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Hmm. Have not yet rebooted the computer.
Did not remove the battery, though it did at one point a day or so ago run out of battery--however, I'd think it would've done the "yo, weird date!" thing to me yesterday, when I was using it. Though perhaps...hmm. Might've been the first time I entirely shut it off after the battery died, and restarted it. Hmmm...
How old is the powerbook? Sometimes the internal PRAM (CMOS in the PC world) battery (button-type, sometimes) gets old and worn out, and especially drained when it is idle without power for a while. The latter can be cumulative.
My iBook (an OS 9 machine) thinks it's 1904, even if I keep it plugged in. As Daniel says, it's probably the wee battery.
I've seen that happen to Powerbooks that are set to the network time server option and then for some reason lose the connection to the server. I haven't been able to reproduce the problem consistently, but it's happened to me often enough that I'm fairly sure it's related. Perhaps if the powerbook finds a wireless network that's available but which will not allow it to connect to the time server it gets confused. This could happen quite easily in something like an airport where there are plenty of wireless access points that want you to pay before they allow a real internet connection. If the powerbook is cold booted under these conditions it may be what causes the date to go haywire.
TinyURL Creator has been updated to 1.0.1 for Firefox 1.5+, at [link] (mozmonkey.com).
If it doesn't say 1.0.1 in the list, refresh your browser, you're being cached somewhere.
Sue, my understanding is "not particularly"
Thanks Debet. I told her not to worry, but I think her last laptop was downed by a barrage of viruses, so she's worried.
New Unpatched Security Flaw in I.E. for windows (yawn). Switch to FireFox or Opera already. Use I.E. only for windows update and trusted sites that work only with I.E.
The other happy-making bit about maintenance, for me, was that I don't have to defrag.
It is my understanding (Alert: further bluetooth adventures attempt to continue) that to set up my PC as an access point for the internet (so I can get out onto the net via bluetooth from my PDA), I need to go into the properties of the LAN card and tell it to share. But I can't! My advanced tab doesn't have that option. The advanced tab for the 1394 net adapter does, but isn't that firewire?
What sort of things cause network sharing to be so unavailable? I don't want to run the connection wizard, because I'm sure that'll just break something else that works fine now.
Also, can I set my Mac up to be an access point instead?