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  1. macco

    Really Reliable Powerbook

    Sorry if I misplaced the post I did not know where to post it... ah.. now I see.. sorry again .. can sombody move it ?
  2. macco

    Really Reliable Powerbook

    hi guys, Well checked this out....One of my friends had a car accident. all is okay, he was in the car with his wife and daughter, all okay. the only "injured" was his portable. that was sitting on the deadman sit (front right of the driver). not the make the story long check out the...
  3. macco

    Apple Intel Comercial - copycat PostalService ?

    Hi all, Browsing and browsing reading and reading about the apple intel stuff I found this thing on the net. Pretty cool. AS you can see the Apple Intel comercial that S.Jobs has presented during the MAcWorld 2006 is almost indentical with the one done for the POstal Service (US). It seems...
  4. macco

    Unbeliveable

    First to answer diablojota's question about the ram: yap the ibook has a 1GB module bought 2 months after I bought the ibook. One last development of the my Unlucky ibook before going to the Apple centre tomorrow morning. that is: Now when I boot in single-user mode. It hangs and "says"...
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    Unbeliveable

    Thanks a bunch guys for the replies, Now I really am desperate, Well it did it again.... I thought that a fsck would fix it , not true, again it does not boot, in fact it does two things: 1. It can display the blinking folder, going in that infinite loop 2. it displays the logo, the logo...
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    Unbeliveable

    It seems that I wrote something stupid, there were not lines on the screens, but rather the rotating lines under the logo.... sorry for the misunderstanding.....
  7. macco

    Linux Emulators

    There is also Yellow Dog for PPC, which is a buit more develeoped from the apps point of view than ubuntu, but in the end both are good. http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/index.shtml/ But as fryke says everything will woron on a OSX with X11 installed (almost everything that is, almost)
  8. macco

    Unbeliveable

    I tried to check the disk using disk utility (via the tiger DVD). When I am verifying the disk the following thing comes out: Verifiying volume "HD" Invalid Volume Header Checking HFS Plus Volume Checking Extents overflow file Checking CAtalog File Checking multi-linked files Checking...
  9. macco

    Unbeliveable

    MY ibook is crazy, really it went bananas. The story is that the HDD of my ibook G4 went dead. really dead. so they reaplaced with a new one of 80 GB. I was happy: the posibilities :))) all the bad for the better I thought ( the old one was 60GB) So before XMAS I installed Tiger and in the...
  10. macco

    Dashboard problem

    Well i tried it now. I logged on as a different user but the dashboard is not there still the same boring white square :((((
  11. macco

    Dashboard problem

    that is the problem nothing... (except the spitting of the CD/DVD, but that is "the long F12")....
  12. macco

    Dashboard problem

    Again me with another problem I have just updated my Tiger to 10.4.4, the problem is that after the update has finished I restarted and now the dashboard icon in my dock is missing. In fact it is there but instead of being the normal icon it is the white square (probably the OS could not...
  13. macco

    Tiger booting problem

    Hi all, I have installed Tiger on my mac (ibook G4- 12 inch) from scratch, as my hard-disk went dead and I had to replace it (on the old one I had Panther). all went smooth, I finished the installation, and then for a couple of weeks all okay (during all this time I did not restarted it or...
  14. macco

    MacOSX.com word association!

    war
  15. macco

    get a movie from a digital camera

    Hi everybody, Small issue. I have a canon a60 digital camera. In the "barbaric" age when I was using it with windows, the Gates' software would mount it as a drive and I was able to browse it at will and also I had a software that would have a nice GUI to downlaod the photos movies, etc...
  16. macco

    The middle mouse button issue

    Hi all, As I have probably bored you to death by now with the issue passing from linux to osX, here is another series: I have a three buttons logitech mouse attached to my ibook and ... Writing some code recently in OSX, I wanted to copy paste some part of the text, in that moment I...
  17. macco

    Can you change a drives name?

    Opps, I have a friend that did just that: he renamed the boot disk, after boot the net boot started and now when the PB boots instead of loading directly the YABOOT (also linux on that machine) Net Boot starts looking for a net boot option and afterwards (after 3-4 minutes) starts the yaboot...
  18. macco

    Flying to Italy-Metal Detectors...

    As part of what I do I have to travel a lot, I have an ibook and it is part of my body, I am taking it all over, anyway, No problems until now. the x-ray machines can not harm your G4.No way.I Passed it lid closed, lid opened, with or without the case. All okay anyway of you look on the...
  19. macco

    Viruses On Os X

    Good article. I just wanted to add that indeed there are no viruses that can use any OS X vulnerabitity (at least non one that I have heard of), but there are trojan horses that are mainly Unix scripts and that affect the OS X. In fact one that pops in my mind is /MW2004 that comes as a soft...
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