Jayne ,'The Train Job'
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Eh, I've used my Mac Laptops, which have been too numerous to count, in all kinds of asstastic conditions with no extra cooling. I routinely run my 17" on the bed or on a pillow with no extra cooling. The fans kick in when they need to. I haven't killed one of them yet.
See, lately my laptop has just been shutting off because it gets too hot. I thought it was because I was using it on my bed, but this still seems to happen if I prop it up to get airspace under it.
megan, check to make sure the air vents aren't clogged or dirty. You may not be getting adequate airflow from within the computer.
megan, check to make sure the air vents aren't clogged or dirty. You may not be getting adequate airflow from within the computer.
That's what I was thinking, but I have no idea how they should look. I should probably get my techy housemate to check them out.
Anyone know a chat client for Mac that does MSN Messenger?
Okay. In Vista, it says that my Ubuntu box is in the workgroup MSHOME, and the network location is Velvet. On the Linux box the workgroup parameter is set to Velvet. When I run smbclient it tidily shows me all the right shares and then says that the Ubuntu box is the master of MSHOME.
Hmm. And I have nothing under the Server Comment section of the smbclient output. Shouldn't that list the Ubuntu server and its description? How is some of my sharing working but not all? I mean, the Vista box thinks it's finding Linux in the Velvet network. Just not in that workgroup.
Okay I have installed Fan Control (possibly twice), but now I can't find it -- in applications or anywhere.
It's a System Preference pane.
It's a System Preference pane.
Huh. Nope. Not there, either.
That is... odd. Maybe it's not compatible with the big ones? I doubt that's it, but i got nothing else. Sorry.
Anyone know a chat client for Mac that does MSN Messenger?Hey Sean, I use Adium [link]
It has:
* AOL Instant Messenger (Including ICQ and .Mac)
* Jabber (Including Google Talk and LiveJournal)
* MSN Messenger
* Yahoo! Messenger (Including Yahoo! Japan)
* Bonjour (Compatible with iChat)
* MySpace IM
* Gadu-Gadu
* Novell Groupwise
* QQ
* Lotus Sametime
In the interest of spring cleaning... at what point do you ditch old software boxes/manuals/discs? I have a bookcase of stuff. Games. Work Apps. Utilities. All from Mac OS8 and earlier. The Pac-rat in me is saying "NNoooooo!!!". But I have books and no shelf space, and the new books cry "but what about there" (yes, the books talk to me. They are all my precious)