Carmine's MiM News Feed
- AppleTIL Updates (Friday_02.26.99)
MOD 18806 ARA MultiPort Server: Global Village Platinum Modem
MOD 18485 Apple Remote Access: Extending Default Time Out Limit
MOD 19655 Remote Access Control Panel: Requires Password
MOD 19893 Apple Remote Access: Shutdown Delay
MOD 17677 Apple Telecom: Using Fax, Voice and Data Call Detection
MOD 18818 Apple Remote Access: Dialing String Length
MOD 18819 ARA: Credit Card Number Visible in Activity Log
MOD 16791 ARA: Set to Auto-Answer with AOL
MOD 17066 Apple Remote Access: PowerBook Duo 230 and Error -23
MOD 17282 ARA: Performa 611x and Global Village Gold II Modem
MOD 15653 ARA: The Correct Global Village TelePort/Bronze Script
MOD 17581 ARA MultiPort X.25 Extension: CompuServe X.25 Network
MOD 15530 ARA MultiPort Server: System 7 File Share Incompatible
MOD 17065 ARA Personal Server: Log Stops Adding Entries
MOD 18449 ARA: How Do Remote Systems Get Assigned Node Addresses
MOD 16607 ARA: No Local Printing After Using
MOD 15669 Apple Remote Access X.25: Virtual Circuits
MOD 18666 ARA: Open Transport Issue
MOD 16489 ARA: AppleShare, Personal File Sharing and TOPS
MOD 22061 Sending email In Other Languages
MOD 11368 Personal Sharing: File Sharing Can't Be Enabled Message
NEW 24827 Apple Studio Display 17-inch: Degausses When Awakened
NEW 24826 PowerBook: Removing Password Security Without Password
MOD 20080 Mac System 7.5.3: About the Control Panels Folder
Read Me
MOD 20082 Mac System 7.5.3: About the Extensions folder Read Me
- Keyspan USB serial adapter 1.5.1 [... version
1.5.1 of the Keyspan USB Serial Adapter installer ... fixes various bugs
in version 1.5.0 and adds improvements to the Keyspan USB Serial
Assistant control panel. Posted February 25, 1999.] (Keyspan)
- The Exorcist [The Exorcist will attempt to
inoculate against the new "666" virus. Please note that it has not
actually been tested with a live copy of the virus...]
(Laffey) [see below MacFixIt post-Carmine]
- The Exorcist (hopefully) deals with new 666 variant
[MacFixIt report: "Victor Orly reported finding on his drive what
appears to be a new variant of the "666" (or SevenDust/Graphics
Accelerator) virus. The 666 file was in his Extensions folder. Other
files may have been affected as well.
Joe Laffey (author of Graphics Innoculator) has already created a new
program, called "The Exorcist," to hopefully deal with this. He writes:
"This new AppleScript attempts to inoculate against the '666' virus by
creating a locked file in the System Folder. It also works over an
AppleTalk network."] (MacFixIt)
- Logitech MouseWare 3.0b7 [USB driver for their new USB Wheel mouse.] (Logitech)
- Totally Hip Software Inc. announces Apple uses
LiveStage(TM) in iMac promotion (Yahoo)
- Zat(tm) Fulfills Promise of Cross-Platform
Authoring for Internet Applications With Spin for Macintosh (Yahoo)
- Group Files Complaint Against Intel [Intel ...is facing criticism from an Internet civil liberties group over privacy protection in the company's latest Pentium computer processors.] (Yahoo)
- Record Industry To Gather Friday On Digital
Standard [Major music and technology companies will gather ... for a meeting of a coalition created two months ago to study online music copyright protection technologies.] (Yahoo)
- FCC Rules on Internet Dial-Up Calls [Telephone
calls by a computer user to connect to the Internet no longer are
considered local after federal regulators classified the dial-ups as
interstate communications, subject to federal jurisdiction.] (Yahoo)
- Be offering free OS to PC makers [Former Apple
Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassee is offering PC makers an operating
system for free.] (News.com)
- Win 98 prices don't reflect competition [The
Microsoft executive who set the price of Windows 98 says he picked his
price without having to consider the competition.] (News.com)
- Team ASA Adds Macintosh To NIC [Team ASA Inc. will ship its Stallion-GE-II, a Gigabit Ethernet network interface card for Power Macintosh platforms, in the second quarter. The Stallion-GE-II series comes in fiber and copper interfaces with drivers available for Power Macintosh.] (TechWeb)
- The Sound of Busic [Mike Robertson has made a name as an MP3 evangelist. Can he turn all his preaching into profits? Stay tuned.] (Wired)
= 4:00 PM Update =
A reader commented that he was told by ProMax that Maxtor IDE drives need special software to work with their TurboMax card:
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He said, however, that the Maxtor drive won't work with the adapter
without a piece of $100+ software from Remus. Do you know about this? He added that the IBM and Quantum drives run without the software.
