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mac.2775 ljubisha, -> #2774, askripka
>Relativna stvar. Imaš (ako ti Onyx odgovara) brdo modula koji liče >na njega, neki su i bolji. Neke sam i stavio u fajl sa dodatnim Znam, skinuo sam i probao samo jednom pa mi je kao u sećanju ostao Onyx kao najzanimljiviji (tamno siv sa žutom prugom na vrhu ekrana, nešto kao radovi na putu :)). Inače, mislio sam da Aaron ipak nije ono pravo. Originalni System look mi je savršeno dobar i nije ga potrebno komplikovati kao BeView.
mac.2776 madamov,
Apple Board Announces the Resignation of Chairman and CEO Gil Amelio CUPERTINO, Calif.--July 9, 1997--Apple today announced that Dr. Gilbert F. Amelio, after consultation with Apple's board of directors, has resigned his positions as chairman of the board and chief executive officer, and that the Company is initiating a search for a new CEO. Until a new CEO is hired, Fred Anderson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will assume additional responsibilities for the Company's day-to-day operations, working closely with the board and the executive management team, which includes: Fred Anderson - executive vice president and chief financial officer Guerrino De Luca - executive vice president, Marketing Dave Manovich - executive vice president, Worldwide Sales and Service Jack Douglas - senior vice president, General Counsel and Secretary Jim McCluney - senior vice president, Operations Jon Rubinstein - senior vice president, Hardware Engineering Avie Tevanian - senior vice president, Software Engineering During the interim period, Apple's co-founder and strategic advisor Steve Jobs will assume an expanded role as a key advisor to Apple's board and executive management team. Heading the search for a new CEO will be a committee composed of Board Vice Chairman A.C. Markkula Jr., Apple Board Director and Chairman of the Board of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. Edgar S. Woolard Jr., Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Fred Anderson, and Apple's strategic advisor Steve Jobs. "In recent months, Apple has made significant progress in addressing the crises which were threatening its viability," said Woolard. "In pursuit of the best interest of our shareholders and our customers, we now want to move forward and return the Company to growth and sustainable profitability. We believe that with a customer focused CEO and Apple's product and technology portfolio, the Company will have the necessary ingredients to return to success." "The Company has improved its cash position, reduced operating expenses and improved product quality" said Anderson. "We have also introduced a series of outstanding products, developed a long-term operating system strategy and consolidated our marketing and sales organizations. The executive management team is committed to continue to build on this foundation". Ellen Hancock, executive vice president of Technology, has also announced that she will be leaving the Company. Her responsibilities have been reassigned to Avie Tevanian and Jon Rubinstein. Apple will announce its third fiscal quarter results on Wednesday July 16, 1997.
mac.2777 madamov,
July 10, 1997 7/9/97╩╩Amelio Is Out! ------------ By Tova Fliegel From the magazine: Apple CEO ousted after year and a half Upgrade Your Gil Amelio was ousted today from his post as CEO and Mac chairman of the board of directors of Apple Computer after nearly a year and a half of trying to turn the ------------ company's fortunes around. From the Until a new CEO is named, Fred Anderson, executive magazine: vice president and chief financial officer, will assume additional responsibilities for day-to-day Connect Your operations. Ellen Hancock, Apple's executive vice Workgroup president of technology, who had been quoted as saying she would remain at Apple as long as Amelio ------------ did, also announced her resignation today. Her responsibilities will go to Avie Tevanian, senior In Software: vice president of software engineering, and Jon Rubinstein, senior vice president of hardware Download engineering. Steve Jobs will also assume an expanded Window Monkey role as adviser to the board on product strategy, 1.1.2 from marketing and sales, and business partnerships. our Software Collection. Although Apple's announcement bills the departure as a joint decision, Anderson said in a press conference that the "board of Apple is not happy with Apple's financial performance." He credited Amelio for lowering Apple's break-even point and improving product quality, but said, "The fact is that we're not yet on a growth path and we haven't returned the company to sustainable profitability. Apple's board wants to get Apple back on a sustainable growth path." Pieter Hartsook, a longtime industry analyst, said it was unlikely that Amelio, who has enjoyed a reputation as a turnaround expert since his days at National Semiconductor, stepped down voluntarily. "A good time for Gil [to leave] would have been at the release of Rhapsody Premiere. . . . Then he could say that he'd accomplished what he set out to do and that Apple was in pretty good shape. But the fact that he's exiting now means that he's failed in completing the restructuring. . . . That's why I don't think this is mutual." Hartsook also pointed out that now may not be the best time for Apple to lose its CEO, since a new CEO will likely want to initiate yet another restructuring: "The last thing Apple needs is a disruption that takes Apple's focus off getting products out the door." But he pointed out that Wall Street, the board of directors, and Apple employees have expressed a lack of confidence in Amelio in recent months as reflected by the plunge in Apple's stock price, which hit an eleven-year low last week. Apple had been predicting a turnaround by the end of the year, but Anderson said today, "We are out of the business of predicting when the company will return to profitability." This week, First Call, which collects composite estimates from industry analysts, announced that it expects Apple to report an estimated $70 million loss when the company announces its third-quarter results on July 16. Some analysts have predicted losses as high as $400 million. Anderson would not speculate on a potential replacement and would not say whether Jobs had already been offered the position. He did say that there were no plans to put Apple up for sale. Further, Anderson said, Apple is honoring Amelio's employment contract, which likely includes a hefty severance package. According to an SEC document detailing the terms of his contract when Apple hired him, Amelio will be paid $10 million if he is fired "without cause" or if he resigns "for good reason."
mac.2778 madamov,
Take Over Apple Now By Galen Gruman Amelio's ouster leaves opening for other Mac makers Gil Amelio's resignation today as Apple CEO is good news for the Mac. When he came to Apple in February 1996, Amelio's experience in helping National Semiconductor turn around its sagging fortunes gave the Mac community real hope. But that enthusiasm dissipated within a year, as it became increasingly clear that Amelio's management was resulting in no real changes to Apple's arrogant, control-freak culture. Sure, Apple did drastically trim its payroll and get more focused on its core products. But the basic problems remain unsolved The Copland OS was a billion-dollar disaster, the Power Mac line saw little innovation beyond faster CPUs from IBM and Motorola, the Next OS strategy quickly became convoluted, and Apple threw roadblock after roadblock in front of the Mac OS licensees in a misguided effort to keep the Mac market constrained to fit Apple's uneven capabilities. No one yet knows who will lead Apple now, but it's obvious that change is necessary. I believe the key to Apple's turnaround will be a joint buyout by a few key companies like Motorola, IBM, and Umax, who can buy 60 percent of the Apple stock, install a leader experienced with the personal computer industry, and open up the Mac OS to all comers. Whether or not Apple's new leadership can turn Apple around, freeing up the licensees to deliver whatever innovations they can think of will ensure that there's a positive force in the Mac market. That will finally remove Apple's problems from the Macintosh's ability to thrive. Apple can then focus on the Mac OS, or spin that effort into a separate subsidiary. It can compete on hardware fairly -- by promoting its own innovations rather than by blocking competitors' innovations as it does now. Apple can release the Common Hardware Reference Plaform standard from its control -- a clear conflict of interest -- and let either the Mac OS subsidiary or a Mac makers' consortium manage the platform's standards, as the PC industry manages its platform. You have only to think what 1996 would have been like without the enthusiasm of Power Computing, which gave us hope based on tangible products, to realize how much Apple has retreated from true leadership. Amelio made a serious effort early on, but he underestimated Apple's history of ignoring management and denying the obvious on a grand scale. Reportedly, Amelio got angry when he met resistance but was unable to eliminate it. That's because he kept the very people who thrived in that culture of resistance and denial, and they thwarted his vision. The hard part for Apple now will be to find a leader willing to step into the mess that successive leaders at Apple have permitted and helped to create. Who would want that job? Not many people. Apple's executive search team includes A. C. Markkula, an Apple founder who was instrumental in picking Apple's previous leaders. That's not good news, as Markkula is the one who found Spindler and Amelio, and continued to put up with Jobs and Sculley after they exceeded their talents. Jobs is also on the search team, which could be good or bad. Jobs is smart, and I don't believe he has any interest in running Apple. But he is mercurial and prone to expensive, proprietary technologies. If that's the vision he seeks in looking for a new leader for Apple, that's bad news for us all.<P> That's why I think it's critical for a third force to take over Apple, a force neither bound by Apple's weaknesses nor unaware of its strengths. A force not ensnared by a dysfunctional culture. A force that can take into account the health of both Apple and the Macintosh. The computer industry needs Apple, and most executives I know want Apple, or at least the Mac, to survive so it can continue to inspire the entire computer industry. Now that industry must step up to the plate to manage Apple and keep the Macintosh alive.
mac.2779 mirijevac,
Hi, ima li neka dobra dusa koja moze da mi pomogne oko softvera za MAC-a. U pitanju je stari dobri Macintosh model 0 iliti prvi MAC. Imam samo OS na svapskom i Mac Write. To je inace onaj Mac bez HDD-a. Mada sam rad kupiti HDD ukoliko neko ima neki da mu je visak. Molio bih sve koji imaju MAC softver ali za ovaj mali jadni MAC ( bilo bi lepo imati i poneki YU fon, neki program za tabelarne proracune, neku malu igricu, nesto od test softvera, i OS na engleskom ili nasem jeziku - koliko se secam Velebit je imao OS na YU, i nesto za komunikaciju sa SEZAM-om ). Svaki savet je dobrodosao. Oduzucu se u pomoci oko PC racunara, softvera i opreme. Pozdrav Rade 407-195
mac.2780 askripka,
ColorSwitch Pro Rochester, NY -- March 27th, 1997 -- Today, Ambrosia Software, Inc. announced a major upgrade to its highly-regarded ColorSwitch utility: ColorSwitch Pro. ColorSwitch Pro takes the cue from Apple's vaunted Control Strip, adds many sorely-missed features to the mix, and packages it all up in a tidy, convenient pull-down menu that's always available when you need it. ColorSwitch Pro allows you to master your Macintosh with a set of convenient controls for adjusting things such as speaker volume, monitor resolution and color depth, audio CDs, and more. Simply pull down ColorSwitch Pro's handy icon-menu, select the setting you'd like to change, and instantly ColorSwitch Pro does your bidding. No more fiddling with a bevy of control panels or sacrificing your desktop space to Control Strip. ColorSwitch Pro's real power lies in its Shortcuts feature: any combination of settings can be grouped together into a single Shortcut. For instance, you might have a "Game" Shortcut that switches your monitor to 640x480, 256 colors and cranks up the sound volume. Once you've set up a Shortcut, a single menu choice makes it works its magic, no matter how many settings it changes. You can also assign a keystroke to your Shortcuts, or even link them to certain applications so that your settings take effect the instant those applications are launched. Set and forget. The kicker is ColorSwitch Pro's modularity: ColorSwitch Pro uses a plug-in architecture which allows for additional modules that extend its functionality. Simply drop modules into the "ColorSwitch Pro Modules" folder, and they're instantly integrated into the ColorSwitch Pro menu -- no rebooting necessary. ColorSwitch Pro is a quick, convenient way to stay in control of your Macintosh. It is instantly available when you need it, while otherwise staying out of your way. ColorSwitch Pro is an elegant utility that will become an essential part of your Macintosh experience. Eto najave, pa kome se sviđa, nek' skida! :) c_switch.sit
mac.2781 ljubisha,
Da nema neko MicroAngelo? Jel on jedini način da vidim ove nove pc ICO ikone ok 8Kb?
mac.2782 askripka,
Ukoliko postoji neko zainteresovan za 72 pin simm od 16 Mb, kupljen u USA, radi na mom Mac-u 100% ok, neka javi na mail. Stvar je relativno hitna, tako da važe samo ponude u roku od 2-3 dana. Znam da ovo jeste za temu 'oglasi', ali pošto ne vidim svrhu da kačim tamo, to čitate poruku ovde.
mac.2783 madamov, -> #2779, mirijevac
> U pitanju je stari dobri Macintosh model 0 iliti prvi MAC. Khm, trebalo bi na kućištu da piše Macintosh 128K, ako se ne varam, ovo što ti pominješ ne postoji. > Molio bih sve koji imaju MAC softver ali za ovaj mali jadni MAC Nažalost, teško će se nešto od toga naći, mada sam ja nedavno slao u jednu grupu sistemski softver za prve Mekove. Treba naći stare verzije starih programa, mnoge od firmi više ne postoje. Nego, ako je reč o modelu 128K, voljan sam da ga kupim za sebe, pa mi se onda obrati na mail da se dogovorimo.
