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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 22 Dec 00 Volume 17 : Issue 207
Today's Topics:
(A) FreeCell
.kar (midi karaore), web page and App!le's idisk??
[*] FileChop 1.0
[*] MakeiAlias 1.1
[*] MediaCenter digital image database
[*] SunClock 1.2.2
[*] Talk Talk 1.0
[Q] Zipped files unreadable on iMac
FW: Need Help Creating a Mult-Mac Bootable CD
Need Help Creating a Mult-Mac Bootable CD
OS X on PowerCenter?
replacing a CD-R with a CD-RW?
Video switch for PC/Mac
Video switch for PC/Mac
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:20:16 -0500
From: "abrody@smart.net" <abrody@smart.net>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: (A) FreeCell
Dear Digest readers,
Earlier someone wondered if FreeCell was available. Solitaire till
Dawn 4.0 now adds Freecell. It is $20 shareware, and has dozens of
other Solitaire games. It may be downloaded from
http://www.semicolon.com/Downloads/SolitaireTillDawn40.sit.hqx.
Additional Solitaire games can be found through these two searches of
the archives:
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=solitaire&search=&sp=sp
http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/NewSearch?key=freecell&search=&sp=sp
Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:02:02 GMT
From: ivancouver@my-deja.com
To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org
Subject: .kar (midi karaore), web page and App!le's idisk??
Dear Mac Gurus (Gurii?),
I'd like to listen to (and read the lyric) the .kar files from a web
page.
I tested the .kar files locally ( ie. loading them onto web browers from
local hard drive), everything seemed to work fine; the qt plugin loaded,
the music played, the lyric rolled up and highlighted as they supposed
to. So far so good!
I loaded these .kars onto Apple idisk and tried to open them; but no
luck! At first, it(my browser) tried to open it as a text file, and that
showed all the binary gibberish!... I checked all my browser mime
settings (audio/mid | audio/midi | audio/x-midi) all pointed to midi,
mid, smf, kar... with the same result!???
Finally, I included in my webpage the following:
.....
<EMBED SRC="http://homepage.mac.com/mymusic/xmaskars/12days.kar" type=
"audio/x-midi" align="baseline" border="0" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="300"
AUTOSTART="TRUE"></EMBED>
.....
Note the < type="audio/x-midi" >
then the quicktime plugin loaded, the music played,... but no lyric!!!
Just liked plain old midi file!??? What did I do wrong?..
Is there something else at the server end (Apple idisk)?? Do they have to
set some kind of server mime type? Haven't they done that already? QT has
supported midi karoke since version 3.+(?)...
Or is this not possible at all?!
Please do post here and cc me at ivancouver@my-deja.com
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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Date: 21 Dec 2000
From: bargy@nettaxi.com
To:
Subject: [*] FileChop 1.0
FileChop is a new way to transport applications as well as documents and
other types of files that are too large to send by email, floppy disk,
or zip disk. If you would like to email a 1.6mb program to your friend,
but your ISP will only let you send 1mb attachments, simply chop the
application into a 1mb pieces and email him the pieces to be reassembled
on his end. You can chop a 450mb movie into four 100mb pieces and a 50
mb piece to carry the movie on 5 zip disks. To chop a file, simply
compress the file by any standard method (.sit, .hqx, .bin, or .zip),
choose how large the chopped pieces should be, and chop it! To unchop,
simply choose the chopped pieces in numerical order (1, 2, 3, 4, etc)
then when you have chosen the numbered files, end with choosing the
"fileinfo" file, and the process will end after you choose that file.
You must unchop in this order or the file will not reconfigure properly!
FileChop is freeware, but please email me if you like it.
Please email me at bargy@nettaxi.com to report any bugs or problems with
FileChop.
[Archived as /info-mac/cmp/file-chop-10.hqx; 593 K]
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Date: 21 Dec 2000
From: Jan Bruyndonckx <jbruyndonckx@tripticdesign.com>
To:
Subject: [*] MakeiAlias 1.1
Make iAlias by Triptic Design
Unlimited Internet storage, completely free of charge, integrated
into your Macintosh OS.
Using a handy "Make iAlias" menu item from your File menu (in the
Finder), you can store your files safely and securely on the
Internet. When you want to retrieve them, simply use the iAlias file
or the unbreakable URL.
