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They also have special industrial "shredders"... 1,207 Views / 19 Replies  
They also have special industrial "shredders" which you can put HDD platters through. They may go as far now as grinding former Top Secret platters into dust, I dunno. What I do know is that they...
Posted by Vond, on May 15, 2003 at 09:44 PM, in Mac Notebooks
There's no such thing as "Target Mode" in Mac OS... 924 Views / 17 Replies  
There's no such thing as "Target Mode" in Mac OS either - you probably realize this but it's a function of the firmware, not the OS. I wish PC makers would build it into their firmware as well. ...
Posted by Vond, on May 9, 2003 at 03:02 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Look at the difference in latitude. Maybe they... 870 Views / 8 Replies  
Look at the difference in latitude. Maybe they made a minor improvement that people in northerly places like MN and PA are still seeing, but someone in NC isn't?
Posted by Vond, on Apr 24, 2003 at 09:31 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Running your powerbook all night. 4,041 Views / 56 Replies  
Do it all the time with my Ghz TiBook. I did the kernel hack so that I could close the lid too. By the way the instructions for doing this are now out of date - the CVS repository where it used to...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 22, 2003 at 10:07 PM, in Mac Notebooks
See Hanul's message. It has nothing to do with... 599 Views / 5 Replies  
See Hanul's message. It has nothing to do with "formatting", it's just an accepted method of false advertising. Same for hard drives. You don't lose *gigabytes* to filesystem overhead.
Posted by Vond, on Apr 18, 2003 at 03:00 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Is this too bling? 1,971 Views / 24 Replies  
Wow, check out the price comparison:

Compare at : $129.95
Our Price : $149.95
(Savings of: ($20.00))

Nice of them to tell you that you can get it for $20 cheaper elsewhere. Now if they'd...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 18, 2003 at 02:48 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: Re: Wireless networking on a Wallstreet Powerbook 663 Views / 4 Replies  
Here's what you need to know (if your card doesn't "just work" with the Apple Airport software):

http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net/
Posted by Vond, on Apr 18, 2003 at 02:44 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Wireless networking on a Wallstreet Powerbook 663 Views / 4 Replies  
Umm, if you were running OS X, you could definitely use a PCMCIA wireless card using the third-party driver. I know zero about Classic OS'es but you might find a card with old (pre-Airport)...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 16, 2003 at 08:43 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Yeah, the 9000M uses the same basic architecture... 817 Views / 7 Replies  
Yeah, the 9000M uses the same basic architecture as the 8500 desktop chip, with lots and lots of power-saving and related features. Which is extra-confusing since there's a 9000 desktop chip too.
Posted by Vond, on Apr 16, 2003 at 08:39 PM, in Mac Notebooks
FTP also sends your password in cleartext... ... 1,108 Views / 7 Replies  
FTP also sends your password in cleartext...

I strongly SSH and SFTP/SCP.
Posted by Vond, on Apr 16, 2003 at 08:36 PM, in Mac Notebooks
I switched from PC Linux to Mac-only when I had... 931 Views / 31 Replies  
I switched from PC Linux to Mac-only when I had to ditch all my PC's in order to move to Japan. Recently I put Mandrake 9.1 on my TiBook. Installation was not particularly smooth (if I didn't have...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 15, 2003 at 09:44 PM, in MacNN Lounge
You can use a null modem cable and connect using... 546 Views / 4 Replies  
You can use a null modem cable and connect using terminal software, then transfer the files using zmodem or somesuch.

Or take out the SCSI drive, put it in an external SCSI enclosure, plug that...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 15, 2003 at 09:21 PM, in Mac Notebooks
No, they are incompatible. 987 Views / 11 Replies  
No, they are incompatible.
Posted by Vond, on Apr 14, 2003 at 12:43 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Closing the lid and staying awake (2) 719 Views / 7 Replies  
Kernel hack guide: http://www.binaervarianz.de/projekte/programmieren/meltmac/

