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Jon B. - Jan 18, 2006 4:57:02 am PST #6621 of 10003

A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

So What Software sold its first piece of software on May 15th 1983 and sold its last on November 23, 1990. Over those 7 years it produced 12 titles for the Apple II, II+, GS computer systems.

Soooo.... according to them, "one score" equals.... five? Yikes!

Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 5:29:04 am PST #6622 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

So...my G5 here at work seems to have gone insane. I ran Software Update, installed everything, rebooted, and now the screen won't stop flashing. The desktop icons and Finder folder keep flashing on and off, and it's been doing this for at least 3 minutes.

I turned it off, unplugged it, waited 20 seconds, and then turned it back on again, but it's still doing it.

Help?

Gudanov - Jan 18, 2006 5:30:37 am PST #6623 of 10003

Coding and Sleeping

Hey there's a new version of Word Perfect Office:

[link]

I had completely forgotten about that product. I use OpenOffice at home, and MS Office at work, but I guess some people must use Word Perfect Office. I wonder is Word Perfect still has a strong hold on the legal profession like it seemingly used to. Ok, I really don't wonder that much.

Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2006 5:31:11 am PST #6624 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

If you hold down the shift key while you boot, you can try to boot in "safe mode".

tommyrot - Jan 18, 2006 5:31:31 am PST #6625 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.

That sucks. I have no idea.

Do Macs have the equivalent of Windows booting into safe mode?

eta: Tom x-post....

Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 5:32:43 am PST #6626 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If you hold down the shift key while you boot, you can try to boot in "safe mode".

Okay, I'll try that.

Gudanov - Jan 18, 2006 5:34:39 am PST #6627 of 10003

Coding and Sleeping

I just put OpenOffice on a computer I'm setting up to give to my aunt. I hope that won't be too mind-blowing in place of Microsoft office. I just don't want to stick on illegal copies and I can't afford to buy Office for her. The computer had XP on it when I got it, so I'm going to gloss over worrying about the OS. Putting on SUSE Linux would just be flat out cruel to my aunt, though my cousins might be able to adapt.

Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 5:41:40 am PST #6628 of 10003

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Okay, I'm logged into something called Darwin. What next?

Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2006 5:42:53 am PST #6629 of 10003

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Uhm... Errr...

Gudanov - Jan 18, 2006 5:43:20 am PST #6630 of 10003

Coding and Sleeping

Darwin is the Unix kernel of MacOS right?

Um, I have no actual advice because I don't know Mac.

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