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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 31 Aug 00 Volume 17 : Issue 137
Today's Topics:
[*] TidBITS#545/28-Aug-00
(Q) Displaying HTML Formatted Messages
7100 won't start reply
[*] Pitbull for Hotline 1.0.1
[*] Sigma Chess 5.0 Lite PPC - free PowerMac chess program with 3D board
[*] SweetMail 1.8.4ef4
[A] G3 Powerbook and external monitor resolution problem
[A] Power Mcintosh 720075? -- and GURU
[A] Power Mcintosh 720075? and GURU
[GRR] Bloody PowerBook Power Mgmt!
[Q] Appletalk resetting to other connection mode
Boot off a FireWire HD?
cd drive-disks not showing up
discontinued software
downloading IE 5.0
Eudora is a bust
Info-Mac Digest V17 #136
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internal 56K modem for PB G3
Q: 7100 won't start
Redirect snapshots?
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [*] TidBITS#545/28-Aug-00
TidBITS#545/28-Aug-00
Speech recognition took first place in last week's poll on future
technologies, so it's appropriate that this week Matt Neuburg
looks at Apple's PlainTalk speech recognition technology, along
with the alternative speech interfaces offered by QuicKeys and
ListenDo. Segueing from voice to print, Kirk McElhearn returns
with a review of David Pogue's "Missing Manual" on Mac OS 9, and
we ask what factors help you decide to buy computer books.
Topics:
MailBITS/28-Aug-00
Poll Results: (Apple) Pie in the Sky
BookBITS: Mac OS 9: The Missing Manual
Bossing Your Mac with PlainTalk
[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-545.etx; 31K]
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:34:33 -0400
From: "Edward W. Ver Hoef"
To: [email protected]
Subject: (Q) Displaying HTML Formatted Messages
I must have inadvertently changed some setting in my browser (Netscape
4.7r) which I also use as my email application and I can't figure out
how to reset it. The situation is this: When I download the Info-Mac
digest, the individual messages do not show up in-line in the document.
Instead there are references to them. In order to read one, I have to
click on its icon and select "Save image as ..". A similar thing
happened when I received the latest Apple newsletter, i.e., there was
only an icon. When I followed the above procedure I got a message saying
"You appear to be using an email application that won't properly display
the graphical (or HTML) version of our newsletter."
How can I reset Netscape to accept and properly display HTML formatted
email? I can't believe that a browser is incapable of doing so.
Thanks in advance for any help anyone can offer.
Ed Ver Hoef
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 03:01:18 +0000
From: KJ Aanestad
To: mailto:
Subject: 7100 won't start reply
Same exact thing happened to a 6115CD and it turned out to be the battery.
Give it a go.
Hope this helps.
KJ Aanestad
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:09:20 +0100
From: Roland Whitehead
To: Info-Mac
Subject: Q: 7100 won't start
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I have a 7100/66 that won't start. Pressing the power key on the keyboard or
the power button at the back right of the main box just results in a click -
the power light comes on on the keyboard and the indicator on the box gets
power but almost immediately power is shut of and the Mac won't go any
further - it won't even get to the start-up chime. The Mac was fine, it just
suddenly shut down last Friday and now it won't start. PRAM battery is still
showing 3.6v so should be fine - is about 2 years old. Before I rip it
apart, has anyone seen this before and was there a solution?
Roland Whitehead
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Date: 29 Aug 2000
From: Macron
To:
Subject: [*] Pitbull for Hotline 1.0.1
Pitbull is distributed as $7,- (US) shareware. Pitbull is a simple but
powerful download-only client used to retrieve files from Hotline
servers. Pitbull can automatically recover from virtually any connection
problem that can occur during a file download without any user
interference. And thanks to its enhanced partial file support, you can
resume any partial download you started without having to remember from
what server you were downloading it, or what login name or password you
were using. Like the proverbial ÓpitbullÔ, once it puts its ÓteethÔ into
a file, it will not stop until the download is complete or until you call
it off. There are three ways you can start download a file with Pitbull:
1. You can use PitbullØs built-in download dialog to logon to a Hotline
server, browse its files, and select the file that you want to download.
