Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #91 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Wed, 31 May 00 Volume 17 : Issue 91 Today's Topics: (Q) lost hard disk space [*] LockOut 1.8J - Japanese Version [*] NetRunner1.0 -- A small Internet launcher for the Macintosh. [*] Space Garbage Men 1.1.0b [*] SysEx 4.3.3 [*] TextureMagic 1.3.1 [*] URL Manager Pro 2.6b2J - Japanese Version [*] Web Confidential 2.0J - Japanese Version a page that loads on PC browsers but not on Mac browsers Can't see HPLJ 2100 in my chooser... CD Writers & Motorola Starmax EMACs on the MAC? Eudora and attachments Netscape Autofill Netscape erases History OE 5.02 simple sound manipulator available? Starting up from DVD-RAM disks - Further Update 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. 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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #91" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 22:16:22 -0400 From: "abrody@smart.net" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: (Q) lost hard disk space Dear Digest readers, Oh I am aware of the block/byte scenario on hard disks, but is that all there is to explain why hard drives from major manufacturers are losing up to 7% of their space every time they are formatted? Here's an example...a 10 GB hard drive from Toshiba that fits in a Powerbook has only 9.35 GB of usable space after formatting with Apple HD Setup in MacOS 9.0.4. An APS SCSI Hard drive which was supposed to be 9.1 GB, ends up having only 8.47 GB available to it after being formatted with Anubis Utilities. And I verified the partition map, and there is no extra partitions. Reformatting with a different driver yields the same results. Can the block/byte scenario explain where this much space is being lost? Would Alsoft Disk Warrior do anything to get the data back without having to backup the data already on the hard drive? Or are there other utilities that can do something to get the space back? Because after losing 600 to 700 MB on each of these hard drives, one of which being one of my customers, I'd like to know why it happens, and how to prevent it, and if it can be solved without having to make a full backup? The customer happens to have MacOS 8.6, but it too is formatted with Extended File System. Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Check out over 700 internet sites updated monthly at: http://www.index-site.com ------------------------------ Date: 31 May 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] LockOut 1.8J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of LockOut. LockOut is a shareware security application that helps keep people from using your Mac while you're away. Helps keep your Mac safe from your co-workers while at the office, and from your kids while at home. Rated 4 Stars by ZDNet http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=MC18360 LockOut features: -- Cannot be aborted by Force-Quit (command-option-escape-shift keys) and command-tab application switching in MacOS 8.5 circumvented. -- People can leave a message for you while your gone. -- Session log lists lock time, unlocked time, and any break-in attempts. -- And more... v1.8 * Idle time now checks for disk activity. Select Settings from the LockOut Edit menu, and click on the upper tab that says ÓActivate When IdleÔ. Previously LockOut only watched for mouse movement and keyboard activity, but now it watches for disk activity as well. That means LockOut won't automatically activate if you're downloading a large file, for example. Note that this is not perfect, and if you're watching a DVD movie for example, which is read-only, LockOut may not see this as disk activity. For more information, see the file "version history" in the LockOut folder. Thanks for supporting shareware! [Archived as /info-mac/disk/lock-out-18-jp.hqx; 745 K] ------------------------------ Date: 28 May 2000 From: Brian Ellis To: Subject: [*] NetRunner1.0 -- A small Internet launcher for the Macintosh. NetRunner is a small program designed to make launching Web sites and other addresses as simple and seamless as possible. Simply type in a URL, FTP site address, or email address and you will be taken to that address in whatever program should handle it. Includes inline support for browser Favorites/Bookmarks and Internet Location files. Freeware, PowerPC only, may be included on Info-Mac CDs. Regards, Brian Ellis [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/net-runner-10.hqx; 1738 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 May 2000 From: Trozo To: Subject: [*] Space Garbage Men 1.1.0b Space Garbage Men ----------------- A space/action game for the mac: Pilot your triangular ship through loads of levels getting the valuable radioactive rocks and killing angry aliens. Look for the secret entrance to find many more trasures for points and ship upgrades. All this while listening to a psycobilly/garage/gothic soundtrack!! Requierments: - Power Mac able to do openGL graphics (hardware acceleration prefered) - System 8.1 or better. - About 15 Mb free ram. What's new: Version 1.1.0b is a mayor optimization to the sound resources. The quality of the sounds is almost the same, but the total file size is about half of what used to be. Also this version makes minor fixes to the keys: It adds a pause key ('p') and fixes the 'esc' key, which now properly exits the game to the menu. Trouble? Questions? Ideas? go to http://www.makasoft.net or send emails to: general@makasoft.net bugs@makasoft.net [Archived as /info-mac/game/space-garbage-men-11b.hqx; 1780 K] ------------------------------ Date: 30 May 2000 From: Steve Grace To: Subject: [*] SysEx 4.3.3 SysEx Universal MIDI