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Info-Mac Digest Sun, 27 Aug 00 Volume 17 : Issue 135
Today's Topics:
(A) video conferencing
[*] MIDI Warehouse v1.0.8
[*] Pads - Note Pad/Stickies Replacement for the Macintosh
[*] The Eraser Pro 2.7.0; Security erasing and cleaning utility.
[*] Version Master 2.0.2J - Japanese Version
File translation (R)
Fusion 3.0 - free Mac emulator for PCs
FW: (A) Why Use A Mac??
IDE Hard Drive help
Info-Mac Digest V17 #134
Opinion: Why IT departments don't like Macs
TrueType Fonts
TrueType Fonts
Why Use A Mac??
Why Use A Mac?? & G4 Networking
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:39:31 -0400
From: "abrody@smart.net" <abrody@smart.net>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: (A) video conferencing
Dear Digest readers,
In case anyone was wondering CU2SEEME still is available for the Mac
and is MacOS 9 compatible according to their website:
http://www.cuseeme.com/software/hf_mac.htm
I seem to remember a post here asking what options are available.
Also for those with a Logitech camera:
http://www.logitech.com/cf/support/10403.cfm#3
Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net
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Date: 27 Aug 2000
From: Takashi Suzuki <setsu@tcp-ip.or.jp>
To:
Subject: [*] MIDI Warehouse v1.0.8
MIDI Warehouse is an application for the Macintosh which allows you to play &
manage standard MIDI files.
Player window holds one standard MIDI file, and displays it's current tempo,
System Exclusive status, Control Change status and Voice Name, Panpot, Pitch
Bend, Level for each MIDI channel.
Playlist window can have up to 2,147,483,647 MIDI files to be played back
sequentially, or random order.
Database window can have up to 2,147,483,647 MIDI files with sort & find
capability.
What's Changed :
- It took long time to stop if you use multi port MIDI I/F -> fixed.
Features :
- Fat Binary.
- QuickTime support.
- Macintosh Drag and Drop support.
- GM, GS, XG format compatible.
- 32part Standard MIDI File playback support.
- Navigation Services support. (PowerPC only)
This application requires :
- Macintosh with 68020 or higher / PowerPC
- System7.6.1 + QuickTime 3.0 + Appearance Manager or later
- OMS (Open Music System) -- If you use external MIDI tone generator
- MIDI tone generator or QuickTime Musical Instruments
[Archived as /info-mac/gst/midi/midi-warehousei-108.hqx; 439 K]
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Date: 26 Aug 2000
From: "Dennis C. De Mars" <demars@mminternet.com>
To:
Subject: [*] Pads - Note Pad/Stickies Replacement for the Macintosh
Pads v1.0
Pads is a simple replacement for the standard Note Pad and Stickies
applications.
Pads is as simple to use as either Note Pad or Stickies, yet provides
significant new features. Pads gives users the ability to organize their
notes and use them more effectively.
Features:
- Notes can be given titles.
- Notes can be categorized.
- Pages can be "torn off" so that multiple pages can be viewed at
once (like Stickies). These tear-off pages can be closed later
without destroying the original notes.
- Standard Macintosh features such as styled text and drag-and-drop
editing are supported.
Pads is a shareware program. It is not restricted in features or
time-limited in any way. The fee for a single user license is $15.
The Pads web site is at:
<http://www.fractaldomains.com/pads/>
Inquiries and feedback should be directed to:
pads@fractaldomains.com or demars@kagi.com
The author of Pads is Dennis C. De Mars, who also created Fractal Domains,
a popular shareware fractal program for the Macintosh.
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/pads-10.hqx; 991 K]
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Date: 26 Aug 2000
From: Yellowsoft <feedback.yellowsoft@iol.it>
To:
Subject: [*] The Eraser Pro 2.7.0; Security erasing and cleaning utility.
Make The Eraser Pro the cleaning application of your choice! There are
its features:
-ERASING:
- Security method. The Eraser Pro deletes your files by using a
sophisticated procedure. It lets you customize many details of this job.
The recovery of deleted files becomes impracticable: there's no utility
able to do it!
- Simple method. You may also choose some details of this job.
The Eraser Pro returns several informations while it's using the features
of above and allows you to stop its performance at any time. It works fine
and fast in background, deleting large groups of items, you may also
instruct it to ask you the permission, before deleting.
- DISK ERASING:
The Eraser Pro may initialize your disks by using its own, customizable,
method. Through a co-operation with System, The Eraser Pro allows you to
take advantage of HFS+ and FSM, if you want.
