Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 15 Dec 00 Volume 17 : Issue 200 Today's Topics: (A) CD-R Removable Drive for Wall Street or other Powerbook [*] Okidoki Guard 2.0 Disappearing Launcher Icons in OS 9.0.4 Network printing to a pc/printer PCI card with USB to connect to printer, camera, card reader The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #200" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 07:42:26 +1000 From: Michael Koren To: Subject: (A) CD-R Removable Drive for Wall Street or other Powerbook In answer to Allan Hunter's inquiry as follows: > Has anyone produced a CD recordable drive in the form of a PowerBook > bay module for a WallStreet-era PowerBook? On a day-to-day basis > that would be more useful to me than the DVD-ROM module it shipped > with. (OK, a hybrid DVD-R / CD-R module that can record or play back > either format would be cooler by quantum leaps, but I'm not holding > out hopes for that). There is an excellent US company doing PowerBook peripherals. It is called MCE. I've bought from them before - great service. Go the the website http://store.powerbook1.com/mcexcarprome.html to find what you are looking for. regards Michael Koren ------------------------------ Date: 15 Dec 2000 From: mariogt@entelchile.net To: Subject: [*] Okidoki Guard 2.0 1) What is Okidoki Guard ? Okidoki is a nice and simple program designed to password-protect your Mac. 2) What is new in Okidoki Guard 2.0 ? - ÂÂÂ Now is FREEWARE !!! - More Security level .Now Okidoki Guard Shutdown the computer if an user fails 3 times in the password prompt screen. - More beautifull interface. - Some bugs killed. [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/okidoki-guard-20.hqx; 442 K] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:11:49 -0800 From: Andrew Merenbach To: Subject: Disappearing Launcher Icons in OS 9.0.4 I've had this problem for quite some time--the icons of applications that function as control panels become generic document icons in the Launcher. Anybody experiencing a similar problem? -- Andrew Merenbach ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 11:07:17 -0600 From: "Chaz Larson [mailing lists]" To: George Gee , digest@info-mac.org Subject: Network printing to a pc/printer At 4:19 PM -0800 12/12/00, George Gee wrote: >Can you tell me why i would have problems trying to print >to a shared printer on a pc which is on the same subnet >from a imac. There's no built-in support in MacOS for printing to a shared printer on a Windows box. Or, if you prefer, there's no built-in support in Windows for publishing shared printers for use by MacOS clients. ;) If this is a PostScript printer, Thursby's Dave will allow you to print to it from your Mac. >I can see other network printers which have a stand a lone >network address; but i cannot see the one on the pc and cannot >seem to find the pcs ethernet address. Open a DOS box on the Windows machine and type "ipconfig". The IP address of the windows box shall be revealed. chazl -- Someday Mother will die and I'll get the money. Mom leans down and says, "My sentiments exactly, you son of a bitch." - They Might Be Giants, I Palindrome I Chaz Larson - chaz at spamcop dot net - http://www.visi.com/~chaz ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:17:58 +0100 From: Pieter Stouten To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: PCI card with USB to connect to printer, camera, card reader I intend to buy a PCI card with (at least) 2 USB ports for my G3/266. The card has to work with an Epson Stylus Photo 870 or 1270 printer and with a Kodak DC290 Zoom digital camera (which has USB built-in) and/or Delkin or Microtech card reader. The local Mac store has the following listed (approximate prices in dollars): HINP008 XLR8 Dual Port Usb Pci Card 67 HINP028 MacAlly Mcally Pci To Usb Adapter 49 HINP029 Highlight Pci card with 2 USB 36 HINP030 MacSense Pci Usb Adapter 68 HINP039 BELKIN - USB Usb 2 A Port Pci Bus Card 51 HINP078 ADS ADS PCI card 2 USB ports 44 I am mostly concerned with compatibility and quality. Does anybody have any experience with the above cards? Will they work with the printer, camera, card reader? Any recommendations for the above or other cards? Thanks very much, Pieter -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************