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| warrenty long gone ;)
I'll go hunt for...
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warrenty long gone ;)
I'll go hunt for instructions on removing the keyboard - I know I've seen them somewhere.
apart from the slight stickiness the machine has survived its ordeal just fine.......
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| Posted by zzarg, on Dec 6, 2005 at 08:42 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| sticky keyboard syndrome....
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any suggestions how to cope with this little problem...
my 6 year old managed to spill a large cup of chai tea - hot, syrupy, milky - onto my Rev.A 12" PowerBook.
after draining the machine on...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Dec 4, 2005 at 09:56 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| good free/shareware for kids....
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my daughter is 6 and a half, loves maths and has fairly good english skills.
she currently plays with the Blues Clues games and Bob The Builder website, and similar level material.
she's recently...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Dec 4, 2005 at 07:15 AM, in Applications |
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| is there a FrontView API ?
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In the WIndows MCE world there is an API which allows developers to add functionality to the 10' interface (they can sit further away than us Mac users) ?
Examples include weather forecasts, DVD...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Oct 14, 2005 at 07:27 PM, in Developer Center |
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| Hi JoshuaZ - I had started down that path.......
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Hi JoshuaZ - I had started down that path.... first of all it was a glass of wine after dinner, then it became a couple after dinner, then one with dinner as well, then maybe just a brandy before I...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Sep 8, 2005 at 05:42 AM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| trouble sleeping (non-medication solution)
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about a year ago I think it was (when I was a lot more active on my Mac... sorry... I've had to go back to Windows for work at the moment, but my PowerBook still goes everywhere with me) I saw a link...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Sep 8, 2005 at 05:34 AM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| now that the whole "where is the G5" sulking is...
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now that the whole "where is the G5" sulking is out of the way.... Dual-G4 would be great. Or a Processor and FSB speed-hump. As long as the upgrade gives us at least a 20% hitch over current levels...
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| Posted by zzarg, on May 29, 2005 at 10:26 PM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| WMP, OSX, Slow - suggestions ?
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Hi there,
I've got WMP9 running on OSX 10.3 on a PowerBook on a broadband connection. WMP is set to use DSL
I've also got WMP10 running on WinXP on a Vaio on the same connection. WMP is also set...
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| Posted by zzarg, on May 19, 2005 at 08:17 PM, in Applications |
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| Re: Re: switcherooooo
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point well taken. I should perhaps have mentioned that when the curent project is over I'll probably end up back on my PB (or a new one) for the PHP/MySQL work that I do.
While it is possible to...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Apr 3, 2005 at 07:52 PM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| switcherooooo
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I love my PowerBook. It's a Rev.A 12" - 1.12gb RAM, 867Mhz. It's got Panther and I usually use VPC to make windows stuff work
but last week I bought a new Vaio T27GP/S ... because it just wasn't...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Apr 3, 2005 at 08:20 AM, in MacNN Lounge |
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| April 1 announcement leaked...
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.... over at The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/01/steve_jobs_joins_ikea/
And we where all expecting to hear about Tiger ;)
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| Posted by zzarg, on Apr 1, 2005 at 06:30 AM, in macOS |
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| if it wasn't for VPC I'd be using a real PC...
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if it wasn't for VPC I'd be using a real PC today. as it is, with VPC I am able to do SQL and ASP development on the road with my PowerBook (then I can't use Remote Desktop to get to my Win2K3...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 26, 2005 at 01:25 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Poll: if it does become available April 1 ... it might...
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if it does become available April 1 ... it might push me over the edge for a new 15" PB so I'll get it then.
if it doesn't then I'll probably wait until early adopters have found the bugs... the...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 26, 2005 at 12:49 AM, in macOS |
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| I'd guess the problems are unrelated... your...
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I'd guess the problems are unrelated... your dropping WiFi is the problem, and RDC is just sulking when it can't connect.
You could eliminate that by running a VNC server on the Windows machine...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 25, 2005 at 12:46 AM, in Applications |
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| I had existing Win2K images set up from VPC6 on...
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I had existing Win2K images set up from VPC6 on one machine and when I installed VPC 7.01 on my new machine was able to simply upgrade the Virtual Machine instances by importing them to VPC7 - so you...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 25, 2005 at 12:43 AM, in Applications |
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| Re: Re: problem accessing my mac from window pc
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Don't I remember somewhere seeing a Rendezvous (or whatever it's called now) installation for WinXP from Apple recently (well, about 6 months ago) - bib it ever get out of beta, or go anywhere ?
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 25, 2005 at 12:41 AM, in macOS |
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| I ended up having to trash webkit, safari and...
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I ended up having to trash webkit, safari and it's caches before I could get anywhere.
not sure if it's related but ended up with a bunch of duplicate fonts as well (but that may be just something...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 23, 2005 at 03:17 AM, in macOS |
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| Poll: Sadly there's no real difference between Mac and...