- CLEANING FEATURES:
The Eraser Pro creates a list, from where you may gather infos/trash/
delete/view your selection. You may also trash/delete the whole list and
you've always the option to erase by using the "Security method".
- Preferences search: The Eraser Pro searches orphan preferences
files.
- System Folder search: The Eraser Pro searches orphan files inside
the whole System Folder.
All following cleaning options allows you to select the objects to scan:
disks, folders and, often , individual files.
- Orphan files search.
You may get a more accurate analysis, using the three cleaning option of
above, by activating a couple of special options, but slackening the scan
speed.
- Cache search:The Eraser Pro may scan the cache folders of your
Browsers, excluding some files according to theirs modification dates.
- Duplicate file names search.
- Empty folders search.
- Folder icons search.
- Empty aliases search.
- Help files search.
[Archived as /info-mac/disk/the-eraser-pro-270.hqx; 380 K]
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Date: 26 Aug 2000
From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com
To:
Subject: [*] Version Master 2.0.2J - Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the Version Master package.
Version Master is a client application which shows which software on a
Macintosh is out-of-date and where on the internet users may find updates,
patches, and upgrades.
Version Master compiles a list of all of the software on a Mac. Users
download the current version numbers and update locations from the Version
Master server. The Version Master server currently tracks over 60,000
software titles from 50 countries.
Version Master keeps track of 680xx, PowerPC and FAT versions of software.
It also tracks beta versions of software independently from release
versions of the same software. Software is also categorized by "country
code" so localized versions may be tracked.
As an added bonus, users may indicate that they would like to receive e-mail
notification whenever a newer version of some specific software becomes
available. The e-mail feature requires payment of the annual subscription
fee.
Version Master requires System 7 or greater, 2M RAM, 3M Hard Disk Space.
[Archived as /info-mac/cfg/version-master-202-jp.hqx; 880 K]
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:01:11 +0200
From: Christian F Buser <cbuser@mus.ch>
To: Kate <kate@iavbbs.com>
Subject: File translation (R)
Kate <kate@iavbbs.com> wrote:
> Why can't I open email enclosures (.doc, etc) with Appleworks 5?
(MacOS9)
> My husband says WordPerfect is the "industry standard" yet Appleworks
> just says "the translator cannot open this file." What am I missing?
1) Industry standard? of what industry? It depends where you ask, and
you'll get various different answers.
2) ".doc" is usually - as far as I know - Microsoft Word, not
WordPerfect.
> Is there an alternative to the $99 MacLinkPlus?
If you can't open directly in your application - no.
Best wishes, Christian.
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Look at <http://www.rumantsch.ch/christian/welcome.html>
"Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann?" (Petra Kelly)
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 17:43:59 +1200
From: "Markus Winter" <m.winter@auckland.ac.nz>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Fusion 3.0 - free Mac emulator for PCs
Hi all,
to all of you who have a PC but want to run it as a Mac (before I could
finally afford a PB I was using a PC laptop together with my Mac desktop),
version 3.0 of Fusion is available as a free download from
http://www.emulators.com/download.htm
Version 1.2 and 2 worked very nicely for me for some time ... please note
that it emulates 68k code, so 68k and fat applications will run, but note
PPC code only programs ...
Regards
Markus
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:44:37 -0400
From: "Douglas W. St.Clair" <dwstclair@tellink.net>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: FW: (A) Why Use A Mac??
Bud,
I started a small desktop publishing business in 1993. I chose the Macintosh
because
(1) I needed to run more than 100 different applications and the consistency
between Macintosh Applications was much greater than that between WINTEL
Applications.
(2) Printing is much better on the Macintosh. The PC is intended to be an
office machine and as such the printing depended on bitmapped graphics and
type. Since the Mac's inception the Mac as designed for device independent
printing which meant that (via Postscript) the bitmap was optimized for the
printer it was going to and scaling was not a problem.
(3) Support costs are less (in my experience) on the Macintosh. I stumbled
across a website that related an incident in one company where two
departments (one Mac and one PC) moved from one building to another. The
clerical staff with the Macs got their equipment up and running themselves
in a couple hours. It was two days before IT got the PC group running again.
(4) The myths about Macs costing more than PCs. The Mac comes with more
stuff standard than the PC. For example sound is built in on the Mac
requires an optional sound card on the PC. Networking is also standard on
the Mac and an option on the PC. Now these items may be bundled in many
cases on the PC but if you buy PCs from more than one source you are
probably going to get various sound cards for example which means various
procedures and software to set them up and more different kinds of parts
when it comes time to repair them.
