Odds & Ends: MacVCD virus infected; URL Access problems; Toast, Disc Burner and iTunes; more

MacVCD had virus infections MacVCD 2.0 is a new release of this Video CD player utility. It adds support for multi-language VCDs, Karaoke VCDs, and keyboard control during movie playback. The developers of sent us this note: The original version 2.0 of MacVCD was infected with the sevendust virus. If you downloaded MacVCD 2.0 between 8:00 pm (PST) Friday March 2, 2001 and 2:00 am (PST) Saturday March 3, 2001, please run your virus scanner to remove the infection.

URL Access download problems again! Several readers report the return of problems downloading URL Access 2.3 over the week-end (previous versions of this file had also been plagued with this problem). After agreeing to the terms of the agreement, readers get a "File not found" error instead of a download.

Toast, Disc Burner and iTunes Steve Sell writes: " I was able to get Toast, Disc Burner, and iTunes all working at the same time with my Que! drive by swapping the Que! and Apple CD-ROMs." Details are in this MacFixIt Forums thread (Que!Fire Disc Burner iTunes musical drives = YES!).

Kodak cameras don't work with serial adapters? Bill Seymour discovered that "Kodak does not support third party serial adapters such as Belkin. If you've been successfully connecting a Kodak digital to your G3 serial port, forget getting an adapter for the G4. Instead, you'll need a USB cable or, better, a card reader from Kodak." Update: Dan Hamilton does not have any problems with this setup.

Helix confirmed to work with Mac OS 9.1 Helix 5.0.1 has been tested and was found to be compatible with Mac OS 8.1 up to and including Mac OS 9.1.

Rolling your own TechTool Pro bootable CD MacInstruct has a new tutorial on how to use Toast to make your own bootable TechTool Pro CD from a downloaded update. [This assumes you have a CD for an older version of TechTool Pro 3.]

Mac OS X terminal commands: df and du ResExcellence has a tutorial on using the df and du commands in Mac OS X's Terminal application. These commands tell you exactly how much space you have used on all mounted partitions, and the sizes of individual directories.