Funny Bill, reminds me of "The Great Carnac" on the Johnny Carson show!
John On Jul 11, 2008, at 10:14 PM, Bill Micou wrote: > I thought this was funny- > This morning, my sister called me from her home in Florida, asking me > if I used Safari as my web-browser, and if I did, did I know it has > been down for maintenance since yesterday. I told her I use Safari, > hadn't used it yet this morning, but as of late last night, it worked > just fine. She explained how she hadn't been able to check her mail > due to the 'maintenance' being done, and couldn't get on the > internet. She has a MacBook and a dot mac account. I thought maybe > she didn't know about the change to dot me, instead of dot mac, but > she knew about it from Apple's e-mails. She kept saying Safari was > broken and how could I help her. Then it hit me. She must have her > home page for Safari set to the general dot mac page, which comes up > to a page saying, "down for maintenance". I asked her to type a > different address in that address bar, and see if that worked. Bam! > I'm a hero. Little brother fixed the internet. I explained to her > how to choose a new home page and what that Mail icon is in her dock. > Sometimes a student... sometimes a teacher. > Thanks for letting me share. > Bill M. > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be September 23 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
