I've ever

Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?

2004-07-28 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, I've been looking for a while online for expansion bay hard drives for sale, but no luck. I found MCE's great models that go up to 60 gig, but no place to buy one. . .not even on their website. Ideas? Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/

Re: Installed OS X AND 9.2.2 without discs!

2004-07-28 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Alejandro wrote: It's a GREAT application. Helpful if you need to make a backup of OS X. Mac OS 9 (same with 8 and 8.6) don't need it, because if you copy a System Folder to any disc, it will boot. I also made a mix of OS 9 using all the OS 8.6 Extensions, Control

Expansion Bay Hard Drives are still available!!

2004-07-28 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Folks, After hours of research, I finally found a site that actually still sells these cool devices for our Pismo's and even Lombard and Wallstreet. Check out the link below! They are expensive, but brand new: http://www.devdepot.com/description.html?pcode=HMCXCR9 Copy and paste it if it

Re: Installed OS X AND 9.2.2 without discs!

2004-07-28 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 28, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: On Jul 28, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Alejandro wrote: It's a GREAT application. Helpful if you need to make a backup of OS X. Mac OS 9 (same with 8 and 8.6) don't need it, because if you copy a System Folder to any disc, it will boot. I also made a mix

Testing PRAM battery on OS X?

2004-07-28 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, How does one test the PRAM battery in native OS X? There's several ways in OS 9, but X? Is resetting the PRAM battery the same procedure as before with 9? Any suggestions would be helpful. . . Z THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Lombard Display Shutdown

2004-07-28 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 28, 2004, at 8:01 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: I have a Lombard with a 19 flat panel Mitsubishi monitor hooked up to it. How would I go about shutting down my Lombard monitor and just use the Mitsu? I am currently running both monitors which is fine when I'm working, but a little overkill

Re: Lombard Display Shutdown

2004-07-28 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 28, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Alejandro wrote: I've checked that issue, because I have a Sony Monitor. It seems that only the Pismo can use an external monitor with the LCD OFF. When the PowerBook startup, close the lid and the notebook will use the external monitor, but the Lombard goes to sleep,

Anyone else having probs with the list?

2004-07-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, Getting that message saying that emails from the list are bouncing back to B-Books. Hmmm. . .hope this doesn't keep happening. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Expansion Bay Hard Drives are still available

2004-07-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Folks, After hours of research, I finally found a site that actually still sells these cool devices for our Pismo's and even Lombard and Wallstreet. Check out the link below! They are expensive, but brand new: http://www.devdepot.com/description.html?pcode=HMCXCR9 Copy and paste it if it

Problems with window configurations not saving. . .

2004-07-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello All, Just a few days ago, I noticed that my main hard drive window, and my OS X apps window don't keep my settings. I'm reffering to the background image within those two windows and the size of the icons, etc. Oddly, it's only these two windows. Any ideas? Thanks all, Z THE

Re: Bouncing

2004-07-30 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 30, 2004, at 6:16 AM, Terry McCune wrote: Hi Zoltan Yes, I'm stuck in bounce - back limbo. I belong to 4 LEM listservs and about 3 weeks ago, my messages and replies all started bouncing back. I tried to unsubscribe, but that request bounced back. I now regularly get those warning

Problems with window configurations not saving. . .

2004-07-30 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jul 29, 2004, at 1:55 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello All, Just a few days ago, I noticed that my main hard drive window, and my OS X apps window don't keep my settings. I'm reffering to the background image within those two windows and the size of the icons, etc. Oddly, it's only these two

Where in OS X are the settings for window views saved?

2004-07-31 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello All, For some reason, my settings for only two windows do not save. Specifically, my main hard drive window and the applications (for OS X) window. Only these two windows always go to a default setting after reboot/cold boot. Example: I have everything positioned the way I want;

Re: Pismo booted by external Firewire drive

2004-08-01 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Aug 1, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Brian Braunschweiger wrote: Will a Pismo boot OS X 10.3 from an external Firewire drive? If so, until I can get a bigger internal drive I need to move Panther from my iMac to this external drive. I'm getting ready to sell the iMac. Brian, Download the freeware

Has Everybody heard? Steve Jobs is doing fine in hospital!

