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I appear to have solved my Safari crashing problems on my iPhone for now by powering off the iPhone completely and booting it back up. That's - hold down the sleep button for ten seconds and follow the slide prompt to kill the power, then hold the sleep button again to restart the thing.
It's also possible to kill all open browser windows by holding the main button for about 5 seconds, but it doesn't always fix the problem.
Strangeness I've seen includes the inability to click text boxes to type, iPod music stopping whilst surfing (that one is a constantly reoccuring bug and is Really Annoying) and the unit hanging once whilst trying to reply to an email. They're not end-of-the-world bugs, as restarting only takes 30 seconds - but I've only had the thing a week now and I've noticed all these things. It's like using Windows.
I'm lusting after a flat-screen monitor, but I'm wondering if my Matrox Graphics Millennium G200 AGP video card can handle it. Are flat-screens fussy about what systems they work with?
iMac question. I have one of the old-style all-in-one-pastel-package types (this is how hi-tech I am, despite working in QA - I don't know what kind of iMac I have) and the disc drive is acting wacky. At first, it didn't seem to be working at all. I made the mistake of pushing the disc all the way in and it was stuck - I even got it in so that it could be played, but it wouldn't eject. I managed to get it out by manipulating a blank disc until part of the one that was in came partly out. Now it's making the proper noises I would expect when I try to put a disc in, but it's not grabbing it to pull it in. Does this mean the disc drive is frelled, or is there something I can try (aside from rebooting, shutting it down, etc. which I've tried) before I assume to worst.
I'm lusting after a flat-screen monitor, but I'm wondering if my Matrox Graphics Millennium G200 AGP video card can handle it. Are flat-screens fussy about what systems they work with?
Not really. The G200 should have enough vram (8 mb) for a normal sized monitor. We swapped out many crts with flat screens at work. What size are you thinking of?
Now it's making the proper noises I would expect when I try to put a disc in, but it's not grabbing it to pull it in.
Does the CD drive ave a pinhole? Perhaps pushing a straightened paper clip into the pinhole will move the mechanism into full receive position.
I'm lusting after a flat-screen monitor, but I'm wondering if my Matrox Graphics Millennium G200 AGP video card can handle it. Are flat-screens fussy about what systems they work with?
Worse Case:
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You might even find one less expensive with a bit of looking.
My caffeine hasn't taken effect yet. I was thinking, "What would be the 'worse case' - one that has bits of broken glass embedded in it?"
basically, I'm trying to avoid setting up the desktop. I was hoping that I could just connect the laptop to it in some way and transfer the files, like using the desktop like a giant external drive.
Sorry, there's not any way to do it without doing something with the desktop. If the files were already in a shared directory, then you might be able to get away with just plugging the desktop sans monitor, keyboard and mouse into a router and getting the files off the share.
If the files were already in a shared directory, then you might be able to get away with just plugging the desktop sans monitor, keyboard and mouse into a router and getting the files off the share.
Except when you turn the computer on without a keyboard attached, it usually halts during post to tell you that there's no keyboard attached. And you can't press the any key if there's no keyboard.
A blast from the past: [link]
Sears Video Arcade Cartridge System. (Re-branded Atari) From the Sears Christmas Wishbook 1979....
We had one of these. I remember epic, three-hour long games of Space Invaders....
Oh, and Night Driver! Indisputably the coolest computer game evah!
Atari 400: [link] With the awesome membrane keyboard.
We had one of these Sensor Electronic Word Games: [link]
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Merlin: [link]
Electronic Touchdown! [link]
