EvangeList Digest Monday, May 11 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1179
In this issue:
Tidbit - NT Causes Banking Crisis Job - Macintosh Support (Rockville, MD) Tidbit - Front Page '98 Daymare Tidbit - iMac and USB PR - What's That Number? 1.0 PR - QuickTime 3.0 Hits One Million User Mark Tidbit - New Italian Macintosh Mailing List PR - Apple Outlines OS Strategy at WWDC PR - FireSite Web Site Accelerator Followup & Job - Need Help Keeping Macs in Graphics/Production
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:04:46 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - NT Causes Banking Crisis
Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares
This tidbit is from:
Conal Walsh, <correct@mypostbox.com>
Check out <http://gpg.com/cnme/0496/file91.html> Some excerpts:
"Certain major banks across the world are counting the cost of an ill-judged migration to Microsoft's Windows NT. The two banks, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and the National Westminster Bank (NatWest) in the UK planned to move to NT for strategic systems projects."
"... the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, a key Windows NT user site, has sacked the manager responsible for its introduction because of implementation failures and spiraling costs.
A few years ago Microsoft started asking "Where do you want go today?" Well, I'm sure these companies didn't want to go where it took them :-)
IMMEDIATE openings! Rockville, MD is seeking qualified Macintosh and PC support people for on-site, long term contracts located in Rockville, MD
Positions require strong Mac and Microsoft workstation user support skills. Applicants must possess excellent trouble shooting skills, time management skills, teamwork skills, and have a genuine interest in excellent service to end-users. You will have an excellent team of professionals as teammates and a great group of end users the the client site. Knowledge in the following areas is required: DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95.
Requirements: BS, BA, or AA help desk experience
Benefits: excellent compensation complete benefits package including med, dental, 401K, and much more.
Equal opportunity employer
Send resume to <terri.browder@geis.ge.com> 401 N. Washington St. MC04E Rockville, MD 20755
or fax to 301-340-4680 specify Mac or PC help desk
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:04:52 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - Front Page '98 Daymare
Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares
This tidbit is from:
Kevin Connery, <connery@tanner.com>
From Microsoft's network:
May 5 * A confusing command in Microsoft Corp.'s FrontPage 98 could cause users to delete the entire contents of their hard drive--including the operating system--although the company knows of only one person who's been affected so far.
Full story available at
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/163579.asp>
The worst part is Microsoft's response:
"Microsoft is not posting any patch for the problem because it's not a programming glitch." __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:04:55 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: Tidbit - iMac and USB
This tidbit is from:
ZMac1, <ZMac1@aol.com>
Many Macintosh-focused web sites and press are decrying the fact that Apple's upcoming high-performance, $1300 iMac doesn't have printer and SCSI ports. They say the iMac is not expandable.
MacWindows disagrees. We applaud Apple's decision to adopt Universal Serial Bus (USB). If you are interested, please read our commentary at:
<http://www.macwindows.com>.
John Rizzo Editor MacWindows, the Web Site for Macintosh-Windows Integration Solutions
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 12:04:50 -0000 From: John Halbig <john@garage.com> Subject: PR - What's That Number? 1.0
This announcement is from:
Taylor Design, <support@taylor-design.com>
Taylor Design would like to announce the premier release of What's That Number? 1.0, a free alphabetic phone number convertor and dialer for Mac OS.
What's That Number? converts alphabetic phone numbers (i.e. 1-800-SOS-APPL) to their numeric equivalents (i.e. 1-800-767-2775). What's That Number? also keeps a list of your frequently used phone numbers and can dial them via your Mac's speaker or any standard Macintosh modem.
What's That Number? is a free gift to those who download the List Pad 1.1 demo from Taylor Design or Software Unboxed. You do not have to purchase List Pad in order to receive or use What's That Number?. Simply download the List Pad 1.1 demo, which includes What's That Number? 1.0. What's That Number? is free for simply looking at the List Pad demo.
