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Info-Mac Digest Wed, 31 May 00 Volume 17 : Issue 91
Today's Topics:
(Q) lost hard disk space
[*] LockOut 1.8J - Japanese Version
[*] NetRunner1.0 -- A small Internet launcher for the Macintosh.
[*] Space Garbage Men 1.1.0b
[*] SysEx 4.3.3
[*] TextureMagic 1.3.1
[*] URL Manager Pro 2.6b2J - Japanese Version
[*] Web Confidential 2.0J - Japanese Version
a page that loads on PC browsers but not on Mac browsers
Can't see HPLJ 2100 in my chooser...
CD Writers & Motorola Starmax
EMACs on the MAC?
Eudora and attachments
Netscape Autofill
Netscape erases History
OE 5.02
simple sound manipulator available?
Starting up from DVD-RAM disks - Further Update
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Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 22:16:22 -0400
From: "abrody@smart.net" <abrody@smart.net>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: (Q) lost hard disk space
Dear Digest readers,
Oh I am aware of the block/byte scenario on hard disks, but is that
all there is to explain why hard drives from major manufacturers are
losing up to 7% of their space every time they are formatted?
Here's an example...a 10 GB hard drive from Toshiba that fits in a
Powerbook has only 9.35 GB of usable space after formatting with
Apple HD Setup in MacOS 9.0.4. An APS SCSI Hard drive which was
supposed to be 9.1 GB, ends up having only 8.47 GB available to it
after being formatted with Anubis Utilities. And I verified the
partition map, and there is no extra partitions. Reformatting with
a different driver yields the same results. Can the block/byte
scenario explain where this much space is being lost? Would Alsoft
Disk Warrior do anything to get the data back without having to
backup the data already on the hard drive? Or are there other
utilities that can do something to get the space back? Because
after losing 600 to 700 MB on each of these hard drives, one of which
being one of my customers, I'd like to know why it happens, and how
to prevent it, and if it can be solved without having to make a full
backup? The customer happens to have MacOS 8.6, but it too is
formatted with Extended File System.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To:
Subject: [*] LockOut 1.8J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of LockOut.
LockOut is a shareware security application that helps keep
people from using your Mac while you're away. Helps keep your Mac
safe from your co-workers while at the office, and from your kids
while at home.
Rated 4 Stars by ZDNet
http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=MC18360
LockOut features:
-- Cannot be aborted by Force-Quit (command-option-escape-shift keys)
and command-tab application switching in MacOS 8.5 circumvented.
-- People can leave a message for you while your gone.
-- Session log lists lock time, unlocked time, and any break-in attempts.
-- And more...
v1.8
* Idle time now checks for disk activity.
Select Settings from the LockOut Edit menu, and click on the upper tab
that says �Activate When Idle�. Previously LockOut only watched for
mouse movement and keyboard activity, but now it watches for disk
activity as well. That means LockOut won't automatically activate if
you're downloading a large file, for example. Note that this is not
perfect, and if you're watching a DVD movie for example, which is
read-only, LockOut may not see this as disk activity.
For more information, see the file "version history" in the LockOut folder.
Thanks for supporting shareware!
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/lock-out-18-jp.hqx; 745 K]
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Date: 28 May 2000
From: Brian Ellis <firebird@clinic.net>
To:
Subject: [*] NetRunner1.0 -- A small Internet launcher for the Macintosh.
NetRunner is a small program designed to make launching Web sites and other
addresses as simple and seamless as possible. Simply type in a URL, FTP
site address, or email address and you will be taken to that address in
whatever program should handle it. Includes inline support for browser
Favorites/Bookmarks and Internet Location files.
Freeware, PowerPC only, may be included on Info-Mac CDs.
Regards,
Brian Ellis
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/net-runner-10.hqx; 1738 K]
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Date: 27 May 2000
From: Trozo <trozo@retemail.es>
To:
Subject: [*] Space Garbage Men 1.1.0b
Space Garbage Men
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A space/action game for the mac: Pilot your triangular ship
through loads of levels getting the valuable radioactive rocks
and killing angry aliens. Look for the secret entrance to find
many more trasures for points and ship upgrades. All this while
listening to a psycobilly/garage/gothic soundtrack!!
Requierments:
- Power Mac able to do openGL graphics (hardware acceleration prefered)
- System 8.1 or better.
- About 15 Mb free ram.
What's new: Version 1.1.0b is a mayor optimization to the sound
resources. The quality of the sounds is almost the same, but the total
file size is about half of what used to be. Also this
version makes minor fixes to the keys: It adds a pause key ('p')
and fixes the 'esc' key, which now properly exits the game to the
menu.
