I do. Sometimes.

eta: That is to say my level of expertise is rudimentary, but I have done some work in it.

I have to take a DataList control and have an "export to Excel" option. But I found this page [link] that discusses various approaches, so I think I'm good. Hopefully.

Lolcode:

I love how serious the explanations are.

Lolcode:

I read about this soon after it was invented. It's nice to see that significant progress continues to be made....

('GTFO' has been deprecated? I didn't even know that existed....)

I keep reading about solid state hard drives and I haven't seen much about the issue of maximum write cycles. That really spooks me when I think about swap files/partitions. Has the limited number of writes been addressed by SSD makers, or is that problem still out there?

This dude [link] says it's really not an issue.

Sounds like it is being addressed. The write limit used to be like 10,000 times, if it is going into the millions that will be much more comforting.

Continuing to try to make my iMac boot up, I have run into something I think is weird, but I'm not sure and I can't figure out how to search for it. When I start up in "Safe Mode" (ie, depressing the shift key at launch), I don't get to the GUI login screen, I get a command line environment. The directions I'm trying to follow to fix my original problem seem to imply that I should be getting to something that looks more or less like OSX.

Mean anything to anybody?

-t, what OS version is it, again?

The interface you're seeing is single-user mode rather than safe mode; I'm not sure why you're getting it with that keypress.

No, I can get to single-user mode no problem, it doesn't require a login. Going into "safe" mode looks similar but also references "Darwin" and says something about "console" and has my account as the home directory rather than root.

It's supposed to be running OS 10.4.10

I've downloaded the .11 upgrade onto a thumbdrive but I can't figure out how to install it. Or if that will help.

Huh. First of all, sorry for the assumption.

When you say it's aking for a login in safe mode, does it ask for the login with the normal mac os login screen? or with a plain-text prompt? anything else on screen during the boot sequence? (gray screen, blue screen, sad mac icon, question mark....)

Have you tried booting in verbose mode? Like single-user, but holding down the "v" instead of the "s" -- this may show you how far it's getting in the boot process before something fails.

Hmm... I don't have any real ideas yet, but I'll do some poking around when I get home in half an hour or so. Also, a general "yipes"!