Subject: Info-Mac Digest V17 #21 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Fri, 11 Feb 00 Volume 17 : Issue 21 Today's Topics: [A] PB 170 screen netscape crash The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. Working with the Info-Mac Digest: * To submit articles to the digest, email . * To subscribe, send email to with the words subscribe info-mac in the message. * To unsubscribe, send email to with the words unsubscribe info-mac in the message. * To change your address, unsubscribe from the old address, then subscribe from the new address. * Please send administrative queries to . Downloading and Submitting Files from the Info-Mac Archive: * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at: * Search the archive via the MIT HyperArchive at: . * To submit files for the archive, email the binhexed file with a description to . Submissions must be made by the author or with permission of the author. It may take up to a week to process; check mirror sites for the status of new uploads. * To submit files larger than 2 MB, email a description to and then use an FTP client to upload the binhexed file to info-mac.org, using the userid "macgifts" and the password "macgifts". Or, click . Info-Mac volunteers include Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Hugh Lewis, Tom Coradeschi, Shawn Bunn, Christopher Li, Patrik Montgomery, Ed Chambers, and Chris Pepper. America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V17 #21" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:24:28 -0500 From: "Joni Hope" Subject: [A] PB 170 screen >Basically the screen is divided into about 5 pixel columns. The top half >has every other column and fills in with gray checkerboard (one pixel on, >neighbors off), and the bottom half has the columns the top half didn't >show, and I can only barely access the top half and left half of my >screen; only one-quarter of my screen shows in this odd manner! To answer my own question, I swapped top-half and bottom-half with a co-worker's PowerBook 170 and I'm pretty sure the fault is in the female portion of the video ribbon cable. Since ribbon cables kink over time (and mine sure has!) AND THEN FAIL, I'm pretty sure that I lost a line inside the cable. I need a new video board (not the interconnect board, might be called the video relay and DC inverter board?). Mystery solved! (I hope!) - Joni ----- Using a Macintosh? Get FREE e-mail and more at MacLaunch! http://www.maclaunch.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:21:30 -0500 From: "Joni Hope" Subject: netscape crash >From: sabrina ludovico >Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 03:55:59 -0500 > >I have installed netscape 4.06 on my work station (sun solaris 2.5.1) , >but i have a problem. I would like to ask gently and rhetorically why you ask this question in a Mac forum. >If I read a particular page and then ckick the back botton to see the >previuose , netscape crash. >Why? The page that cause the crash is written with fronte page.Netscape >crash only if i go in that page with bach botton. That sounds like a problem between Netscape Communicator or Navigator and Microsoft Front Page. Since those two companies are not friendly to each other, I think *that* is the problem. I doubt you can fix the problem. However, you should try some standard troubleshooting procedures. Install a newer version of Netscape; Netscape is up to 4.7.1. I found 4.06 for Solaris to be less-than-stable. Try another browser: hotjava is probably installed with Solaris. You can also download Internet Explorer for Solaris, although I never got it to run and never cared to taint my workstation with Microsoft software anyway. Consider upgrading your version of Solaris; 7 has been out for over a year, making 2.6 old news, and 2.5.1 even older news. As an interim measure, be sure your patches are up-to-date (use PatchTool if possible). Also reboot your workstation, just in case, but NEVER use the power switch to reboot. Installing applications and upgrading the operating system and rebooting the workstation are the provenance of the system administrator. The simplest answer is probably not to use the BACK button while on that site, and possibly to complain to the webmaster of that site about browser- dependent pages. Sorry that's not much help. - Joni ----- Using a Macintosh? Get FREE e-mail and more at MacLaunch! http://www.maclaunch.com -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************