Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #233 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 31 Oct 97 Volume 15 : Issue 233 Today's Topics: [*] GoneSince ScreenSaver [*] Pseud040 (Q) Mac OS 8 and Pegasus Mail 2.21 (Q) ADB optical mouses (Q) Mac OS preferences [Q] PC-CD for Mac [Q] PC-CD for Mac [Q] - MS Word Crashes [Q] 2 questions Apple's future in the PC world Barcode pattern on 170 startup Can't drag & remove from Launcher Desktop pictures control panel Desktop pictures control panel Desktop pictures control panel Dow sinks, Apple floats Eudora Mac/PC setup options Eudora Mac/PC setup options Index Node Link Problem Info-Mac Digest V15 #231 InfoBeat Redux ISDN Modems MAC vs Windows Nader vs. Microsoft new batteries for PB180 NEWS: Free QuickCRC Trial For OO Design newton gps Bonzai needs slurpee for map and speech files OS 8 window problem PC-CD for Mac [R] Performa 6400 modem upgrade Shutdown and Restart problem VRAM Problem The Info-Mac Network operates by the volunteer efforts of: Gordon Watts, Adam C. 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We'd also like to thank AOL, who has supplied the hardware the main info-mac machine runs on. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #233" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:47:52 -0700 From: bward@scruznet.com Subject: [*] GoneSince ScreenSaver Ever wish that you could tell colleagues where you went and how long you've been gone? GoneSince is a screen saver for AfterDark or Darkside of the Mac that bounces a message around on the screen indicating how long you've been gone and any other message you want to include. You can set the font, style, size and color of the message, and you can build up a list of messages that you use most frequently to make it easy to select one. GoneSince is most useful if you set the message everytime you leave your office, and this package includes a very cool application written by Tom Bonura that lets you set the message by just talking to your computer. GoneSinceSRMonitor is a small application that sits in the background and uses the Speech Recognition Manager to listen for any of the messages in GoneSince. When it hears one, it switches to that message and puts your computer into sleep mode. Imagine just saying "Out to lunch" as you get up from your computer and having it start displaying your message as you leave your office to go to lunch... Freeware. [Archived as /info-mac/app/ss/gone-since-screensaver.hqx; 157K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:47:53 -0700 From: michael@nfocomm.COM Subject: [*] Pseud040 This is the first public release of Pseud040, a shareware control panel which allows 68020 and 68030 Macs to run 68040 software! Yes, that's right, you can now run Dark Forces on a Mac II! It's shareware ($20). I hope owners of vintage Macs get some more years out of their machines. I guess you should put this in the Configuration section (or wherever SoftwareFPU is, since they do similar things.) Thanks, Michael Connolly michael@nfocomm.com [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/pseud-040.hqx; 86K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:31:02 -0500 From: "Whitney L. McBee" Subject: Hello Info-Mac, I am looking for an OS8 compatible utility that will give me the functionality of Now Utilities (v6.7). The specific functionality I am looking for is: Now Menus ability to customize the order of the items displayed in the Apple Menu Items, display icons in the sub-menues, and add separators. I would also like to find a utility that duplicates the functionality found in Now Super Boomerang (NSB). NSB aids in the navigation of open and save dialogue boxes by adding a menu bar which contains contains items for frequently used folders, last used folder, drives, etc. Does anyone know if any of the components of Now Utilities are compatible with OS8? Please respond to me directly, as I am only able to read the digest periodically. Thanks. Whitney L. McBee mcbeewl@jmu.edu Computer Systems Administrator James Madison University Biology Department ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 9:41:30 GMT-4 From: "Denis M. Pelletier" Subject: (Q) Mac OS 8 and Pegasus Mail 2.21 Hi all!! We're having some problems with our staff members who upgraded to Mac OS 8 when reading there E-Mail with Pegasus Mail 2.21. Here's what's going on... Our users are login onto our staff server, running on Novell 3.12 (fully patched). Once the SYS partition is visible on the desktop, (SYS partition is the place where Novell stores the mail) they launch PMail 2.21 and they just can't see there new messages. It feels as if the PMail doesn't see their mail