Re: M$ Outlook equivalent

[John Winters]

Jason,

In my office I have a minority Mac clinging on to a Windows (98 would you
believe) Standard Operating Environment. The IT Dept loaded a full Outlook
Mac client on my machine (B&W G3 OS 9.2.2). It works fine.

HTH
John


on 31/7/03 12:40 PM, Jason Muirhead at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hey everyone
> 
> At work (on windows machines) we use shared folders in M$ Outlook across
> the company to distribute information, contacts, etc.
> 
> Is this functionality supported in Entourage? Are there any other
> programs which support this functionality?
> 
> I'm wanting to build a case for the use of an Apple laptop, and while
> virtual PC can be used to support Outlook, I'd much prefer to be spending
> my time using OS X.
> 
> Regards
> Jason

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Eudora Problem,...very confusing

[Bob]

Daniel,

Although I am a long time Eudora user unfortunately I can't help you. 
Whenever I strike problems with Eudora I seek advice from two 
excellent Eudora discussion lists which I recommend you join -





Bob

At 12:25 AM 1/8/03, Daniel Kerr wrote:

I am stumped. Everything has been working fine up to about 3 days ago, when
Eudora seems to have packed a sad.

It went to check the email and then it said
"Checking mail...
Peeking at message 1..."

It sits there for about 5 minutes or so, before it gives some other message,
ie server isn't responding, there is something wrong with your network
protocols, I need a holiday,...things like that.

I have logged onto webmail for my site and there isn't anything there.

I can check email in Entourage and Apple Mail and it collects and sends
correctly for my domain. I have emailed my domain host and they checked the
settings, gone through it all, reset my mailbox but still no joy.

I have erased every spec of Eudora then reinstalled a fresh copy downloaded
off the net. Even with no email put back and setup with the basic of
settings I still get exactly the same error!

Yes I know I could use another email client,...but I really really like this
one!

So I'm stumped. Searching the Eudora support website turned up nothing. A
quick google search also turned up no results.

I know there are a few Eudora users on WAMUG, so am hoping someone might
know what I am overlooking!

Any help appreciated.

Machine specs - G4 DP1.25, Mac OS 10.2.6, Eudora 6.0b24

Thanks in advance!

Kind Regards
Daniel Kerr

Eudora Problem,...very confusing

[Daniel Kerr]

Hi All.

I am stumped. Everything has been working fine up to about 3 days ago, when
Eudora seems to have packed a sad.

It went to check the email and then it said
"Checking mail...
Peeking at message 1..."

It sits there for about 5 minutes or so, before it gives some other message,
ie server isn't responding, there is something wrong with your network
protocols, I need a holiday,...things like that.

I have logged onto webmail for my site and there isn't anything there.

I can check email in Entourage and Apple Mail and it collects and sends
correctly for my domain. I have emailed my domain host and they checked the
settings, gone through it all, reset my mailbox but still no joy.

I have erased every spec of Eudora then reinstalled a fresh copy downloaded
off the net. Even with no email put back and setup with the basic of
settings I still get exactly the same error!

Yes I know I could use another email client,...but I really really like this
one!

So I'm stumped. Searching the Eudora support website turned up nothing. A
quick google search also turned up no results.

I know there are a few Eudora users on WAMUG, so am hoping someone might
know what I am overlooking!

Any help appreciated.

Machine specs - G4 DP1.25, Mac OS 10.2.6, Eudora 6.0b24

Thanks in advance!

Kind Regards
Daniel Kerr
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Re: Seeking an old system

[Brad Helden]

Have found OS7 and downloaded, now looking for OS7.5

Brad
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Seeking an old system

[Brad Helden]

Anyone can tell me if Mac OS7 or 7.5 floppies or a CD is available anywhere?
I have both but they are Japanese versions and this time I need an 
English only system for a Powerbook 170.


Thanks,

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Re: Mac OS X OpenOffice

[Onno Benschop]

On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 19:09, David Watkins wrote:
> Onno
> 
> It is getting close to a gig with the supporting applications
> needed, unless my mathematics are not what they used to be. The
> following is taken from the Open Office Read Me file.
> 
> 
> OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 Mac OS X (X11) requires the following to run:
> Mac OS X 10.2 or higher or Darwin 6.0 or higher.
> 256 MB of memory to get decent performance. 512 MB recommended.
> 300 MB free hard drive space for OpenOffice.org
> 600 MB additional hard drive space for installation of auxiliary
> applications required to run OpenOffice.org.
> 1 GB additional free space on your System drive for use as swap
> space during installation and execution.
> XFree86/XDarwin or Apple X11, dlcompat, ESP-Ghostscript 7.05,
> fondu, and libfreetype 6.2+. The installer will attempt to detect
> whether you are missing any of these required components and
> install them for you.
> G4/400 or higher recommended


I'm familiar with the 300 Mb, dunno what's in the 600 Mb of "auxiliary
applications", but if that's from the ReadMe, then I stand corrected.