mac.2784 madamov,
TidBITS#386/30-Jun-97 ===================== The emperor may have no clothes, but is he indecent? Adam examines the United States Supreme Court's ruling on Communications Decency Act and the notion that "indecent" material spontaneously arrives on people's computer screens. We also note the newly released Netscape Communicator 4.01, LetterRip 2.0, and the Usenet news server RumorMill, plus Tonya looks at visual HTML editors, including Adobe PageMill, Claris Home Page, and Symantec Visual Page. Topics: MailBITS/30-Jun-97 Earth to Netscape: Communicator 4.01 Released Communications Decency Act Ruled Unconstitutional Spinning the Web Part 3: Basic Visual HTML Editing <http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-386.html> <ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#386_30-Jun-97.etx> Copyright 1997 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. All rights reserved. Information: <info@tidbits.com> Comments: <editors@tidbits.com> --------------------------------------------------------------- tidbits.386
mac.2785 madamov,
TidBITS#387/07-Jul-97 ===================== Wondering what it would be like to own a Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh? Tonya shares her one-day experience. Also in this issue, we note a new version of Disinfectant, a low price for LetterRip 2.0, explain why Power Computing plans to sell Intel- based computers, and highlight resources for those interested in Internet security. Reviews this week include Broderbund's Family Tree Maker and CyberStudio from GoLive Systems. Topics: MailBITS/07-Jul-97 The 20th Anniversary Mac Comes for Tea I Dream of Genealogy: Family Tree Maker Spinning the Web Part 4: CyberStudio <http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-387.html> <ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#387_07-Jul-97.etx> Copyright 1997 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. All rights reserved. Information: <info@tidbits.com> Comments: <editors@tidbits.com> --------------------------------------------------------------- tidbits.387
mac.2787 madamov,
SoftArc Releases Cross-Platform Intranet Offering: FirstClass Intranet Server - Eagerly Anticipated FirstClass Intranet Server Integrates Web and Groupware Technology Seamlessly - Early FCIS Feedback From Analysts and Beta Customers Extremely Positive MARKHAM, Ontario, July 7, 1997 - SoftArc Inc., the number-three provider of client/server-based messaging worldwide, today released the FirstClass Intranet Server (FCIS). The new product line offers a robust and secure workgroup communication environment completely integrated with the Internet. FCIS natively supports popular Internet protocols POP3, HTTP/HTML, Finger, SMTP/NNTP, and MIME. Said Dan Pulcrano, CEO of Metro Newspapers and Boulevards New Media Inc., "The FirstClass Intranet Server is the Web product we have been waiting for. No Web product or combination of products integrates services as seamlessly as FCIS. The Web has been crying out for easy-to-administrate, sensibly priced, fully integrated tools for mail, conferencing, chats, and workgroups." "This is an incredibly exciting new product offering for SoftArc," explained Steven Asbury, SoftArc president. "We've been competing with the 'big boys' for some time now in terms of market share and technology. With the introduction of the FirstClass Intranet Server, however, no one will be competing with us to provide a sophisticated, integrated Internet/groupware solution to the all-important small-to-medium sized business market. We expect FCIS to be an explosive milestone in Company and mailbox growth." FirstClass Intranet Server Features The FirstClass Intranet Server adds seamless Internet/World Wide Web integration to the already rich messaging and groupware features found in FirstClass. Like its sibling FirstClass 3.5 (currently shipping), FCIS offers advanced e-mail, replicable discussion databases, remote access, forms processing, enterprise database access, and information publishing services. FCIS makes virtually all FirstClass features available over Internet connections. A company may publish any or all of its FirstClass Intranet Server on the Web; e-mail messages, conferences, individual mailboxes, directory services, message threading, database forms, etc. are all available through standard browsers such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Explorer, as well as through the FCIS Client. Users may use Eudora, CyberDog, or other Internet mail clients to log into their mailboxes. In addition, FCIS offers the impressive administration capabilities of its FirstClass sibling - including access privileges, security, content expiration, and replication - making it easy for companies to automatically manage Web content. The FirstClass Intranet Client allows hyperlinks to the Internet or other FirstClass Servers. Users can put an HTTP link (URL) into an FCIS document which will automatically launch standard browsers. Users may also configure their browsers to go directly to their FirstClass Intranet Server using a unique domain name. Finally, users may drag bookmarks from their browser to FCIS, store bookmarks, and later use bookmarks in FCIS to launch their browser and go directly to the desired Web site. Licensing and Upgrades With FCIS, SoftArc introduces new licensing policies and mailbox pricing to simplify the sales/purchase process and reflect the universal nature of Internet usage. Licensed account users have maximum concurrent access to the server. Independent of these user licenses, the FCIS Server also has an unlimited number of free remote accounts. These remote accounts can be assigned to any number of users, and only an authorized number (based on purchased concurrent session licenses) can be logged in simultaneously. This allows sites to more cost-effectively customize FCIS based on how they plan to use the system. Existing FirstClass sites may trade up to the new FirstClass Intranet Server for $299 U.S. dollars for the next 90 days. After 90 days, FirstClass 3.5 Servers may be traded up to the FCIS Server for $599 U.S. dollars. SoftArc is also offering a variety of discount options for sites wishing to trade FirstClass Regular user licenses, Remote session licenses, and Remote user licenses for the appropriate FCIS counterparts. This pricing applies to North America only. Please contact SoftArc for international pricing and additional information. FirstClass, SoftArc's legacy product, will continue to be sold separately for those sites that want a dedicated LAN e-mail/groupware system without extensive Internet connectivity. The next version of FirstClass - version 4.0 - will be released in the third quarter of this year. Pricing and upgrade policies will remain unchanged for current and future versions of FirstClass. Product/Company Background In addition to the newly shipping FirstClass Intranet Server, SoftArc's product family includes FirstClass 3.5. FirstClass offers the same ease of use, functionality, and robust performance over network or modem, and operates in Windows, Mac OS, DOS, OS/2, and terminal emulation environments. FirstClass has been commercially available since 1989 and has garnered an enthusiastic user base of businesses, educational institutions, governments, and private individuals at more than 20,000 sites in 30 countries. SoftArc Incorporated is a leading developer and manufacturer of enterprise-wide, cross-platform group communication software. SoftArc is supported by a worldwide network of resellers and distributors. The Company is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada. ______________________________________________________________ SoftArc Inc. 100 Allstate Parkway, Markham, Ontario, CANADA, L3R 6H3 1036 Union Road, #325, West Seneca, New York, USA, 14224 Internet: info@softarc.com, http://www.softarc.com Sales: 1-800-SOFTARC Tel: 905-415-7000 Fax: 905-415-7151 SoftArc International Ltd. Block 1, Unit D, Shannon Business Park, Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland Tel: +353-61-472-877 Fax: +353-61-472-388 FirstClass is a registered trademark of SoftArc Inc. All other trade names referenced are the service marks, trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. ----- Sent via FC ListServer by VIZ-Soft Development. FC ListServer adds full Internet ListServer capabilities to SoftArc's FirstClass e-mail and groupware system. Contact VIZ-Soft Development by e-mail at info.listserver@vizsoft.com or over the World Wide Web at http://www.vizsoft.com.
mac.2788 madamov,
TidBITS#388/14-Jul-97 ===================== Feeling lost? Wondering about your position in life? This week we explore the technology of the Global Positioning System (GPS), used by the military, surveyors, and now consumers. We also comment on Gil Amelio's and Ellen Hancock's resignations from Apple, report on a new version of HTML, and note the newly released Disinfectant 3.7.1. Also, Tonya takes a break from her series about Web publishing software, but plans to continue next week. Topics: MailBITS/14-Jul-97 Amelio & Hancock Resign from Apple Cougar Slinks into View Feeling Lost? An Overview of Global Positioning Systems Driving Through Trees: Using GPSy <http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-388.html> <ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#388_14-Jul-97.etx> Copyright 1997 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. All rights reserved. Information: <info@tidbits.com> Comments: <editors@tidbits.com> --------------------------------------------------------------- tidbits.388
mac.2789 madamov,
* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Power User It seems the Mac development team at Netscape forgot the Reload keyboard shortcut in Communicator version 4.01. No problem. This is a job for ResEdit. Open Communicator with ResEdit. Select the MENU resource. Open ID's 302, 402, and 502. Click on the Reload item in the left-hand window. Then create whatever keyboard shortcut you want in the appropriate box on the right. Be sure to make the keyboard shortcut the same in each ID. You can now update Web pages in your browser without taking your hands off the keyboard. Contributed by Eric Silverberg related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/software/Software.871.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
mac.2790 madamov,
* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Beginner In Microsoft Excel, pressing the Home key takes you to the first column of the current row. Command-Home teleports you to the first cell of the current worksheet, and Command-End zips you down to the last cell of the entire worksheet. If your work is spread across several worksheets, use Option-left arrow and Option-right arrow to move from worksheet to worksheet without clicking on the sheet tabs at the bottom of the screen. Contributed by Joseph Schorr related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages/june.97/Column.3726.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
mac.2791 madamov,
* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Intermediate Press F10 on an extended keyboard and you have instant keyboard access to all of Excel's menus. Once you've activated the menu bar by hitting F10, you can move to any menu by typing the letter underlined in the Menu name, Windows style. To access the Options command, for example, you can press F10, then T (for the Tools menu), and then O (for Options). You can also use the arrow keys to move down menus or from menu to menu. Contributed by Joseph Schorr related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages/june.97/Column.3726.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
mac.2792 askripka,
Da ja postavim jedno pitanje 'glavnom'... Trebalo bi malo pročačkati po dir-u i izbaciti stare verzije i gluposti. Misli li moderator da je vreme da se okači Netscape Communicator? Interesantno je da čak ni Netscape ver. 3 nije u dir-u. Predlažem obavezno stavljanje communicatora u dir, može za početak i ovde. Bilo bi lepo i isti izdeliti na segmente od po (otprilike) mega i po. Dakle? O:)
mac.2793 madamov,
* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Intermediate Mac OS 8 is shipping soon, but you can have the new interface on your current Mac today. Kaleidoscope is a shareware Control Panel that changes the look of your desktop. Download it and follow the installation instructions. Then choose from a list of different interface options including Apple Grayscale (Mac OS 8), BeBox, and even Windows95. Of course, we are not responsible for sudden bursts of nervous twitching or other side-effects that occur from making your Mac look like a Windows machine. Contributed by Matt McAlister related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/software/Software.985.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
mac.2794 madamov,
** M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P ** from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Beginner Make it easier to keep your Web-launching menu up to date--just leave an alias of the folder containing your bookmark files out on the desktop. Now, whenever you bookmark a site in Navigator, you can just drag the bookmark to the alias, making it immediately available via the Apple Menu. Taking this all a step further, you can drag these same bookmark files to the Launcher to set up direct, one-click button access to Web sites you visit the most. Use the Launcher's category buttons to further organize your sets of buttons. Contributed by Joseph Schorr related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages/may.97/Column.3410.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
mac.2795 madamov,
* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Beginner Do you work on your Mac late at night, or otherwise would like to reduce the volume of the Mac's startup sound? Since you can't quiet the startup sound by setting the sound voume to zero, plug an earplug or headphones into the sound output port (you don't have to wear them). Contributed by Lon Poole related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages//Column.3847.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
mac.2797 madamov,
* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Beginner You can use keyboard commands to see the contents of multiple folders in a window that's set to an outline view, such as by name. Select the folders and press command-right arrow to expand the selected folders and see their contents. To also expand all folders contained in the selected folders, press command-option-right arrow. Pressing command-left arrow collapses all selected folders, and pressing command-option-left arrow collapses all selected folders and all folders in them. Contributed by Lon Poole related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages/july.97/Column.3767.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
mac.2796 madamov,
* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Intermediate Adobe Type Manager 4.0's anti-aliasing feature may seem purely cosmetic, but if you're in prepress it can perform a valuable function. Because ATM does not anti-alias TrueType fonts, they become incredibly easy to spot within open documents. If you need to avoid sending TrueType fonts to your output device, this unintended (in my opinion) feature proves quite useful. Contributed by Chris Woodfield, Baltimore, Maryland related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages/july.97/Column.3767.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
mac.2798 madamov,
Apple Announces $56 Million Third-Quarter Loss Results more favorable than analysts had predicted <http://www.macworld.com/daily/daily.1456.html> Apple Computer today announced losses of $56 million ($.44 per share) for the third quarter of fiscal 1997, which ended June 27, 1997. Apple reported total revenues of $1.7 billion for the quarter, up slightly from $1.6 billion in the second quarter. The results are more favorable than many analysts had predicted. First Call, which compiles estimates from industry analysts, had predicted a $70 million shortfall, with the analysts' estimates ranging from about $14 million to $126 million. Listen to the entire press conference via RealAudio. <http://www.macworld.com/netcast/>
mac.2799 madamov,
Apple Not In Play for Takeover, CFO Says Anderson discusses acquisition rumors, CEO search <http://www.macworld.com/daily/daily.1457.html> During Wednesday's press conference announcing Apple Computer's third- quarter financial results, Apple chief financial officer--and acting CEO--Fred Anderson said that he has not been approached about a possible takeover bid and would like to keep the company independent. He also commented on the search for a new CEO, reporting that Apple has reached an agreement with an unidentified executive search firm to find a new leader for the company. Gil Amelio's resignation as Apple CEO last week, along with continuing weakness in the company's stock, renewed speculation that Apple might be a takeover candidate. Umax and other Mac OS licensees are reportedly considering a possible joint bid for Apple, but Anderson said he has not been approached by Umax or any other potential suitor.
mac.2800 madamov,
7/16/97 Apple Announces $56 Million Third-Quarter Loss By Stephen Beale Results more favorable than analysts had predicted Apple Computer today announced a net loss of $56 million (44 cents per share) for the third quarter of fiscal 1997, which ended June 27, 1997. Apple reported total revenues of $1.7 billion for the quarter, up slightly from $1.6 billion in the second quarter, but down from the $2.2 billion the company reported for the third quarter of 1996. Apple's loss from operations was about $60 million. The results were more favorable than many observers had predicted. First Call, which compiles estimates from industry analysts, had predicted a $70 million shortfall, with the estimates ranging from about $14 million to $126 million. Gil Amelio's resignation last week as Apple CEO had fueled speculation that the losses would be especially severe. The $56 million net loss compares with a $32 million loss for the third quarter of fiscal 1996. However, the $60 million loss from operations compares favorably with a $116 million loss in operations from last year's third quarter and a $186 million loss from operations in the second quarter of fiscal 1997. Apple reported total second-quarter losses of $708 million, but that figure included charges related to the Next acquisition and massive layoffs announced in April. Apple chief financial officer Fred Anderson attributed the revenue increase primarily to improved sales in Japan and also to higher sales of entry-level Macs in the consumer and education markets. Sales in Germany and England also saw substantial increases. However, this was offset by a 29 percent drop in unit sales of Apple PowerBooks from the previous quarter. Anderson said that PowerBook sales in the second quarter were driven by pent-up demand for the PowerBook 3400, demand that eased in the third quarter. The company shipped 698,000 Macs in the quarter, half of them entry-level models targeted at consumers and education. High-end Power Macs accounted for 36 percent of unit shipments; PowerBooks, 13 percent; and servers, about 1 percent. Anderson estimated that Mac OS licensees shipped 75,000 units in the quarter, bringing total Mac shipments to 773,000. Anderson said Apple made progress in reducing operating expenses, which came to $408 million in the third quarter compared with $489 million in the second quarter and $519 million in the third quarter of 1996. His current target is to bring the company's break-even point down to $7 billion per year from its current $8 billion. He said he did not expect Apple to show a profit in the fourth quarter, but refused to make revenue projections. He reiterated earlier statements that he will not predict when Apple will return to sustained profitability. But he said that becoming profitable -- as opposed to increasing growth -- is now Apple's highest priority.
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7/17/97 Is Apple Poised for Profit? By Cameron Crotty Some analysts cautiously optimistic While much of the computer industry has Apple Computer's grave dug and the headstone ready, some analysts are taking a hard look at the company after its third quarter earnings announcement, and liking what they see, at least in the short term. Today Robert M. Cohen & Company initiated coverage of Apple, classifying the company's stock as a speculative buy, and set an 18-month price target of $32 per share, based on projected 1998 revenues of $7.2 billion. In support of the recommendation, Cohen financial analyst Keith Bossey cited Apple's increased gross margins and progress in reducing losses. 1998 will be a "year of rebirth for Apple," said Bossey. Gartner Group analyst Michael Gartenberg believes that Bossey's prediction is optimistic, but agrees that things may be looking up for Apple, at least in the short term. "Amelio's resignation kicked off the idea that the [3rd quarter] losses were going to be huge," says Gartenberg, "But it was clear that [Amelio] had outlived his usefulness." Gartenberg also points out that during the fourth quarter of this year, Apple will get a boost from the education market as the fall buying season rolls around. Apple's stock closed at 17 1/2 today, up 1 1/16.
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7/18/97 Europe: Bright Spot for Apple By Joanne Taaffe, IDG News Service, Paris Bureau Overseas sales stronger Despite the state of Apple Computer's boardroom, the company's European vice president of sales and general manager remains optimistic about the company's future in Europe after three months on the job. Apple bled less money in its third fiscal quarter than expected and, according to Diego Piacentini, Europe is in part to thank for losses of only $56 million. Apple Europe has trimmed back most of its excess fat, including closing all local warehouses, slashing the number of its call centers and setting staff levels at 750 for the end of this financial year, down from nearly 1000 employees. None of the staff cuts have come from sales. In fact Apple has increased its European sales force by 5 percent to 6 percent, said Piacentini. The growth in Europe's sales staff has paid off in a number of markets, according to Piacentini. Third-quarter unit sales overall grew by 5 percent in the U.K., 25 percent in Italy, 10 percent in Switzerland and 20 percent in Spain. Most of the increases came at the high end of the company's product ranges. Unlike the U.S. market, powerbook sales were particularly strong in Europe, growing by 30 percent, he said. The big blip in this happy picture is France -- normally Apple's European stronghold -- where growth was flat. In France, Macs traditionally find homes in hospitals and technical companies, far beyond their traditional niches in the publishing, multimedia, and consumer markets, said Piacentini. One of the stumbling blocks in France was the company's distribution policy. As Apple turned to general distribution outlets, it failed to pay attention to its Apple centers, which became disgruntled, he said. Even if Europe really is pulling itself into better shape, in order to approach profitability Apple still needs to reduce its worldwide operating costs, Apple CFO Fred D. Anderson said of the company's third-quarter results. Piacentini joined his colleagues in dismissing the suggestion that Apple should dump or split off its hardware activities and concentrate on software. The company will, however, put more emphasis on software, he said. The company also needs to work better and more closely with its ISVs, such as Adobe Systems Inc., as the publishing market alone is not enough, Piacentini added.
