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Info-Mac Digest Thu, 01 Mar 01 Volume 18 : Issue 35
Today's Topics:
(A) when old mac will mount nothing but a floppy drive ...
(Q) Need to know the Canon equivalent ink cartridges for CSW
[*] /info-mac/art/zine/ATPM-702-print.pdf.sit.hqx
[*] AutoCat 2.9.1 - Catalog different
[*] Extension Overload v5.7.2
[*] MacWordLearner 2
[*] Poor Man's Solitaire 2.2
[*] PubMedConverter 3.3c
[*] REplay PLAYer light
Disk request won't go away
isdn lan modem online indicator
miro video-capture card question
Not an article but a question--
RCA video input to G4
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 01:13:36 -0600
From: "Paul M. Sheldon"
To: [email protected]
Subject: (A) when old mac will mount nothing but a floppy drive ...
I have been developing my own system of backup with firewire to and
from my powerbook G4 titanium 20gig drive.
I also have a G4 accelerated mac 8500 which, with boot from
internal hard drives or cd, had only booted to question mark (icon) and
with boot from floppy didn't mount the hard drives.
At that point I didn't know what my situation was. Though all the
data was backed up there seemed no way to get at the drives to see what was
or wasn't there or to restore them.
A local friend, Dan Brown, said these drives didn't automount at
boot because of corrupted pref's files on the selected startup drive. We
guessed that if I only could get my hard drives to mount I should trash my
finder prefs, startup prefs and startup device pref's. Use of various
things on the computer would restore uncorrupted pref's later.
Using another working macintosh IIsi with both cd and floppy drive,
I made an 8.1 emergency floppy with Drive Setup Lite from Developer cd
series 1998 system software 1998 (used Disk Tools PPC.img). I booted from
that emergency floppy and had Drive Setup Lite mount my hard drives to
trash my corrupted prefs.
Then I could boot from cd's and hard drives again.
Summary:
Drive Setup Lite mounts hard drives from emergency cd when they
don't otherwise mount. Keep such an emergency floppy disk around if you
have an older machine that allows a small enough operating system to fit on
a floppy. When needed you will be able to mount and trash corrupted prefs
mentioned.
Postscript :
What if you have a newer machine that won't fit a system on an
emergency floppy or doesn't even have a floppy drive and the hard drives
and cd's won't automount.
James Merrett, On-Site Service and Sales, at Apple Infomart
28Feb2001 told me that there was now software and cards to allow booting
off firewire drives so that newer computers with larger operating systems
and a full Drive Setup could mount prefs-corrupted drives.
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:57:14 +0000
From: Steve Smith
To: [email protected]
Subject: (Q) Need to know the Canon equivalent ink cartridges for CSW
Hi
I need to buy some replacement ink tanks for an Apple Color Stylewriter
2500 colour printer. I know that these printers were actually manufactured
by Canon.
Does anyone know which Canon printers are equivalent to the CSW 2500, as
knowing this would enable me to buy from a wider selection of suppliers?
TIA
Steve Smith
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Date: 27 Feb 2001
From: "A. Lee Bennett, Jr."
To:
Subject: [*] /info-mac/art/zine/ATPM-702-print.pdf.sit.hqx
This is the print-optimized PDF edition of the February 2001 issue of ATPM.
About This Particular Macintosh (ATPM) is a free monthly e-zine about the
*personal* computing experience. If you prefer a screen-optimized PDF or an
offline Webzine format, visit to download current and
past issues in your preferred format.
The contents of ATPM 7.02 are as follows:
Columns
Apple Cider: A Matter of Trust
Apples, Kids, & Attitude: Martians in the Manholes
Beyond the Barline: A Tale of Two Trade Shows
About This Particular Web Site
How To: iMovie Transition Tricks
How To: Playing Compressed Sounds on a Home Stereo
Reviews
Mac Chess Downloads
Driver
Final Jam Pro (skin)
Jeopardy!
iTunes 1.0
Links LS 2000
Que! Fire CD-RW Drive
ZipCD
Extras
Desktop Pictures: MobiusCo & Florida panhandle lighthouses
Trivia Challenge Answers: Fun With Numbers
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Date: 27 Feb 2001
From: Olivier Lebra
To:
Subject: [*] AutoCat 2.9.1 - Catalog different
AutoCat 2.9.1 - Shareware $15
Catalog different.
AutoCat Home Page: http://kebawe.com/autocat/
Online Registration: http://order.kagi.com/?OL
Author email: [email protected]
AutoCat got 4 mice at Macdownload and Tucows, and 5 mice at FileDudes.
AutoCat is a drag & drop application that catalogs all your removable
volumes by using aliases. It allows you to navigate your catalog directly
from the Finder!