Cheers,


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Re: OS X and floppies

[David Choy]

Hi Lloyd,

when you say your floppies don't work, were they 880K floppies or 1.4mb 
floppies(the latter have a"HD" printed in one corner). 880K floppies 
aren't supported in OS X.


Alternatively, could it be the drive itself? perhaps a firmware update?


Give me more details and I will try to help. I personally have a cheap 
USB floppy drive and i don't have problems with 1.4mb Mac disks with no 
problem. Also check that the disks aren't file protected - OSX needs to 
put ds_store files on them.


You are correct w/respect to fileid.dat etc - however you need them on 
the mac side. However, deleting them will just mean they get replaced 
next time you put them in your mac.


they don't affect how the disks work in PCs.

Dave

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 07:13 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Message: 16
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:49:21 +0800
From: Lloyd White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Floppies plus more

Hi folks,

Is there an issue with OSX and floppies? I used to be able to use 
floppies
with my iMac through my SuperDisk. But since changing to OSX most 
floppies
will not mount or a message comes up saying the floppy contains 
nothing that

the system can recognise.

The same floppies work well on my old PowerBook using OS 8.6

Do I need to initialise even new floppies?

ANOTHER THING
When these floppies do open they contain three files, FILEID.DAT,
FINDER.DAT and RESOURCE.FRK

Are these normally hidden and if so how can I either hide them or get 
rid of
them. I want them to open on other people's PCs and am using PC 
formatted

disks.

Lloyd
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Re: iPod using LAME

[Ryan Jay Schotte]

I believe iTunes has supported encoding VBR MP3s since version 1, given that
there is an article on them at
 that predates iTunes
2 by about 9 months. I can't remember when iTunes was first released... 2000
sometime I think? 

They just don't have VBR MP3 encoding on by default, probably because of the
decreased sound quality it can often produce.

Ry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


On 2003-07-31 18:12, "Dark Servant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Thanks for that info. I thought it might have been able to through
> custom but my PC friend told me that he doubted it. Now I can go back
> and tell him that iTunes itself is programmed to do it.
> Do you know how long this option has been available?
> 
> Cheers
> Ruben A. Franke
> 
>> I don't know if I'm barking up the right tree here BUT iTunes does
>> allow variable bit rate - click the option "custom" in import and
>> then the checkbox for "use variable bit rate encoding (VBR)"
>> This is however a "minimum" bit rate with allowance for higher as the
>> need for better quality arises so I don't know if it "trims" the bit
>> rate in quite or less demanding passages.
>> 
>> that said I have some old MP3's that I used soem old stand alone LAME
>> encoders and, particularly for "variably dynamic" classical music or
>> live acoustic stuff I found that these encoders tend to wash out on
>> fast transients
>> 
>> 
>>> For those of you who don't know LAME is an encoding method that
>>> creates
>>> mp3's with a variable bit rate. It is apparently much more efficient
>>> as it increases the bit rate at more complex points in a musical track
>>> and decreases it when the extra bits are not being used. It
>>> apparently
>>> produces better sound quality than AAC at 192kbps. No stupid
>>> 'copyright' inconveniences either.
>>> 
>>> A friend of mine has been using it for a fair while on his PC. We
>>> were
>>> talking I thought it sounded like a good idea to me and I said that
>>> there would you could probably use it on a Mac too. I checked
>>> versiontracker and sure enough there were a few freeware programs that
>>> allow iTunes to encode with LAME.
>>> 
>>> Now for my question. I'm pretty sure it will run fine but I wanted to
>>> be sure it won't cause any problems with my iPod. I've tried
>>> searching
>>> the web but couldn't find any information in relation to an iPod.
>>> Having a variable bit rate should mess with the hardware or cause an
>>> iPod to overheat, right?
>>> Just want to be sure.
>>> 
>>> Hopefully this infomation will be useful to some of you.
>>> Ruben A. Franke
>>> 
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Re: Mac OS X OpenOffice

[David Watkins]

Onno

It is getting close to a gig with the supporting applications
needed, unless my mathematics are not what they used to be. The
following is taken from the Open Office Read Me file.


OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 Mac OS X (X11) requires the following to run:
Mac OS X 10.2 or higher or Darwin 6.0 or higher.
256 MB of memory to get decent performance. 512 MB recommended.
300 MB free hard drive space for OpenOffice.org
600 MB additional hard drive space for installation of auxiliary
applications required to run OpenOffice.org.
1 GB additional free space on your System drive for use as swap
space during installation and execution.
XFree86/XDarwin or Apple X11, dlcompat, ESP-Ghostscript 7.05,
fondu, and libfreetype 6.2+. The installer will attempt to detect
whether you are missing any of these required components and
install them for you.
G4/400 or higher recommended


Dave Watkins




At 1:17 PM +0800 31/7/03, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 18:29, David Watkins wrote:
>> Thanks to all for your comments about OpenOffice.
>>
>> Certainly got a cross section of views which is what it is all about.
>>
>> Considering the it is going to take up nearly a gig of my hard
>> drive
>
> OpenOffice.org a gig?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> Onno Benschop
>

Re: iPod using LAME

[Dark Servant]

Thanks for that info. I thought it might have been able to through 
custom but my PC friend told me that he doubted it. Now I can go back 
and tell him that iTunes itself is programmed to do it.

Do you know how long this option has been available?

Cheers
Ruben A. Franke


I don't know if I'm barking up the right tree here BUT iTunes does
allow variable bit rate - click the option "custom" in import and
then the checkbox for "use variable bit rate encoding (VBR)"
This is however a "minimum" bit rate with allowance for higher as the
need for better quality arises so I don't know if it "trims" the bit
rate in quite or less demanding passages.

that said I have some old MP3's that I used soem old stand alone LAME
encoders and, particularly for "variably dynamic" classical music or
live acoustic stuff I found that these encoders tend to wash out on
fast transients


For those of you who don't know LAME is an encoding method that 
creates

mp3's with a variable bit rate. It is apparently much more efficient
as it increases the bit rate at more complex points in a musical track
and decreases it when the extra bits are not being used. It 
apparently

produces better sound quality than AAC at 192kbps. No stupid
'copyright' inconveniences either.

A friend of mine has been using it for a fair while on his PC. We 
were

talking I thought it sounded like a good idea to me and I said that
there would you could probably use it on a Mac too. I checked
versiontracker and sure enough there were a few freeware programs that
allow iTunes to encode with LAME.

Now for my question. I'm pretty sure it will run fine but I wanted to
be sure it won't cause any problems with my iPod. I've tried 
searching

the web but couldn't find any information in relation to an iPod.
Having a variable bit rate should mess with the hardware or cause an
iPod to overheat, right?
Just want to be sure.

Hopefully this infomation will be useful to some of you.
Ruben A. Franke


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Re: Floppy weirdness and an unrelated Panther tidbit

[Keith Palmer, Zytech]

Are your floppies formatted as Mac disks? If not try formatting a 
floppy as a Mac disk in Apple Disk Utility and see if this improves the 
copying speed.


On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 04:35 PM, Toby Oldham wrote:



I've used two TEAC USB floppy drives, and they both copy data under OS 
X (10.2.6) at
about one third the rate of the same device under OS 9. They also take 
ages to appear

on the desktop after they've been inserted.

I chalk some of the general slowness to the USB tech, but the 
discrepancy between OS
9 and X? Go figure - I only use the things maybe twice a year though, 
so I'm not

bothered.

I remember floppy disk copying being faster under an earlier version 
of X ... maybe

10.2.4?

OT, but If anyone is looking for an update on the most recent 
developer build of
Panther, there's a cool thread in the AppleInsider OSX forum (which 
seems to be down

at the moment) covering it.

Native Exchange support in Mail and the Address book was touted at one 
of the new

features ... cool for those who don't want to fork out for or use MS's
Entourage Exchange solution (to be released in the US Summer ... 
sometime).


Cheers,

Tobes.


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Floppy weirdness and an unrelated Panther tidbit

[Toby Oldham]

I've used two TEAC USB floppy drives, and they both copy data under OS X 
(10.2.6) at 
about one third the rate of the same device under OS 9. They also take ages to 
appear 
on the desktop after they've been inserted.

I chalk some of the general slowness to the USB tech, but the discrepancy 
between OS 
9 and X? Go figure - I only use the things maybe twice a year though, so I'm 
not 
bothered.

I remember floppy disk copying being faster under an earlier version of X ... 
maybe 
10.2.4?

