POP3 Access and Forwarding
From Adrian Membrez
Thank you for writing the article on the free POP3 email services. I have been using my
yahoo's POP3 free access for a long time now - more then 3 years!
And now they are going to end it.
I was wondering if you knew a way for me to be able to forward
everything that is sent to my old email to my new email address? I
was thinking about unsubscribing to all the mailing lists I am on
and then turning on Yahoo's vacation feature and put a message
saying please resend email to this address. Got any Ideas? Thanks
for the great article
-Adrian Membrez
Hi Adrian,
Other than utilizing that vacation notification feature to notify
your contacts of an email change, I don't think there is any way to
forward mail from your Yahoo! address unless you pay the
subscription fee. However, as I understand it, you will still have
Web access to your incoming Yahoo! mail after the free POP3
service is discontinued.
Charles
Kanga vs. WallStreet
From: Dan
Hi Charles -
My daughter will be spending an extended period of time in China
on a language-studies fellowship. We've decided that an early G3
PowerBook will fill her computing needs (word processing [in
Chinese!], email, and light Web access) and her cost
restrictions.
Our choice seems to have come down to either a Kanga or a WallStreet. I'm attracted to the Kanga
but find they are not very available. I'm also a little concerned
that it won't run OS X. On the other hand, the WallStreet
seems to be a suitable 'Book, which could run OS X at some
point in the future, but has a reputation for breaking hinges and
having a troublesome display on the 13 inch version.
I'd appreciate your input toward our decision. We're going to
buy from a dealer whom will give us at least a 30 day warranty.
Many Thanks!
Dan
Hi Dan,
I would suggest the WallStreet, both because of the OS X issue
and because they're newer, and, I think, more robust. The
WallStreet also supports processor upgrades, which the Kanga
doesn't.
A 233 MHz WallStreet will prove about as real-world fast as the 250
MHz Kanga, due to its faster system bus.
Stay away from those 13.3" screens, though. As for the hinge issue,
There have been three WallStreets in my family, all with 12.1"
screens, and none have even exhibited any hinge problems. I'm
guessing that the 12.1" screen, with its more rigid bezel, puts
less strain on the hinges.
Another 'Book you might consider is a 333 MHz Lombard. Lombard prices have
dropped quite sharply of late.
Charles
Mac OS 9.0+ Installers Hang
From Kevin DuArte
Charles,
I got your email address off of Low End
Mac and thought you might be the right person to ask.
Have you ever heard of not being able to install OS 9.0 to a
drive that OS 9.1 was installed to first? Even after reformatting
the drive? I did an 8.6-9.0-9.1 upgrade on a 9600/G3-400, and all was well until I
activated USB and FW support for the Keyspan and OrangeMicro cards
and started capturing clips (uh, 2) and got a hang. Post this
zap-pram, shift, etc., would not boot the system (Illegal Error on
boot). The system hangs sometimes loading from CD-ROM as well
unless the shift key is down.
100% of the time the installer hangs with the 9.1 update
installer and 80% with the 9.0. It is as if the installer just goes
to sleep at various stages in the process. Very weird. The only
other odd thing about this 9600 is that one of the drives is SCSI-2
with a SCSI-SCSI-2 adapter on it.
Just wondering if I should crawl back to OS 8.6 and make up for
abandoning her.
thx,
Kevin
Hi Kevin,
I have had problems with the OS 9 installer hanging up when
installing to my Umax SuperMac
S900. I'm not sure it will fix your problem, but if you have
more than one partition, try downloading the installer files from
the CD to the partition you're not trying to install OS 9 on
(including the CD's boot system file) and installing from
there.
If you only have one partition, you could try loading the installer
files to the hard drive, then boot from the CD and run the
installer on the HD instead of the one on the CD. I have a vague
recollection that the OS 9 installer has issues with slower
CD-ROM drives.
You could also try installing a system on another Mac, stuffing it,
and transferring it to the 9600. I think my S900 at one time had a
copy of OS 9.1 that was copied from my son's Lombard, and it worked
fine.
Charles
Bible Software
From Tony Kan
Hi Charles
I have been searching for Bible software for a Newton MessagePad
2x00. While you were researching your article on Bible software,
did you come across any? It seems strange that there was/is so
little to be found?!
Thanks in advance
Tony
Hi Tony,
Try
Servant Software's The Message for Newton.
The Message lets you read and search the Bible on any Newton
device. The Message is free for personal use.
You can set preferences for display style of chapter, verse and
footnote markers, as well as font and size. You can place bookmarks
wherever you want, and a record is automatically kept of passages
you've been reading recently. Searching allows you to find words or
phrases in the current chapter or book, the entire Bible, or any of
various sections of the Old and New Testaments.
The text of the entire Bible is broken down into eight sections, so
that you can install just the parts that you want to have
available. You need to install the main reader package ("The
Message.pkg") and whichever modules you want to use. (See below.)
Each package will take around 250 or 300k of storage space, and the
entire Bible takes approximately 2 megabytes.
The Message requires Newton 2.0.
The Revised Standard Version (RSV) module for The Message is free
and downloadable (should be registered).
The King James (KJV) module for The Message is free and requires no
registration.
For more information, visit:
http://www.thefedors.com/themessage/
Hope this works for you.
Charles
Miscellaneous Ramblings: Healthcare
From Yoon Ha Lee
Dear Mr. Moore,
I wanted to express my sympathies for MD and MD's family's
experiences with healthcare. :-( In an ideal world doctors
*ought* to find ways to help if only by giving out honest
information and educating their patients about what is known, even
if they rarely have miracle cures.