2004-08-01 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Latest news on Steve Jobs: I know this is off topic, but is it? This is afterall, Steve's Universe. Anyway, he had a rare form of cancer which he is recovering from with no complications and should be back to work running Apple by September. Some guy I never heard of is running it in the

Re: Cannot Restore System from CDs

2004-08-04 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Aug 4, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Bob Gir. wrote: Just got a new 14 G4 iBook. Also have an older 12 Dual-USB G3 iBook. On the G3, Keychain has been driving my crazy for months. All efforts to get it to run properly failed so I decided to wipe the HD clean and re-install/restore the system software.

Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-09 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Aug 9, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Aaron Willems wrote: I just installed OS 10.3.5. I've been running it for 2 hours now with no problems. I give this advice to anyone who's planning on installing it. Be sure to boot off your Panther CD first, and repair the Boot Disk, followed by repairing disk

Re: Airport cards?

2004-08-11 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Aug 10, 2004, at 9:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why am I seeing apple airport cards going for WAY more than the airport extreme cards online? Doesn't seem to make much sense. Brian Simple: Apple has officially announced that these cards are discontinued. Now with most computer parts

Airport self-assigned IP adress. . .

2004-08-12 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello All, I recently went on a trip the other week and my airport detected a network. Nothing unusual, but even though it was connected to this network, I wasn't connected to the internet because the Airport was reporting a self-assigned IP address . Is there a setting to change this? Or

Re: OS 10.3.5

2004-08-13 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Aug 13, 2004, at 9:40 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Aug 12, 2004, at 7:47 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 12/08/04 19:47, Mikael Byström at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In real life, most people have few problems with OS X. let me guess, real life is lives approved

Re: iBook Serial Number

2004-08-15 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Aug 15, 2004, at 7:30 PM, Tom Ethen wrote: On my Pismo under system profiler it tells me the serial number of my computer as well as the sales order number, but when I to to system profiler on my iBook 12 G3 there is nothing there. How do I find the serial number of my IBook? Tom Pop the

Re: self assigned IP???

2004-08-23 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Aug 23, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Amy Kim wrote: i'm a recent switch so forgive me if i sound erally clueless. i've installed an airport extreme card into my powerbook g4. if i turn airport on, i can see the network and i can see that i get reception, however it says there's no connection and i get

Re: self assigned IP???

2004-08-23 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Aug 23, 2004, at 9:17 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: On Aug 23, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Amy Kim wrote: i'm a recent switch so forgive me if i sound erally clueless. i've installed an airport extreme card into my powerbook g4. if i turn airport on, i can see the network and i can see that i get reception

Re:

2004-09-11 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Sep 11, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Barton Brown wrote: I hope someone can help me. I have a just-over-one-year-old (of course) 17 G4 PowerBook with a SuperDrive. After a year of working flawlessly, reading and burning all brands of CD and DVD, yesterday I went to put in a blank CD to backup some data

Re: Virus protection?

2004-09-18 Thread Zoltan Batiz
I guess I'd throw in my two bits in this thread. There hasn't been a publicly announced virus on the Macintosh platform in over 3 years. This doesn't mean that we will never see one, but it does mean that the Mac in general is going to be much safer than a PC. . .for now. I custom install

Re: New Airport Software

2004-11-23 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Nov 22, 2004, at 11:52 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 22/11/04 20:07, Dennis B. Swaney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 6:23 PM -0500 11/22/04, John McGibney wrote: Has anyone using the NON Extreme Airport grey base and original card started using this yet? I refer to the version 4.1 that came

Is it real leather?!

2004-11-26 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Ok, a friend told me that the leather top of my Pismo is actual suede. Is this true? Z THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks |

Problems with iTunes 4.7. . .

2004-12-06 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Pismo user here. . . Since I've downloaded iTunes 4.7, I now have an average: for every 1 CD I burn, 2 or 3 are ruined in the process. The error message: The Device drained it's buffer without burn underrun protection. What!? This is getting on my nerves for obvious reasons. I'm tired of

Re: Problems with iTunes 4.7. . .

2004-12-06 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Dec 6, 2004, at 6:40 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 06/12/04 19:42, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pismo user here. . . Since I've downloaded iTunes 4.7, I now have an average: for every 1 CD I burn, 2 or 3 are ruined in the process. The error message: The Device drained it's

Re: Re.: All in one printer for Pismo?

