Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #317 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 25 Jun 99 Volume 16 : Issue 317 Today's Topics: (Q) LA Computer Center reliable? [A] connecting small network to the internet [A] Fax problem [A] How to burn bootable Cd? [A] Re: connecting small network to the internet [A]: connecting small network to the internet Back-ups and Zip disks buy a used Powerbook 1400 / 3400 Calendar software connecting small network to the internet Cross Platform BackUp's Explorer to Netscape Fax Problem File cant be found error How do I fix the disk's extents tree? Hypercard 2.4.1 Problem Info-Mac Digest V16 #316 Info-Mac Digest V16 #316 Bootable CD ROM Mouse tracks slows down some software Non-Q: How to burn bootable Cd? Quicktime Pro reduce the size of the clip Remote Access, FreePPP, and ISPs Satelite and Cable Internet Access transporting Powerbooks on motorbikes 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. Email Addresses and Instructions: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with subscribe in the Subject line. * To unsubscribe, send email to with unsubscribe in the Subject line. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. If that fails, try using the list maintenance form at before contacting us. * Please send administrative queries to . * To submit files for the archive, email the binhexed file with a description to . Submissions must be made by the author or with permission of the author. 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We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #317" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 12:09:46 -0700 From: Paul Brians Subject: (Q) LA Computer Center reliable? La Computer Center is selling reconditioned Powerbooks. Has anyone had an experience with the company? They state up front that they aren't an authorized seller. Paul Brians, Department of English Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-5020 brians@wsu.edu http://www.wsu.edu/~brians ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:18:01 -0700 From: Rich Garella Subject: [A] connecting small network to the internet David L Hirschberg asked: >I have some friends that have three imacs in their house. I am going >to network them together with a small ethernet hub and set up a >networked printer and scanner. >I had question on how to hook them all to the internet... >...They also have TCI cable which I >think @home serves. Is there a way that 3 macs could be hooked up to >a DSL or Cable internet hookup? I compared DSL to cable and found cable a better deal in Seattle (it's TCI/@home), especially because you don't need a separate ISP (though if you will need to dial-up from elsewhere you may want one). Now I'm setting up a network with a small hub. You just connect the Macs to the hub and the hub to the cable modem. It doesn't cost anything extra, except for the hub (about $50) and the CAT5 cable. The connection is on all the time. According to TCI, there should be no noticeable slowdown, as the different computers are rarely if ever taxing the modem anywhere near its capacity. Also it supposedly doesn't matter if you mix Macs and PCs on the network, though I have my doubts. @home has information on this at http://www.home.com/support/. With the one computer (PowerBook G3/233) I have on the cable so far, speed is far better than a 56k modem, though it seems slower than PCs on cable; I'm not sure why. The other thing to keep in mind is that @home supports only Netscape Communicator for Mac. Some features don't work with anything else. _______________________________________________________ Rich Garella - rich@garella.com - Seattle, USA http://www.garella.com/rich NO CHAIN LETTERS, PETITIONS OR VIRUS WARNINGS PLEASE! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 12:12:04 +0100 From: Richard Platt Subject: [A] Fax problem Freehand relies heavily on Postscript, which your fax software does not suppport. I suggest that you export the FH in Illustrator 88 format, open it in Photoshop, save as, say, a PICT or TIFF file, and fax that. Works for me. There may be an easier way with newer versions of FH than mine, which is now rather long in the tooth. >I transmit fax documents from my G3 via SmithMicro Software >All documents are created in FreeHand 8.0 >My fax documents arrive as Lousy Bitmap > Anything below 12 points is not readable at all. Put "urgent" in the subject line to send 30-word emails to my pager Richard Platt Telephone: (44) 1892 890741 Fax: (44) 1892 890951 Website: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/richard.platt/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:08:12 -0700 From: "Maurice M. McNeil" Subject: [A] How to burn bootable Cd? >Could someone please give me instruction on how to burn a bootable CD? I am >very new at burning CD so the more specific the more helpful for me. It should be as simple as copying your system folder to the CD. If you copy everything, you will get all the preferences as they are currently set. -----|----- Maurice "Mike" McNeil (619) 495-2619/2600 FAX 7313 0-0 BBN Technologies mmcneil@bbn.com (_)+ 9655 Granite Ridge Drive, Ste 245, San Diego, CA 92123 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:34:50 +0100 From: "Charles Arthur, The