EvangeList Digest Tuesday, March 17 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1126
In this issue:
?? - Looking for Article Followup - Old Macs Never Die Tidbit - Apple Seedlings Has a Winner ?? - G3 upgrade for PB3400c? Followup - A Quick Unbiased Approach To Convincing Naysayers PR - Sad Macs Book and FREE bunny Job - Network Administrator/User Support Specialist (Rockville, MD) $$ - Web Site Hosting for Evangelists Followup - Mac Networking problems Job - Mac Support at The National Library Of Medicine (Bethesda, MD)
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 02:11:24 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: ?? - Looking for Article
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<kirby@upstel.net>
I am in the process of writing a report to our Technology Committee as to why our school should support and purchase new PowerMacs. I will forward the web address of the report to the evangelistas when it is completed.
I am writing now because I recently found an article on the internet, which I cannot now seem to locate, which describes how Intel's x86 processor has reached its limits and is now running out of gas. As a result, Intel and Hewlett-Packard are designing a new architecture, Merced, that will be available in 1999. The article also mentioned Merced may not be compatible with Windows 95 software, will be expensive, is designed for high-end workstation users and that Intel plans to continue development of its x86 technology for the foreseeable future.
Can any one help me locate this article, so I can support these statements in my report.
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 02:11:19 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Followup - Old Macs Never Die
This follow-up message is from:
Mac-arena, <macrulez@softhome.net>
I'd like to thank everyone who's replied to my post about my Performa 475 system, and the Digital Guy for letting it thru. :)
I've received a mixed bag of suggestions and questions. Here's some of them:
- - Add an FPU (i.e. replace the 68LC040 processor with a regular `040. - I do plan to do this.)
- - Get a processor upgrade card. I don't plan to do this. I need the slot for my Apple IIe card (we're in a computer club here in Orange County, California. <http://www.oacc.org/> if you scope their ancient website) [What about software emulation? Even with the 475 I recall that emulation required tweaks to slow DOWN how fast some games ran. You get a processor upgrade and run IIe software at blazing speeds in emulation. :) - DG]
- - Get an ethernet card. (Same reason for not doing this, and LocalTalk is still fast enough for me. :)
- - How does your localtalk setup work? (I'll have an ASCII art and description below.)
- - How well does OS8 run? (I've gotten a brand-new 2 GB HP hard disk, on which I've installed 8.1. Both haven't crashed and run beautifully.)
[Note - this will look best in 10 point monaco. - DG]
That's just one example. One place to try for localtalk equipment is Alltech Electronics <http://www.allelec.com/>. They are clearing out their Mac stuff tho, so I would not expect a huge selection. You can also try your local store for PhoneNet equipment by Netopia, which uses regular phone line. (using this, you can even use your house as one honkin' connector box: <http://www.practicalmac.com/> [Not with all of the phone lines in MY house full up. I wired for 10 base T. :) DG]
Thanks again! :)
One last thing. To everyone who emailed me, I would like permission to post some of the emails on the great Mac uprising website at <http://members.tripod.com/~greatmacuprising/>. We are an anti-PC organization. Maybe you've even seen our emails in the past. Either way, your real name and/or email address will be hidden if you like.
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 02:11:06 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Apple Seedlings Has a Winner
This tidbit is from:
Daria Aikens, <daria@gdn.net>
Apple Wizards <http://applewizards.net> is pleased to announce the WINNER of the first Apple Seedlings contest, John N Bryan. The award winning article, entitled "Leaping Rats and Lemmings" is available at <http://applewizards.net/seedlings/archive/rats-and-lemmings.html>. Here is just the beginning of what John has to say:
"There is a lot of talk, or so it seems, of people shouting "Goodbye Apple!!". Don't worry about it too much. Do what you need to do, what you think is right, what you _feel_ is right. There is no other better indicator that you can trust, and in the end, it is the only one you truly have."
This article is truly terrific, so check it out today!
Apple Seedlings is a forum for YOU. We rely on average people to submit articles. After you're done reading "Leaping Rats and Lemmings", feel free to explore the rest of the Apple Seedlings site and read other articles. Then, think about something that you could write. If you get inspired, send your article off to <seedlings@applewizards.net>. If your article is good, it will be posted for thousands to read.
