I mean poor wipey

RODNEY HAHAhaha

I'm trying to get a sponsorship with apple macs.
I reckon if I say ''Apple Macs'' 206 times a day
they've give me a g5

My Apple, despite being awesome, is being a motherfucker of a piece of shit at the moment. Geekazoids, and I'm not sure there are many of you here - question:

(System spec: Powerbook G4 / 15'' / 1.67GHz / 100gb 7200rpm / 1gb / Superdrive.)

Problem: Repeated kernel panic freezes, when the computer is idle or doing something ridiculously easy like loading a web page. Suffers kernel panics usually a few times in a row, ie. when I'm doing something, then when it's starting up, then again when it's starting up - until I unplug power and remove the battery, then it starts up again usually.

Also, it often doesn't wake up from sleep, or it does, but the screen backlight never switches on again. Suggestions? I have so far only had time to repair permissions and clear the logs (sudo periodic daily weekly monthly). And do a panic backup. It seems the kernel panics are often - but not always - caused by movement. For example, if I accidentally knock the chassis, the grey screen descends...

Li'l help?

Oh. OS 10.4.10. Regularly updated.

i'll help you if you can get me justin long.

...Okay, I'm thinking it might be corrupted RAM - that would explain why it responds to shock.

You lost me at 'kernel', socksy. Sorry.

Who's Justin Long?

Or was that some kind of euphemismy pun?

Sorry russiancaravan. I thought corn was a popular vegetable.

on the right...

I didn't know it could panic. Poor little kernels of corn.

nearing point of extreme over-tiredness

I just clicked ''Discussions'' and it said russiancaravan had posted ''just now'', and whenever that happens, I feel as though I've won some sort of challenge.

''1 second ago'' makes me feel jipped.

Oh, yeah, he's pretty cute.

sound familliar?

Cunce!

Apparently there's a second hand computer store in Lt Flinders St (Melbourne) that sells Apple Macs. Anyone have the address/contact details?

Make sure you get a good warranty. As great as Macs are, if they're 2nd-hand they're likely to have had a bit of a work-out.

macs do many annoying things. yesterday i told it to shut down, and it ignored me because an application (last.fm) was failing to quit. well fucking quit it then you cunt of a computer and just do what i tell you. i hate this second guessing in an os. who's the boss?

This is more a networking question, but...

I have 4 macs that are currently all accessing information from an Apple Time Capsule, which is pretty shitty. It WAS running on wireless, but it was too slow and kept cutting out. Now I have all macs connected directly to the time capsule. My problem now is that it disconnects every 5 minutes - if it has been more than 5 minutes since you last accessed a file on there, you have to reconnect. It does this itself when you try to find a file, but it takes 20 seconds to reconnect. If you are in the middle of editing a file, you have to save it as a different file name, delete the old file etc. It's ridiculous. Apple says the time capsule is going to sleep, and you can't stop it from doing this.

SO, does anyone know what my options are? I basically need a 1-2TB HDD worth of documents for all macs to access without lag time/hardware falling asleep. How do I go about this best? Surely there is an easy answer.

network drive plugged into your router?

Maybe just get a non-Apple networked HDD?

That's kinda my question. I wasn't aware such a thing existed. How do I network a hdd? Or is a network hdd something I buy?
Google should help. But you can too! Conversation!

I don't know too much about them (I have an Apple Time Capsule too at home, but just for backups) ... but http://www.i-store.com.au/product/?CategoryID=11&CategoryName=STORAGE%20-%20NAS%20/%20Portable%20Drives and http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Data-Storage/Network-Attached-Storage should get you started. Basically it's the same thing as a Time Capsule without the proprietary firmware and attendant behavioural quirks. But other brands may have some of their own quirks, so maybe just ask someone who sells them to give you a bit of a rundown on whether it'd work in your situation!

That's awesome. Thanks for the help!

<==8 ;-)

I'm looking for a cable that will let me use my work iMac as the monitor for my own macbook pro. Google search results indicate that this is a MUCH trickier task than I had anticipated. Has anyone had luck with this? Any tips for me?

sonian, i have one at work.... not sure what it's called but can take a photo if necessary. that said, my monitor is non-apple. but I'm sure i work with guys using mac monitors...

thanks! could you take a picture of the mac monitor ones? I think the mac-to-mac cable will be the one i'm after.

Hmmm they're elsewhere in the office and not at my work station. I'll see what I can find. Might be a bit weird snooping on other people's computers!

no rush! thanks dude

Something like this?

maybe, but there's no DVI input on this iMac...

You'll need to let the punters know which model of the respective device you have. Thunderbolt would be piss easy but thats assuming the computers are both fairly recent models.

If you were desperate you could load your laptop into target mode and use it as the imac start up disk via firewire 800. But that is a clunky and inefficient way to go about things. In fact, forget I even suggested it.

What I came here for was to mention you will shortly be able to lodge e-tax on macs.

Finally. But $5.2 million? Wow. Robbed.

It be pretty fancy and blow pseudo stale coffee-tobacco air or cheap cologne from the exhaust slots on the macs to emulate working with a real accountant. If they're really smart they'll having it making snide, judgemental comments on the figures you enter.

I'm looking for a cable that will let me use my work iMac as the monitor for my own macbook pro. Google search results indicate that this is a MUCH trickier task than I had anticipated. Has anyone had luck with this? Any tips for me?

Cat 5/6 cable (Ethernet). Use screen sharing. You could do it wirelessly but I find you have to use adaptive mode. It's an easy option perhaps not the best.

. If they're really smart they'll having it making snide, judgemental comments on the figures you enter.

I thought an accountant was there to change your figures.

Anyway, I'll not do e-tax. The amount of money I recoup because of my accountant is worth the wait and the coffee breath.

$279,320.46 feasibility study?