directory... or something. We thought it might be because of PMail's config file so we delete it and relaunched PMail... Nothing. I also thought it might have been Murphy playing with us, so I checked everything on those users accounts but without succes.. (maybe the Novell's bindery needed fixing but that wasn't the case) I then created a new account and tried PMail with it, but that didn't work either. (it could have been some weird thing with an old account) Any how, I'm fresh out of idea to try...I'd love some suggestions here. If you have some, please e-mail then to DENIS@CUSLM.CA Merci et bonne journee!! / Thanks and great day!! Denis M. Pelletier Responsable du Reseau / Network Manager Universite de Moncton - campus d'Edmundston 165, boul. Hebert Blvd Edmundston, NB E3V 2S8, CANADA Tel./Phone: (506) 737-5293 Telec./Fax: (506) 737-5373 DENIS@CUSLM.CA VE1 DYZ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:19:52 -0700 From: Mark Allen Subject: (Q) ADB optical mouses Are there mouses using exclusively optical techniques (no moving parts) available for the Mac ADB interface? If so, does anyone have experience with these? Is the pointing resolution better or worse than the standard mouse? Thanks! Mark Allen Mark.Allen@jpl.nasa.gov ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:38:53 -0500 From: Randy Scutt Subject: (Q) Mac OS preferences (I'm running a PowerMac 8500 Mac OS 8) Three settings don't hold whenever I restart -- 1) Under Edit-->Preferences, whatever I change my screen font to, it reverts back to Geneva 10 2) If I turn File-Sharing off, it turns back on 3) If I change the Trash to not warn before emptying, it reverts back to warning Has anyone had this problem? I can't find any of these preferences to delete, and I don't want to reinstall the System. Any advice? TIA. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 05:06:36 -0800 From: Daly Jessup Subject: [Q] PC-CD for Mac Lars asked: >Is it possible to use a PC-CD-drive (SCSI or SCSI-2) in a Mac? I=B4m going >to replace the internal CD-drive in my 840 AV, and it seems to me that >PC-drives are quite a lot cheaper than Mac-drives - at least here in >Denmark. My husband has a Toshiba PC CD drive in his 8100/80. We had to replace the little sound cable (it cost about $12) so that sound would work, and we had to use a third-party CD-ROM driver, as Apple's apparently only works with Apple drives. We were lucky: we already had FWB's CD-ROM Toolkit, and it works with the Toshiba drive. Once the software was in, we were able to use the drive and it works beautifully. In fact, CD-ROM Toolkit drives both the Toshiba and the Apple drive, so to his surprise, he now has 2 CD-ROM drives that work simultaneously. (The Toshiba is an external.) If you are interested, I can send you the "Supported Devices" readme from Toshiba to see if CD-ROM Toolkit works with the drive you propose to install. Daly Daly Jessup mailto:jessup@san.rr.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:59:29 -0600 From: Chaz Larson Subject: [Q] PC-CD for Mac >Is it possible to use a PC-CD-drive (SCSI or SCSI-2) in a Mac? As long as it's a SCSI CD-ROM, not IDE, then the answer is yes. You will need to replace the Apple CD-ROM drivers with a third-party driver like FWB CDToolkit, since the Apple drivers will not see the new non-Apple CD-ROM drive. Other than that, it should just drop right in. chazl - 10.27.1997 - chaz@visi.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 97 11:18:56 -0500 From: "Kevin L. Hames" Subject: [Q] - MS Word Crashes I'm having trouble with Microsoft Word 6.0.1a crashing. Ever since I upgraded to OS 8, Word will crash when started for the first time after cold starting the computer. Here's the scenario that will cause the crash: 1) cold start computer 2) start Word 3) get "bus error" crash Since installing Norton Utilities 3.5 with Crash Guard, I have been able to get around these crashes by simply choosing the "Quit Application" option that pops up when Crash Guard detects the crash. Here's some weird results I've obtained while trying to track down the source of this problem: 1) Only happens the first time either Word is started after a cold start - starts after the first crash work fine. 2) Hot starts do not cause Word to crash after the restart. 3) Neither Excel nor PowerPoint exhibit this behavior. Here's the specs on my Mac: Power Macintosh 8100/100 64 MB RAM 1 GB hard disk 2x CD-ROM OS 8 Here's what I've tried so far to fix the problem: 1) reformatted hard disk (low level) before OS 8 install 2) fresh install of Microsoft Office 4.2a 3) multiple desktop file rebuilds 4) multiple checks with Norton Utilities 3.5 5) zapped PRAM 6) fixed possible SCSI termination problem I'm tempted to chalk this up to a Microsoft specific problem except for two things: 1) I'm running a near identical software set-up on my PowerCenter 120 at home without any problems. 