Company Site - <http://www.taylor-design.com/>
List Pad Page - <http://www.taylor-design.com/ListPadindex.html>
List Pad 1.1 68K Demo - <http://www.taylor-design.com/Product_Downloads/ListPad1.168K_FLD.sit.bin>
List Pad 1.1 PPC Demo - <http://www.taylor-design.com/Product_Downloads/ListPad1.1PPC_FLD.sit.bin>
BinHex encoded archives and additional download locations can be found on the List Pad page.
About Taylor Design
Taylor Design is a privately owned software shop located in Oak Hills, California.
Taylor Design specializes in custom and commercial software for the Macintosh platform, written using Prograph CPX and Metrowerks CodeWarrior (C++).
Taylor Design also offers consulting and web site design services to businesses in the High Desert area. Taylor Design consults for both Macintosh and Wintel platforms.
Contact Information: Sales and Product Information: <sales@taylor-design.com> Technical Support and Press Support: <support@taylor-design.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:05:26 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - QuickTime 3.0 Hits One Million User Mark
This announcement is from:
Apple PR
Apple Computer, Inc. today announced that, since its March 30 introduction, over one million Macintosh and Windows users are now using QuickTime 3 or QuickTime 3 Pro. Windows users accounted for more than two thirds of the total QuickTime downloads from Apple's website (www.apple.com/quicktime), demonstrating QuickTime's unique multi-platform appeal for capturing, editing and playing back a wide variety of digital video and audio content.
QuickTime: The Standard for Digital Video and New Media Publishing First released in 1991, QuickTime is the standard for digital media creation and publishing. Its latest release, QuickTime 3, combines advanced digital video streaming technologies with major breakthroughs in ease-of-use.
QuickTime is the only digital media technology platform capable of integrating 3D animation, real-time special effects, virtual reality and streaming video and audio across all major personal computer platforms. QuickTime currently supports over 35 popular media file formats, including most major video, still image, audio, animation and MIDI formats. QuickTime is the winner of numerous industry awards and QuickTime's file format has been chosen as the starting point for the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) MPEG-4 Intermedia specification.
A free version of QuickTime 3 is available for download at www.apple.com/quicktime/. For just $29.99, users can then purchase a special code that will open the advanced capabilities of QuickTime 3 Pro from www.apple.com/quicktime/, or by calling 888-295-0648 toll-free from the U.S. and Canada. Volume account purchases can be made by calling 800-747-7483 toll-free from the U.S., or 800-263-3394 toll-free from Canada. Apple expects localized language versions of QuickTime 3 to be available soon for download.
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:04:11 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - New Italian Macintosh Mailing List
This tidbit is from:
Mauro 'Q2' Dalu, <Q2@iname.com>
We're pleased to inform you that we are hosting a new Mailing List on our SerMac. List topic includes "Machintosh, Hardware & Software, Macintosh system administration, professional Macs, Macintosh Operating Systems (MacOS, Linux, Rhapsody...) and so on".
This mailing list is an *italian-language-only* area. This means that its subscribers will talk in italian all the time.
Our intent is to provide support to Italian Macintosh Advanced Users. The list works just like any Public Discussion List (such as Macjordomo's Mailing List or Apple-Net-Servers Mailing List).
If our idea will work, "Applicando" (an Italian Macintosh Magazine) will even talk about us in its pages.
To subscribe this Mailing List, you should point your browser here:
<http://www.area.ca.cnr.it/ML>
Click on "Iscrizione On-Line" and than select "SerMac Mailing List". Then follow the on-screen instructions.
List WebSite is *under construction* and List Name is subject to changes. However, List Address *won't* change. Everything will be up and running on 12 May, 1998.
The italian version of this Message follows:
Da oggi e' attiva una nuova mailing list sul nostro SerMac. L'argomento trattato e' il Macintosh in tutti i suoi aspetti (piu' o meno) tecnici riguardanti l'hardware e il software disponibile per i sistemi operativi compatibili (MacOS, Linux, BeOS, Rhapsody...).
