Apple (and consequently I guess WAMUG) have pulled it due to a
plethora of faults.
I've got 4 dead eMacs that if they have nothing to do with having OS
10.2.8 being installed on them yesterday then it's an amassing
coincidence)
all false alarms so far
... grrrrr.... not amazing coincidence - except that how so many dumb
things can happen at the same time..
actually my spelling mistake of "amassing coincidence" was quite apt.
a user who rates them self as a bit of a "techo" decided to back up
the computers using an external firewire drive.
on some they renamed the "~\documents\Eudora folder" to
"~\documents\<users name>'s Eudora folder" so that they could back
them up with out them having the same name on the external drive -
unfortunately said person didn't quit out of Eudora to do this and
next time user tried to access an item in a mailbox Eudora throw up a
blank Modal style window that stopped all input or action in Eudora
they didn't think to try clicking on background applications... what
they told me was "rebooting and comes up with same thing" was really
"putting system to sleep when it woke up was same thing"
if that wasn't enough the said "techo" had removed the firewire drive
from the other computers while the computer was asleep (again he'd
put computer to sleep not shut it down)... as many of us have found
out OS X doesn't like firewire drives to be removed when the systems
asleep and it's usual response is it won't wake up and requires a
hard reboot.
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Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia.
CRICOS Provider No. 00126G
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