2) This computer had, back in the System 7.5 days, an incompatibility with some versions of LaserWriter 8.4 software, which manifested itself by freezing the computer during start-up. Switching back to LaserWriter 8.3 software fixed the problem, and I've had no printing problems while using OS 8. Any suggestions/insight into this problem are appreciated. TIA! Kevin L. Hames klhames@indy.navy.mil hames@inetdirect.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:19:53 -0500 (EST) From: NCICCHECK@aol.com Subject: [Q] 2 questions I have 2 questions to post: 1. does anybody know of a portable printer that can print to carboned forms? I want to be able to print recipts with carbon copies. The recipts are about the size of an A-10 envelope. Either mac compatable or pc. 2. I have an annoying startup problem. My 2gig hard drive is partitioned into 5 parts. The partition I have my System Folder on must have a defect of some kind. If I keep another System folder on another partition it will default to that system on startup no matter which partition is chosen in the startup disk control panel. If there is no other system folder present then the startup will procede normally with the following problem. The computer finds a Blessed system folder on the drive and starts to load. As this happens there is a momentary flash of the blinking floppy icon and then back to the happy mac icon and loading procedes normally. If there is another system folder on another partition I feel this is where the switch to that folder is made. If i start from any other partition there is no icon flash during startup. I have System 7.6.1 on a 6100 power mac. The following utilities all did their thing and report no problems. Conflict Catcher 4, Techtool 1.1.4, Norton Utilities, and Disk First Aid. TIA John McGibney NCICCHECK@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:35:22 +0100 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: Apple's future in the PC world tedlogan@tulsa.com (Ted Logan) wrote: > That is the job of Apple's management; it is what they're paid for. I > argue that they have failed to do their job and are still failing, from > what I can tell, even to understand that Apple promotion, distribution, > and marketing *is* their job. Since the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984, Apple's marketing was never adequate in my opinion. Of course, it's easy to say this while I am not personally involved in this task. In contrast to this, Microsoft obciously did it right, at least when you can judge according to the sales and profit figures. The difference between Apple and Microsoft is - as I see it - the following: Apple wanted (or wants again) to be the only producer of computer hardware, while Microsoft wants everyone to use their operating system - no matter where the hardware comes from. They don't sell hardware, so they have no problem with this. The Rhapsody development is a step into the right direction: to become independent of hardware. But Rhapsody for Intel won't run any Mac software, only software developed for Rhapsody (while obviously Rhapsody for Mac will do this). But since Rhapsody won't run on older Macs (even on PPC 601 it won't run!), we all have to buy new hardware anyway or stay with today's applications.=20 > the answers we get back will increasingly be, "Sorry, too much trouble fo= r > too few users. Buy Windows." During the existence of Macs, Apple has sold millions of computers everywhere in the world. If we could mobilize just a part of these users, I think many could be convinced to offer their services or software also for MacOS.=20 > And finally, so as to stray not too far from the real point of my InfoBea= t > example, it is *not* InfoBeat's software that is being offered! It is > *Microsoft's* software! Microsoft has written special software to enhanc= e > and improve InfoBeat's service and has either given it or leased it to > InfoBeat to offer to InfoBeat subscribers as a free download *compatible > with Microsoft's Windows system, only*. Didn=B4t Bill Gates endorse his support for MacOS when he took a $150m stake in Apple shares? So, Microsoft is the right address to write to in this case.=20 Yes, I agree that it is Apple's job to do marketing for the Mac, but if I can help promote the "user-friendlier" operating system, I will do so. When I write to someone to convince them to also support the MacOS, I copy my correspondence to the responsible persons at Apple Switzerland. Don't know what they do with it, but every now and then I get some "thankyou-messages" back.