Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Problem solved: I re-installed Leopard. I checked the logs, it said it could not boot from leopard (the old copy of leopard i had before it crashed) because of a bad HDD. OMG really? So i went out and bought myself a new 80GB EIDE HDD. Btw, I did lose all of my old programs, but i can just

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: Problem solved: I re-installed Leopard. I checked the logs, it said it could not boot from leopard (the old copy of leopard i had before it crashed) because of a bad HDD. OMG really? So i went out and bought myself a new 80GB EIDE HDD.

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 6/17/10 1:48 AM, James Therrault wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: *snip* failure until yesterday. I took it apart, and the entire disk was charred/scratched inside. How wonderful? Next time i'll think twice before buying Hard drives from Maxtor. Pics! Pics!

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread Dan
At 3:48 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote: Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back? They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor name to brand their lower-end drives. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message

Re: DVD drive ?

2010-06-17 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Jun 16, 8:12 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: whole bunch of people saying the EXACT same problem. Well that's encouraging in a way. Thanks for that link Kris. On Jun 16, 8:39 pm, Peter Haas peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: One way of getting around these flawed DVDs is to use the SKIP

What it's like to own an Apple product...

2010-06-17 Thread Dan
ROFLMAO http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at

Re: Dual 1GHz Quicksilver won't sleep!

2010-06-17 Thread Dan
At 11:35 PM -0400 6/16/2010, Bill Connelly wrote: On Jun 16, 2010, at 10:04 PM, Michael Emery wrote: I brought home a Quicksilver from work for use on my wife's desk. It won't sleep, despite setting it to do so. When I select *sleep* from the Apple Menu, it pretends to sleep for a beat, then

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 17, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Justin The Cynical wrote: On 6/17/10 1:48 AM, James Therrault wrote: On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: *snip* failure until yesterday. I took it apart, and the entire disk was charred/scratched inside. How wonderful? Next time i'll think

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 17, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Dan wrote: At 3:48 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote: Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back? They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor name to brand their lower-end drives. I remember something of the sort as the original

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread Dan
At 10:39 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote: Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back? They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor name to brand their lower-end drives. I remember something of the sort as the original Maxtors had high failure rates. Count two

Re: DVD drive ?

2010-06-17 Thread Peter Haas
On Jun 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: The Ken Burns discs stand out as Not Being Rippable. Well, have you tried every available ripping tool? At one point there was a special DVD ripper which a number of PBS affiliates were using to air movies, usually on Saturday nights,

Re: What it's like to own an Apple product...

2010-06-17 Thread James Chapel
At least Steve won't be demoing any new G-series macs to pull us from our G3s/G4s/G5s anytime soon. XD On Jun 17, 8:11 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: ROFLMAO http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread James Therrault
On Jun 17, 2010, at 10:51 AM, Dan wrote: At 10:39 AM -0500 6/17/2010, James Therrault wrote: Didn't Maxtor go belly up a few years back? They were assimilated by Seagate. Seagate now uses the Maxtor name to brand their lower-end drives. I remember something of the sort as the original

Re: DVD drive ?

2010-06-17 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Jun 17, 11:17 am, Peter Haas peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: Well, have you tried every available ripping tool? probably not. When the improperly authored chapter is the infamous FBI Warning,   then it is probably time to try MTR's rip main feature only option. I'll try this when I return

Re: What it's like to own an Apple product...

2010-06-17 Thread Illirik Smirnov
IBM OpenPower, anyone? Although its not really Steve's doing, it's still a new PowerPC computer... Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC architecture. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, James Chapel dragnero...@gmail.com wrote: At least Steve won't be demoing any new

Re: What it's like to own an Apple product...

2010-06-17 Thread Lana Litwin
Try being retired when you discover Apple products. It's worse. On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: ROFLMAO http://theoatmeal.com/comics/apple - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a