Acrobat Update (was Critical Flaw...)

[Reg Whitely]

Hi Ronni and WAMUGgers

On 8 Mar 2004, at 8:21am, Ronda Brown wrote:


Hello WAMUGers,

FYI the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is 6.1 & can be 
downloaded here:

It is a 21.0MB download.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

Are you sure 6.1? I went to that link and downloaded and found 6.0.1, 
which I already have :-(


Acrobat Updates tells me there is no later update. Have I missed 
something?


Regards

Reg

firewire drives

[Chris Burton]

Hi all

I am curious to know if the new Firewire 800 external drives are worth 
the extra money over a Firewire 400 of the same model. I found a few 
reviews that said that depending on what sort of files you are 
transferring, there maybe between a 10 and 30% increase in speed.


Is that realistic or is it way more? Are there other benefits Im not 
seeing here as there is a reasonable difference in price?


Im looking at something in the 120gb range for a backup HD while Im in 
the field with my PBook 15"


kind regards

chris

68k Nortons

[KEVIN Lock]

Does any kind lister have a version of Nortons for an LC575 they 
could loan me.  I have been configuring a gifted 575 and it gets 
stuck at startup.


TIA

Kevin Lock
94373869

Re: times in excel

[Dark Servant]

I'm not exactly sure I know what your trying to say but you can 
calculate time differences very easily.  Lets say your start times are 
from the cells A2 to A10 and your end times are B2 to B10.  You want to 
calculate end times - start times.

Go to the cell C2 and type =SUM(B2)-(A2)
After entering this the difference should come up.  You can then go to 
the bottom right corner of the cell and the cursor should change.  
Click and hold dragging down to C10 and it will do the other 
calculations for you.


Hope this helps a little
Ruben A. Franke


Hi muggers

I have a quick query regarding time in excel.

Without thinking in a previous life, I have coded all the times of 
sightings etc as straight numeric in excel and had some notion of 
being able to convert to a time field later. I have tried reformatting 
the cells, but that converts all numbers to zero. Arrhhh.


Im wanting to calculate a time difference between start and end times. 
Simple?


Can someone with real excel experience give me some help?

regards

chris


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Re: laserwriter in Panther

[Ryan Schotte]

> In Os 8.6,
>   I could set up a HP design jet 750 large format printer , by 
> installing the driver and then selecting that printer in the 
> Laserwriter8 section of Chooser
> Then I could set up the page and do print - send to file a print to file,
> this file  could then be sent to a print house to print either as esp 
> or what ever it was
> 
> can I do this in OS X.3 and how?

>From the standard OS X print dialog, under the Output Options
section you can print to a .ps or .pdf file. Ask the print house
which they prefer.

As for OS X HP drivers, I have no idea I'm afraid -- try their
web site.

Ryan

times in excel

[Chris Burton]

Hi muggers

I have a quick query regarding time in excel.

Without thinking in a previous life, I have coded all the times of 
sightings etc as straight numeric in excel and had some notion of being 
able to convert to a time field later. I have tried reformatting the 
cells, but that converts all numbers to zero. Arrhhh.


Im wanting to calculate a time difference between start and end times. 
Simple?


Can someone with real excel experience give me some help?

regards

chris

Memtest

[Shay Telfer]

Hi...

If you're worried about whether that new RAM you've installed is ok, 
or your machine is a bit flakey, try memtest, it has been known to 
pick up problems that Apple and TechTool's tools may not.




You'll need to read the instructions. Ideally you should shift-boot 
before logging in as >console and running it to test the most memory 
possible. This will probably scare you if you're not used to the 
command-line :)


Have fun,
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laserwriter in Panther

[gary dorn]

In Os 8.6,
 I could set up a HP design jet 750 large format printer , by 
installing the driver and then selecting that printer in the 
Laserwriter8 section of Chooser

Then I could set up the page and do print - send to file a print to file,
this file  could then be sent to a print house to print either as esp 
or what ever it was


can I do this in OS X.3 and how?
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Architect
Perth,  Australia

Microsoft.com image

[Shay Telfer]

"It's game time. Take a break from reality with Windows XP"

The break from reality probably explains how they can get Windows XP 
running on a PowerBook 3400 shown in the photo at the top of the page.


