Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #261 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Mon, 01 Dec 97 Volume 15 : Issue 261 Today's Topics: "Think Different" Commercial spoof 7500 Logic Board Crisis [Q] Problem Receiving Attached Text from PCs with Eudora Pro Auto Power On/Off Caution: MSIE 4.0b1 Hazardous to your health digest@info-mac.org Info-Mac Digest V15 #260 Info-Mac Digest V15 #260 Looking for Easy View author... Mac to the rescue Need help upgrading 14 computers to Ethernet or TCP/IP unix -> eudora mail converter [A] {Q}PB180 internal modem The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. For more information, visit the Info-Mac Web site at . 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We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V15 #261" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 22:54:12 -0500 (EST) From: AHunter3@aol.com Subject: "Think Different" Commercial spoof > Subject: "Think Different" Commercial spoof > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:49:18 -0600 > From: Hannes Hofer > > > I recently saw a spoof on Apple's "Think Different" commercial, with qiuite > a different cast of characters than the original. > I was also that it can be found in quick time format on the net. Does > anyone know where to find it? > > Thanks! > > Hannes Hofer I just saw one that CBS is running to advertise their comedy programs. Unmistakably a takeoff on the "Think Differently" Apple commercials. How cool to see an Apple ad that leads to imitators! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 20:43:07 -0800 (PST) From: "Michael L.W. Jones" Subject: 7500 Logic Board Crisis My faith in Apple is hitting a bit of a crisis point. My 7500/100 logic board decided to fry itself last week. Of course, this is outside manufacturer's warranty and caused by some technical equivalent of an 'Act of God', so the prognosis is that I'm hosed. This has been confirmed (quite sympathetically) by my store's technical support wizard and the person who took my call at Apple Canada Customer Support. The bill for replacement is $800 Cdn, including tax and installation. I feel this is highway robbery, plain and simple. Reasons: 1) Motherboards shouldn't dissolve after a year and a half. When they do, I feel this is indicative of shoddy product. 2) Motherboards shouldn't cost $800. While Apple has managed to rein in their prices to competitive levels for full systems, parts are still exorbitantly expensive. I can go across the Burrard St. Bridge and purchase a Pentium II motherboard (new) for under $300 Cdn. 3) I'm being asked to spend $800 to refurbish what is essentially a discontinued computer. Why should I bother to do this? 4) I purchased the 7500 at a time when Apple still felt justified in charging high profit margins. My computer cost $4000. The top-of-the-line G3 models offered at my store are cheaper. I bought Apple because I believed in the technology and its superiority, and was willing to support the company, even as rumours were surfacing re: its imminent demise. For this, I'm being sympathetically hosed now. 5) I can purchase a cheap Pentium clone for the price of a new logic board. Given my treatment, I'm tempted. 6) Attempts to arrange an alternative solution were met with, essentially, 'Sorry, but that's the way we do things.' This is not acceptable for a company which should be aiming to keep Apple supporters (I've even written pro-Mac articles; see http://www.resonant.ca/library/blurbs/) happy in their times of crisis. I would like to ask Info-Mac the following: 1) I have heard anecdotal evidence of problems with the 7500 line. Any similar experiences with logic board problems? I need backup here. 2) Any good sources of used logic boards - or at least cheaper alternatives to the extortion I am facing? 3) Anyone from Apple care to intervene here before I do cross the bridge and sell my soul to the Dark Side? Yours in frustrated Evangelism, Michael Jones - mike@resonant.ca - http://www.resonant.ca ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 13:10:49 -0800 From: "Adam C. Engst" Subject: [Q] Problem Receiving Attached Text from PCs with Eudora Pro >>I seem to have no difficulty receiving text documents as attachments to >>e-mail messages using Eudora Pro 3.0 or 3.1 so long as the message >>originates from a Mac. However attachments sent from >>PCs end up with the 'attached' text as part of the e-mail message itself - >>sometimes in plain text, sometimes garbage. Can anyone help? This isn't an issue with anything that you're doing or not doing. The problem lies on the sending end of the equation, so what you'll need to do is talk to the people who are sending you attachments, see what email programs they're using, and try various different options for encoding the attachments to see what works. In general, they should go for MIME or BinHex when sending from a PC to a Mac, if those options are available. Uuencode will work if the recipient uses Eudora Pro, but not Eudora Light (if you receive a uuencoded attachment in a message in Eudora Light, you'll have to save it to a file and then uudecode it using a utility like StuffIt Expander or STuu or one of the other many uudecoding utilities. cheers... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Publisher/Info-Mac Moderator -- ace@tidbits.com http://www.tidbits.com/ -- http://www.tidbits.com/adam/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 21:18:16 -0600 From: "C. Posey" Subject: Auto Power On/Off Sat, Nov 29, 1997 / 9:15 PM CST -0600 ______________________________________ A friend of mine is trying to find a utility to auto-power on/off his Performa 475 - does anyone know of such a utility. We have already tried to Auto Power On/Off control panel that shipped with some older Performas and it did not work. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! __________________________________________________________________ Cleve Posey bluehz@zebra.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 21:43:45 -0500 From: abrody1@mail.ameritel.net Subject: Caution: MSIE 4.0b1 Hazardous to your health Dear Digest Readers, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0b1 did something rather wicked this evening to me. I was writing e-mail using Eudora Pro and I switched to Explorer to look up something. All of a sudden, while exploring Yahoo my cursor disappeared! To make matters worse the usual Option-Command-Esc to leave explorer did not work after I realized my cursor was nowhere to be found. So I lost my e-mail that I was writing. So I thought I'd forewarn anyone who thought they could multitask with this beta version of Explorer to be extra careful about saving every second or don't attempt to multitask with it at all. I only use it because of its neat channels feature, and the bookmarks lined up in the top of the iconbar not to mention the option of choosing my Java engine. But I think after this, Explorer goes out the window. Yes I know I could have used MacsBug, but it sometimes turns on inadvertantly when a crash isn't as severe as this making it impossible to use Explorer or some other web browser again until the next reboot. And yes I do know what to expect of a beta, but this is absurd. Any news on when MSIE for the Mac will finally come to a full 4.0? Sincerely, abrody1@mail.ameritel.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 09:04:42 -0500 From: R Shapiro Subject: digest@info-mac.org >I need a unix mailfile to eudora converter, >anybody knows such program/plugin ? Depends on what unix mail program you're using. For some of them, including pine and elm, it's enough to ftp the file to the Mac in ascii/text mode. Put the resulting file in your Eudora folder and you're done. Be sure to get the mode right: if you're using Fetch, for instance, click the 'Text' button before starting the download. On the other hand, some unix mail programs use file formats which require conversion. Rmail, mh and vm (in some modes) are examples of Unix mail programs in this category. In this case try MailConverter. rs/rshapiro@bbn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:39:01 +0100 From: "Johan W. Elzenga" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #260 In article <65pu22$5hr$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu> (Info-Mac Digest V15 #260), you write: >>It strikes me that for most Internet users, it's a lot easier to set your >>clock using the Network Time Protocol, so you're only a few hops away from >>an atomic clock. No need to mess with a modem or calling a number - just >>run Vremya or Network Time (both of which are in the HyperArchive). > >However, AutoClock also adjusts your Mac's internal clock automatically >whenever it's off by more than one second at startup--PLUS it does the >daylight savings time thing. This is pretty useful if 1) you're a mere >mortal and that's good enough accuracy for you (sheesh!), 2) you can't >seem to remember to use Vremya on a regular basis, and 3) DST causes >enough disruption in your life as it is. I also enjoy having my computer >do this sort of thing (i.e., stuff it can do better than I can) on its >own. If you've used AutoClock for a while, you must have noticed that your clock is adjusted only a few seconds per day. Personally I can live with my clock being off 3 seconds, couldn't you? If you're on the Internet once per day, AutoClock is only an expensive way of doing the same thing "NetworkTime" does without extra phone calls. And Network Time also automatically adjusts for daylight saving time. Network Time works completely automatic, because it's a control panel. You don't have to remember anything; Network Time will do its stuff in the background as soon as you connect to the Internet ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:40:50 +0100 From: "Johan W. Elzenga" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V15 #260 In article <65pu22$5hr$1@grapevine.lcs.mit.edu> (Info-Mac Digest V15 #260), you write: >I would like to print FileMaker Pro 3.0 reports to a file (or multiple >files) as I used to do so easily years back in CP/M and early DOS, but have >been told, "No can do." > >I understand why (I think) but figure someone somewhere has written a >"Prnt2Fil" program for FMP. Suggestions welcomed. Someone has written "Print2Pict", a pseudo printerdriver that can print to PICT, TIFF, TEXT and many more. Just what you need. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 10:21:17 +0200 From: ELB Subject: Looking for Easy View author... Anyone know where the author of Easy View 2.62 can be reached? I looked under the About Easy View... and found the address: eyler@bilkent.edu.tr but a message I sent there got bounced back. Any help would be MOST appreciated... TIA, E. Blasberg ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 11:21:18 +1000 From: David Phillips Subject: Mac to the rescue I am the Sysop of Nexus BBS run by the Apple Macintosh Association of Queensland/Australia ... A family relation is a Civy in the local Airforce station .. She rang a couple of days all anxious as her boss the (OIC WING) had a 21 page top secret document on his (yuk) IBM compat. and had done some work on it and in the transfer back to her via floppy something went wrong and it just would lock up on her machine and also on his...what a flap... this would have required some considerable time to redo...their IT section could only access the first page via 'write' she rang me for a suggestion... What I told her to do with the IBM Compats is not printable I said that under the circumstances (she is my sister-in-law) I would go to her work with my machine and she could extract the work with my it (636/160) so that I did not touch the document (top secret) and resave the document to the floppy and then use it in her machine... as luck would have it there was one lonely and solitary Mac on the base and low and behold it worked as I said (Its a MAC) and with only the loss of some rum drunk by the OIC to settle his nerves ... They wasted 2 hours with the IT section before trying the Mac and it worked straight away... Except for some square characters in the body of the text... When asked how I knew that it would work I replied "Its a Mac, that how" David Phillips/Vice President Apple MAQ Live long-own a MAC David_Phillips@amaq.thehub.com.au ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 12:40:08 -0800 From: info-mac@kis.freenet.kiev.ua (David Bell) (by way of Info-Mac Subject: Need help upgrading 14 computers to Ethernet or TCP/IP Help! I am the new computer teacher at an international school in Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine and have some questions about networking the 14 computers together. Right now, we have them networked with Appletalk, PhoneNet connectors, but it's dreadfully slow, especially for printing on the two StyleWriters we have. What I would *like* to do is: Have the most powerful computer be a server and keep all the programs there and have all the other computers access applications from it. I would like some security and even localized storage for each user (I abhor diskettes, really). I know I can do this using PhoneNet, but I also know that running big programs through such a network is paralyzingly slow. So, I want to go to ethernet (I think), but I would also like to use TCP/IP so that I can eventually set up an intranet so that I can teach the students about 'net concepts. What do I need to get? Unfortunately, here in Ukraine, there are no resources to ask, read, etc. about Macintosh hardware. So, I'm turning to you. Help! We have 2 Performa 6200s (PPC), 4 LC 520s, 4 LC 475s and 4 LC IIIs. All but the LC IIIs have at least 20 MB of RAM. The hard drives respectively 500, 80, 150+ and 80 for the different models. All computers have (or will have) System 7.5.5. Any suggestions, resources, ideas, cookbook recipes would be appreciated. Eagerly awaiting any help, -David ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 16:13:58 -0500 (EST) From: Curtis Wilcox Subject: unix -> eudora mail converter [A] >From: Gerrit Polder >Subject: unix -> eudora mail converter [Q] > >I need a unix mailfile to eudora converter, >anybody knows such program/plugin ? A converter isn't really necessary because the format is the same. Just download the file from the UNIX system, use a program to change the File Type to 'TEXT' and the Creator Type to 'CSom' (ResEdit, Snitch, or Creator Changer can do this), then move the file into your Eudora Folder. When Eudora starts it will automatically create a table of contents for the file so it can show you the index view just like any Eudora mailbox. If you try it and it lists all the messasges as one message, the file may contain Linefeeds which need to be stripped before the table of contents is created. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 21:10:46 +0200 From: Yakov Kotlyarov Subject: {Q}PB180 internal modem Hello, people! I've bought old PowerBook180 (68030 CPU) deprived of any documentation but obviously equipped with internal modem. I didn't find anything related to a PB's internal modem in OS 7.5.5 components or written descriptions. Does anybody know this modem type, class, initialization/reset strings, limit baud, the fax/system software to work with and how can I make any good of it? Any help would be thankfully appreciated. Please reply directly to e-mail address . Yakov. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************