Info-Mac Digest V17 #21
Posted: February 11th, 2000, 8:30 pm
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #21
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 11 Feb 00 Volume 17 : Issue 21
Today's Topics:
[A] PB 170 screen
netscape crash
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:24:28 -0500
From: "Joni Hope"
Subject: [A] PB 170 screen
>Basically the screen is divided into about 5 pixel columns.
The top half
>has every other column and fills in with gray checkerboard
(one pixel on,
>neighbors off), and the bottom half has the columns the top
half didn't
>show, and I can only barely access the top half and left
half of my
>screen; only one-quarter of my screen shows in this odd
manner!
To answer my own question, I swapped top-half and
bottom-half with
a co-worker's PowerBook 170 and I'm pretty sure the fault is
in
the female portion of the video ribbon cable. Since ribbon
cables
kink over time (and mine sure has!) AND THEN FAIL, I'm
pretty sure
that I lost a line inside the cable. I need a new video
board
(not the interconnect board, might be called the video relay
and
DC inverter board?). Mystery solved! (I hope!)
- Joni
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:21:30 -0500
From: "Joni Hope"
Subject: netscape crash
>From: sabrina ludovico
>Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 03:55:59 -0500
>
>I have installed netscape 4.06 on my work station (sun
solaris
2.5.1) ,
>but i have a problem.
I would like to ask gently and rhetorically why you ask
this
question in a Mac forum.
>If I read a particular page and then ckick the back botton
to
see the
>previuose , netscape crash.
>Why? The page that cause the crash is written with fronte
page.Netscape
>crash only if i go in that page with bach botton.
That sounds like a problem between Netscape Communicator or
Navigator and Microsoft Front Page. Since those two
companies are
not friendly to each other, I think *that* is the problem.
I
doubt you can fix the problem. However, you should try some
standard troubleshooting procedures. Install a newer
version of
Netscape; Netscape is up to 4.7.1. I found 4.06 for Solaris
to be
less-than-stable. Try another browser: hotjava is probably
installed with Solaris. You can also download Internet
Explorer
for Solaris, although I never got it to run and never cared
to
taint my workstation with Microsoft software anyway.
Consider
upgrading your version of Solaris; 7 has been out for over a
year,
making 2.6 old news, and 2.5.1 even older news. As an
interim
measure, be sure your patches are up-to-date (use PatchTool
if
possible). Also reboot your workstation, just in case, but
NEVER
use the power switch to reboot. Installing applications and
upgrading the operating system and rebooting the workstation
are
the provenance of the system administrator. The simplest
answer
is probably not to use the BACK button while on that site,
and
possibly to complain to the webmaster of that site about
browser-
dependent pages. Sorry that's not much help.
- Joni
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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 11 Feb 00 Volume 17 : Issue 21
Today's Topics:
[A] PB 170 screen
netscape crash
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.
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by the author or with permission of the author. It may take up to a week
to process; check mirror sites for the status of new uploads.
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and then use an FTP client to upload the
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password "macgifts". Or, click .
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Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers,
and Chris Pepper.
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:24:28 -0500
From: "Joni Hope"
Subject: [A] PB 170 screen
>Basically the screen is divided into about 5 pixel columns.
The top half
>has every other column and fills in with gray checkerboard
(one pixel on,
>neighbors off), and the bottom half has the columns the top
half didn't
>show, and I can only barely access the top half and left
half of my
>screen; only one-quarter of my screen shows in this odd
manner!
To answer my own question, I swapped top-half and
bottom-half with
a co-worker's PowerBook 170 and I'm pretty sure the fault is
in
the female portion of the video ribbon cable. Since ribbon
cables
kink over time (and mine sure has!) AND THEN FAIL, I'm
pretty sure
that I lost a line inside the cable. I need a new video
board
(not the interconnect board, might be called the video relay
and
DC inverter board?). Mystery solved! (I hope!)
- Joni
-----
Using a Macintosh? Get FREE e-mail and
more at MacLaunch!
http://www.maclaunch.com
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:21:30 -0500
From: "Joni Hope"
Subject: netscape crash
>From: sabrina ludovico
>Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 03:55:59 -0500
>
>I have installed netscape 4.06 on my work station (sun
solaris
2.5.1) ,
>but i have a problem.
I would like to ask gently and rhetorically why you ask
this
question in a Mac forum.
>If I read a particular page and then ckick the back botton
to
see the
>previuose , netscape crash.
>Why? The page that cause the crash is written with fronte
page.Netscape
>crash only if i go in that page with bach botton.
That sounds like a problem between Netscape Communicator or
Navigator and Microsoft Front Page. Since those two
companies are
not friendly to each other, I think *that* is the problem.
I
doubt you can fix the problem. However, you should try some
standard troubleshooting procedures. Install a newer
version of
Netscape; Netscape is up to 4.7.1. I found 4.06 for Solaris
to be
less-than-stable. Try another browser: hotjava is probably
installed with Solaris. You can also download Internet
Explorer
for Solaris, although I never got it to run and never cared
to
taint my workstation with Microsoft software anyway.
Consider
upgrading your version of Solaris; 7 has been out for over a
year,
making 2.6 old news, and 2.5.1 even older news. As an
interim
measure, be sure your patches are up-to-date (use PatchTool
if
possible). Also reboot your workstation, just in case, but
NEVER
use the power switch to reboot. Installing applications and
upgrading the operating system and rebooting the workstation
are
the provenance of the system administrator. The simplest
answer
is probably not to use the BACK button while on that site,
and
possibly to complain to the webmaster of that site about
browser-
dependent pages. Sorry that's not much help.
- Joni
-----
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more at MacLaunch!
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