I use this to close my Gigahertz TiBook when I leave for work during the day while leaving it running in case I need...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 6, 2003 at 10:38 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: PC crashed...wish my powerbook was here... 648 Views / 14 Replies  
Umm... I can't wait to see the look on your face the first time your Mac's hard drive suffers a hardware failure. Windows doesn't cause hard drive (hardware) failures any more than Mac hardware or...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 1, 2003 at 02:31 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I recently did some last-minute programming in... 2,217 Views / 26 Replies  
I recently did some last-minute programming in coach on Northwest flight 70 from Osaka to Detroit on my GHz TiBook. I found that I had to have the 'book about halfway off the tray to use it - but I...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 1, 2003 at 02:11 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Though, in this case, it might keep the battery... 499 Views / 3 Replies  
Though, in this case, it might keep the battery from going earlier than that, since Pismos lack the more intelligent charging algorithm of the PBG4's and charge the battery whenever it reports less...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 1, 2003 at 02:05 AM, in Mac Notebooks
For the million billionth time, yes it is normal... 972 Views / 12 Replies  
For the million billionth time, yes it is normal for the battery to discharge when plugged in. It's also normal for the battery to discharge when unplugged and turned off, and it's also normal for...
Posted by Vond, on Apr 1, 2003 at 02:01 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Holy crap! I saw someone wearing one of the... 1,004 Views / 8 Replies  
Holy crap! I saw someone wearing one of the hardshell variants with an apple logo on it in Kyoto station the other day, I was wondering what the hell it was. Looked like he just beamed down - from...
Posted by Vond, on Mar 25, 2003 at 09:44 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Well, got my PowerBook back from repairs... 594 Views / 3 Replies  
Has the ambient temperature increased? I've noticed my GHz TiBook exibiting the "fan problem" now when it would not before (i.e. under low CPU load), and I'm attributing it to the onset of spring...
Posted by Vond, on Mar 25, 2003 at 09:40 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Poll: I'd never even considered a Mac before OS X. I'm... 1,414 Views / 30 Replies  
I'd never even considered a Mac before OS X. I'm too addicted to getting down to the guts of my OS. Switched from Linux (with WinXP for gaming).
Posted by Vond, on Mar 25, 2003 at 03:59 AM, in Mac Notebooks
I moved my dock over to the right side to get as... 1,079 Views / 13 Replies  
I moved my dock over to the right side to get as much vertical space as possible and use up some of the excess width that I really don't need. I want a G4 laptop with a 14" 1280x1024 4:3 screen...
Posted by Vond, on Mar 6, 2003 at 10:20 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Well.. 712 Views / 8 Replies  
Sure, that would work fine. Of course then each partition would be unreadable by the other OS, but that may be desirable in some situations.
Posted by Vond, on Mar 6, 2003 at 09:22 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Of Course You Saw This 17" PB on eBay 996 Views / 5 Replies  
They have one of those paper-and-cardboard versions at the Sofmap Giga Store in downtown Kyoto - they had a 12" one too until they got their 12" display model. In the absence of an actual display...
Posted by Vond, on Mar 5, 2003 at 10:54 PM, in Mac Notebooks
And of course since Mac OS X can read/write... 712 Views / 8 Replies  
And of course since Mac OS X can read/write FAT32, you can share an external drive between a PC and Mac if that's your goal.
Posted by Vond, on Mar 5, 2003 at 09:11 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Well, if you know anything about radio, this is... 563 Views / 3 Replies  
Well, if you know anything about radio, this is no surprise. Basically the antenna has a shape, and arranging the antenna in a different position may improve signal. It's the same reason that some...
Posted by Vond, on Mar 5, 2003 at 09:01 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: PB cover 573 Views / 1 Replies  
Umm. 48,000 yen is a lot of money. Maybe if the Ti enclosure looked like it was sticking around you could amortize that over two laptops and it might be worth it, but.. Wow.
Posted by Vond, on Mar 2, 2003 at 09:40 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Wait a while. I submerged my Pismo keyboard in... 1,369 Views / 15 Replies  
Wait a while. I submerged my Pismo keyboard in clean tapwater for a really good cleaning, and tried plugging it in after a day of drying. I got strange behavior on a few keys, such as not working,...
Posted by Vond, on Mar 2, 2003 at 09:13 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: UFS? 970 Views / 14 Replies  
UFS does indeed stand for Unix File System. The big difference is that HFS/Mac OS File systems aren't case-sensitive, UFS is (so filename.txt is different from FiLeNaMe.txt). Also the...
Posted by Vond, on Mar 2, 2003 at 08:54 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: will I get good airport reception in my house with a tibook? 1,103 Views / 19 Replies  
My girlfriend's house has a cheap Laneed AP with no external antenna on the second floor, and I sometimes get 2-3 blips with occasional dropouts in her room on the third floor on my TiGhz. I haven't...
Posted by Vond, on Feb 27, 2003 at 10:13 PM, in Mac Notebooks
I live in Japan and I haven't seen hide or hair... 1,574 Views / 16 Replies  
I live in Japan and I haven't seen hide or hair of the SP. I really wanted to get my gf one for her birthday too :hmm:
Posted by Vond, on Feb 27, 2003 at 09:59 PM, in Mac Notebooks
I recommend doing a clean install if you get a... 970 Views / 14 Replies  
I recommend doing a clean install if you get a new machine. There should be an option in the installer (put in the Jaguar disc, hold down "c" when you're booting) to erase the drive, or use Disk...
Posted by Vond, on Feb 27, 2003 at 09:48 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Well.... If you really want to get technical and... 970 Views / 14 Replies  
Well.... If you really want to get technical and down-and-dirty about it, you can use find from the command-line to find the OS9 distribution (which is just a .sit file, hidden away!), use cp to...
Posted by Vond, on Feb 26, 2003 at 10:20 PM, in Mac Notebooks
This is incorrect. WC3 (1.04 at least) has... 1,007 Views / 9 Replies  
This is incorrect. WC3 (1.04 at least) has options for 1152x768 and 1280x864.
Posted by Vond, on Feb 18, 2003 at 10:12 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Pismo - Titanium Power Adapter converter 632 Views / 6 Replies  
Well, I have seen them here in Japan, they're marketed by madsonline and called the "Generation Gap" I think. However, I also know that the latest TiBooks use a 65W adapter instead of the 45W one...
Posted by Vond, on Feb 16, 2003 at 10:48 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Try a different distro of Linux. You're probably... 1,075 Views / 9 Replies  
Try a different distro of Linux. You're probably one of the first to try Linux on a 12" PB, and it's possible Apple may have done something funny with the IDE controller, though it seems really...
Posted by Vond, on Feb 13, 2003 at 01:34 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Well, it doesn't register the region change if... 952 Views / 9 Replies  
Well, it doesn't register the region change if you DO use vlc at least, because VLC uses DeCSS-like software to crack the decryption key instead of accessing it via the drive's firmware. VLC just...
Posted by Vond, on Feb 13, 2003 at 01:07 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: iDVD without a DVD Burner? 481 Views / 1 Replies  
MPEG-2 CD's are called SVCD's. They have the same quality as DVD's but are much shorter. I dunno about "hacked" versions of iDVD.
Posted by Vond, on Feb 6, 2003 at 12:52 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Actually, I think the DC adaptors (for cars,... 2,344 Views / 32 Replies  
Actually, I think the DC adaptors (for cars, planes, gel-cell batteries, whateve) would replace the charger-box with a lot less electronics, rather than adapt it. Though it handles all sorts of AC...
Posted by Vond, on Feb 2, 2003 at 11:49 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: Car Powerbook charger?? 585 Views / 2 Replies  
This is a car question, but related. I heard once that using a power inverter drastically shortened the life of your car's alternator. Anyone know if that's true?
Posted by Vond, on Jan 31, 2003 at 04:01 AM, in Mac Notebooks
It's pretty easy to get new Macs over here, you... 1,224 Views / 14 Replies  
It's pretty easy to get new Macs over here, you know... You can even order one from Apple BTO with a US keyboard if you want.
Posted by Vond, on Jan 29, 2003 at 12:37 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Off Topic, sorry. I hated Mac users saying... 1,428 Views / 29 Replies  
Off Topic, sorry.

