Re: OS X e-mail
Re Dashboard vs. Konfabulator
VPC 5.0.4 updater
Krugman on Moore[/url]



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Re: OS X e-mail

From Eric Matthieu

Charles,

Thanks so much for your help. I've gone ahead and set up a new account per your instructions. Hopefully it will work, but Mail won't allow for multiple accounts to use the same username. Since my original ISP was bought out by Earthlink a while back, I might actually be able to utilize my original username and the one they assigned me... we'll just have to see. If this note bounces back, then I'll know I was mistaken.

Even if it does work, it still won't give me what I truly want: at least three different IDs with identical account info. In Outlook Express I had three different monikers: one with my name, one with my wife's, and one with both of us – all using identical settings. If I can configure Mail to do THAT, I'll be a happy camper.

The closest thing I could find in Mail's help was "Adding multiple email addresses to the same account," but that's not what I'm after. Any ideas?

Eric

p.s. I may end up just creating actual separate accounts or aliases with Earthlink, but I still find it odd that I can't seem to recreate what I had with Outlook (so far).

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Hi Eric;

I have to confess that the multiple IDs on a single account issue is one that had never previously occurred to me. That facility may well be unique to Outlook Express and Entourage. I don't know.

My mode has been multiple email accounts, I have about 20 — approximately half of which get intensive use.

Charles







Re Dashboard vs. Konfabulator

From David Chilstrom

I've been reading much of the commentary on the Dashboard vs. Konfabulator clash and thought you might be interested in a couple of articles by John Gruber at: http://daringfireball.net/2004/06/dashboard_vs_konfabulator

While I don't entirely agree with Gruber's conclusions (I'm still bothered by striking similarity in look feel and name between Apple's "widgets" and Konfabulators "Widgets") he gives the best argument I've read yet in favor of Apple's "borrowing" a few ideas from Rose and Clarke.

Regards,
David Chilstrom

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Hi David;

Thanks for the link.

I suppose there are both moral and legal issues here, and I suspect that Apple's lawyers vetted the legal carefully.

Morally, if they really did copy Rose and Clarke's idea, legalities aside, it would have been classy to offer them a small royalty at least. IMHO.

Charles







VPC 5.0.4 updater

From Martin A. Totusek

Dear Mr. Miller,

I've downloaded the 10.1 MB VPC 5.0.4 updater file that you have posted:

http://homepage.mac.com/brucemillerphoto

[LINK NOW CORRECTED, WHICH WAS APPARENTLY THE PROBLEM ALL ALONG. SEE BRUCE'S NOTE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION AT THE BOTTOM OF THE COLUMN. CM]

It is not a .smi file, but is a Quicktime MoviePlayer file, besides the fact that .smi files should be compressed/saved in a "Classic" .sit StuffIt format (and it should not be in a .sitx format, as many Mac users can't open/decompress the OS X format).

Otherwise, the Macintosh resource fork, and the file type and file creator data (which I believe is stored in the Traditional or "Classic" Macintosh disk catalog) can be lost or corrupted.

Apple OS X also has some problems and support issues in these areas, and users have asked Apple to address these issues via:

OS X Metadata Petition:

http://homepage.mac.com/jcs/.Public/metadata.html

http://homepage.mac.com/jcs/.Public/proposal.html

http://www.petitiononline.com/osxmd/petition.html

http://homepage.mac.com/jcs/.Public/signatures.html

Sincerely,
Martin A. Totusek
(Seattle "dBug" MUG member)

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Re: VPC 5.0.4 updater

From Bruce Miller

Martin,

The VPC5.04 updater is simply a duplicate of the Connectix file unaltered. Many others have downloaded it, opened it on their desktop and found the ReadMe and the Vice Installer inside. Indeed, I have just done that very thing and was presented with the offered to start updating VPC5.

Your file association of .smi with QT needs to be changed in Get Info>Open With,

Bruce

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Re: VPC 5.0.4 updater

From Martin A. Totusek

Dear Bruce,

Could you simply post the .smi file compressed in a .sit format, compatible with StuffIt Expander 5.5 (68K and PPC) through StuffIt Expander 7.0.3 (Carbon)?

I checked, and my file associations for .smi, are set for:

Apple "Disk Copy" (v6.4)

and

Aladdin "ShrinkWrap" (v3.5.1)

under Mac OS 8.6, and under Mac OS 9.1.

Are you running also booted under Mac OS 8.6, or Mac OS 9.1, or Mac OS 9.2.1 or Mac OS 9.2.2, or only under Apple OS X "Panther" builds?