Questa lista di discussione vorrebbe idealmente riunire al suo interno tutti gli amministratori di sistemi Mac italiani sparsi per il mondo - per questo motivo una copia di questo messaggio, tradotta in inglese, girera' per molte liste Apple (tra cui la famosa EvangeList).
Se l'iniziativa prendera' piede, la rivista "Applicando" si e' gia' offerta di segnalarci nelle sue pagine.
Nel frattempo il "Freedom Working Group" sta realizzando un sito Web ad hoc e raffinando l'interfaccia di gestione | | dell'iscrizione.
Se siete interessati, potrete iscrivervi attraverso il Web puntando il vostro browser qui:
<http://www.area.ca.cnr.it/ML>
Cliccando "Iscrizione On-Line" e successivamente selezionando la lista "SerMac Mailing List".
L'indirizzo a cui spedire i vostri messaggi per la lista e': <sermac@area.ca.cnr.it>.
Il nome e' ancora provvisorio e sara' confermato o modificato con l'inaugurazione del sito Web (se tutto va bene entro Martedi' 12 Maggio, 1998) .
Vi invito a inviare copia di questo messaggio a tutti quelli che potrebbero essere interessati.
Grazie per l'attenzione, Mauro 'Q2' Dalu. <webmaster@area.ca.cnr.it>
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:05:24 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - Apple Outlines OS Strategy at WWDC
This announcement is from:
Apple PR
At the Company's annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple Computer, Inc. today outlined its operating system software strategy. The strategy includes continuing to enhance Apple's popular Mac OS 8 in releases scheduled for the Fall of 1998 and 1999. In addition, Apple announced Mac OS X (ten), a new advanced version of the Mac OS which will be available to developers in early 1999 and ship in the Fall of 1999. Mac OS X will feature preemptive multitasking, memory protection and advanced virtual memory, and will be fully optimized for Apple's PowerPC G3 based computers.
"Mac developers have created over 12,000 software applications for the 25 million Macintosh customers worldwide," said Steve Jobs, Apple's Interim CEO. "Our software strategy builds on this incredible foundation, and adds advanced features that will give us the foundation to continue to stay ahead in the coming decade."
Mac OS Software Strategy Mac OS X will be based on a subset of the Macintosh application programming interfaces (APIs) that developers have been using for years to create Macintosh applications. With just a few weeks of work, developers can "tune-up" their applications to deliver new versions using the advanced features of Mac OS X, including protected memory, advanced virtual memory and preemptive multitasking. Apple also expects almost all current Macintosh applications to run unaltered on Mac OS X without a "tune-up" (and without the advanced features), ensuring a smooth transition to the operating system for both developers and customers.
Apple is paving the path to Mac OS X with two important operating system software releases scheduled for 1998--Mac OS 8.5 and Rhapsody.
Mac OS 8.5--code named Allegro--advances Internet integration on the Mac with new find and browsing capabilities and even easier Internet set up. Mac OS 8.5 will also include new features for power users, such as fast file transfer optimized for 100 MBps Ethernet and a full PowerPC implementation of AppleScript. As well as enhancing existing Apple technologies, Mac OS 8.5 introduces new services for developers that will allow them to begin development for Mac OS X.
Later this year Apple will ship the first customer release of Rhapsody, a new operating system that Apple is providing as a server platform for publishing and Internet solutions. Rhapsody contains technologies key to Mac OS X, including a microkernel-based core OS and an advanced software development environment.
Developers already familiar with Apple's plans are excited by an operating system strategy that preserves their investment in Mac OS development while delivering advanced capabilities:
"We've been hoping and waiting for this strategy for over three years," said Norm Meyrowitz, President, Macromedia Products. "This is absolutely the right way to move Mac OS forward. It will be a pleasure to quickly move Macromedia's products to Mac OS X."
