Odds & Ends
Odds & Ends
iVisit freeze Martin Kaufman has a posting on Apple's Discussion Forums where he writes: "If I input video with the videoconferencing application, iVisit, on my Apple G3 266 AV MT with the 4MB VRAM upgrade card installed, iVisit will freeze the computer after a short period of time." He believes that there is a possible hardware conflict related to the G3 Mac "VRAM upgrade slot and/or the Apple AV personality card or just the Gossamer logic board Rev. 1 in general."
Update: iVisit just came out with a 2.1b2 upgrade. Not sure if it affects this issue.
Another Photoshop-Painter work-around? Regarding our previous report on Painter not opening Photoshop 5 files, Perry Lowe queries: "In the Preferences for saving files on Photoshop 5.0, there is a box that you can check called 'File Compatibility.' Would enabling this option solve the problem? I do not use Painter, so I cannot check this, but it did solve a similar conflict with Illustrator 7.0."
Slowed performance after sleep: a possible solution? Regarding the slowed performance after waking up a G3 Series PowerBook (previously reported here), David Converse suggests that updating the ATI drivers with the one for the XCLAIM VR (found on ATI's web site) might be the solution. He adds: "The installer contains extra files not needed on the PowerBook. Do a Custom Install of ATI Graphics Accelerator, ATI 3D Accelerator, ATI Video Accelerator, and ATI Video Memory Manager to replace the files installed by Apple (you'll have the ATI Guide as well.). BTW, ATI Displays control panel and the ATI control strip module won't work on the PowerBook, so don't bother installing them."
Update: Several readers reported that this solution did not work for them. One reader found that it did work.
Security certificates in older web browsers due to expire I am not sure how much this applies to Mac versions, but the Thawte Certificates web site notes that the root certificates included with Navigator 3.x and MSIE 3.01 are about to expire. However, "the roots we ship with newer browsers, including all 4.0 browsers and later, are valid from 1996 till 2020." Assuming you still want to use the older versions of the browsers, the web page describes what to do to update the certificates. (Thanks, Matthew McGlynn.)
Update: John Phelps writes: "It does not affect the Macintosh version of Explorer 3.0.1. It already has certificates installed that are valid until 2020."Update: Thawte is only one of a collection of certificates built-in to the browser software. I have found that several of them are due to expire (or already have) even in the 4.x versions.
BBEdit crash? Mark Mason writes that BBEdit will crash if the user cancels a file upload while using the Save to FTP Server feature.
SCSI termination power Question: On Macintosh systems with third-party internal SCSI hard drive, does the drive need to provide termination power, or does the Macintosh supply this power? A recent Apple TIL file supplies the answers.