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Whoops! I shouldn't have said "active...	4,037 Views / 58 Replies
Whoops! I shouldn't have said "active processes"; that's obviously not true. Most programs do play nice with automatic sleep. Examples include Mail with automatic mail checking, iChat, Safari with...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jul 4, 2004 at 01:15 PM, in Mac Notebooks

Re: Powerbook wont sleep	4,037 Views / 58 Replies
If there are active processes running, your PowerBook won't automatically enter sleep mode. The culprit here is probably your scanner. Canon's software includes "button managers" that look for your...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jul 4, 2004 at 02:26 AM, in Mac Notebooks

Airport security broke my PowerBook too!!! :mad:...	1,615 Views / 17 Replies
Airport security broke my PowerBook too!!! :mad: A few weeks ago, I flew out of the Boston airport with my one-month-old 15" PowerBook. When going through the security checkpoint, I made the...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jul 1, 2004 at 05:33 PM, in Mac Notebooks

So... you have to cheat to beat me?? :p I...	1,980 Views / 59 Replies
So... you have to cheat to beat me?? :p I think Pepi Picklefoot nailed the easiest method of cheating. I just tried out this method, and it works quite well. Using the keyboard is a lot...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jan 23, 2003 at 09:38 AM, in Applications

I got the high score!!!! :D 55 to be exact....	1,980 Views / 59 Replies
I got the high score!!!! :D 55 to be exact. No cheating whatsoever. I used the keyboard, which helps in a spatial sense; I didn't note the letters/words that were made. The sequence was...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jan 23, 2003 at 07:50 AM, in Applications

Have you been running the first public beta of...	518 Views / 2 Replies
Have you been running the first public beta of Safari (v. 48)? The "incorrect PPP option" is a symptom of a missing /tmp symbolic link. To confirm/fix this problem, see my post in this thread: ...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jan 17, 2003 at 07:13 PM, in macOS

Macintosh IIsi - no problems Quadra 840AV - no...	1,302 Views / 53 Replies
Macintosh IIsi - no problems Quadra 840AV - no problems PowerMac 8600/300 - motherboard replaced under warranty, Zip drive suffered the infamous "click of death" (out of warranty but Iomega...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jan 17, 2003 at 07:09 AM, in MacNN Lounge

I experienced the same "incorrect PPP option"...	1,026 Views / 12 Replies
I experienced the same "incorrect PPP option" problem a couple of days ago. Then I noticed that MacJanitor quit unexpectedly when running cron jobs. Both were attributed to Safari deleting the /tmp...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jan 17, 2003 at 06:17 AM, in macOS

For those of you looking for more info on healthy...	1,704 Views / 45 Replies
For those of you looking for more info on healthy diets, there's a nice article in this month's Scientific American, "Rebuilding the Food Pyramid,"...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jan 5, 2003 at 03:52 AM, in MacNN Lounge

Only good experiences here. I had a PowerMac...	530 Views / 13 Replies
Only good experiences here. I had a PowerMac 8600/300 that after about six months became increasingly difficult to turn on (wouldn't always respond to the power button). When the computer no...
Posted by jbirdski, on Apr 13, 2002 at 11:12 PM, in MacNN Lounge

And more... :D rubberized liverwurst...	1,772 Views / 81 Replies
And more... :D rubberized liverwurst (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=rubberized+liverwurst) popeyed soliloquy (http://www.google.com/search?q=popeyed+soliloquy&hl=en) mellifluent...
Posted by jbirdski, on Jan 31, 2002 at 10:36 PM, in MacNN Lounge

unvanquished celery...	1,772 Views / 81 Replies
unvanquished celery (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=unvanquished+celery) squirrelly dungarees (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=squirrelly+dungarees)
Posted by jbirdski, on Jan 31, 2002 at 01:05 AM, in MacNN Lounge

I think I was about 10-12 years old when most of...	640 Views / 22 Replies
I think I was about 10-12 years old when most of these shows were on the air, not by any means an adult as you proclaim. Perhaps I would've enjoyed the cartoons more had I been a couple years...
Posted by jbirdski, on May 28, 2001 at 05:57 PM, in MacNN Lounge

My Little Pony and Care Bears both started life...	640 Views / 22 Replies
My Little Pony and Care Bears both started life as toys (plastic figurines and stuffed animals, respectively) aimed primarily at young girls. At the height of their popularity, I had a couple of...
Posted by jbirdski, on May 28, 2001 at 04:38 PM, in MacNN Lounge

Hey, now...	1,127 Views / 50 Replies
Hey, now...
Posted by jbirdski, on May 26, 2001 at 11:32 AM, in MacNN Lounge

Don't give up on your iBook dream! ...	1,127 Views / 50 Replies
Don't give up on your iBook dream! http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/biggrin.gif Surely your insurance deductible is less than the price of an iBook, thereby leaving some dough in the iBook fund...
Posted by jbirdski, on May 26, 2001 at 02:10 AM, in MacNN Lounge

My list: � 1982 Apple IIe (multiple...	784 Views / 43 Replies
My list: � 1982 Apple IIe (multiple computers, actually; we kids were pretty rough on the keyboards...) � 1984 IBM of some variety � 1985 Macintosh 128/512 (don't remember which) � 1988...
Posted by jbirdski, on May 26, 2001 at 12:15 AM, in MacNN Lounge

Childhood indoctrination. Sort of. In 1982,...	1,203 Views / 58 Replies
Childhood indoctrination. Sort of. In 1982, when I was seven years old, my dad brought home an Apple IIe, which held the position of sole and beloved computer in our household for a time. A...
Posted by jbirdski, on May 23, 2001 at 05:25 AM, in MacNN Lounge

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