Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #35 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Thu, 01 Mar 01 Volume 18 : Issue 35 Today's Topics: (A) when old mac will mount nothing but a floppy drive ... (Q) Need to know the Canon equivalent ink cartridges for CSW [*] /info-mac/art/zine/ATPM-702-print.pdf.sit.hqx [*] AutoCat 2.9.1 - Catalog different [*] Extension Overload v5.7.2 [*] MacWordLearner 2 [*] Poor Man's Solitaire 2.2 [*] PubMedConverter 3.3c [*] REplay PLAYer light Disk request won't go away isdn lan modem online indicator miro video-capture card question Not an article but a question-- RCA video input to G4 The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #35" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 01:13:36 -0600 From: "Paul M. Sheldon" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: (A) when old mac will mount nothing but a floppy drive ... I have been developing my own system of backup with firewire to and from my powerbook G4 titanium 20gig drive. I also have a G4 accelerated mac 8500 which, with boot from internal hard drives or cd, had only booted to question mark (icon) and with boot from floppy didn't mount the hard drives. At that point I didn't know what my situation was. Though all the data was backed up there seemed no way to get at the drives to see what was or wasn't there or to restore them. A local friend, Dan Brown, said these drives didn't automount at boot because of corrupted pref's files on the selected startup drive. We guessed that if I only could get my hard drives to mount I should trash my finder prefs, startup prefs and startup device pref's. Use of various things on the computer would restore uncorrupted pref's later. Using another working macintosh IIsi with both cd and floppy drive, I made an 8.1 emergency floppy with Drive Setup Lite from Developer cd series 1998 system software 1998 (used Disk Tools PPC.img). I booted from that emergency floppy and had Drive Setup Lite mount my hard drives to trash my corrupted prefs. Then I could boot from cd's and hard drives again. Summary: Drive Setup Lite mounts hard drives from emergency cd when they don't otherwise mount. Keep such an emergency floppy disk around if you have an older machine that allows a small enough operating system to fit on a floppy. When needed you will be able to mount and trash corrupted prefs mentioned. Postscript : What if you have a newer machine that won't fit a system on an emergency floppy or doesn't even have a floppy drive and the hard drives and cd's won't automount. James Merrett, On-Site Service and Sales, at Apple Infomart 28Feb2001 told me that there was now software and cards to allow booting off firewire drives so that newer computers with larger operating systems and a full Drive Setup could mount prefs-corrupted drives. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:57:14 +0000 From: Steve Smith To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: (Q) Need to know the Canon equivalent ink cartridges for CSW Hi I need to buy some replacement ink tanks for an Apple Color Stylewriter 2500 colour printer. I know that these printers were actually manufactured by Canon. Does anyone know which Canon printers are equivalent to the CSW 2500, as knowing this would enable me to buy from a wider selection of suppliers? TIA Steve Smith ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 2001 From: "A. Lee Bennett, Jr." To: Subject: [*] /info-mac/art/zine/ATPM-702-print.pdf.sit.hqx This is the print-optimized PDF edition of the February 2001 issue of ATPM. About This Particular Macintosh (ATPM) is a free monthly e-zine about the *personal* computing experience. If you prefer a screen-optimized PDF or an offline Webzine format, visit to download current and past issues in your preferred format. The contents of ATPM 7.02 are as follows: Columns Apple Cider: A Matter of Trust Apples, Kids, & Attitude: Martians in the Manholes Beyond the Barline: A Tale of Two Trade Shows About This Particular Web Site How To: iMovie Transition Tricks How To: Playing Compressed Sounds on a Home Stereo Reviews Mac Chess Downloads Driver Final Jam Pro (skin) Jeopardy! iTunes 1.0 Links LS 2000 Que! Fire CD-RW Drive ZipCD Extras Desktop Pictures: MobiusCo & Florida panhandle lighthouses Trivia Challenge Answers: Fun With Numbers [Archived as /info-mac/art/zine/atpm-702-print.hqx; 1246 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 2001 From: Olivier Lebra To: Subject: [*] AutoCat 2.9.1 - Catalog different AutoCat 2.9.1 - Shareware $15 Catalog different. AutoCat Home Page: http://kebawe.com/autocat/ Online Registration: http://order.kagi.com/?OL Author email: autocat@kebawe.com AutoCat got 4 mice at Macdownload and Tucows, and 5 mice at FileDudes. AutoCat is a drag & drop application that catalogs all your removable volumes by using aliases. It allows you to navigate your catalog directly from the Finder! Highligths: - Catalog all your removable volumes in a very Macintosh way. - Navigate through your catalog directly from the Finder. - Navigate through your catalog from Open/Save dialogs. - No application to launch to