rams for Windows and UNIX will correctly decode
AppleDouble attachments like the ones Mail.app sends. This setting will
probably only be needed for really broken/old mailers.
That said, it's unfortunate that there's another attachment encoding out
there - ms-tnef is quite enough to deal with already.
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izard and might be able to help you. The company used to be called AM
International but I can't remember what they call themselves now.
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ould do the job I expect.
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#x27;m not sure this is really useful to you, but I thought I'd let you
know that I, too, have seen intermittent USB problems with basic devices
on Apple hardware. Perhaps you might want to drop in a PCI USB card to
see if that helps (assuming Macs support them properly - anybody know?).
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the POST Newspapers, and this includes looking after 6 MacOS
9.2 G4s running Quark and Photoshop in our DTP/Production dep't. I
thought I'd subscribe to keep abrest of the news, especially now that
Apple has abandoned MacOS 9 users.
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aps it might be a good
idea to have the listmanager send an automatic notification that the
user's post is held pending moderation?
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fails to note /what/ area is available, too. Smart.
I was using Mozilla 1.4 on Win98 as a client, in case it matters (it
shouldn't). I tested using the free press access - perhaps that's just
somehow apallingly broken.
Perhaps they'll bring out a client that works later -
ill
have a strange name under the process listing (sorry, I don't normally
use OSX so I can't check) and might be hard to find.
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le movement, fixed 3rd person camera, weapons that
spray bullets in 60 degree cones, etc. *sigh*.
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ed grade (DDR266,
DDR333 or DDR400) or which models need it. Installing RAM in a G4 is
trivial - I don't know what's involved for an iMac.
I don't have any problems that can be traced back to memory issues - we
do have problems, but they're related to QuarkXPress and the use of an
NT4 file server.
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x27;t massive. Both do seem to have gone up in price
in recent months.
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- it was better to move to use the same RAM as the
rest of the industry and share the development cost.
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Probably. I don't know what exact memory type they use, but any apple
dealer should be able to tell you. It'll want PC100 SODIMMS. Your apple
dealer can probably tell you more.
Sorry... stuffed up editing. I meant to say:
It'll want PC100 SODIMMS. Your apple dealer can probably tell you more.
n me like that - the "DVD-RW gigabit 2GHz pink-and-blue model with
the funny dimple bit on the front". It'd be nice if they had model
numbers too, as it makes searching for info much easier.
If it does take normal SDRAM, then that's even nicer really.
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iced "generic" RAM disappearing slowly from better PC retailers as
well - no doubt for the same reasons you won't touch the stuff.
Nonetheless, some people will always insist on buying the "$5 cheaper,
1/2 the quality" model :-(
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Unfortunately Apple doesn't have a fix out yet, though they're
apparently working on it.
http://www.carrel.org/dhcp-vuln.html
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inary (1x2^32 bytes - I think). This may, depending on how the values
are displayed in various places, account for some 2+GB of the missing space.
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*ick* HFS+ specifically.
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And BE WARNED ...
If something like lightning gets back into the phone cables because of the
way your cabling has been run, the Repair body May sue for the cost of
repairs.
This, by the way, is not fun if a DSLAM just went "poof".
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/lot/ of lists, though many I just skim. I
also get a heck of a lot of spam, and if it weren't for SpamAssassin and
Sieve I think I'd drown.
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notice; I only just realised that folks on the
WAMUG list might be interested in the event.
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rder in to the realms of theft by deception.
The ACCC tends to agree; these people are usually shut down pretty
quickly. Send all correspondance from these people straight to the ACCC.
I take great pleasure in doing so every time they contact me.
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stScript may be built in to MacOS X as part of CUPS, or might be
available via fink. I don't know, I don't really use OSX.
It's not a GUI app, but it's pretty easy to use. Simply:
ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress input.ps output.pdf
(run as a command from the terminal).
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eap-and-nasty 500mb plan with excess
charges then VoIP is probably not for you.
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eone
who might have a use for them.
All my PDF production needs are already solved by a combination of
Acrobat Distiller on OS9 (for small, quality PDFs) and GhostScript's
ps2pdf on Linux (for all the files Distiller chokes on and can't
distill). My post was just for the information of others.
