EvangeList Digest Wednesday, February 25 1998 Volume 01 : Number 1102
In this issue:
Tidbit - Leaving Windows Behind Tidbit - Free Scripts for PageMaker Tidbit - Non Mac Server Dancing Icons Problem Tidbit - Lack of Mac Software -- NOT Digital Guy Loses Almost Four Days ;-) - UFO Mac? PR - Apple Demo Days !! - Steve Jobs Goes To Washington?
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:10:12 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Leaving Windows Behind
Keyword: Advocacy, Guerilla Tactics
This tidbit is from:
Doug Spencer, <spencer@wclynx.com>
It's hard to prioritize what possessions are important when forced to evacuate from a disaster, as was the case when my home in Upper Canyon 3, Rio Nido, California was hit by a massive landslide. Of course, I had already moved my Mac out because of frustration with lost services. Days after the slide, I was able to resolve difficulties for press credentials when I developed an affiliation to deliver photos and QuickTime VR content for a Bay Area news service. I was accompanied by a camera crew to guide them into the disaster area and provide interview segments of the event. Upon entering the upper story of my home, they observed a Wintel machine sitting on the floor in a corner of my home office. They asked, "Oh, are you a PC user?" I replied, "No, no-no-no -- used to be, but then I wanted something I could use." They laughed and told me they were Mac users also. As I scooped up a few possessions, they asked if I wanted to take my Windows machine out? I replied, "I think a warm coat might be more useful. Somehow, a Wintel box sitting in a corner, waiting to be buried by a predicted 250,000 additional tons of mud seems an appropriate end."
I have my Mac, and I have enjoyed the company of other Mac fans! I have found the proverbial silver lining within an event that I can now say, IS NOT, a *complete* disaster ;-) __________________________ Digital Guy Sez:
Having a mountain fall on your computer must be the ultimate crash. Of course, it will present a puzzle for archeologists far into the future that might un-earth it ("What was it used for?!").
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:10:14 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Free Scripts for PageMaker
This tidbit is from:
Marc Zeedar, <pmscripting@svprint.com>
Graphic designers who use Adobe PageMaker are invited to visit the PageMaker Scripting Center. It's the only website exclusively devoted to scripting PageMaker using PageMaker's proprietary scripting language, AppleScript, HyperCard, and Westcode's One Click.
There are dozens of free scripts ranging from the immensely useful (character styles, replace one color with another, replace one font with another, etc.) to the silly (the world's first PageMaker-based game).
All scripts are free and we welcome contributions from readers.
Visit the PageMaker Scripting Center at:
<http://www.svprint.com/pmscripting.html>.
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:10:15 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Non Mac Server Dancing Icons Problem
This tidbit is from:
Larsen Dena, <Larsen_Dena@prc.com>
"Dancing Icons"
Readers report the triggering with Mac OS 8.1 of a previously existing AppleShare client/server problem. The problem occurs with AppleShare servers on non-Mac platforms, such as Linux, Windows NT and Novell Netware. When the server volume is mounted on the Mac client, file icons in the server window "jump" or "dance" around, such that normal Finder operations - selecting files, for instance - becomes a problem.
Netatalk 1.4b2 patches address the problems with that Unix server.
Eddie Bowers created an unofficial Windows NT 4 server patch (see www.macwindows.com for more details). Two official NT 4 hotfixes, Jump_A.zip and Jump_86.zip, reportedly are available now via Microsoft phone support, but are not posted on Microsoft's website.
Leland Wallace (AppleShare IP Client Lead at Apple) described the source of the problem:
"The 'dancing' icons problem mentioned with Clients 3.7.1 - 3.7.4 is due to an interaction between the Mac OS 8 Finder and the NT Server. The NT server is not saving the Finder Info that the Finder is updating, causing the Finder to redraw the items each time it revisits them. The version of the AppleShare Client has no effect on the problem. We are working with Microsoft to resolve the problem."
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:10:17 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Tidbit - Lack of Mac Software -- NOT
Keyword: Advocacy, Guerilla Tactics
This tidbit is from:
Joe Ragosta, <joe.ragosta@dol.net>
"Developers are abandoning the Mac in droves" is one of the FUD items that people are using to fight against the Mac. But when pressed, they can't usually provide any evidence of that.
Today, someone on comp.sys.mac.advocacy pointed out that this week's MacWeek had an article about Sybase dropping the Mac and challenged me to show that developers were adding the Mac. It was a pretty stupid challenge because the same MacWeek had _five_ articles about companies which were converting their formerly PC only products to PC plus Mac.
