Re: Douglas Adams (partially OT)

On 30 Oct 2005, at 21:34, Dr.O.M.Betz wrote: As for Douglas' enthusiasm about the Mac, I think he had the first and third one in the UK. The other guy who got one then was Stephen Fry who is still with us. He has a show on the BBC called Absolute Power about an ad agency and it is full

Re: SE/30 webserver?

On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 08:17 Europe/London, Joe WF Runnels wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew where/how to get the software or something where you can have a domain name forwarded to an ip address, like I have comcast/attbi interent access and I have a router and my routers IP address

Re: Networking in the poor man's way

On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 21:43 Europe/London, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sounds even easier than my suggestion. Here's a question. Can you use > phonenet adapters to connect macs in different romms of a house, using > the > in wall phone wiring of a house, and instead of connecting a resisto

Re: Networking in the poor man's way

On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 21:28 Europe/London, Antonio Rodríguez wrote: If network connection with the Classic must be made adding external hardware, and the SCSI port is eliminated, what remains? Well if your external hardware includes another Mac with serial and ethernet ports you can use Lo

Re: SE/30 upgrade ram tips

On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 16:38 Europe/London, Stuart Bell wrote: > or that usage and meaning have changed in 90 years? ;-) > Nope. And flammable bugs me too. Gr. aedan Apple iMac G4 - Flat out cool http://homepage.mac.com/aedan -- Compact Macs is sponsored by

Re: SE/30 upgrade ram tips

On Friday, Mar 28, 2003, at 15:49 Europe/London, Jeff Walther wrote: > But I've electrocuted myself so many times over the years, U... From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913): Electrocute \E*lec"tro*cute`\, v. t. [Electro- + cute in execute.] To execute or put to death

Re: OT: Mac Sighting

Early seasons of Frasier have an SE or SE/30 in his bedroom. I haven't seen it close enough to say which. Later seasons have a generic box. aedan Apple iMac G4 - Flat out cool http://homepage.mac.com/aedan -- Compact Macs is sponsored by . Support Low End Mac

Re: control stip

On Saturday, Jan 4, 2003, at 09:33 Europe/London, michael magee wrote: > Is it possible to have the Control Stip installed w/ sys. 7.5.5 on a > compact? Yes, you can choose to install it as an option but as I recall you have to do that when installing 7.5, the updates don't let you choose. Or

Re: on or off?

On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 07:50 Europe/London, Stuart Bell wrote: > but lots of minimals make > a lot. > Would a lot of minimals make a manimal... or was that Simon McQuorquodale? aedam A Buddhist walks into a pizza parlor and says, "Make me one with everything." http://homepage.mac.co

vMac disk images

This might technically be off topic but it concerns System 6 and my setting up a Classic for my cousin to use at university... I have vMac running on my iMac under OS X 10.2 but I'm having trouble making disk images. The DiskCopy 4.2 images I made on my SE/30 don't mount. vMac's web page sugge

Re: Zip drive & Classic?

On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 17:31 Europe/London, Nicole wrote: >> At 11:33 -0400 on 06/09/02, Nicole wrote: > > I'm left with a problem because I'm trying to transfer info from my > TiBook (which is on the internet) to my classic, and hence the disk > needs to go in the newer drive first... but

Re: Zip drive & Classic?

On Friday, Sep 6, 2002, at 16:33 Europe/London, Nicole wrote: > I think my mind is going... I could have sworn that I was able to > hook my zip drive up to my classic, but when I tried a few days ago, > no dice. > > Was I dreaming? (it's possible) *Is* there a way to get the classic > to reco

Re: An Observation of Mine

On Thursday, Sep 5, 2002, at 17:59 Europe/London, Marten van de Kraats wrote: > > Cool! Well it's partly your fault since I get a lot of the stuff from System 6 Heaven!!! aedan Apple iMac G4 - Flat out cool http://homepage.mac.com/aedan -- Compact Macs is sponsored by

Re: An Observation of Mine

On Thursday, Sep 5, 2002, at 15:05 Europe/London, jwhite wrote: > So now that I've spewwed all that out, does anyone else out there > actually use their compact on a daily basis for anything productive? Glasgow city council moved all their schools to a Windows network. On my desk I have a HP V

Re: WARNING! Mac TV owners ...