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t operating over much of Perth yet, but the fibre
conduit is being installed in the underground power efforts going on
currently.
I gather fibre is a right pain to work with, but clearly they think it's
practical.
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ecent-quality CRTs < 21" are getting scarce, this
may be a worthwhile option, especially if they'll pick it up and quote
you for the repair before charging.
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.
The sooner this attempt for a display
disappears, the better the world will be!
Wow. Sounds like you've used them then ;-)
It's unfortunate how many monitors those words can be applied to, though.
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to get off.
Indeed. I have the tools to open such cases easily, but generally choose
not to. I'll let those who know how to safely discharge monitors work on
them ; ditto power supplies. The rest is fair game.
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sic I /liked/ would be if the player supported FLAC
encoding so I could have high-quality versions. As the iPod appears to
suppport only AAC and MP3, I can't imagine how you could use all that
space unless you were using it for a portable disk too.
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s are a last-resort fallback - with them you lose
one of the bigger benefits of IMAP mail.
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d
sufficiently severely as to be _almost_ as expensive as a mac, but
people will still buy the cheaper one 95% of the time. As such, I don't
see Apple making much headway in dep't stores.
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nymore, having long since given up in frustration, but if you
need to it's a good idea to find out who is reliable.
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ng a user_pref()
setting or a toolbar plugin, and no doubt the others make it possible
somehow.
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reboot into
windows to play it would be nice, too.
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industry prevents this.
Speaking of which
http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/34896.html
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http://whirlpool.net.au/survey/results.htm
This should be informative.
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too. The 'guest only' and 'map to guest' parameters are
useful too.
If Apple aren't total idiots, you should be able to run "man smb.conf"
from a terminal and get the documentation on the config file. I don't
have an OSX box to hand so I can't check.
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Antony N. Lord wrote:
Every time I try to copy a stack of data back (from the external HD to
one of the internal drive partitions) it hangs after copying the first
120-200 Mb.
Try copying it in smaller chunks and seeing if it's hanging on a
particular directory or file.
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d I'm
very surprised you got the response you did. I've encountered a fair few
people there without a clue about the products (but what's new there) -
but nobody rude so far. The guy I normally deal with is excellent - very
helpful and knowledgable. So - they're not always like that.
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g timeouts waiting for PADO packets?" Their network is as
reliable as any other ADSL service - in other words, occasionally
Telstra breaks a DSLAM but otherwise it's great. It's fast (I'm on
1.5MBit/256Kbit) and generally works well.
I can't find a single reason to choose Telstra except having no other
choice available.
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ing more of a problem than the original
viri.
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Other
issues exist.
Of course, if all you want to do is monitor your raw I/O rates and
amounts, then I expect there must be something out there. If you want
ISP-related download stats, it'll depend on the ISP.
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in a PC and use the
manufacturer's disk tools to test it. They're normally supplied as an
MS-DOS boot floppy.
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On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 10:53, Ryan Schotte wrote:
> I guess you get what you pay for?
In the case of dial-up internet service, excluding Telstra as an
aberration, that seems likely.
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with more
redundant storage, or get an external RAID module - EXPENSIVE. Anyway,
how long can OSX Server be realistically relied upon to support OS9
clients?
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On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:21, John Winters wrote:
> Well actually, the SOE is Windows 98!
Wow. That's the only environment likely to cause Mac users, *NIX users,
_and_ windows users to cringe in horror. I hope they choose ... well ...
anything, really, to replace them soon.
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SL instead, if you still have
the choice. See the archives for a recent discussion of that topic.
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e.
>
Indeed. I've heard from people who use it that BigPond Cable can be
worthwhile. It's only their ADSL services that seem rather poor value.
My experience with it was sufficiently bad that when practical I just
won't deal with Telstra anymore, but they simply must have improved
since then.
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ere anything comparable to the 17" PB, off hand?
Sony make 17" models.
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of the screen. It was ugly.
That's normal for most laptop models, but most offer an option in the
drivers or BIOS to change it to the less guesomely ugly mode.
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often_ caused by bad hardware.
Then again, I guess OSX must contend with unknown and possibly really
bad drivers being loaded.