=20 So much for today. Best wishes, Christian. --=20 Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 426 64 86 Obere Kirchzelg 12, CH-5430 Wettingen (Switzerland) =20 Look at ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 21:11:44 +0000 From: d.frampton@philosophy.bbk.ac.uk Subject: Barcode pattern on 170 startup Hi all, My brother has a problem with his Powerbook 170. Can anyone help.... After startup the screen seems to be covered in a repeated barcode-like= pattern and the hard disk makes a number of attempts to spin-up. Sometimes= it gets stuck at the smiling Mac icon and sometimes it starts. When it runs= it seems to run okay. Norton Utilities doesn't report any problems. If anyone has any ideas I'd be pleased to hear them; replies off list are we= lcome. Thanks, Daniel Frampton d.frampton@philosophy.bbk.ac.uk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 22:14:43 -0800 From: prosoul@orca.bc.ca Subject: Can't drag & remove from Launcher Any ideas why I can't remove files from my launcher using opt-drag with 7.6.6 ? I have to delte them from the launcher items folder to make them go away! Thanks, J.M. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 23:19:54 -0500 From: Diane & David Turner Subject: Desktop pictures control panel >Subject: Desktop pictures control panel > >I have installed Mac OS 8 on my Starmax 3000/180. The Desktop pictures >control panel is installed in the control panels folder. When I open the >control panel, I get a message that says,"the control panel must be installed >in the control panels folder or the desktop pictures will not display...". > I have looked at apple.com for some clues but found none. I have looked in >some of your info-mac digests and find no reference to any problems. Is >there an extension missing or something? Any ideas? Thanks Do you perchance have Conflict Catcher installed? I had this same problem when I upgraded to OS 8. I (manually) disabled all non-Apple extensions and control panels and Desktop Pictures worked OK. I stress that I *manually* disabled all non-Apple startup files, as the problem turned out to be caused by Conflict Catcher 3. Conflict Catcher 4 solved the problem (although caused a few others I won't go into). Hope this helps. David Turner Centerville, Ohio ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 16:53:18 -0500 From: Stan Hadley Subject: Desktop pictures control panel Surprise, your problem is Conflict Catcher 3.0. Apparently there is some conflict between CC 3.0 and MacOS8. This got me worried, thinking I had done something wrong, so I spent several hours re-clean-installing OS8 and trying to find a conflict, using Conflict Catcher 3.0 :/ Off course it wouldn't tell me it was itself causing the problem. I ended up doing without pictures until I upgraded to CC 4.0. Stan Hadley >Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:34:06 -0700 >From: SAsh102038@aol.com (by way of Info-Mac Moderator) >Subject: Desktop pictures control panel > >I have installed Mac OS 8 on my Starmax 3000/180. The Desktop pictures >control panel is installed in the control panels folder. When I open the >control panel, I get a message that says,"the control panel must be installed >in the control panels folder or the desktop pictures will not display...". > I have looked at apple.com for some clues but found none. I have looked in >some of your info-mac digests and find no reference to any problems. Is >there an extension missing or something? Any ideas? Thanks > >------------------------------ Stanton W. Hadley mailto:swh@ornl.gov Oak Ridge National Laboratory Bldg 4500-N, MS 6205 P.O. Box 2008 Room G-28 Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6205 (423)574-8018, fax:(423)574-8884 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 17:51:53 -0700 From: "Robert J. Friesen" Subject: Desktop pictures control panel To get desktop pictures to work on the Starmax 3000 you must get rid of Conflict Catcher 3. Robert J. Friesen Chilliwack, BC Canada ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 12:45:39 -0600 (CST) From: Fletcher Moore Subject: Dow sinks, Apple floats How many of you happened to notice that Apple was the only company on the S&P 500 to go *up* during Monday's big crash. Particularly ironic considering high tech stocks were the hardest hit. There may be some life in the old Apple yet! Fletcher Moore moore@library.vanderbilt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 16:40:51 +0000 From: Trevor Harris Subject: Eudora Mac/PC setup options We have Eudora set up on our Dec Alpha VMS fileserver in such a way that users can login anywhere in a Windows 3.1 lab and pick up their mail. We wish to extend this capability to a Macintosh lab in such a way that the mail directories are common across platforms. We are using MacAdministrator for the Mac lab and will shortly have Appletalk running on the Alpha server. We hope to set each users account as an Appleshare volume which will then mount at startup on whichever Mac they are using. Can this be done? I think that both Mac and PC Eudora versions are variations of version 3. Thanks for any helpful suggestions. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:58:35 +0000 From: Trevor Harris Subject: Eudora Mac/PC setup options We have Eudora set up on our Dec Alpha VMS fileserver in such a way that users can login anywhere in a Windows 3.1 lab and pick up their mail. We wish to extend this capability to a Macintosh lab in such a way that the mail directories are common across platforms. We are using MacAdministrator for the Mac lab and will shortly have Appletalk running on the Alpha server. We hope to set each users account as an Appleshare volume which will then mount at startup on whichever Mac they are using. Can this be done? I think that both Mac and PC Eudora versions are variations of version 3. Thanks for any helpful suggestions. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 15:24:58 -0500 From: Tony Collins Subject: Index Node Link Problem My LCIII (still going strong!) running system 7.55 is connected to a Quantum 850mb external drive. Today I checked the external drive with Norton Utilities 3.51 disk doctor, which reported that an error was found= in the index node in the catalog b-tree: "A record in the index node has = an incorrect downward link (node 688, record 4) (5,2,11)." Norton couldn't fix the problem nor could Disk First Aid. Although Norton= says this is a "major problem", I haven't experienced any difficulties (yet). Can anyone tell me if I can ignore the problem or if I am headed for data meltdown? If the latter, should I reinitialise the disk and re-install everything? TIA Tony Collins ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:58:06 -0500 From: Robert Poland Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #231 > Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 12:55:21 -0700 From: Max > Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #228 > > AutoClock is wonderfully connected to the Naval > Observatory and can be accessed automatically by modem. > Try it. Is there a version later that 1.4.4? Where? Is there a phone number for Washington, DC, Boulder, CO is now clear across the country. The phone number in the program for Washington, DC has been changed and the new number didn't work. Thanks, Bob Poland rpoland@usa.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:00:22 -0700 From: tedlogan@tulsa.com (Ted Logan) Subject: InfoBeat Redux Here is yet more and more accurate (if more dismal) information about Microsoft's Outlook Express software being promoted by InfoBeat (http://www.infobeat.com) as the best way to receive their custom-tailored email news releases about financial and many other topics. Sorry it's taken so many tries for me to get this right. Outlook Express is the email software Microsoft bundles with Internet Explorer 4.0. So while they're competing with Netscape for the browser software market by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows95, Microsoft is also competing with QualComm's Eudora (and others) for the email software market by bundling Outlook Express with Internet Explorer. Outlook Express is incompatible, by the way, with CompuServe or America Online as well as with earlier Microsoft products (before Windows95, presumably). (Anyone who wonders where Microsoft is going with this simply hasn't been paying attention.) InfoBeat's promo blurb, presumably written by Microsoft, says, "Outlook Express provides you with secure, personalized, and complete features that make creating, sending, and reading your e-mail a more rich and dynamic experience." This would be stronger sales copy if they had written "richer and more dynamic" and if they had either amplified on "complete features" or just left it out of the sentence, but you get the picture. The more of these instances of iron-fist-in-velvet-glove marketing tactics I come across, the more I am awestruck by Microsoft. I have helped build and run companies and market products for nearly 40 years and I have never seen anything like it. Not even close. As a highly satisfied Macintosh owner who would like to be able to continue using the Macintosh operating system to run my and my clients' business software for the foreseeable future, I ask again if