navigate through your catalog. - Use the Finder's 'Find' command to search your catalog. - Works in the background. - Appearance-savvy, Navigation Services-savvy. AutoCat works with all PowerMacintosh with Mac OS 7.6 or better, but it's optimized for Mac OS 9. Another version is available for Mac OS X Public Beta. AutoCat can be included in CD-ROMs. Happy AutoCataloging! [Archived as /info-mac/disk/autocat-291.hqx; 715 K] ------------------------------ Date: 27 Feb 2001 From: Teng Chou Ming To: Subject: [*] Extension Overload v5.7.2 ******************* Extension Overload is an extensions, control panels, control strip modules and contextual menus management application. It offers detail information of 4430 extensions and control panels, control strip modules and contextual menu items in your system. It also lets you activate and deactivate them, so that you can always easily tailor your system to your current requirements. In addition, Extension Overload includes a useful collection of helpful information and tidbits. 5.7.2 released Feb 19, 2001 * Fixes the Navigation Services Missing problem with 8.1 or earlier. * Fixes a display/possible crashing bug in the search dialog. * Added description of 25 control strips modules, 15 extensions, 27 Contextual Menu Items and 5 control panels. * Total of 4430 extensions, extensions, CSM and CMM plugins. * Better support for non English Mac OS. * More URLs and emails have been updated Extension Overload require a 601 or newer processor with 2 MB of free RAM. System 7 to Mac OS 9.1 are supported. The official homepage for Extension Overload is http://www.ExtensionOverload.com ******************* [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/extension-overload-572.hqx; 1540 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Mar 2001 From: mikemara@hem.passagen.se To: Subject: [*] MacWordLearner 2 MacWordLearner 2 is a study aid for studies of foreign vocabulary. The user types in the words to be studied and their translation. The sets of words are saved as glossary files for convenient management. From a given glossary, conventional tests as well as flash card tests can be made. The tests are customisable, allowing the user to set the direction of translation, order of testing (fixed order/random order), case sensitivity etc. The glossary files can be edited, merged and printed. [Archived as /info-mac/edu/lang/mac-word-learner-2.hqx; 1231 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Mar 2001 From: Allgood Software To: Subject: [*] Poor Man's Solitaire 2.2 With 50 different solitaire variations, Poor Man's Solitaire is bound to have something to suit every taste: from the familiar Klondike, to the more obscure Will O the Wisp. Offering unlimited levels of Undo/Redo, full automatic play of cards to foundations, your playing statistics, Save/Restore of games in progress, and much more. Special features are included to help you to learn new games, as well as cheat like crazy at the games you already know. It's great for the serious Solitaire player, as well as the "I'm just waiting for a printout" types. Version 2.2 adds: Different deck style options Control over background images Rule Summary within the game 5 New Games [Archived as /info-mac/game/crd/poor-mans-solitaire-22.hqx; 1911 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Mar 2001 From: kinda@wa2.so-net.ne.jp To: Subject: [*] PubMedConverter 3.3c PubMedConverter 3.3c is a text conversion engine for PubMedMakerII 3.8. PubMedMakerII 3.8 can accept download files with revised MEDLINE format at NLM's PubMed after early Feb 2001. The conversion errors of PubMedConverter 3.0b/ 3.3/ 3.3b are fixed in this version. What's new in PubMedConverter 3.3c (Feb 27, 2001) Conversion error of two periods at the end of Title by PubMedConverter 3.3b is fixed in this version. System Requirements PubMedMakerII 3.8 [Archived as /info-mac/text/pub-med-converter-33c.hqx; 91 K] ------------------------------ Date: 1 Mar 2001 From: "Dr. Karlheinz Essl" To: Subject: [*] REplay PLAYer light REplay PLAYer is a computer program that de-constructs a given sound file and re-composes it by using realtime composition algorithms - a field of research that has been investigated by Karlheinz Essl since the mid 1980ies. With this project, Karlheinz Essl is following once again his vision of a music "that is composed, as if from itself (auto-poetic), at the moment of its sounding." REplay PLAYer can be used as a tool to generate an infinite and every-changing sonic stream from a single sound file for artistical, compositional or mere recreational purposes. It can also be regarded as a computer based instrument for live performances, as an interactive sound installation or a generator for ambient music. The current stage of this project is a public domain "light" version that allows only limited user interaction. In a further step, a shareware version will be released which 1) will offer the possibility to save the output of the REplay PLAYer directly to disk, 2) includes built-in sound effects and support for VST plugins, and 3) supplies more control facilities for the user. System