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s of
potential driver nasties. This was discussed just a little while ago.
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achment handling,
more diverse apps, etc) but not as much as people tend to assume. The
most dangerous thing is to think that "my computer can't get viruses" or
"linux is so secure I don't need to worry about this stuff...". Sooner
or later you'll probably get bitten.
I just treat OS security as the first layer - it's nice to have there,
but always build on top of it.
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n't take long for people to learn if Mac viruses became a
> problem.
Windows users have had 8 + years to learn about email viri and worms;
most of them clearly still don't have a clue. Do you think other user
groups will be enough better?
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xited?
Just a guess. If I'm right, it's much like saying "sudo bbedit file"
except that the finder does it for you.
BTW - how has this hideous fault remained in OSX for so long? Surely
there's an equivalent of 'sudo -k' - a way the finder can explicitly
drop priveleges?
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rvey about all broadband users.
> Readers can draw their own conclusions.
That's not correct. At minimum, I responded to your request - and I've
_definitely_ commented negatively about them on this list before.
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ir computer
still works, when all the data in their home directory is gone. In other
words - running as a normal user is quite bad enough. A trojan run as a
normal user can also open up remote shell access as that user, making
way for data theft or an attempted local root exploit by a later
attacker.
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cess that's shared without the need for a particular machine
to be running, and a generally fuss-free setup. Just plug the router
into the switch.
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n bitten by term contracts with "ISP can change the terms at any
time" clauses. Avoid them like the plague - they're not worth it.
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pported by
Telstra, the obvious fact that it worked fine wasn't good enough) they
were going to _remove_ my installation and take away the modem.
Of course, when I'd initially spoken to Telstra about my setup they said
"yeah, yeah, sure Linux is fine - we won't support it, but
onsole) fine when I run "sudo shutdown" from the command line, but if I
pick "shut down" from the apple menu it simply does nothing. I didn't
notice anything particularly noteworthy in the dmesg output or in the
syslog.
I didn't turn up anything useful on Google, or on search.info.apple.com
. Ideas?
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OSX account type, which really should
be able to shut down the machine - yes?
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this a standard mac diagnostic tool, like Disk First
Aid was on OS7/8/9? It seems insane having a program to "fix" system
permissions - though I guess if it just goes through and checks that
they match those in the package database it'd be OK)
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OS install - or the other way around?
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the machine running overnight.
Examine the resulting packet trace file and see what's going on.
Ethereal is a wonderful program to examine packet traces, and I think
it's available for OSX.
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"IP printing" - you will probably need to enable
the LPR print service, which on win2k might be labeled something like
"Print services for UNIX".
That said, I thought OSX could print fine over SMB (Windows networking)
- what happens if you enter "\\hostname\printername&qu
ese days,
but perhaps not as hard for Apple gear as for PC hardware, which is
almost zero margin already.
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email the
> >> files as the PC has no modem. Is there any quicker way to transfer
> >> the files?
>
> Craig Ringer wrote:
> >I assume the two aren't local to each other? If so, you could easily use
> >ethernet after enabling windows file sharing.
>
>
or video card with 16MB of RAM or better
Anyone else amused? Sure, I understand _why_ - but it's still darn
funny.
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;t make it much less funny, though.)
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even longer one, there's little you can do
about it if they stuff you about.
Then again, I'm a /really/ bitter ex-Bigpond Cable customer.
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t of other ISPs shows them in a bad light. Their new "low
cost" plans designed to rip off uninformed users to the tune of hundreds
of dollars just top it off.
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On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 19:59, Bob Jackson wrote:
> I think that your views will never change no matter what Telstra
> does. Your previous comment says it all -
> At 7:05 PM 1/3/04, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >Then again, I'm a /really/ bitter ex-Bigpond Cable customer.
This is tru
m/1203
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1202
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1201
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm/1199
(and linked articles from these stories).
... plus their attempts to lie about Pair Gain, etc.
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t the
user from running up huge bills - but they've clearly responded to
industry criticism by actually making some effort to inform users.
So - I'll credit BigPond with some effort here, but it's only a band-aid
on the fundamental problem - they don't provide 'flat rate
ra, or have their access speed limited (or
even cut off) - with the default being no extra charges.