2. Pitbull can also handle special web links that enable you to download
a file directly from a webpage, much like conventional file downloads. An
example of a website that is currently offering Pitbull web links in
their Hotline file search engine is www.hlsearch.com.
3. And last but not least, HotFind (a personal Hotline file search
application available at http://www.tracker-tracker.com/hotfind) now has
embedded Pitbull support, allowing Pitbull to also automatically download
the results of a search from HotFind.
Changes in version 1.0.1
-Fixed the link to the online order page
-Fixed a bug in the short cuts when running on a 68k Macintosh.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/pitbull-for-hotline-101.hqx; 1489 K]
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Date: 29 Aug 2000
From: "Richard A. Fowell"
To:
Subject: [*] Sigma Chess 5.0 Lite PPC - free PowerMac chess program with 3D board
SigmaChess 5.0 Lite PPC is a free master-strength chess program for PowerMacs
(Those with 68K Macs, or System 7.0/7.1, should use SigmaChess 4.02 Lite)
SigmaChess has won many awards (see www.sigmachess.com).
It has a 3D rendered piece set, and will annotate your games and print
them out in two-column format in figurine notation with embedded diagrams.
Some of the many new features in 5.0:
- Now PowerMac (only) - SigmaChess 4.02 is 68K code
- 3-4 times faster - should be 100 rating points stronger now
- Now defeats Crafty & Screamer 3:1 in matches by umpired by ExaChess
- Now compatible with ExaChess chess umpire for computer-computer play
- More piece sets
- More levels and time controls
- Multiple chess engines - can play chess against you while
analyzing other games in the background
- More robust PGN/EPD import for loading chess games from the Internet
- Faster, more capable chess database features for organizing your games
[Archived as /info-mac/game/brd/sigma-chess-50.hqx; 2873 K]
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Date: 31 Aug 2000
From: [email protected] (S.Ichise)
To:
Subject: [*] SweetMail 1.8.4ef4
SweetMail is an internet e-mail client for Macintosh that provides
most powerful features with sweet interface. SweetMail has
multiple POP3 accounts, very high-speed searching, filtering,
templates, and many useful functions.
System Requirements:
* System 7.5 or later.
* 2MB of Memory.
* OpenTransport, Thread-Mgr and Appearance-Mgr.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/sweet-mail-184-f4.hqx; 954 K]
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:01:49 -0400
From: Ken Laskey
To: [email protected], Monib
Subject: [A] G3 Powerbook and external monitor resolution problem
I don't know the whole answer but I suspect it has to do with the
Monitors control panel and whether resolution choices are set to
Recommended or All. I wonder also whether it is in any way connected
to my previous post about my Appletalk configuration changing when I
use my Powerbook with different outside world connections. Do you
see the problem when you have moved between using the Powerbook with
its own screen vs. being plugged in to the external?
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Dear Gurus,
hoping someone can help me with the following dilemma:
I have a G3 Powerbook (bronze) which I connect to a 19" DELL P991 monitor.
On random occasions, the number of available resolutions on my control
strip changes. Sometimes it lets me run 1152 x 870 (at millions of colour)
however most times it only shows the standard 640, 800, 600, 1024 and 1960
resolutions, but nothing inbetween them. I have no idea what is going on
with it.
Sometimes I'll be running it at 1152, then after waking it from sleep it
just pops the res back to 1024 and 1152 is not even available on the control
stip anymore.
The Powerbook has 8mb of VRAM and can run a 19" screen at 1152 (because I
have done it many times) but there seems to be no rhyme or reason why
sometimes the resolutions are availabe and sometimes they are not.