Have fun,
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Re: Nanosaur 2 Demo

[Matthew Healey]

On 08/03/2004, at 3:05 PM, Shay Telfer wrote:

It was rumoured (perhaps still true) that you should be able to play 
this

game with 3D glasses! How cool is that!


Anaglyph glasses are so passé :)




But a HECK of a lot cheeper!

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Re: Nanosaur 2 Demo

[Shay Telfer]

It was rumoured (perhaps still true) that you should be able to play this
game with 3D glasses! How cool is that!


Anaglyph glasses are so passé :)



Have fun,
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Re: Nanosaur 2 Demo

[Matthew Healey]

On 08/03/2004, at 2:51 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote:


On 8/3/04 2:48 PM, "Matthew Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Looks like the Nanosaur 2 Demo will be released soon as it has 
appeared

on the WAMUG Mirror server...

Grab it while it's hot.

http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/macupdate/games/adventure/nano2demo.sit

- Matt



It was rumoured (perhaps still true) that you should be able to play 
this

game with 3D glasses! How cool is that!


It's definitely true! If you have 3D glasses, you can play it in that 
mode.


- Matt

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Re: Nanosaur 2 Demo

[Daniel Kerr]

On 8/3/04 2:48 PM, "Matthew Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Looks like the Nanosaur 2 Demo will be released soon as it has appeared
> on the WAMUG Mirror server...
> 
> Grab it while it's hot.
> 
> http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/macupdate/games/adventure/nano2demo.sit
> 
> - Matt
> 

It was rumoured (perhaps still true) that you should be able to play this
game with 3D glasses! How cool is that!

Kind Regards
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Nanosaur 2 Demo

[Matthew Healey]

Looks like the Nanosaur 2 Demo will be released soon as it has appeared 
on the WAMUG Mirror server...


Grab it while it's hot.

http://mirrors.wamug.org.au/macupdate/games/adventure/nano2demo.sit

- Matt

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Re: Critical Flaw found in Adobe Reader

[Craig Ringer]

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 10:00, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> on Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:33:06AM +0800, Robert Howells wrote:
> > If only AR 6 would load as fast as AR5 it would  be a pleasure
> 
> What can be do about this? All the "Creative Suite" apps are implausibly
> slow (I can't even express it in words because it sounds like I'm
> exaggerating).

Nothing would surprise me, frankly. InDesign 2 takes a good minute
minute to start up on one of our MacOS 9 G4/400s at work. Combine this
with a frequent need to reboot (MacOS 9 + QuarkXPress + Suitcase + NT
Server + iffy fonts), and it gets irritating fast. Acrobat 5 also takes
forever - and it's not even the most recent version.

>  Acrobat Reader is a brilliant example -- I still use
> version 3 because it's so much faster than any subsequent version (fast
> at starting up, faster at displaying pages, faster at finding text,
> faster at scrolling, etc, etc).

Scrolling across a complex A3 document (classified ads) in Acrobat
Reader 5... uck. It doesn't seem to pre-render the next page or so to
memory, being content to slowly draw it while the user waits - and to
block scrolling until it's finished rendering.

>  Each version gets slower in a way that
> is measurable with a wall clock. My other concern about Acrobat Reader
> is just how bad it is at rendering text. Most of my PDF usage is for
> technical materials. The typical "office documents" serif typefaces are
> rendered poorly for on-screen reading. Comparatively, text in Acrobat 4
> is "stunning" (and WYSIWYG!).

I find it OK personally, though I think it probably over-smooths the
type at small sizes, making it blurry and unreadable instead of ugly but
readable.

>  Acrobat 5.0 was a downhill slide for the
> user interface, too (I thought). For those with Macs and Mac OS X,
> thankfully Apple has the 'Preview' app.

