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Info-Mac Digest Tue, 02 May 00 Volume 17 : Issue 72
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#529/01-May-00
a couple of e-mail related queries...
DVD and PowerBook
Info-Mac Digest V17 #71
Remove items from munu bar
Studio Display with Older Macs
Zip drives and Powerbook sleep - how to re-recognise drives?
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors
Subject: [*] TidBITS#529/01-May-00
TidBITS#529/01-May-00
Should spam be illegal? Brady Johnson examines state and federal
efforts to cut back on unsolicited commercial email and the
practical implications of regulating spam. Plus, Adam provides
comprehensive details about keys you can hold down to control
your Mac's startup process. We also note the availability of
AOL 5.0, Palm Desktop 2.6, and Virtual PC 3.0.3; Apple's free
release of iMovie; and major Internet security issues found in
FileMaker Pro 5.
Topics:
MailBITS/01-May-00
Modifying the Macintosh Startup Sequence
Email Spam: The Bandwagon Plays On, Part 2
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-529.etx; 34K]
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Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 14:23:27 +0100
From: Andrew Churchill
Subject: a couple of e-mail related queries...
Hi,
I have two e-mail related queries.
1) I have an aged 14.4bps modem at work and suffer when people send me large
attachments, despite my request that no one sends me any. Is there any way I
can refuse to accept an e-mail that is, say, over 200k in size, and delete
it on the POP server. At the moment when I am sent a large file I am forced
to download it before I can get to any mail that has been sent after it. I
am using Outlook express 5.0, if that helps.
2) Outlook express seems to be a law unto itself, and insists on trying to
connect to the internet every so often when I am reading old mail in my
Hotmail account or looking at old newsgroup messages. This seems to occur
despite the fact that I have not selected the 'connect automatically' option
in the remote access control panel (OS 8.6). Is there any way I can stop
this, I seem to have to tell Express to stop trying to connect about 10
times a day.
cheers,
Andrew Churchill
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 08:17:51 -0500
From: Mark Geerdes
Subject: DVD and PowerBook
Dewey,
Actually, this is where Apple was smart, their drive allows you to switch
zones a limited amount of times, I think it's the first 10 DVD's, but be
careful, because after you put that last one in, it's permanantly that
zone, so buying a US made Powerbook is not a problem, just don't buy any
US DVD's, wait until you get home.
On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 15:05:02 +0100, "Dewey Markham, Jr."
wrote:
>Hello All,
>
> I am considering the purchase of a PowerBook in the US to bring back
>to France where I live and work, but I have a question regarding the DVD
>drive. To try and limit the global bootlegging problems that exist with
>videocassettes, DVD players have a built-in zone identifier which prevents
>DVDs purchased in one zone from being played on a DVD player purchased in
>another zone. The US is in a different zone from Europe, so I shall be
>unable to view any DVDs rented or bought over here on my US-made PowerBook.
> Here are my questions: is the zone information hard-wired on the DVD
>drive itslef, in which case if I purchase a replacement drive here in
>France my problems are over; or is the zone identifier registered in the
>DVD or system software, in which case a little tinkering with ResEdit might
>allow me to get around this?
> Thanks for any help.
>
>Dewey
>
Mark Geerdes
Duplication/Audio Engineer BGEA
Multimedia Director BPEFC
Personal e-mail should go to:
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 12:37:55 -0500
From: Theresa Freilicher
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #71
>>Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 15:53:48 -0400
>From: "[email protected]"
>Subject: (C) Washington DC/Baltimore area in need of another Mac support
>
>Dear Digest,
>The only support group in our area is the Washington Apple Pi, which
>has meetings only monthly, on weekday evenings, and rarely on
>weekends. Being located in Bethesda, it is too far for us to drive
>from places such as Laurel, Burtonsville, and Silver Spring. It's
>annual membership costs are too high for the services provided.
>Exclusionary appears to be its motto. With the moving of
>MacUpgrades to Gaithersburg, the only Apple repair specialists are
>CompUSA, and Apple directly, for people who work weekdays, and only
>have weekends and evenings off. I would like to help form another
>group, but don't know anybody else who owns a Mac who would want to
>join the group in the area. Perhaps somebody here could point me in
>that direction?
>
>Thank you.
>Sincerely,
>[email protected]
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Date: May 2, 2000
From: [email protected]
Subject: (C) Washington DC/Baltimore area in need of another Mac support
In response to [email protected]
Computers on Demand in Chevy Chase is an excellant place to go for help.
Located on Conn. Ave, just off the beltway. Owned and operated my Mitch
Galen, an certified Apple/Mac tech.
1.800.909.6227
301.718.0822
BTW, your assesment of WAP of very accurate. The money of many supports
the habit of a few.
Ciao,
Theresa
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Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 14:57:52 -0400
From: "John Hachey"
Subject: Remove items from munu bar
Hello,
I installed AIM on my machine , then uninstalled it; but the AIM icon remains on my menu bar.
Any way to get it off of there?
Thanks, John
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:37:28 -0700
From: James Hays
Subject: Studio Display with Older Macs
Does anyone have experience using an Apple 17" Studio Display with a
PowerMac 7600? Apple recommends G3 or newer. What problems may I
run into? Are there workarounds?
I'm not ready to abandon my old Mac yet, but I'd like to buy a
monitor that will fit well with a newer Mac in the future. I know
that a VGA-to-Mac RGB will be required.
Thanks, --Jim Hays
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Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 11:31:39 +0100
From: "Charles Arthur, The Independent"
Subject: Zip drives and Powerbook sleep - how to re-recognise drives?
Hi..
I have a Wallstreet PBook and recently got a SCSI Zip250 drive. (Running
9.0.4, and latest Iomega drivers installed). Great, of course. Except that
what I usually do is that I turn the PBook on, do some work, and then put
the machine to sleep until I next come back to it - which can be hours or a
day or whatever.
The Zip drive, though, seems to think that the PB going to sleep means that
it has been permanently disconnected. Any clues? Should I (sudden light
bulb over head) be using something like AutoRemounter, or the Chooser?
(Until I came to type this I hadn't thought of either of those, but I'm
presently at work rather than on the PB at home.)
Charles
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