RE: Web Site Horror--Feedback requested

I'm hoping they call the next one "Monkey" myself,
although not too hopeful on that. =)
X and 9 will play nice together but as you & I have
found out it depends on what you've plugged into your
machine. Also see my last post re:Adaptec's
discontinuance of Mac support.
I HAVE to be able to boot into 9 or else I can't run
my web building software and there's 416 megs of html
gobledygook in there I have to be able to work with.
It's old software but I know how to use it. Now, if I
could just get all my monitors to work nicely
together......all my palladium scans look green today.
eric

--- Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Summers, Jeff wrote:
>
> > I am not sure if this will help, but there is a
> usb to scsi adapter cable by
> > Adaptec, Adaptec Model 1856600 USB to SCSI
> Adapter. Unfortunately, it is
> > about $55, but is good on PC or MAC systems. You
> could try looking at
> > Newegg or Zipzoomfly websites, or just Google in
> general the phrase usb to
> > scsi.
>
> I gather from later posts that Adaptec is no longer
> feasible for this
> problem, but I mention my own experience (more fully
> explained in P-F # 8,
> back page explanation of "What Happened" -- re the
> 6-month delay).
>
> If you get any card, be sure you have the version to
> match your new
> system. My Adaptec, bought off the shelf at J&R,
> turned out to be earlier
> version so kept crashing -- but NOBODY at Apple,
> Adaptec, or Adobe tech
> support (all were still on warranty) HAD A CLUE !
> In fact, Apple
> diagnosed bad logic board; take it to Tekserv (under
> warranty, of course).
> So I carried ten ton tower up there, sat a day & 1/2
> waiting -- & verdict
> was logic board fine, it's the adaptec card. They
> downloaded new driver
> from website, thanks, -- but it's not hardware,
> under warranty, it's
> software, bill $99 -- (Could you sue Apple for
> expensively bad info?)
>
> In other words, just because salesman in the store
> knows nothing means
> nothing -- plus he is in the business of selling you
> NEW STUFF.
>
> As for the monitor, I also thought my monitor was
> kaput, but happened to
> get possibly the one bright salesman at J&R who
> suggested I look at the
> pins. Sure enough, two pins in the connection had
> gotten bent in the
> upgrade, but symmetrically, so that unless you
> looked with a loupe to see
> that they were bent, connector looked fine. Sainted
> husband straightened
> them with a tweezer. So far, knock on wood, monitor
> continues into old
> age. The guy knew that because it happened to him --
> though of course more
> often the monitor does give out. (I expect any
> minute...)
>
> Two other things from sad experience:
>
> 1. System 9 & 10 do NOT play well together. IMO
> that was just a
> marketing ploy to get people to give up their nice
> system 8 (8.6 was my
> favorite) and "upgrade." System 9 was anyway
> abandoned in early stages --
> though I cope...
>
> 2. It's not just software you'll have to give up
> with new system. I have,
> as I've probably said too often, several thousand
> dollars in hardware that
> adaptec or not, have no DRIVERS for system 10, in
> case you're forced into
> it, though they do work in 9.
>
> This is called planned obsolescence, and at risk of
> being called commie
> bolshevic (spelled wrong, I'm an amateur)
> revolutionary traitor, I point
> out that, for better or worse, it's what drives the
> economy.
>
> The topic came up in conversation with a woman who
> does digital graphics
> for a living, & knows a lot more about it than I
> do... we mulled over the
> drastic changes in I think the term would be
> INTERFACE of 10, for no
> discernible reason except, presumably, to MAKE IT
> SEEM TOTALLY NEW. So 10
> has panther, jaguar, tiger...? I want the one called
> Pussy Cat... though
> I'm not hopeful.
>
> For instance, the first time I booted new internal
> hard drive to use 10, I
> couldn't figure out how to get out. They'd put
> restart somewhere else,
> system controls reorganized --not on first screen
> menu but a couple of
> screens in -- though I had to appeal to a higher
> authority to find that
> out.
>
> In any event, odds are "salesman" and other
> "experts" (except obviously on
> this list) will know less s/he might.
>
> Judy
>
>
>
>

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Received on Thu Sep 22 14:40:57 2005