It gets worse: I've heard numerous *anecdotes* of premeds at my
undergraduate university who were sabotaging each other's genetics
labs in order to get good grades. As someone in one of those labs
commented to me, "And these people want to become future doctors?
What's wrong with this picture?" (This person was a non-premed
biology major. In some ways, it's a shame.)
Color me scared if the stories even true one time in ten.
(Ms.) Yoon Ha Lee (call me Yoon)
Hi Yoon,
Having been part of the environmentally ill community for 30 years
and afflicted with some other (probably related) non-respectable
health issues, I have no problem believing such anecdotes.
Charles
OS X Newsreader
From Jonathan Beck
Charles,
I use MT-Newswatcher for my newsgroup reading. It has the kill
user feature that was mentioned in your article, and it's free.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/mtnewswatcher.html
Thanks
Jon
Newsreaders
From Arno Wouters
Dear Charles,
In your More on Living Microsoft Free
column, you quoted Matthew Chappell asking:
"The reason I am writing to you is to find out if
you know of a decent newsgroup client for OS X, as I must use
Outlook Express for that."
You answered:
"I don't use newsgroups myself, but I think that
Mozilla/Netscape supports them, and Mozilla might be a partial
answer to your browser dilemma as well. I really like it,
especially the OS X version."
Actually, Outlook Express is the worst newsreader I can think
of. It violates many Internet standards. Netscape is better - but
not completely compliant to the Internet standards.
An overview of the newsreaders that passed the test for the Good
Netkeeping Seal of Approval can be found at http://www.gnksa.org/gnksa-evaluations.html
An overview of newsreaders for the Mac OS can be found at
http://www.newsreaders.com/mac/clients.html
Probably, the best newsreader for OS X is Toth: http://www.thothsw.com/thoth/
There is also an OS X version of MT Newswatcher http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/
Yours sincerely,
Arno Wouters.
Utrecht, The Netherlands
http://www.knoware.nl/users/arnow/
Usenet Programs for OS X
From Capt. James MacKenna
Greetings,
I saw your call for OS X compatible news reading programs. I've
been using the venerable Newswatcher by John Norstad for years,
ever since 7.1. It was left unsupported, but the code released.
There are several variations, but the best for me was MTNewswatcher
by Simon Fraser. It is now carbonized for OS X. It has
excellent threading, a major reason for my using it, also had
offline capability in previous versions. I've cable modem access
now, so I'm not sure about that feature anymore, but support has
been very good. And oh yeah, it's freeware! Check it out:
http://www.smfr.org/mtnw/
Aloha,
James
PS: Almost forgot, I think you can set helper apps in
preferences in Mozilla .9.9. Still has bugs, but is much faster
than IE for me.
News Group software for X
From Lantz Newberry
Hi Charles,
Someone in your article asked for a X news group software. I've
heard good things about this one.
MT NewsWatcher X 3.2
http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=13571&db=mac
Lantz Newberry
NMEA multiplexer
From: Meindert Sprang
Dear Mr. Moore,
I found your article about small vessel navigation on a Mac. It
describes how to connect NMEA equipment through a multiplexer and a
RS232 to USB converter. It might be of interest to know that our
company just developed an NMEA multiplexer with a USB
interface.
Take a look at http://www.shipmodul.com for more
information.
Kind regards,
Meindert
Mozilla
From Matthew Chappell
Dear Charles,
G'day there and how are you? I've just logged off from using
Mozilla, and it is, indeed, a very nice program to use and
extremely convenient. I'm glad I threw away Outlook Express in
indignant frustration!
I was really surprised that the pages came up so quickly. I had
used Netscape 4.5 for a while, but it was too slow and could not
save pages completely.
Thank you, Charles, for saving my sanity. No one else would
have!
Take care of yourself,
Matthew
Re: PowerLogix Blue Chip 466 MHz
Failures
From: OWC Larry
While I don't know all the specifics of the problem, I am in
agreement that the problem cannot continue. I had a phone
conference with Robert earlier this morning in which I specifically
raised the issue of these outstanding warranty returns.
As a PowerLogix reseller, if PowerLogix has an inability to
service their customer's warrantees, well this is a significant
issue with me. I only learned of the situation last week when one
of our customers brought it up with us as well as the online forum
in which it was being further discussed.
To cut to the chase, the owner of PowerLogix has assured me that
these replacements will be going out within the next 1-2
weeks.
Robert gave me the same explanation for the delay as he has
given you concerning the G3 Processors. This probably why they also
haven't shipped us any of the BlueChip G3 WallStreet upgrades we
have had on order since the first week of December, the same reason
why the warranty replacements couldn't ship. I don't agree that
this was allowed to affect the warranty fulfillment. When we have a
problem with a product, our problem is not our customer's problem.
I feel a duty to do whatever we can to take care of our customer
first and deal any other issue on our time.
Again, at this point, Robert has made it clear that the warranty
returns will be replaced in the very near future. I think it would
have been a good alternative to just give out the working G4
BlueChips in place, but it is not my decision to make. So long as
they do make good in the time now committed to, I don't plan to
make further issue of it. What's past can't be changed now. Their
intentions are good, but the results skewed due to bad
circumstance.
PowerLogix has a very good product line and we are proud to be a
PowerLogix reseller. They should never have allowed this situation
to occur and from the inside I have every reason to expect that
they will not let this type of warranty replacement time problem
occur again. In our contract with PowerLogix they have 10 days to
replace any item that is returned defective. Typically they have
been turning in about 3-4 days and very little has been defective,
a good thing in itself.
I hope this helps. If this is not resolved in a positive way
within no more than the next 20 calendar days, I can tell you it is
likely our relationship with PowerLogix will significantly change.
Users of their products are our customers, too.
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