Recommended system: any Apple Macintosh with MacOS 9
Minimum system: a Power Macintosh with MacOS 8.6
New in Version 1.1:
- Control Panel User Interface
- Choice between Private and Public Storage
- Detailed results browser
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/make-ialias-11.hqx; 1002 K]
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Date: 21 Dec 2000
From: Doug Ward <dougward@kagi.com>
To:
Subject: [*] MediaCenter digital image database
Announcing MediaCenter 1.0, the digital image database for the rest of us.
Do you have a large or disorganized collection of digital photographs
or other graphics files? Are your graphics files scattered around
your hard disk, various CD's, removable drives, or network volumes?
Do you have trouble finding specific images in a vast array of files?
Do you ever wish you could find graphics that are similar to one you
have in front of you? These are problems that MediaCenter can help
you with.
MediaCenter is a simple tool for creating and searching through
collections of digital images. It allows you to enter textual
annotations for each image, and perform powerful best-match full-text
searches to find relevant or similar images in a collection.
With MediaCenter you can:
*Create a collection of graphics files
*Attach and annotate individual graphics files
*Include compressed previews of graphics files
*Automatically catalogue whole folders or disks of graphics files
*Enter free-form textual annotations for each graphic
*Perform simple yet powerful full-text searches with ranked output
*Manage the original graphics files on your disk
System Requirements:
*PPC Macintosh with colour monitor
*Minimum of 4 MB of application RAM
*MacOS system software 8.0 or greater
*QuickTime 3.0 or greater
MediaCenter is shareware. This free trial will allow you to attach up
to 50 graphic files. The Read Me file describes how to register and
obtain a code to unlock MediaCenter for unlimited use.
For more information, please contact the author,
Doug Ward
<dougward@kagi.com>.
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/media-center-10.hqx; 2133 K]
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Date: 21 Dec 2000
From: darikdatta@mac.com
To:
Subject: [*] SunClock 1.2.2
SunClock is a nifty little application that shows what part of the world
the sun is shining on. The shape of the shadow changes with the season.
It is a port of the UNIX program sunclock. The first time I saw sunclock
was on a Sun 3 running SunView back around 1989, and I thought it was a
pretty neat program. Since the Mac is so insanely cool, I figured it was
just a matter of time before someone came out with the same program for
it. So, I waited...
... and waited...
... and waited.
Well, a couple of programs that sort of did the same thing did come out,
but they sucked. One was a HyperCard stack, so it doesn't really count
as a program. The other was OK, but it did all this other stuff that I
didn't want, plus I used it once to change my timezone and it screwed up
my PRAM. I couldn't get my Date & Time control panel to set correctly
until I zapped my PRAM. The author wanted something like $25 to get rid
of the shareware dialog so I could fry my PRAM more efficiently. No
thanks.
So, 8 years later, I finally got off my butt and ported the UNIX source
(it has always been public-domain) to the Mac, and prettied it up a bit.
[Archived as /info-mac/app/time/sun-clock-122.hqx; 89 K]
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Date: 21 Dec 2000
From: bitterlich@gsco.de
To:
Subject: [*] Talk Talk 1.0
Talk Talk is a TCP/IP and internet testing utility. It is designed to
help you to understand the internet and it's protocols and can be used
to debug and analyze any text-based internet protocol. Such protocols
include
*HTTP (World Wide Web)
*Telnet
*POP3 (Email)
*SMTP (Email)
*FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
*and many many more.
[Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/talk-talk-10.hqx; 840 K]
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:42:57 -0800
From: Jim Hauge <jimhauge@earthlink.net>
To: lhawkin@caribnet.net, digest@info-mac.org
Subject: [Q] Zipped files unreadable on iMac
Laurence -
Could be that there really IS a bad track or sector on your Zip, or that
the 2 drives are slightly misaligned. I've experienced the same thing with
a JAZ drive recently, and ended up reformatting (low-level) the JAZ disk
pack with the Iomega Tools program. It now shows no problems, but I had to
copy the files piecemeal to a Zip drive first in order to save my data.