I have tried the following:
- update ATI drivers
- update display drivers
- zap PRAM
- start mac first, then monitor and vice versa
If anyone can help with this I would be most grateful.
Thanks,
Monib
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Ken Laskey
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:49:17 -0400
From: Ken Laskey
To: [email protected]
Subject: [A] Power Mcintosh 720075? -- and GURU
Duh, sorry. I was looking at the 7500. Anyway, I think we've
demonstrated the usefulness og Guru.
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At 7:59 pm -0400 8/23/00, [email protected] wrote:
>As a direct answer to your question, GURU has a 7200/100 but not a 75
>Mhz version.
At 5:12 pm -0400 8/25/00, Mike Craymer wrote:
>I have a PowerMac 7200/90.
I just checked GURU v2.9. It lists Power Macs 7200/75, 7200/90, and 7200/120.
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Mike Craymer
[email protected]
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Ken Laskey
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:47:20 -0400
From: Ken Laskey
To: [email protected]
Subject: [A] Power Mcintosh 720075? and GURU
Duh, sorry. I was looking at the 7500. Anyway, I think this all
proves the usefulness of GURU.
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At 7:59 pm -0400 8/23/00, [email protected] wrote:
>As a direct answer to your question, GURU has a 7200/100 but not a 75
>Mhz version.
At 5:12 pm -0400 8/25/00, Mike Craymer wrote:
>I have a PowerMac 7200/90.
I just checked GURU v2.9. It lists Power Macs 7200/75, 7200/90, and 7200/120.
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Mike Craymer
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 01:06:49 -0400
From: Allan Hunter
To: [email protected]
Subject: [GRR] Bloody PowerBook Power Mgmt!
One month after I obtained my WallStreet PowerBook, it lost its
ability to acquire electricity from the wall socket, recognizing only
the battery, which shortly went the way of all batteries that don't
get recharge-juice, and I had to put it in the shop, a miserable
excursion into the grey world of authorized repair from which my new
toy did not emerge for another complete month.
Today I find myself in the opposite situation: it knows AC when it
sees it (from the other side of the little power converter at least)
but knows not its battery. This is admittedly decidedly less of a
bummer than the first go-around, since mostly I am close to an
electrical outlet, and I could, at least theoretically, continue like
this indefinitely.
But why the hell isn't it able to boot and/or stay booted when I
unplug it and force it to use the battery?
a) Yes, I see four green dots when I press the button. It is fully charged.
b) Yeah, just for the heck of it, I ran Apple's PB G3 Battery Reset
and zeroed it out. It quickly recharged.
c) The PowerBook knows when it has the battery in a bay, either bay.
The little charge icon in the menu bar comes up showing a fully
charged battery. If I pull it from the bay it is replaced by an
empty battery icon with an X through it.
d) Yeah, I reset the power management thingie using
fn-Ctrl-Shift-Powerkey. Many times. The green light lights at the
base of the screen when I do that.
But it won't boot if I unplug it from the A/C. No chime, no HD
spin-up, NOTHING. If I yank the cord after boot (and it shows that
it sees a fully charged battery in the bay), instant death, like
yanking the power cord from a desktop Mac.
I have heard recurrent rumors that the original problem was due to a
bad solder that was endemic among WallStreet 300s, that the
motherboard-to-powermgmt thingumabob had a tendency to lose its
connectivity. Do the symptoms I describe sound reminiscent of any
recurrent design-glitch phenomena that any of y'all have heard of?
I am not in dire straits. I don't boot on the subway and no longer
ride the LIRR, so absence of battery-enabled boot is merely annoying
in the extreme. But it's a PowerBook. It is supposed to work
without an available plug-in!
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Allan Hunter
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:55:34 -0400
From: Ken Laskey
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Q] Appletalk resetting to other connection mode
I carry my Powerbook (with OS 8.6) with me and use Location Manager
to set me up for home, office, or whatever. I also use Eudora and
have it automatically check mail every 15 minutes. My problem is
that the Appletalk sometimes changes my configuration so that, for
example, my Ethernet configuration no longer is set to connect via
Ethernet but instead through the modem port. This happens when I use
my computer without specifically changing to my a location and may or
may not be connected to processing email.
