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what CD RW brand would you suggest.

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Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:32:26 -0500 From: Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>[1]
Subject: [muglo] Re: USB 250-meg Zip with 10.3.9--Again! I'll echo Garth's
suggestion of wireless, when the time is right. For under $80 (if you buy at
the right time), you could "wire" two computers with wireless, and, for
around $150 you can have the house "wired" up on wireless with an internal
Airport card for your iBook and a wired connection for your other machine
(rebates and all that jazz). PS What model is the other computer? If it's a
Beige G3 or newer you should be able to use CD-RWs. They're a lot more
universally compatible now than zips (since few computers come with zip
drives anymore). Each CD-RW costs about $2 (they haven't really come down in
price over the years) and can be reused dozens, or sometimes even hundreds
oftimes (I have yet to have a CD-RW give up the ghost on me and my oldest
CD-RW is ~1999/2000... however, only newer computer/DVD drives can read
CD-RWs reliably (consumer electronics often can't)). Eric. On 11/18/05,
LeithPeterson <leithriver7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>[2] wrote: Thanks for your offer of
the CD burner, Garth. but I have a dual-layer CD burner with my G3. Got it
from The Cutting Edge on Adelaide, on the advice of Tee, and it works very
well. It's just that I like the zips for fast backups. Then I burn to CD
later. You are making a good point about the crossover cable. I don't think
I'm ready to go wireless. Leith Leith: If this is just for file transfer,
youcould simply buy a crossover cable, walk your ibook up to the third floor
and connect the two together using the ethernet port. On the other hand, if
buying a long cable running it though the walls is not convenient or
practical, you could, (oh-no here we go again!) consider going wireless.
While I understand the devotion given the price of of investing in Zips,
theydo seem to be a bit of a dead horse these days. You might also consider
burning CD's If you don't have a burner, I have an external one I used on my
233 G3. It's slow (4X max burn rate, but it works and you can have it if you
want to come get it in Kitchener. You can probably find one locally for less
then the gas it will cost you to come get mine. Cheers, Garth.
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Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>[6] Subject: [muglo] Re: USB 250-meg Zip
with 10.3.9--Again! On 11/18/05, Leith Peterson
<leithriver7@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>[7]wrote: As some of you may remember, I've had
anongoing problem with my usb 250-meg zip and my iBook G3 900 combo running
OS 10.3.9 and 9.2.2. I have been in discussions with Iomega and they
recommended removing the Iomegaware 4.0.2 software that I had on the OS
9.2.2portion of the drive. I did this, including removing the relevant
extensions completely from the Extensions Manager. This appeared to solve
theproblem initially, but now it's even worse than before. Just an FYI:
removing the Classic OS driver from the drive would *not* affect OS X. be
theroute I have to go in the future, but I've invested quite a bit in zips
and would like to stay with this method for the time being, mainly because
they are fast and I can transfer files between the G3 and my other
computers.You may want to consider a USB "flash" drive. They've come down in
price dramatically recently, and, I'm sure there are people on this list who
are intimately familiar with them (the only flash drive I've really used has
been my 512 MB iPod Shuffle, free care of TD-Canada Trust ;-). e.g.
<http://www.sonnam.com/detail.asp?S=3D700253751&prod_gp=3D33&prod_code=
=3D171&prod_ID=3D740617076615>[8] $25 for a 256 MB with compatibility with
Mac. The problem now is that the zip is not recognized at startup, besides
the ongoing problem of having to eject twice. However, I've found that if I
simply remove the usb device and put it back in after startup, it appears to
work fine. I've asked Iomega about this and they said if it works do it, and
that it may be caused by a problem with the usb controllers or ports. A USB
hub may help in this case. It's a "hub" into which you plug USB devices, and
the hub itself usually gets plugged into the Mac's USB port. You'd want a
"self powered" hub. According to the Apple OS 10 website, zips should work
with OS 10, so that hasn't helped me. My question is, do you know if
disconnecting and reconnecting the zip after startup can do any harm to my
software and/or hardware? Pls advise. Thanks. No, it will not damage your
hardware/software if done right. USB is designed to be "hot swapable" so
yourhardware is safe. HOWEVER, to protect data on your disk you must ALWAYS
eject any Zip disks using the Finder interface BEFORE unplugging the Zip
drive (i.e. in the Finder, select the Zip icon and type command-E or drag
theZip disk to the trash/eject button). Eric. ------------------------------
From: Gerhard <gerhardk@xxxxxxx>[9] Subject: [muglo] Re: USB 250-meg Zip
with10.3.9--Again! Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:54:28 -0500 I don't don't often
need a flash drive but I have used my camera's compact flash card in a
readerfor that purpose. It is recognized as a drive and allows you to simply
drag and drop, so you may already own the hardware needed. Gerhard On Nov
19,2005, at 8:41 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote: You may want to consider a USB
"flash" drive. They've come down in price dramatically recently, and, I'm
sure there are people on this list who are intimately familiar with them
(theonly flash drive I've really used has been my 512 MB iPod Shuffle, free
care of TD-Canada Trust ;-). ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19
Nov2005 13:20:51 -0500 From: Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>[10]
Subject:[muglo] Re: USB 250-meg Zip with 10.3.9--Again! True, though, that's
putting wear and tear on your camera (all the plugging-in and unplugging)...