<http://applewizards.net/seedlings/>
Apple and Mac people are some of the best in the world. I'm quite positive that many Mac people have opinions and stories to tell. As we say at Apple Wizards, Say it in Seedlings!
Sincerely, Daria M. Aikens
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Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 02:11:11 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: ?? - G3 upgrade for PB3400c?
This request is from:
Donald R. Vance, <drvance@oru.edu>
I have noticed that a third party developer has announced a G3 upgrade for the PowerBook 1400 line. Is there such an upgrade for the 3400 line? Since the new G3 PowerBooks are so similar to the 3400, one would think that an upgrade would be pretty straight forward, but I have looked in vain for such. Replies can be sent directly to me at <drvance@oru.edu>. Thanks.
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 02:10:42 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Followup - A Quick Unbiased Approach To Convincing Naysayers
Keyword: Advocacy, Guerilla Tactics
This tidbit is from:
Richard Shen, <ryshen@worldnet.att.net>
I have always been puzzled by "experts" who has been spreading false information on the demise of the Mac, especially in the design field.
I am a consultant who specializes in the design and the publishing field in the New York City and surrounding area.
All major design houses and publications uses the Mac. One very simple test to show skeptics and nay sayers the power of the Mac is to look up the help wanted ads in large cities. Also surf the web and check out the positions available section for publishing houses and design firms. See what the requirements are to fill those positions. It has not failed me when ever I asked any of my clients who insists the Mac is dead. You are getting a third party source, no bias, no filtering, and the best of all money talks. If Mac skills are needed to fill those positions, then what good is it to learn on the PC?
If your resume states that you have only PC skills, your resume will go directly into the trash, and never again to see the light of day. After the person gets a good laugh. BTW the designers are very pro Mac. I have seen them go to the extremes to avoid using a PC.
Has your instructor ever designed a book, magazine, or any professionally printed material? It is very difficult to output through image setters directly from the PC. Font conflicts, output hardware devices and driver compatibility are some major problems.
Good Luck in educating your instructor on the real world of publishing and design. __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
This blew my mind when I read it. It's so obvious I missed it, even though I'm CONSTANTLY aiming job seekers toward various job listings on the net. Well, I decided to put it to the test. First I wandered over to the San Jose Mercury to see what was in the typical ads just from today. I got back 30 listing that specified Mac expertise as a job qualification...though I was surprised to see *two* caterer listings. "Mac" might mean something different in catering. :-) (Note: I already knocked a few items off because they didn't talk about "Mac" computers..."Fax Mac at..." for example. :)
Well, not impressive enough. So I wandered over to the Monster Board (www.monster.com) and went at it. I narrowed the search to the 30,000 odd listing in the US and specified "mac" not "freddie". I maxed out on the returns (the monster board limits the returned items to 200), so I began adding keywords to the search:
mac and design not freddie : 105 listings mac and graphic not freddie : 38 mac and production not freddie : 70 mac and art not freddie : 35
EvangeListas looking for maximum impact can simply type "Macintosh" and let people look at the kind of companies that are posting for Mac people, often multiple positions. Better yet, choose listings for all of California (yeah, I know it's a pain the way the Monster Board does it. Just shift select the whole bunch) and let them drool. (oh yeah, as of March 10 it was about 96 listings :)
BTW, these are just the listings that specify the Mac...there may be quite a few more that don't mention the Mac because they just assume people will be able to use it. :)
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 02:10:46 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - Sad Macs Book and FREE bunny
This announcement is from:
<OWL@Bigfoot.com> Owen Linzmayer
<http://www.netcom.com/~owenink>
Ted Landau's "Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters" was recently rated the number one best-selling Macintosh book for everal weeks on Ingram's Top Demand A-List, and it continues to be in the top ten.
Now you can order your own copy at the great mail-order price of just $25 within the US and $27 elsewhere.
When your Mac misbehaves, "Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters" is the only book you'll ever need to set things right. Now available in a completely revised third edition, this award-winning book is the most comprehensive troubleshooting guide ever assembled.
Weighing in at over three pounds, this 964-page paperback is organized by problem, lists symptoms, discusses possible causes, and offers precise solutions explained in jargon-free detail.
