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.
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Gudanov - Jan 18, 2006 5:34:39 am PST #6627 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
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.
tommyrot - Jan 18, 2006 5:45:06 am PST #6631 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'd suggest going to the Mac support site and seeing if you can find the problem described there. They also have a discussion board for support stuff which is sometimes usefull.
Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 5:45:17 am PST #6632 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I don't know why it didn't boot to the Safe Mode desktop -- I wasn't given that option. It just gave me a command line login, so I did.
I've never had a Mac freak out on me like this before. I used to be really good at bringing PCs back from the brink of insanity, but I'm completely lost here.
This is what I see:
Apples-Computer: ~apple$
Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 5:46:47 am PST #6633 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'd suggest going to the Mac support site and seeing if you can find the problem described there.
I tried that -- anyone want to recommend a better string of search terms than "finder flash" "finder flicker" "desktop flicker"...?
Tom Scola - Jan 18, 2006 5:47:40 am PST #6634 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I'm shooting in the dark here, but you can try rerunning the software update from the command line:
type "softwareupdate --list" to see if it wants to install anything that seems relevant.
If so, type "softwareupdate --install [name]", where [name] is the thing that showed up in the listing.
Gudanov - Jan 18, 2006 5:47:51 am PST #6635 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Apples-Computer: ~apple$
That means you are in what appears to be a bash shell with the current directory being the home directory of a user named 'apple'. That's all I've got.
Jessica - Jan 18, 2006 5:49:56 am PST #6636 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Tom, it says:
Software Update Tool
Copyright 2002-2005 Apple
Does that mean it doesn't want to install anything, or that it wants to reinstall the Software Update Tool?