Re: Mail directory broken? PBG4 10.5.7

2009-08-08 Thread Nestamicky
On 8/6/09 12:18 PM, Dan wrote: Many people like Thunderbird And I'm one of those people who even think T-bird beta is better than mail.app. Try it! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for

Re: QS 2002 HW problem powering up

2009-08-08 Thread Meghrouni Vince
I On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:01 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: On Saturday, 1st of August 2009, Centrisman wrote: My QS 2002's power button will light when pushed but when released it goes dark. There is no sign of life inside the box or on the mother board when I push the power button. When I use

Upgrade options on G4 powermac

2009-08-08 Thread Mike Linnett
Mornin all. I've just bagged myself a new (to me) powermac courtesy of ebay, which should be a FW800 model, according to the serial number and http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html , although mactracker thinks its a regular MDD version, either way, I'm pretty stoked! Should

Re: iBook G3/700 Ubuntu experiment

2009-08-08 Thread Mark
Arnel Tuazon wrote: Well I thought I'd give my old iBook G3 some new life by installing Jaunty Jackalope as I kept hearing about Ubuntu and how great it is. All I can say is if you're a regular Joe computer user, Linux is still not for you IMHO. I don't understand how an OS (Linux) after

Re: a FW box with a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW?

2009-08-08 Thread Al Poulin
On Aug 7, 7:26 pm, Mullin9 ddavidmul...@inbox.com wrote: Do anyone make FireWire Enclosure that holds a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW I would consult by phone with the folks at OWC, Other World Computing, aka macsales.com. There are boxes that hold two drives, usually identical ones. Whether they

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-08 Thread Dan
At 10:56 AM -0700 8/8/2009, Dana Collins wrote: how do you folks feel about NeoOffice vs. Open Office (either being used as a substitute for MS Office)? Any pros/cons? Preference of one over the other? I am interested in hearing what you have to say. I prefer NeoOffice, because of its

Re: a FW box with a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW?

2009-08-08 Thread t...@io.com
Mullin9 wrote: Do anyone make FireWire Enclosure that holds a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW There are bridge boards which have a FireWire connection on the outside and an IDE connection on the inside.Single IDE bridge boards are used in the typical FireWire enclosures, of course. But there are

Re: Should I upgrade to 10.5.8 on a G4 933 Quicksilver that already has 10.5.7 on it?

2009-08-08 Thread Dan
At 7:45 AM -0700 8/8/2009, Al Poulin wrote: On Aug 7, 11:10 pm, ll mlitwin3...@att.net wrote: Will there be a problem? I just had this computer upgraded from 733 to 933 and added ram to total 1.3.I don't have 10.5 dvds to reinstall if there is a major problem. Yes, you should -- some

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-08 Thread Bob Whiton
My question: how do you folks feel about NeoOffice vs. Open Office (either being used as a substitute for MS Office)? I used NeoOffice until a Mac native version of OpenOffice (v3.0) came out. I found OpenOffice to be much faster than NeoOffice, with a similar interface, so I've switched.

Re: a FW box with a HDD, and a DVD ROM/RW?

2009-08-08 Thread Mullin9
Thank you for the advice, I;ll look for dual IDE to FW bridge --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list

Re: Having trouble with a TiBook 15 867MHz DVI not charging

2009-08-08 Thread Bill Connelly
On Aug 8, 2009, at 10:40 PM, Ross wrote: The system boots and runs off the AC, but does NOT charge the battery. The main battery has been changed out for a spare, but the problem persists. Is this a problem with the PRAM battery? Is this a logic board charging circuit problem? If so, is it

iCal email alarms from the dead

2009-08-08 Thread Meghrouni Vince
Well, not the dead, actually, but I thought maybe this posting could use a little pizzaz. I revived my beleaguered G4 recently by taking out the battery, pressing the CUDA button and waiting awhile before trying to start it. It did resuscitate the machine after a few days of the start

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-08 Thread Dana Collins
On 8/8/09 5:17 PM, Bob Whiton of m...@rswhiton.com sent My question: how do you folks feel about NeoOffice vs. Open Office (either being used as a substitute for MS Office)? I used NeoOffice until a Mac native version of OpenOffice (v3.0) came out. I found OpenOffice to be much

Re: Open Office vs. NeoOffice

2009-08-08 Thread Dana Collins
Hi Dan, Thank you for the response. You kind of described me, lover of AppleWorks, not terribly attached to Pages (though my daughter thinks it's great) - I dread the day when AppleWorks is completely unusable. Thanks again, Dana On Aug 8, 2:13 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 10:56 AM