Everyone ordering the book receives a FREE copy of the official 1.44MB companion disk containing more than 20 indispensable freeware and shareware tools for preventing disasters, diagnosing problems, and recovering from mistakes.
Plus, every order postmarked before Easter (April 12) will receive a FREE copy of the Energizer Bunny screen saver disk (original retail value: $29.95). For details, please visit my web site:
<http://www.netcom.com/~owenink/mailorder.html>
Send cash, money order, or check (drawn on a U.S. bank) made payable to Owen Ink. For proper fulfillment, specify the book(s) you are ordering and please include your email address. Mail your order to:
Owen Ink, 2227 15th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94116-1824
P.S. This offer supersedes all previous offers and is subject to change without notice.
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 02:10:56 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Job - Network Administrator/User Support Specialist (Rockville, MD)
This job announcement is from:
Hia Kim, <Hia_Kim@fc.mcps.k12.md.us>
Title: User Support Specialist
Location: Rockville, MD (Montgomery County Public Schools)
Job Responsibilities: Provide primary technical support for technology in elementary schools. The work includes installing school LAN, installing software, troubleshooting problems and supporting staff use. Works with central staff in troubleshooting school WAN connectivity problems. Installs, maintains and coordinates the use of school's LAN and WAN.
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent training with considerable course work in computer systems of related field; experience installing, maintaining and troubleshooting AppleShare 4.x/5.x network; knowledge of Novell network desirable. Considerable knowledge of personal computers and peripherals, software and operating systems; knowledge of instructional/administrative uses of computers; knowledge of current technologies used in LAN/WAN; strong communication and interpersonal skills; ability to problem solve and support end users. Preference given to applicants with strong Macintosh operating system, networking and software installation experience. Knowledge of At Ease helpful.
Contact: Dr. William Monie Dept. of Personnel Services Montgomery County Public Schools 30 West Gude Drive, Suite 250 Rockville, MD 20850 email: <William_Monie@fc.mcps.k12.md.us>
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 02:10:49 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: $$ - Web Site Hosting for Evangelists
This special offer is from:
Chris Graves, <chris@zelus.com>
Zelus Enterprises has been providing Mac OS based web hosting to the private sector for over two years. As of March 1st we are now providing services to you - the Mac loving public. We offer hosting services starting as low as $9.95 a month on our "Itsamac" Webserver - prices made possible by the easy-to-maintain and powerful Mac OS.
As a special offer to Evangelists we are waiving all set up fees when you prepay for at least three months. Just mention "Evangelist" when you sign up.
Our Mac "Purist" Package features 10 mb of hard drive space, 500 mb bandwidth a month, 2 forwarded e-mail addresses, FTP access, Netcloak, graphic hit counters, form to e-mail, and a guestbook using our never-to-be-patented but still useful "Guestbook Transmogrifier".
Our Mac "Fanatic" Package includes larger portions of the above, plus you can use Server-Side Includes, and your Applescript or Macperl CGI's (as long as they're checked by us first).
We also offer add-ons such as Virtual Domain hosting, downloadable server logs and Filemaker Pro 4/Lasso 2.5.
All the details can be found at:
<http://www.zelus.com/itsamac/index.html>
Thanks,
Chris Graves Zelus Enterprises
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 02:10:59 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Followup - Mac Networking problems
This follow-up message is from:
Electronic Viking, <ornstead@apple.com>
Thanks everyone for your help to my brother in his dilemma. I want to stress that this was my brother who works at Cal State Fullerton who had the problem, and I posted it to the list on his behalf. I myself work at Apple Computer as a Quality Engineer, and didn't know enough about networking to help him. I have posted his summary of the problem to help those in a similar situation.
Enoch Ornstead
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Thanks for the great response from the list. I had several requests for more information, but since we got it fixed from other posts and since there were way too many to reply to all of them, I'm just posting this summary. Most of the replies I got concerned routers, so I sent a note to our router guy with some suggestions & he fixed it. I asked him for details on the fix so I could post them to the Evangelist list & the following is what I got.