Highligths:
- Catalog all your removable volumes in a very Macintosh way.
- Navigate through your catalog directly from the Finder.
- Navigate through your catalog from Open/Save dialogs.
- No application to launch to navigate through your catalog.
- Use the Finder's 'Find' command to search your catalog.
- Works in the background.
- Appearance-savvy, Navigation Services-savvy.
AutoCat works with all PowerMacintosh with Mac OS 7.6 or better, but
it's optimized for Mac OS 9. Another version is available for Mac OS X
Public Beta.
AutoCat can be included in CD-ROMs.
Happy AutoCataloging!
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/autocat-291.hqx; 715 K]
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Date: 27 Feb 2001
From: Teng Chou Ming
To:
Subject: [*] Extension Overload v5.7.2
*******************
Extension Overload is an extensions, control panels, control strip
modules and contextual menus management application. It offers detail
information of 4430 extensions and control panels, control strip
modules and contextual menu items in your system. It also lets you
activate and deactivate them, so that you can always easily tailor
your system to your current requirements. In addition, Extension
Overload includes a useful collection of helpful information and
tidbits.
5.7.2 released Feb 19, 2001
* Fixes the Navigation Services Missing problem with 8.1 or earlier.
* Fixes a display/possible crashing bug in the search dialog.
* Added description of 25 control strips modules, 15 extensions, 27
Contextual Menu Items and 5 control panels.
* Total of 4430 extensions, extensions, CSM and CMM plugins.
* Better support for non English Mac OS.
* More URLs and emails have been updated
Extension Overload require a 601 or newer processor with 2 MB of free
RAM. System 7 to Mac OS 9.1 are supported.
The official homepage for Extension Overload is
http://www.ExtensionOverload.com
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[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/extension-overload-572.hqx; 1540 K]
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Date: 1 Mar 2001
From: [email protected]
To:
Subject: [*] MacWordLearner 2
MacWordLearner 2 is a study aid for studies of foreign vocabulary. The user
types in the words to be studied and their translation. The sets of words
are saved as glossary files for convenient management. From a given
glossary, conventional tests as well as flash card tests can be made. The
tests are customisable, allowing the user to set the direction of
translation, order of testing (fixed order/random order), case sensitivity
etc. The glossary files can be edited, merged and printed.
[Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/mac-word-learner-2.hqx; 1231 K]
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Date: 1 Mar 2001
From: Allgood Software
To:
Subject: [*] Poor Man's Solitaire 2.2
With 50 different solitaire variations, Poor Man's Solitaire is
bound to have something to suit every taste: from the familiar Klondike,
to
the more obscure Will O the Wisp. Offering unlimited levels of Undo/Redo,
full automatic play of cards to foundations, your playing statistics,
Save/Restore of games in progress, and much more. Special features are
included to help you to learn new games, as well as cheat like crazy at
the
games you already know. It's great for the serious Solitaire player, as
well as the "I'm just waiting for a printout" types.
Version 2.2 adds:
Different deck style options
Control over background images
Rule Summary within the game
5 New Games
[Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/poor-mans-solitaire-22.hqx; 1911 K]
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Date: 1 Mar 2001
From: [email protected]
To:
Subject: [*] PubMedConverter 3.3c
PubMedConverter 3.3c is a text conversion engine for PubMedMakerII 3.8.
PubMedMakerII 3.8 can accept download files with revised MEDLINE format
at NLM's PubMed after early Feb 2001. The conversion errors of
PubMedConverter 3.0b/ 3.3/ 3.3b are fixed in this version.
What's new in PubMedConverter 3.3c (Feb 27, 2001)
Conversion error of two periods at the end of Title by PubMedConverter
3.3b is fixed in this version.
System Requirements
PubMedMakerII 3.8
[Archived as /info-mac/text/pub-med-converter-33c.hqx; 91 K]
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Date: 1 Mar 2001
From: "Dr. Karlheinz Essl"
To:
Subject: [*] REplay PLAYer light
REplay PLAYer is a computer program that de-constructs a given sound
file and re-composes it by using realtime composition algorithms - a
field of research that has been investigated by Karlheinz Essl since
the mid 1980ies. With this project, Karlheinz Essl is following once
again his vision of a music "that is composed, as if from itself
(auto-poetic), at the moment of its sounding."
REplay PLAYer can be used as a tool to generate an infinite and
every-changing sonic stream from a single sound file for artistical,
compositional or mere recreational purposes. It can also be regarded
as a computer based instrument for live performances, as an
interactive sound installation or a generator for ambient music.
The current stage of this project is a public domain "light" version
that allows only limited user interaction. In a further step, a
shareware version will be released which 1) will offer the
possibility to save the output of the REplay PLAYer directly to disk,
2) includes built-in sound effects and support for VST plugins, and
3) supplies more control facilities for the user.
