Ooh, I think I do have a DVD burner, I just never think about it. Right on, thanks.
Nice acronym, Mom!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
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Jesse - Nov 12, 2005 5:47:15 pm PST #5556 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
tommyrot - Nov 14, 2005 4:15:34 pm PST #5557 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gah. The monitor (actually, a flatscreen TV) attached to my Mac Mini died. Is there a way to safely shut the Mini down? (keystrokes? hold the power button?)
You might think I could ssh or telnet in, but it looks like I never set it up to allow that.
Also, my iPod Nano is attached.
Gris - Nov 14, 2005 4:23:02 pm PST #5558 of 10003
Hey. New board.
I think holding the power button down will probably work. Works with my iBook. Mac OS X has a journaled FS these days, so even an "unsafe" shutdown is unlikely to do much harm, if any.
Rob - Nov 14, 2005 4:37:35 pm PST #5559 of 10003
Control-eject followed by return should shut it off safely.
tommyrot - Nov 14, 2005 5:27:22 pm PST #5560 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I can get that key combo to shut down my iBook, but the Mini remains stubbornly unshutdown.
eta: I have found:
Shutdown immediately (no confirmation) Cmd-Opt-Ctrl-Eject
which sounds like it's working (i.e. it made the disk drive make noise).
Gris - Nov 14, 2005 6:53:39 pm PST #5561 of 10003
Hey. New board.
Again, working just from my iBook, I also sometimes just hit the power button, wait a second, and then hit return. The power button should bring up the "restart, sleep, cancel, shut down" dialog with "shut down" highlighted, and then return actually shuts down.
Lee - Nov 14, 2005 8:28:26 pm PST #5562 of 10003
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
My Mac G4 laptop wuth OS 10.4.3 seems to be sick. For the couple of days, it's been freezing at odd times. Today it's gotten worse, and added shutting down unexpectedly, and when I put into into sleep mode, I can't wake it up without shutting down, and then when I try to turn it back on, it does this squealing thing before turning on. Is there anything I can do to try to make it better, or should I just run it into the shop?
tommyrot - Nov 15, 2005 5:11:30 am PST #5563 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
How dumb are the dummies at Sony?
The news is getting ever worse for Sony. Parts of Sony's DRM rootkit contain code copied from an open source project (LAME). Copyright infringement carries penalties of up to $250,000 per incident, a cool quarter million per CD. Sony is in deep s**t.
Although I can't get the link (where this info came from) to load.
But if, say, Sony sold four million CDs with this DRM scheme, they face a maximum penaty of a trillion dollars.
DXMachina - Nov 15, 2005 5:15:03 am PST #5564 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I love the irony of using copyright infringement as the basis for punishing the over assertion of copyright rights.
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2005 5:21:03 am PST #5565 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I read that the rootkit remover that Sony was providing makes your system more vulnerable, and shouldn't be used until they fix it.
::cite hunts::
Sony's Web-Based Uninstaller Opens a Big Security Hole; Sony to Recall Discs