Any idea what's happening and how to prevent it?
TIA,
Ken
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Ken Laskey
[email protected]
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:16:34 -0700
From: Dave Del Torto
To: [email protected]
Subject: Boot off a FireWire HD?
FireWire Questions:
I'm running OS 8.6 on a PowerBook G3 (the original "Wallstreet" G3
from late 1998). A couple of months ago, my original 8 GB internal HD
died, so I upgraded to a new Toshiba 12 GB model.
Unfortunately, I screwed up when I formatted it, and ended up with a
12 GB HFS drive with blocksizes that make it act like an 8 GB drive
again (doh!). When I re-do it real soon now, does anyone have any
suggestions? I was thinking of going with HFS+ and two partitions,
one 8 GB and one 4 GB, but never having used an HFS+ format, I'm not
sure the partitioning is even necessary.
Anyway, I needed to get a backup HD (DAT is way too slow), so I'm
thinking of buying a FireWire PCMCIA card and a FireWire hard disk
(30 GB ought to do it and the prices just dropped on the units that
will be available in a week).
Questions:
1. I've found a FireWire adapter for around $110 from Western Digital.
Does anyone know of any lower priced cards?
2. Does anyone know if these FireWire cards are Type II cards?
Sales reps haven't been very definitive on this. The Wallstreet has
two PCMCIA slots, the lower one holds the Type II DVD decoder card,
leaving room for one other Type II card.
2a. Macally (Mac only)
2b. Newer Tech (Mac only)
2c. Orange Micro (PC/Mac)
2d. Western Digital (PC/Mac)
Looking at them so far, 2d is $110 and works on both platforms,
which could come in handy later. If anyone has one of these, please
let me know what you think.
3. Can I boot off a FireWire HD?
I want to install MacOS 9 and start migrating software, but I can't
do what I need to if I can't boot off the FireWire drive. If I
can't then I have to bag this dream and go with a much more
expensive SCSI HD, which would suck because i then couldn't also
benefit from all the cool stuff one can do with a FireWire dingus.
Thanks for your collective wisdom,
dave
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:39:41 -0400
From: "Mann, Susan"
To: [email protected]
Subject: cd drive-disks not showing up
i have a powerbook g3 os 8.5 with an internal cd drive-everytime i put a cd
in it i get error message
disk is unreadable-do you want to initialize
i tried to put the system software in it to reinstall the software for the
cd drive-but that won't show up either
i thought maybe there might be something internally wrong in there-because
for a while there if i pushed in the cd rom door,it would connect and i
would see the cd-but not anymore
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:12:03 +0900
From: Ruth South McCreery
To: [email protected]
Subject: discontinued software
I am seeking a Mac version of Print Shop Deluxe. Does anyone know of a
source of outdated, orphaned, or discontinued Mac software?
A disabled friend who has difficulty writing is very attached to using this
program to make greeting cards, but her copy has mysteriously died. (We are
on different sides of the world, so I cannot poke at her G3 Mac and try to
revive it. I am sure if she had the installation disks, she would
reinstall.)
Broderbund has sold the program to Mattel, which no longer provides a Mac
version. They did very nicely send my friend the Windows version, but . . .
I did find a place called Software & Stuff that had Print Shop Deluxe in
their list of Mac software. Unfortunately, it turns out that their site is
very disorganized; half the stuff in the Mac list is actually Windows
software, including Print Shop.
Are there other sites that deal in surplus, discontinued, etc. software?
My friend is sufficiently distressed that she is thinking of getting a
Windows machine, just to run that program. A far better solution than
coping with the eccentricities of Windowns, it seems to me, would be to
learn another program that has the same functions.