Jim Hauge
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:41:05 -0800
>From: Laurence Hawkins <lhawkin@caribnet.net>
>To: digest@info-mac.org
>Subject: [Q] Zipped files unreadable on iMac
>
>>I am trying to transfer applications and files from a PowerMac
>>6500/225 running OS 7.6.1 via a Zip Drive to an iMacDV+ with OS
>>9.0.4, but the iMac refuses to accept any files, protesting "The item
>>"XYZ" cannot be read, because a disk error occurred. Do you want to
>>continue". Occasionally, the odd file and application does get read
>>and transferred, but very rarely. However, all these files on the Zip
>>disk can be opened from the zip disk itself by double clicking on
>>them, when the appropriate application on the iMac opens with no
>>problem, displaying the file contents.
>>
>>What is holding me up in this simple procedure?
>>
>>Laurence Hawkins
>
>Sorry for the return address error in my original posting. It should
>have read <lhawkin@caribnet.net>
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:10:42 +0800
From: "Tony Stanton" <tonystanton@hotmail.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>, <billw@yearone.com>
Subject: FW: Need Help Creating a Mult-Mac Bootable CD
I administer several types of Mac, all of which are running OS8.0 or 8.1 and
have tried many times to make a bootable CD that also includes the various
disk tools and utilities. The only way I've managed to do it successfully is
to copy the original OS8 installer CD to disk, add the utilities, then burn
a new CD from that. Not very elegant, but it works.
Whether this will work with OS9.x I have no idea. And having spent many
sleepless nights in 7.6.1 hell, I'm not inclined to upgrade any further to
find out.
If you plan to copy a "used" system folder, make sure you have started up
with extensions off, or at least with enough extensions to access the CD.
Otherwise you will run into startup problems with network extensions and
others that require a write to the startup system folder
hth
>
>Could someone PLEASE give me some insight as to how to create a
>bootable CD to be used with multiple PowerPC Macs (All capable of
>using MacOS 9.0.4)?
>
>If you create one using your own Mac, the MacOS 9.0.4 is only taylored
>to that Mac and will not boot other machines. Actually, half my tries
>have failed on the original machine as well.
>
>Then, I have tried using the bootable portion of utilities that we own
>such as TechTools and Norton Utilities, but they will not work as well.
>
>I know that you need to use Toast (I have v4.1.2) and select "Make
>Bootable" on the Data Setup, but everything I have tried has failed
>miserably, and I am tired of making coffee coasters.
>
>I would appreciate any help or words of wisdom. Please email me
>directly, and I will followup with a summary.
I understand that the Mac OS 9 installer leaves a clean-up init which
must run and modify the newly installed system folder before it can
boot. Since in your case it's on a CD, this isn't possible.
Suggestion: Try installing the new OS on a volume, then booting from
that volume. Now, use that "used" System Folder on your CD.
I'd appreciate any further details anyone could add to this mystery.
Cheers,
--
Gib
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:29:41 +0100
From: Jose =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=AA?= Blanco <jmblanco@uma.es>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Need Help Creating a Mult-Mac Bootable CD
I found that MacOs8.x won't boot on my iMac Indigo, so I had to build a new
CD for data rescue and HD operations (defrag,etc.). Had the same problem
until I found the reason: I burned the CD on other machine (Quadra 610
running MacOS 7.5). It seems that a bootable CD needs to include the CDROM
extension on the first blocks. By default, the burner software takes the
one of the Extension Folder. MacOS 8 and 9 needs its own CDROM (CD/DVD)
extensions to work, and they are not compatible among.
Then:
-Put together all versions of CDROM CD/DVD extension in a folder out the
System.
-Reboot the machine that will write your CD, with the CDROM extension disabled.
-When you choose "make bootable" you will be asked to supply the CDROM
extension, then choose the adequate version to your System.
Hope this help,
--
+----------------------------------------------------+
| Jose M¬ Blanco Martin jmblanco@uma.es |
| Dep. Ecologa http://www.uma.es/girtpm |
| Fac. Ciencias Universidad de Mßlaga. Spain |
+----------------------------------------------------+
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 12:07:54 -0800
From: Chris Schram <schram@firstworld.net>
To: Info-Mac Digest submissions <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: OS X on PowerCenter?
