Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #352 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Mon, 18 Oct 99 Volume 16 : Issue 352 Today's Topics: (A) bandwidth test on LANs connected to the internet (A) batch changing of 'date created' (Q) Eudora Pro toolbar off edge of screen [Q] Clear memory cache in Netscape Barracuda HD in Mac 7100 ?? Battery or AC power? Do we need a new digest viewer? Error -50 when printing FlexCam S-video to RCA cable Nevermind How can you change default browser? Solved! HP CD-labeler for the Mac? Think twice! IE JVM security breach Menus drop down/stay down Old iMac and Firewire OS9 AND ATM PCMCIA modem card Performa connection problems QuicktimeVR to VRML scientific calculator turning int. HD into ext. HD and Linux Voodoo3 PCI for Mac? 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We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #352" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:45:56 -0400 From: a brody Subject: (A) bandwidth test on LANs connected to the internet Dear Digest readers, On Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 08:28:48 -0400 dead nancy wrote: >Subject: internet/ethernet status > >hi, everybody. > >(this is a repost. i never saw it show up the first time.) > >five of us are connected to the net through our ethernet lan via a >gateway machine running ipnetrouter. when the modem was external, it was >easy enough (if a little low-tech) to glance across the room and check >connection and transfer by looking at the little green lights. now the >modem is internal, and the only way to check connection status is to >open remote access and watch the graph. > >so: is there anything out there that will show me, on my computer, how >fast (or if at all) my internet connection is going when i'm connected >through another machine? something like freeppp's control strip or the >global village menu bar thermometer would be nice. > >thanks. > >dead nancy >http://www.merkins.com/ >working for you! In response to that I found a great easy way to check the speed of a LAN as connected to the internet http://computingcentral.msn.com/topics/bandwidth/ Just check the speed test under bandwidth forum, and it will run a cookie download test of your net bandwidth. Hope this helps. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:24:16 -0400 From: feldspar@cryogen.com (Antaeus Feldspar) Subject: (A) batch changing of 'date created' > Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 02:41:54 -0700 > From: Dieder Bylsma > Subject: batch changing of 'date created' > > Does anybody know if there is an application out there that will let > me change the creation date of a series of files to an arbritary > date? i.e. change the creation information of all files that were > created September 21,1999 to August 15, 1999? I know how to do this > with ResEdit...but that's a rather slow way to go about doing it for > any significant numbers of files. Just to point out: this is one of the things that "FileTyper Lite" does and does extremely well... As the name suggests, it's the freeware version of FileTyper, which the usual suspects should have available on the archives. -jc -- * -jc IS *NOW* feldspar@cryogen.com * Home page: http://members.tripod.com/~afeldspar/index.html * The home of >>Failed Pilots Playhouse<< * "Better you hold me close than understand..." Thomas Dolby ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:27:27 -0400 From: a brody Subject: (Q) Eudora Pro toolbar off edge of screen Dear Digest readers, More of an inconvenience than anything else, but my Eudora Pro 4.2.1 toolbar is looks like it is partially off the edge of the screen. The toolbar currently says: Delete, Out, In, Check Mail, New Message, Reply, Forward, Redirect, Attach Document..., Address book, Print... Am I missing any buttons? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 03:26:44 +0000 From: Marlon Deason Subject: [Q] Clear memory cache in Netscape I have used Netscape for years an have honed my settings down to exactly how I want them. However, since upgrading to Mac OS 8 a few years back, I find that I rarely have to shut down my computer. Since I have a PowerBook, I often just close the lid and let the system disconnect my network/PPP connection and put the system to sleep. Upon waking the computer, I simply reconnect to the Internet and continue on my way. I have long ago discovered that the harddrive in my machine is slower than RAM. So I set Netscape to run with no files being saved to the HD cache (ie. HD:System Folder:Preferences:Netscape=83:Cache). Rather, I set Netscape to the maximum RAM usage (under the get info comments) and let it store all of the files downloaded from the Internet internally. This works great, up to a point. At some point, usually after several days of surfing, Netscape will complain that it is out of memory. I usually cannot load any further pages into Netscape until I quit and restart. I already know how to clear the HD cache for Netscape, what I would like to be able to do is clear the internal RAM cache which is stored in the running application. If I could delete the cache while Netscape is still running, I could get some marathon sessions on the net. The only info I have to go on is that there is an obscure command which lets you view files stored in the internal (RAM) cache. Something like about:internal cache (?) Thanks for any info Marlon Deason marlond@earthlink.net ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 23:26:43 -0400 From: "Michael S. Holtzman" Subject: Barracuda HD in Mac 7100 ?? Greetings. I recently gained possession of a Seagate Barracuda 9GB Ultra2 Wide SCSI drive, that I would like to use with my PowerMac 7100. Is there some kind of adapter cable that I can use? I'd prefer to replace the internal drive, but adding an external would still be OK. Thanx for any information. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 20:03:09 +1000 From: John Brownie Subject: Battery or AC power? I have been wondering what is the best way to run my PowerBook 1400. Is it better to leave it plugged into AC power and keep the battery always topped up, or is it better to run the battery down, then charge it up until full and repeat? I think that the latter was recommended for NiCad batteries, but what's recommended for NiMH batteries? A somewhat related question: Since I upgraded the PowerBook with a Newer Technology G3, it seems to chew up much more battery power while asleep. If I put it to sleep with a full battery in the evening, I only get a few minutes of power when I use it in the morning - MyBattery reports it as around 90% of charge or so when I get the low battery warning. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks for any insight on either question. John Brownie Summer Institute of Linguistics Papua New Guinea j-m.brownie@sil.org.pg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:01:39 +0200 From: bromo@flashnet.it (Vittorio Barabino) Subject: Do we need a new digest viewer? > From: "Nigel Stanger" > at home. I was tossing about the idea doing a rewrite about a year ago, but > I got sidetracked by finishing my PhD, plus I couldn't find anything about > the file format it uses for the index files, which is probably the most > important bit from the point of view of backwards compatibility. > > In other words, it wouldn't be that hard to rewrite (the only other tricky > bit would be figuring out the setext parser), but it probably wouldn't be > able to open old index files unless you can track down the original author. Please, give a second thought to revamping Easy View !! :-D For me personally, rebuilding all indexes is not an overly hard work (I'd prefer not of wcourse, but given the alternative...)... the most important features of EasyView are versatility (it handles also mailboxes and custom digest formats) and scriptability (in its own way, but much better than nothing). Only EasyView makes us possible to store mailboxes on cd-roms, and yet to be able to reply to them... Only EasyView allow to give *effortlessly* an uniform storage interface to scattered text files like mailing lists, digests, personal mailboxes, newsgroups archives... As a reference, you might contact David Davenport, david@bilkent.edu.tr who made a Windows version of EasyView and probably he knows personally the original author of ezVu... (he's written me a mail about a month ago). Many many thanks!! -- Ciao, \+----------+ "The Answer is inside you... Vittorio --| : ) o | ...BUT IT'S WRONG !!!" /+----------+ - = http://fly.to/risorse/ = - ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 11:36:21 +0200 From: Mitja Jankovic Subject: Error -50 when printing I has an G3 266MT and a PB G3 266 with 160> ram e.a., Sys. 8.6 italian, Netopia router and Xante PostScript laser ethernet printer. My problem is, that when I send something to print from any application, I get the error -50?!? In the first minute, when I startup the machines, they print fine, bat after this short period it comes the error -50. If I wait some time (1/2 our or more), the print starts again, but after some jobs, again error -50. With some applications like FileMaker with Web Companion enabled and Eudora 4.2.1 Pro, if I try to print a job, the first time I get the error -50, the second time the application crash with error 11. But this is very randomly situation. Sometime the job arrive to the print spool and then stop, sometime, just nothing happen (the job disappear) and sometimes the application the second, the third time,and so one, when I press" Command Print", tell's me that error -50 has happened without any other problem I have increased the memory in all applications, Desktop PrintMonitor and PrintMonitor, but this strange situation continue. The only thing that I remember, is that this situation starts, when I charge on an external hd the LinuxPPC 1999 OS, and I has tired to print from Linux without success. Is there any relation?!? Actually the drive is not attached to my system and I don't think that this is the problem, because, I has installed on another external hd a fresh system 8.6 and it print without any problem. Any help will be really VERY appreciated. TIA Mitja Jankovic ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 14:38:29 -0700 From: Paul Brians Subject: FlexCam S-video to RCA cable Nevermind I hope you didn't rush to buy that FlexCam video cable I alerted people to in a recent Digest, which I hoped would allow me to feed the S-Video output from my PowerBook to the RCA jack on my AV receiver. It turns out there is more than one kind of S-video connection, and the Apple one is not the normal one. This cable doesn't work. The Apple variety has more pins, evidently combining both image and sound. Apple doesn't sell one, supplies to those who ask about it a list of vendors none of whom sell one either, nor does anybody else I've talked to know where to get one. When I get hold of one that actually works, I'll pass on the info. Meanwhile, my apologies for the misinformation. Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:04:26 -0400 From: "Robert A. Virzi" Subject: How can you change default browser? Solved! To set the default browser, two suggestions are given: > > > >The solution is to change the HTTP HELPER in Internet Config and then > >to choose "Read from Internet Config" in Eudora's Miscellaneous > >Settings. > >That's more work than is necessary. Instead, just Option-double-click >an http URL in Eudora and choose a new helper app from the dialog box >that appears. But how does one set the default mailer? When I click a mailto link on a web page (in Netscape) I want it to launch Eudora rather than using Communicator's mail component. I've already got EP set in internet config as the default. -Bob ------------------------------------------------------- rvirzi@gte.com | Be nice to your kids. +1.781.466.2881 | One day they get to pick your home. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 00:30:48 +0200 From: Eduard Hoenkamp Subject: HP CD-labeler for the Mac? Think twice! I bought the HP CD-labeler kit today, to print labels on writable-CD's. On the box it says: "Software for PC & Mac". And "over 100 photos and cliparts". This is a misleading half-truth. Some templates for Illustrator and Photoshop is all it contains for the Mac. The neat stuff is on a PC partition, unmountable under MacOS. A link on HP's site points to third party software (www.cd-labeler.com). But the .sit file you get there is corrupted. So if you want to use HP's CD-labeler, be prepared to win the graces of a PC user. Eduard. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:00:45 -0400 From: Edward Cantrell Subject: IE JVM security breach Hmm... Microsoft stopped using their own JVM for their IE and started relying on MRJ from Apple so IE 4.0 and 4.5 uses MRJ and be sure you get the latest version of MRJ which is currently 2.1.4. Netscape has built in Java machine currently but in future release of 5.0 may or will support MRJ. All IE Now uses MRJ for Java. if you do not have MRJ installed then you cannot run any java inside IE. Microsoft's JVM is used solely with IE for Window but I am sure that You can use Sun's JVM for use with IE instead of Microsoft's JVM. Cheers! >Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 00:36:28 -0400 >From: Ken Laskey >Subject: IE JVM security breach > > >Alan Stein wrote recently about using >Microsoft's JVM with IE. I just got this information about a new JVM >security breach. > >A bug in Microsoft's bytecode verifier allows the construction of >code sequences that illegally cast values of one Java type to values >of another unrelated type, in violation of Java's typing rules, >without detection by Microsoft's verifier. >A malicious applet can exploit this flaw to breach the JVM's >security, and can then proceed to do anything it wants to do on the >victim's computer. For example, a malicious applet might exploit this >flaw to read private data, modify or delete files (has been >specifically demonstrated), or eavesdrop on the user's activities. > >This affects all recent versions of JVM for Windows. I do not know >if the same problem occurs in the Mac version, but beware. > >Ken Laskey >kenneth.j.laskey@saic.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 22:00:12 -0400 From: Dwight Early Subject: Menus drop down/stay down Gang, What's the name (and URL if you have it) of the program that gave the menu drop down/stay down capability to Sytem 7.x? TIA --Dwight ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:11:14 -0300 From: "Jorge Froilan Gonzalez" Subject: Old iMac and Firewire Dear people, I have learnt that the new Macs (at least two of the new models) have a FireWire port. I have a 333MHz iMac , which does not have such FireWire capability Does anyone know of the chances/possibilities of putting/adding a Firewire port in it? best Regards Jorge ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 17:13:04 -0500 From: "Paul M. Sheldon" Subject: OS9 AND ATM Yesterday, having received my developer's cd with os9, I decided to live dangerous, boot from the cd and do a nonclean install on my powerbook hard drive that left an old version ~ATM control panel in the system folder. On attempting to bootup from this upgraded hard drive, ~ATM ceased my init parade with error 119. I tried extensions manager with a base install and ~ATM enabled and still received error 119. I used extensions manager to disable init ~ATM and got the new Sherlock 2 working. I looked on the net with the new Sherlock 2. Watson methinks the games afoot! I found http://www.fixit.com/reports/macos9.html . This page commented that error 119 was about as new as I am to this stuff. Watson methinks the game is a matched one. According to this page, Apple pulled an API out from under the feet of Adobe well through the os9 design cycle. Rumor has it that ATM screen interface stuff is going to be built into the operating system. I digress for a paragraph : I want to say something in support of Apple in the current perhaps painful confusion and suggest positive actions on our parts. What Apple is in the painful process of doing is very exciting and vital to me, a scholar. I hope they will invest in an interest to send cross platform documents to correspond over the internet. Apple eventually must absorb screen display technology, ie. Bezier parallelism in drawing fonts on future G4's with digitally coupled parallel monitors with no flicker to paperlessly emulate really fast paper (and knowledge navigation through future Sherlocks and user programmed links between documents). The bootable os9 installer cd had no trouble booting. I searched for ATM in the system folder on the bootable os9 installer cd. I did not find it there, but rather I read in the Adobe folder on the developer cd that ATM version 4.5.2 would be a fix. The web page had warned things might not be settled out until November. So, a recommendation on Os9 : Fortunately, I have already finished my Ph.D. where such a month's of Adobe's latency could be critical. I looked at a dvi file without ATM working and it was nearly illegible. It is important to be able to read your thesis to rewrite it better. For those going through the crisis of rewrites this fall of finishing up Ph.D.'s in latex, do a clean install of os9 with system switcher to take you back to an os where ATM works for screen display. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 19:37:58 +0200 From: Paolo Bartoli Subject: PCMCIA modem card I'm looking for advice on buying a PC card modem (56K) for both Macintosh Powerbook and Windows portable computer use. ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli ** pbartoli@iname.com ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 22:08:16 -0700 From: Greg Lyzenga Subject: Performa connection problems Many thanks to all you kind folks who offered suggestions on the problems I've been experiencing with the Performa 5200 built-in modem. This is a report on how it was finally resolved. Some people suggested I disable the GV fax software; tried that, didn't help. It was suggested that I might have an auto-disconnect option specified in PPP; checked that, nope. Perhaps call waiting or low-quality lines were the problem; no, the problem was the same in three different cities and phone lines. Perhaps it was an incorrect initialization string; nope, that checked out OK. And finally [the envelope please...] the solution. Try yanking the internal modem and replacing it with an external unit. That did it! With an external Supra modem on the serial port, it worked flawlessly. Apparently the internal Global Village modem card was simply a lemon. Problem solved. So thanks once again for the help everybody! - Greg Lyzenga ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:40:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Joni Julian Subject: QuicktimeVR to VRML > Hi, > Does anyone know of a converter from QuicktimeVR to VRML? Any hint is > appreciated! > Thanks, > Dierk I'm no longer current with either of those formats, but I doubt a converter exists because the formats are very different. In rough, quick terms, QuickTimeVR uses a cylinder panorama of constant radius while VRML specifies a 3D object in 3D space. The conversion would similar to converting a Photoshop to AutoCAD, from 2D -no matter how clever- to 3D. There's interesting research along these lines, and it can be done, but I am not aware of any easy and readily available software. As I said, I'm out of date, but I think I would have noticed a murmur like this! Sorry about that, - Joni ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 00:44:24 +0200 From: "Jean-Philippe Pellet" Subject: scientific calculator > I'd like to download a scientific calculator - something that has > very similar functions to any regular one I might buy as hardware. > Does anyone know of one I can download, preferably freeware or > shareware? It would be nice if its 'facia' was similar to a hardware > one. http://www.emulation.net has a few TI (& others) emulators. Jean-Philippe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:46:19 +1300 From: "Nigel Stanger" Subject: turning int. HD into ext. HD and Linux On Friday, 15 October 1999 1:45:11 AM, Saint John wrote: > To combine drives, you need to make a "RAID Array." This is a special > way of formatting and handling a number of hard drives so that they appear > to be a single unit. While this is correct, you wouldn't be able to create a 2GB volume out of four 500MB drives using this approach -- it doesn't work that way. Instead, you'd get a single 500MB volume with better access times and greater resistance to disk failures or data loss (depending on how you set things up). The key advantages of RAID are improved access speed (parallel seeks) and reliability (resistance to data loss). Technically speaking, there are six categories of RAID. RAID 1 is just disk mirroring. RAID levels 2-5 "stripe" data across all the disks in the array in various ways (e.g., by writing alternate bytes to different drives, with error checking & correction). The remaining level is RAID 0, but it's so useless that I doubt anyone uses it (data striping with no error detection -- oops). I think RAID would be overkill for Carolyn's situation, given that all she wants to do at the moment is learn Linux. Come to think of it, setting up Linux on four separate volumes would be a good learning experience. I've already suggested to her that she use one disk for the core OS, one for swap space (!) and the other two for the remainder of the file system. Should work quite nicely. JEFF_BILLMAN@HP-USA-om41.om.hp.com wrote: > If you want to make all the drives look like one big disk there is a > package called LVM (logical volume manager) for Linux that will do it. Cool! I didn't know about this one. ===================================================================== Nigel Stanger, mailto:nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz Dept. of Information Science, http://strange.otago.ac.nz/ University of Otago, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 16:39:59 -0500 From: Jeff Sass Subject: Voodoo3 PCI for Mac? Does anyone out there use a Voodoo3 2000 PCI card in their G3? I see that http://www.3dfx.com does have beta drivers for this card. I am actually more concerned with 2D performance as I am driving a second monitor with it. I love the Rage Orion 128bit cards that come with the blue and white G3s but they are about $160. I can get a Voodoo for around $90 and if the Mac drivers work then I will go with that. Any experience good or bad can be emailed directly to me and thanks in advance! -Jeff ______________________________________________________________ Jeff Sass mailto:jsass@adobe.com Adobe Systems Voice: x34734 or (651) 766-4734 Pager : (888) 550-0487 or via email mailto:pagejsass@adobe.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************