So, as an alternative, can anyone suggest a program that has card-making
functions similar to those of Print Shop?
Ruth S. McCreery [email protected]
The Word Works t: +81-(0)45-314-9324 f: +81-(0)45-316-4409
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 13:05:45 -0400
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: downloading IE 5.0
It has been recommended that I download IE. 5.0 in order to be able to
activate the glash player plug-in. I have a Mac performa6360 Power PC
and have been unable to receive Blue Mountain and other cards with sound
and pictures. How do I download I E 5.0?
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 06:59:26 -0400
From: Chazzz
To: [email protected]
Subject: Eudora is a bust
After reading abrody's comments on Eudora, I decided to try it out. So
much so that I went to the paid version. What a mistake. Where shall I
begin-----,
1: UGLY GUI
2: Non-intuitive
3: One crash after another
4: Poorly written help manual
5: Doesn't work with PopChar
6: cryptic
7: --did I mention UGLY GUI?
OK, so beauty doesn't transfer to a good mail app, but it reallt strains
the eye to look at it and work in it for any length of time. Microsloth
is not a bad email client, but IE is not so good. I've gravitated to old
faithful Communicator. The newest version renders pages faster and it
comes with an------email program built in.
If Eudora is the STATE of the art, I'm moving tomorrow.
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 01:57:14 +0100
From: [email protected] ( =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tom=E1s?= O Murchu)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #136
Hi All
I'm still looking for software for modem Supraexpress 33.6
Any ideas
Tom
Tomas O Murchu
Kilkenny.
Ireland
[email protected]
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 01:29:03 +0100
From: [email protected] ( =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tom=E1s?= O Murchu)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #136
Hi All
I'm actually looking for software for modem Supraexpress 288
not as requested earlier
supraexpress 288
some info at
http://www.google.com/search?q=supraexp ... gle+Search
but I cant download
Tom
Tomas O Murchu
Kilkenny.
Ireland
[email protected]
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 16:07:21 +0200
From: Paolo Bartoli
To: Info Mac
Subject: internal 56K modem for PB G3
I'm looking for a source where to buy a used internal 56K modem for
the PB G3. Any suggestion?
--
** Arch. Paolo Bartoli / [email protected] / [email protected] **
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:18:53 -0600
From: Robert Zimmerman
To: Roland Whitehead , Info-Mac
Subject: Q: 7100 won't start
Replace the PRAM battery. Just because it is producing enough volts
doesn't mean it is pushing enough electrons out. This should solve your
problem.
zimmie
At 04:09 PM +0100 8/28/00, Roland Whitehead allegedly wrote:
I have a 7100/66 that won't start. Pressing the power key on the keyboard or
the power button at the back right of the main box just results in a click -
the power light comes on on the keyboard and the indicator on the box gets
power but almost immediately power is shut of and the Mac won't go any
further - it won't even get to the start-up chime. The Mac was fine, it just
suddenly shut down last Friday and now it won't start. PRAM battery is still
showing 3.6v so should be fine - is about 2 years old. Before I rip it
apart, has anyone seen this before and was there a solution?
Roland Whitehead
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 09:20:11 -0400
From: Vincent Cayenne
To: The Info-Mac Network
Subject: Redirect snapshots?
I often use the snapshot feature (CMD-SHFT-3 or -4) to grab network
trouble-shooting info, configuration details, etc. The resultant
files (named "Picture 1", "Picture 2" and so on) are placed at the
root of my startup disk. This NOT where I want them to go - is there
any way to specify a default folder?
--
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'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described]
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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:11:35 -0400
From: [email protected] (TCS)
To: [email protected]
Subject: Why Use A Mac??
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, another Mackie wrote:
> It's understandable that an IT dept might get a little annoyed with Macs
> because PCs do have a slight edge in terms of networking and that's the big
> issue with IT guys.
Gee, I think it's a lot easier to add a Mac to a Windows NT network, than
it is to add a PC.
Lor
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