Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

[Donna Hood Pointer]

I used to have that one. It was really cute. Oscar the Grouch popped up 
when the Trash either emptied or had something in it--I don't remember 
which. I never had any trouble with it at all. It always made me smile 
when working on something intense. It's been a long time since I 
thought of that one.


On Jul 4, 2005, at 3:32 PM, PowerBooks wrote:

deleting (complete with progress bar...)


Or the infamous 'Oscar the Grouch' trashcan mod. I know one person
who lost almost everything on his hard drive, thanks to that init and
a determined three year old.


I hate to ask what that one did ... but I'll ask anyway. *cringes*



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Re: I'm CHRONOLOGICALLY an adult, BUT.... (was Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

[Cameron Kaiser]

> Whenever you emptied the trash, Oscar would come out of the trash can  
> and sing a fragment of his 'I love Trash' song. Each time you emptied  
> the trash he sang another verse, so the only way to get him to sing  
> the whole thing was to repeatedly put things in the trash and empty it.
> 
> Hmm...no way THAT could go wrong!

Lol. Looks like

> Here's a link to a copy I found:  macintosh/inits/>

does have a standalone version, though -- the Index sez

Grouch.sit [The Grouch INIT 2.5B1]
  Here's the latest System 7 compatible version of 
  The Grouch.  Empty the trash and see Oscar.  
  Includes a stand-alone application so that kids 
  don't delete all of your files

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Re: Internet on my PB170

[Ken]

My Reply follows quote. On 04/07/2005 14:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
said:  

>Keeping in mind that I am very computer illiterate, how does that work?  Are 
>SCSI ethernet devices common?  Does it require a lot of difficult computer 
>voodoo to get that working?  Thanks.
>Colin the computer illiterate.
>
>>From: Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: "PowerBooks" 
>>To: "PowerBooks" 
>>Subject: Re: Internet on my PB170
>>Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:11:15 -0700
>>
>>It is possible. I have a couple of SCSI-Ethernet devices
>>that plug into the SCSI port that I have used to access
>>my network. It is OK for email (Claris Emailer1.4) but is
>>slow as the 7 year itch for any sort of "browsing."
>>
>>Ken
--
Hmmm, well, the package came with a floppy with drivers, though
those are downloadable from the Asante site. The device plugs into
the SCSI port on the back of the 170 and has an additional wire that
plugs into the ADB port for power. The device has a "standard" 
plug for an ethernet cable which goes to your network.

Depending on which OS you use (I think I used 7.1 with Open Transport
for simplicity) you can choose "alternate ethernet" in the TCP/IP
Control Panel and away you go.

Seemed simple enough to me, requiring no "SCSI Voodoo" to work.

Ken

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Re: I'm CHRONOLOGICALLY an adult, BUT.... (was Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

[Doc Holliday]

I remember MacBarf... I left it in my computer about ten minutes before 
I trashed it. Funny once or twice, but after that, embarrassing.


What I personally liked was being able to get my Mac to play the "The 
Good Morning Vietnam!!!" clip from the movie.


I was watching Independence Day on TV last night. Was that a 5300c? That 
saved the world?


Doc...

Yersinia wrote:

...I have a seriously infantile sense of humor about certain things at 
times. To wit,


Bruce Johnson writes,

and sing a fragment of his 'I love Trash' song. Each time you emptied  
the trash he sang another verse, so the only way to get him to sing  
the whole thing was to repeatedly put things in the trash and empty it.


Hmm...no way THAT could go wrong!

It was by an Eric Shapiro, and was shown at MacHack '89 and may well  
exist out on the net somewhere...He eventually wrote a standalone  
version to protect people with preschoolers.


Here's a link to a copy I found: 


It's called TheGrouch.sit on that page.>

ROFLMAO! I can't help but ask if this is (a) something that's actually 
going to damage my Macs (G3/266, OS 9.2.2 and 5300c Powerbook OS 8.6), 
and (b) if it's safe, can I put this on my Macs and will Oscar do his 
thing when I empty my Trash? See, I'd like to try it, but I don't want to 
mess up my Macs.


