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Info-Mac Digest             Fri, 11 Feb 00       Volume 17 : Issue 21

Today's Topics:

      [A] PB 170 screen
      netscape crash

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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:24:28 -0500
From: "Joni Hope" <hope@maclaunch.com>
Subject: [A] PB 170 screen

>Basically the screen is divided into about 5 pixel columns.
The top half
>has every other column and fills in with gray checkerboard
(one pixel on,
>neighbors off), and the bottom half has the columns the top
half didn't
>show, and I can only barely access the top half and left
half of my
>screen; only one-quarter of my screen shows in this odd
manner!

To answer my own question, I swapped top-half and
bottom-half with 
a co-worker's PowerBook 170 and I'm pretty sure the fault is
in 
the female portion of the video ribbon cable.  Since ribbon
cables 
kink over time (and mine sure has!) AND THEN FAIL, I'm
pretty sure 
that I lost a line inside the cable.  I need a new video
board 
(not the interconnect board, might be called the video relay
and 
DC inverter board?).  Mystery solved!  (I hope!)

- Joni
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Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 13:21:30 -0500
From: "Joni Hope" <hope@maclaunch.com>
Subject: netscape crash

>From: sabrina ludovico <sabrina.ludovico@parizzi.it>
>Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 03:55:59 -0500 
>
>I have installed  netscape 4.06 on my work station (sun
solaris 
2.5.1) ,
>but i have a problem.

	I would like to ask gently and rhetorically why you ask
this 
question in a Mac forum.

>If I read a particular page and then  ckick the back botton
to 
see the
>previuose , netscape crash.
>Why? The page that cause the crash is written with fronte 
page.Netscape
>crash only if i go in that page with bach botton.

	That sounds like a problem between Netscape Communicator or 
Navigator and Microsoft Front Page.  Since those two
companies are 
not friendly to each other, I think *that* is the problem.
I 
doubt you can fix the problem.  However, you should try some 
standard troubleshooting procedures.  Install a newer
version of 
Netscape; Netscape is up to 4.7.1.  I found 4.06 for Solaris
to be 
less-than-stable.  Try another browser: hotjava is probably 
installed with Solaris.  You can also download Internet
Explorer 
for Solaris, although I never got it to run and never cared
to 
taint my workstation with Microsoft software anyway.
Consider 
upgrading your version of Solaris; 7 has been out for over a
year, 
making 2.6 old news, and 2.5.1 even older news.  As an
interim 
measure, be sure your patches are up-to-date (use PatchTool
if 
possible).  Also reboot your workstation, just in case, but
NEVER 
use the power switch to reboot.  Installing applications and 
upgrading the operating system and rebooting the workstation
are 
the provenance of the system administrator.  The simplest
answer 
is probably not to use the BACK button while on that site,
and 
possibly to complain to the webmaster of that site about
browser-
dependent pages.  Sorry that's not much help.

- Joni
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