EvangeList Digest Friday, April 24 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1165
In this issue:
Tidbit - 4th Dimension Database Web Ring Formed PR - www.mac-shop.com Opens Tidbit - Wrinkle 2 Debuts Online On Earthday Tidbit - At Least Somebody gets It Tidbit - Mac Floppy Kills NT Tidbit - My Daddy's FREE Sakura Desktop Pictures PR - IMG & Techworks Power3D Giveaway Tidbit - Graphing Calculator Secrets ?? & Followup - Crosstab and Time Series App PR - MacFServe 1.1.2 Released Tidbit - Aliases Versus Shortcuts Job - Positions at Netopia (Alameda/San Jose, CA)
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:10:45 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - 4th Dimension Database Web Ring Formed
This tidbit is from:
Jeff Iverson, <j5rson@iversonsoftware.com>
Iverson Software Co. [Mankato, MN] is pleased to announce the formation of the 4th Dimension Database Webring.
The Webring provides the World Wide Web with a different way to organize web sites. The Webring is a way to group together sites with similar content by linking them together in a circle, or ring.
The idea is that once you are at one site in the webring, you can click on a "Next" or "Previous" link to go to adjacent sites in the ring and--if you do it long enough--end up where you started.
Anyone with a website and some involvement with 4th Dimension, be it as a product vendor, custom developer, user group, magazine or e-zine can join the Webring. To join, just go to <http://www.iversonsoftware.com/4dring.htm> and fill out the form.
ASTARTE GmbH, who you may know as the creator of Toast CD recording software, is launching a new online software store devoted exclusively to Macintosh. Called MacShop, the shop is open at the address <http://www.mac-shop.com>. Our goal with this new venture is to offer all the best Mac solutions, from developers around the world, for online ordering and download.
A Wrinkle In Time 2, featuring more than 200 Quicktime VR, 360 degree Panoramas, all taken on March 20th during the Equinox, makes its online debut Wednesday, April 22nd to coincide with Earth Day 1998.
See <http://www.wrinkle2.lava.net>
Our global contingent of 100+ photographers participated in two Globally synchronized shoots based on 12 noon and 9 pm Hawaii Standard Time and one Global Wave Shoot based on 11 am their local time... again, all this was done on March 20th, the day of the Equinox. We have panoramas from six continents and many include recorded ambient location sound.
The exhibit, celebrating "The Wonders of Mother Earth" will be online at www.wrinkle2.lava.net and we recommend that all viewers have the latest Quicktime 3.0 installed on their computers.
Previews are online now. Mirror locations will also be announced onsite on the 22nd.
QT 3.0 is available for free for Mac or Windows at <http://www.apple.com/quicktime>
Please join us for a look at our world and a Wrinkle In Time 2!
Aloha,
Rabbett Wrinklemeister
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:10:57 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - At Least Somebody gets It
This tidbit is from:
Greg Brown, <gbrown@imsa.edu>
From this week's Spencer F. Katt <http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/spencer/spencer.html>
"Closing this week, Spencer got a tidbit from another Furball fan: What kind of computers were registrars at last week's Microsoft Visual C++ Developers Conference in Boston using? Apple PowerBooks, of course."
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 02:10:54 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Mac Floppy Kills NT
Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares
This tidbit is from:
Steve Cmabers, schamber@newman.mitre.org
I am a support technician (contractor) for a big Government R&D contractor and work a lot setting up and configuring Macs and PC's. We just got a shipment of new computers in (7 new G3/266 towers!) and 4 new top of the line Dell 300MHz PC's.
Installation of the Macs is running flawlessly, as expected, so I uncrate the Dells fire them up and go thru the rigmarole for a first time run of Windows NT (service pack 3). OOPS, I need a new set of Win 95 setup disks (basically a disk tools disk and some CD-ROM drivers). SO I grab a couple of floppies from the floppy box, pop it in one of the new NT boxes.
To format a floppy on NT/Win95 you right-click on the A: drive icon and select format. WRONG! on all 4 NT boxes I do this and I get the BSOD (blue screen of death --reboot your system, it's gone!)
The floppy in question, an old Mac formatted system 7.5 floppy!
I asked our NT Admin what gives and he shrugged his shoulders and said, "I dunno, mine does the same thing, when I want to format a floppy I take it to another machine."
Sure enough, Win 95 formats it fine, the Mac (of course) formats a PC floppy fine but on many NT 4.0 boxes re-formatting a Mac formatted floppy can't be done!
So much for "a bullet proof enterprise wide OS for mission critical applications!"