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7/15/97╩╩ CA, Apple Integrate Jasmine, Yellow Box By Marc Ferranti IDG News Service, New York Bureau CA's object-oriented database will build Yellow Box applications Computer Associates and Apple Computer announced Monday that they will integrate CA's Jasmine object-oriented database with Apple's Yellow Box application development environment, part of the forthcoming Rhapsody operating system. As a result of the integration, corporate developers will be able to use the Jasmine Application Development Environment to build applications that can be deployed on operating platforms on which the Rhapsody Yellow Box will run. These include the Mac OS, Windows 95 and NT, and Rhapsody itself. Likewise, developers will be able to use Yellow Box tools to build programs that access and store information in the Jasmine object-oriented database, according to officials from the companies. Programmers will be able to take advantage of these capabilities when the Rhapsody Yellow Box is released in the middle of 1988, according to Guerrino DeLuca, Apple's executive vice president of worldwide marketing. DeLuca and CA Chairman and CEO Charles Wang stressed that Jasmine and the Yellow Box were designed specifically to embrace object-oriented programming, and as such are a natural match. "Given our shared vision, it's only natural that Apple and CA team together," Wang said. "Jasmine is the only solution built from the ground up for building and deploying mission-critical multimedia applications," Wang said. "Apple is the only vendor committed to delivering an object-oriented operating system." Together, Jasmine and Yellow Box can be used to meet the needs of corporations that want to deploy multimedia applications, said Wang. "There is a huge industry trend toward delivering multimedia applications," he said. The trend is being driven in part by the rise of the Internet and the ability to deliver voice, data, images, and video over the Internet, Wang said. Jasmine and Yellow Box's mutual support for Java will let developers use the two software packages to build applications to be deployed over the Internet. "With Jasmine, CA allows you to build applications once and run them anywhere over the Internet and client-server environments," said Wang. Wang and DeLuca also announced that Macs running on the Mac OS will, via Java, act as Unicenter TNG consoles. However, Apple is waiting for the Java Development Kit 1.1, due later this year, before it can complete the work necessary to let Macs interface to Unicenter via browsers, according to officials from both companies. Macs acting as Unicenter consoles will let users access all the systems-management functions of Unicenter. CA officials noted that the full Unicenter management package, including object repository, still will need to reside on either the Unix or Windows NT platform. CA also will offer software agents that let Unicenter remotely manage Macintoshes by the end of the year, according to CA officials. Apple's Yellow Box is the part of the Rhapsody operating system that allows applications to run on multiple operating systems and hardware platforms. By writing with Yellow Box tools, developers can deploy applications on PowerPC or Intel hardware, running under the Mac or Windows OS, according to Apple officials. Yellow Box is based on the OpenStep application programming interfaces (APIs) that Apple bought when it acquired Next, and it supports Mach microkernel features such as preemptive multitasking and protected memory. Analysts said the Jasmine-Yellow Box integration is a win-win deal for Apple and CA. "For CA, it's a low-cost way to capitalize on the particular strengths of the Apple environment," said Richard Ptak, director of system management research at D.H. Brown Associates. "For Apple, because of the particular problems they're having now, they could use the attention of a big software company like CA." A question still remains about the potential size of the market for object-oriented databases, given that Informix Software's Universal Server has failed to generate much revenue since it was released last December to great fanfare. The Universal Server adds object-oriented storage and data-definition capabilities -- acquired through Informix's purchase of Illustra Information Technologies last year -- to its base relational database technology. "We truly believe that the hybrid model proposed by Oracle and Informix will not work," Wang said. "You need to work with a pure object-oriented model to take advantage of multimedia." The problem with hybrid object-relational databases, CA officials said, is that performance suffers when data defined as objects get stored back and mapped onto the relational part of the databases. "I think they [CA] have a point," said Ptak. "And I think there is a need for object-oriented databases." The move toward object-oriented applications is slow, however, because global competition today is so fierce it doesn't leave much leeway for error. Therefore large corporations are more careful in deploying brand-new technology, said Ptak. Computer Associates, 516/342-5224, www.cai.com. Apple Computer, 408/996-1010, www.apple.com.
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7/14/97╩╩ Apple Drops Low-End Power Mac Prices By Macworld Staff Customers get a break on Power Mac 6500's, Performa 6400's Over the weekend, Apple Computer lowered prices on some Power Macintosh 6500's and Performa 6400's, with reductions of up to $300. Introduced in April, the Power Mac 6500 line includes models ranging in speeds from 225MHz to 300MHz. The Power Mac 6500 minitower systems are equipped with powerful integrated hardware and software components. Each comes with a minimum 256K cache, with 512K standard on the 6500/275 and 6500/300 systems; 32MB to 64MB of RAM (expandable to 128MB); a 3GB or 4GB hard drive; and 16-bit CD-quality stereo sound. Iomega Zip drives are standard in three models. Other standard features include 2MB of video RAM, a built-in 12X-speed CD-ROM drive, and a built-in 33.6-Kbps modem. Each system also comes with a keyboard, a mouse, and high-quality software bundles. Monitors are sold separately. The Performa systems are designed for home and small-business use. New prices on the Power Macintosh 6500's are as follows: *╩The Power Macintosh 6500/300 with a 300MHz PowerPC 603e CPU, 64MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a 12X CD-ROM, a 36.6-Kbps modem, 512K of cache, a Zip drive, and a Home Solution bundle is $2800, down from $3000. *╩The Power Macintosh 6500/275 with the Creative Studio bundle features a 275MHz 603e CPU, 32MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a 12X CD-ROM, a 36.6-Kbps modem, 512K of cache, and Avid Cinema/TV-FM/Video; it is now $2800, down from $3000. *╩The Power Macintosh 6500/250 with the Small Business bundle includes a 250MHz 603e CPU, 48MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a 12X CD-ROM, a 36.6-Kbps modem, 256K of cache, and a Zip drive; it is $2300, down from $2600. *╩The Power Macintosh 6500/250 with the Home Solution bundle offers a 250MHz 603e CPU, 32MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a 12X CD-ROM, a 36.6-Kbps modem, 256KB of cache, and a Zip drive for $2000, down from $2300. *╩The Power Macintosh 6500/225 with the Home Solution Bundle offers a 225MHz 603e CPU, 32MB of RAM, a 3GB hard drive, a 12X CD-ROM, a 36.6-Kbps modem, and 256K of cache for $1800, down from $2000. New prices on the Performa 6400 series are as follows: *╩The Performa 6400/200 Video Editing Edition with a 200MHz 603e CPU, 32MB of RAM, a 2.4GB hard drive, an 8X CD-ROM, a 28.8-Kbps modem, 256K of cache, and Avid Cinema/Video is $1800, down from $2100. *╩The Performa 6400/200 with the Home Solution bundle, a 200MHz 603e CPU, 32MB of RAM, a 2.4GB hard drive, an 8X CD-ROM, a 28.8-Kbps modem, and a Zip drive is $1500, down from $1800. *╩The Performa 6400/200 with 32MB of RAM, a 2.4GB hard drive, an 8X CD-ROM, and a 28.8-Kbps modem is $1400, down from $1700.
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7/10/97╩╩ Spider Island Shuts Down By Cameron Crotty TeleFinder BBS developer closes doors Citing adverse market conditions, Spider Island Software, developer of the TeleFinder Internet Server, announced that it will close its doors effective August 31, 1997. TeleFinder began as bulletin-board server software but Spider Island recently added Internet features, such as a Web server. But company president Rusty Tucker stated the Spider Island simply did not have the capital to continue to compete in the crowded Internet space. "On the low end, Microsoft is giving away their Web server, and on the high end, Starnine has a powerful market position. We just got stuck in the middle." Spider Island will ship version 5.5 next week to existing customers, but will cease all development and support as of the end of August. Tucker said that Spider Island is looking for a company willing to take over support for the product. Spider Island, 714/453-8095, www.spiderisland.com.
mac.2806 madamov, -> #2792, askripka
> Trebalo bi malo pročačkati po dir-u i izbaciti stare verzije i > gluposti. Daj spisak, pa da ga komentarišemo. > Misli li moderator da je vreme da se okači Netscape Communicator? I da i ne. Nas ovde ima veoma malo, a s obzirom na veličinu te arhive (nisam je video, samo pretpostavljam) ne bi mi se isplatilo da je skidam sa interneta i kačim ovde (dvostruki transfer ili šetnja do BIGZ-a). ukoliko neko ima vremena, vrlo rado ću arhivu proslediti file moderatorima da je ubace u direktorijum.
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* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Beginner The zoom toggle in PageMaker 6.0 and 6.5 gives you quick access to the three zoom levels you need most--Fit in Window, 100%, and 200%. In Fit in Window view, command-option-click with any tool and boom! 100%! Do it again to go back to Fit in Window view. Include the shift key to toggle between 100% and 200%. Contributed by Aaron Vegh, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages/july.97/Column.3767.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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Uz poruku kačim Apple Developers News broj 61. tačnije suplemente broju 61. Obično izvlačim vesti iz njega, ali ovaj put je reč o jednom većem tekstualnom fajlu koji govori o taktici Applea za Mac OS i Rapsodiju i sličnim temama. preporučujem download, a pošto je reč o tekstualnom fajlu verujem da će i PC korisnici u njemu naći nešto interesantno i za njih jer Apple planira da Rhapsody implementira i na mašine sa Intelovim procesorima. adn61.txt
mac.2809 askripka, -> #2806, madamov
­=- Daj spisak, pa da ga komentarišemo. Ma kakav spisak. To je mnogo naporno. Zadržaću se samo na internet direktorijumu. Postoje 3 verzije Eudore, 2 verzije Fetch-a, 2 verzije FrePPP-a + update kao treći fajl. Generalno, deluje mi prilično suvislo da stoji samo najsvežija verzija programa. Odstupanje od ovoga mi zvuči razumno ako 2 verzije imaju veoma različite hardverske zahteve. Kako to nije slučaj, treba ubiti barem FreePPP 2.5.2, kao i update na 2.5.3 i ostaviti samo 2.5.3. Normalno, ubiti i stari Fetch, kao i barem jednu Eudoru. To je bar 4 fajla manje. Dakle?
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[4] Apple Announces a New Licensing Strategy Apple Computer is moving into a new phase of its licensing strategy, which recognizes these as two separate entities: * Mac OS 8, a major upgrade to the Mac OS operating system * an open hardware architecture, the PowerPC Platform, also known as CHRP The first implementations of Mac OS 8 and CHRP (for Common Hardware Reference Platform) with ship this summer. This announcement opens a totally new licensing phase, in which Apple licenses only its operating system. In the past, licensees had no choice but to license both hardware and software from Apple. Mac OS-compatible vendors will now be able to innovate and differentiate on top of CHRP, which will broaden existing markets and provide new market opportunities for Mac OS developers.
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[6] Apple Unveils New Color Ink-Jet Printer Line Furthering its commitment to expand the availability of high-quality, complete color printing solutions, Apple announced three new color ink-jet printers for home, education, and small/medium business settings. The entry-level Color StyleWriter 4100 offers Mac OS customers a high-quality, affordable, four-color printing solution. The midrange Color StyleWriter 4500 provides Mac OS users with high-quality, photorealistic color and multimedia printing capabilities. The Color StyleWriter 6500 offers professional quality ink-jet printing capabilities to both Mac OS and Windows users--a first for Apple. Apple also introduced the StyleWriter EtherTalk Adapter II, an easy-to-use printer networking device that lets Mac OS users share Apple's color ink-jet printers on an EtherTalk network. The new ink-jet line results from a recent OEM (original equipment manufacturer) licensing agreement with Hewlett-Packard, the industry's largest manufacturer of ink-jet printers. The agreement gives Apple access to state-of-the-art printer engine technologies. For availability, prices, and technical specifications, see the Apple press release: <http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q3/970616.pr.rel .inkjet.html>
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[8] Apple Macintosh Again Leads PC Industry in Brand Loyalty For the third year in a row, the Apple Macintosh led the personal computer industry in repurchase loyalty in 1996, according to new research from Computer Intelligence (CI), the computer and communications industries' leading source of fact-based information. Following Apple in purchase loyalty rankings were Gateway 2000, Acer, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM, NEC, Packard Bell, and AST. The findings emerged from CI's recently released spring 1997 Consumer Technology Index (CTI), the largest and most comprehensive survey of technology ownership and usage among home, workplace, and self-employed users in the United States. The repurchase rates measure what percentage of each brand's users who bought a personal computer in 1996 purchased the same brand of computer they previously owned. According to the CTI results, about four in five Apple Macintosh users who purchased a personal computer in 1996 bought another Macintosh (see table below). Top 1996 Repurchase Rates: Apple Mac: 81% Gateway 2000: 72% Acer: 69% Compaq: 60% Hewlett-Packard: 58% Dell: 58% (Source: CI's Consumer Technology Index, 1997) Not surprisingly, the CTI survey found that respondents who purchased computers for personal use generally showed lower brand loyalty than individuals who work on employer-provided computers. In fact, Apple's Macintosh was the only brand to have a repurchase rate above 50 percent in the home market, while nine of the top eleven brands have loyalty above 50 percent in the workplace segment. The differences are due mainly to price sensitivities among home computer users, who are spending their own funds rather than company funds, and to the fact that home users do not need to go through the purchase-approval cycles present in many corporations. For more details, see the CI press release at this web site: <http://www.ci.zd.com/news/loyal97b.html>
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[10] Apple is Official Multimedia Provider for China National Games Apple Computer International Ltd. announced that Macintosh hardware and software has been chosen as the official multimedia production platform for the Eighth China National Games, to be held in Shanghai in October. Together with large, touch-screen displays located at the stadium and in central Shanghai, the Macintosh systems will provide the first interactive multimedia kiosks ever used at any large-scale sporting event in China. The interactive multimedia kiosks at the stadium, located in the media center and VIP room, will be linked by a high-speed Ethernet network to over 30 of Apple's most advanced personal computers, the Power Macintosh 9600/233. Using Apple's QuickTime and QuickTime VR technologies, the kiosks will display video reports and 360-degree panoramic views in real time. In addition, the kiosks will include background information on game participants, records, schedules, and venues. In choosing the official multimedia production platform, the Games Organizing Committee compared major technologies and systems from suppliers in China and abroad. Macintosh was selected due to its integrated multimedia, superior graphics, unrivaled ease of use, and seamless hardware, software, and network integration.
