At 9:12 AM -0500 11/3/01, Dan Knight wrote:
>For the first time in the four year history of these lists (Quadlist, our
>first, was launched on November 10, 1997), someone is threatening legal
>action after being banned several times from one of our lists. Because of
Just offer to refund him wh
At 8:50 PM -0400 10/26/01, the pickle wrote:
> >BTW. I don't understand how they can demand this. All the Manuals links go
>>to Apple's site. I.O.W, I believe that I'm protected by free-speech,
>>because I'm just posting links, (the Manuals are NOT on my ISP's server)!
>
>If they succeed in getti
At 4:33 PM -0800 10/26/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>BTW. I don't understand how they can demand this. All the Manuals links go
>to Apple's site. I.O.W, I believe that I'm protected by free-speech,
>because I'm just posting links, (the Manuals are NOT on my ISP's server)!
I agree that it is si
At 6:22 PM -0400 10/24/01, the pickle wrote:
> > Without more information about what exactly is scratched, Hardy's
>>information can cause more damage than is already there.
>
>Sandpaper won't scratch glass. At least not normal sandpaper.
You've never sanded glass, then.
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At 6:14 PM -0400 10/24/01, the pickle wrote:
> > The CD is plastic. The monitor is glass.
>
>But the anti-glare coating isn't. Without more information about what
>exactly is scratched, Hardy's information could be quite useful.
Without more information about what exactly is scratched, Ha
At 2:21 PM -0400 10/24/01, Hardy Menagh wrote:
>I've fixed scratches on audio CDs by first sanding them out with 600
>grit sandpaper, then rubbing the area with silver polish until it was
>shinny and clear again. They also make kits for this. Will this method
>work on a monitor screen? Dunno but I
Very sorry. Meant to reply to sender. I'm trying to stay on
topic. I'll punish myself by un-subbing for a week or two. Someone
spank me.
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At 9:30 PM +0200 9/22/01, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
>WordPerfect 6?
>
>That is what I call an insult!
I'm hoping that I can find a version that will run on an LCIII.
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At 12:25 PM -0700 9/22/01, Kyle Hansen wrote:
>Heres the real deal Steve. Let this put this OT stuff to rest ok?
Don't you mean, "Let me have the last word"?
>With war looming, Atheists and believers of alternate faiths are
>sucking on the
>candlelight vigils, prayer circles and yet anothe
At 12:00 PM -0700 9/22/01, Kyle Hansen wrote:
>Even though you just insulted me, I have a full install floppy set of word
>perfect 6 if you want it. By the way, I am very comfortable with my beliefs,
>and I still felt insulted by Gregg's contribution to the list. Let it go. I
>have.
As with
At 8:12 AM -0400 9/22/01, Amber Rhea wrote:
>appropriate. (FWIW, I wasn't "offended" or anything by the posting -
>actually, I liked it and what it had to say - until it got to the "heathen"
>part. Which is the thing that bugged Kyle, too. With good reason!) -And I'm
You and Kyle are both over
At 11:44 AM -0700 9/20/01, Andrew Michael MacTao wrote:
>Screen resolution is generally presumed to be 72 ppi.
Windows system are generally presumed to be better than Macs.
These people are wrong, too. Measure your screen. Divide the number
of pixels across by the number of inches. Change t
Sometimes, typos can give quite a good giggle.
At 12:53 PM -0700 9/10/01, Alan Brennecke wrote:
>Oops.
>
>On 9/10/01 12:19 PM, "Steve Moody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the invitation, but I'd rather bear with you. ;-)
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At 12:14 PM -0700 9/10/01, Alan Brennecke wrote:
>I'm new to this list, so please bare with me. We have a Performa 460 that I
Thanks for the invitation, but I'd rather bear with you. ;-)
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At 12:43 PM +0200 9/8/01, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
> >System 7.1 is the best choice for any machine with a 68020 or lower, in my
> >opinion.
>>
>Bullshit. Go read the FAQ.
Really? His opinion is in the FAQ and he got it wrong?
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At 10:51 PM -0700 8/29/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> > Visto, ZDNetOneBox and Yahoo all used to give you
>> web space. Big move away
>> from that for some reason.
>
>They discovered that there's no money in providing
>a free service for thousands of people to suck up
>bandwidth, even "paid for" b
At 9:23 PM -0400 8/29/01, Amber Rhea wrote:
>on 8/29/01 9:03 PM, (Vintage Macs) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Just download eudora 5 from the Web. It's free.
>
>Yeah, but it's got those annoying ads unless you pay for it.. :P
Just move them to a corner you don't use. I don't put my Eudora
At 8:25 PM -0400 8/29/01, Flicker wrote:
>Yahoo is great, but what other e-mail services are out there for Macs that
>are geared JUST for Macs? And which ones come with web storage, or Mac-PC
>transfer services?
Apple iTools. Get you @mac.com email address and 20MB for free.
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I'm always seeing eBay auctions for an "auto inject floppy". Is
this a typo, or does such as animal exist? Does the seller mean
"auto eject".
