Tony LaFemina remacs at optonline.net wrote
... you go to some web sites and you have to scroll side to side in order
to read it because the layout don't adjust to the width of the window. Go
figure! ...
Many web pages are set to the width of a 17 display. I guess the designers
figure the smaller
to
the top?
The cursor for my replies goes at the top of the window with the original
message below that. I looked around in Prefs but didn't see anything on it.
Allan Atherton
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| be September 23. The LCS Web page is http
computer center
from the clouds.
Allan Atherton
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be September 23. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org.
| This list's page is http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup.
Update on TechTool Pro 4 that I ordered last April:
-- Forwarded Message
From: Micromat Processing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 12:31:06 -0700
To: TTP4 pre-order a processing at micromat.com
Subject: TechTool Pro 4 pre-order
Thank you for your pre-order of TechTool Pro 4. We
George H. Yankey jeffco13 at bellsouth.net wrote:
I have installed then deleted several small programs . I have also
created, saved then deleted many documents. Do I need to be
concerned about fragmenting my hard drive? If so what do I do about
it?
You can see file fragmentation and
would automatically open and print itself until the
whole folder was printed.
In OSX, Cmd-P will not print a selected file or files. So I have to manually
open the 70 poems and manually print each one. This is a great loss of
functionality in OSX.
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Carlos Nazario wrote:
... need a good program to handle our database needs...considering Excel,
but I questioned this thinking that a dedicated d-base program would be far
better and easier to use.
You might be deep into the spreadsheet program before you realized you
wished it was a database
andrew arnold a0arno01 at Louisville.edu
So does most of the group own several utilities, like Disk Warrior 3 AND
Drive 10? I thought OSX was supposed to do away with most of the need for
these 3rd party utilities. Now it seems like there are more of them than
ever!
In OS9 there was a need
Harry Jacobson-Beyer harryjb at bellsouth.net wrote:
Does anyone out there use GPS in conjunction with their macintosh?
I looked into Gypsy http://www.gpsy.com/ awhile back. As I remember, deep
in the FAQ it said that the software that transferred information from the
Street Atlas CD to the
Ward Oldham woldham at insightbb.com wrote:
I found this interesting blurb from Design Tools monthly: Eject Menu for
Optical Drives...
That was also in MacWorld:
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From: Allan Atherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003
To: Mac Group macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
This recent thread explored how to open a second optical drive. If you have
one drive, pressing either Eject or Option+Eject opens it. If you add a
drive, Option+Eject opens the second drive and apparently (hopefully) no
longer opens the first drive.
But the Aug MacWorld tells how to add a
George H. Yankey jeffco13 at bellsouth.net
... Can I save a file to a CD, burn , then save a second file to the same CD
and burn again . If so, would I be able to open both files?
If you have Toast you can copy files to a CD-RW using either Write CD or
Write Session. I don't know if OSX has
Beth Ernst bernst at fastline.com
Does anyone know if it is ok to use a CPU stand that places the Mac on its
side with a Beige G3 desktop?
I had a custom desktop made for my flat beige G3, consisting of a formica
covered solid core door with walnut edges, and a couple of self supporting
Harry Jacobson-Beyer harryjb at bellsouth.net wrote:
... using Preview to view pdf files... is much faster than using Adobe Acrobat
Reader.
I used to like Preview for PDF, but I always had to zoom in to read, and
since most of my files were quite large (catalogs, publications, etc), I
wanted to
Again, Option+Eject is NOT the keyboard command to eject media from a single
optical drive (nor does the tech note state that). While you may find that it
works... That doesn't make it correct... holding down the extra key is
UNNECESSARY.
I never knew about Option+Eject until you suggested
Ward Oldham woldham at insightbb.com said:
I'm not quite sure where this confusion arises from but I rarely quote from
mere belief, suspicion or opinion.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25345
We have both installed a second drive and ordered a custom build-to-order
unit from
Ward Oldham woldham at insightbb.com
Hi Allan,
Try using just the Eject key. I think you'll find it works and that you
have been unnecessarily holding down the Option key all along.
I never used Option+Eject until you mentioned it. I always have used the
plain Eject key to open the Combo
I asked:
The Eject key now opens and closes the Combo drive. What would open and close
the DVD drive if it was added?
Ward replied:
Option+Eject
Is that for sure? Because now Option+Eject opens the top Combo drive, no
different from Eject. If a second DVD-RW drive is added below the Combo
Ward Oldham woldham at insightbb.com wrote:
We sell the original Pioneer DVR-AO5 internal drive as a retrofit for $279
excluding installation. We can either replace the original drive in the cpu
or add it as a second in the current G4s.