Independent" Subject: [A] Re: connecting small network to the internet On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:35:41 -0700 David L Hirschberg wrote: >I have some friends that have three imacs in their house. I am going >to network them together with a small ethernet hub and set up a >networked printer and scanner. > >I had question on how to hook them all to the internet. They all >have 56k modems which can only attain 26kbs with the old wiring in >the house. THe cost to upgrade the phone feed is steep (they have >maxed out their 3 line feed and the feed is underground from the >street). It sounds like it would be worthwhile having a look at IPNetRouter from Sustainable Softworks (http://www.sustworks.com). Though I haven't used it, I have heard many reports from places like the Mac Resource Page of how it can be used to run a number of machines over a single Internet connection. Depending how fast that connection needed to be, it might be that they could go to DSL to serve all three machines, thus saving the cost of two phone lines at least. Charles -------------------------------------------------------------------- The Independent newspaper on the Web: http://www.independent.co.uk/ It's even better on paper ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:33:17 -0700 From: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: [A]: connecting small network to the internet If they are within the service radius of the central office (CO) *and* their local telco provides DSL, then it's a good option. Since you're using a Stanford account, I assume you're in the PA/RC region, which I believe is served by PacBell and probably has their ADSL service (which I've got, albeit in SoCal). Contact PacBell Internet by phone (800.708.4638 #4 then wade through the phone tree) and ask them to check if you can get it at their location. It's the best way to go, and will provide 128Kbps upstream (from the house to the CO) and 384Kbps downstream - far superior to PPP over dialup modem. You'll need their enhanced service (boy is that a contradiction in terms!) so you get 5 IP addresses and 5 email accounts (plus 2 email aliases that actually send to one of the other 5). This is a little pricier than the basic, but if it's split amongst 3 people it's cheaper per person and it's still less than their $75/month budget. It's easy to install. PacBell contracts out their DSL installation. The PacBell tech will establish the ADSL signal from the pole to the service entrance at the outside of the house. A Prime Services Group tech contractor will bring the DSL signal into the house to a single telephone junction box on the wall, and will connect it to the "modem". (This isn't actually a modem, it's really a network terminator (NT). But don't try to argue the point with the guy...) This guy will also configure the computer. If you want to install a hub and network (which you do) then you're on your own. And you want it this way, because it's most likely that the guy will look at the Macs and start to stammer about how it's not a PC. Your iMac situation may be different though, he may know what to do. But they don't support or configure micronetworks like you're doing, so you'll have to be there to get all the appropriate numbers from the guy. BTW, they've never heard of "router". They call it a gateway; and don't argue with these people, they are experts and you should not be doing this at home... :-) (BTW, they provide a free NIC with the setup. That can be sold for a few bucks if you want to recover some cost. It's a standard Kingston card, and you can get drivers on the Kingston site. Don't tell PBI I told you about this...) I needed a crossover cable from the NT to my hub, and then just ran prefabbed Cat-5 ethernet UTP to the various devices. Note that PBI has a discount price on DSL installation right now, but they make you promise to keep it for a year (or something like that) with penalty for early disconnect. Don't tell them I told you, but the penalty is pretty reasonable if you later decide to bail out. Be advised that 1) they are swamped with orders, and their organization is horribly confused, 2) they claim to support Macintosh but you're really on your own, 3) the convenience of no more dialup *and* so much more speed is tremendously pleasing (as well as granting substantial geek bragging rights). If you can get it in your area, it's well worth looking into. Email me offlist if you'd like more info. If a cable modem connection is the better option, then you can probably configure that similarly. I think they bring the signal into some sort of simple bridge, and you should be able to then rout it to the hub. I don't know anything about multiple email accounts. If you simply want multiple fast connections then you could run the signal through Vicom SoftRouter or IPNetRouter . Both have good reputations and good tech support. The former is commercial and more expensive than the latter which is shareware. IPNR also has an excellent listserv with lots of activity and high SNR. HTH, DOD At 2:35 PM -0700 on 6/21/99, David L Hirschberg wrote... >I have some friends that have three imacs in their house. I am going >to network them together with a small ethernet hub and set up a >networked printer and scanner. > >I had