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From: jammer@eskimo.com (Lyle Harwood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Will ants do harm to the computer?
Date: 2 Jan 93 12:40:54 GMT
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

chang hsu liu (cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: nks for the responses from the netters. The way I have done so far is
: to clean up my desk, and isolate my desk from the wall. I used another
: trick I remember my mother used to prevent the ants from going into
the
: powder milk can, i.e.,  I put rubber bands over the cables wires of
the
: phone and ethernet. Ants probably do not like the smell of the rubber
: band. They probably will stop trespass the line due to the band. I
don't
: know if this will work. Let's wait and see.
:  
: I found that ants doesn't like the smell of WD-40, and I sprayed some
: into the hole on the wall where they hide. It killed some ants. (The
: smell is so strong, and I feel a little sick. If they don't get killed
: first, I probably died before them.) Hopefully, they would never like
to
: go to my room anymore.
: 
: Another thing probably is even more important is not to put any food
on
: my table from now on. The food may be the main reason they came to my
: table in the first place.
: 
: I am not sure if they have built their kingdom in my computer already.

: I used to see one or two ants climbing on the screen of the monitor,
but
: I thought they might not like the heat or even radiation :-) I lived 
: pretty peacefully with them until I saw so many in the transceiver.
: Has anyone seen cases that ants live in the monitor. I checked my cpu
: and didn't see any. It's hard to get the monitor open, and I don't
want
: to break the warranty.
: 
: 
: Peter Liu
: cliu@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
: 
That Macsbug was TRUELY bad! :)

I've always found that a .45 M1911A1 worked best for ants.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: lhep_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Leonidas Hepis)
Subject: Unix utilities for the Mac?
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 01:24:53 GMT


Is there a ftp'able program that simulates a Unix shell that would accept
commands like vi, ls, more, grep (or even others like tail etc.) ?  Sometimes I
want to see the listing of directories without closing windows, opening others
recursively etc.  Or I might want to have a quick look at a file to remind
myself of what it is that it contains.  I would love to have a 'unix' window
laying around through which I could do all that.

Please send e-mail or respond to the net, since others would find this
interesting.

-leo

-- 
How can I believe in God when every time I get kicked in |Leonidas Hepis
the pants it hurts ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SPLEEN ?! When  |
that happens to me I see NO Intelligent Divine Designer! |lhep_ltd@uhura
I see chaos and stars and birds flying around my head :) |.cc.rochester.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Alessio Guglielmi <guglielm@di.unipi.it>
Subject: Hard Disk: how to change its name
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75E6B95DE0104BE@lt3-15.di.unipi.it>
X-Xxdate: Wed, 23 Dec 92 18: 16:37 GMT
Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica - Pisa - Italia
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d16
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:50:19 GMT

Hi all, i can't rename my hard disk. The manual says that this is
impossible when the disk is used for sharing. I've removed from sharing
all the appropriate folders, and retired privileges to all users&groups,
i've even tried to restart with another startup disk, but nothing worked.
Any idea?
Please, reply directly to me and i'll repost a summary.
Thank you in advance,
                                                   Alessio               
                                                                         
     ___ /  /      ____/  ____/  ____/  /  ___ / guglielm@di.unipi.it 
    /   /  /      /      /      /      /  /   / guglielm@ipisnsib.bitnet 
   ___ /  /      __/   ____ / ____ /  /  /   / guglielmi@vaxsns.infn.it   
  /   /  /      /          /      /  /  /   / guglielmi@vaxsns.sns.it     
_/  _/ _____/ _____/ _____/ _____/ _/ _____/ guglielm@ipisnsib.sns.it
From: sekey@engrhub.ucsb.edu (Andrew Sekey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Upgrading system on 2nd hard disk
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:46:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara

A naive question: I have upgraded my system from 7.01 to 7.1 on my main
(internal) hard disk, but the (CD-ROM) source is not readily accessible for
me again. Meanwhile, I would also like to similarly upgrade my secondary
(external) hard disk.
Can I do that by simply copying over the 7.1 System Folder to the external
disk? If not, what else needs to be done?
Thanks,

Andrew
sekey@ece.ucsb.edu
From: ynakazato@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Localized OS for the Mac
Date: 22 Dec 92 13:33:47 -0500
Distribution: world
Organization: Georgetown University



	I need the following info, and hope someone can prvide
	it to me:

	How many languages/language variatons does Apple
	*officially* support with localized operating systems
	for the Mac? And what are their exact names (eg
	SwissFrench, SwissGerman, etc)?

	Thanks in advance.


	Y. Nakazato
	Chinese/Japanese Dept
	Georgetown University
	Washington, DC 20057
	(202) 687-6144

	
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Subject: Apple SOS Service is AMAZING!
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:46:45 GMT

I don't normally write this type of article, but I had such a WONDERFUL
experience this week, I wanted to share it.