anyone on Info-Mac knows if Apple's top management is developing a strategy to keep Apple in business in the face of Microsoft's unprecedented marketing-licensing blitzkrieg? Because, frankly, if Info-Mac's erudite Apple gurus don't know, no one does. By the way, maybe Microsoft's scorched-earth tactics of today don't surprise those who remember that only 20 years ago a then unknown Bill Gates and partner whose name escapes me successfully sued Pertec when it bought out MITS (producer of the Altair 8000, which came from Gates's original garage-bench computer built around a cosmetically imperfect Intel 8080 chip that Gates had bought on the cheap -- Popular Science's feature story at the dawn of personal computers in 1977) because Pertec had oversold Gates and partner's MSBasic programming language beyond the limits of their agreement? Anyone savvy enough before age 30 to design a contract that would let him sue a company that sold *too many* copies of his product is presumably plenty smart enough at age 49 or whatever today to outwit the Apple corporation and, apparently, everyone else who tries to compete with him on a level field. (If you're wondering how much software the U.S. Department of Justice will let Microsoft stuff into its operating system, you may want to read the New York Times article at: , which I heard about from another excellent, free news service, the Benton Communications Policy Mailing list, which you can join by sending the following command to listserv@cdinet.com: subscribe benton-compolicy) Meanwhile, more mundanely, can someone here on Info-Mac please tell me if I can run Netscape 3.1 and Internet Explorer 4.0 side-by-side in my Power Mac 7100/80 operating with Mac System 7.5.5 (assuming ample RAM and disk space)? Once IE 4.0/Outlook Express becomes available for Macintosh, I'd like to try it, but I don't want to foul up my Netscape installation in the process. Best wishes to all. Ted Logan Logan Writing, Inc. Cleveland, Oklahoma tedlogan@tulsa.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 20:57:09 -0500 From: "Jack S. Yee" Subject: ISDN Modems Hello, Could anyone recommend an ISDN modem for my Mac. Please sepcify edxactly what I need to use ISDN, other than the line (the phone company will install that), do I just need a modem like a Bitsurfer Pro or a Farralon? What is the difference between an ISDN modem and a Terminal Adapter?. Any info appreciated, please reply to my email. Thanks. Jack ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:40:27 -0700 From: tedlogan@tulsa.com (Ted Logan) Subject: MAC vs Windows >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:03:37 -0800 >To: tedlogan@tulsa.com >From: Gene Blishen >Subject: MAC vs Windows > >I read your message on the info-mac archive today and must agree. > >I manage a credit union that 4 years ago decided to use Macs due to the >savings in labour costs for network and training. Our assumptions were >correct and we managed to keep costs down. > >We converted to a new banking system and now have to enter the world of >Windows NT. We still have our Macs but if events keep unfolding as they >have in the past few months I can see us migrating eventually to the >Windows platform. It is a shame that Apple have kept their head in the sand >when it comes to business. Microsoft (though I sometimes deplore their >ethics) have products that are cross platform and work to the most part. >Apple continues to battle in areas that make no sense and I believe rely on >an unbelievable loyalty factor of the customer. I have had an Apple since >1978 and consider myself very loyal BUT I can see something is going to >"break" and the pieces will not be able to be put together. > >Thanks for your views. > >__________________________________________________________ >Gene Blishen >Burnaby, B.C. "Patience is an honest virture" > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:36:49 -0700 From: tedlogan@busprod.com (Ted Logan) Subject: Nader vs. Microsoft Ralph Nader has just written a letter to Bill Gates, a letter to Vice-president Gore, and an article in Slate, the online magazine, detailing his worries over Microsoft's dominance of computers and the Internet. Much of this mirrors the concerns I and others have expressed on Info-Mac and in the many email messages I've received privately in response to my Info-Mac postings about Apple's apparent inability to compete against Microsoft. Here is the URL for Nader's Slate article: http://www.slate.com/Features/NaderMS/NaderMS.asp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 12:28:53 +0200 From: Matthew Daillie Subject: new batteries for PB180 The batteries for my PowerBook 180 seem to be dead - I can no longer charge them and they do not provide enough electricity to start the machine. I would like to know whether the qualities of batteries varies considerably - is it worth going to the extra expense of getting reconditioned Apple batteries or are third part models just as good (or perhaps better) ? I have an external LED (Lind Electronic Design) charger which I would like to to be able to continue using. Any information would be very much appreciated. Matthew Daillie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:20:03 -0600 From: Harold Halbleib Subject: NEWS: Free QuickCRC Trial For OO Design NEWS: Free QuickCRC Trial For OO Design Excel Software is offering software developers a free trial version of its QuickCRC tool for object-oriented design. QuickCRC is available for Macintosh and Windows 95/NT. QuickCRC is a software design tool for discovering objects and related information for an object-oriented software development project. The tool automates the CRC card concept of identifying classes, responsibilities and collaborations between objects. Developers can start designing software within minutes with the intuitive capabilities of QuickCRC. QuickCRC uses a diagram workspace for creating card and scenario objects. A card represents the properties of a class including its name, description, superclasses, subclasses, attributes, responsibilities and collaborating objects. A scenario represents a design mechanism defined as a series of steps involving communicating objects. Scenarios can reference cards or other scenarios. QuickCRC provides active simulation of an evolving design. It automatically and transparently maintains relationships between cards and scenarios as design changes are made. QuickCRC models can be exported to the MacA&D or WinA&D software engineering tools for detailed design or code generation. Likewise, MacTranslator and WinTranslator can be used to automatically generate QuickCRC design models from existing C++, Object Pascal or Delphi code. See http://www.excelsoftware.com and follow the links to get your free trial version of QuickCRC today. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 14:41:32 -0500 From: "Paul M. Sheldon" Subject: newton gps Bonzai needs slurpee for map and speech files Once slurpee had been made freeware. It has been improved since and is only $10. I have found it well worth my shareware fees and the correspondence with Steve Weyer assisted my courage in learning the newtonscript I needed for making my gps navigational program. Search it at : http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:19:55 -0400 From: Michel Thériault Subject: OS 8 window problem I installed MacOS 8 and it works fine except for one thing ; when I open a window, it's content moves up and down all the time. Also, the filenames appears twice for a couple of second. When I try to select a file, the file moves up and down and it is very difficult to select it ! (All my files reside on my server - WindowsNT 3.5.1). Any help would be appreciated. Michel Theriault Network administrator TM design communications michelt@tmdesigncom.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 21:16:55 +0100 From: cbuser@access.ch (Christian F Buser) Subject: PC-CD for Mac [R] larscj@vip.cybercity.dk (Lars C. Jensen) wrote: > Is it possible to use a PC-CD-drive (SCSI or SCSI-2) in a Mac? No problem. But you'll probably not be able to use it with Apple's standard CD software. A good idea is to buy the software CD-ROM Toolkit, which works with virtually any CD-ROM drive. Best wishes, Christian. -- Christian F. Buser - phone (+41-56) 426 64 86 Obere Kirchzelg 12, CH-5430 Wettingen (Switzerland) Look at ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 13:42:35 -0600 From: Charles Brasile Subject: Performa 6400 modem upgrade Latest info for those looking to upgrade the Performa 6400 modem 6400 Global VilL Tel V.33.6 update .Who made it? Category: Performa 6400 Series Author: Apple Support ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Original Post: I called Apple tech support to resolve issue of Flash rom update for GV teleport plat V comm card. They told me to call Global Vill....no resolve..so I wrote them. Here is the reply, followed by the letter I wrote: Please be advised that your Performa Modem and fax software have been produced and sold by Apple Computer. Apple is the provider of technical support for Performa Computer customers. Trained Apple technicians are available to provide you with a full range of technical support on all products which are bundled and shipped with the Performa Computer, including your modem and fax software. In the future please contact Apple