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Info-Mac Digest             Tue, 16 May 00       Volume 17 : Issue 82

Today's Topics:

      [*] TidBITS#531/15-May-00
      [A] PC equivalent of G4 with new Virtual PC
      [Q]hard drive install
      Another Toggle Possibility
      Three-button-mouse
      Toast Bug
      VirtualPC3.0.3

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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 21:00:00 -0700
From: TidBITS Editors <editors@tidbits.com>
Subject: [*] TidBITS#531/15-May-00

TidBITS#531/15-May-00

  Deception, fraud, and theft form the core of this week's sordid
  tale of Gadget Software, a Mac shareware developer that apparently
  stole its products. Also this week, we look at just what sort of
  devices you can and cannot safely plug into your Mac while it's
  on, plus cover the releases of Palm's HotSync 2.6.1 for fixing
  synchronizing under Mac OS 9.0.4, Web Confidential 2.0 with Palm
  support, and FileMaker's security hole-fixing Web Companion 5.0v4.

Topics:
    MailBITS/15-May-00
    Hot Crossed Plugs
    Inspecting Gadget

<http://www.tidbits.com/tb-issues/TidBITS-531.html>
<ftp://ftp.tidbits.com/issues/2000/TidBITS#531_15-May-00.etx>

[Archived as /info-mac/per/tb/tidbits-531.etx; 33K]

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 06:45:52 -0700
From: "Adam C. Engst" <ace@tidbits.com>
Subject: [A] PC equivalent of G4 with new Virtual PC

>At 10:06 PM -0400 5/13/2000, D. Scott Beach wrote:
>>Ken Laskey <KENNETH.J.LASKEY@saic.com> aks:
>>>I've read that VPC 3.0.3 Pentium chip emulator adds Velocity Engine
>>>(AltiVec) optimizations for Power Mac G4 machines.  Has anybody seen
>>>any information indicating what speed/version of the Pentium chip it
>>>is approximately equivalent to?

I haven't seen any of that sort of information, but after having 
installed the update, I didn't notice any significant changes in 
speed for basic use of Windows. I suspect its performance increase 
comes in specific situations.

cheers... -Adam

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Adam C. Engst, TidBITS Publisher <ace@tidbits.com>
                                  <http://www.tidbits.com/>

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:50:40 -0500
From: Adam Gluckman <adam_gluckman@daveandbusters.com>
Subject: [Q]hard drive install

Recently I installed a 9 GB Seagate barracuda SCSI hard drive into my 7300.
The drive makes a beeping sound at regular intervals, about every 12
minutes. I used Hard disk toolkit to supply the drivers and the drive is not
partitioned. Should I partition the drive? Does anyone have any suggestions
as to what could be the cause of the beep or have any ideas about how to
eliminate it? 
Thanks,
Adam 

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Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 22:51:36 -0700
From: "Jim Wickman" <jimwick@webbworks.com>
Subject: Another Toggle Possibility

Following on the thought of a "cookie toggle," here's another programming idea:

How about a toggle to load or _not-load_ images. Netscape 3.x had 
such a toggle.
Netscape 4x and iCab _lack_ it;  you have to dredge up the 
Preferences files and navigate them. Hardly easy for every-day use 
where often I want to forego images.

Just a thought . . .
-- 
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Jim Wickman   -  -  -   Pasco  WA

A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem.

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 00:14:11 +0400
From: "Egorov Maxim" <filertos@chat.ru>
Subject: Three-button-mouse

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 12:28:24 -0700
From: Herb Kroemer <kroemer@ece.ucsb.edu>
Subject: Toast Bug

I have run into a bug with Adaptec Toast (Version 3.5.7, included 
with my APS 6/4/16 Drive):

When Toast encounters a file with a name ending in a period (.}, it 
omits the period in the name of the CD copy of the file.

Quite apart from the principle that a copy program should NEVER 
change the name of a file, this can have painful consequences, when 
the same folder also contains another file with the same name, but 
without the period. In this case, the CD will contain two 
identically-named files in the same folder. When trying to restore 
the CD to a hard disk, the Finder balks, and the restore terminates, 
ignoring all subsequent files.

I noticed this bug when I tried to restore (to a new hard disk) a 
long collection of numerous Adobe font files. Whenever the name of a 
font is sufficiently short, Adobe will put a period at the end of the 
name of the bitmap suitcase, to avoid conflict with the otherwise 
identical name of the Type-1 outline file. Searching both the 
original hard disk and the Toast copy for files with names ending in 
a period showed that Toast consistently strips that period.

I have brought this bug to the attention of both Adaptec and APS, but 
have not received a reply from either.

I am wondering whether others have observed the same problem, and 
whether the bug persists in the more recent 4.X versions of Toast.

Herbert Kroemer
kroemer@ece.ucsb.edu
Regards,

Herb Kroemer

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 09:46:07 +0100
From: Eamonn Nulty <eamonn.nulty@virco.be>
Subject: VirtualPC3.0.3

For your info., I also downloaded VirtualPC3.0.3
Eamonn

> From: The Info-Mac Network <digest@info-mac.org>
> Reply-To: digest@info-mac.org
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 20:31:54 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #81
> 
> 
> Ken Laskey <KENNETH.J.LASKEY@saic.com> aks:
>> I've read that VPC 3.0.3 Pentium chip emulator adds Velocity Engine
>> (AltiVec) optimizations for Power Mac G4 machines.  Has anybody seen
>> any information indicating what speed/version of the Pentium chip it
>> is approximately equivalent to?
> 
> Ken:
> Just out of curiosity I ran the "Connectix Software Center" utility. It
> checked the Connectix server and told me that version 3.0 is current and
> didn't offer any updates. Are you sure it's available? (I didn't go to
> their web site.)
> - Scott
>

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