My Powerbook 140's trackball has been giving me trouble for a while, and last
weekend it finally gave out and would only move horizontally (not a good
thing ;).  

Monday morning I called 1-800-SOS-APPL (after being told by all the local
dealers that they couldn't do it in less tha a couple of weeks), talked with
a nice rep who took down all of my information and said he'd send out the 
box for shipping and that the'd have it back on the 28th (not great but better
than the dealers).  So the box arrives on Tuesday, and I send it right back
out via Airbourne Express (all the forms come predone at Apple's expense).

This morning (Thursday), my Powerbook returned to me FULLY REPAIRED!!!

Talk about service, they turned the machine around the SAME DAY they recieved
it, so I was only without my PB for 2 days (airbourne time).

It's about time someone (Apple, thankfully) did something like this in the
computer (or any other) industry.  

Leonard Rosenthol
P.S. I did this as an "end user", I received no special developer privledges
and never even identified myself as one.

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From: bredell@tdb.uu.se (Mats Bredell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: OK to pass diskette through airport X-ray?
Date: 23 Dec 92 08:36:27 GMT
Reply-To: Mats.Bredell@udac.uu.se
Organization: Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Andy Joe (aj@lew.rosemount.com) wrote:
: 
: Can somebody explain what an x-ray machine will do to the magnetics
: on a diskette?  Also, what about the lead bags that can be used for
: sheilding the x-rays from fogging photographic film?  Will this work
: also?

X-rays cannot affect any magnetic media. That's it.

However, some x-ray machines have other bad things, like large motors that
produce magnetic fields. I suggest that you ask the personell working there
if it's okay. If they say it's okay, you can put them through. Some won't
let you do otherwise.

/Mats
-- 
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Uppsala University Computing Center (UDAC)     Ph:  +46 18 187817
Department of medical systems                  Fax: +46 18 187825
Sweden                                         Think straight - be gay!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
Subject: Re: Sumex is in need of a restucturing
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:34:13 GMT

In article <BRECHER.93Jan2023201@husc8.harvard.edu>,
brecher@husc8.harvard.edu (Jonathan Brecher) writes:
>maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
>
>>There is, however, one major advantage to the sumex structure that the
>>mac.archive structure does not have. BECAUSE sumex is mainly one-level
>>directories, one can ftp there, type 'ls -lrt' and immediately see where
>to
>>look for new stuff. This is complely impractical with mac.archive. You
>have
>>to download the new additions file then step through it file by file,
>>continually cd'ing up three layers and down another three.
>>
>>If the archives ran on decent computers that could be configured to
>reflect
>>changes in subdirectory contents in the date published by 'ls -ltr' I
>would
>>be willing to live with a many-layer system, but given the way things
>now
>>work, I avoid mac.archive if I possibly can do so.
>
>By your own argument, you should use mac.archive exclusively and avoid
>sumex
>whenever possible.  At mac.archive we maintain a directory
>/mac/00newfiles/NEW
>that has links to ALL files added in the last month.  At sumex even after
>you
>type 'ls -lrt' you still have to go directory hopping.  At mac.archive,
>all
>newly-added files are accessible from the one directory.  The new
>additions
>file (/mac/00help/newfiles.txt) is there if you want it; there are people
>who
>do.

But there is a problem with these links, not your fault but nonetheless
there.
1) There are lotsa them
2) Each one, because the paths are so long, takes up a lot of space.
Thus when one does ls -lrt, one gets a large number of files scrolling off
the top of the screen. You may have a few lines of scrollback, depending on
how primitive a terminal you're connected to, but usually not 100s of
lines. 
(Yeah I know how to make my xterms have 5000 line scrollback capability. I
don't do that because more than about 150 lines introduces a new set of
problems.)
This is of course a problem with ftp and you can't fix it, but is does make
using the links directory impractical if you connect once every two weeks
rather than once a day.

But please don't be offended by my criticisms. I'm sure lots of people do
use your archive and you are helping them. That's what matters most.