question on how to hook them all to the internet. They all >have 56k modems which can only attain 26kbs with the old wiring in >the house. THe cost to upgrade the phone feed is steep (they have >maxed out their 3 line feed and the feed is underground from the >street). > >So what type of solutions are out there that would allow an internet >connection? They looked into getting a 4th phone line so I guess >they would be willing to pay about $75 a month for some type of phone >solution. Would DSL be an option? They also have TCI cable which I >think @home serves. Is there a way that 3 macs could be hooked up to >a DSL or Cable internet hookup? > >Thanks, David > >hirschberg@stanford.edu "FIND HUNGRY SAMURAI !" -the old wise man in Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:24:14 -0700 From: Chris Schram Subject: Back-ups and Zip disks On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Teresa Cole wrote: >When I used Norton Fastback to try to back up my system onto Zip disks, I >repeatedly got the message > "This disk is unreliable; insert another." First of all, if you're backing up a drive that's much larger than 1GB, you shouldn't be using FastBack. There is a data corruption problem that may prevent you from restoring all your files. Symantec has acknowledged the problem, but chose to discontinue the product rather than fix it. >This occurred for both new and old dliks but only those labeled as being >from Iomega and not Sony or Fuji disks. I've used those three brands and find them indistinguishable from one another as far as quality is concerned. One thought though: Are you sure the Iomega brand disks are not DOS formatted? That might confuse Norton. Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:17:19 +0200 From: Paolo Bartoli Subject: buy a used Powerbook 1400 / 3400 I'd like to buy a used Powerbook and found a 1400/166 (upgradeable to G3/200 Mhz) and a 3400/200. I'd buy the 3400. I'd like to hear from PB3400 users how's going the machine. I'd like to use it for occasionally with QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Freehand and web composing applications. Is this machine enough powerful for the intended use? I know about the speedy G3's but it's almost impossible to find used PBG3s, else they're not cheap! ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli ** pbartoli@iname.com ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:28:30 +0100 From: Roland Whitehead Subject: Calendar software On 19/6/99 at 4:31 am, nigel@usability.serco.com wrote: > We are looking for calendar software to run across Macs and PCs. > > We currently use Now Up-to-Date on the Macs, and although we have a PC > version we never found out how to share the calendar information, and the > PC version is nolonger supported. > > Chronos's Consultant would have been a good choice, but apparently there > are no plans to produce a version for the PC. > > Does anyone know of any other solutions? We use to great success TeamAgenda from TeamSoft . This can be used on Macs, PCs and Unix boxes and with Newtons and PalmPilots. It can be used via TCP over the internet and can collaborate with packages such as FirstClass etc. Well worth a look. Roland Whitehead CONTINUUM ID ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:58:36 -0700 From: Doug Hardie Subject: connecting small network to the internet >Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 14:35:41 -0700 >From: David L Hirschberg >Subject: connecting small network to the internet > >I have some friends that have three imacs in their house. I am going >to network them together with a small ethernet hub and set up a >networked printer and scanner. > >I had question on how to hook them all to the internet. They all >have 56k modems which can only attain 26kbs with the old wiring in >the house. THe cost to upgrade the phone feed is steep (they have >maxed out their 3 line feed and the feed is underground from the >street). > >So what type of solutions are out there that would allow an internet >connection? They looked into getting a 4th phone line so I guess >they would be willing to pay about $75 a month for some type of phone >solution. Would DSL be an option? They also have TCI cable which I >think @home serves. Is there a way that 3 macs could be hooked up to >a DSL or Cable internet hookup? > >Thanks, David > >hirschberg@stanford.edu The DSL approach can be used if the house is close enough to the Central Office. The telco will have to make that determination as only they know how the lines are actually routed. You have to subscribe to an ISP that supports the DSL line. The termination in the home is essentially a router. Most of them have a 10baseT port that you would connect into the hub. Thus you could have any number of machines on the local network. However, each of those machines needs an IP address from the ISP. The cost is frequently dependent on the number of IP addresses you want. Another option is to setup one machine as a NAT server and run the other machines on a separate network using private IP addresses. This takes more equipment and can be a pain to manage. I would only recommend this approach if the number of machines is large enough that the monthly ISP charge is outrageous. For 3 machines it should be reasonable. -- Doug ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:54:11 +0100 From: Alex Brown Subject: Cross Platform BackUp's I have found myself looking after a small network of computers, both Mac and PC. I am looking for a package that will back-up both platforms (to tape). At the moment I am using Retrospect (for the Mac's), but that seems only to work on a single computer type. Is there any automated back-up systems that will run on a Mac that will back-up both Mac and PC at the same time to the same tape storage ? Many thanks in advance. Alex Brown. ============================================================ |Alex Brown ||e-mail: a-brown@nimr.mrc.ac.uk| |MRC Collaborative Centre, || : abrown@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk | |1-3 Burtonhole Lane, ||tel.: 0181 906 3811 x 6301 | |Mill Hill, London NW7 1AD.|| | ============================================================ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:43:29 -0400 From: "Gino Landini" Subject: Explorer to Netscape Hi. I want to change over from internet explorer to netscape but am having a bad time importing addresses and favorites. netscape has a method to import addresses but I cannot get it to work properly. In addition, they do not have an import feature for favorites/bookmarks. Any suggested method would be greatly appreciated. Just an afterthought, how does netscape hope to capture customers from explorer when they make it so tough? You can import everything into explorer from netscape. Thanks for the anticipated help. Gino landini ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:38:10 -0700 From: "Daniel O'Donnell" Subject: Fax Problem TidBITs Talk has had a very interesting thread recently on faxing from computers and fax software, generated from a couple of articles on faxing from computer (Mac) in the regular weekly TidBits. I'd recommend you take a look at their site and search the archives for both the articles and the conversation threads. There were several very helpful and knowledgable contributions. All fax are TIFF file format (medium to low-res bitmap), and there is no way around that protocol. Perhaps you can optimize for that? HTH, DOD At 8:59 PM -0400 on 6/21/99, KHartMgr@aol.com wrote... >I transmit fax documents from my G3 via =93SmithMicro Software=94 (MacComCen= >ter,=20 >fax + data communications). >All documents are created in FreeHand 8.0 >The problem arises on the =93receiving end=94. My fax documents arrive as a=20 >=93Lousy Bitmap=94. Anything below 12 points is not readable at all. >No assistance from Macromedia or SmithMicro. Everybody blames the problem o= >n=20 >the Mac, which I think is bologna. >I seek desperate help. The faxes are very embarrassing. > >Thank you very much for any assistance. I buy new fax software if >necessary.=20 >I would like to keep creating the document in FH. > >Thank you again - Kevin >KHartMgr@AOL.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:19:46 -0400 From: "Steve Chambers" Subject: File cant be found error Folks, I have had a couple of problems with Macs running 7.6.1 that when you copy a folder full of files it will fail partway thru the copy with an error that says something like "The file [FILENAME] could not be copied because it could not be found" Norton, Diskwarrior and techtool pro all report no problems on the drive. I have deleted preferences files, desktop files, turned off desktop printing and deleted those invisible files all to no avail. I have even done a clean install of the system software, same error. But if I boot from my tools CD everything works fine. any suggestions? Thanx Steve -- ------------------------------------ Steve Chambers, Systems Analyst Sarnoff Corporation ------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:24:10 -0700 From: Chris Schram Subject: How do I fix the disk's extents tree? On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Terry Murphy wrote: >I have run both Norton SpeedDisk and Norton Disk Doctor on my HDD recently and >have received the following slightly alarming message. > >"A part of the disk's extents tree (node #2) was found to contain some invalid >information (file number out of order). > >NDD cannot fix this problem" DiskWarrior from Alsoft keeps getting mentioned as the ultimate tool for replacing a hosed directory that other utilities can't fix. Notice that I said 'replacing' rather than 'repairing.' That's their claim to fame. Also note that it's been a long, long time since I've suffered any major directory problems, so I have not tested DiskWarrior under very strenuous conditions. I'm just passing on information I've read about. Good luck. Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:32:07 -0400 From: "Marian C. Poczobutt" Subject: Hypercard 2.4.1 Problem I can't get Hypercard 2.4.1 (the most recent version) to even open on my Mac. It's a beige 300 mhz G3 tower with 192 megs of RAM running Systen 8.6 (the problem also ocurred under 8.5). It usually gives a type 1 error, sometimes a type 3. I've tried booting with extensions off, virtual memory on and off, and allocating dozens of megs of RAM to it without success. I'm stumped - any suggestions? Marian Poczobutt mcpoczob@mailbox.syr.