(5) The applications are not the same. I worked two years ago for a major
publisher that had decided to go from PC to Mac. Very big mistake and very
painful. One well respected application, Quark, gave people fits because it
did not work the same on both platforms. In addition people in the
publishing industry were all Mac based and hiring temp labor became a real
problem. Finally a Microsoft's insistence fonts in the Adobe font collection
for the PC are not named the same as the font collection for the Mac which
meant documents were not portable (as advertised).
(6) Finally the cost of retraining people from one system to another should
not be overlooked.
(7) If it ain't broke don't fix it.
-----Original Message-----
On 9:21 AM -0500, Bud Casanova wrote:
>If anyone can offer me arguments on why Mac is superior to PC, I would
>really appreciate your input as I am a Mac person, but my IT dept. would
>like to see them disappear. I need valid reasons to keep them in my
Creative
>Services dept.
>Please help me win the argument.
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 05:34:18 GMT
From: JunkMailMan <JunkMailMan@mac.com>
To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org
Subject: IDE Hard Drive help
Hey everyone,
I'm planing on getting a new hard drive for my Blue and White G3. It has a
6GB and I'm looking at upgrading to a 40-60GB, preferably under $300. Right
now I'm leaning towards a 61.4GB Maxtor drive for about $279, although the
price seems to be going down a bit each month (from MegaHaus.com).
Here are the specs:
61.4GB Capacity
9ms Seek Time
2MB Buffer
3 year Warranty
5400rpm Spindle Speed
3.5" x 1" Form Factor
DiamondMax 60 series Ultra ATA/66
I have several questions:
A) Can I keep my existing 6GB hard drive installed as the "master" and have
this one act as a "slave" drive? (that whole master and slave thing cracks
me up!)
B) Should I get some sort of IDE card or controller type thing?
C) Is there a lot of difference speed-wise between 5400 RPMs and 7200 PRMs?
(I think that number is RPMs?!)
D) Are there any other better models/deals out there?
E) Anything else I should know about this drive or IDE hard drives in
general?
I would really appreciate it if you respond by email (JunkMailMan@mac.com)
-Tom
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 13:56:06 -0400
From: <sjwright2k@mindspring.com>
To: "Info-Mac Digest" <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #134
on the subject of running OS X on an Intel-architectured box:
Some time ago, I read on (either) macosrumors or macnn.com, that someone
at Apple had successfully ported the command-line core of OS Ten (Darwin)
to Intel, which doesn't mean it will necessarily run -- same comment was
made in the article. The conventional wisdom is that OS X's GUI, built
on the c.l.i. core Darwin but making full use of some of the IBMoto PPC
RISC architecture's perks and quirks, would need quite a bit of tweaking
before it would suit an Intel (even an Alpha-enhanced intel) box, if only
at the API level.
It'd be great to see, but then again so was the Yellow Box layer of
Rhapsody. :-)
Steve Wright
sjwright2k@mindspring.com
Microsoft -- when they stopped stealing they stopped caring.
(http://sjwright2k.home.mindspring.com)
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 16:43:44 +1200
From: "Markus Winter" <m.winter@auckland.ac.nz>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Opinion: Why IT departments don't like Macs
Hi,
in the last 10 years I've worked at 3 different Universities with huge IT
departments - each of them prefers WinPCs over Macs. The reasons have
nothing to do with the actual users, on the contrary. It's not that the IT
department is there to support the users, make their job easier, help them
do the work - it's that the users are there to give the IT department a
reason for existing (and that usually shows in the lacklustre attitude).
Macs in my opinion don't need much support or the users are easily capable
of tending to them - PC users call for the IT department because the
knowledge you sometimes need to sort out problems (my favourite: "Win
couldn't start because the himem.sys file couldn't be found") is far beyond
their abilities ...
You try to reason with the IT department - wrong people to argue with. Argue
with the boss instead.
Good luck.
Markus
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 00:02:41 +0200
From: Mac Frog <mac.frog@worldnet.fr>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: TrueType Fonts
>Anybody know of an easy, trick way to convert TrueType fonts for
>Windows to TrueType fonts for MacOS?
>
>I was certain that I had seen a utility for converting TTF, but now
>that I need it, I can't put my hands on it. ;-)
>
>Memo
TTConverter 1.5 <ftp://ftp.visi.com/users/thornley/TTConverter1.5.sit.hqx>
HTH,
--Michel
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 20:01:13 +0200
From: Christian F Buser <cbuser@mus.ch>
To: "William D. Thompson" <webmaster@smacc.net>
Subject: TrueType Fonts
"William D. Thompson" <webmaster@smacc.net> asked:
> Anybody know of an easy, trick way to convert TrueType fonts for
> Windows to TrueType fonts for MacOS?