On our dual 866MHz G4 at work (the machine I use for testing things on
OSX), preview takes /forever/ to render pages. It seems to entirely
re-render whenever I do anything - zoom, for example - so navigating
documents can be really painful. Perhaps it was improved in 10.3.

>  Anyone know what the rest of
> the world does? Is everyone just "putting up with it"?

For my purposes (A3+ pages, often very complex, with CMYK and spot
colour, plus complex fonts) Acrobat Reader is still the best choice.
It's a little slow to start up, but nowhere near as bad as Acrobat or
InDesign, and it's output is very good for my purposes. I'd pick it over
Preview or xpdf any day (though both definitely have their uses). 

If only Adobe would release Acrobat Reader 6 for their /other/ supported
platforms...

Craig Ringer

Re: Critical Flaw found in Adobe Reader

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 08/03/2004, at 10:00 AM, James Devenish wrote:


In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:33:06AM +0800, Robert Howells wrote:

If only AR 6 would load as fast as AR5 it would  be a pleasure


What can be do about this? All the "Creative Suite" apps are 
implausibly

slow (I can't even express it in words because it sounds like I'm
exaggerating). Acrobat Reader is a brilliant example -- I still use
version 3 because it's so much faster than any subsequent version (fast
at starting up, faster at displaying pages, faster at finding text,
faster at scrolling, etc, etc). Each version gets slower in a way that
is measurable with a wall clock. My other concern about Acrobat Reader
is just how bad it is at rendering text. Most of my PDF usage is for
technical materials. The typical "office documents" serif typefaces are
rendered poorly for on-screen reading. Comparatively, text in Acrobat 4
is "stunning" (and WYSIWYG!). Acrobat 5.0 was a downhill slide for the
user interface, too (I thought). For those with Macs and Mac OS X,
thankfully Apple has the 'Preview' app. Anyone know what the rest of
the world does? Is everyone just "putting up with it"?


For most PDFs, I find Preview (the Panther version at least) every bit 
as good as Acrobat Reader, and in several ways better. It's certainly 
much faster, supports cut & paste, text searches, links, etc, and can 
export your pages to other graphic formats if required. Even printing 
to odd/even pages is supported through Panther's printing framework, so 
there's not much of importance missing.


I still find Acrobat Reader preferable when using Jaguar, though, since 
almost none of these things are true of Jag's Preview except the 
exporting stuff.



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Re: Critical Flaw found in Adobe Reader

[James Devenish]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
on Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:33:06AM +0800, Robert Howells wrote:
> If only AR 6 would load as fast as AR5 it would  be a pleasure

What can be do about this? All the "Creative Suite" apps are implausibly
slow (I can't even express it in words because it sounds like I'm
exaggerating). Acrobat Reader is a brilliant example -- I still use
version 3 because it's so much faster than any subsequent version (fast
at starting up, faster at displaying pages, faster at finding text,
faster at scrolling, etc, etc). Each version gets slower in a way that
is measurable with a wall clock. My other concern about Acrobat Reader
is just how bad it is at rendering text. Most of my PDF usage is for
technical materials. The typical "office documents" serif typefaces are
rendered poorly for on-screen reading. Comparatively, text in Acrobat 4
is "stunning" (and WYSIWYG!). Acrobat 5.0 was a downhill slide for the
user interface, too (I thought). For those with Macs and Mac OS X,
thankfully Apple has the 'Preview' app. Anyone know what the rest of
the world does? Is everyone just "putting up with it"?

Re: Networked access to email

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 08/03/2004, at 9:42 AM, Shay Telfer wrote:

In my experience iinet's authentication's systems seem to fall over on 
a frequent basis, so anything that requires a password (logins, e-mail 
etc) will occasionally fail.


Does it happen only if both machines are checking e-mail at the same 
time?





I've been trying to determine this, but it's difficult to pin down. It 
seems to happen even if the machines are checking within 5 or 10 
minutes of each other.


