Re: PayPal: Yea or Nay?
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Don't get me wrong here. I'm not saying Paypal doesn't have room for improvement. But as services go, they're one of the best out there. And 99.9% of the complaints you see spewed around the 'net are unfounded, usually based on the customer failing to understand how payment processing services, and their own credit cards, work. What about this: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Seller-Central/21-Day-Hold/520175743start=0? -- Best Regards, John Musbach -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: PayPal: Yea or Nay?
At 12:01 PM -0500 1/8/2010, John Musbach wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Don't get me wrong here. I'm not saying Paypal doesn't have room for improvement. But as services go, they're one of the best out there. And 99.9% of the complaints you see spewed around the 'net are unfounded, usually based on the customer failing to understand how payment processing services, and their own credit cards, work. What about this: http://forums.ebay.com/db2/topic/Seller-Central/21-Day-Hold/520175743 Give it the smell test. There's an awful lot of information missing here. First... If you received a message like that - and keep in mind that the poster has NOT bothered to provide ANY of the ACTUAL message - from the company handling your business financial account, would you a) post a semi-off topic complaint in the *parent* company's public forum (remember eBay Paypal!), or b) immediately contact that financial company directly -- you know, call or email them? It is your business on the line, after all... This person chose (a). That's nutz IMO; a major red flag. Apparently, it's not a complete account freeze; it's just a back-side delay. That means the account can still receive and process payments -no interference with the normal business-. The owner just cannot withdraw funds *immediately*. Payment processors do this whenever there are problems reported that may result in a customer not getting a refund they're due. The delay is an easy way to cause the account to generate a positive balance in order to cover such. [1] The poster cites their stellar feedback and DSRs and says they've had no complaints. Does that make sense? What are the chances of selling that much stuff - 14,419 feedback (and only a percentage of customers leave feedback!) and getting NO complaints?! I can't imagine even a shipping service that's that good! So what's missing here? What event caused Paypal to take this action? It's possible that it was an error, but it's more likely IMO that this poster ain't as rosy smelling as he/she/it wants you to believe. Can't research further because the person has created separate posting and selling id's - and hasn't bothered to state their selling id. Again, I'm not saying there isn't a legit problem here. I'm just saying that this particular complaint doesn't pass much of a smell test. There's more to the story... Paypal does NOT nail accounts for the heck of it. [1] Paypal lets you sweep all the funds out of your account - basically out of their reach - as often as you want. That's fine in most cases. But it creates an extra level of pain when a customer requires a refund. After a single complaint (valid or not!), MOST payment processors would make the account holder maintain a large escrow balance - sometimes as much as 2 to 3x their normal monthly cash flow! Paypal's policy wrt this awfully pro-Seller. Traditional services would never do this. But can you imagine the scream if Paypal made all the Sellers maintain even a small balance?! (still perusing thru all the pages in that thread; not seeing more real info so far). Got to the posts where they're claiming it's a Paypal system-wide error. Not sure I believe that. The OP still hasn't provided any real details. And if that were the case, a single call to Paypal would fix it. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: PayPal: Yea or Nay?
At 1:11 PM -0500 1/8/2010, Dan wrote: (still perusing thru all the pages in that thread; not seeing more real info so far). Got to the posts where they're claiming it's a Paypal system-wide error. Not sure I believe that. The OP still hasn't provided any real details. And if that were the case, a single call to Paypal would fix it. Got thru the rest of the thread. Still think there's something fishy going on. The only thing that seems certain is that the account is still under review. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Replacement
My G4 gigabit has stopped working. I have an OWC 1000gz processor and 2 gigabytes of ram. Also an ATI 9800 mac pro video board. When it turns on the power button does nothing. It will boot into open firmware. When I type reset nvram then reset all it cycles back to open firmware. If I type boot I get an immediate kernal panic. The power button does nothing. Have to unplug and then replug. I have 3 hard drives and a firewire drive. I'm hopping that all my files are intact. I assume I must replace the logic board or the mac. Which G4 would allow me to plug in my hard drives? I'm using OS 10.5.8 and would like to purchase an intel mac but find the price prohibitive. Mac was running very well until about 4 days ago. Norm -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Replacement
On 8 Jan 2010, at 19:31, Norm nrow...@roadrunner.com wrote: When I type reset nvram then reset all it cycles back to open firmware. Sorry if this sounds stupid, but just to be clear, you're typing them as seperate commands, so reset nvram (press enter), then type reset all (press enter)? Also, try unplugging everything not needed to boot the machine and see if that helps? Just leave the boot drive, video card, and 1 stick of ram in (might need 2x256MB sticks as a minimum to get leopard to boot tho)? Try a different video card? Will it boot into target disk mode? Got another mac with FireWire? General fault finding routine -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
USB Death...
Folks, Installed X.5 on an otherwise booming but problem-free Quicksilver and my extra, two-slot ,USB card jsut died. I've tried the basic crap like shaking, moving and so on, and nothing works. What can be the problem? A -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: USB Death...
