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Elements 3.0 & Tower Redux
IMAP accounts in Eudora
Wow, Macs last a long time
Netscape 7.2 mail
LaserWriter and OS X
Meteorologist isn't the worst
Son of Weather Grok
Mac Security Updates
Cashette email[/url]

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Elements 3.0 & Tower Redux

From Frank Falcone

Hi Charles,

Just wanted to LYK that based upon your reviews, I upgraded to Elements 3.0 and purchased the "Hidden Powers of . . ." book. I'm hoping to "dig in" this weekend. I'll LYK how it goes.

Secondly, after my "tower rant" last month one of your readers chided me and stated that based upon previous time lines, that there would be a major announcement about the tower line within 2 weeks. I haven't read a word. Have you? I see that the PB line was just bumped-up. Would you expect a tower announcement in the near future or should I quit holding my breath? I'll admit - I've turned a very lovely shade of purple - but. You get the idea.

Frank

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Hi Frank;

I'll be interested to hear how you make out with Elements 3 and the Lynch book.

Now that the PowerBooks have been refreshed, the towers have gone longest without an upodate, so they are likely next.

Maybe you should take a few gulps of air, though.

Charles






IMAP accounts in Eudora

Herbert Goodfriend

Charles,

Thank you for the article on e-mail clients. Eudora has "improved" its treatment of IMAP accounts such that I am finding it more difficult to manage and cannot find the answer in the manual.

I use a trash mailbox on the IMAP server. Formerly, the command "Empty Trash" would empty the trash from all accounts, POP and IMAP (so long as the connection to the server was open). Now, that does not work.

It now seems necessary to open the "Mailboxes" window, open the server menu and use the "Purge Deleted Messages" command. Is there an easier way?

Regards,
Herb Goodfriend

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Hi Herb;

Wish I could tell you, but I'm not an IMAP user, so I'm sure you know more about this than I.

Perhaps someone in readerland will be able to help.

Charles






Wow, Macs last a long time

From Dan Knight

Calaveras County Office of Education retiring their last remaining Mac, a Power Mac 8100 from 1984.

http://www.uniondemocrat.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=16453

I'm betting the PC that replaces it won't still be in use 11 years from now.

Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc.
http://cobwebpublishing.com
http://lowendmac.com
http://reformed.net

Life is too short to use anything but a Mac. - Roger Ebert







Netscape 7.2 mail

From BearyandBow

Re: Netscape 7.2 mail - Sounds like it has something to so with your ISP outgoing (SMTP) mail server or your settings for it. Make sure you have that right in the preferences. Also try moving to Thunderbird when you are able because it is the "current version" of Netscape and you could get better support from readerland.






LaserWriter and OS X

From LonePalm

Charles,

Mike Kochkodin should not have any problems using the Asanté, (which I assume to be an AsantéTalk) as it is not based on which operating system is in use. It simply acts as a simple external print server, ie, as a bridge between Ethernet and LocalTalk. (I guess, technically, AppleTalk over localtalk via ethernet.) I used one for years with an older HP 4ML under OS9 with no drivers at all. Just connect the Ethernet cable from the Mac to the AsantéTalk, connect the AsantéTalk to the printer, and make sure the Asanté has power. Tell your Mac that you intend to print via Ethernet and you should be done. (There is a setup program in System Preferences.) I'll admit to not trying this, as I now use a different system under OS X, but my wife is using this successfully at work. The basics should be the same.

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Re: LaserWriter and OS X

From George Slusher 

LonePalm is correct. I use a Personal LaserWriter 4/600 PS with OS 10.3.7 with no problems. One thing more: one has to turn AppleTalk on. In Panther, that's done via System Preferences -> Network -> Built-in Ethernet -> AppleTalk. Check "Make AppleTalk active" and choose "Configure automatically." If Mike does this and the Mac doesn't see the printer, he can try turning the printer off for a bit, then turning it back on. That will reset the printer and it should show up in Printer Setup Utility. One other thing: be sure to NOT use "cross-over" Ethernet cables, though that shouldn't be a problem. They are usually clearly marked (printed on the insulation).






