Alert, Macs sucks. To repair your system please follow this link:

www.microsoft.com

"Fetch, Rover, Fetch" <Fetch-Rover-Fetch@K9University.edu> wrote in message
news:r-Odndwg2Jjo8wnfRVn-oQ@comcast.com...

> who the **** cares - go get some sort of broadband connection and shut the
> **** up

OMG...you feeling embarassed yet? Thought not, and that's whats even funnier
than the fact you should be..LOL

Cheers
David M

"Eric Johnson" <erj66@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
news:BEBAB276.817E0%erj66@xs4all.nl...

> think he may be talking about faxing.

Hi Eric - right you are. My point was tha, in this age of a personal compter
replacing the phone, fax, stereo etc, and Apple very much marketing like
that, they have a long way to come where a brand new Mac can not do what
most Wintel PCs with a modem have been able to do for years.

Davidm wrote:
> "Fetch, Rover, Fetch" <Fetch-Rover-Fetch@K9University.edu> wrote in message
> news:r-Odndwg2Jjo8wnfRVn-oQ@comcast.com...
>
>
>>who the **** cares - go get some sort of broadband connection and shut the
>>**** up
>
>
> OMG...you feeling embarassed yet? Thought not, and that's whats even funnier
> than the fact you should be..LOL
>
> Cheers
> David M

Not at all -

How about this instead:
who the **** cares - email rather than fax - why waste paper?
NOW shut the **** up

On 5/26/05 11:46 AM, in article
42959aed$0$19489$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au, "Davidm"
<news@blackart.com.au> wrote:

> "Eric Johnson" <erj66@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
> news:BEBAB276.817E0%erj66@xs4all.nl...
>
>> think he may be talking about faxing.
>
> Hi Eric - right you are. My point was tha, in this age of a personal compter
> replacing the phone, fax, stereo etc, and Apple very much marketing like
> that, they have a long way to come where a brand new Mac can not do what
> most Wintel PCs with a modem have been able to do for years.
>
>
>
Mac has never been good with modems.

Most "old world" macs had only a modem port...for years.

The number of pre I-mac machines with built in modems was severely limited,
while most PC modem solutions were internal.

I never could understand this.

Once I encountered an early PPC performa model with speakerphone internal
modem.

I never could understand this aversion to including the modem given the prce
point always pursued by apple.

ej

"Davidm" <news@blackart.com.au> wrote:

> "Eric Johnson" <erj66@xs4all.nl> wrote in message
> news:BEBAB276.817E0%erj66@xs4all.nl...
>
> > think he may be talking about faxing.
>
> Hi Eric - right you are. My point was tha, in this age of a personal compter
> replacing the phone, fax, stereo etc, and Apple very much marketing like
> that, they have a long way to come where a brand new Mac can not do what
> most Wintel PCs with a modem have been able to do for years.

Um...what "brand new Mac" are you claiming can't do faxes? Maybe you've
got a broken modem, in which case it might be justified to title your
complain "My Mac sucks" using the proper possessive qualifier. But saying
"Mac sucks" in general is just trolling.

> Mac has never been good with modems.
>

I use both a Mac and a PC because both do things well.
My initial Mac, an eMac, has the 56K Apple internal modem. I could
never get it to respond to call waiting despite repeated questions on
newsgroups and no one at the Apple website bothered to respond. Must be
due to the quality of the hardware. Don't intend to buy an external
modem just because the factory one is not sensitive enough to detect the
call waiting tones. Is there a software fix for this?

My pro music work was done on a PC and I find that the QuickTime synth
will not playback complex MIDI files without bogging down and stopping.
External hardware is required to handle them. Now, this is not just a
Mac problem as software synths and onboard sound chips on most PCs will
not handle them either - requires a good soundcard or external module.

BOBLA wrote:
> Alert, Macs sucks. To repair your system please follow this link:
>
> www.microsoft.com

Erm, for your info Microsoft don't make computers.
Also, please list all the problems you have found with the mac you are
using, unless of course you are just a troll?