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At 9:40 AM -0700 8/29/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>Some of these are apparently even working on Outlook
>Express for Mac now. Won't bother your apps etc but
>can forward themselves to everyone in your address
>book or inbox etc.
>
>"Microsoft. Helping computer viruses go cross platform
>since 2001."
At 10:28 PM -0700 8/28/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
> > As long as we
> > are talking about a brown-load of 800K floppies,
>> what is wrong with
>> taking a double density or high density floppy and
>> formatting it 800K?
>
>
>The word for today is Coercivity.
>The magnetic particles used on a
At 9:41 PM -0700 8/28/01, Andrew W. Hill wrote:
>Can be an advantage though. You can pile it higher. Plus, if you
>live on a hill...
>
>Okay, I gotta stop before I get banned again
Just snip out the bad shhtuff and you'll be fine. As long as we
are talking about a brown-load of 800K floppi
At 7:33 PM -0700 8/28/01, Alex Allee wrote:
>So would that be a metric sh*tload?
>
>Sorry. I couldn't help myself. :)
A shitload is a lot like a pissload, but it doesn't spread out as well.
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At 10:34 AM -0700 8/28/01, J.S. Garrison wrote:
>If he starts to go into withdrawal, just remind him, Gates's major Windows
>Ideas came from the formative years at Macintosh, when the guys made the
>terrifying mistake of allowing him to form a temporary alliance with them.
Everything Microsoft
At 9:34 AM -0400 8/28/01, Amber Rhea wrote:
>My husband is still fascinated by the fact that whenever I want to copy a
>program from one Mac to another, I simply connect the two Macs and drag the
>program from one hard drive to the other. He can't get things like the
>Windows Registry out of his h
At 11:38 PM -0700 8/27/01, Jim Arnott wrote:
> > Nbci.com don't do that no mo'. It seems all their web pages have
>> become read only... Anyone have suggestions where I can find free
>> webspace to upload & delete files as folks may have need for them?
Got OS 9? Use iDisk - 20MB free.
At 9:16 AM -0700 8/27/01, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>What would be really cool is to print them full size
>on a large format printer. :) Figuring out the scale
>would be the "fun" part unless it's already on there,
>in Japanese. That would be neater than those generic
>cardboard PC components often us
Is this the right Linux to get to run on an LCIII or LCII?
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At 5:15 PM +0200 8/18/01, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
> >Anybody have a copy of 7.6.1 for an LCIII? I'm using 7.1, but want
>>to move up to a version that has OT so that I can network it with a
>>newer Mac.
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>Just install OT on 7.1 and be done with it. Your lc III will be dog
>slow
Is there a list of new features for each new release of Mac OS?
If I wanted to know what version was first to have the clock on the
menu bar or the first to have the menus stay open without holding the
mouse, where would I look?
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Anybody have a copy of 7.6.1 for an LCIII? I'm using 7.1, but want
to move up to a version that has OT so that I can network it with a
newer Mac.
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At 11:08 AM +0800 8/16/01, Andrew W. Hill wrote:
> >It is not worth it. Throw into street now, or give it to your worst
> >enemy as a truce present.
>
>ala Trojan Horse?
What's wrong it? I've just read the third message saying to throw it out.
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At 4:50 PM -0500 8/8/01, dhill wrote:
>And you blame the little old lady? Shoot, our electric company
>murdered an old man in OKC. In June they turned off his electricity
Yes, it's unfortunate, but it's not murder. Every state in the
union has laws that allow for electricity to remain on f
At 2:54 PM -0700 8/7/01, Gary Adams wrote:
>I think anytime a company fails to notify people about things they should
>have to refund the money back to when the law was passed plus interest. If
>things like that happened they would get more ethical and honest. Its like
The Bell companies notif
I have a 256K VRAM that is for an LCIII. I don't know if it is
good or not. If anyone is interested in it, I'll plug it in and see
if it works. Pay shipping and it's yours.
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Can a dead external 800K dirve be converted to a 1.44MB "Super
Drive" by installing the good drive in the case? I can save a few
bucks this way.
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When was the last time you remember the
Can an LCIII with a 10baseT Ethernet card be connected to the
Internet with a cable modem?
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When was the last time you remember the "Virus Of The Week"
attacking a Macintosh?
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At 5:21 PM -0700 7/28/2001, Alex Allee wrote:
> > 2) One thing I'll never understand is why the Macintosh, with it's
>> ease of use, has always had error codes that are so user unfriendly.
>> Even DOS has no error message as unfriendly and Macintosh Error
>> codes. Windows 95 comes close, how
At 9:53 PM +0200 7/28/2001, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
>Stupidity and fear are basically the same thing.
On the battlefield, they are opposite.
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When was the last time you remember the "Virus Of The Week"
att
At 11:43 AM +0200 7/28/2001, Marten van de Kraats wrote:
>evolution: survival of the fittest and all that stuff. PC's are for
>the stupid masses, Macs are for the spiritual and intellectual elite.