and cameras already take a beating. Anyway, that's not why I'm revisiting
theforum. I just noticed that FutureSlop has a 512 MB flash drive for "$40
after rebate", which means that it's more in reality. <rant>I don't
understand why companies get hit with false advertising suits/charges when
they advertise an item for "$40 after rebate" when, in fact they advertise
the *before tax* purchase price, but then subtract the full *after tax*
rebate to compute the "rebated" purchase price... that's false
advertising...of course, we're still so backwards in Canada that we haven't
figured out that it's much more efficient to have taxes built into the
pricesrather than separate, thereby requiring a whole extra layer of retail
bureaucracy (and, this is _not_ government imposed... there are stores which
now have the taxes in their retail prices)... the collective drain on the
economy is huge... all to satisfy a few tax payer assho... <ahem>
nutcases.</rant> Eric. On 11/19/05, Gerhard <gerhardk@xxxxxxx>[11] wrote: I
don't don't often need a flash drive but I have used my camera's compact
flash card in a reader for that purpose. It is recognized as a drive and
allows you to simply drag and drop, so you may already own the hardware
needed. Gerhard On Nov 19, 2005, at 8:41 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote: You may want
to consider a USB "flash" drive. They've come down in price dramatically
recently, and, I'm sure there are people on this list who are intimately
familiar with them (the only flash drive I've really used has been my 512 MB
iPod Shuffle, free care of TD-Canada Trust ;-).
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Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>[15] Subject: [muglo] Re: USB 250-meg Zip
with 10.3.9--Again! On 11/19/05, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar@xxxxxxxxx>[16]
wrote: True, though, that's putting wear and tear on your camera (all the
plugging-in and unplugging)... and cameras already take a beating. Anyway,
that's not why I'm revisiting the forum. I just noticed that FutureSlop has
a512 MB flash drive for "$40 after rebate", which means that it's more in
reality. <rant>I don't understand why companies get hit with false
advertising Missed a word (though, I imagine you could understand what I was
saying): "...don't get hit..." suits/charges when they advertise an item for
"$40 after rebate" when, in fact they advertise the *before tax* purchase
price, but then subtract the full *after tax* rebate to compute the
"rebated"purchase ------------------------------ From: Martin Albinger
<max@xxxxxx>[17] Subject: [muglo] Re: [muglo]<rant> VATs: was Re: USB
250-megZip with 10.3.9--A Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:11:01 -0500 On Nov 19,
2005, at 1:20 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote: <rant>I don't understand why companies
get hit with false advertising suits/charges when they advertise an item for
"$40 after rebate" when, in fact they advertise the *before tax* purchase
price, but then subtract the full *after tax* rebate to compute the
"rebated"purchase price... that's false advertising Just reluctance on the
apart of the consumer to complain. ... of course, we're still so backwards
inCanada that we haven't figured out that it's much more efficient to have
taxes built into the prices rather than separate, thereby requiring a whole
extra layer of retail bureaucracy (and, this is _not_ government imposed...
there are stores which now have the taxes in their retail prices)... the
collective drain on the economy is huge... all to satisfy a few tax payer
assho... <ahem> nutcases.</rant> I would much rather see the 'full' price as
well. I love watching parents explain to their kids that while that thingie
is $9.95 they don't have enough with the $10 gran &gramps gave them because
the taxes haven't been added in. I have had overseas visitors who have found
it rather annoying too! On the flip side there is the whole 'hidden' tax
debate. I love explaining % of % - raising the GST by 1% doesn't sound like
much BUT it is an almost 15% increase (14.2 but 15 is such a nice round
number!) in the tax itself. On that flip side whether you pay a $1.07 vs
$1.08 the extra penny (dime or dollar) doesn't mean much to most people. An
extra $10 and up starts to have a more noticeable impact especially on lower
incomes which then implies those pennies and dimes start to add up too.
