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- Yes, the Quadra is great, but not in all aspects. The speaker of the Quadra 900 is
- better suited for a hard rock concert than for a little workroom at late hours in
- the night. In order to avoid the startup blast, or at last, keep it in a civilized
- level, I wrote this little piece of code as soon as my wife heared that noise. It
- makes use of some new calls from IM VI (FindFolder, the FSSSpec stuff), as well as
- calls from the ancient IM kit (PRAM and shutdown manager).
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- As you know, in the new machines (Quadra 700, 900 and PowerBook 140, 170) the startup
- sound level depends on the level you set in the control panel "Sound" (so, its stored
- in the Parameter RAM). Nobody knows why, but when you put the level to 0, the startup
- sound seems to be at 6. So, the only thing you can do is set the vol to 1.
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- Drop the program in your "Startup Items" folder. Each time it´s invoked it installs a
- shutdown procedure that, at shutdown time:
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- 1) gets the volume level
- 2) saves it in the "NoSound.prefs" file in "Preferences" folder and
- 3) set the volume level to 1
- In addition, it reads the volume level saved and restore it.
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- In two words: it downs the sound level at shutdown time and set it back to its original
- level at startup time, once the startup sound is executed.
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- Feel free to use and distribute it. But remember that each Mac is a world. I only tested
- it in a reduced number of machines. I can assure that´s working in my Quadras, both at
- home and in office since its inception, without any known disruption or any harmful side
- effect. In addition other people is using it and they still talk to me.
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- Faustino Forcén
- System Software Specialist
- Apple Computer Spain
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- Faustino Forcén is just the standard kind of programmer. That is, he works until very late,
- sometimes is very ugly and usually his table is full of papers (without any order, of
- course). With this pedigree is really strange that he is happily married and father of a
- beautiful daughter of three months old.
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- A self learning person, his code is sometimes nasty and sometimes bizarre. The most
- disturbing is that it really works!!. Actually, in addition to programming until 5 a.m.,
- he employs it’s spare time in being System Software Specialist for Apple Computer Spain.
- His three favourites hobbies, apart from the computer are comics, history and his family.
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