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Sadly there's no real difference between Mac and PC in terms of a platform to teach safe surfing. The good news at the moment however is the risks (at least of virus or trojan infection) are a lot...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 23, 2005 at 03:13 AM, in macOS |
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| Apple may have fixed this issue... but in doing...
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Apple may have fixed this issue... but in doing so they've fubar'd Safari for me and a trickle of other people (more posts appearing on various forums as the install base grows I guess)
Oh well......
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 22, 2005 at 05:17 AM, in Applications |
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| yup - ran the full OnyX clean up, repaired...
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yup - ran the full OnyX clean up, repaired permissions, rebooted etc
No luck.
Followed helpful hints from the MacUpdate.com comments above but...
No luck.
I realise this issue is probably...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 22, 2005 at 04:33 AM, in Applications |
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| I lied !
found similar experiences on...
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I lied !
found similar experiences on http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/8282]MacUpdate. Trying clearing the browser cache now... hopefully I'll get back in as I'm not a huge Firefox fan !
Makes...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 21, 2005 at 11:23 PM, in Applications |
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| Todays security update, Safari and Google....
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Is anyone else experiencing the same weirdness I'm suffering...
I installed todays security patch like a good dweeb (happened to be in the office with lots of bandwidth today and I'll be on the...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 21, 2005 at 11:17 PM, in Applications |
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| Poll: given the track record...
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.... of most of the so-called security companies to produce a decent firewall / anti-virus / anti-trojan / anti-spyware app that works, is fail-safe with respect to updating rules before allowing...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 21, 2005 at 08:27 PM, in macOS |
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| according to AppleInsider 10.3.9 is due in the...
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according to AppleInsider 10.3.9 is due in the 'next 6 weeks' (http://www.appleinsider.com/news.php?id=961) but 10.4 is due in the next two weeks if we beleive the April 1 story.
So does this mean...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 19, 2005 at 08:07 PM, in macOS |
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| Does anyone have any news on making...
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Does anyone have any news on making authentication work ?
Wonder if 10.3.9 will fix it ?
Wonder if Tiger will fix it ?
Meantime I have to hop into Firefox every time I want to access a site with a...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 19, 2005 at 04:00 AM, in Applications |
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| using Metaframe through VPC while it works is...
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using Metaframe through VPC while it works is terribly slow unless you have a huge amount of processing power and RAM to through at your VPC instance.
What problem are you getting with the ICA...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 19, 2005 at 03:55 AM, in Applications |
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| now there's a thought ! If I could get OSX on a...
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now there's a thought ! If I could get OSX on a laptop it would probably be something like the M200 TablePC from Toshiba... great form factor and ever as a WinXP machine it's really slick.
I used to...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 19, 2005 at 03:40 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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| Re: Re: Connect to VPN AND local Network
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hmmm... when I try and drag the order it sits where I put it until I connect, then it moves to the top of the list and won't go back down until I disconnect :(
DigiTunnel...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 17, 2005 at 06:17 AM, in Networking |
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| Does anyone ? I was kinda curious myself... not...
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Does anyone ? I was kinda curious myself... not being a beta tester but seeing all these different numbers bandied about I was wondering if there was any rhyme or reason to them.
If there was any...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 14, 2005 at 10:45 PM, in macOS |
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| Re: Re: it's a crowded market out there....
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don't know about the rest of the world but in a fairly typical local computer hardware supplier (where I was to buy a HDD and case) they had two or three 512MB Flash USB music players (MP3 and/or...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 14, 2005 at 05:56 PM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod |
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| wasn't expecting a new PB, just hate the thought...
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wasn't expecting a new PB, just hate the thought of getting a PB which could have come with Tiger only to have to buy Tiger two weeks later !
The new 15" speed-bump is enough to push me over the...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 14, 2005 at 09:02 AM, in macOS |
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| TS have just proved to me why the rumour sites...
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TS have just proved to me why the rumour sites are dangerous....
I'm vacillating between keeping my old Rev.A 12" PowerBook (thanks for some good advice and support I've received here) going for a...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 14, 2005 at 07:48 AM, in macOS |
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| it's a crowded market out there....
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The original HDD iPods (and iPod mini) are pretty much category winners there - although starting to slip against Creative and BenQ offerings amongst others so unless they comes up with some...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 14, 2005 at 06:06 AM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod |
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| Poll: for me the killer will be a sync service that...
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for me the killer will be a sync service that keeps me Entourage, iCal, T610 (soon to be A1000) and Palm all in sync without 3rd party hacks and kludges.
after that... performance and stability
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 12, 2005 at 11:20 AM, in macOS |
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| my 12" has a similar problem, but it seemed to...
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my 12" has a similar problem, but it seemed to come with two small studs like the Wildeepz that mean I don't worry about the screen impacting the keyboard (had that happen on a Compaq laptop... very...
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| Posted by zzarg, on Mar 12, 2005 at 05:22 AM, in Mac Notebooks |
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