On this note, does anyone remember an extension called MacBarf? 
Supposedly if you had it installed and enabled, it would cause your Mac 
to make vomiting noises whenever you ejected a floppy. I had downloaded 
it from somewhere and enabled it (this was back on my 7200/120 with OS 
8.1 as my only computer era) but it never worked. Does anyone know why, 
and if I could find this for OS 8.6 to 9.2.2?


But I don't WANNA grow up!,

~Yersinia.



"Come, muse, let us sing of rats!" -- James Grainger, 1721-67


 



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Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

[Doc Holliday]

Didn't that one come along with a bunch of other such inits in a book 
called "Stupid Mac Tricks"? I was system admin on a large Mac Plus 
network and one person bought the book and installed the init that 
disabled certain keys on the keyboard. She installed that on just about 
every computer on the network. Drove me nuts until I figured it out and 
we had 25 staring at their computers for a day and a half until I could 
remove it all. She probably would have been fired, if she wasn't the 
boss's daughter...


I think I heard this keyboard blocking init was later spread via a 
virus. I never saw it.


Doc...

Bruce Johnson wrote:



On Jul 4, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:


As I recall, there wee a bunch of "novelty" inits one dropped in
the extensions folder that did amusing things; unable to control
mouse, started scanning like an old B&W TV (complete with snow),
beeping, burping, brought up custom screens telling you your HD was
deleting (complete with progress bar...)



Or the infamous 'Oscar the Grouch' trashcan mod. I know one person
who lost almost everything on his hard drive, thanks to that init and
a determined three year old.



I hate to ask what that one did ... but I'll ask anyway. *cringes*



Whenever you emptied the trash, Oscar would come out of the trash can  
and sing a fragment of his 'I love Trash' song. Each time you emptied  
the trash he sang another verse, so the only way to get him to sing  
the whole thing was to repeatedly put things in the trash and empty it.


Hmm...no way THAT could go wrong!

It was by an Eric Shapiro, and was shown at MacHack '89 and may well  
exist out on the net somewhere...He eventually wrote a standalone  
version to protect people with preschoolers.


Here's a link to a copy I found: 


It's called TheGrouch.sit on that page.

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I'm CHRONOLOGICALLY an adult, BUT.... (was Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

[Yersinia]

...I have a seriously infantile sense of humor about certain things at 
times. To wit,

Bruce Johnson writes,

http://asgard.actrix.co.nz/ 
macintosh/inits/>

It's called TheGrouch.sit on that page.>

ROFLMAO! I can't help but ask if this is (a) something that's actually 
going to damage my Macs (G3/266, OS 9.2.2 and 5300c Powerbook OS 8.6), 
and (b) if it's safe, can I put this on my Macs and will Oscar do his 
thing when I empty my Trash? See, I'd like to try it, but I don't want to 
mess up my Macs.

On this note, does anyone remember an extension called MacBarf? 
Supposedly if you had it installed and enabled, it would cause your Mac 
to make vomiting noises whenever you ejected a floppy. I had downloaded 
it from somewhere and enabled it (this was back on my 7200/120 with OS 
8.1 as my only computer era) but it never worked. Does anyone know why, 
and if I could find this for OS 8.6 to 9.2.2?

But I don't WANNA grow up!,

~Yersinia.



"Come, muse, let us sing of rats!" -- James Grainger, 1721-67


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Re: Internet on my PB170

[colin hodder]

Keeping in mind that I am very computer illiterate, how does that work?  Are 
SCSI ethernet devices common?  Does it require a lot of difficult computer 
voodoo to get that working?  Thanks.

Colin the computer illiterate.


From: Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "PowerBooks" 
To: "PowerBooks" 
Subject: Re: Internet on my PB170
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:11:15 -0700

It is possible. I have a couple of SCSI-Ethernet devices
that plug into the SCSI port that I have used to access
my network. It is OK for email (Claris Emailer1.4) but is
slow as the 7 year itch for any sort of "browsing."

Ken

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Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 4, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:


As I recall, there wee a bunch of "novelty" inits one dropped in
the extensions folder that did amusing things; unable to control
mouse, started scanning like an old B&W TV (complete with snow),
beeping, burping, brought up custom screens telling you your HD was
deleting (complete with progress bar...)



Or the infamous 'Oscar the Grouch' trashcan mod. I know one person
who lost almost everything on his hard drive, thanks to that init and
a determined three year old.



