Broadband Question

2004-01-20 Thread Keith Potter
Sorry for the topic drift... But I am moving to the Chicago area and I need to find a broadband internet service provider. Does anyone have any recommendations? I plan to run a wireless Airport network from an Extreme Base Station, connecting (for now) only my Pismo G3 to it. Any

Re: Printing from Wallstreet in Jaguar?

2004-01-20 Thread Andre Ruegg
on 1/19/04 10:43 AM, Roger Shufflebottom at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:22 -0600 19/1/04, Andre Ruegg wrote: Can I print to an Epson Stylus 600 connected to my Wallstreet's serial port from Jaguar? I have downloaded gimp-print but don't seem to be able to set up the printer. I tried for

Re: Floppy drive, DVD for wallstreet-advice appreciated.

2004-01-20 Thread Krevnik
On Jan 19, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Daniel Garcia-Rivera wrote: Second: Does anyone know where I could get a DVD playback kit (cardbus card, dvd-rom drive, any software enablers necessary)? The computer's previous owner kept his for some reason, giving me a CD-ROM instead. (can't complain though, he

Re: Floppy drive, DVD for wallstreet-advice appreciated.

2004-01-20 Thread Thomas Ethen
Here is one on ebay for $18! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=2780619850category=14908 Tom on 1/20/04 3:17, chueewowee at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My floppy drive died. It froze, and jammed. Then made the computer srash (in OS 9). It sarted working once. Then failed again

Spinning Beachball on Pismo w/ Panther

2004-01-20 Thread Sam Strong
Hi all - I just re-subscribed to this list to ask this questions, so apologies if this has recently been asked. I just installed Panther on my wife's Pismo last weekend and for the most part she and I are very pleased with it. We are having one recurring problem that I would like some help with

Re: Spinning Beachball on Pismo w/ Panther

2004-01-20 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 20/01/04 13:18, Sam Strong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - I just re-subscribed to this list to ask this questions, so apologies if this has recently been asked. I just installed Panther on my wife's Pismo last weekend and for the most part she and I are very pleased with it. We are

Re: Broadband Question

2004-01-20 Thread Jason Long
I've used SBC DSL for the last year and have been pretty happy. Very few outages (like maybe one?, but I don't really remember). Jason _ Let the new MSN Premium Internet Software make the most of your high-speed experience.

Re: Floppy drive, DVD for wallstreet-advice appreciated.

2004-01-20 Thread Paul Stamsen
About Re: Floppy drive, DVD for wallstreet-advice appreciated., at 8:09am -0800 on 1/20/04, Krevnik stated: - On Jan 19, 2004, at 7:48 PM, Daniel Garcia-Rivera wrote: - Second: Does anyone know where I could get a DVD playback kit (cardbus - card, dvd-rom drive, any software enablers

Re: OSX won't let me boot OS9

2004-01-20 Thread Frank P. Eigler
Are you holding down the Opt key at start-up? Do so, then wait for the HD icons to appear. Click the system you want to boot into. BTW, for future ref - keep OS 9 on the first partition. That way you just hold the d key to boot into 9, and the x to boot into X. HTH. On Tue, 20 Jan 2004,

Cloning a drive to new PowerBook G4

2004-01-20 Thread Mark Kippert
I'm planning to buy a new 15 PowerBook G4 in the next week or so. Currently I have a 500MHz iBook running the latest Panther and it's set up just the way I like it. The thought of transferring/reinstalling everything on the new machine doesn't excite me. I was wondering if anybody has simply

802.11G pccard?

2004-01-20 Thread Marc
Can someone recommend a 802.11G pccard to be used in a Pismo Powerbook? All I can find here(Netherlands) only have Wintel-drivers. Marc -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for

Re: 802.11G pccard?

2004-01-20 Thread Psychle
Marc, check out http://www.macsense.com/product/broadband/wireless.html; they have the AeroCard Extreme, a 802.11G card for macs as well as AeroCard Universal, a driver for MacOSX and OS9 that is compatible with most 802.11b pc cards on the market. Good luck. - Steve G -- G-Books is

Apple iBook G4 or PowerBook G4?