TT Converter (or TrueType Converter?), version 1.5; shareware
Fontographer; commercial - no idea whether it still exists.
Best wishes, Christian.
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Look at <http://www.rumantsch.ch/christian/welcome.html>
"Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann?" (Petra Kelly)
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:02:42 -0700
From: Rick Karhu <inkswamp@nas.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
Subject: Why Use A Mac??
Murph Sewall <Murphy.Sewall@UConn.Edu>:
> On 8/17/2000 9:21 AM -0500, Casanova, Bud wrote:
>
>> If anyone can offer me arguments on why Mac is superior to PC, I would
>> really appreciate your input as I am a Mac person, but my IT dept. would
>> like to see them disappear. I need valid reasons to keep them in my Creative
>> Services dept.
You really need them to understand that Macs are far superior in design
issues (and I'm assuming a Creative Services dept. is a design-oriented
dept.) Open any design industry magazine and look around at the equipment
that the world's most cutting-edge designers are using and you'll see there
are almost never any PCs--almost completely Macs.
It's understandable that an IT dept might get a little annoyed with Macs
because PCs do have a slight edge in terms of networking and that's the big
issue with IT guys. They need to understand that PCs are horrible to do
design work on. Not only do they handle fonts in the most abhorrent manner
possible, but they also lack the ability to deal with consistent color. Any
printing more advanced that simple pages (i.e. CMYK color separations) is
going to be an enormous headache on a PC whereas it's a walk in the park on
a Mac.
These are very real issues that can mean a lot in terms of productivity and
work quality. If your IT dept fails to acknowledge this, you should bring
the issue up with your dept heads or someone higher up. It really is an
issue worth fighting for. I went from designing on a Mac to a PC at work
(switched depts) and it has been a total fiasco. PCs are not the platform
for design work.
> Your best bet may be to ask the IT department to contact the Gartner
> Group http://www.gartner.com one of the leading industry research
In my experience however, and IT dept is largely concerned with issues that
usually have little to no bearing on users, and their preferences stem from
that. An IT dept needs to work *with* the user's choice of equipment, not
force their own choices on the user. Luckily, where I work, we have a
superior IT dept and they happily cater to us, even though they generally
dismiss Macs as largely useless.
--Rick Karhu [v1.2 r+d>s TW 1/1/pw tinG 4- pp/oc TW 5 33]
"The only difference between me and a madman
is that I am not mad." --Salvador Dali 8^}|
Spare Bricks Pink Floyd Webzine: http://sparebricks.cjb.net
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Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 19:35:30 +0100
From: Sebastiano Pilla <case@tvol.it>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: Why Use A Mac?? & G4 Networking
>Why Use A Mac??
>If anyone can offer me arguments on why Mac is superior to PC, I would
>really appreciate your input as I am a Mac person, but my IT dept. would
>like to see them disappear. I need valid reasons to keep them in my Creative
>Services dept.
>G4 Networking
> Hi. We (a network of about 100 Macs in a
>University/Government biomedical research environment) are being
>forcefully "migrated" to use PC/Wintel machines on our 10/100BaseT
>Ethernet network. Many of us have refused (long story not worth
>going into), and are shortly to be placed on a newly installed
>gigabit-capable ethernet network. I am afraid that the IT admin (who
>has professed that he *hates* all things Macintosh) will be using a
>TCP/IP only strategy on the new network.
To both: in cases like this, it's the IT manager (or the IT dept.) at
fault. Tell them they're being unprofessional and that's not their job to
mandate a platform, but to support the choices made by their users. And if
they choose not to support a particular platform, they have to provide
rational reasons, as opposed to emotional ("I hate this...", "I hate
that...").
My guess: either they're lazy (they don't want to use and support another
platform) or they're incompetent (they couldn't possibly learn how to do
it).
I also seem to remember a study by the Gartner Group that showed that Mac
OS-based computers cost less to support than the equivalent PCs. If you can
find this study you can point out to upper management that by replacing
Macs with PCs you'll have to put more money into an IT department that's
already uncapable to properly do its work.
Regards
Sebastiano Pilla
--
There are _no_ Mac "entry-level" programmers. A Mac programmer
is, by definition, an expert. They just acquire more
expertise over time. - Mark Hartman
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