dave9199 Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 I'm at work on a PC right now, but at home on a Mac, it locks up. I can view the low-fi version, but you can't post there. Jim A. has helped me, but I've had a problem with Mozilla that he suggested. Any alternatives? Thanks very much. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 Oh crap, I didn't get back to you, did I? My office machine took a dump and I couldn't get my organissimo email. All's well now. Anyway, what problems are you having with Mozilla? The file, I believe, is a .bin file which must be expanded with something like Stuff-It Expander before you can install it. Does that help? BTW, I'm surfing the site right now on a new PowerBook G4. It's sweet!!! Too bad it's not mine! Quote
dave9199 Posted June 9, 2005 Author Report Posted June 9, 2005 When I downloaded it, it said that there was insufficient space which I find hard to believe as I have about 15GBs available. There wasn't anything that was an installer. Quote
Jim Alfredson Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 Right, the installer is compressed in the .bin file I believe. I don't know why it would be telling you that you have insufficient disc space. Maybe Microsoft doesn't want you using another browser.... I'm not much of a Mac person, so hopefully someone else can chime in. Quote
dave9199 Posted June 9, 2005 Author Report Posted June 9, 2005 Thanks for all your help Jim. I appreciate it. Quote
Jim Dye Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 Thanks for all your help Jim. I appreciate it. ← Are you using OS 9? If so, I recommend trying the browser iCab. http://www.icab.de/news.html There is a link to the new public beta version 3.0. You could also try version 2.9.8 Make sure you choose the version for OS 9. Quote
Jim R Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 I'm now using Mozilla (as recommended by Jim A) for accessing this site, and it's working great. I had no problems at all with the download... can't remember now if I had to use "Stuffit" or not. If I was more computer savvy, I'd suggest a way to get around your memory problem (if in fact that's what it is), but unfortunately I'm not. All I can say is that Mozilla 1.0.2 works great with OS9... better than iCab 2.9.8, which I used successfully for a year or so on the previous version of the board (thanks to a rec from Jim D). Quote
Jim Dye Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 That's good to know, Jim! I haven't had a computer with OS9 for a while, but I do remember liking iCab at the time, hence the recommendation. I'm glad Mozilla is working well for you. Quote
Jim Dye Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 I'm using OS 8.6 ← I don't know about Mozilla, but iCab does work with OS 8.6. Quote
Jim Dye Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 Also, what are the specs on your Mac? Do you think you could upgrade to OS 9? Quote
neveronfriday Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 Oh crap, I didn't get back to you, did I? My office machine took a dump and I couldn't get my organissimo email. All's well now. Anyway, what problems are you having with Mozilla? The file, I believe, is a .bin file which must be expanded with something like Stuff-It Expander before you can install it. Does that help? BTW, I'm surfing the site right now on a new PowerBook G4. It's sweet!!! Too bad it's not mine! ← Doesn't a .bin file need to be burned or expanded with a virtual drive? If you try to run a .bin file or install it on a PC, you get nothing but errors unless you mounted it somewhere? Maybe I'm just dumb. Quote
Jim Dye Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 Dumb is the last thing I would call you! the .bin file on a mac is a Mac Binary file. It was a way of storing the file and resource fork together when files were stored on non mac systems. http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/dataformats/macbinary/ Quote
Jim R Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 That's good to know, Jim! I haven't had a computer with OS9 for a while, but I do remember liking iCab at the time, hence the recommendation. I'm glad Mozilla is working well for you. ← Thanks Jim (and Jim). Just to clarify, I still have that version of iCab, and it still works very nicely for some purposes. I had gone to IE 5.1.7 at some point as my main browser (I forget why), and iCab kind of went "on the shelf" for me. IE worked very well for me with the previous Organissimo board software. The new board software required a switch, and before I downloaded Mozilla, iCab sufficed, but there were a few minor bugs. Dave, I too would recommend giving iCab a try if you can't get Mozilla installed (but I'd try to solve that riddle first, given my success with Mozilla). Quote
dave9199 Posted June 9, 2005 Author Report Posted June 9, 2005 The iCab works! Thanks Jim Dye! This place is one I check multiple times a day and I missed checking it out. Quote
SGUD missile Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 I'm using OS 8.6 ← I'm using OSX 10.3 now with Safari, but before I was using 8.6 with Netscape and had no problems accessing this site.. or any other one for the most part .. Quote
Kalo Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 I've been having the same problem. I'll try the solutions suggested above and report back. Quote
Christiern Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 I'm using OS 8.6 ← That brings back very distant memories. You must be using an old Mac, possibly one that can be upgraded to accommodate OS 9 or, perhaps, Jaguar. If you tell me which model you have, I'll gladly look around for possibilities of improving it. Quote
Noj Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 I'm using OS 8.6 ← That brings back very distant memories. You must be using an old Mac, possibly one that can be upgraded to accommodate OS 9 or, perhaps, Jaguar. If you tell me which model you have, I'll gladly look around for possibilities of improving it. ← Warning: Mac upgrades are pricey! Quote
Jim R Posted June 9, 2005 Report Posted June 9, 2005 I'm using OS 8.6 ← ...before I was using 8.6 with Netscape and had no problems accessing this site.. or any other one for the most part .. ← But that was before the new board software, right? I think that's what's caused some of us to scramble for a browser that will work here now. Quote
dave9199 Posted June 14, 2005 Author Report Posted June 14, 2005 My screen look real crappy using iCab. Does anyone else have this problem? The thread titles are only one or two words on a line and the whole set up looks...well, bleah. Quote
Jim R Posted June 14, 2005 Report Posted June 14, 2005 Yeah, as I said there were a few minor problems with iCab for me (since the switch to the new board software, that is). At least it got me here and allowed me to function, though. In fact, I'd still be using it if the switch to Mozilla hadn't worked out so well. Have you exhausted all the possibilities regarding an installation of Mozilla? Is there a version for 8.6 users? It sounded like perhaps there was some potential for you to get it installed (since the reported memory "problem" didn't really make sense to you)? Quote
dave9199 Posted June 14, 2005 Author Report Posted June 14, 2005 I think so. I tried it a few times and got the same thing every time. I downloaded the correct one for 8.6 so I've given up on it as I don't know what to do. It's definetly better than nothing. Quote
Jim Dye Posted June 14, 2005 Report Posted June 14, 2005 You need Stuffit Expander version 4.5 or higher to be able to unstuff or decode the mozilla .bin file. Do you have stuffit on the machine? If not, go to this page, enter your info... http://www.stuffit.com/mac/standard/updates.html ...and download version 7.0.3 for Mac OS 8.6 Quote
Kalo Posted June 21, 2005 Report Posted June 21, 2005 Finally got around to downloading Mozilla 1.0.2. It was a snap, and now I can access Organissimo forums again from my iMac at home (running system 9.0). Now I can waste even more time! Quote
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