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[4] A Synopsis of Mac OS 8 Reviews With very few exceptions, early industry press responses to the beta version of Mac OS 8 have been positive. Here's a summary of recent reviews from five of the most popular Macintosh end-user publications: * MacWorld magazine "Mac OS 8 Preview" by Franklin N. Tessler "Mac OS 8 is the most comprehensive update to the Mac OS in years, sporting a bold new look, a speedier Finder, more shortcuts, and integrated Internet functions." <http://www.macworld.com/features/macos8.preview.html> * MacUser magazine "Apple Picks Up the Tempo" by Henry Bortman "The unthinkable is about to occur: Apple is about to deliver two major Mac OS releases--on schedule--within six months. As promised, Apple shipped Mac OS 7.6 in January 1997, and--also as promised--in July 1997, it will ship Mac OS 8, previously code-named "Tempo" ... This new release is chock-full of goodies, including many features originally planned for the now defunct Copland. And it's stable: The beta version of Mac OS 8 we tested crashed less frequently than the release version of Mac OS 7.6." <http://www4.zdnet.com/macuser/mu_0897/firstlook/apple.html> * PC Week "Apple Gilds the Mac OS Lily" by Herb Bethoney "After evaluating the Beta 5 version of Mac OS 8, PC Week Labs recommends that administrators upgrade their sites." <http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/reviews/0616/16macos.html> * Mac Home Review "Beta Report: 8 IS GREAT" by Alan Stafford "The main change in OS 8? Looks. That's better than it sounds, however, as the way the Finder (the Mac's basic desktop) works is predicated on its graphical appearance. Apple has revamped the Finder substantially, giving it a slick new appearance and a number of new features that could prove to be very convenient in your everyday work." <http://www.machome.com/Features/MacOS8.html> * Don Crabb, MacWEEK columnist, on Mac OS 8 "A Friend to Mac Managers" "Mac OS 8 promises to be the most reliable Mac OS since version 2.0 that shipped about a million years ago (in computer years). I've been using the pre-released version since the first alpha version was distributed to a few developers back in January. And frankly, it's been more reliable--even in alpha form--than any Mac OS I've used in years." <http://www.doncrabb.com/> For more information on Mac OS 8, which is scheduled for shipment in the United States in late July, check out Apple's Mac OS web site: <http://www.macos.apple.com/macos8/>
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[5] AppleScript and Apple Events to be Included in Yellow Box Loyal AppleScript and Apple Events fans will happy to hear that Apple will incorporate these technologies into the Rhapsody operating system. Both will be built into Rhapsody's Yellow Box, the object-oriented environment for developing cross-platform applications. AppleScript Product Manager Sal Soghoian adds, "AppleScript and Apple Events are here to stay. They are being integrated fully into the Yellow Box. Right now we're working on the core Apple Event structure and related issues. Our plans for the AppleScript scripting language are to keep the Yellow Box implementation as close to the current version as possible, in both syntax and functionality. Naturally, given the difference in operating system structures, some changes and adaptations may occur--but we'll work to make the transition as smooth as possible." For more details, see this MacWEEK article: <http://www8.zdnet.com/macweek/mw_1124/nw_script.html>
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[9] Macintosh Computers Big in Hollywood Macintosh computers are being used more and more in Hollywood as tools of the movie trade, both as props and production tools. Used in all aspects of the production process, from storyboarding to special effects, Apple computer products have been used in the making of Dragonheart, the Star Trek series, Breakdown, and Buddy, and in the upcoming films Jackal, The Honest Courtesan, Face/Off, and The Truman Show. During the production of the newly released film Batman and Robin, Apple computers were used extensively both in production and on the movie set. Information on the Macintosh computers used in Batman and Robin is given in this Apple press release: <http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q3/970623.pr.rel.b atman.html>
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[5] Preview a Real Rhapsody Application Stone Design, a long-time leader in the NeXT/OpenStep marketplace, recently announced the availability of Create 4.2 for Rhapsody. Create is a full-featured design, layout, drawing, and web-publishing application. Create 4.2 will run under Apple's "Prelude to Rhapsody" software, which was handed out to attendees at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference last May. If you have installed Prelude to Rhapsody, Create 4.2 gives you an excellent opportunity to see a real-world example of what the Rhapsody operating system will be capable of. To download a five-week trial version of this product, visit this web site: <http://www.stone.com/Create_4.2/>
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[6] Parametric Technology To Port Pro/REFLEX to Rhapsody Parametric Technology (PTC), a leading supplier of software tools in the CAD/CAM/CAE industry, recently announced that it has signed a porting agreement with Apple to port their Pro/REFLEX A/E/C object-oriented modeling system to Rhapsody. PTC's decision to port Pro/REFLEX to Rhapsody marks the first time the software company has developed for an Apple platform. In their press release, PTC said their decision was "based on Apple's market-share strength." PTC's Pro/REFLEX software is an object-oriented building modeling package that provides functionality for fully coordinated project modeling, including 2-D drafting, 3-D modeling, drawing production, inherent coordination, fully dynamic model movement in all views, element creation, interference or clash detection, and a range of data exchange capabilities. For more information on PTC, visit their web site: <http://www.ptc.com/>
mac.2819 madamov,
[9] New Mac OS Security Contest Begins On July 4, 1997, Infinit Information AB opened its second Crack-A-Mac contest to hackers worldwide. This time, instead of running a standard, out-of-the-box Mac OS web server, the company is exposing a cutting-edge, real-world server system to a real-world pummeling. The Crack-A-Mac server setup includes final candidate versions of WebSTAR and Mac OS 8, plus SiteEdit Pro, a multiple domain service through ClearlyHome, and database access through Lasso and FileMaker Pro. To claim the prize money (100,000 Swedish crowns, or about U.S.$ 13,000), read the contest rules, then try to alter the contents of the server's home page. <http://hacke.infinit.se/>
mac.2820 madamov,
Apple Developer News Digest broj 64 koji govori o novoj verziji QuickTimea koji će, po prvi put, biti potpuno multiplatformski. Naime, iako su korisnici PC računara mogli da gledaju QuickTime filmove, nisu mogli da ih u potpunosti kreiraju. To je sada ispravljeno, a fajl koji kačim je plain text tako da ga i oni mogu pročitati. adn64.txt
mac.2821 madamov, -> #2809, askripka
> Odstupanje od ovoga mi zvuči razumno ako 2 > verzije imaju veoma različite hardverske zahteve. I kada dvojica od trojice aktivnijih Mekovaca rade sa mašinama koje još imaju 68030 procesor. B) Međutim, u pravu si, najviše za Fetch, tamo stoje verzije 3.0.1 i 3.0.3, a i za Eudoru, treba da ostane samo 1.5.5 uz 3.0.1. Naime, mislim da kod velikih skokova u verzijama treba da ostanu i starije verzije. Ovo je ipak Mac, Eudora 1.5.5 će raditi i na svakom budućem Meku, čak i pod Rapsodijem kad se isti OS pojavi, tako da ne smeta ako ostane u direktorijumu pored verzije 3.0.1.
mac.2822 madamov,
Gospodo, prekjuče je i zvanično lansiran Mac OS 8. Čujem da ga već par nedelja pojedini korisnici po gradu drže na mašinama i veoma su zadovoljni (isti su držali i beta verzije što baš nije preporučljivo) i nisu imali problema. Mac OS 8 zahteva bar 68040 procesor i 12 MB RAM-a.
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TidBITS#389/21-Jul-97 ===================== Apple can shine with pride this week as it releases Mac OS 8, and in this issue, Geoff covers its many new features. We also have news about juiced-up PowerBook 1400s, an Internet-based encryption challenge in which Macintosh users can participate, and Apple's lower-than-expected quarterly loss. Tonya rounds out the issue by exploring a new Frontier in Web publishing and site management. Topics: MailBITS/21-Jul-97 Apple Powers Up the PowerBook 1400 Apple Double-Clicks Mac OS 8 Spinning the Web Part 5: New Frontiers <http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-389.html> <ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#389_21-Jul-97.etx> Copyright 1997 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. All rights reserved. Information: <info@tidbits.com> Comments: <editors@tidbits.com> --------------------------------------------------------------- tidbits.389
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Subject: Macworld Tip 113 - OS 8 - Share faster * M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Intermediate Contextual menus offer the fastest way to set up file-sharing privileges for a file or folder. Control-click on any file, folder, or volume and choose the Sharing command to go directly to the item's sharing controls. Contributed by Joseph Schorr Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Intermediate You can still use the Finder's View menu to switch between icon, list, and button views, but the same options are available right under your mouse. Just control-click on the desktop or a window (or even the tab of a collapsed pop-up window) to swtich views without traveling up to the menu bar. Contributed by Joseph Schorr Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Beginner Under Mac OS 8, control-click a window (or even the tab of a collapsed pop-up window) to quickly switch views - icon, list, and button views - without taking a trip to the menu bar. Contributed by Joseph Schorr Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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Apple Introduces Mac OS 8ĐMost Significant Macintosh Operating System Release Since 1984 Milestone Operating System Upgrade Features Improved User Experience, Best-of-Class Internet Integration, Industry Leading Multimedia, and Enhanced Performance and Stability CUPERTINO, Calif.ĐJuly 22, 1997ĐApple Computer, Inc. today introduced MacĘ OS 8, the latest operating system software release for the MacintoshĘĐand the most significant Mac OS upgrade since 1984. Mac OS 8 also represents the latest milestone in the CompanyŇs dual operating system strategy which includes the delivery of ongoing Mac OS releases and system updates, as well as Rhapsody, the code name for AppleŇs next-generation operating system. Mac OS 8 includes a multitude of new features and technologies to offer customers an improved user experience with increased productivity and efficiency, greatly simplified Internet access and leading-edge tools, state-of-the-art multimedia capabilities, and enhanced performance and stability. Avie Tevanian, senior vice president, Software Engineering at Apple said, ĎThe depth of Internet capabilities in Mac OS 8, along with a dramatically improved user experience, a faster, multi-threaded PowerPC-native Finder, and industry leading multimedia technologies will delight Macintosh customers. Mac OS 8 exemplifies AppleŇs continued commitment to advancing the Mac OS and providing customers with the industryŇs most compelling technologiesĐall with classic Macintosh ease-of-use.Ë Improved User Experience; Greater Productivity and Efficiency Mac OS 8 delivers a more advanced user experience, empowering customers with increased productivity and efficiency through improved system responsiveness, access and control, as well as scalable functionality for all user levels and a new, platinum appearance. For optimized system responsiveness, Mac OS 8 features a multi-threaded, PowerPC-native Finder, enabling faster operations and multi-tasking such as copying files while simultaneously performing other operations. To give users more direct system access and control, Mac OS 8 offers unique spring-loaded folders which open when a file is dragged on top of them; pop-up windows that allow folders, hard drives or network volumes to be moved to the bottom of the screen in the form of a tab which can then be opened with a single click; and contextual menus which give a list of actions that apply to a selected icon, window or text when it is clicked while holding down the control key. To meet the needs of all users, features in Mac OS 8 are scalable. Novice users may select the ĎView as ButtonË and/or ĎShort MenusË options for simplified access to applications and their documents. Augmenting Mac OS 8Ňs improved user experience is supplementary help available from the hyper-text information source, Mac OS Info Center. Through HTML-based content on the userŇs hard drive, the Mac OS Info Center uses the preferred browser to provide detailed information and answers to questions such as ĎWhatŇs new in Mac OS 8?Ë and ĎWhat can I do with this particular feature/technology?Ë. The Mac OS Info Center also provides live links to late-breaking Mac OS news and more detailed information on the web about AppleĘ technologies. Harness the Power of the Internet Mac OS 8 enables users to access the Internet more quickly and easily than ever before and includes a rich set of browsing, communications, and information services, as well as the ability to author and share information over the Internet. With Mac OS 8, customers can access the Internet via a single configuration process which covers all Internet elements including TCP/IP, PPP, and mail and web services. An Internet Set Up Assistant helps users configure their systems through simple questions and answers and helps first-time Internet users to select an Internet Service Provider (ISP) by giving them an up-to-date list of ISPs for their area, then automatically configures their system (U.S., Canada and Japan only) based on their selection. Single-click Internet access is provided via web browser and e-mail desktop icons as well from all applications with the ĎConnect to...Ë menu item. Best Browsing and Communications Tools Additionally, Mac OS 8 offers some of the industryŇs best browsing and communications tools, providing a full range of services for all needs. Included with Mac OS 8 are Netscape Navigator 3.01 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01 for browsing the World Wide Web. Mac OS 8 also includes Claris Emailer Lite for mail services, and America Online 3.0. Mac OS Runtime for Java, integrated with Mac OS 8, enables users to run Java cross-platform programs just like any other desktop application. Easy Web Publishing Across Platforms Mac OS 8 provides users with easy access to Internet authoring and sharing of content within intranets and over the Internet via two key featuresĐPersonal Web Sharing and Personal Net Finder. Personal Web Sharing instantly turns any Mac OS computer into a web server by enabling HTML and other web formatted content to be accessed by web browsers on any platform. Personal Net Finder provides a Finder-like listing of shared files and folders on a Mac OS computer to anyone connecting to it. This extends the capabilities of Mac OS file sharing over Internet-standard protocols to anyone, on any platform, with a browser. Leading-Edge Information Services and ĎPushË Technologies Complementing Mac OS 8Ňs outstanding Internet integration are leading-edge information services to bring customized news, information and support to the desktop. The latest ĎpushË technologies are provided including The PointCast Network and MarimbaŇs Castanet Tuner. The PointCast Network is the first news and information service to broadcast up to-the-minute content directly to a viewerŇs computer screen. The PointCast Network in Mac OS 8 will also include an Apple channel which notifies Mac users about breaking Apple-related news stories, software updates, new product announcements, customer support news, and other special information that enhances their ownership experience. MarimbaŇs Castanet technology automatically distributes and maintains Java software and content within a company or across the Internet. By bundling Castanet with Mac OS 8, customers can view any type of ĎchannelË: internal corporate applications, multimedia consumer channels, and more. Collaboration with Excite for Easy Internet Navigation As a starting point for Internet exploration, Apple has collaborated with Excite to provide information delivery and Internet navigation services in Mac OS 8. As part of this collaboration, Excite has created special versions of its leading navigation servicesĐExcite My Channel, Excite Search, and Excite GuideĐfor Apple to feature as part of the dynamic home page services in Mac OS 8. Excite My Channel (http://livepage.apple.com) delivers timely news and information based on an individual's personalized interests. Excite Search (http://livepage.apple.com/search) is a comprehensive search service that provides users with a way to locate and sort relevant online information quickly and efficiently. Excite Guide (http://livepage.apple.com/guide) provides reviews of leading websites by category. These services will be easily accessible as the defaults with the web browsers included with Mac OS 8. Premier Cross-Platform Multimedia Authoring & Playback AppleŇs multi-platform QuickTimeĘ Media Layer (QTML) technologies are showcased in Mac OS 8 to provide customers with premier multimedia authoring and playback capabilities. Integrated with Mac OS 8 is QuickTime 2.5, the widely adopted software architecture used by software tools vendors and content creators to develop and deliver synchronized graphics, sound, video, text, and music. QuickTime in Mac OS 8 also supports MPEG software decompression for full screen, full motion video playback without additional hardware on PowerPC-based Mac OS computers. With QuickTime VR 2.0, AppleŇs award-winning cross-platform software for creating and viewing photo-realistic environments (panoramas) and real-world objects, virtual reality is brought to the Mac OS 8 desktop without any additional hardware. Also included in Mac OS 8 are QuickDrawĘ 3D 1.5, a system software technology and application program interface (API) which enables the creation and rendering of real-time, workstation-class 3D graphics, and QuickDraw GX, the industry-leading architecture for 2D graphics, animation and type. Enhanced Performance & Stability Mac OS 8 brings a new level of performance and stability to the Mac OS. With more PowerPC processor optimized components, such as the Finder, overall system performance and stability are increased. As with Mac OS 7.6.1, Type 11 errors are greatly reducedĐand most application errors do not effect the system or other applications. To prevent problems before they start, system diagnosis is performed during installation including checks for disk problems and driver updating. Pricing & Availability Mac OS 8 is expected to be available in the U.S. and Canada beginning July 26, 1997. The estimated retail price for Mac OS 8 in the U.S. is $99 for the CD-ROM version. Current Mac OS 7.6. or Mac OS 7.6.1 owners will be eligible for a $30 rebate, bringing the upgrade for those customers to U.S. $69. Customers qualify for the upgrade rebate if they purchased the retail version of Mac OS 7.6, purchased a system that came with Mac OS 7.6 or 7.6.1, or received Mac OS 7.6 or 7.6.1 through the Mac OS Up-To-Date Program. Customers who purchase the retail version of Mac OS 7.6 in the U.S. between June 1 and July 31, 1997 are eligible to receive Mac OS 8 for the shipping and handling charge of U.S. $9.95 by calling the Apple Software Order Center at (800) 293-6617. Mac OS 8 will be made available for purchase on CD-ROM only, however customers may request a floppy diskette version of Mac OS 8 after purchasing the CD-ROM version by returning the coupon included inside the box. The floppy version is available for $25 plus $6.95 shipping and handling and applicable sales tax. Customers who purchase a qualifying Macintosh or Mac OS-compatible computer on or after June 22, 1997 that does not have Mac OS 8 installed or included can upgrade for the shipping and handling fee of U.S. $9.95 through the Mac OS Up-To-Date Program. For more information, visit http://www.macos.apple.com/macos/releases/fulfillment.html or call (800) 335-9258. Localized versions of Mac OS 8 are expected to be available to customers in many countries outside the U.S. in approximately 90 days. To ensure the compatibility of Mac OS 8 with all Apple Language Kits, an updater is expected to be available by July 26, 1997 on the Apple website at: http://www.info.apple.com. For additional information on Mac OS 8, please visit the Mac OS 8 website at: http://www.macos.apple.com/macos8/. System Requirements Mac OS 8 works with most existing applications, extensions and drivers, and provides excellent backward compatibility. Mac OS 8 supports all 68040- and PowerPC processor-based Mac OS compatible systems. 68030-based systems, including those with PowerPC upgrade cards, are not supported. Mac OS 8 supports Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP)-based systems. At least 12 MB of physical RAM is required. With less than 20 MB of physical RAM, virtual memory must be turned on and set to at least 20 MB.