requirements Apple Macintosh G3 computer OS 8.x or better min. 24 MB of free RAM (80 MB recommended) What the REplay PLAYer does The REplay PLAYer stores an entire sound file in the computer's RAM from which it cuts out particles of varying length from different positions of the file. The length of the particles is determined by the "granularity" parameter". Then the program will overlap these particles according to the density parameter. Both parameters can be either controlled manually, or by selecting presets from a pop-up menu. [Archived as /info-mac/gst/replay-player-light.hqx; 726 K] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:54:15 -0800 From: "Tom Landis" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Disk request won't go away Hi. Every time I start up my 7200, the CDROM drive ejects its CDROM, asks to have the CDROM put back and requests this "Astra scan disk" to be inserted into the floppy drive. Until I press "cancel", it won't go away. I have zapped the pram several times, rebuilt the desktop, etc. to no effect. How can I get rid of this annoying behavior? (I don't know where the Astra disk is, so I can't insert it). There is no ghost image of the disk on the desktop. The only other thing I can think of is to do a clean install of the system (8.6) (or, last resort, wipe the drive!) but I don't have a universal 8.5 or 8.6 disk to use or a reliable backup medium. Any suggestions? Thanks for any info you can offer, Tom Landis tlandis@berkeley.k12.ca.us ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 12:40:11 +0200 From: "Dr. Peter Stoyanov" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: isdn lan modem online indicator dear list i have a small network (2 imacs and ibook) connected through 3com isdn lan modem. work really fine the only thing i would like to know from my ibook is if i'm online or not without going with IE or Netscape to the controling main page of the lan modem. is there any elegant and simple solution? Remote access status works only with dial up and not with the ethernet connection to the internet. mtia peter ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:24:59 -0500 From: Chip Carpenter To: Christian F Buser , Subject: miro video-capture card question It is more than likely a Miro DC-20 (21vDC20) manuals and drivers are here: http://www.miro.com/support/products/info/default.asp?ProductID=322 Cheers, Chip on 2/26/01 4:29 PM, Christian F Buser at christian@rumantsch.ch wrote: > I have been given what I think is a miro video capture card, without > any documentation or software. > > The card has a label which reads: > "miro Computer Products GmbH" > "21VDC20 PCX1 02605000 051113761" > > Apple System Profiler tells me the following: > Apple's System Profiler identifiziert die Karte wie folgt: > Kartentyp: nicht verfÆgbar (card type: not available) > Kartenname: pci1031,5601 (card name:) > Kartenmodell: nicht verfÆgbar (card model:) > Card ROM#: nicht verfÆgbar > Kartenrevision: 1 (revision:) > Kartenhersteller-ID: 1031 (card manufacturer:) > > Any idea what exactly this card is, where I can find > drivers/software, and documentation? > > Thank you, Christian. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 01:44:34 -0700 From: Sivea Key To: Subject: Not an article but a question-- A client's G4, which we were using to serve FileMaker Pro via FMP Server, crashed after only a year or so of service. One "expert" involved mentioned having knowledge of several G4s that have crashed similarly. In this case, it was an IDE/ATA drive but he thought he had also heard of SCSI crashing. Any corroborating tales? Any particular reasons why? Thanks! Sivea ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:18:29 -0500 From: Chip Carpenter To: "Michael S. Silverstein" , Subject: RCA video input to G4 1. Probably not (I would say no, but few things are impossible, just impractical) 2. Sony makes a media converter that will do it at high quality via firewire and allow you to send it back to tape for about $300-400. There are other manufacturers of the same type of product as well. I think its called the DVMC-2. If you are doing web/computer video (so you don't want to go back to tape) you can you can use a usb video converter avialable from most mac catalog places . . . Chip on 2/25/01 12:58 AM, Michael S. Silverstein at michaels@techunix.technion.ac.il wrote: > I would like to input video from a Sony 8mm video camera to a G4 and > then work with iMovie. > > I presently have a G4 and a PowerMac 7600/120. > > The 7600 has RCA video input ports while the G4 has Firewire and USB. > > I have used the video input ports on my 7600 to import video from my > Sony 8mm video camera (it has one video and one audio RCA output > ports) and worked with Avid Videoshop. > > 1) Can I remove the video import apparatus (card?) from the 7600 and > install it into the G4? > > 2) Is there an RCA to Firewire adaptor that I can use in the event > that (1) is impossible or impractical? > > Thanks in advance for you help!! > > Michael Silverstein > Materials Engineering > Technion > -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************