OT, but If anyone is looking for an update on the most recent developer build 
of 
Panther, there's a cool thread in the AppleInsider OSX forum (which seems to be 
down 
at the moment) covering it.

Native Exchange support in Mail and the Address book was touted at one of the 
new 
features ... cool for those who don't want to fork out for or use MS's 
Entourage Exchange solution (to be released in the US Summer ... sometime).

Cheers,

Tobes.

to confirm floppy port

[Mark Secker]

the free to good home floppy is this model:



... hey nice collection of antiques 


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Re: Mac OS X OpenOffice

[Onno Benschop]

On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 18:29, David Watkins wrote:
> Thanks to all for your comments about OpenOffice.
> 
> Certainly got a cross section of views which is what it is all about.
> 
> Considering the it is going to take up nearly a gig of my hard
> drive 

OpenOffice.org a gig?

I don't think so.

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Re: Floppies plus more

[Mark Secker]

When you were using them on your Powerbook were you using the very 
SAME external SuperDisk drive as you are currently using? or was it 
with a generic style USB floppy drive?


Have you tried using a generic floppy drive unit on your iMac?


the main problem that I've found is that these SuperDisk drives (or 
at least all I've been called out to look at) can not recognise a 
floppy as being other than a DS HD (double sided high density) disk 
and there for if you put a SSHD disk(single sided high density) or 
any other type of disk it will attempt to read it as a DSHD floppy, 
because the format will be wrong it will come up with a "disk not 
recognise do you wish to format" message.


remember the "SuperDrive" (note different name) was pretty 
revolutionary in that it could read all the formats of 3 1/4 " 
floppys around (except 2MB but that came out later) compared to 
Intel machines of the era that had to have a separate floppy drives 
for high density and double density disks.





Hi folks,

Is there an issue with OSX and floppies? I used to be able to use floppies
with my iMac through my SuperDisk. But since changing to OSX most floppies
will not mount or a message comes up saying the floppy contains nothing that
the system can recognise.

The same floppies work well on my old PowerBook using OS 8.6

Do I need to initialise even new floppies?

ANOTHER THING
When these floppies do open they contain three files, FILEID.DAT,
FINDER.DAT and RESOURCE.FRK

Are these normally hidden and if so how can I either hide them or get rid of
them. I want them to open on other people's PCs and am using PC formatted
disks.

Lloyd
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Re: M$ Outlook equivalent

[Warren Jones]

This functionality is about to be included in Entourage via a free 
update...


(about to be beta tested)

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/Feb03/02- 
11ExchangeSolutionPR.asp

http://www.macnn.com/news/20374
http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,1204874,00.asp



On Thursday, Jul 31, 2003, at 12:40 Australia/Perth, Jason Muirhead 
wrote:



Hey everyone

At work (on windows machines) we use shared folders in M$ Outlook 
across

the company to distribute information, contacts, etc.

Is this functionality supported in Entourage? Are there any other
programs which support this functionality?

I'm wanting to build a case for the use of an Apple laptop, and while
virtual PC can be used to support Outlook, I'd much prefer to be 
spending

my time using OS X.

Floppies plus more

[Lloyd White]

Hi folks,

Is there an issue with OSX and floppies? I used to be able to use floppies
with my iMac through my SuperDisk. But since changing to OSX most floppies
will not mount or a message comes up saying the floppy contains nothing that
the system can recognise.

The same floppies work well on my old PowerBook using OS 8.6

Do I need to initialise even new floppies?

ANOTHER THING
When these floppies do open they contain three files, FILEID.DAT,
FINDER.DAT and RESOURCE.FRK

Are these normally hidden and if so how can I either hide them or get rid of
them. I want them to open on other people's PCs and am using PC formatted
disks.

Lloyd
-- 

M$ Outlook equivalent

[Jason Muirhead]

Hey everyone

At work (on windows machines) we use shared folders in M$ Outlook across
the company to distribute information, contacts, etc.

Is this functionality supported in Entourage? Are there any other
programs which support this functionality?

I'm wanting to build a case for the use of an Apple laptop, and while
virtual PC can be used to support Outlook, I'd much prefer to be spending
my time using OS X.

Regards
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NOT USB Re: free to a good home :) floppy drive + Duo dock floppy adaptor

[Mark Secker]

to clarify - this is NOT a USB external drive OK... so I am NOT 
giving away a free USB floppy drive... got it... good it uses the 
square DB20(?) port (looks like a smaller version of the square SCSI 
port on powerbooks.


anybody else want to join the queue of people wanting a free USB 
floppy drive sorry that queue is not here.