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[8] Apple Announces Apple Internet Server Solution 3.0 Apple just announced version 3.0 of its Apple Internet Server Solution (AISS) is available immediately with Apple's Workgroup Server 7350/180 and 9650/233. By including new "best of net" software, Apple has strengthened this popular solution designed for its Workgroup Server hardware line. The new software included in AISS 3.0 provides increased functionality for customers who are tasked with content authoring, site management, and publishing. AISS 3.0 is a "web server in a box"--an all-in-one solution for customers that consists of a Workgroup Server and a CD-ROM containing all of the software required to establish a presence on the web. Software included in the Apple Internet Server Solution CD includes: * (New) CyberStudio by GoLive * (New) Rumpus FTP Server by Maxum Development * (New) FireSite Speed Booster and Virtual Domain Manager by Clearway * (New) Butler SQL by EveryWare * (New) MacTCP Watcher by Peter Lewis * WebStar/SSL by Quarterdeck/Starnine * Tango Enterprise by EveryWare * NetCloak and PageSentry by Maxum Development * BBedit by Bare Bones Software * Claris HomePage * Apple RAID and MacDNS * Acrobat Reader by Adobe * LogDoor by Open Door Networks * Netscape Navigator For more details, see the press release: <http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q4/970723.pr.rel .aiss.html>
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[9] WebObjects Now Enables Java- and CORBA-based Solutions Apple's WebObjects application development software is now able to help enterprises deliver new solutions based on Java and CORBA, as well as HTML and HTTP. Through IIOP capability bundled with market-leading web browser Netscape Communicator, customers are able to use WebObjects and the Netscape browser to create interactive and open network applications quickly and easily. WebObjects, an award-winning open development platform for the web, provides an application server, pre-built application components, and rapid application assembly tools that let customers bring enterprise solutions on-line quickly. By providing an open middle-tier application server that provides flexible support for multiple standards, WebObjects delivers more interactivity to end users and more flexibility to developers. According to Apple's senior product line manager for WebObjects, David Kay, the new use of Java and CORBA illustrates the flexibility of the WebObjects product, as Netscape Communicator and its IIOP plug-in from Visigenics Inc. were not part of the web landscape when WebObjects was designed. "The standards-based, open-systems approach taken by Apple and the former NeXT Software team in developing WebObjects enables customers to adopt new technology in 'Web Time'," said Kay. "This is just one of the ways that we are making it easier for developers to create dynamic web applications with WebObjects." The complete press release is posted to this web site: <http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q4/970723.pr.rel .webobjects.html>
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[11] Mac OS Runtime for Java 1.5 is Now Available Apple just announced the availability of Mac OS Runtime for Java 1.5 (MRJ 1.5), an implementation of Sun Microsystems's Java virtual machine (VM) and run-time environment for Macintosh and Mac OS-compatible systems. MRJ 1.5, which features a set of shared libraries and other system software files, follows on the success of Apple's MRJ 1.0 and offers improved functionality. With the addition of a PowerPC "just-in-time compiler" (JITc) and numerous graphics subsystem performance enhancements, MRJ 1.5 has the capability to offer a 10x improvement in performance over previous versions of MRJ as measured by industry standard CaffeineMarks. Additional functionality in MRJ 1.5 includes the new MRJ Toolkit, which allows developers to add Mac OS-specific functionality to Java applications. MRJ Toolkit stubs are written in 100 percent Pure Java to allow applications taking advantage of the MRJ Toolkit to automatically run on non-Mac OS platforms without modification. By taking advantage of MRJ Toolkit, developers can easily extend their applications to provide excellent support for unique Mac OS advantages without sacrificing 100 percent Pure Java compatibility. Mac OS Runtime for Java and the corresponding SDK are available for no charge when you download it from this web site: <http://applejava.apple.com/> [NOTE: When this ADN was broadcast to you on Friday, July 25, the Apple Java web site did not yet point to the final MRJ 1.5 content. Apple is working on the problem, and we hope the content will be posted by the time you access this site. If not, please try again a day later. --the ADN staff]
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[12] QuickTime Plug-in 2.0 for the Internet Announced Apple just announced the QuickTime Plug-in, version 2.0, for Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator and Communicator. Slated for release by October 1997, the plug-in will bring the advanced digital media capabilities of QuickTime 3.0 to the Internet ,including QuickTime VR 2.0 support, hotspots, the ability to play alternate movie tracks, and URL linking. The QuickTime Plug-in is planned to support most popular file formats, so that users can have a wide and rich experience with digital media content on Internet web sites. The QuickTime Plug-in 2.0 is planned to be available simultaneously on Windows 95, Windows NT, and Mac OS, and will be available by October for download over the Internet from this Apple web site: <http://quicktime.apple.com> For more details, check out the Apple press release: <http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1997/q4/970723.pr.rel .quicktime.html>
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[17] Investment Firm Is Bullish on Apple Robert M. Cohen & Company, an investment firm, issued a press release this week recommending that investors buy Apple stock on speculation. The firm estimated an 18-month price target of U.S.$ 32 per share. Despite the current turmoil, Robert M. Cohen analyst Keith R. Bossey sees 1998 as a "year of rebirth for Apple." He added, "Apple continues to dominate the creative industries and, whether publishing on paper, CD-ROM or the web, the Mac is the choice." To read the complete Yahoo press release from Robert M. Cohen & Company, see this web site: <http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/97/07/17/aapl_x000_2.html>
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[13] Apple Sales In Europe and Japan Show Healthy Growth Reading "between the lines" of last week's quarterly earnings report, there were two bright spots in Apple's sales outlook--both European and Japanese product sales showed strong growth. According to Diego Piacentini, Apple Europe's vice president of sales and general manager, "Apple Europe has trimmed back most of its excess fat. None of the staff cuts have come from sales, however. In fact, Apple has increased its European sales force by 5 to 6 percent." Joanne Taaffe of the IDG News Service, Paris Bureau, reported that Apple's third-quarter unit sales grew: * by 5 percent in the United Kingdom * by 10 percent in Switzerland * by 20 percent in Spain * by 25 percent in Italy Apple Recon, a third-party site that presents stock trading-related news about Apple, wrote that Apple's third-quarter sales grew by 70 percent in Japan, due mostly to strong PowerBook 2400 and 3400 sales. For more on this promising trend, see these two articles: * "Europe: Bright Spot for Apple," by Joanne Taaffe, IDG News Service, Paris Bureau, on the Macworld web site: <http://stage.macworld.com/daily/daily.1460.html> * "RFI Update: Apple's Better Than Expected Q3 Earnings," on the Apple Recon web site (a third-party site that presents stock trading-related news about Apple): <http://www.geocities.com/WallStreet/7744/aapl_q3_report.html>
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[18] No Winners in the Vanhacking Challenge After six weeks, the Vanhacking Challenge contest has no winner, because no one was able to break into VirTech Communications' Macintosh Internet server. From June 1 to July 15, 1997, VirTech Communications challenged the global "hacker" community to bypass the security of its Macintosh World Wide Web server. Similar contests have been conducted in the United States and Sweden, but VirTech's challenge was unique in that it has addressed popular Internet security issues. By launching the challenge, VirTech wanted to overturn the notion that the Internet is vulnerable to credit card number snatching. Any hacker who was able to attack the server--that is, break into it, snatch the credit card number, and change the phrase found on the page--would have won a hefty Canadian C$ 10,000 prize (or an equivalent U.S.$ 7,500 prize). The Macintosh server that VirTech employed was in no way modified; VirTech didn't install security software to strengthen its firewall and protect the server. The server was running Apple Internet Server Solution 2.0, an Internet network suite of products that consists of StarNine Technologies' WebStar 1.3.2 server software, and several prepackaged CGIs (common gateway interfaces). The Vanhacking site generated 283,479 hits since its launch on June 1, 1997, and analysis of the site log shows that there have been approximately 127,456 serious attempts to break into the server. "This proves that the Macintosh server is definitely one of the most secure servers on the planet," commented Frans Susilo, VirTech's Director of Operations. To share the benefits and findings of the Vanhacking Challenge outcome, VirTech will place a summary of the server preparation, the system configuration, and the events logs from the contest at the Vanhacking site: <http://www.vanhacking.com>
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[19] Apple Retains Executive Search Firm in Its Search for a New CEO Apple just announced that its Board of Directors has retained Heidrick & Struggles, a global executive search firm specializing in CEO assignments, to assist it in its search for a new CEO. Heidrick & Struggles will work closely with the search committee established by the board. Based upon the profile defined by this search committee, the firm will seek a world-class technology industry executive, both a strong leader and a hands-on manager, with a successful sales and marketing background, an established reputation and knowledge of the industry, and the ability to create, execute, and inspire. The global search will be led by John T. Thompson, vice chairman of Heidrick & Struggles, which has successfully recruited executives such as Lou Gerstner at IBM, George Fisher at Eastman Kodak, Ray Lane at Oracle, and Mort Topfer at Dell. Though the board and the firm cannot commit to a specific time frame, such a search is typically expected to take approximately 90 days.