See ya,
Maynard Handley
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: leec4@rpi.edu (CD LEE)
Subject: Re: Clean Up Window is a Pain
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Distribution: us
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:16:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec20.020838.1127@panix.com>, imran@panix.com (Imran Anwar)
wrote:
> 
> 
> I hate it when "Clean Up Wiondow" spreads the icons all over the place
> even when they can easily fit in the available space in a window.
> 
> I remember System 6.* used to snap it to closest empty position whereas
> System 7 throws the icons in random direction and they just have to be
> manually dragged into position again.
> 
> I know I can use Snap to Grid but I do remember that Clean Up Window
> just worked more intelligently in System 6.0.8 etc unless I am
> doing something wriong with Sys7
> 
> Imran

Hold down option key then the menu will change to "Clean Up by Name"
or by ... depend the last choose you choose for "View"

CD LEE, Chun-Da Lee                                 leec4@rpi.edu
ITS Consultant, ITS=Information Technology Service  CD_Lee@MTS.RPI.EDU
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Stuffit extentions and ".z"
Date: 24 Dec 1992 09:23:32 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

In article <142340002@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> rterry@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Ray Terry) writes:
>>Hmmm, I'm able to do this without HandOff.  When I download ZModem
>>using ZTerm, it sets the file type/creator to ZIVU/LZIV, and
>>doubleclicking them automatically launches MacCompress.  (If I
>>shift-click a bunch of them and open, MacCompress will uncompress
>>as a batch.)  I may have had to rebuild my desktop to do this, but
>>it's worked fine as long as I remember.
>
>Yes, that would work if the file was created with MacCompress, but what
>if it was created with Un*x compress?  It then probably ends up as a 
>TEXT file after the Zmodem transfer.  Unless, that is, ZTerm does something
>special with .Z files.  

I'm not sure how it works, but as I wrote in my previous post, when I
download a file with ZTerm *that has been compressed using Un*x
compress*, ZTerm receives in MacBinary mode and recognizes it as a
file of type ZIVU/LZIV, which makes it doubleclickable from the
Finder and launches MacCompress.

Joel.

-- 
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"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
affairs which properly concern them."  - Paul Valery
From: tvea@cats.ucsc.edu (Tina Victoria Easter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: MacWorld Expo Info wanted
Date: 28 Dec 1992 00:27:46 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu



Hello, I plan to go to the last day of MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.  This 
will by my first time going to it, and I'd like to hear about it from people
who have gone in the past.  I guess my two main concerns about it are how to
dress (I do have business suits...but I'll be coming from Santa Cruz and don't
want to go through getting all dressed up..) and if it's truly worth it to go
and see the exhibits on the last day.   So, if you could return a quick note to
me through e-mail, I'll greatly appreciate it.  Thanks in advance. :)

-Tina
 
 tvea@cats.ucsc.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com (Denton Meredith)
Subject: Re: SCSI id of a Laser Writer IIg
Reply-To: zmyd02@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:29:29 GMT

In article 29412@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk, ivan sin <ivan-sin@cuhk.hk> () writes:
>How can I find out the SCSI id of a IIg printer?
>Is it id=7 just like the id of a mac system, I guess?


I may be completely screwed up on this, but as I recall, printers are not SCSI devices, are they?  I thought they were just straight-8 devices, or whatever the heck they're called.  SCSI id's are reserved for startup devices (internal/external hard drives, floppy drives) and are numbered according to priority at startup.  Yes?

Meredith Denton
From: terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Speedometer ratings for the current Macs
Date: 22 Dec 92 09:55:22 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Organization: IfI, UNIT-AVH

In article <freek.724949146@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>, freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek
Wiedijk) wrote:
> 
> Help!
> 
> Can someone help me complete my list of speedometer specs.
> 
> I'm trying to compile a list of speedometer 3.1 "P.R. Ratings" for
> vanilla machines (the way they come in the box from Apple with no
> strange extensions) running system 7.1, rounded to the nearest
> integer.
> 
> Thus far I have: (correct me if I'm wrong!)
> 
>     Classic                         1
>     LC                              3
>     Performa 200 = Classic II       4
>     Performa 400 = LC II            4
>     Performa 600                    ?
>     IIsi                            4
>     IIci                            6
>     IIvi                            ?
>     IIvx                            ?
>     Powerbook 100                   2
>     Powerbook 145                   ?
>     Powerbook 160                   6
>     Powerbook 180                   ?
>     Powerbook Duo 210               ?
>     Powerbook Duo 230               ?
>     Quadra 700                     23
>     Quadra 950                      ?
> 
> It seems I have ratings for more than half of my list.
> 
> Freek
> --
> Third theory of Phenomenal Dynamics:  The difference between a symbol
> and an object is quantitative, not qualitative.

Quadra 950 - 20/160(!!!), no extras:
      CPU - 21.097
      Graphics - 20.926
      Disk - 1.880
      Math - 134.496
      Overall PR - 28.542

Terje Rydland
Dept. of Informatics, UNIT, Trondheim, Norway
Internet : terjer@ifi.unit.no
AppleLink: NOR0103
Tlf : +47-7-591845
Fax : +47-7-591733
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: Holland_Thomas@Tandem.Com (Tom Holland)
Subject: Optimal Size Disk Cache?
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.misc
Organization: Tandem Computers
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:09:52 GMT

Hi,

 I just upgraded my SE/30 to 20MB RAM.  What I want to know is if anyone
 has done a performance study  for a 20 MB machine to determine the
 optimal size for the Disk Cache? I know that for the CI, Apple recomends
 making it large to keep the applications out of Bank A, so the
applications
 and built-in video don't have to arbitrate for access to memory. I believe
the
 SE/30 also uses main memory for video storage, so wouldn't this be true
for
 the SE/30 as well? Thanks. 

