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).
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
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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.
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
tommyrot - Nov 15, 2005 5:24:03 am PST #5566 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.
Really, at this point I think the best course of action for Sony is ritual suicide.
eta:
"You know, in certain older civilized cultures, when a major corporation has failed as badly as you...."
Jon B. - Nov 15, 2005 5:29:01 am PST #5567 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2005 5:30:15 am PST #5568 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I knew that was coming, tommy -- I was too lazy to check the wording myself!
tommyrot - Nov 15, 2005 5:33:16 am PST #5569 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 knew that was coming, tommy -- I was too lazy to check the wording myself!
I pulled the wording from memory (pretty sure it's close). Think of all the time I'll save by not having to google Serenity quotes, and all I had to do was see the movie seven times in the theater.