Shard...

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"Shardar" <shardar@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote in message
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> BOBLA wrote:
>> Alert, Macs sucks. To repair your system please follow this link:
>>
>> www.microsoft.com
>
> Erm, for your info Microsoft don't make computers.
> Also, please list all the problems you have found with the mac you are
> using, unless of course you are just a troll?

Well how about I start... Using an iMac G5 with OSX there is no way to init
the modem to pick up distinctive ring calls (eg SDR=4 does NOT work). Unlike
even the cheapest, crappiest PC modems....

Apart from that, it's a great machine :-)

Cheers
David M

just a troll.

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Davidm <news@blackart.com.au> wrote:

> Well how about I start... Using an iMac G5 with OSX there is no way to init
> the modem to pick up distinctive ring calls (eg SDR=4 does NOT work). Unlike
> even the cheapest, crappiest PC modems....

In OS X 10.3.9. Go to System preferences -> Hardware -> Print&Fax ->
Faxing, then tick the box labelled: Receive Faxes on this computer. Then
set the number of rings in: Answer after --- rings, just below.

What is "SDR=4" supposed to do?

> Apart from that, it's a great machine :-)

When you fix that, then you'll be in clover :-)

"Axel Hammerschmidt" <hlexa********.com> wrote in message
news:1gx8a83.jzejfwri89vkN%hlexa********.com...

> In OS X 10.3.9. Go to System preferences -> Hardware -> Print&Fax ->
> Faxing, then tick the box labelled: Receive Faxes on this computer. Then
> set the number of rings in: Answer after --- rings, just below.

It's not the number or rings, but the cadence. Often people use a separate
number with a "distinctive ring" for their fax line, and the computer/fax is
smart enough to only pick up the fax calls...

> What is "SDR=4" supposed to do?

it's an init command that with many/most modems causes the modem to only
pick up incoming calls with a certain "distinctive ring"

>> Apart from that, it's a great machine :-)
>
> When you fix that, then you'll be in clover :-)

Sure :-)

Davidm wrote:
> "Shardar" <shardar@NOSPAMbtinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:d6uh6q$ko4$2@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>
>>BOBLA wrote:
>>
>>>Alert, Macs sucks. To repair your system please follow this link:
>>>
>>>www.microsoft.com
>>
>>Erm, for your info Microsoft don't make computers.
>>Also, please list all the problems you have found with the mac you are
>>using, unless of course you are just a troll?
>
>
> Well how about I start... Using an iMac G5 with OSX there is no way to init
> the modem to pick up distinctive ring calls (eg SDR=4 does NOT work). Unlike
> even the cheapest, crappiest PC modems....
>
> Apart from that, it's a great machine :-)
>
> Cheers
> David M
>
>

who the **** cares - go get some sort of broadband connection and shut
the **** up

"Alan Anderson" <aranders@insightbb.com> wrote in message
news:aranders-2605051310400001@192.168.1.103...

> Um...what "brand new Mac" are you claiming can't do faxes?

An iMac G5 with the 20" LCD monitor...only 3-4 months old.

> Maybe you've
> got a broken modem, in which case it might be justified to title your
> complain "My Mac sucks" using the proper possessive qualifier. But saying
> "Mac sucks" in general is just trolling.

No, you'd be wrong there. It's designed without any ability to distinguish
distinctive ring cadences for incoming fax calls. Unlike every PC I've ever
owned, including some very cheap and nasty ones. The reality is that the
mac does not respond to the way that *real* people use their computers,
which is why *real* people flock in droves to Wintel.

Cheers
David M

On 5/23/05 7:20 PM, in article
d6t3cs$o4b$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com, "BOBLA"
<mesmtp@btinternet.com> wrote:

> Alert, Macs sucks. To repair your system please follow this link:
>
> www.microsoft.com
Yer ****tin' me, right?

ej