I might be interested in adding. The Eject key now opens
Here something new ...
Go to the International pane of the System Prefs. Click on the 'Input Menu'
tab, and check the box next to 'Character Palette' -- this will place a
small icon on the menu bar, and is accessible from every application.
From this menu, you can select 'Show Character
Marta Edie mledie at insightbb.com wrote:
I have an Epson stylus C40 printer...using OSX...I ... want to know is the
leftovers in my cartridges...
I use the application EPSON Printer Utility which I think comes with or part
of the printer drivers for the Epsons, because I can't see it listed
Marta Edie mledie at insightbb.com wrote:
While on System 9 I had a number of specific websites in my favorites,
especially airlines. hotels, stores, bookshops etc., where I had my
personal pages set up. Is there a way to retrieve them other than to
boot back into 9 where hopefully they will
Marta Edie mledie at insightbb.com wrote:
... I burned a CD on my new iMac. It told me it could not locate my preferred
disk burner, but would I want to use the DWD RW-DVR-105 ATA ? Of course I said
yes - what alternative was there?-and it burned OK. But my Power book never
asked me that and I
Bill Holt billholt at iglou.com wrote:
Bill, that is offensive and calls for an apology. Allan Atherton
The hell it does, Allen. You may be offended, if you chose...
You are offensive in using this Macintosh mailing list to advertise your
personal and political views. Your apology should
Robert Schenk r_c_s1 at lycos.com wrote:
Slick Willie was elected to office because of unions.
And as he has demonstrated in the past being a traitor is no problem.
This Mac group has become too political for me. I am unsubscribing.
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Bill Holt billholt at iglou.com wrote:
... Ozone Al ... Global Warming Al ... even World Government Al can use a
Mac!
Bill, that is offensive and calls for an apology.
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| be March 25. The LCS Web page is http
the encoding to MIME/Base 64 (For
Windows), and re-sent the photos. The recipient then received one file
that opened automatically.
I was glad these people brought their problem to my attention, because I
think many others had just been confused and not said anything.
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drive.
I feel like a loser already with MS Dreamweaver and an obsolete combo drive.
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window
also.
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the problem, then you do have a
problem.
I just sent my DiskWarrior and TechTool off the the eBay buyer of my G3.
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in
it is so quickly searchable with OE's autofill. You will not be able to
search in those mail storage folders with OE, and it may be clumsy to search
in them with Sherlock.
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of the Mail
window.
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,
My time is also valuable, and I found it worthwhile to learn to use Find.
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about TT quitting. Today I was entering 1099-Div
forms and TT did quit. I had to re-enter about half a dozen since my last
Save, and I then began to Save after every form.
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in that group. You can't
print an address book of the contacts in Group.
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I have a nice G3 setup for sale on eBay at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3402491693ssPageName=ADM
E:B:LC:US:1
Allan Atherton
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a preview of the first page in the preview window to
the right that will show what your printed page(s) will look like.
Yes, that will Print all the Athertons. But I can't print any Group that I
have made. Like MacGroup.
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selected groups. Maybe I need to
look around it some more.
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, but I don't think it's free.
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the first name, last name, or
email. After a few letters, Outlook will start presenting autofills for you
to select from. So its click on New, type three characters, and click again.
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advertises a manual.
http://www.lemkesoft.com/us_index.html
Photoshop Elements 2 is $99, easy to use, yet extremely full-featured:
http://www.adobe.com/store/products/master.jhtml?id=catPhotoshopElementssou
rcecode=106507
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have done that, but long before I
read that answer, I had given up and bought a new G4 DP and installed my old
drive in it.
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within IE.
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this is connected up and running perfectly for demo, except for the
modem (no dial up account anymore), but sale does not include a monitor. I
would like to get $500 for the setup, or will sell parts of it, or may
donate to a school etc for a tax deduction.
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in your Internet Email panel:
Your email address: johnprofile at insightbb.com
Your account ID: johnprofile
Password: whatever
Incoming and outgoing server: mail.insightbb.com
Then go to your Network panel and select:
Location: Automatic
Show: Built-in ethernet
Tab: TCP/IP
Configure: Using DHCP
Allan
ever had was in a
free form address book called InTouch With, ready for pasting. For things
like this, my Entourage cannot replace Intouch With, which I have used many
time each day since 1993. It's at http://www.intouchwith.com/.
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in there now. Biggest mess I ever
saw. Lord help those who ever need to work with the files themselves. I like
to organize my photos the old fashioned way, and if I want a nice viewer, I
just drag a folder of photos into iView MediaPro.