This is a general trend. I read MacWeek religiously, and there are vendors adding Mac products almost every week. The number of companies who are actually dropping Mac products is miniscule in contrast. So when someone says developers are leaving the Mac, ask them for evidence.
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 02:10:19 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: Digital Guy Loses Almost Four Days
This plea for mercy is from:
The Digital Guy <mailto:evangelist@apple.com>
Okay, here's the scoop -- I started to run into problems with one of my copies of Claris...I mean, Apple...E*Mailer where it would crash after launching. So the dance began...a clean system installed (I was way overdue for that anyway...I play with too many beta and earlier versions of software :), a fresh initialization of the hard drive, and so forth.
Somehow along the way I managed to lose 4 days from my backlog (which I've only caught up with this past weekend). Based on what I have listed the 14, 15, 16 and 17th of February either didn't happen or were sucked into the bit bucket. My best guess is that I accidentally swapped an earlier version of the mail database with the current one (D'oh!). Ironically, since I do daily backups and it was several days before I caught the problem all of my retrospect backups were "updated" with the same wrong version. Call it the more vigorous application of Murphey's law. :-/
If you sent me something during those four days, please take the time to resend it, and accept my humble apologies.
I was reading the March 1998 issue of Flying magazine and got a surprise when I reached Russell Munson's article "Flying the Mojave". In one of the photos was the carcass of an ancient compact Macintosh. Munson had been sight-seeing in the desert, and found it near Giant Rock. This is a place that has been the scene of many UFO sightings over the years, and Munson comes up with some interesting speculation.
"I don't know whether extraterrestrials ever landed out there or not, but I can tell you this: I personally saw the remains of an ancient Apple Macintosh computer lying on an unusual rock formation not far from Giant Rock. One must wonder, could that computer have been used for intergalactic navigation aboard an alien ship that landed on this site decades ago? Wait a minute, you say, that's impossible. The Mac didn't exist until 1984. Yeah, right, it didn't exist--here..."
Hmmmm!
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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 21:22:57 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: PR - Apple Demo Days
This announcement is from:
deb ibsen, <deb@ibsen.com>
Apple will be sponsoring "Apple Demo Days" on Sunday, March 15th from 12-5pm in retail stores across the country (see below for listing). We would like to invite you to contribute to the success of this all-important event by demonstrating Apple product in-store. In addition to lending a hand to Apple, it's a great opportunity for you to meet and talk with customers.
Apple will be providing product information so you can familiarize yourself with the product line currently available at retail. These materials will be delivered to your home prior to the event.
If you are interested in participating, please email <appledem@marketsource.com> to request more information.
Thanks for your interest and support.
CITIES: Greater Phoenix, AZ Greater Los Angeles,CA Greater Bay Area (California) Central California Greater San Diego, CA Great Denver, CO Bridgeport, CT Wilmington, DE Greater Tampa, FL Greater Fort Lauderdale, FL Greater Miami, FL Jacksonville, FL Greater Atlanta, GA Des Moines, IA Boise, ID Greater Chicago, IL Wichita, KS Kansas City, KS Greater New Orleans, LA Greater Boston, MA Greater Washington D.C. Balitimore, MD Grand Rapids, MI Detroit, MI Grand Forks, MN Minneapolis, MN Grand Rapids, MN Greater New Jersey Albuquerque, NM Reno, NV Las Vegas, NV New York, NY Rochester, NY Dayton, OH Colombus, OH Oklahoma City, OK Tulsa, OK Portland, OR Greater Philadelphia,PA Pittsburgh, PA Providence, RI Nashville, TN Knoxville, TN Greater East Texas El Paso, TX Lubbock, TX Greater Dallas, TX Greater Houston, TX Greater South, TX Salt Lake City, UT Richmond, VA Norfolk, VA Seattle, WA Spokane, WA Greater Milwaukee, WI Madison, WI
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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 02:10:59 -0000 From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com> Subject: !! - Steve Jobs Goes To Washington?
This action item is from:
John Farr, <jhfarr@applelinks.com>
This came to my attention while editing the daily Apple Computer News for Applelinks.com <http://www.applelinks.com/> today:
Senator Hatch has asked Bill Gates, Scott McNealy, and Jim Barksdale to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on March 3.
This Reuters article <http://www.internetnews.com/Reuters/congress.html> reveals that Hatch intends to ask them to tell the committee all about the latest Internet technologies. In light of the ISO's adoption of QuickTime multimedia standards (and a thousand other reasons), shouldn't Steve Jobs have been invited to speak?
Shouldn't polite, literate, concerned members of the Macintosh community contact Senator Hatch and tell him of their concerns? His e-mail address is <senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov>. Be nice!
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