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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 97 12:29:33 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - How A Mac Sells Itself Message-ID: <199706271930.MAA25806@scv4.apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Macintosh in Action This tidbit is from: Greg Sands <BigBlaster@prodigy.net> I sell computers for a living and, being a diehard MacHead, I never pass up an opportunity to bring new customers to the Truth. One day, a customer came in and studied the Wintel-based systems we carried. After making contact, he told me he was looking for an "inexpensive, easy computer." I told him our lowest priced system was our Performa. He immediately balked, claiming that one couldn't find software. When I challenged that, he haughtily replied "Oh, yeah? Well, I work with the blind...can you tell me WHERE I can get software for the Mac that will let what I type turn into spoken word?" I said no. He said "And can you tell me where I can find software for the Mac that will magnify the text for people who have vision problems?" I said no. As he gave me a self-satisfied smirk, I continued "There is no need to find software to do these things on a Macintosh...they're ALREADY ON THE COMPUTER." With that, I clicked on Speech and turned on CloseView and demonstrated. He even wound up buying the Maintenence Agreements! ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Wed, 2 Jul 97 12:26:53 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit- James Coates Says Something Positive About Macs Message-ID: <199707021926.MAA31188@scv2.apple.com> This tidbit is from: Rich Rubel, <Rich.Rubel@hrb.com> James Coates, who in the past has said some pretty nasty stuff about the Mac, mentions them in a good light in his recent article about the Y2K problem. To wit: "With nearly 40 million American households now owning at least one personal computer, the biggest question being asked in America about the Millennium Bug scare is simply, 'What about my computer?' "And the answer is: You have practically nothing to worry about. "(And if your computer is a Macintosh, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. Apple Computer Inc. has built its operating systems to cover through the end of 2049.)" Full text available at <http://www.sjmercury.com/gmsv/breaking/docs/061293.htm> __________________________ Digital Guy Sez: Remember, James had some recent second thoughts about MicroSoft software after a personal bad user experience. EvangeListas should applaud him for this admission! (No gloating, please! No one likes a sore winner... :) ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 97 16:35:49 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Bill Gates Says Macs "Important" In Educational Market Message-ID: <199707012334.QAA24318@scv2.apple.com> This tidbit is from: The Digital Guy <mailto:evangelist@apple.com> Well, this was too beautiful not to post. The lead in the educational market is conceded by...Bill Gates! <http://www.sjmercury.com/gmsv/breaking/docs/040590.htm> "In a thinly veiled reference to Windows and Microsoft-based computing platforms, Gates urged the educators to provide students technology similar to what they will encounter in the workplace. "But Gates was applauded when he responded to a question by saying, 'I think the Macintosh is going to continue to be very, very important in the educational environment for a long, long period of time.'" ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com> ------------------------------
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Date: Wed, 2 Jul 97 12:26:46 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Cool "Hidden" 660 or 840 AV MAc Feature Message-ID: <199707021925.MAA19630@scv2.apple.com> This tidbit is from: Danail Glogov, <danail@apple-imc.bg> I just got an excellent tip from a friend of mine. All you need is an old Quadra 660AV/840AV. Here is how to create a stunning effect... Create a color sample in any graphics application -- Red=0%, Green=7%, Blue=0%. Make it a desktop pattern. Your desktop should turn very dark green now. Connect a VCR or camera to your video-in port. Open Apple Video Player, then hide it from the Applications menu - the live video will become part of the desktop. And if the Apple Video Player is in full screen mode your entire desktop will be a video screen. By the way, any pixel on your screen that is the same color will be transparent for the video image. You can draw circles filled with live video in ClarisWorks or have interesting Netscape Navigator video background (not quite easy for reading, though). Unfortunately, it seems to work on Quadra AV only - I tested it on Power Mac 8500, 8600 and 6400 without success. Apparently the lack of DSP in the recent AV-capable Power Macs prevents them from displaying video in hidden mode. ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 97 16:35:06 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - World Police Fire Games - All on Macs Message-ID: <199707012334.QAA09182@scv2.apple.com> This announcement is from: Bill Pearce <bill_pearce@vela.ca> Over 8,700 Police Officers and Firefighters from 45 countries have begun to arrive here in Calgary, Alberta, Canada for the second largest sporting event ever held. The World Police/Fire Games (WPFG) will take place starting on June 28, 1997 and running through July 4. An army of 5,600 volunteers has been mobilized to ensure that the over 1400 events from 64 sports run smoothly. To this point the Registration centre has seen more than half of the athletes check in. The registration began Thursday morning and will continue throughout the week with most of the participants checking in before the weekend is over. This registration system, like all aspects of the games, is running on Macintosh computers. Apple Canada, the largest sponsor of these World Police/Fire Games, is providing the Games with all of the computer equipment required to run the games. Managing the Games requires a system to register close to nine-thousand athletes in over 1400 events from the 64 sports. VELA Information Management Consultants, a local Calgary company, is sponsoring the Games by designing and implementing a client/server database athlete registration system. The Registration system's GUI front end was developed in Omnis 7 to provide a multi-user system which runs on the donated Apple hardware. The database will be Oracle7 which will be deployed on an Apple Network server 500 running AIX. The system will allow access for over thirty concurrent workstations and is designed to emphasize speed and functionality. These requirements are vital due to the heavy demands placed upon the system during athlete check-in and processing. The athlete images will be captured using QuickTake digital cameras and then printed on the Participant id cards using Apple Color 12/600 PS Laser Printers. There are several other custom systems developed by Games volunteers which are all running on Macintosh computers. As the games go on Macintosh computers will be redeployed to the sport venues to be used in results tracking and sport management. The volunteer accreditation system is a FileMaker/QuickTake application which has seen close to 6,000 volunteer accreditation badges printed. Vela has been working closely with the Calgary office of Apple Canada to ensure that the Games are a rousing success on the technological level. If the first couple of days are any indication then these Games will be the best ever! Because the computer systems are all Apple Macintosh Computers the games are able to allocate volunteers where they were needed. The volunteers are spending their time working with the Athletes, not supporting the computers. VELA also designed a Web based product catalog to market the games merchandise as well as setting up the sponsorship page. The product Catalog is a Tango/FileMaker application running on Vela's Macintosh Web server. Information about these can be found on the Vela/WPFG Sponsorship page. VELA is a local company with offices in Calgary, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. VELA offers consulting services in information technology and systems development. Our expertise includes systems analysis and design, cross platform client/server database development, and Internet integration. Our dedication to creating effective, innovative solutions has established VELA as a leader in client/server development. Related Links: World Police Fire Games Calgary 1997 <http://www.WPFGcalgary97.ucalgary.ca/> World Police Fire Games Product Catalog <http://207.228.126.34/cgi-bin/wpfgCatalog/Order_Instr.html> Apple Canada Inc. <http://www.apple.ca/> VELA Information Management Consultants <http://www.vela.ca/> Vela/WPFG Corporate Sponsorship <http://207.228.126.34/> Bill Pearce Senior Business Consultant VELA Information Management Consultants 665 8th Street SW, Suite 300 Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 3K7 (403) 263-2553 (Phone) (403) 234-9033 (Fax) <bill_pearce@vela.ca> (Email) ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com> ------------------------------
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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 97 11:20:25 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Is Microsoft's PR Dept. Losing It? Message-ID: <199707031824.LAA06118@scv3.apple.com> This tidbit is from: Jon L. Gardner, <jgardner@kairosnet.com> I just spotted ad for Microsoft Exchange Server in this week's Network World. One of the listed "advantages" of using Exchange Server (and the rest of the BackOffice suite, for that matter) is, and I quote, "Spend more quality time configuring hardware." Gosh, that's just what I've been looking for... ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Wed, 2 Jul 97 12:26:56 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Powerbook Survives Downpour During Concert Message-ID: <199707021926.MAA31204@scv2.apple.com> This tidbit is from: Christian Dupuis, <maconly@CAM.ORG> On June 24th, the St-Jean Baptiste holiday in Quebec which is also celebrated in francophone cities outside the province, Claude Dubois, a popular singer in French Canada was giving a concert in Windsor, Ontario. Alain Sauvageau, his band leader, owns and uses a Powerbook 190 to control his midi units, and the little computer is an essential part of all his shows (they also use a Quadra 840AV in studio for recording work, and Claude uses a Powerbook 160 to write his songs on the road, so you could say they like their Macs). During the show, a sudden summer downpour drenched part of the stage, and the 190 got a small shower; despite seeing his keyboard partly waterlogged, Alain was still able to operate his equipment until the end of the show, then he shut it off, emptied the water out and dryed the machine. On the next day, he started up the machine but was having problems with the trackpad. He brought it to the shop, I took it apart, gently dried the trackpad's connector, reassembled it and lo and behold, it was working perfectly like nothing ever happened! Of course, I wouldn't recommend anybody try this experiment during a show with thousands in attendance, but I'm pretty sure an Intel box wouldn't have fared as well. Once again, Apple saves the day! ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Thu, 3 Jul 97 11:20:28 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - How to Make PC Techies Salivate Message-ID: <199707031824.LAA06130@scv3.apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better This tidbit is from: epastore, <epastore@erols.com> I often encounter stunned, disbelieving, incredulous, and/or reverent looks from Dos techies when I tell them what my job entails. As the Network Manager/Computer Specialist at a national trade association, I am responsible for basically everything having to do with technology for this 50-person organization. I program about one major and four minor databases a month. One I have made will be nationally distributed as a run-time program. (I use FileMaker Pro, of course. I'd be lucky to get one of those databases done in FoxPro in the time it takes me to whip out five in FileMaker.) I manage all internet services, including the actual connection, web technical issues, e-mail list serving, the e-mail server, etc. I also manage all internal networking and intranet capabilities, including remote access. I manage a total of five different servers. I make the technology budget, select and purchase all equipment and software, and work with vendors when necessary. I write computer training materials. I develop and implement various programs, like an energy conservation strategy. AND (and this is the kicker) I maintain and troubleshoot more than fifty computers. This means fixing hardware problems, troubleshooting any system/software failures, installing all software, replacing or upgrading systems, maintaining their network presence, training new employees, backing up all files, etc., etc. Wintel network managers' eyes get wider and wider when I tell them my job responsibilities. They just flat-out don't believe me when I tell them I usually only work seven hours a day. And yes, my employees are ecstatically happy with the job I do. And no, I _never_ call in consultants to help me with my job. My company saves a lot of money just by the fact that one person can do all of this alone. They save a great deal more by having virtually no down-time for any of their computers. If someone needs a scanner, I order it and next day install it in five minutes. Try that on a PC. This is not to toot my horn. There is no way I could do all of that stuff if I had to deal with Windows (any version). I tell the disbelieving PC folks that it's not that I'm any smarter than them... it's just that my computers are smarter. But then again... I guess that does make me smarter, doesn't it? ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 97 11:01:33 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Crack a Mac - The Next Generation Message-ID: <199707081802.LAA10942@scv4.apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better This announcement is from: Christine Pamp, <christine@infinit.se> Crack a Mac - The Next Generation ================================= INTRODUCTION The challenge "Crack a Mac" is back in its next generation. For the second time infinit information AB challenges all the hackers of the world to attack our Macintosh webserver "Hacke". For the second time there is also a generous award of SEK 100.000 to be collected by the first one - if any - to succeed. During the first challenge we were given no reason to doubt the security of the system, and now "Hacke" is back to prove that even with several extra features a Mac OS Webserver is completely safe. The first challenge can only be described as a complete success, at least concerning the publicity and goodwill it created around the MacOS platform. If you haven't yet read the evaluation it is still available at <http://hacke.infinit.se/old/resumeng.html>. On the other hand we have realised that there are some questions yet to be answered in order to achieve the hard proof we want on the ability of MacOS as a webserver platform. By this next generation of "Hacke" we fully intend to answer these questions. This time Hacke is setup with all the features that were previously asked for. It can now be remotely administrated, it hosts databases and much more. Our main objective is to provide you with an exiting challenge and - of course - once again try to prove the great security of Mac OS. >From July 4 until October 15 "Hacke" will be available for new attacks at the adress: <http://hacke.infinit.se/> OBJECTIVES AND FEATURES The main objective of "Crack a Mac - The Next Generation" is to follow up on the first challenge and especially on the issues where we recieved criticism. Consequently we will expand "Hacke" with several new features to show that MacOS is totally safe: - Not sensitive to destructive attacks (POD, Syn_flood) with MacOS 8 - The webserver is open to remote administration with SiteEdit Pro - It handles several different domains with ClearlyHome - Interactive connections to databases with Lasso and FileMaker On July 4 at 00.00 (GMT +1) more information will be available about the details on the server setup at <http://hacke.infinit.se/docs/server.html>. If you need the information earlier, please don't hesitate to contact us. SCHEDULE "Crack a Mac - The Next Generation" starts on July 4 00.00 (GMT+1) and runs until October 15. THE AWARD The first succesful try - if any - to crack the server and change the content of the main page will be genorously awarded with SEK 100,000. The amount is garanteed by infinit information and several of Apples resellers in Sweden. From July 4 you will find further information about our sponsors at <http://hacke.infinit.se/docs/sponsors.html>. CONCLUSION The issue of security is still given much attention in the press and there are continuously new reports on problems with NT and Unix. On the other hand a very small share of attention is given to the security of MacOS. We want to change that! We are not saying that MacOS is the best alternative for everyone, but we truly believe that it is a considerably secure system and a very easy-to-use alternative. MacOS deserves more attention in the debate on webservers and security! Please contact Joakim Jardenberg or Christine Pamp at infinit information AB, <joakim@infinit.se> eller <christine@infinit.se>, for further information. ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Još jedan Apple Developer News koji govori o Rapsodiji i strategiji paralelnog razvoja dva operatvina sistema. adn66.txt
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TidBITS#390/28-Jul-97 ===================== Mac OS 8 - it's here to stay! Geoff Duncan delves into some subtleties of this major upgrade, and qualifies everything with a bit of informal usability testing with some normal Mac users. This issue also features the release of the Robert Hess Memorial Macworld Party List, and an announcement of ClarisWorks for Kids. Finally, Tonya takes a site-centric view of Web publishing by comparing Site Weaver, SiteMill, and CyberStudio Pro. Topics: MailBITS/28-Jul-97 Kicking the Tires on Mac OS 8 Spinning the Web Part 6: Linking up with Site Managers <http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-390.html> <ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/pub/tidbits/issues/1997/TidBITS#390_28-Jul-97.etx> Copyright 1997 TidBITS Electronic Publishing. All rights reserved. Information: <info@tidbits.com> Comments: <editors@tidbits.com> --------------------------------------------------------------- tidbits.390
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* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Beginner Control-click an icon or window under Mac OS 8 and get a pop-up menu that lists actions that apply to your selection. For example, if you control-click on a disk icon, the pop-up menu lists Open, Get Information, Share, or Create an alias. Once the menu has popped-up, you can release both keys--the menu stays open by itself until you click the mouse again. Contributed by Franklin N. Tessler related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages//.3854.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Intermediate You can burrow through as many folders as you want as long as keep the mouse button depressed. Moving the magnifying glass out of a window automatically closes it, so you won't end up with a lot of window clutter. Contributed by Joseph Schorr Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Beginner Want to save some screen space but still have quick access to folders on your Mac? With Mac OS 8, drag a window to the bottom of the screen and it turns into a small tab that stays anchored there. Click on the tab, and the window pops open. Drag the tab off the bottom, and it turns back into a conventional window. Contributed by Franklin N. Tessler Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Beginner The WindowShade control panel is gone from Mac OS 8, but the functionality lives on, but with a new twist: option-clicking on the collapse box rolls up not only that window, but every open window on your screen. (Option-double-clicking anywhere on a window's title bar does the same thing if you have that option enabled in the Appearance Settings control panel.) Contributed by Joseph Schorr related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages//.3852.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Intermediate The HTML tag <hr> lets ou add horizaontal rules to a web page, but you can't control its color--like early Model T's, all you get is black. So instead of using the <hr> tag, add some color to your horizontal rules with a single-pixel GIF and the tag <img scr=dot_pink.gif width=490 height=4 vspace=12>, where dot_pink.gif is the name of the single-pixel GIF file. Adjust the height, width, and color to your preference. (Check out a sample at www.macworld.com/more/.) Contributed by Jim Heid related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages//.3858.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 97 10:54:18 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Sites Going with Mac OS Message-ID: <199707081756.KAA22666@scv1.apple.com> This tidbit is from: <g.wagner@sylvania.sev.org> (George Wagner) A post on the Macintouch website <www.macintouch.com> stated: "Peter Ternstrom reports that DN, a major Swedish publisher, is converting from Unix/NT to Macintosh-based systems after a long testing period, and he says that the University of Kalmar is moving its web servers to the Mac OS, too. " Looks like some good news. ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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* M A C W O R L D D A I L Y T I P * from the Macintosh resource <http://www.macworld.com> Level: Intermediate If you have a Power Mac and turn off virtual memory for better performance, your Mac automatically turns off file mapping. Consequently all you rnative applications require more RAM. RAM Doubler (Connectix, 415/571-5100, www.connectix.com) turns file mapping back on; native applications once again require less memory and you recover megabytes of real RAM--15MB from a suite of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Adobe Photoshop. Contributed by Robert C. Eckhardt related URLs: <http://www.macworld.com/pages//.3856.html> Copyright 1997 Macworld Communications Inc.