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to say yes or no toI am sure others may have some insight
into this...
So I thought I would say that housekeeping and spring cleaning are
different.
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the new
drive into the CD cables temporarily, to format and partition it from the
old drive, and then copied everything, system and all, from the old drive to
the new. Then I put the new drive in place of the old. But I would not want
to do it for anybody else because it felt so risky.
Allan
and monthly
Unix housekeeping routines, with no Terminal, no typing of Unix code.
Allan Atherton
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a Startup panel
somewhere to select that OS9.1 for startup. But it won't start, though can
still start from OSX.
Is all that correct?
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in there.
I leave my Junk Mail Filter on High, and never get any junk mail any more.
If I get a message from anyone not in Entourage's Address Book, it goes into
the Junk Mail folder where I read it last. One click will add the sender to
the Address Book.
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Macworld said my subscription, which did not expire until
next June, was automatically now being renewed at $35.
When I called to complain, Macworld said I was going to get the bill in a
few weeks. Then they offered the renewal at $24 and I said OK.
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was getting Mac Home Journal, Mac Addict, and Macworld. The
first two shriveled up to a few pages so I dropped them and wonder if they
are still around. If Macworld is the only Mac magazine left, I guess they
can do whatever they want.
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, then the regular blue screen will appear with the words Safe
Boot in the splash box. If this boot finishes OK, then restart again, the
usual way.
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Safe Boot starts using a reduced version of system software. So it is just
like Shift-starting has always been - extensions off.
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to install
OSX on a beige G3. Now there are some threads full of advice on Mac
Discussions. If I had known to empty the PCI slots, I might have had a
better time of it.
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MJI mark_james20 at hotmail.com
I think OSX requires an 8 gig partition.
OS 10.2.3 is running on a 5 gig partition on my flat beige G3. The rule for
those computers is that the OSX partition must be first, and must be LESS
than 8 gig.
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Ronald Broadwater rbroadw at bellsouth.net wrote:
I have a beige desktop G3... I have tried installing the OS X into the first
partition unsuccessfully...
Did you use the reset button on the motherboard after installing the Sonnet
processor?
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no matter which
browser I jump to, all of my 981 bookmarks in their 50 folders in can be
pulled down from the top. I can run four browsers in four windows, and the
same pull-down menu of bookmarks is there at the top of the screen.
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Allan Atherton aatherton at insightbb.com wrote:
Why do you think Safari caused the crash? Because it was the last thing
installed?
I see now where the Moderator of the OSX section of Apple Discussions
http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx announced that:
Safari Update 1-10-03 addresses
Allan Atherton aatherton at insightbb.com
Bill Holt billholt at iglou.com wrote:
Question - does your OSX installation see your ZIP drive?
No, OSX does not see the Zip drive.
I don't know why I said that. OSX does mount disks that are put in the Zip
drive, and I see the Zip drive is also
?
Allan Atherton
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| be January 28. The LCS Web page is http://www.kymac.org.
know, but I don't use web for mail.
I'm beginning to get comfortable enough with OS X to consider switching
browsers, unless there is an obvious fix for these idiosyncrasies.
I think your only alternative, since you use web mail, is Netscape. Try it.
Chimera is just a basic browser.
Allan
always have control of where you want to save a file, via the Save
dialog box. I don't let OSX default to putting files in my user Documents or
iPhoto (I hate what iPhoto does to filenames). I put the files where I want
them.
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partitions took me about a half hour, but
then I only had four partitions of 1 MB each to copy.
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the
machine be a half-second slower than your synapses.
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and external hard drive
last, and the hard drive is an APS with active termination. It has worked
for 7 years, perfectly, but OSX can't see the SCSI network. Are you saying
that on your beige G3 running OSX, you see your SCSI peripherals?
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reading. Probably refers to the
level of ink that shows in Epson Printer Utility.
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partition.
* I keep all my docs in a Data partition. When an OS9 document is clicked
while running OSX, my OS9 is launched as Classic and the OS9 application
opens the document.
* It all works perfectly. And OSX never crashes.
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the Epson site,
but they kept plugging up and I was spending a long time trying to clean
them. I sent several back with all the test sheets, and they sent me new
cartridges. But they kept plugging up so now I pay more for Epson
cartridges.
Maybe I will try your place.
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. On the
right side I have a column of partition icons, so I don't want the Dock
there. And I crowd my windows to the left side, so I don't want the Dock
there.