Meteorologist isn't the worst

From Islander

Well, my experience with several of these menu bar weather apps tells me that:
(1) Meteorologist isn't the worst,
(2) any of them that work today can totally fail tomorrow, often because their data source has suddenly switched its reporting format.

I've used WeatherPop (Advanced), Meteorologist, WeatherMenu and WeatherDock in that order over time. The nearest location is Nanaimo (BC, Canada). Currently Meteorologist can give me the temp but not the conditions; WeatherMenu (my previous default weather app) is hopeless currently for non-US locations; WeatherPop is usually useless; but WeatherDock (freeware) is working beautifully. So, if asked today for recommendation wrt a weather app, it would be WeatherDock.






Son of Weather Grok

From LonePalm

I've had issues with Meteorologist 1.4.2 (and earlier), as in extreme amounts of time to get the weather from the 4 locations relevant to me (at startup), even with DSL. I also cannot change the menubar city listed - it always lists whatever city I first had it check when I set it up. I have since gone back to Son of Weather Grok, which uses far less resources and is faster at startup. Drawbacks? Screen space use and no weather maps or forecasts.

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Hi Guys;

Also check XRG (X Resource Graph - reviewed in OS X Odyssey 655), which has a weather module that can be configured in the preferences to read out weather information from weather stations around the world. The nearest one to me is about 40 miles away as the crow fies, and it works great.

The homepage for XRG is at:
http://www.starcoder.com/xrg/

Charles





Mac Security Updates

From Bob

Hi Charles,

Steve Wildstrom from Business Week did a great article on the new Mac mini. One comment he made was that Mac users are faced with about as many security updates as Windows users, even if they don't admit it.

I asked him to back up the statement and he suggested I compare the following sites:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300667

with

http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/default.mspx

Looks like he has a case. Any comments?

I enjoy your site Charles.

Bob

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Mac Security Updates

From BearyandBow

There is a big difference between having 20 *critical* security threats every day and fixing a couple minor bugs once a month.

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Mac Security Updates

From Bob

Who says the MS issues are critical threats and Apples are not?

Tell me which Apple ones are minor bugs vs major. MS doesn't have 20 new bugs per day. If you have gone to both sites you will see the number of updates from Apple and MS are not that different.

Steve makes the commment Apple users are in denial, your statement appears to support this.

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Mac Security Updates

From BearyandBow

How about comparing them from an independent review instead of just comparing the ones M$ acknowledges verses the amount of critical security threats there are.

Yes Macs are more secure than Windows and are attacked less because of that according to independent research.:
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2002/10/31.12.shtml

Microsoft has recently changed the way it counts security threats - they lump together a whole bunch as one - if they are forced by their customers to admit that it is a bug and not a feature as they like to call them.

http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/002709.html

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Hi Bob and Ben;

I think the proof of the pudding, so to speak, is whether one can take a leisurely approach to applying the security updates. I certainly do, which is to say that I've never bothered installing any of the OS X security updates between fractional System version updates, and have not suffered for it in the slightest. I'm not in denial. I just have no anxiety about it.

On the other hand, even if one religiously downloads and applies every patch Microsoft releases, Windows is still plagues with the malware onslaught. For an eccellent essay on this topic, see:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/02/04/notes020405.DTL

As yet there are no OS X viruses, and that changes the complexion of the equation drastically.I know that viruses are ot the only security consideration, but thus far, there seems to be no compelling reason to be obsessive about security patches and bugfixes for OS X.

Ergo, even someone who is still running OS 10.3.0 with no patches or updates applied is probably still getting along just fine.

Charles





Cashette email

From BearyandBow

I like Cashette - I will recommend it to my friends and family. Excellent idea.


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