Re: iWork'08 Trial

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Moffatt
On 7 Sep 2008, at 07:08, Jim McGee wrote: I found iWork to be painfully slow and confusing in many ways. Realizing that it still needs work to suit my needs, I've decided to give up on it for the time being and would like to know how to rid my Sawtooth 400 of this trial version. As I am

Re: iWork'08 Trial

2008-09-07 Thread Bluellama
To replace MS Office you might want to try NeoOffice, I own MS Office at home and tried NeoOffice at work, works great for me and can't beat the price free or preferably a donation to help support the continued upgrades. My needs are pretty basic but it does everything I need it to do,

Re: Solid State Laptop Drives

2008-09-07 Thread dc
I don't know... the 5300 can't even run 9.2.2, much less OS X. Anyway 1.2 GB wouldn't hold OS X. If you want to use OS X you could fit it onto an 8 GB card if you leave out your unneccesary languages and printer drivers. On Sep 6, 6:19 pm, Simon Royal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DC Does this

Re: burning a DVD-R-W

2008-09-07 Thread Amanda Ward
Jane... On Sep 6, 2008, at 7:49 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you burn a DVD -R-W: 1. Can you delete stuff you have burned on it? Or is it there forever? If you are talking about an RW disc, yeah you can erase it and start over. AFAIK, this is an all or nothing deal. You can't remove

Re: Solid State Laptop Drives

2008-09-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sep 6, 5:24 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: starrfarr wrote: Cyberguys offers adapter cards that convert CF cards to either ata or sata so you could plug them into a computer to function exactly as a drive. Such a device that would accept SDHC cards could be VERY useful. Would this

Re: burning a DVD-R-W

2008-09-07 Thread Steve R
At 7:55 AM -0700 9/7/08, Amanda Ward posted: Jane... On Sep 6, 2008, at 7:49 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Can you amend files and text on the DVD? Once you close the burning session, the disc can't be written to unless you erase it again. If you were to burn a single 2 KB text file

Re: iWork'08 Trial

2008-09-07 Thread insightinmind
On Sep 7, 2008, at 8:04 AM, Dan wrote: At 2:47 AM -0400 9/7/2008, Bluellama wrote: To replace MS Office you might want to try NeoOffice Even NeoOffice is pretty slow on a 400-MHz Mac. I'm using NeoOffice on a PowerPC 8500 with Sonnet G4/450, Panther 10.3.9. Mostly a large 3 page

Re: Warning about Some LEM Folks

2008-09-07 Thread Tim Collier
On 9/6/08 9:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you are perceived as rude by a lister, they may send a copy to the Nannie. The Nannies for each list are posted on that list's information page under Who oversees the ___ List As of last November: LEMlistsAmber Robey and

Re: Solid State Laptop Drives

2008-09-07 Thread dc
I like this one for my older G3 and G4 towers: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad4cfprj.asp With this PCI card and 4 x 32 GB CF cards set up in RAID 0 I could have a total of 128 GB, fast, silent, cool all for just under $1000.00! Until the price comes down on the CF

Re: burning a DVD-R-W

2008-09-07 Thread Dan
At 11:32 AM -0400 9/7/2008, Steve R wrote: Try BurnAgain FS, 5 stars at versiontracker. It allows you to add files to a disc after burning without the need to reburn everything. I used earlier versions without any problems. However, I'm not sure about DVD-RW. Check out the trial available at

Re: iWork'08 Trial

2008-09-07 Thread Rick
You might want to check out AppCleaner, which is a app that you can use to completely remove any given app you might want to get delete. It's the best I've ever used! As of iWorks, your pushing it use based on the Mac you have... you might try a earlier version but I don't think it's going

Re: Solid State Laptop Drives

2008-09-07 Thread Ralph
Howdy, The solid state hard drives have advantages and disadvantages. Read times tend to be very quick because they are random access devices. Write times are usually slower than hard drives because of the way flash memory works. And writing is the big limitation to using these as hard drive

Re: Hack for Leopard install?

2008-09-07 Thread glen
I recently received a 400 MHz G4 to upgrade my BW. I just want to install Tiger. I seem to remember something about the BW not booting with a G4 installed, without a special driver. My G4 is an Apple brand one, if that makes a difference. This is a new BW to me and I'll be

Re: Hack for Leopard install?

2008-09-07 Thread Ralph
Howdy, On Sun, 2008-09-07 at 14:47 -0700, glen wrote: I recently received a 400 MHz G4 to upgrade my BW. I just want to install Tiger. I seem to remember something about the BW not booting with a G4 installed, without a special driver. My G4 is an Apple brand one, if that makes a

Re: Hack for Leopard install?

2008-09-07 Thread glen
I recently received a 400 MHz G4 to upgrade my BW. I just want to install Tiger. I seem to remember something about the BW not booting with a G4 installed, without a special driver. My G4 is an Apple brand one, if that makes a difference. This is a new BW to me and I'll be

Re: burning a DVD-R-W

2008-09-07 Thread Jane, (Portland, OR)
On Sep 6, 8:13 pm, Kris Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 6, 2008, at 9:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you burn a DVD -R-W: 1. Can you delete stuff you have burned on it? Or is it there forever? Not normally. There are two kinds of discs. The first kind is write   once,

Re: burning a DVD-R-W

2008-09-07 Thread Peter
On Sep 7, 2008, at 5:00 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: Kris, uh, it says in the title that it is a DVD-RW. Actually, the discs are DVD+RW. Does the plus make a difference? No, not at all, except + disks are claimed to be more compatible, although early owners of Macs equipped with