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That makes no sense to me, and there was no mention made of any Remus software required in Thad Brown's recent article here on TurboMax IDE Tests that included a Maxtor IDE drive. The only Remus I know is Adaptec's Remus Raid (SCSI) software.
I used Apple drive setup 1.5 and 1.6 fine using Apple's onboard IDE controller with the Maxtor drive. Drive Setup 1.7 would update the drive after version 1.5 or 1.6 had been used previously to prep the drive. Both my beige G3 and B&W IDE slave drive articles used the Maxtor IDE drive and Apple drive setup driver.
Mike Bosshard wrote to say he'd tried an IDE Superdisk drive in the B&W G3 and it didn't work. He said he tried Apple drive setup and FWB's drivers with no luck.
Sponsor Bottom Line sent a note they just received 200 pcs. of the Keyspan USB to 2-Port Serial Adapters and have 45 left available after backorders. Their current price is $78.99
C/Net has a new article on how the iMac may change computers forever. They also look at some new PC knockoff attempts.
= 12:00 PM Update =
VillageTronic MP850-750 - QuickTime accelerators for MPEG/YUV,
v1.1.2/v1.1.4 updates are at www.villagetronic.com/mac/index_support.html
Sorry there were no updates yesterday, but thanks to antibiotics and Advil/Tylenol I'm feeling a bit better today.
The scores for the Maxtor 10GB DiamondMax Plus IDE drive were inadvertently omitted when I updated the MacBench 5 graph in the Ultra2 SCSI Card Review for the Cheetah U2 drive. I've restored them this morning.
Virtual Network Computing: Graeme Humphries writes:
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I don't know if you've heard of Virtual Network Computing, but I thought I'd pass the word on since I found out about it yesterday and was amazed. It's an Open Source project (GPLed) that basically does what Timbuktu does, only more and on more platforms. It has a client and a server for every platform (there's even a JAVA client) and it lets you control any computer running the server over a TCP/IP network.
Its webpage is at http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc and here's a
list of some of the platforms it works on:
Official:
Macintosh FAT viewer, PPC server
Solaris 2.5 (SPARC) viewer & server
Linux 2.0.x for x86
DEC Alpha OSF1 3.2
Win32 (Intel) 95, 98, & NT
Windows CE 2.x SH3 processor and MIPS processor
Java client
3rd Party Ports:
MacOS alternate viewer with Appearance Manager and Navigation Services support,
Acorn RISC OS viewer, Amiga viewer, BeOS viewer (server in progress),
BSDI, Cygwin32, DOS, FreeBSD, GGI, HPUX, KDE specific viewer, OpenStep/Mach (Rhapsody?) viewer, OS/2 viewer, PalmPilot viewer, SCO, OpenServer, SGI Irix, SPARC linux, SunOS 4.1.3, SVGALib & Single, Floppy linux, VMS viewer, Windows NT Alpha.
I've installed it on a Win98 box, a WinNT server, a linux server and my Mac at home, and all of them can see and manipulate each other over the net. It's possible to even launch the viewer on 1 machine, connect to another, launch the viewer on that machine and connect to a 3rd! Not to mention the possibilities of being able to remote-control your Mac from a PalmPilot!
Anyway, I thought it was really really cool,
Graeme Humphries
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Slava Karpenko, lead programmer for @soft wrote on Wednesday that he
thinks he's nailed the crashing bug problem in MacAMP lite 1.5. Good to his word, I see that there is MacAMP Lite 1.5.1 update released yesterday.
IDE SuperDisk Drive in B&W G3: Has anyone out there tried an IDE Superdisk drive in the B&W G3? I'm running a OEM ZIP drive in that bay now but have been curious for some time if the IDE Superdisk would work. They're sold at most Office Depot's, etc. for about $100 (internal version) before rebates. If you've tried this please contact me. [Update: initial reports say it does not work at all]
Rick Thorp sent a note he created a page about his upgrade experiences,
and I think we'll all recognize the addictive nature of wanting more performance (a never ending quest).
ADSL Info: Need the ultimate in Net access speed?