>The only thing I've ever seen with this name in the US is the AC/DC >album... :-p It's for the rubber bits on cars which start out black but then go grey over time. It's not paint so you can use it on strips along the side of the car but you wouldn't use it like tyre paint. aedan -- Apple

Re: It never rains but it pours

>how about setting up your compact finds as a shelving unit, using a >compact on each side to hold up planks. Then load the shelves up with yard >and sports gear. They are likely to get a shelf unit in the garage soon but not one made of Macs. Did you ever see the fireplace made of Macs which on

Re: It never rains but it pours

>I wonder why the wives think we have to have a use for every computer we >drag home? When challenged (not just by Mrs McGhie) I usually point out that I go almost everywhere in Dr Martens footware of which I have two pairs. Everyone who questions my Mac habit seems to have many more pairs of

Re: It never rains but it pours

>There seems to be a lot of compact Macs at the Goodwill as-is these last few >days. The school I work in is being replaced with a new building where each room has a networked HP Vectra terminal. I had a great couple of weeks scavenging but I dread Mrs McGhie going into the garage. I lost coun

Re: OT, calling windows folks

>I know it's not everyone's cup of tea and a lot of you may not have >the hardware to run it, but OS X allows you to print anything to PDF, >you just go to Print Preview (which opens a Postscript file in >Preview.app) and select File -> Save. You can save as a PDF from anything which can print.

Re: QuickTime 3 installer

>From personal experience, QT3 has too much overhead and the Codecs that play >QT3 videos are very slow on an SE/30. If you want video playback on your >SE/30 I would *highly* recommmend QT2.5 for the best performance. I had 2.5 >for a while switched to 3 then promptly went back to 2.5 when I re

Re: QuickTime 3 installer

> >Aye, but try filesearching.com sometime. Take your pick of QT3 downloads >at: > > Thanx, picking it up now. SE/30 fun later. aedan -- Apple iMac G4 - Flat Out Cool http://homepage.mac.com/aedan/ -- Compact Macs is

Re: QuickTime 3 installer

>At 17:44 +0100 on 13/05/02, Aedan McGhie/Scotland wrote: > >>Anybody know where I can find QuickTime 3 for my SE/30? > >Look on old Earthlink, MacAddict, AOL, etc. CDs. Nothing before 4 is >available from Apple any more, although you might get lucky at Yuppers, that'

QuickTime 3 installer

Anybody know where I can find QuickTime 3 for my SE/30? aedan -- Apple iMac G4 - Flat Out Cool http://homepage.mac.com/aedan/ -- Compact Macs is sponsored by . Support Low End Mac Compact Macs list info:

Re: Hiding the System Folder

> is >there a simple way of "deblessing" or otherwise hiding this folder that I'm >missing? Move the System into a different folder within the System Folder (I use the Prefs usually). Or use System Picker. aedan -- Apple iMac G4 - Flat Out Cool http://homepage.mac.com/aedan/ -- Compact M

Re: Stuffit Expander for MacOS 6.0.7 on Classic

> >5) You did say you had a hard drive, right? That hard drive should >mount nicely under Linux ... on a PC! And Netatalk will let Macs see it... of course you need one with an ethernet card. qedan -- I found a new friend underneath my pillow http://www.surak.freeserve.co.uk http://homepag

Re: Help with removing back from Classic

>Thanks much for your help on removing the back from >my Classic, I was able to upgrade to 4MB RAM. What MacOS can I rum on 4MB >RAM, 7.0? You could but unless you really need to you might be happier using System 6 MultiFinder. Try it out, see how you feel. System Picker can let you switch them