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Virtual PC and USB Support
A new browser
Incorrect "Classic" File Associations and Icons under OS X "Puma" through "Tiger" builds
Could make laptops pretty small
Electrosensitivity
A good article
This makes you think
Virtual PC and USB Support
From Robert Robinson
Hi: How do I make my USB ports work in Virtual PC? I have a G4 Mac laptop, and I have done everything listed in terms of turning on USB and selecting devices in Virtual PC, but the program will just not recognize USB devices plugged in, whetehr it is a phone or a blood-glucose monitor. I've spent days researching this, to no avail.
I have, by the way, seen the posting at
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;824369&Product=vpcmac
Thanks,
Rob.
Hi Rob;
I wish I could help, but I'm not a Virtual PC user, and you know a lot more about this issue than I do after your research and experience, albeit frustrating on both counts.
I will post your message to Moore's MailBag, and perhaps someone in reader and will be able to shed some light.
Charles
A new browser
From John M. Dennis
I do not know what systems this browser will run on but cool just the same.
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,68823,00.html
Perhaps the world does not need another web browser -- but it may want Bart Decrem's.
Decrem and a small cadre of programmers in Palo Alto, California, have spent this summer quietly readying Flock, an open-source browser, for an early October beta launch. Several members of the team, including Decrem, hail from the Mozilla Foundation, which produced the Firefox browser upon which Flock is built.
Flock has landed.
We're introducing the world's most innovative social browsing experience. We call it the two-way web. Over the next few weeks, we'll be seeding invites to a few lucky folks. Sign up to find out when invites are available:
http://www.flock.com/home/
Hi John;
The Web page says it will be cross platform, so that's a hopeful sign.
Charles
Incorrect "Classic" File Associations and Icons under OS X "Puma" through "Tiger" builds
From Martin A. Totusek
Under the OS X "Classic" Emulation Environment, there are many incorrect "Classic" file associations and incorrect icons, including both Apple and third-party "Classic" Mac OS control panels, extensions, documents and applications.
This includes those items, that are enabled under "Classic" Mac OS Extension Manager versions or Conflict Catcher 9.0 or Conflict Catcher 9.0.1 (yes, Conflict Catcher 9.x.x still works to this day under OS X "Classic" Emulation Environment) while booted under "Classic" Mac OS builds, but that the user has disabled using"Classic" Mac OS Extension Manager versions or Conflict Catcher 9.0 or Conflict Catcher 9.0.1, while booted under OS X builds.
There are some OS X utilities or Preference Panes to deal with this in some ways, mostly regarding Internet-related items, including one that uses your "Classic" Mac OS InternetConfig preferences, and programs like "More Internet" (which strangely lists Creator Code: "SITx" for all StuffIt Expander files, whether they are "StuffIt" or "StuffIt X" archives); Therefore, most require that the user manually correct most of the incorrect "Classic" file associations (and that is assuming that users have all of that that knowledge for each individual item).
Even then, of those that are corrected, some of them still don't have the correct icons (and I'm not taking about instances where a newer OS X icon from a newer OS X version of a program, is what you view).
Users with dual-booting machines have dealt with some of the icon issues by booting under Mac OS 8.6 (to get some OS 8.6 icons) through Mac OS 9.2.2 (of course, this all depending on which "Classic" Mac OS builds that their machine supports), and also , manually doing "Get Info", and "copying and pasting" each icon onto a temporary folder, re-booting into OS X, manually doing "Get Info", and "copying and pasting" each icon. This is clearly a very laborious and time-consuming method.
Has anyone dealt with this and/or does anyone know of more OS X utilities or Preference Panes, that have much more detailed and correct information, that can correct incorrect "Classic" file associations and icons under OS X "Puma" through "Tiger" builds?
- Martin A. Totusek
Could make laptops pretty small
From John M. Dennis
This could be just what Apple needs in there laptops. It would be great to see Apple have these first and own the market. It would probably mean faster boot times and also longer battery life.
http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=12614
Samsung CEO predicts death of hard drives
By Chris Mellor, Techworld.com
Hard drives are living on borrowed time and will be replaced with solid-state flash memory, according to Samsung's semi-conductor CEO Dr. Chang Gyu Hwang.
Hwang's company has just launched a 16Gb NAND flash chip using 50nm technology, something he used to make his prediction.
Electrosensitivity
From: Chris Long
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1774586,00.html
Heya C:
i just found link above. this is news to me, but perhaps NOT to you. Maybe this is (part of) your ongoing problem?
C
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1774586,00.html
The Sunday Times - Britain
September 11, 2005
Electrical fields can make you sick
Sarah-Kate Templeton, Medical Correspondent
A government agency has acknowledged for the first time that people can suffer nausea, headaches and muscle pains when exposed to electromagnetic fields from mobile phones, electricity pylons and computer screens.
The condition known as electrosensitivity, a heightened reaction to electrical energy, will be recognised as a physical impairment.
A report by the Health Protection Agency (HPA), to be published next month, will state that increasing numbers of British people are suffering from the syndrome. While the total figure is not known, thousands are believed to be affected to some extent.
Hi Chris;
This issue has been on my radar screen, so to speak, since I read a book called "Electromagnetic Man" (unfortunately I can't recall the authors' names) back in the 1980s, and my doctor advise me to get rid of any electrical outlet and the wiring in the wall behind it that was located near the head of my bed. This I did out of prudent precaution, although I've never been able to correlate by help the problem symptoms directly to electromagnetic exposure. However, I know people who are convinced that they are affected, and I suspect that stray electromagnetic pollution does none of us any good, which is one reason I've stayed clear of wireless networking and peripheral conecctivity up to now.
Thanks for the article heads up. It's encouraging to hear that someone is on the case.
Charles
A good article
From John M. Dennis
I like this article not just because he is using an Apple laptop but because he basically says that we do not have to do what others expect us to do. It leads to a lot of misery in some people's lives.
http://heraldnet.com/stories/05/09/13/100hea_wally001.cfm
This makes you think
From John M. Dennis
http://www.scottstratten.com/movie.html
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