MacGroup: Has any one and a continuing problem.....
Ward, Yes , after we did clean install, we tried again, and so far every CD is dong it. I beginning to think a hardware problem. Best, John -- John Stone http://www.blackbirds.net -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020107/6fedd7a1/attachment.html
MacGroup: Has any one and a continuing problem.....
Hi John, Using Toast or Disc Burner will test your theory. If those work, rule out hardware failure and assume that vDog?s input regarding iTunes problems are probably causing your difficulties. If that be the case, allocate more RAM to iTunes, use version 2.0.3 and burn slower. Ward Oldham -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020107/7e6c5a6a/attachment.html
MacGroup: USB floppy drive
Good morning. I have a USB floppy drive made by VST for my Tibook (system 9.1). It's stopped recognizing properly formatted 1.44 disks that it had no trouble reading in the past. The message is that the disk is unreadable and asks if we want to initialize; but the disks work perfectly in my desktop Mac and on another Powerbook. I've downloaded the new drive software from the VST/Smartdisk site (version 2.1.6), but no change. I'm running system 9.1. Any idea of what's going on? Joyce MacDonald The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 22. For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs.
MacGroup: Has any one and a continuing problem.....
Ward, Thanks, I'll let you l know what happens. Best, John -- John Stone http://www.blackbirds.net -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020107/27d36ce8/attachment.html
MacGroup: problems with Netscape
Greetings from a greenhorn, This may have been covered before if Netscape is responsible. When data is transferring, my mouse pointer flickers and changes into the Norton AntiVirus shield. This is a quirk I can live with if it doesn't mean anything important. Also, on some pages, the hard disc chatters incessantly. This does not happen when viewing the same page through Explorer. Sometimes, after using Netscape for awhile, it will stop finding anything. The Netscape logo moves, but I am left with a blank window. A new window does the same thing. After quitting and relaunching, it works fine until the next time this happens, usually within 30 minutes. Are these problems caused by my hardware or software? I am perfectly happy using Explorer, but I wanted to use the extra browser for my medical and environmental research, just as a sort of filing system. I am using a BW G3 and OS9.1. It has a brand new logic board, processor and memory (long story). Dave Dudine The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 22. For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs.
MacGroup: problems with Netscape
First and most important, Dave: which version of Netscape? The NAV shield you see when using Netscape just means that it's checking the various html and image files you're downloading for viruses. Nothing to worry about. Similarly, there's nothing to worry about with the disk activity; it just means that Netscape's not finding image files in cache so it's downloading them as you access new pages. (I'm assuming here that these are pages that you don't access often or repeatedly - otherwise, you may have a caching problem that may be resolved by allotting some additional disk cache space in Netscape preferences.) The freeze issue is another matter. If it's happening on the same pages over and over, it's very likely that there's something in the code on those pages that isn't compatible with Netscape but is compatible with MSIE (cascading style sheets, for example, are a problem in that more CSS 2.0 standards than not aren't recognized by Netscape). In that case, you may be out of luck re: using Netscape - just one of those things. You may also want to take note of whether you're accessing sites that use Java server pages (they'll have the extension .jsp at the end of the URL) - Netscape's implementation of Java has always been pretty awful and it may be failing to handle them or exhausting its Java memory allotment and hanging. Giving some more memory to Netscape may resolve, or at least delay, the onset of the problem. You might also try reinstalling or updating Netscape if none of these issues seem to apply. If you continue to have problems with Netscape in this fashion and still want a second browser option, you might also try Opera for Mac. It's free if you don't mind it displaying ad banners and works pretty well. Downloads are at www.opera.com. At 11:50 AM 1/7/02 -0500, you wrote: Greetings from a greenhorn, This may have been covered before if Netscape is responsible. When data is transferring, my mouse pointer flickers and changes into the Norton AntiVirus shield. This is a quirk I can live with if it doesn't mean anything important. Also, on some pages, the hard disc chatters incessantly. This does not happen when viewing the same page through Explorer. Sometimes, after using Netscape for awhile, it will stop finding anything. The Netscape logo moves, but I am left with a blank window. A new window does the same thing. After quitting and relaunching, it works fine until the next time this happens, usually within 30 minutes. Are these problems caused by my hardware or software? I am perfectly happy using Explorer, but I wanted to use the extra browser for my medical and environmental research, just as a sort of filing system. I am using a BW G3 and OS9.1. It has a brand new logic board, processor and memory (long story). Dave Dudine The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 22. For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs. The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 22. For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs.
MacGroup: problems with Netscape
Thanks, Eric for your response. The Netscape version is 4.7. The disc activity is happening on one page that I access frequently, and which I am using now as a test. The default cache allottment in Explorer is 10MB, so I have raised the Netscape allottment from 7600kb to 1kb. This has not changed the disc activity on the test page. If Netscape's implementation of Java is awful, and if there are pages out there which are incompatible, is there any reason to use it besides the desire to defy the 800 pound MS Gorilla? It seems that Netscape is an inferior product. Is Opera less inferior? I will pay attention to your instructions about these issues if I continue to try using Netscape. Since I want the computer to help me with the problems I already have, as opposed to giving me new problems, I am inclined to just use Explorer, or to try Opera if the consensus is that it is less troublesome than Netscape. So, does anyone have complaints about Opera? Oh, my Netscape installation is fresh after all of the repair work I had done. The technician may have used it a little. The freezing happened the first time I used it. Dave Dudine The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January 22. For more information, see http://www.aye.net/~lcs.
MacGroup: USB floppy drive
Hi Joyce, It sounds like your system is recognizing your VST floppy drive just fine. So the issue as you stated is it not recognizing floppy disks which are readable on your desktop system. My suspicion is a marginal floppy disk. To test this theory, use another floppy disk that is blank or whose contents have no value. Insert this disk into the VST drive. Whether it is readable or not, initialize the disk. Now insert this same disk into your desktop Mac. If it?s readable, it pretty much confirms that both floppy drives are functioning properly and your floppy disk is good. If it?s not readable and prompts you to initialize, go ahead and reinitialize the floppy disk again, then reinsert back into the VST drive to see if it can be read. The logic is this: If a floppy drive can format a disk correctly and write data to it, then the drive and the disk are probably good. If you have multiple floppy drives within multiple cpus that appear to function correctly and yet you are not able to take a freshly formatted floppy from one disk drive to another, the chances are good that you have a marginal floppy disk or a disk drive whose read/write heads are out of alignment. Give it a try and let us know what you find out. Ward Oldham -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020107/e997774d/attachment.html
MacGroup: problems with Netscape
Hey David, As a footnote to what help Eric conveyed, it may be useful to know that: Your Norton Anti-Virus preferences can be adjusted (turned off) to eliminate the constant checking of files during a file download. I for one am not paranoid about downloading updates that may be virus infected. ( I can?t ever recall downloading anything from any prominent Mac site that contained a virus in the past 16 years). Second, the type of internet connection you have should dictate your caching scheme. What this means basically is the faster your internet connection, the lower you should set your cache. Theoretically, you can download fresh pages faster thru a dsl or cable connection faster than you can read sites cached to your hard disk. In this instance, set your cache to zero. However, with dial-up connections you should maintain a cache on your hard disk which is set up in your browser preferences. Again, the slower your modem connection . . . the larger you should set your cache (to a point!) Lastly, IE 5 is rated the top performing browser for the Mac. Take it for what it?s worth. icab is another option to look at. Opera gained its publicity from its initial version released for OSX. Its version for OS 9 is brand new so the official verdict is not in yet. Ward Oldham -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20020107/bccbc067/attachment.html
