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Info-Mac Digest Fri, 16 Jun 00 Volume 17 : Issue 99
Today's Topics:
3d ftp search
[Q] reasonable price for a used Mac?
iMac hesitation?
iMac hesitation?
Info-Mac Digest V17 #98
OS 9: IP File Sharing disabled
OS 9: IP File Sharing disabled
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:34:10 +1200
From: Craig Harris <craigus@bigfoot.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: 3d ftp search
hi - I'm trying to find a file that would've been on the archive about 5
years ago, but has disspeared... It was some 3d ftp program with a 68k and
ppc version. I've searched the info-mac archive, but found nothing. I've
searched via alta-vista, but nothing came up via that either.
Does anyone know where this program is stored???
please email me at craigus@bigfoot.com if you know
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 02:37:57 -0700
From: Wagner Truppel <wtruppel@uci.edu>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: [Q] reasonable price for a used Mac?
Howdy folks,
I'm considering selling my 3-yr old PowerComputing PowerCenter Pro
180. I originally paid $1800 for it. An year ago I spent $500 on a G3
upgrade card to boost it to a 300 MHz. How much can I
reasonably/realistically ask for it? I tried searching for sites on
the web which would have that kind of info, but had no luck. I'd
greatly appreciate if people would give me some idea of prices to ask
and/or pointers to web sites where I could find them out.
Thanks in advance!
Wagner Truppel
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:30:05 +1000
From: Geoffrey Heard <gheard@surf.net.au>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: iMac hesitation?
At 11:16 PM -0400 15/6/00, "Quattlebaum.Bill" <quattleb@niehs.nih.gov> wrote:
>
>I work at a research facility that has well over 100 1st and 2nd generations
>iMacs. The majority of them are running OS 9.0.4 but some still have 8.6.
>
>Regardless of the OS or the RAM (all have enough real RAM to not run Virtual
>memory) most of them share an irritating problem:
>
>Frequently the iMac will stop responding - the seconds on the clock display
>will freeze. But in about 10-30 seconds it start running just fine again. If
>you wee typing in MS Word the keystrokes are ignored until it unfreezes. If
>you were in the Finder clicking a folder it does not open until the thaw.
Not just iMacs, Bill, I have been noticing the same kind of
misbehaviour with my beige G3 266 since upgrading from OS8.5.5 to
OS9.0.4.
I wondered whether it was something to do with Sherlock busily
updating its index, but I actually wouldn't have a clue.
On the other hand, OS9.0.4 seems generally very good; certainly a lot
of old programs (e.g. MORE 3.1) run fine on it, whereas some were a
bit flakey under OS8.5.5.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:06:35 -0400
From: Len Kaufman <lkaufman@mediaone.net>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>, "Quattlebaum.Bill" <quattleb@niehs.nih.gov>
Subject: iMac hesitation?
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:16:02 -0400, "Quattlebaum.Bill"
<quattleb@niehs.nih.gov> wrote:
>I work at a research facility that has well over 100 1st and 2nd generations
>iMacs. The majority of them are running OS 9.0.4 but some still have 8.6.
>
>Regardless of the OS or the RAM (all have enough real RAM to not run Virtual
>memory) most of them share an irritating problem:
>
>Frequently the iMac will stop responding - the seconds on the clock display
>will freeze. But in about 10-30 seconds it start running just fine again. If
>you wee typing in MS Word the keystrokes are ignored until it unfreezes. If
>you were in the Finder clicking a folder it does not open until the thaw.
>
>For another 30 minutes (or other arbitrary time) all will be fine then it
>might repeat. It happens regardless of being on or off our LAN - even users
>at home experience this.
>
>Does anyone have suggestions or know of an Apple Tech solution about this.
>
>thanks,
>
>Bill qb Quattlebaum
>Head DIR / Scientific Computing Lab
>National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
>
Bill,
I had experienced similar indications and found the problem to be with a
new implementation of the DHCP Client. I suggest you go to Apple's Tech
Info Library <http://til.info.apple.com/> and just enter search for DHCP
and read the first couple of articles that show up. Hope this helps!
Len
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:44:23 +0200
From: Erlend Lien <erlend.lien@hf.ntnu.no>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #98
At 05:16 16.06.00, Richard Lim wrote:
>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:19:33 +0100
>From: rlim@roughguides.co.uk (Richard Lim)
>To: digest@info-mac.org
>Subject: Crash-happy blue-and-white G3
>
>Thanks to everyone who replied about my crash-happy blue-and-white G3.
>I'm pretty sure now that it must be a hardware problem causing the
>intermittent freezing and crashing: the machine froze after I
>successfully installed System 8.6 on it - this was while it was still
>booted from the installer CD. My question now is: is there anything one
>can do, short of going out and buying Tech Tool Pro or something, to
>diagnose bad memory and other hardware problems? The memory passes the
>startup memory tests, so obviously some subtler diagnostic is needed.
>Thanks in advance.
Download Gauge Pro (http://www.newertech.com/software/gauges/index.html)
for free from Newer Technology. With it you can test the RAM and do some
other interesting things (you need to be able to boot the troublesome
machine though).
Erlend
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:19:22 -0400
From: Mike Alexander <mta@umich.edu>
To: Chris Pepper <pepper@zumadigital.com>, Info-Mac <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: OS 9: IP File Sharing disabled
At 10:59 PM -0400 6/13/00, Chris Pepper wrote:
> I have a static IP working (both for client and server
>programs), and AppleTalk file sharing is fine, but the File Sharing
>CP's "Enable File Sharing clients to connect via TCP/IP" checkbox is
>greyed out.
>
> Has anyone else seen this problem before? I've seen the
>checkbox unavailable when IP networking wasn't active, but it is
>(File Sharing correctly displays my IP address). My DNS is a bit
>scrambled until I tell NSI about my new nameserver, but I wouldn't
>expect this to disable File Sharing over IP.
>
> Any suggestions? I'd much rather not reinstall the File
>Sharing CP from CD-ROM, but that's the next step I can think of. DFA
>says my disks are all fine. Not surprisingly, Mac OS help isn't, and
>restarting makes no difference.
Is "ShareWay IP Personal Bgnd" missing from your extensions folder?
I had this problem and that was the cause. If I remember correctly
turning on balloon help and pointing at the greyed out check box gave
me the information necessary to fix the problem. If your problem is
something other than this extension missing you might try that.
My problem now is that this setting won't stay on. I can turn on
TCP/IP file sharing, but whenever I reboot it gets turned off again.
I can turn it on again for that boot, but it goes off again when I
reboot.
Mike Alexander
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:12:39 -0400
From: Chris Pepper <pepper@zumadigital.com>
To: Nigel Stanger <nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: OS 9: IP File Sharing disabled
Doh! I didn't even think to see if the file was missing. I
knew about it, but assumed the problem was more complicated. Thanks,
that was it.
Chris Pepper
At 1:16 PM +1200 2000/06/16, Nigel Stanger wrote:
>On 14/6/2000 2:59 PM, Chris Pepper <pepper@zumadigital.com> spake thus:
>
>> Has anyone else seen this problem before? I've seen the
>> checkbox unavailable when IP networking wasn't active, but it is
>> (File Sharing correctly displays my IP address).
>
>You also need to have installed the extension "ShareWay IP Personal Bgnd",
>as this is what actually provides the IP file sharing services. I don't
>think it gets installed by default, but you should be able to do a custom
>install.
>
>--
>Nigel Stanger, mailto:nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz
>Dept. of Information Science, http://strange.otago.ac.nz/
>University of Otago, Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.
>
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Chris Pepper | pepper@zumadigital.com
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