Info-Mac Digest V17 #51

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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 28 Mar 00 Volume 17 : Issue 51

Today's Topics:

[*] TidBITS#523/27-Mar-00
FireWire-to-SCSI?
ibook...crash on sleep

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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 21:00:00 -0800
From: TidBITS Editors
Subject: [*] TidBITS#523/27-Mar-00

TidBITS#523/27-Mar-00

Tired of your Web browser? Microsoft hopes you'll try the just-
released Internet Explorer 5.0; read on for Adam's in-depth look
at what's new and improved. Also this week, we report on the
Washington State anti-spam law being found unconstitutional,
Aladdin's acquisition of Trexar Technologies, updates to Canvas
7.0.1 and FileMaker 5.0v3, and the release of AvantGo Connect for
Macintosh, which makes reading TidBITS on a Palm device easier.

Topics:
MailBITS/27-Mar-00
Washington State Anti-Spam Law Found Unconstitutional
Internet Explorer 5.0 Redisplays the Web




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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 22:03:33 -0500
From: Allan Hunter
Subject: FireWire-to-SCSI?

OK, so we've upgraded our slow (ADB) bus (to USB) and our fast (SCSI)
bus (to FireWire) as well, and this is all wonderful and good.

The USB technology is actually so fast that you can hook up SCSI
devices, via an adapter, and they work, kind of, sort of, give or
take some performance loss if the SCSI device in question made full
use of the throughput of SCSI.

For those of us with a more substantial investment in SCSI, wouldn't
a FireWire- to-SCSI adapter, rather than another USB-to-SCSI adapter,
look downright delicious, all things considered?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there doesn't seem to be such an entity
in MacWarehouse, MacMall, Mac Zone, the back pages of MacAddict or
MacWorld, or described as the hit of this or that conference...

Is there something I'm missing here? Is there any obvious (to
everyone but me) reason why Adaptec and Macally and Macsense and VST
and Newer Technology and Microtech and so on are not falling all over
each other trying to sell us a FireWire-to-SCSI adapter?

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Allan Hunter




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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 16:33:41 -0500
From: scott knudsen
Subject: ibook...crash on sleep


Apple is recommending that 'all iBook and new PowerBook (FireWire) owners=

download and install the Sleep Memory Extension 1.0 software patch,
which eliminates this bug. '
http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11602/

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