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:52:05 +0000 From: "Lcrain" Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #316 ---------- >From: "Info-Mac" >Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #316 >Date: Thu, Jun 24, 1999, 7:33 PM > > Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:00:18 -0700 > From: "Jason Chafin" > Subject: Reading PC CDs, another problem > > I was excited when I read in Digest v16 #307 TOC that a question addressed > reading Windoze CDs. However, I have a somewhat different problem. I checked > my extensions folder to make sure that all three File Access extensions were > "turned on", so I'm wondering where to go next. Here's the gist: I live in a > house where there's a recordable/rewritable CD drive hooked to a Win98 > machine. There's a piece of software included that allows a person to format > a CD as you would a disk or hard drive and just copy files to it. I have a > lot of photographs that I've saved to my Mac hard disk or to Zip and decided > that, since they were just files, I could transfer them to the Win machine > and save them to CD (write once) and then be able to read them on my Mac. > But when I filled the CD on the Win machine and then took it to my Mac it > gave me the "This disk is unreadable, would you like to format it" dialog. > So I just hit the Eject button that appears and can now only access those > files via a Windoze machine. I had hoped that the PC Exchange extension that > allows Macs to read PC formatted disks would kick in, as it works for both > floppies and Zip disks on my machine. But apparently it doesn't work for CDs > or maybe there's something about the way that a 3rd party PC formatter > formats it that prevents the mac from recognizing it. Does anyone out there > have any suggestions? > -- > Jason's permanent email: > jchafin@bigfoot.com make sure you have the latest UDF volume access mac extension..check out adaptec website and download it from there...the newest version i have is 1.0.4 and it works on both platforms. try this it should work... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:31:18 -0700 From: Bob Peterson Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #316 Bootable CD ROM To burn a bootable CD with Toast, launch Toast, go to the "Format" menu and select "Mac Volume" In the Toast interface window press the "Data" button. You will be presented with a dialog box, one of the options listed is "Bootable" Click in the box to select the bootable option. The CD you burn will then boot when starting up with the C key down. However, in order to do this you must have a volume (disc) equal to or smaller than the data capacity of a CD to copy to it. The Easiest way to do this is to use Apple's free Disk Copy utility to make a disk Image of the appropriate size. Open Disk Copy, go to Edit/Preferences and in the "Image Format:" pop-up menu select "Read/Write" In the "New Blank Images..." pop-up menu select 663,000K (CD-ROM...) Then copy anything you want to go on the CD to the open Disk Copy Disc icon. When you're done, just drag the open image icon to the "Data: (Drop a Volume Here) IMPORTANT!: Since CD ROM's are read only, extensions and control panels that must write to the disc will cause a freeze during start-up. To get around this, you can either disable all the start-up files except the ethernet driver on the System Folder you are copying to the CD, or Start up with extensions disabled by pressing the shift key when the happy mac appears and waiting for the message "Extensions Disabled" in the start-up screen. This is how it works in Toast 3.5.6. I think the only difference in 3.8 is USB support. I hope this is helpful! Bob Peterson San Francisco ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 22:08:06 -0700 From: Jeff Parke Subject: Mouse tracks slows down some software Has anyone else seen use of mouse tracks on G3 Powerbooks slow down the following software? Retrospect 4.0 Now Contact Synchronize All of these grind to a halt for me unless I turn off the mouse tracks. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a workaround? I've seen this with System 8.1, 8.5 and now 8.6. Only these software are affected. -Jeff ---- Jeff Parke, DVM ECP Consulting Seattle, WA ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:36:40 +0200 From: bromo@flashnet.it (Vittorio Barabino) Subject: Non-Q: How to burn bootable Cd? > latest version of Netscape (4.6.1) on a bootable CD so I can take it around > to present to people. > Why? Because it's quicker than accessing through the internet, and some > people don't have the latest version of Netscape, and some are still using > the old OS 7.X. > It's nice to have everything I need on a bootable Cd. In practice, you can't do it beacause newer Macs can't work with older Systems and vice versa... you'll have at least to do 2 cd-roms: for PPC and another for 68k... look at "Applespec" on Apple FTP site or "GURU" at www.newertech.com to know what systems are suitable for what models... If I were you, I'd use a more standard html and some lighter browser that does not need extensions... -- Ciao, \+----------+ "La risposta e` dentro di te... Vittorio --| : ) o | ...MA E` SBAGLIATA!!!" /+----------+ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Votate per creare il gruppo it.comp.os.macintosh.hardware | | CFV: it.news.annunci --> e` un post del 12 maggio | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:24:06 -0700 From: Chris Schram Subject: Quicktime Pro On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, gene nail wrote: > >I know someone out there can help me better than Apple. I have apple's >QuickTime 4.0 (Pro) and know how to edit tracks out of a particular >video. however, even when i edit out most of the existing tracts and >save the new movie, the size never changes. is there a way to delete >portions of a movie clip and reduce the size of the clip? Have you tried the 'Export' command? Besides saving only what you want to save, you can also fiddle with compression settings. Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 18:09:21 -0600 From: "dave.trautman" Subject: reduce the size of the clip Info-Mac info-mac@starnine.com wrote: >Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:23:03 -0400 >From: gene nail >Subject: Quicktime Pro > >I know someone out there can help me better than Apple. I have apple's >QuickTime 4.0 (Pro) and know how to edit tracks out of a particular >video. however, even when i edit out most of the existing tracts and >save the new movie, the size never changes. is there a way to delete >portions of a movie clip and reduce the size of the clip? Gene, I'm hoping you know that Exporting and making a new file is different from just saving a modified file. I presume you are saving and setting it to make a "self-contained" movie, but I assure you that if you are going to edit and cut a smaller clip from a larger movie you'll need to export it to get Movieplayer to "make" a new movie. Other than that I can't see where you're having trouble. Dave Trautman @home "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" =8B Gandhi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:06:02 -0700 From: Doug Hardie Subject: Remote Access, FreePPP, and ISPs >Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 16:49:00 -0400 >From: Reid Luhman >Subject: Remote Access, FreePPP, and ISPs > >I've had some problems getting Macs (mine and others) with OS 8.x to >connect to a local ISP. Remote Access produces dropped connections. I >checked with the tech guy who watched my login. My computer was sending >echo requests every 8 seconds. With this game of catch going on every 8 >seconds between my Mac and their server, it was only a matter of time until >one side dropped the ball. I am unable to find a way to prevent Remote >Access from constantly checking the connection. > >I then tried disabling all Remote Access and Open Transport control panels >and extensions while switching over to FreePPP 2.6.2 (their newest >version). This approach *never* produced a dropped connection (you can turn >off the "check connection" feature) but it has its own problem: >periodically, my modem will connect with their modem but a complete PPP >connection does not occur. I basically have a "dead" connection, unable to >access their mail server, run a web browser, etc. I may get this kind of >connection several times in a row (and with different modems at their end). >Then, out of the blue, things will start working again. Does anyone have >any experience along these lines? > >Thanks in advance. > >Reid Luhman > These symptoms are very common with V.90 modems. They are not restricted to Macs, but occur with many different modems. The details on the issues can be found at http://www.808hi.com/56k/ along with ideas on how to proceede. I have found with many modems that the code version is not up to date. The modem manufacturers are updating their code quite often trying to resolve these problems. The ATI series of commands will give you the code version you currently have. Check with the modem manufacturer to get the latest available. Most of them are now working fairly well now. Also check with your ISP tech support as they may have additional info available based on the specific modems at their end. -- Doug ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:47:41 -0700 From: "Licha & Gremlin" Subject: Satelite and Cable Internet Access Right now, satelite internet access is still evolving. Most communications companies sell digital satelite equipment for other internet service prividing companies, and not for consumers. Most of the equipment are highly specialized cluge boxes. That should change within a year or so. The orriginal question implied that macs don't have network capability, which was not true. The problem at this time is a lack of support at major companies to produce software, not network capability. Here are some links. http://www2.nortelnetworks.com/products/datasheets/2688.html http://www.rapidwireless.com/ http://www.adaptivebroadband.com/index.htm http://www.hns.com/products/snd/snd.htm http://www.intelsat.int/ http://www.orbitsatsys.com/dishnet.htm http://www.packetradio.com/ http://members.tripod.lycos.nl/engelander/VENDORS.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:17:19 +0200 From: Paolo Bartoli Subject: transporting Powerbooks on motorbikes Anybody knows if the Powerbooks can stand a normal (ie on paved roads) motorbike ride? Is there some part of the PB that'd suffer from motorbike stress? ** Arch. Paolo Bartoli ** pbartoli@iname.com ** ** http://space.tin.it/arte/bpxba -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************