(Insert favourite folk wisdom here about pennies). Now there's something to
talk about, the penny - I vote we get rid of it and round every thing DOWN
tothe nearest nickel! Martin ------------------------------ From: Tee
Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx>[18] Subject: [muglo] Re: USB 250-meg Zip with
10.3.9--Again! Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:49:41 -0500 On 19-Nov-05, at 8:54
AM, Gerhard wrote: I don't don't often need a flash drive but I have used my
camera's compact flash card in a reader for that purpose. It is recognized
asa drive and allows you to simply drag and drop, so you may already own the
hardware needed. Gerhard I use my "Flash Drive" a lot, a Lexar 128Mb
"JumpDrive". My last trip to the UK it became invaluable all my 140 photos
onto it from various Big Blue machines because I forgot my Camera cable. OPs
readers read my camera memory &I was able to store all the photos as a
backup. Also use it to take APW files from Marg's Mac upstairs down to my
Macin the basement. All the settings are always saved correctly, whereas
email sometimes screws things up. BTW Eric is right there are a couple of
bigbox stores with great prices on 512 &1 Gig drives for less than $90,
whichmy 128 cost just 3.5 years ago on sale! TTFN, TeeC
------------------------------ From: Tee Cashmore <teecashmore@xxxxxx>[19]
Subject: [muglo] Re: [muglo]<rant> VATs: was Re: USB 250-meg Zip with
10.3.9--A Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:52:57 -0500 On 19-Nov-05, at 4:11 PM,
Martin Albinger wrote: I would much rather see the 'full' price as well. I
love watching parents explain to their kids that while that thingie is $9.95
they don't have enough with the $10 gran &gramps gave them because the taxes
haven't been added in. I have had overseas visitors who have found it rather
annoying too! .....Martin Totally agree Martin. A few US States have stores
that quote full price on their sale tags. TTFN, TeeC
------------------------------ From: Dave Bonhoff <gtidave@xxxxxxxxxx>[20]
Subject: [muglo] Re: [muglo]<rant> VATs: was Re: USB 250-meg Zip with
10.3.9--A Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 20:25:28 -0500 Let's not forget that there
are people who don't pay some taxes. For example, persons of "Native
Canadian" ancestry (or what ever the heck they want to be called) are able
toavoid civic responsibilities and not pay PST. It must be considered unjust
to force these people to perform simple math while off the reserve and
shopping to determine their 'discount'. And even worse to ask them to pay
nowand formally request a refund later! Heck, that is what I have to do with
my income, why can't they... And before there is a huge outcry, with people
flaming me in anger, I'd just like to point out that I'm being discriminated
against based on my ancestry, sex, sexual persuasion, religion and income.
I'm NOT able to claim any ethnic, sexual, religious, or financial
distinctions that are in my favor. Quite to the contrary! Being a white
heterosexual male of Catholic upbringing with a middle class income offers
meno privileges, just responsibilities (even though my lineage does trace
back to European and British aristocracy). It wasn't me or any of my
immediate relatives who may have treated the natives of this country in a
potentially unjust fashion (how many years ago?) so why should I be paying
continuing retributions? What do I have to be bitter about? Discrimination.
Plain and simple. We claim that we've abolished discrimination in this fine
country, yet we continue to discriminate for anyone who cries out. Bah!
Let'send discrimination once and for all! We can start by lowering all the
taxes while making the natives pay all taxes when making any transactions
offthe reserve. And that is just the beginning... Now THAT is a rant! Dave
On19-Nov-05, at 16:11, Martin Albinger wrote: On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:20 PM,
Eric Dunbar wrote: <rant>I don't understand why companies get hit with false
advertising suits/charges when they advertise an item for "$40 after rebate"
when, in fact they advertise the *before tax* purchase price, but then
subtract the full *after tax* rebate to compute the "rebated" purchase
price... that's false advertising Just reluctance on the apart of the
consumer to complain. ... of course, we're still so backwards in Canada that
we haven't figured out that it's much more efficient to have taxes built
intothe prices rather than separate, thereby requiring a whole extra layer
ofretail bureaucracy (and, this is _not_ government imposed... there are
stores which now have the taxes in their retail prices)... the collective
drain on the economy is huge... all to satisfy a few tax payer assho...
<ahem>nutcases.</rant> I would much rather see the 'full' price as well. I
love watching parents explain to their kids that while that thingie is $9.95
they don't have enough with the $10 gran &gramps gave them because the taxes
haven't been added in. I have had overseas visitors who have found it rather
annoying too! On the flip side there is the whole 'hidden' tax debate. I
loveexplaining % of % - raising the GST by 1% doesn't sound like much BUT it
is an almost 15% increase (14.2 but 15 is such a nice round number!) in the
tax itself. On that flip side whether you pay a $1.07 vs $1.08 the extra
penny (dime or dollar) doesn't mean much to most people. An extra $10 and up
starts to have a more noticeable impact especially on lower incomes which
then implies those pennies and dimes start to add up too. (Insert favourite
folk wisdom here about pennies). Now there's something to talk about, the
penny - I vote we get rid of it and round every thing DOWN to the nearest
nickel! Martin _________________________________________________ For
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