Trouble? Questions? Ideas? go to
http://www.makasoft.net
or send emails to:
general@makasoft.net
bugs@makasoft.net
[Archived as /info-mac/game/space-garbage-men-11b.hqx; 1780 K]
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Date: 30 May 2000
From: Steve Grace <sgrace@ioc.net>
To:
Subject: [*] SysEx 4.3.3
SysEx
Universal MIDI Librarian
By Steve Grace
Version 4.3.3 - March 2000
SysEx is a free MIDI librarian program for the Macintosh. SysEx can
transmit and receive system exclusive (sysex) messages via MIDI and can
save and load these messages to and from disk. It features a 256K receive
buffer, a "continuous receive" mode (allowing multiple sysex messages to be
combined in a single file), and special features to support KORG
Wavestations and the Roland D-5/10/20/110 series.
SysEx 4.3.3 supports USB interfaces and includes enhancements to improve
compatibility with some devices. It also includes a new "MIDI Thru" feature
for auditioning patches on sound modules.
SysEx requires a Macintosh computer with a 68020, 68030, 68040, or PowerPC
processor, System 7.0 or greater, and Opcode Systems' OMS (version 1.2 or
greater) or equivalent (some versions of Mark of the Unicorn's FreeMIDI,
including versions 1.34 and 1.35, can emulate OMS).
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/midi/sys-ex-433.hqx; 227 K]
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Date: 27 May 2000
From: Wolfgang Ante <wante@artissoftware.com>
To:
Subject: [*] TextureMagic 1.3.1
TextureMagic is a graphics application for creating and editing of
seamlessly tileable textures. TextureMagic's users are website
designers that create webpage backgrounds, 3D artists that easily
transform photographed surfaces into tileable textures and other
graphic designers that use textured backgrounds for their creative
content creation.
TextureMagic 1.3.1 adds exporting in Photoshop, PNG, Silicon Graphics
and Targa file formats. A new online dialog allows users to check for
newer versions with a single click on a button and subscribe to an
update notification mailinglist.
The TextureMagic website is located at <http://www.texturemagic.com>.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/texture-magic-131.hqx; 2223 K]
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To:
Subject: [*] URL Manager Pro 2.6b2J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the URL Manager Pro package.
New in version 2.6 of the popular bookmark manager for the Mac is
support for the the new iCab Web Browser and support for Apple's
Keychain feature of Mac OS 9. URL Manager is now also Sherlock-aware,
another feature of Mac OS 9.
URL Manager Pro, the professional bookmark manager for the Macintosh
for use with Netscape Navigator/Communicator, Microsoft Internet
Explorer and iCab, gives users a more convenient way to manage
bookmarks, E-Mail addresses and Newsgroups.
URL Manager Pro 2.6 is Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9 savvy. It features
support for the Keychain of Mac OS 9 and fully supports the new iCab
Web Browser. URL Manager Pro can now track the History for multiple
browsers concurrently. URL Manager Pro is available in English,
Japanese, German, French, Italian, Swedish and Spanish.
URL Manager Pro has garnered many glowing accolades in the
Macintosh press, including TidBits and MacWorld.
"URL Manager is fast, slick, and easy." says Adam C. Engst, Tidbits.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/url-manager-pro-26b2-jp.hqx; 1161 K]
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Date: 31 May 2000
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To:
Subject: [*] Web Confidential 2.0J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Web Confidential package.
Web Confidential is an intuitive, easy-to-use program for
managing user IDs, passwords, registration numbers, and the like.
While Web Confidential is suitable for a wide variety of personal data,
from credit card numbers to serial numbers, Alco Blom designed Web
Confidential particularly for the World Wide Web in mind. "Increasing
numbers of Web sites maintain some form of user registration," points
out Blom. "You may not realize it, but in the course of time you may
registered at a couple of dozen sites. Do you remember the passwords
you entered for all of them?"
Web Confidential allows Web surfers to store URLs, user IDs, and
passwords in one secure location. Web Confidential can automate the
process of logging into a password-secured Web page by automatically
passing URL, user ID, and password to your Web browser.
For opening pages containing personal account information at commercial
sites, Web Confidential allows you to automatically fill in WWW Forms
with user ID and password fields.
To ensure the personal information stored in Web Confidential remains
confidential, the program's password files can be encrypted using
state-of-the-art encryption technology.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/web-confidential-20-jp.hqx; 380 K]
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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 15:36:47 -0400
From: "abrody@smart.net" <abrody@smart.net>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: a page that loads on PC browsers but not on Mac browsers
Dear Digest readers,
Well somebody here wanted to build a b2b page, but what's really
interesting is that the stylesheet loads the right table column on
top of the inner right table column, blocking its view.
http://www.directoris.i12.com/
If you load this same page on Netscape & Internet Explorer on the PC
it doesn't do that, but it does do that on both Mac web browsers.
It looks like Gates & Barksdale owe us an explanation why they are
coding the way stylesheets are read differently in their browsers on
the Mac side from those on the PC side. I suggest that anyone with
any input into the development of both browsers make sure that
stylesheets load consistently across platforms.
If your web browser doesn't give you problems, and you are on the Mac
side, please let me know. Because here is what I got when I loaded
it:
http://www.index-site.com/image.gif
I made a screen capture here showing the problems with this webpage.
Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 10:18:20 -0400
From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Can't see HPLJ 2100 in my chooser...
Thursday, my venerable but borrowed (thanks Vinnie!) LWIINT put its feet in
the sky again and my erst-CEO, -CFO, and Chief Counsel, some of them flown
in from the left coast, in the middle of a last-minute pre-VC dog-and-pony
thrash, all clustered around it with their various Wintel Boxes watching
the smoke rise, nodding sagely...
We hopped into the car, scampered down to the nearest Staples, got
ourselves a HP LJ 2100 with the 600N network card, which, supposedly, talks
Appletalk and Postscript, and plugged it all into the ethernet hub. Of
course, *they* of the Wintel Boxes, can see the printer fine, and *I*
can't, even when I follow the directions on the CD ROM's Mac install
package.
We have an Airport Basestation routing the packets and getting us dialed
out to the net, and I'm using the Lucent WaveLAN in my Lombard, which
rocks, but, even when I plug directly into the hub with an ethernet cable,
I still can't see the thing in the Chooser.
Heavy sigh.
Thought I'd ask here first...
Any ideas?
Cheers,
RAH
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 20:55:28 -0400
From: "Scott L. Horton" <shorton@worldpath.net>
To: <mack&bee@xtra.co.nz>, Info- Mac <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: CD Writers & Motorola Starmax
Hello,
I have a Starmax 3000 that now has a sonnet G3 300Hmz card in it. I have
had no problems with the external SCSI bus and devices at all. Also, for
free, motorola sent me a kit to add a second, internal SCSI bus that I
used to add an internal SCSI additional hard disk as the IDE bus is
already full with the CD and the stock Hard disk.
Good luck,
Scott
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Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 11:42:19 -0400
From: "Douglas W. St.Clair" <dwstclair@tellink.net>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: EMACs on the MAC?
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of EMACS for the Macintosh?
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:29:39 +0000
From: me@none.co.uk (Lobo)
To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org
Subject: Eudora and attachments
*Nearly every time*, I am unable to send attachments using Eudora 4.3.2.
The most recent time was an attachment of 2MB but the little pendulum stops
swinging and the screen freezes. I then have to do a force quit and
restart. Occasionally it will send an attachment, but it is UNRELIABLE. I
have tried attachment of 512k and 250k but no joy.
Using PM 550/225 -internal modem; OS8.6; 8MB memory allocated to Eudora.
I have not received any satisfactory answer from my ISP and therefore do
not know if the problem is with Eudora or my ISP!
Any help would be appreciated.
Lobo.
ta reply, rub oot -Lobo- from... peter@plalp.-Lobo-freeserve.co.uk
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 13:57:31 -1000
From: Jerry Levinson <levinson@hawaii.edu>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Netscape Autofill
Is there any way of turning off the autofill (or autocompletion) of URls
in Netscape Communicator 4.7? I can't find anything in the Preferences
(except setting the History to delete all after 1 day), nothing in Help,
and nothing at the Netscape site.
Thanks,
Jerry
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:13:39 -0700
From: Denny Davis <cat999@netmug.org>
To: Info-Mac <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Netscape erases History
At 08:44 +0200 05/23/2000, Michael S. Silverstein wittily wrote:
>Is there any way to prevent Netscape from erasing the History when
>you close your window (or quit)?
>
>On PCs Netscape retains your History for the specified number of days.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Michael Silverstein
>Materials Engineering
>Technion
As far as I know the answer is no.
Get URL Manager Pro <http://www.url-manager.com/> which keeps your history
indefinitely up to 1000 entries.
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but satisfaction brought it back.
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Blessings, Denny
<mailto:cat999@netmug.org>
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:30:53 +0100
From: Stewart Mackintosh <smack@mcmail.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: OE 5.02
Anyone having a problem with Outlook Express 5.02? I've noticed no problems
here (PB 333 Bronze/OS9), but at the office I look after (iMacs going thru
Vicomsoft Gateway) outgoing emails don't make it. I'm gradually narrowing
down the problem, and at the moment it seems to be when
sending/replying/forwarding to more than one person in the "To" field.
Any ideas?
TIA
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Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:05:37 -0500
From: Charles Stang <stang@muhs.edu>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: simple sound manipulator available?
Is there a simple application around (freeware, shareware) to take a
system sound and manipulate it--for example to change the pitch or only
keep part of the sound and then save it?
Charley
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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:33:56 +1000
From: Bob Lyon <boblyon@ozemail.com.au>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Starting up from DVD-RAM disks - Further Update
Further to my earlier posting about starting up my G4/450 (System 9.0.4)
from an Apple- installed (but not Apple-manufactured) DVD-RAM disk, I think
I've found the solution to the problem - there's been a fairly lengthy
exchange in MacFixit at:
www.macfixit.com/ultimate/Forum20/HTML/001076.html
The solution to my problem was to install the G4 firmware update 2.4
m3ntioned in the discussion thread:
http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11699
Thanks again to all those who responded!
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