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 15:17:40 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Old Mac Plus *Still* In Use Message-ID: <199707112218.PAA22154@scv4.apple.com> This tidbit is from: Peter Ruhe, <peterr@wimsey.com> In the summer of 1984, I bought an original new 128K Macintosh, and an ImageWriter printer. Over the years I upgraded that Mac to a 4MB Mac Plus with an external 20MB hard drive, running System 7.0. While I now own a Centris 610, the Mac Plus remains "in the family": my younger brother uses it regularly for Internet email (Eudora software) and word processing (ClarisWorks 1.0). The 20MB hard drive is less than half full! He also uses the ImageWriter printer. The old Mac Plus, though slow compared to modern machines, is beautifully simple, reliable, compact, and easy to learn. My mother-in-law is hoping that someday my brother will upgrade to a newer machine, so that she can have the cute Mac Plus! __________________________ Digital Guy Sez: Late last year I *finally* gave my old Mac Plus (my first Mac) to some friends to use for home schooling their kids. I loaded 7.5.3, lot's of shareware games and goodies, and dug up some old educational software packages I had in the closet (as my wife will tell you, I *never* seem to throw stuff away. :) Almost a year later it's still being used daily by both the kids and the adults. The thing that surprised me the most? The fact that even with only 4 megs I could still open more than one application, and that it wasn't THAT slow. :) ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 97 11:01:33 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Crack a Mac - The Next Generation Message-ID: <199707081802.LAA10942@scv4.apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better This announcement is from: Christine Pamp, <christine@infinit.se> Crack a Mac - The Next Generation ================================= INTRODUCTION The challenge "Crack a Mac" is back in its next generation. For the second time infinit information AB challenges all the hackers of the world to attack our Macintosh webserver "Hacke". For the second time there is also a generous award of SEK 100.000 to be collected by the first one - if any - to succeed. During the first challenge we were given no reason to doubt the security of the system, and now "Hacke" is back to prove that even with several extra features a Mac OS Webserver is completely safe. The first challenge can only be described as a complete success, at least concerning the publicity and goodwill it created around the MacOS platform. If you haven't yet read the evaluation it is still available at <http://hacke.infinit.se/old/resumeng.html>. On the other hand we have realised that there are some questions yet to be answered in order to achieve the hard proof we want on the ability of MacOS as a webserver platform. By this next generation of "Hacke" we fully intend to answer these questions. This time Hacke is setup with all the features that were previously asked for. It can now be remotely administrated, it hosts databases and much more. Our main objective is to provide you with an exiting challenge and - of course - once again try to prove the great security of Mac OS. >From July 4 until October 15 "Hacke" will be available for new attacks at the adress: <http://hacke.infinit.se/> OBJECTIVES AND FEATURES The main objective of "Crack a Mac - The Next Generation" is to follow up on the first challenge and especially on the issues where we recieved criticism. Consequently we will expand "Hacke" with several new features to show that MacOS is totally safe: - Not sensitive to destructive attacks (POD, Syn_flood) with MacOS 8 - The webserver is open to remote administration with SiteEdit Pro - It handles several different domains with ClearlyHome - Interactive connections to databases with Lasso and FileMaker On July 4 at 00.00 (GMT +1) more information will be available about the details on the server setup at <http://hacke.infinit.se/docs/server.html>. If you need the information earlier, please don't hesitate to contact us. SCHEDULE "Crack a Mac - The Next Generation" starts on July 4 00.00 (GMT+1) and runs until October 15. THE AWARD The first succesful try - if any - to crack the server and change the content of the main page will be genorously awarded with SEK 100,000. The amount is garanteed by infinit information and several of Apples resellers in Sweden. From July 4 you will find further information about our sponsors at <http://hacke.infinit.se/docs/sponsors.html>. CONCLUSION The issue of security is still given much attention in the press and there are continuously new reports on problems with NT and Unix. On the other hand a very small share of attention is given to the security of MacOS. We want to change that! We are not saying that MacOS is the best alternative for everyone, but we truly believe that it is a considerably secure system and a very easy-to-use alternative. MacOS deserves more attention in the debate on webservers and security! Please contact Joakim Jardenberg or Christine Pamp at infinit information AB, <joakim@infinit.se> eller <christine@infinit.se>, for further information. ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 97 15:17:29 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: :-) - Live Demo of Windows Stupidity Message-ID: <199707112218.PAA32356@scv4.apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares This tidbit is from: Robert A. Jung, <rjung1@msmail2.hac.com> I'm not a subscriber to the Evangelist mailing list. However, I am a Macadvocate who visits the web page recently. And when the following incident occurred, I just had to share it with everyone else... So I'm working in my office when my co-worker Tim pops in. He has a problem with his PC (running Windows 3.1), can I lend a hand? Sure, I say, and we hike down to his office. His problem's a simple one: he's looking at a MS Word file in File Manager, but when he double-clicks it, Windows/FM says that the file cannot be opened. "It worked just fine yesterday!" Tim moans. I mutter a few words against Windows while I fire up MS Word 6.0 on his machine. Word opens it without any problems, and I realize what was wrong. "Your file doesn't have the .DOC extension on it," I explain. "Without it, File Manager doesn't know it's an MS Word file, and can't open the program." To demonstrate, I quit MS Word, add a .DOC extension to his filename, and double-click. This time, it opens automatically. Tim is relieved, but thinks I'm kidding -- there's no way Windows can be *that* dumb. To prove my point, I quit MS Word, change the .DOC extension to a .XLS extension (Microsoft Excel), and double-click. Of course, brain-dead Windows ASSUMES it's an Excel file, so it tries (and fails) to use Excel to open his document... I'm cleaning things up, and Tim is shaking his head in abject disbelief. As I walk out the door, I can't help but add, "Yes, Microsoft Windows is this stupid. Now you see why I use a Mac?" And I happen to be wearing my Apple dress shirt at the office today...! ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 12:54:29 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Followup - Old Mac *still* Plugging Away Message-ID: <199707141956.MAA27564@scv1.apple.com> This tidbit is from: Michael Carman, <michaelc@xl.ca> After reading the recent "Old Mac still in use" stories on the Evangelist, I just had to jump in with my own. After owning an Apple ][+ and then //e way back when, I took the plunge and joined the ranks of Mac owners in '89 with the purchase of a twin-floppy 4 meg SE/external 80 meg hard drive combination. I happily used that machine for years, even surfing the Net using MacWeb, Eudora, NewsWatcher and Ircle. Upgrades consisted of installing System 7.1 when it was released and the addition of a 14,400 modem and StyleWriter II printer. We are now a two Mac family with a 7600/120 in the family room and a IIsi in my daughter's room but my old venerable SE is *still* going strong over at my brother's house and gets used every single day. When they buy a new Mac, I'll be packing the SE away in its original boxes with all its software and bringing it out to use in about twenty years or so when I expect to finally have time to write the great Canadian novel. :-) ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2857 madamov,
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 12:54:17 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Jean Michel Jarre Uses Macintosh Message-ID: <199707141956.MAA11652@scv1.apple.com> This tidbit is from: Pritchard Andy, <APRITCHARD@dsl.uk.ibm.com> England, Prime Time television programme: 7.30pm, BBC1, "Gadgets" Jean Michel Jarre, French Musician, reveals his favorite gadgets: several strange musical instruments, a mini video camera, a digital camera and an Apple Powerbook which he uses (amongst other things, I presume) to watch his pet goldfish back in France via a video link. __________________________ Digital Guy Sez: What, no URL for the goldfish? :) ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2859 madamov,
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 97 12:54:34 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - The Postive Aspects of Low Marketshare Message-ID: <199707141956.MAA24006@scv1.apple.com> This tidbit is from: George Wagner, <g.wagner@sylvania.sev.org> People, especially in the media, seem to miss the fact that Apple "low marketshare" is partially related to is high customer loyalty. What? you say. Well if Apple had made computers that needed to be replaced every 2 to 3 years, then their marketshare would have been much higher as these replacement systems would have increased their annual sales significantly. However, this would have also diminished their customer loyalty since these people would not have been as impressed with longevity of the systems. While I have been impressed with the Macintosh, its longevity has gone a long way to instill my high regard. __________________________ Digital Guy Sez: This is one of the major reason I post those "This Old Mac" kinda stories -- PC users, as a group, have a really hard time believing that a computer that's nearly ten years old is useful. That's because the product life cycle of Wintel based computers is radically shorter than the Macs. While so-called "journalists" like to tout marketshare as a sure sign of Apple's troubles, where would Apple be if our Mac "life cycle" was even remotely the same as a PCs? ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2860 madamov,
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 97 14:10:48 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Bug in Pentium Pro/II Chips Message-ID: <199707152114.OAA14908@apple.com> This tidbit is from: Craig A. Mattocks, <mattocks@aoml.noaa.gov> See the latest (August 1997) issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal on a serious bug which has been found in both the Pentium Pro and Pentium II chips. Known as the "Dan-0411" or "Flag Erratum" bug, it is caused by converting a large floating-point number into an integer. Normally, if the number is too big to be stored as an 80-bit integer, an overflow error flag (Invalid Operand Exception flag or FSW.IE) is set in the status register. Programs/compilers detect this flag to avoid crashes. Unfortunately, the Pentium Pro/II chips do not set this flag correctly. This can be serious, especially in graphics display, numerical analysis, and game software. A similar type of overflow bug caused the explosion of an Ariane 5 rocket, less than a minute into its launch. The overflow was not detected by the computer software, which caused a memory dump, and the dump was interpreted by the rocket as instructions to its rocket nozzles. KA-BOOM! For more info, including source code and *.EXE test programs: <http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/> <http://www.ddj.com> __________________________ Digital Guy Sez: Gives a whole new meaning to the term "system crash", deosn't it? ;-) ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2861 desha,
Dali bi mi neko mogao reci nesto o modelu PowerBook 140 (CPU, Disply, RAM-osnovni model, mogucnost prosirenja itd.). Unaprijed Hvala.
mac.2862 madamov, -> #2861, desha
> Dali bi mi neko mogao reci nesto o modelu PowerBook 140 > (CPU, Disply, RAM-osnovni model, mogucnost prosirenja itd.). Motorola MC68030, 16MHz, bez koprocesora, 2 MB RAM-a na matičnoj ploči, može da se dogradi do 8 MB. 1-bit pasini ekran, što će reći crno-bela makina. Porizvodio se od avgusta 1991. do oktobra 1992. godine.
mac.2863 madamov,
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 97 10:25:42 -0800 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - REALLY Old Mac Message-ID: <199707231726.KAA14244@apple.com> This tidbit is from: Holyoke, Larry, <Larry.Holyoke@metrokc.gov> After reading past postings about users fond memories of their old Mac Plus, I thought I'd add-in my own posting. I have past experiences with a number of different platform, VAX PDP 11-30, Alpha Microsystems, Xerox ALTO (I'm a former Xeroid and proud of it) and Base-4 minicomputers. However, it was the combination of the ALTO and the Mac-Plus which converted me into a Mac user. As a die-hard Mac user (and by force a Win'95 user) I have to say I miss my old Mac-Plus and wished I'd kept it. Since my Mac-Plus, I've purchased a LISA (at an auction at Osborne Computer), Mac IIx and my current Performa 600CD, and yes, soon I plan to purchase a new MacIntosh (maybe not an Apple, but a Mac all the same). I still have my working LISA (Mac-XL) using System 6.0.3, with 1 MB Ram / 10 MB Profile Hard Drive. There are days I actually crank her up to show off to my Wintel friends, 13 years and still going strong. They are especially surprised when they see version 1.0 of MS Word, Excel and Power Point. Many of them thought these programs started out as Windows applications. (Yes, all those programs, plus others with the operating system fit on the HD) As a Win'95 user, I have a lot of negative things to say . . ., but that's another story. ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2866 madamov,
Intervista Delivers On High Demand for Macintosh VRML Support SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 21, 1997-- Intervista Software, a leading provider of three-dimensional interactive software for the Internet, today announced the Macintosh operating system (OS) version of its successful WorldView 2.0 software, the company's Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML)-based Internet browser. WorldView 2.0 for the Macintosh runs as a native Netscape plug-in and will be available on Microsoft Internet Explorer. Based on the successful windows version, all of the powerful features remain, including support for the VRML 2.0 specification combined with Intervista's functional and performance enhancements and a simple, intuitive user interface. Additionally, WorldView 2.0 for the Macintosh uses the industry standard QuickDraw3D for rendering so that content developers and consumers may automatically take advantage of existing hardware acceleration. ... Availability The WorldView 2.0 Macintosh public beta is immediately available to software developers and Internet users from the Intervista web site: <http://www.intervista.com>
mac.2864 madamov,
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 97 10:26:29 -0800 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: posting Message-ID: <199707231727.KAA17638@apple.com> <stevenj@alum.mit.edu> Tidbit: This was in the 7/21/97 "Spencer F. Katt" article in PCWeek: "One Furball Fan wrote in with a heads-up about the underpinnings of Dell's wildly successful online store. Don't be fooled by those 'Powered by Microsoft Office' banners all over the Web site. This tipster claims he discovered the real guts of the site that handles millions of dollars' worth of transactions everyday: WebObjects, from the company formerly known as NeXT.'" ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2865 madamov,
"Editor's Choice" as the Best Utility in 1997 for the new Mac OS 8 Salinas, CA: (July 11, 1997) Casady & Green, Inc., developers of the highest rated Macintosh utility, announces the release of Conflict Catcher 4.0.3. Conflict Catcher 4 continues the award winning standards of excellence for conflict resolution and startup file management. Conflict Catcher 4 provides essential tools for maintaining peace and harmony with OS 8. Conflict Catcher 4 has been awarded 5 stars from Macworld Magazine as well as Editors choice for the Best Utility in 1997, Macworld Best of Show 1997, 4 1/2 diamonds form MacWEEK Magazine, 4 1/2 apples form MacHome Journal and "Freakin Awesome" from MacAddict. The Newest Features and Benefits of Conflict Catcher 4.0.3 Full support for Mac OS 8 * Properly handles Appearance Extension Conflict Catcher 4.0.3 does not allow Appearance Extension (which must be enabled for Mac OS 8 to successfully startup) to be disabled. All previous versions of Conflict Catcher would allow users to disable Appearance Extension which results in Mac OS 8 not successfully starting up. * Mac OS 8 Sets and Links Conflict Catcher 4.0.3 includes the latest Mac OS 8 Sets and Links. This complies with the wishes of most technical support departments when handling customers with problems. The first thing they generally ask customers to do is disable all non Apple startup files. Other new features * New Find and Find Again capability accessible via the File menu or "command-F" or "command-G" for Find Again. * Added "Scan for damaged files" to Special menu for easier accessibility. * Duplicating a set will now select the newly duplicated set. * Conflict Tests work properly under Mac OS 8 Previous versions of Conflict Catcher automatically disable Appearance Extension when running a Conflict Test. This again results in the Macintosh not being able to startup.