Computers for any technical assistance that you may need with your Apple-licensed and produced modem and fax software. The Apple technical support staff can be reached at (800) SOS APPL =7F=7F ------------------------------------------------------- Dear Sirs: I recently purchased a Apple Performa 6400/180 with your GV teleport Platnum Comm card installed. I ATI2 commanded it and it repled it had a flash rom. I tried to Flash it with no luck.....can you direct me to where I might recieve it. This modem of yours is supported by you, I am correct in stating this, is my hope. I have read your Mannuel and find this to be a fine modem. Thank you for your time and I await your reply. Sincerely, Allan H. Hampton=05 WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPLING THIS UPGRADE? ? ? The modem card does have a Flash Rom......Thus, there was intent for upgrade, by the maker of the modem. Please resolve. Allan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apple Response: Allan, The Global Village modem that came with your computer is supported by Apple. The upgrade you are referring to is not supported on any of the Global Village Platinum V modems that come bundled with any of our Performa series computers including the Performa 6300 and 6400 series. Global Village released this upgrade independent from Apple and they are entitled to do this. As far as I know, they are under no obligation to provide upgrades for any of the modems bundled with any of our Performa computers. While Global Village may wish to pursue a commercial upgrade for these modems, it would be totally independent of Apple. At this time, Apple has not announced any software or hardware upgrade plans for the Global Village Teleport Platinum V modem bundled with the Performa series computers. The modem that came with your computer was advertised as a 28.8 Kbps modem and that's what we provided. We never advertised the modem as being upgradeable to 33.6 Kbps. Rolando Na=F1ez Apple Support Discussions Support ... What support ? Charles A.Brasile 8968 Marquette Dr. Grosse Ile, Michigan 48138 Email cbrasile@ic.net mailto:cbrasile@ic.net 70264,2713@compuserve.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 30 Oct 97 11:57:09 -0500 From: Harry Wolfson Subject: Shutdown and Restart problem Hi there, I have a Mac IIx, with a DayStar 50 MHz '030 card, that I have been using for many years. Recently I needed to upgrade the OS from 7.0.1* to something greater than 7.1. I tried 7.6.1 but afterwards realized that 7.6.1 doesn't support a IIx. Then I installed 7.5.1. Along the way I re-formatted the internal 210MB non-Apple Quantum hard drive with the latest driver from APS (v4.1) to make sure I had a clean disk with a modern SCSI driver. At one point (I don't remember when exactly) I lost the ability to shutdown or restart my Mac from the Finder menu. When I select Shutdown or Restart, all the applications quit, and it looks like it is ready to shutdown, but then it sort of freezes. The screen stays on, showing the Finder, and the mouse moves, although it can't select or click on anything. I can only force it to respond by either: pushing the power switch on the back panel; quiting the Finder by pressing cmd-opt-esc; pushing the "programmer's restart" button; or dropping into Macsbug by clicking cmd-PowerOn. It misbehaves this way whether I have booted from my internal drive with 7.5.1 or 7.0.1; or from a Zip; or from the Disk Tools floppy. Another odd thing: if I leave it in this hung state, it will _sometimes_ complete the shutdown/restart if I leave it alone for 10-20 minutes. Thanks very much for any suggestions you might have! -- Harry Wolfson HarryWolfson@LL.MIT.EDU ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 17:37:08 +0000 From: John Harkness Subject: VRAM Problem My problem is how to tell how much VRAM is in my computer, preferably without opening the box. Here's the background. I bought a new Mac Clone from Computer Warehouse(UK). This computer, a Stanford, is based on basically the same motherboard as the Apple 4400. With the purchase I specified 4Mb of VRAM and was invoiced for a 4Mb SGRAM Module. My monitor is an Apple 1705 and I expected to be able to get millions of colours at 1024 x 768 (and even higher resolutions), instead the most I can get is Thousands. I am using Mac OS 8, do I need another driver for the monitor? So did I get 4Mb or only 2? I would rather not have to open the case as there are warrenty considerations but if I did what would I look for? Is there a software method of determining the amount of VRAM? System: 240MHz 603e, 48Mb RAM, System 8. John Harkness. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************