Sakura-viewing season (hanami) has just ended here in Japan, but it doesn't have to be that way for you and your Macintosh. My daddy took many sakura pictures in the park next to his office and turned a few of them into Desktop Pictures so you can enjoy these beautiful flowers all year 'round.
There are four (4) pictures of sakura blossoms and one (1) bonus picture of some colorful carp streamers (koi no bori) which are flown at this time of year in honor of Children's Day (May 5th).
The pictures can be downloaded from <http://www.angelfire.com/fl/airichan>. Just look for the download link in the middle of my home page in my "Latest News" section. It should take you directly to the download page.
These pictures are FREE and may be freely distributed to any Macintosh-based system, as long as Daddy's read-me file is included with them. However,
THEY MAY NOT BE DISTRIBUTED TO ANY WINDOZE-BASED, DOS-BASED, OR NON-MACINTOSH PLATFORM WITHOUT DADDY'S EXPRESS WRITTEN PERMISSION.
Sorry for shouting, but Daddy says he has no desire to see his pictures on a "graphically-inferior PC". I'm not exactly sure what this means, but Daddy's pretty adamant about his platform of choice and the pictures sure do look nice on our Macintosh at home. ;)
Thanks very much for your interest. I hope you enjoy these images!
For two weeks, beginning Tuesday, April 21, 1998, Inside Mac Games and Techworks <http://www.techworks.com> are teaming up to giveaway a Power3D card and five ByteMe t-shirts. To enter the giveaway, simply fill out the entry form on IMG's website. The giveaway ends May 5th. Good luck!
The Power3D card is dedicated to bringing you the best performance available for MacOS 3D games. Most 3D computer graphics solutions try to be all things to all people. No compromises here. Power3D is designed for one thing only and that is great games. This is truly the most awesome gaming card available on the Mac! Power3D delivers the best gaming experience ever.
The Power3D does not replace your existing 2D graphics, it works with your existing graphics card or built-in video to provide you the absolute in 3D performance.
Drop by the IMG website <http://www.imgmagazine.com/> to enter!
- ----- Doug Hempel Online Evangelist Inside Mac Games Magazine <doug@imgmagazine.com> <http://www.imgmagazine.com>
Users of the Graphing Calculator may be amused by:
<http://www.nucalc.com/Secrets.html>
Hidden in the application which has been shipping since 1994 are about 150 hidden keys to do various bits of algebra and math typography.
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 02:08:43 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: ?? & Followup - Crosstab and Time Series App
This follow-up message and request is from:
Walter Steensby, <walters@dist.gov.au>
Last February I asked the Evangelist this question:
"Could anyone suggest a solution to our problem? We need someone who can manipulate complicated data structures, provide cross-tabulation and time- series front-ends to data files (and even a graphical interface), work to tight deadlines, can develop for both Mac and Windows users, and can bundle it up for delivery as an application to customers."
My sincere thanks to the almost 50 people who responded, and sincere apologies that I can't reply to each of you. The Evangelist is a truly amazing resource.
In the February posting I did not phrase the question properly. I asked for a data front-end, and received a lot of useful and workable advice on how to set one up. However, more than this we need cross-platform software that can analyse questionnaire survey data and do crosstabs and time series analysis.
The main contender now is scyTAB from Surveycraft (specialists in computer- assisted telephone interviewing). This seems to be a very good application albeit a bit weak in the time series function, but of course it's single platform only. We do not wish to desert our Mac customers and are very loath to tell them all to buy VirtualPC or RealPC. Running things in emulation is OK up to a point but deosen't strengthen one's case for retaining our Macs.
Can anyone suggest a Mac-native equivalent to scyTAB, or better?
Smiley-Info, <smiley-info@geocities.com> (by way of EvangeList, <evangelist@apple.com>>
Today, we released MacFServe 1.1.2. It fixes a major bug that would prevent it from loading or unloading correctly.
MacFServe is a file server (FServe) script for ircle 3.0b10. It's designed to offer as much power as possible in one package. ircle is MacResponse's (not our) IRC client for the Mac OS.
Here's a windows daymare for the list or whatever -- I haven't seen this listed in the Why Mac Is Better materials:
When I first saw the Windows '95 Desktop, (at work, of course!) I saw "My Computer" and assumed it was the hard disk, or C drive.
It isn't -- so, preferring to have all my drives on the desktop, I made shortcuts for the floppy disk, hard disk, CD-ROM and Jaz drive.
