11 Nov
2001
11 Nov
'01
5:43 p.m.
Good to someone making progress, restoring some black
hardware to a
useful configuration. I enjoy my NeXT slab and cube. Still some of
my favorite machines. A lot of sites do look funny on Omniweb. I
guess it might be the html to rtf translation. Some things just
don't translate very well. Frank's Caper package seems to work well
and Samba is readily available if your network is Wintel based.
I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of my N4005 21" monitor to complete
my Dimension cube. I just got a set of ink carts for the color
printer and have almost unstopped all of the print heads. If you
don't have your printer parts yet, give Randy at Turbo a shout. He
takes Paypal and his wider-than-stock printer gear seems to be the
best long term solution. I need to get a two drive SCSI cable from
him as I have a second 2.1 gb drive to install in my cube and I need
a printer repair kit for my spare laser. I've started buying spares
before they disappear totally, such as floppy drives, spare mice and
keyboards, monitors and power supplies. I plan on keeping my black
hardware up and running for a long time!
I've got a few spares, mainly an extra keyboard, mouse, Cube
'040 cpu board, and somewhat dim N4000A monitor. I've already gotten
the feed roller and extraction gear for my laser as well, just
haven't ventured into taking it apart to install them yet.
Omniweb looks much better since I got the 2.7b version from
Peak. I had initially tried the 1.0 version that was on the NeXTware
CD. It looks like it's going through at least two levels of
translation between HTML and RTF, with another in between. I use
Caper quite a bit for moving stuff back and forth between my Mac's
and the NeXT systems. The thing giving me fits at the moment is
Sendmail....I had it working with our Exchange server using the Cube
but now that I've gotten the slab on the 'net, using DHCP and my Mac
as a gateway, it won't send mail to Earthlink's email server even
though Popover retrieves it just fine.
Jeff
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