Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / October 2005

I hope someone can help me. Here's the situation:
I have an old 500 series Powerbook (540?) and it's been sitting for
like 3-4 years with the ac adaptor plugged in and batteries in it. (I
know this was dumb, to keep it plugged in, but I just kind of forgot

Anybody get airport express working with windows in
wpa2 mode?  I would like to know how many of these units
are being used in a mixed (win/mac) environment without
problems.

I have read MANY postings, and can't seem to find the answer to what I
need...
I am in an office, that , for security reasons, has steel reinforced
walls and doors.  When I am sitting in my waiting room, I can pick up

Havent been able to see a solution here (if there is one).
If I have my ibook plugged into mains power and I pull out the plug too
quickly it immediately shuts down ie the battery doesn't kick in even though
it runs perfectly fine on battery and its fully charged.  I can only get ...

How can I transport my Libary from iTunes running in a Mac into a
Pc????
Thanks

On my iBook G4 running OSX 10.3.9 I use the Network Pref Pane, PPP
Options, to set the modem to "disconnect if idle for 1 minutes" but
alas my modem is never idle for more than a few seconds. I can observe
this in the Internet Connect app. The modem is transmitting and

A week or so ago, a friend of mine spilled beer on part of my keyboard.
I was drunk at the time and didn't find out about this until yesterday,
and while it does solve the mystery of why the keyboard is sticky, it
doesn't solve any of my problems. The computer itself works fine, but

I'm sure this issue has been raised numerous times before, but
I'm in the market for a new computer (my 1997 Powermac is getting
rather long in the tooth and I really want a laptop instead) and
amongst all the talk about Intel powered Macs "coming soon" I'm