Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #158 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 01 Aug 97 Volume 15 : Issue 158 Today's Topics: Re: Info-Mac Digest V15 #156 (Q) OS8 on 840 AV? [A & Q] Flushing an AppleShare Autolink [A] MAC OS 8 and PC compatible Card [A] MAC OS 8 and PC compatible Card Desk chair recommendations? Info-Mac Digest V15 #155 Netscape, Eudora, PPP and japanese language kit Usage Tracking Software. Wierd monitor problem The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, Matt Bauer, Liam Breck The Info-Mac Archive is available at 50 public and private sites around the world. For the site list, request it by mail (address below), or try: Also accessible by ftp. Help files and indexes are also in info-mac/help/. 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TIA Lars ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 08:58:56 CDT From: Bo Parker Subject: [A & Q] Flushing an AppleShare Autolink Al Bloom asked: [...] > How on earth do I rid our machine of that automagic link attempt? [...] Al: [EMAILED AND POSTED TO INFO-MAC DIGEST] Here's how to do it: throw away the AppleShare Prep file, which is in the Preferences Folder in the System Folder. That'll do it. Unfortunately, if you have any other auto-logins set up, it'll get rid of them, too. Which brings me to my question: where I work (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center), my users will sometimes set up auto-logins to temporary servers that go away/are taken down eventually. However, the "login" message for these comes up every time they start their machines. Since the temporary servers are no longer on the network, they can't just go into the Chooser and "uncheck the auto-login box." Is there a way to edit the AppleShare Prep file in order to delete one or more auto-logins without disturbing others? (Some of our users have auto-logins to as many as 6 or 7 AppleShare servers, and it's a pain to have to re-establish all of them in order to delete just one "faulty" one...) Cheers! -Bo Parker fbparker@hiwaay.net bo.parker@msfc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 11:25:58 -0400 From: rshapiro@spam-retardant.bbn.com (R Shapiro) Subject: [A] MAC OS 8 and PC compatible Card >From: Hannes Hofer > >After having scurried all the literature I could find about a possible >incompatability, I took the plunge and installed Mac OS 8. Result: I can no >longer run the pc side of my computer. When I switch, I never get past the >first screen where the pc counts up the memory. Hmm. Just minutes ago I finished a generic clean installation of MacOS 8 on the same hardware, 7200/120 + Pentium 100 card. The card continues to work fine in all respects: basic operation, networking, shared folders, clipboard transfer. I'm running version 1.5.5 of the compatibility software, which is the latest official release for this card (I have 1.6 but I haven't seen any reason to install it yet). After the clean install of MacOS 8, all I did was to drag the PC-card extensions and control panel from the Previous System Folder into the new System Folder and reboot. It was not necessary to reinstall the 1.5.5 compatibility software. You're not using RamDoubler, are you? In any case, whatever went wrong with your installation, it's not a general problem. The card, with 1.5.5 software, is happy to coexist with MacOS 8.0. -- rshapiro bbn com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 06:34:37 -0500 From: Hannes Hofer Subject: [A] MAC OS 8 and PC compatible Card I figured out why I could not run the PC side on my Power Mac 7200 PC compatible computer under OS 8: The problem was caused by a conflict between Ram Doubler 2 and OS 8. The same bug also prevents me from mounting floppies on the Mac with Ram Doubler running. Connectix knows about the bug and they are working on a fix. Hannes Hofer ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 20:57:23 -0400 From: Chris Brannon Subject: Desk chair recommendations? This is not strictly Mac related, but since it is directly related to the use of Macs, I hope you will indulge me. I spend a lot of time at my desk at home. I do at least half of my work from there. I use my computer there, I do paperwork there, I read there. I watch TV there, pet my cats there, talk on the phone there. On more than one occasion I have fallen asleep there. I think I deserve a *really* good chair. Value is important, but price isn't so much, if