System requirements
Apple Macintosh G3 computer
OS 8.x or better
min. 24 MB of free RAM (80 MB recommended)
What the REplay PLAYer does
The REplay PLAYer stores an entire sound file in the computer's RAM
from which it cuts out particles of varying length from different
positions of the file. The length of the particles is determined by
the "granularity" parameter". Then the program will overlap these
particles according to the density parameter. Both parameters can be
either controlled manually, or by selecting presets from a pop-up
menu.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/replay-player-light.hqx; 726 K]
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:54:15 -0800
From: "Tom Landis"
To: [email protected]
Subject: Disk request won't go away
Hi.
Every time I start up my 7200, the CDROM drive ejects its CDROM, asks to
have the CDROM put back and requests this "Astra scan disk" to be inserted
into the floppy drive. Until I press "cancel", it won't go away. I have
zapped the pram several times, rebuilt the desktop, etc. to no effect.
How can I get rid of this annoying behavior? (I don't know where the Astra
disk is, so I can't insert it). There is no ghost image of the disk on
the desktop. The only other thing I can think of is to do a clean install
of the system (8.6) (or, last resort, wipe the drive!) but I don't have a
universal 8.5 or 8.6 disk to use or a reliable backup medium. Any
suggestions?
Thanks for any info you can offer,
Tom Landis
[email protected]
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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:40:11 +0200
From: "Dr. Peter Stoyanov"
To: [email protected]
Subject: isdn lan modem online indicator
dear list
i have a small network (2 imacs and ibook) connected through 3com
isdn lan modem. work really fine the only thing i would like to know
from my ibook is if i'm online or not without going with IE or
Netscape to the controling main page of the lan modem.
is there any elegant and simple solution? Remote access status works
only with dial up and not with the ethernet connection to the
internet.
mtia
peter
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:24:59 -0500
From: Chip Carpenter
To: Christian F Buser ,
Subject: miro video-capture card question
It is more than likely a Miro DC-20 (21vDC20) manuals and drivers are here:
http://www.miro.com/support/products/in ... ductID=322
Cheers,
Chip
on 2/26/01 4:29 PM, Christian F Buser at [email protected] wrote:
> I have been given what I think is a miro video capture card, without
> any documentation or software.
>
> The card has a label which reads:
> "miro Computer Products GmbH"
> "21VDC20 PCX1 02605000 051113761"
>
> Apple System Profiler tells me the following:
> Apple's System Profiler identifiziert die Karte wie folgt:
> Kartentyp: nicht verfÆgbar (card type: not available)
> Kartenname: pci1031,5601 (card name:)
> Kartenmodell: nicht verfÆgbar (card model:)
> Card ROM#: nicht verfÆgbar
> Kartenrevision: 1 (revision:)
> Kartenhersteller-ID: 1031 (card manufacturer:)
>
> Any idea what exactly this card is, where I can find
> drivers/software, and documentation?
>
> Thank you, Christian.
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:44:34 -0700
From: Sivea Key
To:
Subject: Not an article but a question--
A client's G4, which we were using to serve FileMaker Pro via FMP Server,
crashed after only a year or so of service. One "expert" involved mentioned
having knowledge of several G4s that have crashed similarly. In this case,
it was an IDE/ATA drive but he thought he had also heard of SCSI crashing.
Any corroborating tales? Any particular reasons why? Thanks! Sivea
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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:18:29 -0500
From: Chip Carpenter
To: "Michael S. Silverstein" ,
Subject: RCA video input to G4
1. Probably not (I would say no, but few things are impossible, just
impractical)
2. Sony makes a media converter that will do it at high quality via
firewire and allow you to send it back to tape for about $300-400. There
are other manufacturers of the same type of product as well. I think its
called the DVMC-2.
If you are doing web/computer video (so you don't want to go back to tape)
you can you can use a usb video converter avialable from most mac catalog
places . . .
Chip
on 2/25/01 12:58 AM, Michael S. Silverstein at
[email protected] wrote:
> I would like to input video from a Sony 8mm video camera to a G4 and
> then work with iMovie.
>
> I presently have a G4 and a PowerMac 7600/120.
>
> The 7600 has RCA video input ports while the G4 has Firewire and USB.
>
> I have used the video input ports on my 7600 to import video from my
> Sony 8mm video camera (it has one video and one audio RCA output
> ports) and worked with Avid Videoshop.
>
> 1) Can I remove the video import apparatus (card?) from the 7600 and
> install it into the G4?
>
> 2) Is there an RCA to Firewire adaptor that I can use in the event
> that (1) is impossible or impractical?
>
> Thanks in advance for you help!!
>
> Michael Silverstein
> Materials Engineering
> Technion
>
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