Tom Holland

Holland_Thomas@Tandem.Com,     |Soap and education are not as sudden as a 
Tandem Computers, Cupertino Ca.|massacre but are more deadly in the long
run.
                               |    - Mark Twain
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From: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
Subject: Re: History was made today...
Date: 21 Dec 92 01:26:55 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Peirce Software
X-Mailer: uAccess - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1


In article <1992Dec18.182133.21607@adobe.com> (comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest), uday@adobe.com (Uday Kurkure) writes:
> In article <1gon7oINNshk@mirror.digex.com> hacker@access.digex.com (Dark Hacker) writes:
> >History was made today.  IBM's stock price dropped to below its book
> >value of 55 today, to close at 51 points per share on news that Big
> >
> > [lines deleted]
> 
>   IBM and Apple have jointly formed Taligent to develop a new pc. 
> 
>   In coming years, the pc game won't be IBM vs. Apple.

Taligent isn't designing a new pc (computer), but rather a new operating
system.  This os will undoubtably run on computers designed by Apple,
IBM, and others.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
From: omh@cs.brown.edu (Owen M. Hartnett)
Subject: Re: Apple SOS Service is AMAZING!  (NOT!)
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:17:58 GMT

Sorry, Leonard, but I've got a sour taste after using SOS myself.

Here's the history:

Trackball on 180 freezes after returning from sleep mode.  You can make this
repeat if you try it at least 10 times and/or let the machine sleep for at
least 4 minutes.

SOS 1: Sent to SOSAPPL, they shipped it back on the assigned day.  Bad news:
they didn't fix anything, it still had the problem.  There was no note 
indicating that they actually did anything to the unit.  There was a mysterious
printed circuit card (which I later found out was a 2 MB memory card) enclosed
in the box.  

So I call back.  This time the representative still wants me to replace the
entire system software yet again.  Instead of doing so, I take the short cut
and boot from disk tools - still get a mouse freeze.

SOS 2: Send the unit back.  Because the Airborne guy came at the precise half
hour where I had to pick up my kids (my wife is on jury duty), the box got
picked up without an airbill placed on it.  Took them 2 weeks to find it.
Anyway, last Monday the rep said that they found it and are working on it
and should go out late today (Monday).  Didn't get a package on Tuesday, so
call back Wednesday - same story - rep said that they're working on it and
it should go out today.  Got a call that morning from the original rep, said
the problem was an extension in the system folder.  Didn't he realize that
I booted from Disk Tools and still got the problem?? Noooo.  They ship the
unit back and it seizes up on the 4th sleep.  However, they did manage to
scratch a nice gouge in my otherwise pristine screen.

Net result:  SOSAPPL keeps my machine for 4 weeks total and doesn't do a
damn thing to fix it, except scratch the screen which doesn't seem to help
any.

Note: in case you still think that this is software, I also backed up and
reformatted the hard drive, in case it was in some driver that lived on
the disk and got loaded in a startup.  Still freezes.

Am I disgusted?  You betcha!  I'll see if there's an alternative to this
so-called service when I call SOS monday.  Otherwise, they seem to be in
a great hurry to get things back, but don't take a minimum amount of time
to see if they actually fixed the problem.  Net result:  You may just be
deprived of your powerbook for a period of time without getting it repaired.

-Owen


P.S. This SOSAPPL seems so out of character for Apple, who, in other regards,
seems to take a genuine interest in the consumer.

Owen Hartnett				omh@cs.brown.edu
"FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks
		without knowledge, of things without parallel."
			-Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
From: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Rumour: 040 VX?!
Date: 24 Dec 1992 00:11:15 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: an780@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Travis Grundke)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, yjc@po.cwru.edu (Jerome 'TofuSoft' Chan) says:

>I met one of the Sales people while Christmas shopping last night. We
>talked for a few minutes about the new systems coming out in February and
>it seems that the VX may be upgraded to an 040 CPU. Has anyone heard
>anything about this??!
>
>---
>The Evil Tofu
>
 Quite so. The new product line is to be called "The Macintosh Centris 610
and 650" models. They will be a 20mhz 040 in the form of the VX w/o a
mathchip on the 68040 and the other will be, I believe, an upgrade for the
Quadra 700. 
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