"Apple has responded to customer concerns with an OS strategy that preserves the industry's investment in Mac OS while at the same time providing increased stability and performance," said Ben Waldman, general manager of the Macintosh Business Unit at Microsoft. "Microsoft is looking forward to continued collaboration with Apple on products that meet the needs of our mutual customers."
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:04:21 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - FireSite Web Site Accelerator
Keyword: Market by market, Internet
This announcement is from:
Susan Marlett, <marlett@clearway.com>
ClearWay Technologies, Inc. today shipped a major revision to their FireSite(TM) Web Site Accelerator, the premiere system for profitable Web hosting on MacOS. Using FireSite's patent-pending Web acceleration, FireSite 2.3 can host twice as many sites as WebSTAR 3.0 alone, using the same Internet connection. FireSite 2.3 also adds the features most requested by professional Webmasters, including fast, flexible site setup options, and support for multiple IP addresses. Free demos can be downloaded from:
<http://www.clearway.com/pages/demos.html>, and come with free technical support.
FireSite 2.3 is the only true upgrade for the Virtual Hosts plug-in that ships with WebSTAR 3.0. FireSite 2.3 replaces the default hosting plug-in and extends the functionality with features professional Webmasters demand: multiple per-site index pages, protection from DNS cutover blackouts, and flexible access to realtime traffic and usage statistics that can be embedded on any page. In addition, FireSite 2.3 includes support for managing multiple IP addresses, shared IP addresses, and easily configurable combinations. FireSite 2.3 is compatible with the new WebSTAR 3.0, as well as with WebSTAR 2.1, 2.0, 1.3.2, and many popular WebSTAR-compatible servers.
ClearWay Technologies, Inc., located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the leading developer of Internet acceleration tools. Founded in January 1996, and privately held, ClearWay is best known for its FireSite Web Site Accelerator. Further information on ClearWay Technologies may be obtained by calling 1-888-55CLEAR, accessing ClearWay's Web site at www.clearway.com or by e-mailing <info@clearway.com>.
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Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 15:04:46 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Followup & Job - Need Help Keeping Macs in Graphics/Production
This follow-up message and Job is from:
Andre Boey, <BoeyA@orvis.com>
Thanks, 'Listas for the quick deluge of responses. I've replied to some of you individually, especially those who expressed an interest in the job I mentioned.
A brief recap: MIS wants to replace the Macs in my graphics/production department with company standard PCs. I had plenty of Mac ammo to make our case, but my boss wanted specific examples of Mac-produced publications.
Well, after sorting through all the replies I received, I have compiled quite the list of "Mac-Made Stuff," not just publications. Rather than posting the entire list here, I've asked the MacMarines for a page on their site and I'll post the URL as soon as it's ready.
In the meantime, the issue of whether we get to keep our Macs has not been resolved. MIS has passed the matter on to upper management for review and a final decision. I believe our case is practically airtight--the GISTICS ROI figures alone are damning, not to mention the testimonials from our service bureau and printing vendors. Still, there is no time for complacency, and I'm not counting my chickens yet.
As it turns out, there is an unexpected job opening in my department. Considering the precarious state of Macs here, I could sure use another Machead around. This position, Catalog Production Manager, is very similar to mine. This person will be responsible for the production of our flagship outdoor sporting and fly-fishing catalogs.
The official job announcement follows. Snail mail a traditional cover letter and resume to the address below. DON'T email me for anything other than general questions as I am not in the hiring process.
Catalog Production Manager ======================= Fast-paced advertising department of national catalog retailer seeks experienced production manager for work on Macintosh-based system. Knowledge of design and typography, experience with color preferred. Must be fluent in Quark, Photoshop, Illustrator, pre-press procedures and detailed production scheduling. Take charge team player, good interpersonal skills, sense of humor, ability to work well under pressure required. Send resume and salary history to:
The Orvis Company Dept. TJ Route 7A Manchester, VT 05254
No phone calls or recruiters please. EOE/M/F/H/V
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