mac.2867 madamov,
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 97 17:34:57 -0800 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - A Reminder of Why We Love Macs (LONG) Message-ID: <199707290036.RAA27782@apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares This LONG tidbit is from: Gregory Weston, <bastion1@netcom.com> This is _not_ where I wanted to go today. At work this week, I've been getting occasional messages from both Windows and Norton Utilities warning me that I'm running low on disk space. Low apparently covers any amount under about 75M on the boot drive. This morning, I decided to do something about it. Last year, Microsoft released Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2, aka Win95b. Among the features are a new file system that, while unreadable to any other OS (including NT), allows more efficient use of disk space by dividing the disk into more/smaller allocation blocks. I've had a 1G partition on one of my disks formatted this way for months with no ill effects, so I decided to give it a try on my boot volume. I quick look at the 2G boot volume (on the same physical drive as the aforementioned 1G partition) confirms that it's an excellent candidate; while nearly the whole 2G is allocated, the oversize blocks mean that over 1/3 of the space is wasted. Here's the basic plan: I archive the contents of my boot volume, delete and recreate the partition with the new file system, and then restore the hierarchy I started with. I did something essentailly that on my Mac at home not too long ago, but not trusting things to be that simple, I ask a couple of people who use Windows by choice to critique the plan...and get answers which are far from comforting. Someone suggests a utility that creates exact disk images, but I decide this is not the best idea if I'm actually changing part of the drive's structure. Eventually I turn to Microsoft's online knowledge base and find a 7-page article describing how to replace your boot drive without disturbing the existing organization. Now I'm set. Step 1: Use MS Backup to back up your whole system. Okay. Well, I don't want to back up the second drive and the other partition on my main drive, so I let it select 'everything' and then manually remove the 2 extra volumes from the backup set. So far, so good. I move what's on drive 1, partition 2, over to drive 2, start the backup writing to the newly blank partition, and then go off to do something at the other end of the room. 45 minutes later, the backup is just about done. I walk over to watch it finish and am greeted with a dialog telling me that - after apparently backing everything up - Backup has detected a serious problem with the memory manager. I should reboot and try again. If the problem persists, reinstall backup. Then it auto-quits on me. Fine. I toss the untrustworthy archive, reboot, and try again. After another 45 minutes, I get the same result. Humph. I toss the archive in the recycle bin. Then I think: "I wonder if there's a way to verify the archive." I relaunch Backup. Lo! There _is_ an option to check the validity of the backup. Head for the recycle bin to get my archive...and it's gone. I didn't explicitly empty it, but it's gone nevertheless. Sigh. One more time. Back up, wait a while, get an error, verify the archive. It's fine. The only discrepancy is a couple of what appear to be temp files for the backup software itself. Step 2: Use FDISK and FORMAT to prepare my 'new' drive. So what I want to do is get rid of the existing (primary DOS, the call it) partition, and then recreate it so it supports smaller allocation blocks. Reboot with a DOS floppy, run FDISK, try to delete the partition. I can't, though. Can't delete a primary DOS partition while 'extended partitions' exist on the volume. And the extended partition is where I made the backup. Off to visit the LAN guys. "Any place I can store 630M for a while?" "Sure. Put it <tappity-tappity> there." It takes 40-50 minutes to 'put it there.' Now there's nothing on my primary drive that I need. Reboot into DOS again. Run FDISK. Delete extended partition. Nope. Not while there's a volume on the partition. Delete volume (confirm 3 times). Delete extended partition. Delete primary partition (confirm 3 times). Create a primary DOS partition. Go ahead; use the whole space. Now we wait several minutes for a surface scan. Taptaptaptaptap. Confirm? Yes. For some reason we have to surface scan again. And we've got a partition. Woohoo! Type FORMAT C: and browse through a copy of PCWeek while we wait for 3G to be formatted. Step 3: Install a fresh copy of Win95 on the newly prepared disk. This should be simple; I got a Win95b CD with this machine several months ago. Pop the CD in, reboot off my nearly-blank-but-bootable C: drive and try to get at the CD. No good. Have to load CD drivers. Great. Dig out the install floppy for the CD driver. Run the Setup program on that disk. Can't install unless MSCDEX.EXE is on the boot drive. And it's not. But my D: drive, which was my C: drive months ago, still has a DOS/Win3.1 installation, and I found MSCDEX there. Copy it to C:, restart the CD driver installation, reboot again, and now I can get at my Win95 CD. Let's run the Win95 setup program. It tries to run a utility to confirm the integrity of the disk, runs out of memory, and recommends I make sure HIMEM.SYS is loaded, reboot, and try again. I override this, confident in the previous disk scans of the day. Up comes the setup dialog. We scan my system and find a problem. Seems that the full install copies of Win95 won't install if there's already an OS (remember the Win3.1 on my D: drive) installed on your system; you need an upgrade install instead. Okay. Turn off the machine, disconnect the power and interface cables to my D: drive, turn it back on, and _now_ I can install Windows 95. Along the way, it finds hardware it doesn't recognize. I'm supposed to help it find drivers for something it refers to as "Unknown Device." I hit Cancel. Finishing the install requires another reboot or two, but I finally get it going. Step 4: Restore the data I backed up earlier, making sure to Replace Older Files and Restore Directory Structure (or something like that). Okay. Time to get the archive file I copied over the LAN earlier. Can't seem to access the LAN, though. I poked at it for a bit. Then I called over someone else. He poked at it for several bits. We're literally spending more time rebooting than we are on intervening attempts to get the machine to recognize the LAN. At 3:00, he gives up and I summon a LAN guy. He doesn't restart as often, and after about an hour and a half I can access the networked drive where I put the archive file. He said something about Windows somehow making the network card forget what it was. I started copying my archive file back to the local drive. I left at 5:00. The copy wasn't even close to done. Tomorrow, I get to see whether I can actually restore my files. __________________________ Digital Guy Sez: Yeah, it was really long. I think that's the point. I've done things like this on the Mac regularly, and probably would have had the whole thing done in two hours (and that would be due to the large file copy more than anything else). Can anyone say "bootable CD-ROM disk?" ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2868 madamov,
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 97 17:37:17 -0800 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: ;-) - PowerBook 3400c Gets the Last Laugh Message-ID: <199707290038.RAA31934@apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better, Windows Daymares This tidbit is from: John David N. Dionisio, <dondi@cs.ucla.edu> Here's yet another story to add to your archives. Last week, I made a presentation at a Telemedicine conference in San Diego. They had a nice, bright projector with a VGA connector, which I connected (directly now, thanks to the VGA-compatible port) to my PowerBook 3400c a few minutes before we began. The PowerBook started up, recognized the projector, and I was able to give a clear, semi-animated presentation + live software demonstrations. Well, after my turn was up, the next presentor came up to the podium. As I was disconnecting my PowerBook, I heard him scoff, under his breath, "Oh, it's an *Apple*." As if he was mocking my choice of machine for making these presentations. As this was a professional gathering, I withheld any snappy comebacks that may have come to mind, and started entertaining some questions from the audience about my presentation. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the presentor pull out an IBM ThinkPad, which he promptly set on the podium and hooked up to the projector's VGA connection. Guess what...he turned on the ThinkPad, and there was nothing but static on the screen. He looked at the screen, looked at his ThinkPad, fiddled with it a bit (I think "futz" is the word in vogue these days), but couldn't get the projector to show anything more than garbled video. Eventually he demanded that the conference organizers call in one of their tech support people. Tech support arrived, and they continued to futz with the ThinkPad and the projector. To no avail. By the time my question-and-answer discussions were over --- a good 15-20 minutes --- the ThinkPad presentor had given up on whatever snazzy presentation he thought he had in his ThinkPad, and reverted to plastic transparencies on an overhead projector. Ha! Maybe I should have scoffed, "Oh, it's a *PC*..." __________________________ Digital Guy Sez: Instant Kharma...it's not just a John Lennon song. ;-) ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2870 madamov,
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 97 19:18:40 -0700 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Followup - FAT32-The Second Day Message-ID: <199707310219.TAA09158@apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares This follow-up message is from: Greg Weston, <bastion1@netcom.com> Here's the conclusion of my odyssey to achieve a more efficient file system. I got about a half-dozen direct responses to part one, including some useful suggestions for the day someone else asks me how to do this. [And a public thank-you goes to those offering such advice.] I should add that I'm a reasonably experienced user and developer on multiple platforms, and have (as Digital Guy suggested was possible) performed essentially the same task, on my own, in much less time on my Mac and my BeBox at home. I got in the next day and found that the copy of my archive (from the LAN to my machine) had completed without incident. I started the restore and went off to do something else. At the end of the restore, I got a dialog telling me that "there may have been a problem restoring the registry. If your computer doesn't work, restore the Windows directory again." My computer did technically work, but the registry from the clean install didn't get overwritten (or overridden) by the prior settings. So I tried again. Same result. I poked around a bit and found that the registry is stored in two files named USER.DAT and SYSTEM.DAT (and backup copies with a DA0 extension). No such files were in my archive. I poked around a bit more, and on a hunch looked at what I had thought were temp files. Apparently, Backup had backed up copies of these files named HKUBACK and HKLMBACK. Reasoning that I could always restore again if I screwed things up royally, I pulled out those files and manually replaced the 4 registry files. On the first attempt, I only replaced the main files, but Windows apparently detected a severe enough discrepancy somewhere to warrant a complaint. One or two more reboots, and everything seems fine except my Ethernet card. We had to play with it the first day to let me access the LAN. After the restore, we had to un-play it. I still don't know what the unrecognized hardware that Win95 found was. Every so often it rediscovers the USB, but that wasn't it this time. ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2869 madamov,
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 97 17:37:32 -0800 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: PR - RackMac - Rackmount Macs Message-ID: <199707290038.RAA23830@apple.com> This announcement is from: Stephen Woolverton, <stephen@nashville.net> Marathon Computer, Inc., is now shipping its RackMac TZ, the first licensed rackmountable MacOS compatible. Marathon's RackMac line of computers is designed to fit the standard 19" equipment rack. The RackMac TZ's all-metal black enclosure houses a 200Mhz or 240Mhz Tanzania motherboard, with 300Mhz available soon. RackMac TZ is perfect for web/file servers and industrial computing applications. The ruggedized chassis includes a locking-front access panel. The shock-absorbing drive cage has room for 3 3.5" internal drives, 2 5.25" front-accesible drives, and 1 floppy. The computer occupies only 4 rack units (7" tall) and is 18" deep. All RackMac TZs include 200Watt power supplies with a redundant option available soon. Marathon is offering dealer discounts and VAR packages that do not include RAM or hard drive starting as low as $1,496. Dealer quantity pricing for a well-configured RackMac TZ 604e/200 or 603e/240Mhz with 32Mb RAM, 3Gb hard disk, 16X CD, 512Kb L2 cache, 4Mb VRAM starts as low as $2,849. Marathon is looking to establish dealer/VAR relationships in the US and overseas. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Marathon Computer, Inc., is a licensed MacOS computer manufacturer specializing in 19" rackmount devices. Upcoming products will include the PowerRack, a series of enclosures for converting Apple's PowerMacintoshs into 19" rackmountable computers. The PowerRack models will be available in late August and will ship as complete computers with Tsunami motherboards or as an empty chassis ready for conversion of Apple's PowerMacintosh 95/9600 and 85/8600 to rackmountable computers. To be added to Marathon's mailing list send messages and name/address/fax to <infobot@marathoncomputer.com> Marathon Computer, Inc. 820 Fesslers Parkway, Suite 315 Nashville, TN 37210 615/242-9700 615/255-8040 fax www.marathoncomputer.com ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2871 madamov,
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 97 22:51:46 -0700 From: Guy Kawasaki <gkawasaki@macway.com> Subject: Funny Story Message-ID: <199708010551.WAA25163@ganymede.dnai.com> Here's a funny story that really has no special meaning... About two weeks ago I visited the Microsoft Santa Clara office to have lunch with my buddy, Scott Knaster. His new book, Macworld Discover Internet Explorer 3 just came out, and I wrote the foreword for it. When I left, I dropped my Apple employee badge in the parking lot, and a Microsoft employee found it. I wonder what he thought of finding my badge in the Microsoft parking lot: interviewing for a Microsoft fellowship? I don't think so. So Scott calls me to tell me he found the badge and that he's mailing it back to me. Two weeks later, still no badge. Finally, I get it and see why it's two weeks late: The company with 95% market share and umpteen billion dollar valuation sent it $.23 postage due! BTW, you should check out the book. Yes, I use Internet Explorer, believe it or not. Macworld Discover Internet Explorer 3 ISBN 0-7645-4031-9 list price is $24.99 Computer Literacy web ordering discount for normal people is 10% special Evangelista discount is 20% To get the 20%, go to http://www.cbooks.com. When you get to the sign-in page, enter MACWAY20 in the field that says "Let us know how you found us or enter source code" at the bottom. ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <mailto:evangelist@macway.com>.
mac.2874 madamov,
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 97 19:02:33 -0400 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Softare Installation Process Message-ID: <199708032259.PAA19210@apple.com> Keyword: Advocacy, Why Macs Are Better This tidbit is from: Tony Ramos, <aramos@coil.com> I'm busy installing software on my newly-built PC to bring it up to the level of my PowerMac (now 2 years old). It's really an eye-opener, after months of breezy and simple installations on the Mac, to plow through the arcane and unnecessarily complicated steps of PC software installation. Case in point: I recently got a copy of Warcraft II for my Mac, and wanted to play against other users on the Internet using Kali. I went to Kali's web site, clicked the Mac listing, and downloaded a 240KB Stuffit archive. My browser decoded it and unpacked Kali (a single control panel). I restarted and was gaming over the internet in five minutes. After playing on the Mac awhile I wanted to see what difference running on the PC. I went back to Kali's web site to download "Kali95". The download was 2.25 _megabytes_, almost ten times the size of the Mac version! When the download was finished, I was left with an executable file I had to run just to unpack the installation "wizard" files. Three progress bars, countless dialog boxes and dozens of archive files later, Kali95 is installed but it doesn't seem to work. I went back to the Kali's web site for technical support. The Q&A document for Kali95 was more than ten screens long. Out of curiosity, I looked for the support page for the Mac- there wasn't any. From my experience, I'd say it isn't needed! Makes me wonder how anybody gets anything done with a PC, between attempts to make it work... ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
mac.2873 madamov,
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 20:12:33 -0400 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Windows 98 Catches Up with Mac Performa 95 Message-ID: <199708020009.RAA22202@apple.com> This tidbit is from: Phillip Russell Flip, <flip@flip-solutions.com> Check out: <http://www.sjmercury.com/business/microsoft072397.htm> "Microsoft put face on Windows 98" ... "The upcoming Windows 98 will go a step in that direction with a new feature, called Broadcast PC, intended to turn a PC into a television. Hoping to make the PC the winner in the ``convergence'' of the two household appliances, Microsoft will incorporate in Windows 98 the ability to watch TV broadcasts on a PC without buying a ``set-top'' box. (Users would have to equip their PCs with a tuner card.) It's possible to turn a PC into a TV today, but not without buying special software." ... Wow. And to think that Macintosh Performa owners have had this option for years now. __________________________ Digital Guy Sez: What's even funnier is that my first job at Apple four years ago was testing a little product that came to be called "Mac TV" (That funky black Mac that showed up in BlockBuster for awhile, of all places. :). ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 97 20:10:48 -0400 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Mac Raves at Pro Photo Show Message-ID: <199708020007.RAA09960@apple.com> This tidbit is from: Clay White, <imagepix@iwaynet.net> Just returned for the Professional Photographers of America convention and wanted to share some tidbits. The mix of systems owned by the participants was about 70% Mac, 30% pc. Every time a pro Mac comment was made there was applause from the group. Some comments: One speaker said he had 4 Macs and one PC. " We use the PC for accounting ...We wouldn't waste a MAC on that." Another said: "I am not a computer person but listen to my story. We had one PC and the only program on it was to present wedding proofs. It is always down. We tried to install a game on it and my wife spent 8 hours on the phone (long distance) with tech support trying to make it work again. I told her "never touch that thing again..Just let it do it's one job." "On the other hand, he continued, we have 3 MACs we use for imaging with all kinds of programs and peripherals from cd writer, scanners and film recorders. They Just Work. If I have a problem I call a buddy who tells me what three things to click on to get going again." His summation. "If you are buying a computer....Do yourself and your wife a favor..Buy A MAC." ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>
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Date: Sun, 3 Aug 97 19:03:50 -0400 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> To: "Macway" <macway-post@private.lists.apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - MicroSoft Admits There are As Many Win 95 Users as Mac! Message-ID: <199708032300.QAA19448@apple.com> Digital Guy Sez: A short time ago i repeated my lament that I suspected that market share alone told only a small part of the OS story, simply because it was harped on by way too many people as "proof" that Apple was dead. I wondered aloud "What are the true, installed base numbers of specific Windows systems to the installed base of Macs?" A sharp eyed EvangeLista sent me the following, providing the answer from the least expected source: MicroSoft. :-) This tidbit is from: Paul Hillman, <hillman@plk.af.mil> BY: ELDEE STEPHENS III "For years now, Windows enthusiasts have used the Mac OS's low marketshare to maintain the status quo in the enterprise market. After all, if you were a large corporation, would you invest millions into computers which kept losing marketshare and whose manufacturer kept losing money? It's been a self-fulfilling prophecy for many years now for Apple--the less machines they sell in one quarter, the less machines others buy in the next. As Mac OS enthusiasts, we've all felt disappointed at one number or another concerning the Mac OS and Apple. Myself included. In fact, this Tuesday, was one of those days, untill I looked at some numbers from of all sources, Microsoft. Feeling the pressure of Java-centric computing and Rhapsody breathing down its neck, Microsoft felt compelled to purchase twenty-four pages of advertising ZD Internet Magazine in which it attempts to convince you why Microsoft Windows is the premier development platform and how you should develop for it. The language is laced with statistics and figures including something that really caught my eye: "'...There are over 60 million Windows 95 users worldwide.' "Sound familiar? It should, because that is the exact number of Mac OS users worldwide. Could this be a typo? Well, we contacted Microsoft, and no, it wasn't. Just when you thought marketshare was plummeting faster than meteors to the earth, Microsoft's PR department releases a number that suggests that the number of Windows 95 users and Mac OS users are close to the same. Sound impossible? Not quite." See the complete text at: <http://www.thessasource.com/features/numbers.html> ________________ Do you believe in Macintosh? Please check out: <http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/> Join the EvangeList mailing list by sending an email to: <evangelist@macway.com>. Please send messages that you'd like us to consider for posting to: <evangelist@apple.com>