I also looked online and found postings from others who downloaded it, and found it was either "empty" or the wrong type of file, when opened by some users (Note: It maybe something caused by an intermittent problem from Apple's mac.com site also...).

As a test, I also downloaded another .smi file from another site, and it was a .smi file that mounted fine with Apple "Disk Copy" (v6.3.3), and with Apple "Disk Copy" (v6.4).

- Martin

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Reply: Re: VPC 5.0.4 updater

From Bruce

Martin,

I booted into a very vanilla 9.1 install, launched the generic IE of that era and downloaded the .smi fine, double-clicked on it and it instantly opened as the Vice Installer, so I don't know what your problem must be. Also, I would appreciate where is the location where there are enough posts complaining about issues with that download others are having?

I don't have Stuffit anymore, I could .zip the .smi, but can't i

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Re: Reply: Re: VPC 5.0.4 updater

From Martin A. Totusek

Hi Bruce,

I'm on a 56K modem connection in Seattle, Washington. I'll try D/Ling it again (takes quite a while)...

You don't have Aladdin "DropStuff 5.5" (68K and PPC) and Aladdin "DropStuff 7.0.3" (Carbon)?

If you are going to have any posted files for "Classic" Power Mac users (26 million of us compared to 5 million users of OS X, according to Apple's current figures), you might perhaps consider retaining "DropStuff"... (For example: My MUG requires that all files U/Led be in StuffIt .sit archives; We have members on 68K machines running Mac OS 6.0.8, on up to members running "Panther" on Apple OS X-only G5s).

I'm in the music industry, which will probably not be able to fully move to OS X for years (to also quote the owner of a professional recording studio three blocks up the street from me: "Finally, there is a ProTools version that will run under OS X, but almost everything else we use software-wise and hardware-wise, can't function under OS X, plus we can't just throw out hundreds
of thousands of dollars of equipment and softwares...").

90% of the professional Mac softwares require OMS (Open Music System) and FreeMIDI (both of which have been the music industry standards, dating back to the Motorola 68000 CISC CPU Macintosh "PLUS") to function, and that direct software/hardware communication is completely blocked by the kernel in OS X.

Therefore, softwares that require OMS and FreeMIDI to function, cannot be "ported" to OS X by a simple Carbon "tweak", but must be rewritten from the ground up in native OS code (either Carbon or Cocoa) and must support the new OS X "Core Audio" API. This takes a long time... On the bright side, it is better than a couple years ago, when I was asked to write:

Tunes in the X key: Mac OS X and music software:
http://www.wormintheapple.gr/articles/music_in_x.html

Note: That was back when the Apple OS X engineers had publicly posted that they hadn't even worked on any real professional music or professional audio support for OS X (Apple got a lot of public heat for that, as some recording studios immediately switched to all Windows, over the protests of sound engineers). It will eventually mostly all get to OS X compatibility, but it takes time for that kind of work to get done.

I was reading some messages via Google late last night; I'll see if I can find them again... (On the plus side, there was a report of that .smi image mounting fine under "Panther").

- Martin

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Krugman on Moore

From Eric MacKnight

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/02/opinion/02KRUG.html

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Hi Eric;

I read the column, which I found underwhelming and unconvincing.

Krugman's thesis seems to be that, yes, Fahrenheit 9/11 is a "tendentious, flawed movie" that "uses association and innuendo to create false impressions," that promotes "unproven conspiracy theories," and indeed that "viewers may come away from Mr. Moore's movie believing some things that probably aren't true," but that's all OK because the "working class" are obviously too dumb/uninformed/apathetic/hoodwinked by FOX News to understand what's really (?!) going on without Michael Moore to explain it to them.

As a sometime member of the working class myself (auto mechanic, salesman, woodworker) who has many relatives and friends who are blue-collar workers, I find Krugman's patronization insufferably prejudiced and offensive. Some blue-collar folks in my experience have been among the most astute and incisive observers and analysts of current events — more so than the left-liberal self-styled intelligensia.

As for the "seven minutes," what would Krugman/M. Moore have had Bush do? Go into a flap and frighten the schoolchildren? Bush looked disconcerted? I know I was, and it took more than seven minutes for the gravity of what had happened to sink in. Anyone who presumes to know what was going on in Bush's mind at that moment is wildly speculating.

Mr. Krugman's characterization of the brave men and women who have served, and in some tragic instances died in the Iraq war as hapless dupes is also grossly insulting. I know my friend Randy, a Sergeant in the US Marines and a Gulf War veteran, would agree with me.

Charles



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