I posted this to comp.sys.mac.system several days ago, but exactly
ZERO replies made it back to my newsfeed, so here's try 2...
Two questions:
I have a Power Computing PowerCenter upgraded with a MAXpowr G3 card.
Has anyone out there gotten OS X to install and run on this
"unsupported" machine?
If so...
FWIW, I have replaced the original flaky CD drive, and now have some
difficulty booting from it, but is IS possible if I stand on my head
and say the correct incantation. However, I have found no way in Hell
to boot from the OS X CD.
What I'd like to do (if the answer to my first question was "Yes") is
to mount the PowerCenter's spare hard disk on my G4 (while the G4 is
running OS X) and install over the network. I know where the
Installer application is, but..
Where on earth do they keep the Installer script?
--
C. Schram schram@firstworld.net <http://homepage.mac.com/cschram/Chris>
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:34:29 +0100
From: Christian F Buser <christian001213@rumantsch.ch>
To: "abrody@smart.net" <abrody@smart.net>
Subject: replacing a CD-R with a CD-RW?
"abrody@smart.net" <abrody@smart.net> wrote:
>I have an antique here. One of the first SCSI-2 CD-R external
>drives. I was wondering if I could open the case and put in an
>internal CD-RW or more modern CD-R or CD-ROM drive in place of the
>drive currently inside its case?
Sure, no problem.
>It works perfectly well, I really
>want to be able to have a reliable external CD drive that is of
>decent speed. And if it is possible, does the internal drive need to
>be SCSI based? Or can it be something else?
The case is a SCSI case, so you need to put a SCSI drive into that
case. This can be a CD, CD-R, CD-RW, SyQuest (you remember those?),
or whatever device with 5.25" form factor. And, if you have/can get a
front adapter, you may also use 3.25" form factor drives into the
case. But since you need a CD-R or CD-RW, these are by definitin
5.25" drives (given the size of the CD disk, of course).
When you buy a CD-R/CD-RW, make sure you get software for the Mac with it.
Best wishes, Christian.
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Look at <http://www.rumantsch.ch/christian/welcome.html>
Korruption ist die Autobahn neben dem Dienstweg (H. Nahr).
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 08:27:07 +0100
From: Christian F Buser <christian001213@rumantsch.ch>
To: "Michael S. Silverstein" <michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Subject: Video switch for PC/Mac
"Michael S. Silverstein" <michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il>
wrote:
>I am trying to connect one 19" monitor (Nokia 446Pro) to both a G4
>Mac and a PC. I tried using a manual video switch (listed as VGA) but
>the Mac looked very fuzzy (resolution: 1024 X 768) when connected
>through the switch. There was no problem when the Mac was connected
>directly.
If it works, but the picture quality is bad (worse than with a direct
connection), then I think all the cabling is right, but the cables are
too long. I am not an electronic expert, but it could be worth trying
to measure the signal levels at the cable end (where it goes into the
monitor) with and without the switchbox. Or, some contacts in the
switchbox may be not that good. Have you tried to exchange the ports
where PC and Mac are connected?
Hope this helps.
Best wishes, Christian.
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Look at <http://www.rumantsch.ch/christian/welcome.html>
Korruption ist die Autobahn neben dem Dienstweg (H. Nahr).
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Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:21:02 -0700
From: Bruce Johnson <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Video switch for PC/Mac
Michael S. Silverstein wrote:
> I am trying to connect one 19" monitor (Nokia 446Pro) to both a G4
> Mac and a PC. I tried using a manual video switch (listed as VGA) but
> the Mac looked very fuzzy (resolution: 1024 X 768) when connected
> through the switch. There was no problem when the Mac was connected
> directly.
>
> Do I need to use a special video switch to connect both a Mac and a
> PC to the same monitor?
Some video switches introduce an unpleasant amount of noise to a video
signal, and some video cards are more susceptible to it than others. Try
switching the video cables from the computer to the box...if switching
them makes the PC fuzzy, then you have a bad cable; if not, then that
box just doesn't like the Apple signal, even though, theoretically they
are identical VGA signals. I had one PC here at work which just didn't
give a good signal though a monitor extension cord.
You don't need a special box, but a good one is defintiely recommended.
We've used Omni-View switches (just bought an 8-port one in fact) with
success.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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