Anything using Appletalk was experiencing the problem (which was that sometimes they couldn't see certain things on the network). The cause of the problem was two-fold, both related to routers. First there were a bunch of Windows NT machines which had turned on Appletalk routing & which hadn't configured it right. We turned all of these off. Second we had run out of node numbers assignable to Appletalk devices. From what I understand, when an Appletalk device comes up it requests a node number from the nearest router. Our routers had a certain range of such numbers defined, and all were taken. We expanded the range & that seems to have fixed the problem.
Below are some especially relevant excerpts from the responses I received. I got nearly 200 replies from the list (so far - they're still dribbling in), so I can't begin to adequately summarize what they said. If any of you need help with this problem, let me know & I'll be happy to forward them all to you.
Only ONE seed router.
We made the mistake once of having two routers on the network "seed" the network with zone information which can cause the Macs to get confused. There should only be one seed router for any one AppleTalk network. There can be multiple AppleTalk networks on a single one depending on whether you are routing AppleTalk or not. At my prior job, which was 99% Mac based, we routed AppleTalk so have multiple AppleTalk networks so multiple seed routers on different parts of the network. At my present location at a university with a much larger network, we don't route AppleTalk so we only have a single seed router.
Don't Capture.
Windows NT also has the capability to "capture" AppleTalk printers, which makes them disappear from the Chooser. This can be useful if you want to force everyone to use the NT server's printer queue as a spooler, but then if the server is having problems--which is not at all uncommon--then nobody can see the printer. Check _all_ of the NT servers on the network...if a server has an AppleTalk printer defined, be sure that the printer queue is NOT set to capture the AppleTalk device.
Netware Servers:
Our Netware administrator recommends that you check the zone tables on all the Netware servers in the same network segment as the Macs displaying this problem. Chances are you will find a Zone Table problem. If you do, reboot that server and see if the problem goes away. There is also a chance that this problem is solved with Netware v. 4.1, though we're not certain of this.
Dave.
Several people suggested trying Dave, which is alternative networking software.
Etherpeek.
Several people suggested using Etherpeek software to analyze network traffic.
Batteries.
Several people suggested replacing the batteries in the affected Macs. Old batteries lose PRAM settings, which include network settings.
Thanks again, Adam
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 02:10:53 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Job - Mac Support at The National Library Of Medicine (Bethesda, MD)
This job announcement is from:
Jesse Brown, <jbrown@nes.nlm.nih.gov>
The Sarge <http://www.macmarines.com> is leaving the National Library of Medicine and heading for the west coast. This has created an opportunity for someone with the right stuff to fill this billet.
Requirements are for an experienced Mac Guru capable of providing support at the executive level. This person will report to the Director of the Library and provide on-going hardware and software support to him and his staff of 6. The Director uses the latest Powerbook technology (Wallstreet) and of course so will his support person. Other systems used by the staff include a mix of 8500/9500 MaxPower+ G3 upgrades and Apple 266 G3 workstations.
In addition you will maintain an 8600/300 based ASIP 5.02 Web/File/Mail server that hasn't crashed since it was set up 3 months ago. Additional responsibilites will be to plan/order and implement software and hardware upgrades on a timely basis. We try to stay on the leading edge of technology. You will be asked to provide assistance in generating presentation material using different graphics programs and Powerpoint. Web site development is essential so your HTML skills must be sharp. Knowledge of the the internet and troubleshooting LAN communications problems and remote access using ISDN routers and modems is essential.
Other desired skills and experience include Filemaker Pro Database creation, Applescript programming, MS Word Basic Macro language programming, Novell Groupwise and Corel Wordperfect to name just a few.
There is an excellent compensation package plus benefits for the right person. A college degree is helpful but *not* required. You will be judged on your Mac experience, savvy and communications skills not on your paper. Plus if you hurry, I'll give you a good deal on a nice 2 bedroom condo close by :-)
Oh, and we don't do Windows. <g>
Send your Resume and Cover letter referencing the Library position and mention my name to:
Haley Esser Management Systems Designers 131 Park St. N.E. Vienna, Va 22180
or Fax to: 703-281-7636 or email Halley with resume and cover as MS Word attachments at: <mailto:hesser@msdinc.com>
Jesse Brown Sr. Systems Analyst National Library of Medicine
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