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Re: Critical Flaw found in Adobe Reader

[Shay Telfer]

On Monday, March 8, 2004, at 08:21  AM, Ronda Brown wrote:


Hello WAMUGers,

FYI the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is 6.1 & can be 
downloaded here:

It is a 21.0MB download.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html



If only AR 6 would load as fast as AR5 it would  be a pleasure

Bob


Try Apple's Preview, it's generally regarded as faster. Or install 
the Safari plug-ins for viewing PDF's (and word documents) from




Have fun,
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Re: Networked access to email

[Shay Telfer]

How do the rest of you handle email across a network?

I have a client with two Macs running Panther, both accessing an 
iiNet email account using Mail app. It is important to the client 
that both computers be able to read email, so they are each setup to 
delete email from the server after a week. For the most part the 
system works OK, except that on occasions there are frequent 
messages claiming that their login has failed, and it is necessary 
to re-enter the password, which invariably fails several times 
before succeeding again.


I am fairly sure that the problem arises from the two computers 
trying to access the same account at the same time, although it's 
hard to pin down a pattern. Do others have this problem on a similar 
setup? I'm trying to avoid the option of having to set up their own 
mail server (seems like overkill) but the problem is becoming very 
annoying, and it seemed to have but much less so in Jaguar. What is 
the best practice for this scenario?


In my experience iinet's authentication's systems seem to fall over 
on a frequent basis, so anything that requires a password (logins, 
e-mail etc) will occasionally fail.


Does it happen only if both machines are checking e-mail at the same time?

Have fun,
Shay
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Re: Networked access to email

[Adam Yap]

I think ideally you should be running a receiving mail server on one of 
the Macs which downloads the mail (using, say.. Fetchmail) and then 
runs an IMAP server. Then both machines grabs mail via IMAP from the 
server.


Adam

On 08/03/2004, at 8:48 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:


How do the rest of you handle email across a network?

I have a client with two Macs running Panther, both accessing an iiNet 
email account using Mail app. It is important to the client that both 
computers be able to read email, so they are each setup to delete 
email from the server after a week. For the most part the system works 
OK, except that on occasions there are frequent messages claiming that 
their login has failed, and it is necessary to re-enter the password, 
which invariably fails several times before succeeding again.


I am fairly sure that the problem arises from the two computers trying 
to access the same account at the same time, although it's hard to pin 
down a pattern. Do others have this problem on a similar setup? I'm 
trying to avoid the option of having to set up their own mail server 
(seems like overkill) but the problem is becoming very annoying, and 
it seemed to have but much less so in Jaguar. What is the best 
practice for this scenario?


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Re: Networked access to email

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 08/03/2004, at 9:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

We have seen no issues arising from simultaneous logins that we can 
tell.


One thing however, originally Mail.app was set to check for new 
messages every 5 min, while this was the case we would often (once a 
day or so) see an error saying the mail server could not be contacted.

We set it to hourly and haven't seen a recurrence.


I changed it from 5 min to 15 minutes and thought I saw an improvement, 
but apparently it is still happening. I'll try the hourly setting and 
see what happens. They can always check manually in between, I guess.


Thanks,

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Perth,  
Western Australia   Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

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Re: Critical Flaw found in Adobe Reader

[Robert Howells]

On Monday, March 8, 2004, at 08:21  AM, Ronda Brown wrote:


Hello WAMUGers,

FYI the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is 6.1 & can be 
downloaded here:

It is a 21.0MB download.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html



If only AR 6 would load as fast as AR5 it would  be a pleasure

Bob

Re: Networked access to email

[logrythm]

How do the rest of you handle email across a network?

I have a client with two Macs running Panther, both accessing an iiNet 
email account using Mail app. It is important to the client that both 
computers be able to read email, so they are each setup to delete 
email from the server after a week. For the most part the system works 
OK, except that on occasions there are frequent messages claiming that 
their login has failed, and it is necessary to re-enter the password, 
which invariably fails several times before succeeding again.