On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Gottick International wrote: Folks, Installed X.5 on an otherwise booming but problem-free Quicksilver and my extra, two-slot ,USB card jsut died. I've tried the basic crap like shaking, moving and so on, and nothing works. What can be the problem? Moved to 10.5 from 10.4.11? Tried the usual PRAM reset? What brand USB card? Supported under 10.5? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Replacement
Ummm... thios sounds like an OS problem to me actually... Try booting from a CD and if it does, do an archiveinstall. On Jan 8, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Norm wrote: My G4 gigabit has stopped working. I have an OWC 1000gz processor and 2 gigabytes of ram. Also an ATI 9800 mac pro video board. When it turns on the power button does nothing. It will boot into open firmware. When I type reset nvram then reset all it cycles back to open firmware. If I type boot I get an immediate kernal panic. The power button does nothing. Have to unplug and then replug. I have 3 hard drives and a firewire drive. I'm hopping that all my files are intact. I assume I must replace the logic board or the mac. Which G4 would allow me to plug in my hard drives? I'm using OS 10.5.8 and would like to purchase an intel mac but find the price prohibitive. Mac was running very well until about 4 days ago. Norm -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Replacement
Norm wrote: My G4 gigabit has stopped working. I have an OWC 1000gz processor and 2 gigabytes of ram. Also an ATI 9800 mac pro video board. When it turns on the power button does nothing. It will boot into open firmware. When I type reset nvram then reset all it cycles back to open firmware. If I type boot I get an immediate kernal panic. The power button does nothing. Have to unplug and then replug. I have 3 hard drives and a firewire drive. I'm hopping that all my files are intact. I assume I must replace the logic board or the mac. Which G4 would allow me to plug in my hard drives? I'm using OS 10.5.8 and would like to purchase an intel mac but find the price prohibitive. Mac was running very well until about 4 days ago. Norm Try booting from an installer CD/DVD. If you can then it's likely the OS on the HD is wonky. If you can boot then try running Disk Repair on the HDs from Disk Utility. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
software that works with Wacom tablet
I have a Wacom tablet Model SD-510C on its way for my son, who has learning dificulties. He wants to draw his characters on the Wacom and then color and animate them on his Wallstreet laptop running OS 8.x or 9.x, he could enter them onto a G3 desktop instead if that would work better. Has anyone had any experience with animating an image created on a Wacom tablet? If so, what software works well? He has other images already made he would like to scan in and then also color and animate. Any recommendations on how to scan them in and software to animate them? Thank you! -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: USB Death...
Tried the usual PRAM reset? YEPP What brand USB card? Supported under 10.5? No clue. That's why I am talking to you guys. __ Anders Fager Gottick International www.gottick.com -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: USB Death...
On Jan 8, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Gottick International wrote: No clue. That's why I am talking to you guys. Go to Apple menu About This Mac More Info This will open the utility System Profiler. Look under the tab PCI Cards and copy that information back into your reply. Also, make the reply plain text, I think you're sending html or rich text. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
FYI: Lite-On iHAP422 CD/DVD drive won't fit in MDD.
Door is too wide to fit through the MDD faceplate, even after elaborate surgery. Back to Pioneer. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: FYI: Lite-On iHAP422 CD/DVD drive won't fit in MDD.
I was able to remove the front bezel off the Smurf tower and install a DVD-ROM into my Blue White G3 without removing the drive's front bezel, if that's good for anything... :) Optical drive in question was a Samsung. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 21:42, Bruce bsugarb...@core.com wrote: tonycd wrote: Door is too wide to fit through the MDD faceplate, even after elaborate surgery. Back to Pioneer. == Hello, Also, if necessary, you remove the bezel from the front of the new drive. -- ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged. - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG episode The Drumhead - Alex Smith (K4RNT) - Nashville-Davidson County, Tennessee USA -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: FYI: Lite-On iHAP422 CD/DVD drive won't fit in MDD.
On Jan 8, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: I was able to remove the front bezel off the Smurf tower and install a DVD-ROM into my Blue White G3 without removing the drive's front bezel, if that's good for anything... :) Optical drive in question was a Samsung. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 21:42, Bruce bsugarb...@core.com wrote: tonycd wrote: Door is too wide to fit through the MDD faceplate, even after elaborate surgery. Back to Pioneer. == Hello, Also, if necessary, you remove the bezel from the front of the new drive. For what it's worth I have a G4 MDD that I have installed two Pioneer drives in. The Liteon Pioneer and Samsung are all the same when it comes to the bezel on the tray, they MUST be removed to operate in the Machine. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: PayPal: Yea or Nay?
How about use gift cards instead? They're available for eBay's, Amazon's, iTunes', Applebees'. We really need a LEM lounge board too, maybe. -Michael On Jan 8, 1:23 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 1:11 PM -0500 1/8/2010, Dan wrote: (still perusing thru all the pages in that thread; not seeing more real info so far). Got to the posts where they're claiming it's a Paypal system-wide error. Not sure I believe that. The OP still hasn't provided any real details. And if that were the case, a single call to Paypal would fix it. Got thru the rest of the thread. Still think there's something fishy going on. The only thing that seems certain is that the account is still under review. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