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mike
let your readers know that the adsl service they seek can be obtained from
flashcom. i do not work for them, i am a customer of theirs. i consult to
companies here in LA and in New York. i have 6 flawless installs running
here and in ny. funny thing flashcom uses bell atlantic in ny and there are
no problems getting invidual computers and nets activated. they are also the
cheapest. usually 10 bucks cheaper than bell atlantic including internet
account. i access you every day over my symmetric 384k connection. i run a
web sever, ftp and email servers off this coonection and have a whole office
running off it. they can be reached at 1 877 flashcom or at
www.flashcom.com.
caz thrush
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Vimage CPU Upgrades Sale: Site Sponsor Other World Computing
sent a note on lower prices on Vimage upgrades:
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Effective for all orders shipping 3/2/99, these are our new Vimage
prices. Free Freight applies to orders placed online. We are accepting orders today at these new prices to ship by 3/2.
Vpower G3/300 w/512k Cache 2:1
(for 73/75/76/85/86/95/96/Umax S900 & J700) - $389.00
Vpower G3/300 w/1024 Cache 2:1
(for 73/75/76/85/86/95/96/Umax S900 & J700) - $569.00
Vpower G3/233 w/512k Cahce 2:1 for PowerBook 1400 - $469.00
Vpower G3/240 w/512k Cache 2:1 for PowerMac 4400/Motorola Starmax 3000 & 4000 Series -$289.00
Vpower G3/240 w/512k Cache 2:1
(for Performa/PowerMac 6360/5400/6400 & Umax C500) - $379.00
Vpower G3/225 w/512k Cache 2:1
(for PowerMac 5500 & 6500 models) -$379.00
Best Regards,
Larry
Other World Computing
800-275-4576
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Forums Still Down: My forums at resurge are still not working - 'access denied'. I've written Victor explaining the problem but as of 7AM this morning all I get is the same access denied message.
Although it's geared to the PC, Gamespot's 'Voodoo3 vs Pentium III: Which Matters Most?' article might be of interest to gamers.
Since I was sick all day yesterday here I didn't get to post Carmine's news feed until now.
- AppleTIL Updates (Thursday_02.25.99)
NEW 26181 Support for Older Macintosh Operating Systems
NEW 30913 Displays: Using the Ambient Light Tool
MOD 30152 Mac OS: Upgrading from Older OS Versions
- MacAMP Lite 1.5.1 (MacAmp)
- Multiple Platforms and Video Applications Share
Common Storage [Using SANergy 1.5 From Mercury Computer Systems.]
(Yahoo)
- Livewire: Shopping Agents Sniff Out Best Products,
Prices [Now that there's so much to shop for online, it can be hard to find all the Web stores that carry, say, the computer or camcorder you're looking for, not to mention the ones with the best prices.] (Yahoo)
- IRS warns of Y2K glitches [Internal Revenue
Service officials warned yesterday that taxpayers may encounter annoying computer flaws this year and next because of the Year 2000 technology problem.] (Yahoo)
- Big Guns on a Little Bug [US armed forces are
taking no chances on the world's Y2K readiness. Troops are already
training for an emergency that may never occur.] (Wired)
- Sony's MP3 Alternative [It answers the recording industry's call with a method it says will allow digital music formats to be "moved" instead of copied.] (Wired)
- Teenager Finds Web-Server Hole [A teenager in
Pennsylvania gains access to the Web servers of several ISPs, thanks to a flawed security setup.] (Wired)
- Intel Talks 600MHz Mobile Chips [The chipmaker
says it will introduce 600MHz Pentium III microprocessors for portables
that can operate at multiple clock rates to save power.] (Wired)
Other (Dark Side) Net News:
Wednesday's News Summary
(No update thursday due to illness)
- Ultra2 SCSI Card Review
- Carmine's TIL Updates and Net News Feed
- Fix for Rage128/Speed Doubler 8.1.2 conflict
- Formac ROM updates/Mactell cards comment
- USB Drivers/Logitec Mouse compat.
- 3D Gaming News page updated
- Fix for missing dialog box options
- Pentium III security hacked
- Mac Voodoo3 info/MP850 observation
- Word 98 Paste crashes fix
- ROAM (Rom in Ram accelerator) Updated
- Duke Nukem/B&W G3 VM tip
- Hotline vs Hinkley trial
- More on Kodak CDs/Yamaha CDRs
- Other net news
- Summary of prev. days news
For other recent site news/features links, see the Recent Site Features page.
Note: Before sending tech support related questions please check the Freq. Asked Questions, Site Contents, CPU Card reviews/articles, SCSI reviews articles, Graphics card reviews, Tips/Misc, Message Boards and Help pages - in many cases the answers to your questions are there and they have far more detail than I can list in an email. For Apple G3 system info - see the G3-ZONE. For links on recent articles, see the Recent Features page.
Please try the Men in Mac Help page as an alternative on requests for tech support to help me be able to spend more time on reviews. Thanks.
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