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THE LIMAC FORUM/JULY 2003

never happen. Although this may be a typically

male viewpoint, life - computer life and life in

general – can be seen as nothing but problems

(challenges, opportunities) and solutions. What

has always amazed us is the level to which

people without much technical experience

assume that they can’t possibly solve computer

problems If you can ﬁgure out why your brakes

are squeaking or why the sewing machine is

jamming, you can ﬁgure out computer-related

problems. Despite what many non-computer

people think, there’s no real difference.

For those of you who ﬁnd tracking down and

eliminating a problem intimidating, here’s a

guide that walks you through how I troubleshoot

problems of all types. (This article is adapted

from the troubleshooting chapter I wrote for

the book my friend Glenn Fleishman and I are

co-authoring right now, tentatively titled “The

Wireless Networking Starter Kit.”)

The most important piece of advice I can give

up front is: be methodical. If you start trying

solutions without thinking about what caused

the problem and what the effect of any given

solution may be, you just end up complicating

the entire situation. The best way to encourage

a methodical approach is to take notes about

what you see (especially any error messages),

what you do, and the effects of what you do.

Describe the Problem Identify the problem and

gather information about it. That sounds simple,

and it usually is, because most problems aren’t

particularly subtle. Perhaps you can’t send e-

mail, or your one wired computer isn’t visible to

the computers on your wireless network. 0

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to force quit it using the Command-Option-

Escape invoked Force Quit window. If all else

fails, uninstall Microtek’s software and use

Hamrick Software’s VueScan ($60 for standard

edition, $80 for Professional edition with IT8

color calibration) By the way, for other scan-

ners, not this model, there is another inexpen-

sive ($49) choice, LaserSoft’s SilverFast SE. The

SM 5700 IS supported by their SilverFast Ai for

$119 for standard or $229 with IT8 color cali-

bration. You can download demo versions of

each of these at www.hamrick.com/index.html

or www.silverfast.com/highlights/en.html.

| What’s your recommendation for a ﬂatbed

scanner for $200 to $400?

The Epson Perfection 3200 PHOTO Color

Scanner at 3200 dpi has enough resolution to

do a credible job of scanning 35mm slides and

4 by 5 chromes on the included transparency

adapter lid and up to letter sized reﬂective

originals. Captures good subtleties with 48 bits

of color information and a 3.4 Dmax, has a fast

FireWire 400 interface and a Mac OS X-native

Photoshop plug-in in the form of LaserSoft’s

SilverFast SE 6. It replaced the older and lower

resolution Perfection 2450. At the low end of

the price scale ($200), check out the Perfection

2400 PHOTO Scanner. You drop down to

2400 dpi and slow down to USB speeds. It has

a USB 2.0 interface, so unless you have a USB

2.0 port, high Resolution scans will take a bit

of time. Not a problem if you don’t scan often.

As for the resolution, it’s ﬁne of you don’t need

large blow-ups of slides. Also it cannot scan

transparencies larger than 35mm, in strips or

mounted slides. It does have a plus going for

it, a TWAIN driver, so it works with OmniPage

Pro X if you have that separately.

| How about a tabloid size scanner in OS X?

The Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL goes for

$1200, which is much cheaper than Epson’s

$2500 Expression 1640XL Special Edition. Still

at 1600 dpi, it can cover any need for a large

reﬂective object.

| If I have a hard drive in a FireWire enclo-

sure, can that be made bootable?

Not every model with built-in FireWire ports

can boot off a FireWire hard drive. The Blue

and White G3 and the similar Power Mac G4

(PCI graphics) code-named Yikes could not.

Your Mac may need a ﬁrmware update for the

FireWire drive to be bootable. A Mac OS 9

System Folder can be dragged in the Finder to

the FireWire drive, but you need Carbon Copy

Cloner to transfer Mac OS X to an external

FireWire drive. If you are using Mac OS X,

before you use the external drive, make sure

you use Apple’s Disk Utility to initialize the

drive as Mac OS Extended format with Mac OS

9 drivers. Some retail drives come formatted

as MS-DOS volumes. If you are taking a drive

that was internal and making it external, most

enclosures will force you to reformat the drive

to be usable. The WiebeTech DesktopGB+

(model DPL-0) does not require this and sup-

ports USB 1.1/2.0 connections too. $139.

| I had Roxio Toast 5.0.2 installed and I

found a updater on a CD-ROM. Instead of

updating what I had, it installed a whole

new folder. Some of the sub folders inside

were empty. What’s up with this?

That’s normal for their updaters where very

minor differences appear in the same folder,

but larger ones get a new folder. You will

have to move t

he Roxio Photo, Roxio Data,

Roxio Music folders as they contain fairly

large amounts of data and are not part of the

updater. It’s worthwhile to test the updated

Toast before getting rid of the previous ver-

sion. As of this writing, the latest version is

5.2.1, where version 5.2 was released to be fully

compatible with Mac OS 10.2 (Jaguar).

| I can’t get my e-mail in Netscape, but

when I check the Preferences, everything

seems OK. It says I haven’t set my server

preferences. I tossed the Preferences and

EarthLink has not been able to help.

It sounds like it’s ignoring it’s own settings.

Netscape Communicator preference window,

under the Mail & Newsgroups section,

Identity has a checkbox labeled Use Internet

Conﬁg. If you leave it checked, you should

make adjustments in the Internet Control

Panel, E-mail tab or in Mac OS X, in System

Preferences>Internet E-mail tab. 0

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Bring your check to the next meeting or mail

it to:

Long Island Mac Users Group

P.O. Box 2048

Seaford, NY.11783-0180

‘‘’’

QUOTES

“Software users

cannot complain

when their programs

are updated with

bug ﬁxes or new

features, but I have

been noticing lately

that some programs

get updated at an

alarming frequency.

Using NetNewsWire’s

RSS access to

MacUpdate:

www.macupdate

.com, I see a list of

updated programs

daily. I have noticed

some programs that

appear in this list

several times a week,

either almost every

week or in spurts,

with a few updates

coming sequentially.

“On the surface,

there is nothing

wrong with this.

A program gets

updated, is released,

then a bug is found

and it is updated

again. But I wonder

if some shareware

developers use

this as a way to get

exposure. If you don’t

update your program,

it doesn’t appear

on the list of new or

updated software.

So, updating it

regularly ensures that

users will see your

program in the list.

“This occurs with

certain programs

on an almost weekly

basis. One graphics

program seems to be

perpetually updated,

with new versions

coming more than

once a week on an

average.

“I wonder what

message this sends

to users. If it shows

that the developer

found bugs, then

that means that

there must be lots of

bugs in the program,

and that does not

inspire conﬁdence. If

it includes new fea-

tures, then it’s a real

disservice, because

most users will not

be updating weekly;

it would be much

better to release

several new features

at once.

“I’m sure this

is a minor issue

compared with some

others, but I for one,

as someone who fol-

lows updates, would

like to see sites like

MacUpdate and

VersionTracker limit

updates to programs

to, say, one per

week.”

–Dan Frakes

in TidBits

(www.tidbits.com)

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