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Lee - Dec 10, 2007 5:53:01 pm PST #3787 of 25497
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I posted this in BaBB, but I thought I would ask here too:

I'm having a weird problem on Firefox-- the board is not letting me sign in. It signed me out when I closed Firefox this morning, and when I go to the log in screen and enter in my info, it just bounces me back to the "public" version. I tried it several times, using the same password that works on Safari, so I pretty sure it is not that.

Suzi did sign me out so she could sign in on my computer the other day, so I am guessing it's related, but I do have remember me checked, and cookies are enabled.

This is the only place that happens.

Any ideas?


Liese S. - Dec 10, 2007 6:10:40 pm PST #3788 of 25497
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Hm. I dunno. Have you tried to delete the cookie that buffistas sets and let it recreate it?


Lee - Dec 10, 2007 6:11:16 pm PST #3789 of 25497
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Yep.

eta: though because it won't let me log in, there is no cookie being set now that I have erased the old one.


Jessica - Dec 11, 2007 4:15:22 am PST #3790 of 25497
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The Continuing Saga Of The Mac That Won't Start:

Went to the Apple Store yesterday, they were able to start it from an external boot drive thingy, and then we disconnected that and restarted it a few more times for good measure, declared it fixed, and I took it back to the office.

Where now, naturally, it's doing the same won't-boot-you-can't-make-me-you're-not-my-Dad thing it was doing yesterday.

I've ruled out peripherals (swapped 'em out with the working Mac and they work on that one but not here), power cords (ditto), outlets (tried several), and even tried manually opening up the DVD drive, putting the installer disc in, and booting from that. No go.

What the fucking fuck is going on with this machine???

Oh, and when I came in this morning, one of the clocks on the wall was set an hour back AGAIN. Which in a way is even weirder than the Mac not working because the clock (a) runs on BATTERIES and (b) IS A CLOCK. A complicated machine like a computer I expect to have random weird issues from time to time. But a freaking WALL CLOCK???


Dana - Dec 11, 2007 9:12:19 am PST #3791 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

If I wanted to upgrade laptop memory (say, from 1GB to 2), would I need a perfectly matched set of memory? Or would two...what do you call them? Cards? Would two pieces of memory from two different manufacturers work together, as long as the technical specs were correct?


tommyrot - Dec 11, 2007 9:15:24 am PST #3792 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

If I wanted to upgrade laptop memory (say, from 1GB to 2), would I need a perfectly matched set of memory?

Depends on the laptop.


Gudanov - Dec 11, 2007 9:15:44 am PST #3793 of 25497
Coding and Sleeping

I have not generally had a problem with mixing and matching different memory of the same specs. Make sure you know what is installed in your computer. If you have two slots and 1GB of RAM it may be in two 512MB modules and you will be forced to get two new modules to get up to 2GB.


Dana - Dec 11, 2007 9:19:40 am PST #3794 of 25497
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Depends on the laptop.

Where would I check for information? Owner's manual?

If you have two slots and 1GB of RAM it may be in two 512MB modules and you will be forced to get two new modules to get up to 2GB.

Right. Hmm. The current leading contender says "both memory slots may be occupied." That's...not useful. It's got a maximum capacity of 4GB, though.


tommyrot - Dec 11, 2007 9:20:51 am PST #3795 of 25497
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Where would I check for information? Owner's manual?

Yep.

Perhaps you could find the owner's manual online, if you don't have it handy....


NoiseDesign - Dec 11, 2007 9:24:33 am PST #3796 of 25497
Our wings are not tired

If you post the manufacturer and model number we can help look up the specs too.