Re: dvd/cdrom for G3 + PRAM (was) Re: Hi! newbie...

2003-12-29 Thread Geoffrey Stormzand
James; What happens is, when the power adapter is plugged in, at some point it was probably bumped, which causes a crack on the logic board itself, where that little round port attaches to the logic board. the only Apple sanctioned solution is to replace the logic board. you may be able to

Re: SCSI and powerbooks

2003-12-29 Thread Geoffrey Stormzand
The connection is called HDI-30, there are actually 2 different cables, one for normal SCSI connections which is light gray, the length is about 10 inches, the other which is required to use the powerbook in SCSI-Target mode is a dark gray and the cable length is only about 4 inches (sorry

Phil's story

2003-12-29 Thread Bill Parker
Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 05:19:09 +0800 From: Phillip McGree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: OT: House burglary tonight My house got burgled tonight. I fell asleep really early tonight, whilst laying on my bed watching tv. I didn't mean to doze off so early, and so

JPEGS

2003-12-29 Thread Bill Parker
What I always do now, at home using Photoshop and OS9.2, is alter my image in Photoshop, colour corrections and sharpness, anything else you need to change, then resize it roughly. Then I open the image in Graphic Convertor and save it as a JPG there. It has an option to save it web ready with

Re: Laser Printer

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 22/12/2003, at 9:11 PM, Bob wrote: I am currently printing with an Epson Styllus C41UX using OSX 10.3.2. The coloured ink is rarely used and I am getting sick of forever refilling the black cartridges or, even worse, incurring the expense of new cartridges. Not to mention head cleaning

Re: OT: House burglary tonight

2003-12-29 Thread Dave Choy
Wow, It looks like people these days really don't care for Christmas spirit, eh? Glad to see you didn't lose your precious, Phil! My friend got his laptop, mobile phone and wallet stolen on christmas eve while he was sleeping. Eerily similar to Phil's story except they came in through the

Panther built-in disk maintenance

2003-12-29 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
Here's a cool feature in Panther I didn't know about: it's called Adaptive Hot File Clustering, and is turned on by default. Here's a short description: - In general, it works like this: over a period of 60 hours, the file system keeps track of files that are read frequently (for a

OT : Phil's story

2003-12-29 Thread Mark Scholmann
Not experienced with the success of notifying Cash'Converters and the like, but I believe their procedures are to send a list (daily / weekly ?) of all incoming items to the police as part of their pawn-broker licence. So, if you have serial's and a good desciption with police it c/should help.

Re: OT: House burglary tonight

2003-12-29 Thread Bob Howells
On 29/12/03 8:07 AM, Dave Choy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, While I like security, I don't know whether I'd go the whole hog with security grills etc. I am reminded of the vietnamese family recently who got burnt alive in their home. Their placed had security grills over all the windows

Re: OT: House burglary tonight

2003-12-29 Thread Murdoch Allen
On 28 Dec 2003, at 5:19 AM, Phillip McGree wrote: My house got burgled tonight. On 28 Dec 2003, at 5:19 AM, Phillip McGree wrote: My house got burgled tonight. Okay moral of the story people #1 lock your doors #2 dont chase them Phill be lucky they ran I have heard of lots of occassions

Printer (driver?) disappeared!

2003-12-29 Thread Sue Oliver
Greetings all and best wishes for the season Have 17 inch Flat panel with Panther and an Epson Stylus Color 680. Had experienced some Printer not responding problems immediately before Christmas. Yesterday when I came to print there appears to be no printer in the system. However, I know

Re: OT: House burglary - Checking at Hock shops

2003-12-29 Thread Sue Oliver
Hi all It can be useful NOT to reveal to the 'hockers' that you are checking for stolen goods. I was given advice to look, identify quietly, note the sale number and details and report directly to police who would take the necessary action. Seems sometimes the 'offending' article/s can be

cookies

2003-12-29 Thread WILLIAM CRABB
Hello, I am buying software from the USA and they have asked me to send my credit card details in a cookie. Can anyone explain to me what a cookie is, Thanks Bill

Re: cookies

2003-12-29 Thread James Mandy
www.google.com.au: what are cookies? Web Definition: Cookies - Persistent Client-State HTTP Cookies are files containing information about visitors to a web site (e.g. user name and preferences). This information is provided by the user during the first visit to a web server. The server records

Fwd: Phil's story

2003-12-29 Thread Lindsay Adams
Phil, sorry to hear about the visitation you had. would also suggest we keep an eye out on ebay as this seems to be the modern way of fencing goods (no ID needed). Do you have serial numbers etc? Good luck with the search Lindsay