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sarameg - Jul 03, 2008 5:38:33 pm PDT #6891 of 25501

localhost kernel: ************An SCC Error Occurred 0x47

Um, should I be worried? Modem wouldn't finish disconnect. Restarted and it stalled out. Force restarted (hitting some combo of ctrl, alt or apple plus power) and it came back up. But...should I worry?

It's done the modem infinity disconnect before maybe once, and I've resorted to a similar solution (though I think I pulled the battery that time) without anything dire.

It's an ancient mac, 500MHz, Power PC G3, 10.3.9


DCJensen - Jul 03, 2008 6:55:48 pm PDT #6892 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.

In LA? The first day. AM 1070 is our local traffic/weather source,

Wow. Reading this really brought me back to 1990 when I was living in LA.


Theodosia - Jul 04, 2008 4:11:43 am PDT #6893 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

ita, I know you can do something like that under preferences with Photoshop CS3, but as for CS2?


d - Jul 04, 2008 5:08:46 am PDT #6894 of 25501
It's nice to see some brave pretenders trying to make it interesting.

Is there an easy way to convert my blogspot labels into a cloud instead of the boring list I've got? [link]


Rob - Jul 04, 2008 7:38:10 am PDT #6895 of 25501

Um, should I be worried?

Not just because of that error. It's just reporting the failure to communicate with the modem that caused the stall in the first place. Since the stall happens in the lowest levels of Mac OX, it's hard to stop it, hence the need to force-restart.

It's not good to do that force-restart a lot, though, so if this keeps happening it would be good to figure out why.


sarameg - Jul 04, 2008 11:57:52 am PDT #6896 of 25501

Or just get a new mac. This one is at least 8 years old. Or 6. Can't recall. And the screen is mostly dead.

This has only happened a couple of times in the past year now, so.

Thanks for explaining it. Nothing I hate more than cryptic error messages.


Jon B. - Jul 05, 2008 6:29:11 am PDT #6897 of 25501
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I just discovered the strangest thing on my PC. I use Eudora for email and noticed that there was a folder called "Celina Goldsmith". I have no idea who this person is and certainly never created such a folder. It appears as though it was created three months ago. After Googling the name, and not finding much of interest (it's been used as the name of a spam sender, but you can say that about everybody), I figured I'd delete the folder. When I did this, Eudora warned me that there was a filter associated with the mailbox! The filter transfers all incoming mail from "Qfort@demconvention.com" into that folder. Googling that email address produced zilch.

What on earth could have caused this? A virus without a point (the folder has always been empty)? The spam program, Spamnix, had a really weird hiccup? What?


Typo Boy - Jul 05, 2008 7:30:36 am PDT #6898 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Huh. I know damn well you are way past the level of expertise where your computer could using spare cpu cycles to send spam without your knowing it.


brenda m - Jul 05, 2008 8:21:39 am PDT #6899 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

First post from new Crackberry! And am already totally lost. Anyone have a Curve and are willing to answer some probably stupid questions?


Maria - Jul 05, 2008 9:39:46 pm PDT #6900 of 25501
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift

I'm willing. I am totally in love with my Curve.

What would you like to know? Other than that it's the best BlackBerry ever, or at least until the touchscreen (think iPhone) one comes out....