I have an external Floppy drive plus a Duo Dock floppy adaptor
(includes floppy port and ADB port) that some one can have for the
effort of picking it up from my office.

year of manufacture is 1991 & as we have no functional duo docks I am
unable to say if it works but what do you want for $0.00?



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free to a good home :) floppy drive + Duo dock floppy adaptor

[Mark Secker]

I have an external Floppy drive plus a Duo Dock floppy adaptor 
(includes floppy port and ADB port) that some one can have for the 
effort of picking it up from my office.


year of manufacture is 1991 & as we have no functional duo docks I am 
unable to say if it works but what do you want for $0.00?


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or so says a wise old programer..."
Anon.

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UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."

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Re: G5's approved

[Mark Secker]

Ha it's only $23,512.01 inc GST unless you include the iPod... 
think you could sneak that one past the purchasing officer eh?


strage that the Airport extreme and blue tooth are both optional 
extras as is a "better graphics card" one would think this fruit 
would be standard on a "top of the line" like buying a Rolls Royce 
and being told the leather seats walnut trim will cost you extra.





Hi...

I notice that the Apple Store no longer lists the G5's as pending
regulatory approval.

Now all I need is the $24,000 for the maxed out G5 system :)

Have fun,
Shay
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or so says a wise old programer..."
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G5's approved

[Shay Telfer]

Hi...

I notice that the Apple Store no longer lists the G5's as pending 
regulatory approval.


Now all I need is the $24,000 for the maxed out G5 system :)

Have fun,
Shay
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Re: iPod using LAME

[Mark Secker]

I don't know if I'm barking up the right tree here BUT iTunes does 
allow variable bit rate - click the option "custom" in import and 
then the checkbox for "use variable bit rate encoding (VBR)"
This is however a "minimum" bit rate with allowance for higher as the 
need for better quality arises so I don't know if it "trims" the bit 
rate in quite or less demanding passages.


that said I have some old MP3's that I used soem old stand alone LAME 
encoders and, particularly for "variably dynamic" classical music or 
live acoustic stuff I found that these encoders tend to wash out on 
fast transients




For those of you who don't know LAME is an encoding method that creates
mp3's with a variable bit rate. It is apparently much more efficient
as it increases the bit rate at more complex points in a musical track
and decreases it when the extra bits are not being used. It apparently
produces better sound quality than AAC at 192kbps. No stupid
'copyright' inconveniences either.

A friend of mine has been using it for a fair while on his PC. We were
talking I thought it sounded like a good idea to me and I said that
there would you could probably use it on a Mac too. I checked
versiontracker and sure enough there were a few freeware programs that
allow iTunes to encode with LAME.

Now for my question. I'm pretty sure it will run fine but I wanted to
be sure it won't cause any problems with my iPod. I've tried searching
the web but couldn't find any information in relation to an iPod.
Having a variable bit rate should mess with the hardware or cause an
iPod to overheat, right?
Just want to be sure.

Hopefully this infomation will be useful to some of you.
Ruben A. Franke


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Floppies

[Lloyd White]

Hi folks,

Is there an issue with OSX and floppies? I used to be able to use floppies
with my iMac through my SuperDisk. But since changing to OSX most floppies
will not mount or a message comes up saying the floppy contains nothing that
the system can recognise.

The same floppies work well on my old PowerBook using OS 8.6

Do I need to initialise even new floppies?

Lloyd
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iPod using LAME

[Dark Servant]

For those of you who don't know LAME is an encoding method that creates 
mp3's with a variable bit rate. It is apparently much more efficient 
as it increases the bit rate at more complex points in a musical track 
and decreases it when the extra bits are not being used. It apparently 
produces better sound quality than AAC at 192kbps. No stupid 
'copyright' inconveniences either.


A friend of mine has been using it for a fair while on his PC. We were 
talking I thought it sounded like a good idea to me and I said that 
there would you could probably use it on a Mac too. I checked 
versiontracker and sure enough there were a few freeware programs that 
allow iTunes to encode with LAME.


Now for my question. I'm pretty sure it will run fine but I wanted to 
be sure it won't cause any problems with my iPod. I've tried searching 
the web but couldn't find any information in relation to an iPod. 
Having a variable bit rate should mess with the hardware or cause an 
iPod to overheat, right?

Just want to be sure.

Hopefully this infomation will be useful to some of you.
Ruben A. Franke