I hated Mac users saying "PeeCee" when I wasn't a Mac user, and I still hate it now that I am a Mac user. Moreover, "PeeCee" refers to PC, "personal computer", not to PCI,...
Posted by Vond, on Jan 28, 2003 at 08:44 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Does IBM support still do the 3-year warranty... 2,092 Views / 47 Replies  
Does IBM support still do the 3-year warranty thing? About a year ago one of the professors I was supporting brought me his Pentium-166 Thinkpad running NT 4.0 - the mouse nipple had started to...
Posted by Vond, on Jan 24, 2003 at 04:27 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Yeah, programmers/admins might say and SBOD'ed... 3,579 Views / 60 Replies  
Yeah, programmers/admins might say and SBOD'ed program is "hung" not "crashed". Usually we reserve "crash" for the "crash and burn" sor of sense, i.e. on Mac OS X when you get the message "Program X...
Posted by Vond, on Jan 23, 2003 at 01:06 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Well, he has put on a few pounds in recent... 774 Views / 4 Replies  
Well, he has put on a few pounds in recent years...
Posted by Vond, on Jan 23, 2003 at 12:52 AM, in Mac Notebooks
A ZH case? I don't think anyone ever responded... 4,101 Views / 19 Replies  
A ZH case? I don't think anyone ever responded to my question in another thread - it seems from all indications that a TiBook will fit in a Z3 - yet it seems that online shopping sites that offer ZH...
Posted by Vond, on Jan 20, 2003 at 10:08 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: To clean keyboard, submerge in alcohol? 6,352 Views / 23 Replies  
Maybe they built things tougher in the old days, but I have a friend who has worked at the CS department of a large US university, and she said that in the 70s and 80s they used to take the keyboards...
Posted by Vond, on Jan 20, 2003 at 02:00 AM, in Hardware Hacking
Umm, to quote your own article: "if you consider... 944 Views / 12 Replies  
Umm, to quote your own article: "if you consider the fact that the 970's power consumption at 1.2GHz is a mere 19W, it's almost certain that we'll see a future notebook from Apple based on the new...
Posted by Vond, on Jan 20, 2003 at 12:45 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Only in it's 32-bitness is CardBus "basically... 1,007 Views / 15 Replies  
Only in it's 32-bitness is CardBus "basically PCI". The CardBus/PCMCIA slot is not a direct line into the machine's PCI bus. Fire up NetBSD or Linux on your PowerBook sometime and you'll see that...
Posted by Vond, on Jan 20, 2003 at 12:08 AM, in Mac Notebooks
My girlfriend has lost 2 yo-yo's working with her... 1,017 Views / 17 Replies  
My girlfriend has lost 2 yo-yo's working with her Pismo. When the second one went she bought a black "madsonline" replacement and it seems to be working well. We'll see how long it lasts.
Posted by Vond, on Jan 19, 2003 at 09:46 PM, in Mac Notebooks
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