I am fairly sure that the problem arises from the two computers trying 
to access the same account at the same time, although it's hard to pin 
down a pattern. Do others have this problem on a similar setup? I'm 
trying to avoid the option of having to set up their own mail server 
(seems like overkill) but the problem is becoming very annoying, and 
it seemed to have but much less so in Jaguar. What is the best 
practice for this scenario?


I think we are doing something similar however the second machine is 
PC/XP using either webmail access or Mozilla Thunderbird.


Our ISP is Westnet, we leave the messages on the server indefinitely 
and manually clear them once a week or so.


We are regularly logged into the same account.

We have seen no issues arising from simultaneous logins that we can 
tell.


One thing however, originally Mail.app was set to check for new 
messages every 5 min, while this was the case we would often (once a 
day or so) see an error saying the mail server could not be contacted.

We set it to hourly and haven't seen a recurrence.

Cheers
Paul

RE: Networked access to email

[Steve Fellows]

Peter

I noticed this a while ago, and this was from pc or Mac, and usually
checking from 1 machine at a time, and seemed to correspond with billing
mail outs. Usually waiting a few hours sorted this for me. not a fix but
some info.

sTEVE

-Original Message-
From: Peter Hinchliffe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, 8 March 2004 8:48 AM
To: WAMUG Mailing List
Subject: Networked access to email


How do the rest of you handle email across a network?

I have a client with two Macs running Panther, both accessing an iiNet 
email account using Mail app. It is important to the client that both 
computers be able to read email, so they are each setup to delete email 
from the server after a week. For the most part the system works OK, 
except that on occasions there are frequent messages claiming that 
their login has failed, and it is necessary to re-enter the password, 
which invariably fails several times before succeeding again.

I am fairly sure that the problem arises from the two computers trying 
to access the same account at the same time, although it's hard to pin 
down a pattern. Do others have this problem on a similar setup? I'm 
trying to avoid the option of having to set up their own mail server 
(seems like overkill) but the problem is becoming very annoying, and it 
seemed to have but much less so in Jaguar. What is the best practice 
for this scenario?

-- 
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Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth,  
Western Australia   Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.


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[logrythm]

On 07/03/2004, at 2:52 PM, logrythm wrote:


Antony N. Lord wrote:


After installing 8.5.1, it reported an issue with memory.
Indeed ASP reported only 384 of 416 installed memory.
Installing panther again now...
Fingers crossed.

Now that's *REALLY* bad.
I would be trying a single large stick of RAM and seeing if that 
works...

Flaky RAM is a BAD thing...


Already there, all good so far, almost finnished install.
Interesting point: we tried the one apple memory stick with the other 
cpu to no avail, so I have ignored that possibility as a result!!


Time Remaining: about a minute

Paul


Thanks, all is well after removing a dodgy 32mb memory module.

Boy, did that have us worried...

I'm a little dissapointed that Panther didn't tell me the memory was 
broken, it took it's ancestor: OS 8.5.1.
Admittedly this is the original CD that came with this machine, so it 
may just be more B&W savvy.


Cheers
Paul

PS Did I mention PHEW!

Re: Printer sharing

[Paul Mulroney]

Hi All,

On Saturday, March 6, 2004, at 05:05  AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote:

Is it possible to share a non Postscript USB printer over a local
ethernet  network with a router?  Currently attached to a G4 running
10.3.2 networked with a G3 on 9.1.  At the moment the best I can do is
just transfer the files then print - it would be nice to print direct.
Severin Crisp


We had a similar setup: Brother HL1240 (A USB printer), shared over a 
network of Mac OSX 10.2 machines.  Just need to turn on printer sharing 
in the Sharing panel in the system preferences of the Mac where the 
printer is connected.  10.3 might be different.


Note that you cannot share the printer with Classic apps.  This was a 
problem for us because we had a stack of Mac OS9 apps at that point. We 
ended up buying a networked printer instead.


hth,
Paul.
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Networked access to email

[Peter Hinchliffe]

How do the rest of you handle email across a network?

