Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 16 May 00 Volume 17 : Issue 82 Today's Topics: [*] TidBITS#531/15-May-00 [A] PC equivalent of G4 with new Virtual PC [Q]hard drive install Another Toggle Possibility Three-button-mouse Toast Bug VirtualPC3.0.3 The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #82" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:00:00 -0700 From: TidBITS Editors Subject: [*] TidBITS#531/15-May-00 TidBITS#531/15-May-00 Deception, fraud, and theft form the core of this week's sordid tale of Gadget Software, a Mac shareware developer that apparently stole its products. Also this week, we look at just what sort of devices you can and cannot safely plug into your Mac while it's on, plus cover the releases of Palm's HotSync 2.6.1 for fixing synchronizing under Mac OS 9.0.4, Web Confidential 2.0 with Palm support, and FileMaker's security hole-fixing Web Companion 5.0v4. Topics: MailBITS/15-May-00 Hot Crossed Plugs Inspecting Gadget [Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-531.etx; 33K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 06:45:52 -0700 From: "Adam C. Engst" Subject: [A] PC equivalent of G4 with new Virtual PC >At 10:06 PM -0400 5/13/2000, D. Scott Beach wrote: >>Ken Laskey aks: >>>I've read that VPC 3.0.3 Pentium chip emulator adds Velocity Engine >>>(AltiVec) optimizations for Power Mac G4 machines. Has anybody seen >>>any information indicating what speed/version of the Pentium chip it >>>is approximately equivalent to? I haven't seen any of that sort of information, but after having installed the update, I didn't notice any significant changes in speed for basic use of Windows. I suspect its performance increase comes in specific situations. cheers... -Adam -- Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Publisher ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:50:40 -0500 From: Adam Gluckman Subject: [Q]hard drive install Recently I installed a 9 GB Seagate barracuda SCSI hard drive into my 7300. The drive makes a beeping sound at regular intervals, about every 12 minutes. I used Hard disk toolkit to supply the drivers and the drive is not partitioned. Should I partition the drive? Does anyone have any suggestions as to what could be the cause of the beep or have any ideas about how to eliminate it? Thanks, Adam ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 22:51:36 -0700 From: "Jim Wickman" Subject: Another Toggle Possibility Following on the thought of a "cookie toggle," here's another programming idea: How about a toggle to load or _not-load_ images. Netscape 3.x had such a toggle. Netscape 4x and iCab _lack_ it; you have to dredge up the Preferences files and navigate them. Hardly easy for every-day use where often I want to forego images. Just a thought . . . -- -- Jim Wickman - - - Pasco WA A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:14:11 +0400 From: "Egorov Maxim" Subject: Three-button-mouse This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BFBECB.A92CFE80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Can't You help me with my problem which is to make my >three-button-mouse work when I could use all the three it's buttons? =20 >Thanks beforehand. Maxim Egorov. ------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BFBECB.A92CFE80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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------=_NextPart_000_0008_01BFBECB.A92CFE80-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:28:24 -0700 From: Herb Kroemer Subject: Toast Bug I have run into a bug with Adaptec Toast (Version 3.5.7, included with my APS 6/4/16 Drive): When Toast encounters a file with a name ending in a period (.}, it omits the period in the name of the CD copy of the file. Quite apart from the principle that a copy program should NEVER change the name of a file, this can have painful consequences, when the same folder also contains another file with the same name, but without the period. In this case, the CD will contain two identically-named files in the same folder. When trying to restore the CD to a hard disk, the Finder balks, and the restore terminates, ignoring all subsequent files. I noticed this bug when I tried to restore (to a new hard disk) a long collection of numerous Adobe font files. Whenever the name of a font is sufficiently short, Adobe will put a period at the end of the name of the bitmap suitcase, to avoid conflict with the otherwise identical name of the Type-1 outline file. Searching both the original hard disk and the Toast copy for files with names ending in a period showed that Toast consistently strips that period. I have brought this bug to the attention of both Adaptec and APS, but have not received a reply from either. I am wondering whether others have observed the same problem, and whether the bug persists in the more recent 4.X versions of Toast. Herbert Kroemer kroemer@ece.ucsb.edu Regards, Herb Kroemer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:46:07 +0100 From: Eamonn Nulty Subject: VirtualPC3.0.3 For your info., I also downloaded VirtualPC3.0.3 Eamonn > From: The Info-Mac Network > Reply-To: digest@info-mac.org > Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:31:54 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #81 > > > Ken Laskey aks: >> I've read that VPC 3.0.3 Pentium chip emulator adds Velocity Engine >> (AltiVec) optimizations for Power Mac G4 machines. Has anybody seen >> any information indicating what speed/version of the Pentium chip it >> is approximately equivalent to? > > Ken: > Just out of curiosity I ran the "Connectix Software Center" utility. It > checked the Connectix server and told me that version 3.0 is current and > didn't offer any updates. Are you sure it's available? (I didn't go to > their web site.) > - Scott > -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************