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Bonnie, might want to Google your model of G5 Mac, It might have a "coin" cell type battery for newer models:
Snooping around a bit it looks like a standard CR2032 3v battery. If so, you can pick one up for under a buck, many places, or pay $30 for a Gen-u-ine official replacement.
According to this article, there is a yet another way in which the iPhone had an advantage over the competition.
Thanks Daniel!
I'm going to look into a new battery today. I think you may be right on. The box tries to start but can't maintain the glow...so far more likely to be the battery than the memory.
It has come to pass that Daniel was absolutely right. With a new battery, the old G5 tower booted up, slowly but surely.
The NEW problem is, the login name and password are long forgotten, as I assumed I'd be recycling this unit.
I found this description or bypassing the login on a G4 laptop.
Would the same process apply to my tower?
Turn on the iBook G4 and hold down "Command" and "S" on the keyboard as the computer starts up. Keep holding them down until you see text on the screen.
Step 2Type "/sbin/fsck --y/sbin/mount --uw /sh /etc/rc" at the first prompt. Press the "Return" key.
Step 3Type "passwd [username]" at the next prompt, replacing "Username" with the user name whose password you want to change. Remove the brackets when you type it in. Press "Return."
Step 4Enter the new password twice. Hit the "Return" key.
Step 5
Type "Reboot" and press "Return" when you finish entering the new password for your account.
Step 6Enter the new password at the login screen and you will be able to get onto the iBook Mac computer.
Or is there a better way?
I know this isn't news for anyone doing web development, but I've started working on a web application with a complicated UI.
OMG! I hate Internet Explorer, is there anything that doesn't have to be special-cased for it?
Are you gonna use XML on the client? There's some XML stuff that's specific to IE. (Which I realize is not the question you asked.)
Mostly using GWT toolkit and Javascript, there's XML involved but I'm not using it directly.
Once IE9 gets released there are going to be many, many websites that will be telling IE6-8 users that they need to upgrade to have the best user experience. I get the hype over HTML 5 now, it's going to change the game on what you can do with a browser. If I had the time, I'd like to try to the port of Quake II to HTML 5, that's just too cool.
I can't wait for iE9 - mostly because our mega-complex timesheet system is IE-only (at client's request) and Javascript performance is supposed to be greatly enhanced. (Currently, IE is much slower in Javascript than other popular browsers.)
IE9 sounds like it might actually be good. Microsoft seems to be realizing it can't determine the standards the Internet will use.
Right now I'm using Chrome at work which is nice, and Firefox 4 at home since Chrome doesn't let me fine-tune the settings. I've got Firefox 4 running off a SSD with RAM-only caching. It is quick like a quick thing. Chrome doesn't seem to let me free itself of the disk and I really don't want it caching to my SSD.