I have a client with two Macs running Panther, both accessing an iiNet 
email account using Mail app. It is important to the client that both 
computers be able to read email, so they are each setup to delete email 
from the server after a week. For the most part the system works OK, 
except that on occasions there are frequent messages claiming that 
their login has failed, and it is necessary to re-enter the password, 
which invariably fails several times before succeeding again.


I am fairly sure that the problem arises from the two computers trying 
to access the same account at the same time, although it's hard to pin 
down a pattern. Do others have this problem on a similar setup? I'm 
trying to avoid the option of having to set up their own mail server 
(seems like overkill) but the problem is becoming very annoying, and it 
seemed to have but much less so in Jaguar. What is the best practice 
for this scenario?


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Peter Hinchliffe
Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth,  
Western Australia   Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

   Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

Re: PQ Code Editor for Audio (CDs)

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 07/03/2004, at 3:25 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote:

Is anyone out there aware of an audio app for the Mac that allows you 
to take an audio file (AIFF, WAV) and *graphically* add track markers 
(PQ codes) to it for burning as an audio CD?


It was rumored to be a feature of new version of both Spark XL and Jam 
but neither of these products have got around to incorporating it!


I'm amazed after all this time I'm still having to use a PC (Sound 
Forge / CD Architect) to take large recorded live musical sets and add 
track indexes to them...


Cheers, Antony.


Try Amadeus II (on VersionTracker, of course). I don't know if it will 
do exactly what you want, but it will certainly add track markers for 
you.



--
Peter Hinchliffe
Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth,  
Western Australia   Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

   Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.

Critical Flaw found in Adobe Reader

[Ronda Brown]

Hello WAMUGers,

FYI the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader is 6.1 & can be  
downloaded here:

It is a 21.0MB download.

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

I read the article below in The Age on Friday & decided to send it to  
WAMUG in case someone has not heard about it.


 
 
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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/05/1078378951326.html


By Sam Varghese
March 5, 2004

Security consulting firm NGSSoftware has advised users of version 5.1  
of Adobe Acrobat Reader to upgrade to the latest version following the  
discovery of a highly critical vulnerability that could lead to the  
leaking of data.


NGSSoftware found a data format buffer overflow in this version of the  
popular software, which could potentially be exploited by malicious  
people to compromise a user's system.


The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the  
debugging functionality when parsing documents in the XML forms data  
format (".xfdf"). This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by  
tricking a user into viewing a specially crafted XFDF document.


NGSSoftware said it had contacted Adobe and been told that the latest  
version of the reader, 6.0, did not suffer from this flaw.
 
 
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Cheers,
Ronni

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a  
life. " - Arthur Ashe

Re: Fax and Scanner software for....OSX

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 06/03/2004, at 2:02 PM, Robert Howells wrote:


Hi Everyone,

!.  A book says that OSX 10.3 comes with Fax software.
CAN somebody confirm this please ?


Yes. I use it regularly. It does have a couple problems, but hey! At 
least it works, which is more than I can say for other MacOS X fax 
soultions I have tried. The first problem I have with it is that the 
modem is silent, despite the modem settings in Network, so you have to 
rely on the Dock item to assess the connection. The second problem is 
that there is no log of faxes sent. Of course, this is just version 1 
of this, but I would have thought a log would have figured in even a 
preliminary list of features during the planning stages.


 But it does work.



2.  OK ! So I have a download of Vuescan which does work in OSX 10.2.8
( Works to my scanner through Classic )

Does anybody have any other choices please ?

Incidently I found a Canon scanner ( new usb scanner ) which will work 
through classic

but not OSX direct  
also there was an Epson download for specific Epson scanners.


You don't mention what brand or model of scanner you are using, so it's 
difficult to comment. I can say that I have all but given up 
recommending Canon scanners, mainly because of the software issues. I 
feel these days that Epson or HP are a better bet for MacOS X. Vuescan 
(and there is a MacOS X version) is an option, but it shouldn't be 
necessary.


--
Peter Hinchliffe
Apwin Computer ServicesFileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth,  
Western Australia   Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913

   Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to.