> P.S: While writing and researching this email, I measured traffic of
> 60mb to Vigin Radio UK, which I'm listening to right now. It's not even
> a 128kb/s stream. I also downloaded five to ten megabytes of websites.
It's closer to 70mb now.
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d usage is at the low
end, where people are probably new to byte-charged broadband services,
aren't likely to realise what things really add up to, and don't realise
they need to watch their usage meter closely.
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ot;?
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...
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Any help will be appreciated.
Is it a built-in modem, or an external serial modem? If the latter,
there's an AT command string you can send to the modem as part of the
init string that turns on the sound. Google should tell you more -
sorry, I can't remember it off the top of my head.
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Toshiba repairman is cool), but
that's due to component failure on the motherboard and an unrelated
issue.
I think you'll find that laptop disks are up to it. If you're unsure,
look up the "operating shock" specs for a 2 1/2" disk (say, a 42k RPM or
54k RPM Hitachi) on t
o need to know the speed grade, probably one
of these:
PC133 (SDR)
PC2100 (DDR-266)
PC2700 (DDR-333)
PC3200 (DDR-400)
The G5s take DDR-333 or DDR-400 according to the Apple store. Our
G4/400s and G4/500s @work need Good 'ol PC100/133 SDR.
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ould be anyway) and provide local AP-based connectivity
to others. They just can't get to my LAN or my DSL link.
Unfortunately, this can be a fair bit of work and is more trouble than
most want to go to.
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AN. I use a
little linux box for the router computer, but MacOS X will do just as
well and be considerably easier to set up.
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On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 12:05, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > The other computer appeared in the file
> > sharing list for both computers, but didn't connect. Without the modem
> > the computers could do file sharing fine. I suspect this is because of
> > conflicting IP a
router advertisements sent by the local IPv6 (in this case, IPv6 6to4)
router.
Have a try!
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On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 19:14, John Taylor wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2004, at 2:08 PM, Craig Ringer wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 13:36, Ryan Schotte wrote:
> >> Bring on IPv6 ... and IP addresses as available as POP3s ...
> >
> > You can have it right now,
bably need to find someone who is
retiring a similar model.
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On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 22:41, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:
> What is the latest version of Safari please?
According to the Safari home page, http://www.apple.com/safari/, the
current version is 1.2 and requires OSX 10.2 or 10.3 .
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On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 23:33, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 22:41, Edward Arrowsmith wrote:
> > What is the latest version of Safari please?
>
> According to the Safari home page, http://www.apple.com/safari/, the
> current version is 1.2 and requires OSX 10.2 or 1
lso be possible to get a PCI USB2 card for
the G3, but you'd need to make sure you could get one with drivers
compatible with the OS you're using.
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On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 18:34, Craig Ringer wrote:
> USB 1 and USB 2 are compatible - you should be able to use the drive on
> the G3 without fuss.
Sorry - without fuss, but _really_ slowly.
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the
credit card system we have here.
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urprised to hear it won't work on
/any/ of your tested systems, though - perhaps the USB2 chipset in the
disk enclosure isn't as standards compliant as it could be?
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ur own mail server on a static IP DSL or a co-lo anyway.
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. I
was expecting another ugly and clunky directory listing, Mozilla style,
or a bad pretend filesystem (IE/win style). The decision to hand off the
connection to the Finder's VFS works very well, and the interface seems
to deal surprisingly well with the slow nature of FTP. I'd love to see a
similar thing added to KDE/Konqueror.
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ering points
do byte-charge as a method to pay the upgrade and maintenance bills.
Overall, though, traffic within Australia really shouldn't cost as much
as it does. Unfortunately, there are some very one-sided peering
agreements in place.
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il is fairly good, but I don't know about how other clients
for the Mac hold up in this regard. I use Evolution myself, which won't
run on the Mac.
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machines (from
when PCI was still pretty new) and have no problems.
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actly the same HTML and JavaScript engine as Safari. It
does pop up an aggravating and pointless alert about browser versions
for Konqueror, as it's hard-coded to look for Netscape or IE. *sigh*.
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