Librarian By Steve Grace Version 4.3.3 - March 2000 SysEx is a free MIDI librarian program for the Macintosh. SysEx can transmit and receive system exclusive (sysex) messages via MIDI and can save and load these messages to and from disk. It features a 256K receive buffer, a "continuous receive" mode (allowing multiple sysex messages to be combined in a single file), and special features to support KORG Wavestations and the Roland D-5/10/20/110 series. SysEx 4.3.3 supports USB interfaces and includes enhancements to improve compatibility with some devices. It also includes a new "MIDI Thru" feature for auditioning patches on sound modules. SysEx requires a Macintosh computer with a 68020, 68030, 68040, or PowerPC processor, System 7.0 or greater, and Opcode Systems' OMS (version 1.2 or greater) or equivalent (some versions of Mark of the Unicorn's FreeMIDI, including versions 1.34 and 1.35, can emulate OMS). [Archived as /info-mac/gst/midi/sys-ex-433.hqx; 227 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 May 2000 From: Wolfgang Ante To: Subject: [*] TextureMagic 1.3.1 TextureMagic is a graphics application for creating and editing of seamlessly tileable textures. TextureMagic's users are website designers that create webpage backgrounds, 3D artists that easily transform photographed surfaces into tileable textures and other graphic designers that use textured backgrounds for their creative content creation. TextureMagic 1.3.1 adds exporting in Photoshop, PNG, Silicon Graphics and Targa file formats. A new online dialog allows users to check for newer versions with a single click on a button and subscribe to an update notification mailinglist. The TextureMagic website is located at . [Archived as /info-mac/gst/grf/texture-magic-131.hqx; 2223 K] ------------------------------ Date: 31 May 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] URL Manager Pro 2.6b2J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the URL Manager Pro package. New in version 2.6 of the popular bookmark manager for the Mac is support for the the new iCab Web Browser and support for Apple's Keychain feature of Mac OS 9. URL Manager is now also Sherlock-aware, another feature of Mac OS 9. URL Manager Pro, the professional bookmark manager for the Macintosh for use with Netscape Navigator/Communicator, Microsoft Internet Explorer and iCab, gives users a more convenient way to manage bookmarks, E-Mail addresses and Newsgroups. URL Manager Pro 2.6 is Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9 savvy. It features support for the Keychain of Mac OS 9 and fully supports the new iCab Web Browser. URL Manager Pro can now track the History for multiple browsers concurrently. URL Manager Pro is available in English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Swedish and Spanish. URL Manager Pro has garnered many glowing accolades in the Macintosh press, including TidBits and MacWorld. "URL Manager is fast, slick, and easy." says Adam C. Engst, Tidbits. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/url-manager-pro-26b2-jp.hqx; 1161 K] ------------------------------ Date: 31 May 2000 From: ChrisLi@Bridge1.com To: Subject: [*] Web Confidential 2.0J - Japanese Version This is the Japanese version of the Web Confidential package. Web Confidential is an intuitive, easy-to-use program for managing user IDs, passwords, registration numbers, and the like. While Web Confidential is suitable for a wide variety of personal data, from credit card numbers to serial numbers, Alco Blom designed Web Confidential particularly for the World Wide Web in mind. "Increasing numbers of Web sites maintain some form of user registration," points out Blom. "You may not realize it, but in the course of time you may registered at a couple of dozen sites. Do you remember the passwords you entered for all of them?" Web Confidential allows Web surfers to store URLs, user IDs, and passwords in one secure location. Web Confidential can automate the process of logging into a password-secured Web page by automatically passing URL, user ID, and password to your Web browser. For opening pages containing personal account information at commercial sites, Web Confidential allows you to automatically fill in WWW Forms with user ID and password fields. To ensure the personal information stored in Web Confidential remains confidential, the program's password files can be encrypted using state-of-the-art encryption technology. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/web/web-confidential-20-jp.hqx; 380 K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 15:36:47 -0400 From: "abrody@smart.net" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: a page that loads on PC browsers but not on Mac browsers Dear Digest readers, Well somebody here wanted to build a b2b page, but what's really interesting is that the stylesheet loads the right table column on top of the inner right table column, blocking its view. http://www.directoris.i12.com/ If you load this same page on Netscape & Internet Explorer on the PC it doesn't do that, but it does do that on both Mac web browsers. It looks like Gates & Barksdale owe us an explanation why they are coding the way stylesheets are read differently in their browsers on the Mac side from those on the PC side. I suggest that anyone with any input into the development of both browsers make sure that stylesheets load consistently across platforms. If your web browser doesn't give you problems, and you are on the Mac side, please let me know. Because here is what I got when I loaded it: http://www.index-site.com/image.gif I made a screen capture here showing the problems with this webpage. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Check out over 700 internet sites updated monthly at: http://www.index-site.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 10:18:20 -0400 From: "R. A. Hettinga" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Can't see HPLJ 2100 in my chooser... Thursday, my venerable but borrowed (thanks Vinnie!) LWIINT put its feet in the sky again and my erst-CEO, -CFO, and Chief Counsel, some of them flown in from the left coast, in the middle of a last-minute pre-VC dog-and-pony thrash, all clustered around it with their various Wintel Boxes watching the smoke rise, nodding sagely... We hopped into the car, scampered down to the nearest Staples, got ourselves a HP LJ 2100 with the 600N network card, which, supposedly, talks Appletalk and Postscript, and plugged it all into the ethernet hub. Of course, *they* of the Wintel Boxes, can see the printer fine, and *I* can't, even when I follow the directions on the CD ROM's Mac install package. We have an Airport Basestation routing the packets and getting us dialed out to the net, and I'm using the Lucent WaveLAN in my Lombard, which rocks, but, even when I plug directly into the hub with an ethernet cable, I still can't see the thing in the Chooser. Heavy sigh. Thought I'd ask here first... Any ideas? Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 20:55:28 -0400 From: "Scott L. Horton" To: , Info- Mac Subject: CD Writers & Motorola Starmax Hello, I have a Starmax 3000 that now has a sonnet G3 300Hmz card in it. I have had no problems with the external SCSI bus and devices at all. Also, for free, motorola sent me a kit to add a second, internal SCSI bus that I used to add an internal SCSI additional hard disk as the IDE bus is already full with the CD and the stock Hard disk. Good luck, Scott ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 11:42:19 -0400 From: "Douglas W. St.Clair" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: EMACs on the MAC? Does anyone know where I can get a copy of EMACS for the Macintosh? -- END *************** *************** *************** ********** Douglas W. St.Clair Tir na nOg 400 Burton Highway Wilton, NH 03086-5022 USA PH: 603-654-9321 FAX: 603-654-5440 CELL: 617-233-3387 or 617-beef-fur *************** *************** *************** ********** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 18:29:39 +0000 From: me@none.co.uk (Lobo) To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: Eudora and attachments *Nearly every time*, I am unable to send attachments using Eudora 4.3.2. The most recent time was an attachment of 2MB but the little pendulum stops swinging and the screen freezes. I then have to do a force quit and restart. Occasionally it will send an attachment, but it is UNRELIABLE. I have tried attachment of 512k and 250k but no joy. Using PM 550/225 -internal modem; OS8.6; 8MB memory allocated to Eudora. I have not received any satisfactory answer from my ISP and therefore do not know if the problem is with Eudora or my ISP! Any help would be appreciated. Lobo. ta reply, rub oot -Lobo- from... peter@plalp.-Lobo-freeserve.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 13:57:31 -1000 From: Jerry Levinson To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Netscape Autofill Is there any way of turning off the autofill (or autocompletion) of URls in Netscape Communicator 4.7? I can't find anything in the Preferences (except setting the History to delete all after 1 day), nothing in Help, and nothing at the Netscape site. Thanks, Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:13:39 -0700 From: Denny Davis To: Info-Mac Subject: Netscape erases History At 08:44 +0200 05/23/2000, Michael S. Silverstein wittily wrote: >Is there any way to prevent Netscape from erasing the History when >you close your window (or quit)? > >On PCs Netscape retains your History for the specified number of days. > >Thanks! > >Michael Silverstein >Materials Engineering >Technion As far as I know the answer is no. Get URL Manager Pro which keeps your history indefinitely up to 1000 entries. -- Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. ICQ#5066430 Blessings, Denny ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 11:30:53 +0100 From: Stewart Mackintosh To: Subject: OE 5.02 Anyone having a problem with Outlook Express 5.02? I've noticed no problems here (PB 333 Bronze/OS9), but at the office I look after (iMacs going thru Vicomsoft Gateway) outgoing emails don't make it. I'm gradually narrowing down the problem, and at the moment it seems to be when sending/replying/forwarding to more than one person in the "To" field. Any ideas? TIA -- Best regards Stewart Mackintosh ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 16:05:37 -0500 From: Charles Stang To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: simple sound manipulator available? Is there a simple application around (freeware, shareware) to take a system sound and manipulate it--for example to change the pitch or only keep part of the sound and then save it? Charley ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:33:56 +1000 From: Bob Lyon To: Subject: Starting up from DVD-RAM disks - Further Update Further to my earlier posting about starting up my G4/450 (System 9.0.4) from an Apple- installed (but not Apple-manufactured) DVD-RAM disk, I think I've found the solution to the problem - there's been a fairly lengthy exchange in MacFixit at: www.macfixit.com/ultimate/Forum20/HTML/001076.html The solution to my problem was to install the G4 firmware update 2.4 m3ntioned in the discussion thread: http://asu.info.apple.com/swupdates.nsf/artnum/n11699 Thanks again to all those who responded! -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************