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year. I used NOW Menus and
Action Menus so long that I could not navigate a Mac without FruitMenu.
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of the four colors in the
color cartridge. I suppose the four individual primary colors get used about
equally in making the thousands of colors in a color print.
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problem is that if they don't print for a long time, Epson Printer
Utility shows the same level in the cartridges. They know that with time,
the levels should drop, so they don't trust that utility to show the right
ink levels.
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Jerry Yeager jerry at browseryshop.com wrote:
Have you considered keeping the Utility in the Dock?
I keep both Apple's Print Center and Epson's Printer Utility in the Dock.
Save a lot of running around to launch them when you need them.
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in its File menu.
In order to burn two CDs at the same time, I have to use the two Toasts, 5.1
and 5.2, each running in their own window.
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processor.
The limitations arise from OSX not supporting some things on the Beige
machinery, such as SCSI, LocalTalk and floppy drive. For those, I have to
boot in OS9 (not Classic, which uses OSX for networking).
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their extensions.
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For more information about the LCS, go to http://www.kymac.org.
.
And after installing OE, you are responsible for updating it yourself, while
Mail gets updated automatically by Software Update.
Allan Atherton
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For more information about the LCS, go to http://www.kymac.org.
that Entourage will. I know I had folders and rules in my OE, beginning
years ago, and I still have them in Entourage. For instance, my Saved Mail
folder has OE messages in it from 1995!
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For more information, see
Kitchen on Bardstown Road does it. If it is like the audio tape
digitizing that I called them about, it has to be done in real time (play
the movies) at something like $40 an hour.
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For more information, see http
Or get one of the freeware trashers like Obliter8 or BatChmod from
VersionTracker --
http://www.versiontracker.com/
Allan Atherton
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activities is at http
Joe Oldham joeoldham at insightbb.com wrote:
I use Word and it isn't compatible with OSX (Jaguar).
I have used Office X for a year, and Jaguar since it came out in August, and
the two work OK together for me.
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of drivers etc, so I didn't miss anything. Everything has
been rock solid since I got OS 10.2 last August, and I'm up to 10.2.2 now.
Allan Atherton
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activities
Diane Stinnett usafdesigner at insightbb.com wrote:
What all is involved in maintaining OSX? I know a little about
permissions (can't you use the built in disk utility to repair
permissions?) ...
Yes, I confused my use of the Drive10 CD with the OSX CD. Drive10 does not
repair permissions and
Now that I'm on Digest, about half the messages look like the above. Appears
to be html tags in the message that I did not see before. Do I need to do
something, or do the senders need to turn that feature of their email
program off?
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know.
As I recall, Publish and Subscribe allowed multiple users to see each
other's updates to a document they would all be working on.
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will help him understand the file
format. I think he finds it a challenge that GraphicConverter could not open
this variation of an .afp file.
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the ?AFP (Other TIFF)? format in its arsenal.
I just tried the same experiment with same results. So sent I Lemke an email
with one of the .afp files attached, saying if GraphicConverter could open
it, I would buy the program. Maybe he will reply with an explanation.
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to a FireWire drive, a disk image, or a network
drive. In addition, psync will create a bootable drive if you mirror your
entire harddrive. PsyncX allows you to schedule regular backups as well.
(Note: your computer can't be asleep for this to work properly).
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see both CDRWs; in other words, Jaguar had merely added support for the
fast old Yamaha FireWire drive.
And I guess Toast 5.1 is really a carbon app that runs under both OS9 and
OSX, and does not need Classic to run in OSX.
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From: Jerry Yeager jerry at browseryshop.com
To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Subject: MacGroup: subscribe macgroup-digest
subscribe macgroup-digest
Is digest now available? Gotta go through the server with this request:
Majordomo at erdos.math.louisville.edu
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would I be able to get into it
and change that misspelling? Do I both have to become root and then get into
the document via Terminal or something?
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the world didn't come to an end. Sure don't like being in
unix.
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activities is at http://www.calsnet.net/macusers.
, but he would say
to you, Be silent: I see it if you don't.
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.
Allan Atherton
Unix whiz
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to go get it.
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Jerry Yeager jerry at browseryshop.com wrote:
I see you are typing that carrot that I don't have a key for.
It is on the 6 key...
Yikes, there it is. I never saw it.
Now if Pico said WriteOut was ^O, and if pressing Cntrl+O was just typing an
o, maybe I should have typed ^O like it said.
Allan
Jerry Yeager jerry at browseryshop.com wrote:
Just out of curiosity, What kind of keyboard do you use?
It's an old Key Tronic MacPro Plus.
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