I verified that both of my FireWire drives are working with OS 9 and OS X. One drive is a Maxtor 80 GB 5400 RPM, almost 2 years old. The other is the original...
Jack G Burke
jgburke@...
Nov 1, 2002 8:17 pm
3612
How does one set up the VPN connection to Raytheon? Is there a setup file available with IP address and password, or do I need to go to my IT control point or...
Jack G Burke
jgburke@...
Nov 1, 2002 8:21 pm
3613
Does anybody know where you can buy Firewire bridge boards cheap? This is the little circuit board and chip(s) that go between your IDE drive and the Firewire...
Bob
az035@...
Nov 1, 2002 10:59 pm
3614
Jack: Surprised no one answered this sooner. Yes, you must get a secureID card in order to use the Raytheon VPN. Visit the Raytheon employee website, a little...
You need to get the VPN access first, and there's a form, so I think the IT control point is the way to start....
Allison
asheridan@...
Nov 2, 2002 2:24 am
3616
After I down a gallon of gin to drown my sorrows, I'm going to CompUSA to trade in my Mac for a PC. From ZDnet: Applications Judge backs MS-DOJ settlement By...
Allison
asheridan@...
Nov 2, 2002 2:29 am
3617
And this praise is coming from a UNIX-head!...
Allison
asheridan@...
Nov 2, 2002 2:30 am
3618
If this will be a second drive I would probably set the jumper for slave, since you know the other drive is the Master. If you are replacing your original...
Roger Fischer
r@...
Nov 2, 2002 3:10 am
3619
Still have the states suing. BTW, for those newer members, Allison is mostly joking. The future of Apple was not riding on the severity of this settlement. DK...
Dennis J Kane
dkane@...
Nov 2, 2002 5:32 am
3620
A couple of weeks ago I started getting an odd battery alert - when I open my powerbook and it wakes from sleep, it occasionally says "You are now running on...
Allison
asheridan@...
Nov 2, 2002 8:41 pm
3621
I've glanced at a lot of traffic on this. Here's a typical quote from http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/battery_life_in_jaguar.html <<Just thought I'd throw my...
My daughter is overseas with her ibook. She tried burning a cd-rw with one of her assignments on it. The ibook didn't recognize the cd-rw to format ( her...
fel bautista
btistahomewrld@...
Nov 3, 2002 1:01 am
3623
Missed a bit of the point here, I'm having no battery problems. My disk is spinning down at appropriate times, and I've played around with the energy control...
Allison
asheridan@...
Nov 3, 2002 1:50 am
3624
I didn't mean that quote to provide an immediate solution. Just trying to indicate that there are numerous discussions on 10.2, battery consumption and ...
If you are having trouble going to www.machacers.org, it's not you. Netsolutions.com is being a bit uncooperative. It should be working tomorrow or Monday. In...
All: I've not heard anyone mention this before. Has anyone, besides me noticed that you can halt and restart the Finder? (i.e.; click some- where on the...
Forgiven, and I didn't even notice the faux pas! I haven't tried quitting in that manner, but I have done a force quit of the finder. The coolest part is that...
Allison
asheridan@...
Nov 4, 2002 4:14 am
3631
... I have seen the exact same behavior on my Lombard running Jag. It has only been an annoyance so I haven't bothered trying to track down the cause....
I've seen the same thing with my iBook two or three times over the last two months. I had just upgraded from my original iBook to the 700 MHz combo drive model...
Jack G Burke
jgburke@...
Nov 4, 2002 7:45 pm
3633
My two cents worth (and I'm just guessing .. I don't have the problem on my Titanium under 10.2.1, and haven't solved this problem before under Jaguar). So...
Charles South
south@...
Nov 4, 2002 10:19 pm
3634
As an aside comment- what has been the average battery life for the the lombard/pismo ( firewire powerbook) with jaguar running??? Mine seems to be somwhere...
Felino A Bautista
fbautista1@...
Nov 5, 2002 12:31 am
3635
I would go with the firmware update available at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75130#English because it fixes other issues. Note that the...
Use coupon code CAMUGS for a 15% discount on their products. They make backpacks and bags for Powerbooks and iBooks. They've been online since 1998 ...
http://www.apple.com/switch/howto/move2mac/ Apple's finally getting really smart about this whole switch campaign thing- the three people who I convinced to...
tonphanan
tonphanan@...
Nov 5, 2002 4:42 am
3638
My SecureID card for the VPN went blank! The help desk said to check the expiration date on the back, mine is 1/31/03, and he said they go out sometimes. ...
Allison
asheridan@...
Nov 5, 2002 5:45 am
3639
I guess it's Ok for moving from a PC to a Mac, but man it's slow! Only 500MB in 15 minutes? That's only 2 GB per hour. The USB native speed is 50 Mb for...
Harry Andreas
harry.andreas@...
Nov 5, 2002 7:42 am
3640
The chip in the cable is the "USB tranceiver" involved in a USB data transfer cable. Most USB data transfer cables allow "Up to a 6 Mbit data transfer ...