2004-12-09 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Dec 8, 2004, at 8:41 PM, Kristina Rost wrote: In looking at possibilities for printers, I must consider, along with quality of print from digital images, the cost of the cartridges. I will look at these suggestions wit the idea to compile a list of compatible printers; do some research for

Re: USB G Wireless do dad that plugs into usb port question

2004-12-13 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Dec 14, 2004, at 6:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to buy a USB wireless G (wifi) that plugs into a usb port on an older (clamshell) ibook that is running OS 9.2.2 and wanted to know if anyone knows of such product that will work with this OS. I have found one that works with OS

Re: test

2004-12-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
hmm. . .not sure what ISP's you guys have, but mine has no difference with 1.3.9 or x.3.7, with the exception of having to change the server port ID. Other than that, no problems. Z -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com |

Re: Less is more or Bigger is better

2004-12-31 Thread Zoltan Batiz
An interesting thread, so I thought I'd chime in. My Pismo is my main computer. . .period. I use it at home docked on it's multiple fan cooling station, elevated for my ergonomic needs, which of course is connected to my Firewire and USB devices. Oh and on the subject of screen real estate?

Anyone having problems with Safari 1.2.4?

2005-01-08 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, Using OS X 10.3.7 and running the newest version of Safari and sometimes Safari locks up when trying to access secure websites. Freezing is a rare occasion, but the usual bug is more annoying. . .Safari takes so long that the websites tend to time out before it can even establish a

Re: Pismo OSX upgrade

2005-01-09 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 9, 2005, at 9:42 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 09/01/05 10:02, Jeff Hubatka at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all- Wife's Pismo 500, 512 RAM, 20GB, currently running 10.2.8. I'm trying to upgrade to Panther, and after a couple tries it finally seemed to install yesterday. However, now

Safari still hangs on secure servers. . .

2005-01-11 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello All, I recently posted a thread regarding Safari's problem to go to https sites. It hangs for as long as a minute, then once the secure server has locked, the site takes so long to load that by the time I finally get into a secure server, the website times out. I have decided to not

Re: Safari still hangs on secure servers. . .

2005-01-11 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 11, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello All, I recently posted a thread regarding Safari's problem to go to https sites. It hangs for as long as a minute, then once the secure server has locked, the site takes so long to load

Re: Safari still hangs on secure servers. . .

2005-01-11 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 11, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 11/01/05 20:55, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 11, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 11, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello All, I recently posted a thread regarding Safari's problem to go to https sites

Please help! Problems with an Hp d135 All-in-One

2005-01-14 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello Folks, Hp is pissin' me off. Personally, I can't stand 'em, but my grandma insisted she buy an Hp. . .(past experience was good. . .ya' know, when the company actually made good products. . .hehe.) Anyway, she's got a Pismo 500/1gig RAM/30gig, 10.3.7 and an Hp d135 All-In-One. There is

Options with an external HDD. . .

2005-01-20 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello, Just wanted to know what my options are with OS X on my Pismo using an external HDD. I've got a 30 gig internal, and a 70 gig firewire external. I need to know. . .can I (besides backing up) move my iTunes music to this external drive and expect it to work? Can I move all of my

iBook issues. . .

2005-01-20 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello folks, Here's something to ponder. . .my roomates iBook 14.1 is having issues. I've already wiped his hard drive clean and re-installed OS X, but it's happening again. From time to time, his hard drive makes strange noises. . .like a faint grinding sound. Then, the computer freezes.

Re: iBook issues. . .

2005-01-20 Thread Zoltan Batiz
it have current applecare? If so, take it in. Brian On Jan 20, 2005, at 4:34 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello folks, Here's something to ponder. . .my roomates iBook 14.1 is having issues. I've already wiped his hard drive clean and re-installed OS X, but it's happening again. From time to time, his

Re: Options with an external HDD. . .

2005-01-20 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 20, 2005, at 2:50 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 20, 2005, at 2:33 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello, Just wanted to know what my options are with OS X on my Pismo using an external HDD. I've got a 30 gig internal, and a 70 gig firewire external. I need to know. . .can I (besides backing

Re: Tiger Launch

2005-01-22 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello, Well, Tiger Launch is great, but how do I configure it to start automatically? I tried putting it into startupitems folder within the Library folder and even in the startupitems in the System folder, but no dice. Is there something else I need to do? Z THE BLUETOOTH (and wifi) MASTER

Re: installing os9 over firewire.

2005-01-23 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Have you tried Carbon Copy Cloner? It's at http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html Using this program, I have successfully cloned an entire drive, including but not limited to OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.3.7 to an iBook using Firewire Target Disk Mode. The result was a perfectly working iBook

Re: installing os9 over firewire.