>Our machines are just better and stronger. :-)
I disagree. I was a PC-head (I still play one at
At 12:45 AM -0500 7/28/2001, dhill wrote:
>Hmm, I thought this list dealt with 68020 Macs as well as the 030's
>so wouldn't the questions on the Mac Classic fit here. You have to
>pull the power supply and the hard drive cable from the motherboard,
>and, of course, you sure cannot miss the memory
At 9:17 PM -0400 7/27/2001, Amber Rhea wrote:
>What was the statistic? Over 10,000 known Windows viruses and fewer than 10
>for the Mac?
Closer to truth is 15,000 for Windows/DOS and 700 for Mac. The
chance of an effective worm for a Mac would be for it to be cross
platform. Possible? Lik
At 9:18 AM -0700 7/27/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>I certainly hope none of them are on this list because
>the @#%#@nuts won't pay attention to my replies
>telling them they have the virus and to STOP
>#$%^#^$ing
>using their #%#^^#$ing PC until they get rid of the
>virus.
Which prompts a chan
At 9:14 AM -0700 7/27/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>Its easier to remove all the screws, except the
>ones in the handle. Take them out halfway then
>press down on the screws with the Torx driver
>while pulling on the handle.
For someone who hasn't down this, I ask, "how far is half way"?
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This is one of the questions that leads to another.
I can't find the answer to these on the FAQ page.
1) How do I get to the battery in a Macintosh Classic? I hope I
don't have to take the back off it. The FAQ has a link to batteries,
be the page doesn't explain how to change the
At 2:10 AM -0700 7/27/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>Up to 4.92 billion blocks on an HFS+ formatted
>disk. Still don't know the maximum number for FAT32.
>Looks like when Apple decided to fix the limitations
>of HFS, they looked way into the future.
FAT32 can support up to a 2 terabyte harddrive
At 1:44 AM -0700 7/26/2001, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>I've been unlucky enough to see the work of lazy
>Windows programmers with messages like
>"An error has occured: Error. [OK]"
>Can't remember what program that was.
That's nothing. I have a jpg of an error window that CC:Mail for
Windows 3.1
At 9:25 PM -0400 7/25/2001, the pickle wrote:
> > 2) One thing I'll never understand is why the Macintosh, with it's
>>ease of use, has always had error codes that are so user unfriendly.
> >Even DOS has no error message as unfriendly and Macintosh Error
>
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>I could probably come up wit
At 12:20 PM -0700 7/25/2001, Kyle Hansen wrote:
> > I'm still trying to find out what a -671 error is.
>
>-671 is a "connection proccesses" error usually associated with an Open
>Transport crash.
1) Where can I find a list of error codes and what they mean?
2) One thing I'll never underst
At 11:10 AM -0600 7/25/2001, Desert Fox wrote:
>If they take away our Macs, we can get by. If they take away our guns, we
>will all perish in tyranny.
How could life be the same without our Macs? Maybe YOU can get by
without your Mac, but I'd rather not try.
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At 8:57 PM -0500 7/24/2001, David Robinson wrote:
>Very, Very sorry, tell me which list I should go to.
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Handgun crime in Britain has increased more than 40% since the
handgu
At 6:14 PM -0600 7/24/2001, Paul Stamsen wrote:
>-> Handgun crime in Britain has increased more than 40% since the
>-> handgun ban of 1997.
>
>What percent of the crimes were violations of the ban?
Violent crime, not violations.
> IOW, did the *ban* cause the crimes?
Who said the b
At 8:26 AM -0500 7/24/2001, David Robinson wrote:
>Hey speaking of the most stable OS around, I have a PM 8500 with a XLR
>G3 Upgrade running at 333 mhz and 240 mgs of RAM. I have lots of FINDER
>crashes with System 9.1. Anybody know what to do about this stupid
>problem. I have already tried that
At 9:41 PM -0400 7/23/2001, the pickle wrote:
> > Anyone here try that for swapping an internal SCSI drive with a
>>10gb IDE in a vintage Mac?
>
>As I said, Peter Haas over on Quadlist has at least one 950 running with a
>40GB IDE drive in it with this card...
Do you think it would work in
At 7:16 AM -0400 7/23/2001, the pickle wrote:
>http://www.acard.com/
Anyone here try that for swapping an internal SCSI drive with a
10gb IDE in a vintage Mac?
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Handgun crime in Britain has increased more than
At 4:00 PM + 7/22/2001, Dana Collins wrote:
>You're right: one slot for SIMM, one for VRAM. The VRAM (256k limit, I
>believe) is the one next to the power supply, the other is the RAM.
>By the way, we ARE talking about an LC III (3) aren't we? In which case 32mg
>is great. (An LC II has 2 30pi
I have an LCII that I recently bought to play with. I also got a
32MB SIMM to add memory to it. Now, I am confused. There are two
spots where I can put a SIMM. According to system specs at
apple.com, this machine is upgradable with only one SIMM. There is
also the option of adding mem
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