you know what I mean. This is an investment in my properly-ergonomic future. I want an adjustable back angle. I want an extra high back (shoulders at least, head rest preferred). I'd like to be able to tilt it back, or lock it in place; maybe tilt in any conceivable direction. I want a contoured seat. Good lumbar support. Arms that are adjustable in height. Antigravity mode. So many levers and knobs on the underside of the seat that I need a manual to figure it all out. No leather. Does anyone have a good recommendation, or know where I should start looking? I will summarize once I get a good idea of what is available. Regards, Chris ------------------------------ Date: 31 Jul 1997 20:20:10 GMT From: Reseda_Mickey@lamg.com (Reseda Mickey) Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #155 d> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 10:35:41 -0500 d> From: Nick d> Subject: [Q] Refresh rate d> d> d> I work in a lab located near the AC feed lines for the building. d> All of our Apple and DEC monitors had such horrible on-screen d> wobbling that we had to send them out for special mu-metal d> shielding, needless to say, it is very expensive. However, our d> only PC user in the lab has had no such trouble with his monitor. d> Its refresh rate is 60hz, which implies that the problem is due to d> the beat frequency of Apple's 67 or 75hz rate and Con Ed's 60hz. d> My question is if their is any way to set a standard Apple monitor d> to a 60hz rate? -Nick My ATI Xclaim 3D card control panel allows a variety of standard setting Hertz rates and some nonstandard rates that I must manually adjust the horizontal and vertical positions of the picture on my monitor, but all look fine: 512 x 384 70hz 640 x 480 60hz, 67, 72, 75, 85 800 x 600 56hz, 60, 72, 75, 85 823 x 624 75hz 1024 x 768 60hz, 70 75 The manual says it has an even larger number setting, but maybe my 17" monitor isn't large enough ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 1 Aug 1997 10:09:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: Paolo Bartoli Subject: Netscape, Eudora, PPP and japanese language kit A japanese friend of mine has aked me some questions, but I can't answer. Can you? She's working with a PowerBook 1400, System 7.5.x (I presume, since she just bought it in Japan), japanese language kit, and a set of Internet application, jap release (Netscape 1.0, Eudora Pro 2.1.3, Fetch, etc). I supplied more recent releases of Netscape 3.0, Eudora 3.0 Lite, english release, with FreePPP 2.5, but these seems not to read the Kanji characters (since she works with Japan, she needs to read/write in japanese). a) Netscape 3.0 (english release) can recognize Kanji (japanese) characters? This friend of mine has Netscape 1.0 japanese release, and it works. How can I make it work? b) same question as above but with Eudora. The english release can read/write in japanese? c) The PB 1400 comes with the usual Apple Internet Suite: MacTCP and config PPP (not FreePPP 2.x). It seems like that Netscape 1.0 jap doesn't work with FreePPP 2.5 (that is required by the Internet Provider here in Italy - yes, Milano!). Does anybody knows if Netscape 1.0 jap _requires_ PPP? d) any suggestion about working with Internet applications, PowerBooks and the japanese (people and characters)? TIA ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli pbartoli@pn.itnet.it ** ** pbartoli@iname.com ** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:40:18 CDT From: "Tom Kirke (312) 413-5539" Subject: Usage Tracking Software. Howdy! I need some software that will require a password to use a machine. It must also log the times that the machine is used by user. TIA, Tom Kirke ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 31 Jul 97 07:49:38 -0700 From: Hans DeHamer Subject: Wierd monitor problem I've had a PowerMac 7200/75 with 40 m of RAM for about a year, and the warranty is about to run out. I've always had a strange problem with the monitor. Sometimes when the screen redraws (this problem was brought to my attention when I started marathon and the splash screen came up) small 1/4 inch 1-pixel thick lines are interspersed with the picture for a split second. A consultant I asked told me he thought it was a bug in system 7.5, but I'm doubting this opinion...anyone have any ideas aside from the standard troubleshooting? Thank you in advance, Hans -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************