2005-01-23 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 23, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Alex Santos 100MB Neostrada Mail wrote: But there is no ibook drive to clone. That's the problem, only my eMac is clone-able but then it doesn't have notebook resources such as battery stuff on it. Could you tell how your proposal might work under my circumstances?

Re: hard drive options

2005-01-27 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 26, 2005, at 8:36 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 26/01/05 20:46, Scott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good day all, I am glad this list is discussing hard drives, because I have just started looking into getting a new one for my Pismo PB. I am wondering if I ought to replace the internal drive

Re: hard drive options

2005-01-27 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Well I have to say that this has been a very strange day. Here we are, talking about hard drive options, and all of a sudden, one of my external drives just started buzzin' like a chainsaw. Correct me if I'm wrong, but once that happens, isn't it toast? Or is there a diagnostic procedure

Re: hard drive options

2005-01-27 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 27, 2005, at 7:36 AM, Andrew wrote: Cost me about $240 for the same service, though with a Hitachi TravelStar drive (80 for the labor, 150 for the drive). --- tamara buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too am looking to upgrade my PB 867 my 40 gig HD is almost full (music and fotos) so i

Strange sounds of the iBook. . .

2005-01-28 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello folks, Got a new mystery here. . .or not I hope. My roommate has the dual USB 14 iBook; a.k.a., Son Of Pismo. It's a pretty cool looking laptop in general design, but he's been having trouble with it. First, I suggested he replace his AC adapter as soon as possible since the cord is

A question regarding OpenGL. . .

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello all, Is OpenGL user configurable? Or is this one of those background things? And is there a certain (gulp) video ram requirement just to make it work? Or is it always working? I was enjoying the Visualizer in iTunes today and noticed that under the options button, I had clicked Use

MCE is at it again! 100 gig internal HDD for Pismo!

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
And it's not too expensive either. . .only $279.00. Thinking of getting one. . . here's the link; you may need to copy and paste it into Safari: http://store.mcetech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc? Screen=PRODStore_Code=MTOSProduct_Code=MS100GCategory_Code=STORLTHDIN T Make sure you put the

Re: MCE is at it again! 100 gig internal HDD for Pismo!

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 29, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Andrew Kershaw wrote: Hmm. 100 GB hard drives are available from many online stores for $80 - $100 less than that. Peace, Drew -- Oh ok. I didn't know we had internal drives that had broken the 80 gig barrier. Cool. . . Z -- G-Books is sponsored by

The USB hub issue. . .

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Folks, OK. . .we all know that one USB port can host over 100 devices. . .but I have only been able to find 4 port hubs. Why is this? Is there something about USB I don't understand? I need an 8 port powered hub. . .not the usual 8 port USB/Firewire Combo that only provides 4 USB ports and

Black Screen of Death?!

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
Hello, Well, it looks like my roommates iBook has officially died. Unless anyone here knows what happened to it. Now it won't boot all way. It will get to just before the login window comes up, then the screen goes to black, with white text saying, Darwin BSD: loginwindow failed to execute.

Re: Black Screen of Death?!

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 29, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: on 29/01/05 19:44, Zoltan Batiz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Well, it looks like my roommates iBook has officially died. Unless anyone here knows what happened to it. Now it won't boot all way. It will get to just before the login

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 29, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Amber wrote: On 1/29/05 8:25 PM, Laurent Daudelin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering - would you guys suggest that I zero all data and start from scratch or would a normal erase likely resolve the software problems... You don't need to do a zero all data.

Re: Erasing hard drive

2005-01-29 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 29, 2005, at 8:16 PM, Amber wrote: After a week of finding various firewire drives to back my hard drive up to, I am finally ready to erase my hard drive and hope that all the problems I have been having with the PB will disappear. Just wondering - would you guys suggest that I zero all

Re: ibook help- no idea why its not working!

2005-01-30 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 30, 2005, at 1:14 PM, John wrote: Dylan Moore wrote: Hey all, got more details from my friend clint on his ibook- I really need all the feedback i can get from you guys so we can get his ibook back together!! to dylan I don't know what is happening. I tried the first thing you said and

Re: Use External FW drive as backup boot drive for Powerbook?

2005-01-31 Thread Zoltan Batiz
On Jan 30, 2005, at 9:08 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote: I have a Powerbook (my only Mac) and I have a 60gb external FW drive. I would like to use that external drive as a backup boot drive in case my main drive dies on me some day (i.e. so I could hook up the external drive and boot off of that and

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