This works well enough when you're just dragging things to them, but when you work with them in File Open and File Save dialogs, the following Incredibly Stupid Thing happens:
You have a file, let's say it's called "Very Important Report.doc". You go to save it and the File Save Dialog opens, showing you those easy shortcuts to all your drives. You want to save it to your Jaz drive, so you click on the shortcut "Jaz Drive".
It opens up and you save -- but before you save, take a look at the filename -- you're saving a file called "Jaz Drive.lnk"!
For some reason, the shortcut's filename gets substituted for your filename.
Blink and you've missed it -- and if you /have/ missed it, you've haven't got a document called "Very Important Report.doc" any more, -- try doing one of those "but I know I wrote that report!" searches -- plus you've got a deeply-confused file that thinks it's a shortcut but isn't.
Also, shortcuts to drives aren't shortcuts to drives at all, they're shortcuts to drive /ID's/, so the day you come in and forget to turn your "D" drive on, the system just ignores it and maps the next drive it finds, which yesterday was "E", to that shortcut. Surprise! Your CD-ROM is now only available via your Jaz shortcut, and your Jaz shortcut is just an error message.
Compare this with a Mac Alias, which gives you sensible error messages when drives are switched off, and will cheerfully connect you to an previously-unconnected networked drive with just a brief sidestep in the File Save process...
Staff Design Engineer, Firmware; Alameda/San Jose, CA
Position Summary: Reporting to the Director of Engineering , as a staff firmware design engineer, you will be the technical lead on creating new embedded router products. Work will be primarily router software in "C" in an embedded RTOS environment.
Qualifications: experience in structured "C" programming. . Experience with routers is essential. . Knowledge or experience with IP, RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPF, BGP, IP multicast, DHCP, NAT, Syslog, RADIUS, PPP, tunneling protocols, Motorola or RISC processors, RTOS, and embedded systems are all pluses. . Additional experience with ISDN, T1, ATM, frame relay, or xDSL will give you the edge for this position. . Must have strong communications skills and be capable of working independently and with a small team. . A BS in CS/EE required, MS desirable
Contact Us: For immediate consideration please complete our online application at www.netopia.com/corp/jobs, or email your resume to: <employment@netopia.com> or fax to (510)814-5022, or mail to: 2470 Mariner Square Loop, Alameda, CA 94501.
About Us: Netopia, Inc., formerly Farallon Communications, develops, markets and supports complete, easy-to-use, plug-and-play Internet connectivity products and real-time collaboration software for all platforms. The Company's products are designed to increase the productivity and efficiency of Internet, Intranet and LAN users that may not have access to sophisticated technical support. Netopia's Internet/Intranet products include its high-speed Internet routers; its Timbuktu Pro remote control software that enables real-time, peer-to-peer collaboration on the Internet, Intranets and LANs; and its Netopia Virtual Office software, an interactive web office for PCs. Farallon, a division of Netopia, markets LAN networking solutions, including its EtherWave family of products that enable users to easily and cost-effectively create Ethernet networks with or without a hub.
Engineering Technician; Alameda/San Jose, CA
Position Summary: Netopia, Inc. is looking for an Engineering Technician to support hardware development.
Responsibilities: products . Preparing fully assembled units for in-house use or beta test needs. . Ownership of the lab area, including organizing the work areas/tools and ordering new tools as necessary. . Ordering and organizing of new parts for general use in hardware engineering. . Rework of existing boards.
Qualifications: preferred. . Exposure to a design-engineering environment and willingness to work overtime on occasion. . Must be a highly organized individual and pay great attention to detail. . Board rework experience including surface mount and fine-pitched parts. . Has good communication skills. . Willingness to take ownership of a project from beginning to end.
Contact Us: For immediate consideration please complete our online application at www.netopia.com/corp/jobs, or email your resume to: <employment@netopia.com> or fax to (510)814-5022, or mail to: 2470 Mariner Square Loop, Alameda, CA 94501.
About Us: Netopia, Inc., formerly Farallon Communications, develops, markets and supports complete, easy-to-use, plug-and-play Internet connectivity products and real-time collaboration software for all platforms. The Company's products are designed to increase the productivity and efficiency of Internet, Intranet and LAN users that may not have access to sophisticated technical support. Netopia's Internet/Intranet products include its high-speed Internet routers; its Timbuktu Pro remote control software that enables real-time, peer-to-peer collaboration on the Internet, Intranets and LANs; and its Netopia Virtual Office software, an interactive web office for PCs. Farallon, a division of Netopia, markets LAN networking solutions, including its EtherWave family of products that enable users to easily and cost-effectively create Ethernet networks with or without a hub.
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