I hate to ask what that one did ... but I'll ask anyway. *cringes*


Whenever you emptied the trash, Oscar would come out of the trash can  
and sing a fragment of his 'I love Trash' song. Each time you emptied  
the trash he sang another verse, so the only way to get him to sing  
the whole thing was to repeatedly put things in the trash and empty it.


Hmm...no way THAT could go wrong!

It was by an Eric Shapiro, and was shown at MacHack '89 and may well  
exist out on the net somewhere...He eventually wrote a standalone  
version to protect people with preschoolers.


Here's a link to a copy I found: 


It's called TheGrouch.sit on that page.

--
Bruce Johnson

"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai



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Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > As I recall, there wee a bunch of "novelty" inits one dropped in  
> > the extensions folder that did amusing things; unable to control  
> > mouse, started scanning like an old B&W TV (complete with snow),  
> > beeping, burping, brought up custom screens telling you your HD was  
> > deleting (complete with progress bar...)
> 
> Or the infamous 'Oscar the Grouch' trashcan mod. I know one person  
> who lost almost everything on his hard drive, thanks to that init and  
> a determined three year old.

I hate to ask what that one did ... but I'll ask anyway. *cringes*

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Re: I've seen FOUR Mac viruses.

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 3, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Geoffrey Davis wrote:

the closest thing I ever had to a virus was putting on the thing  
that makes the computer get happy when you plug in the power cord,  
i did it to my wife's powerbook once...




As I recall, there wee a bunch of "novelty" inits one dropped in  
the extensions folder that did amusing things; unable to control  
mouse, started scanning like an old B&W TV (complete with snow),  
beeping, burping, brought up custom screens telling you your HD was  
deleting (complete with progress bar...)


Or the infamous 'Oscar the Grouch' trashcan mod. I know one person  
who lost almost everything on his hard drive, thanks to that init and  
a determined three year old.


--
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"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai



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Re: Best way to legally copy DVD

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jul 3, 2005, at 12:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Time for Hollywierd to develop a new business model!



Why? the one they have is working very very well for them.

VAST sums of cash can be laundered through a business that 'loses' so  
much money...


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Re: Internet on my PB170

[Bob C.]

I have replied to Colin off-list, but to get more information about
StarGate, go to:
http://www.krs.com.au/  for  Kevin Raner Software...

Click on the "Products" tab, and then there's a button for the Downloads
page.

This is for the most recent version (1.4.3) of StarGate.  I use a much older
version (1.1),  which works flawlessly.

   Bob


- Original Message -
From: "colin hodder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PowerBooks" 
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 11:42 AM
Subject: Internet on my PB170


   [snip]...
> Also, if someone could tell me where to get the PC version of StarGate I
> need that too (Bob C. sent it to me, but my Mac broke before I had a
reason
> to put it on my PC).  Thanks in advance.
> Colin the computer illiterate.



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Re: Internet on my PB170

[Ken]

My Reply follows quote. On 04/07/2005 08:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
said:  

>Also, is it possible to get 
>online with the 170 over cable internet (I'm guessing no).

It is possible. I have a couple of SCSI-Ethernet devices
that plug into the SCSI port that I have used to access
my network. It is OK for email (Claris Emailer1.4) but is
slow as the 7 year itch for any sort of "browsing."

Ken

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Internet on my PB170

[colin hodder]

Okay, I started to use my PB170 as my primary computer last summer and was 
trying to get it set up for email.  However, I took it out one day when it 
was wet outside (I had it covered in plastic) but some water must have 
gotten in because I tried to start it everyday for a couple of weeks but all 
I got was the chime of death.  I figured my fascination with Macs was over 
forever.  Anyway, I started my PB170 a few weeks back and it worked fine.  
I've been using it everyday since with no problems at all, so now I think 
I'm ready to try to get it online.
However, I didn't have any luck last summer with MACTCP and configPPP 
despite the fact that one member here sent me the exact specifications he 
used to get the internet on his 170 with that software.  So, I was wondering 
if I had any other options for getting online.  Also, is it possible to get 
online with the 170 over cable internet (I'm guessing no).
Also, if someone could tell me where to get the PC version of StarGate I 
need that too (Bob C. sent it to me, but my Mac broke before I had a reason 
to put it on my PC).  Thanks in advance.

Colin the computer illiterate.



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