2004-01-20 Thread David George Hogg
Hi all, I am considering buying a new G4 laptop, I am either going to get a used TiBook G4 15.2 or a new iBook G4, could anyone with experience of either of these machines provide me with some info. I know the iBook is faster but I really like the look of the TiBook, and an AlBook is too

Re: RAM needed for OS X on Lombard

2004-01-20 Thread Mikael Byström
Tsuki, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have often heard that for OS X, the more RAM you have, the better it runs. I want to know how much RAM would be sufficient to run Panther smoothly on this machine. There have been some agreement in many circles I frequent that 384 MB is a magic number for

Re: Printing from Wallstreet in Jaguar?

2004-01-20 Thread Mikael Byström
Mike, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: a spare LocalTalk-Ethernet bridge. What did you pay for it? -- 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: Personal LaserWriter LS on WallStreet

2004-01-20 Thread Mikael Byström
Clyde, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said this: A Laserwriter II NTX has a localtalk port and uses postscript--which works under any system. Yes, but under OS X you gotta have an Ethernet interface in order to get to the printer at all. At least as far as I know. I suppose this is because there is no

Re: Cloning a drive to new PowerBook G4

2004-01-20 Thread ryan anderson
Neither are powerbooks, but I've used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the entire drive from my work machine to my home machine without any troubles. It's a great little program and you can find it here: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html ryan On Jan 20, 2004, at 4:08 PM, Mark Kippert wrote:

Re: Apple iBook G4 or PowerBook G4?

2004-01-20 Thread Frank P. Eigler
Three thumbs up for the TiBook. I've had mine for just over half a year and I love it. One comment - get the fastest one you can (1GHz) I think, and with a combo drive (if you need it). It sometimes feels a bit slow (maybe due to the 4200 drive?). Aside from RAM, PowerBook after market is .

Re: Cloning a drive to new PowerBook G4

2004-01-20 Thread Christoph Hammann
Am 20.01.2004 23:08 Uhr schrieb Mark Kippert unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm planning to buy a new 15 PowerBook G4 in the next week or so. Currently I have a 500MHz iBook running the latest Panther and it's set up just the way I like it. The thought of transferring/reinstalling everything on the

Re: Apple iBook G4 or PowerBook G4?

2004-01-20 Thread Andrew
The TiBook may look nice when you get it, but maybe not so nice after a while. TiBooks have a problem with scratches (one of my friends has one and all around the palm rest on the case there are scratches, just from normal use. he is very displeased). Also, there is the problem with AirPort

Panther won't boot - shell

2004-01-20 Thread gf sciacca
Just got the first problematic experience with Panther (TiBook 1 GHz). After finishing setting up the OS 9 partition (which I do need right now), I ran Norton on the OS X partition as minor problems were prompted by File Saver. These were repaired, then I defrag'd and upon re-booting to X.3.2, I

Re: Panther won't boot - shell

2004-01-20 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 20/01/04 22:35, gf sciacca at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just got the first problematic experience with Panther (TiBook 1 GHz). After finishing setting up the OS 9 partition (which I do need right now), I ran Norton on the OS X partition as minor problems were prompted by File Saver. These

Re: Apple iBook G4 or PowerBook G4?

2004-01-20 Thread Bruce Alsobrook
On Jan 20, 2004, at 6:03 PM, David George Hogg wrote: Hi all, I am considering buying a new G4 laptop, I am either going to get a used TiBook G4 15.2 or a new iBook G4, could anyone with experience of either of these machines provide me with some info. I know the iBook is faster but I

Re: 802.11G pccard?

2004-01-20 Thread Robin Ashe
On 1/20/04 2:16 PM, Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone recommend a 802.11G pccard to be used in a Pismo Powerbook? All I can find here(Netherlands) only have Wintel-drivers. Marc I'd say go for a Lucent/Proxim/Orinoco or rebranded one since AFAIK that's what the Airport is anyway.