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sorry suzy, it was just a friend said that her friend experienced the same niggle and had to send off her iBook to france. I'm persevering through it right now as I have lots of work to do on this machine over the next few months. but as soon as I get through that I'm on apple's ass. keep me posted if you hear anything, please.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I am due to take the thing apart on friday. I will report back but if you wish to do the same you need a number 8 torx screw driver.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

ok thanks. my dad's good at this sort of stuff. so yeah it'd be cool if you report back and I can relay any information to him.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I found this on backlight replacement. The bulbs are really cheap but I have not yet tracked down a supplier of them in the UK. I'm hoping it wont come to that though.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I'm having this weird problem where I'm trying to access my roommate's PC's shared folder. I go to Network, to our local network, click on his computer. It asks me for a password, and he doesn't have one, so I just click "enter" and it accepts it. Then it shows me the "SharedDocs" folder, which is right, but it ACTS as if this is just a folder on my computer -- it doesn't copy files into it, it shows that it has my hard drive's free space left,

I got this to work before. What am I doing wrong?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh also once I connect there doesn't seem to be a way to disconnect. I try ejecting it but it doesn't seem to do anything.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the fan on my graphics card is going and makes a dreadful noise. every time i boot i have to lie under the table and encourage it with a few gentle flicks and after that it seems ok. it's kinda funny.

oh, sarah, if that mame problem you're having is due to not knowing the keys then pressing TAB will let you redefine them. might also make qbert less of a lottery.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Madchen

If you've updated your Windows patches, Symatec definitions and run the scan in safe mode, Welchia shouldn't be on your PC anymore.

A friend of mine had a similar problem where everytime they rebooted their PC they kept being told that they had MyDoom. In the end it turned out that it was their ISP's problem. An email waiting for them on their ISP's mail server contained the virus. Outlook would attempt to grab new emails, and would be stopped by Symantec. Unfortunately, Symantec would complain that the virus was on their PC, which wasn't the case. A call to their ISP sorted things out.

― bert (bert), Thursday, 26 February 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

AARGH

Something's wrong with my secondary hard drive, it keeps making a sort of hissing noise in fours, HISS HISS HISS HISS. HISS HISS HISS HISS. And so on. So I'm running a surface scan of it but it's hit a very rough patch of clusters that's taking forever to fix (it's been on all day so far and only 87% done, biggest problem is that the fix option has to be chosen manually). I figure if I just hit "Don't fix" this process will be faster because the data in that cluster is easily replaceable, but then will the bad cluster be marked off limits like it would if I chose "Fix"?

Rather urgent since I have stuff due tomorrow.

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And seeing as real time help is u&k, I'll be signed on AIM (Batmansascientst)

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

What will happen if I select "Don't fix"? If I don't access the files the problematic areas, will I be ok? What happens if I try to delete through Windows? (Win98se)

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Under OS X 10.3 is there any need to partition my 200GB harddrive, or should I just leave it as one mammoth drive?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 04:51 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't particularly need to but it might be convenient if you were going to use one side for mp3s and the other for another purpose

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 05:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"side"...?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Leee, I have almost identical problems! Right down to the "in fours" thing! Also running 98se - the main differences are: 1) It is on my Primary and indeed only HD (I did not partition and am a fule, etc) therefore the disk doctory program I downloaded advised me against installing it, and 2) I'm not in any real hurry, but scandisk crashes horribly whenever it get to those specific cluster on a full data scan (Standard scan is fine).

So, I do not know how to fix this at all :( Anyone, any advice?

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Having finished the scan, apparently there's no way of actually fixing things -- what's done is done and likely to get worse. Scandisk itself said so when it was done, something about immanent failure. All that's left is backing up whatever data you need and getting a new HD.

― Leee the Whiney (Leee), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

and saying goodbye.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

My condolences to both Leee and Gregory on the hard drives. Unfortunately, getting a new drive may be the only solution, Gregory. If you have any way of getting your important data off that computer (saving to CDs, or if you know someone with an external hard drive that can be attached by USB or FireWire...if your system has the latter), do so immediately and start pricing a new hard drive or a completely new system if your system is old enough.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

this is really getting me down now. :(

any update ed / suzy?

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 03:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for the quick response, y'all!

I have a cd-burner, so I guess I will get to Makin' Some Backups tonight :( Not being able to play video games is kinda what I need now, anyway, maybe.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

cozen, sorry, not yet, haven't got as far as taking it apart yet.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 10:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there anyway that I can tell if spyware has been installed on my machine?

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 21:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 3 March 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

hey kids

this is past normal boring computer questions, and into hella-boring work-related nonsense.

does anyone out there know about access macros, or know a good place for advice? what i want to do is copy stuff from one row to another row, except not all the fields, basically so we can make our course outlines without having to type each bit in.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 4 March 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

If only you had asked me this in 1996!

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i take it you've forgotten it all now then...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, yes. I do remember some snooty advice that it was worth learning Access Basic instead of doing things with macros.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, you're probably right...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Couple of easy questions I think:

1. Can you install Microsoft Office 97 in Windows XP? I ask because I'm buying a new computer and I want to save money on this software and am happy to use the old versions.

2. I don't use Excel much, but when I do I spend ages going right click/insert/entire row/ok over and over because I want to create several new rows. I am sure there must be a simple way to create more than one at a time. What is it?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

1. um dunno, however:

2. select a number of rows equal to the number you want to insert, then do insert row as per, and it'll insert multiple rows (i found this out like two weeks ago, it rocks!)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Great stuff, thanks!

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 4 March 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

re:nicotine.

It's getting really buggy now, and I keep having to enter my settings every time I start it up, which is a real pain. I have the most recent update. Am I shutting it down the wrong way? Does anyone else have this problem.

Can't find much about this on the slsk boards.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

did you post a topic there? people are pretty helpful...

you're running 1.0.7. right?

i feel for ya pal.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 10 March 2004 06:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Usually I do my best to troubleshoot my problems but right now I'm in a tight spot: I wanted to burn myself a cd-r before going out but my cd-rom and cd-r are unavailable for my xp. I should shut up and reboot but I'm downloading the end of a godard film + I'm not in a right frame of mind to fix it myself. in any case, did this happened to anyone/any suggestions?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't noticed when this problem first started but I would be tempted to blame realone player. I hate file association wars (win mediaplayer vs winamp vs realplayer vs quicktime). I'm a regular user and it's about the only thing that scares me about my computer!

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, another question: I have some mp3s that seem to have been poorly coded -- iTunes (& my iPod) think they're 9 minutes long but really they're 30 minutes long, and so it cuts them off early. Is there any Mac program that can fix them?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 March 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

CASusistry. If they will play you could use Audio Hijack to rerecord them or Spark LE to re-encode them.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 12 March 2004 07:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www0.info.apple.com/images/kbase/75338/75338_6.jpg

― TOMBOT, Friday, 12 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, this is weird. I just "got info" on the problem files in iTunes and it's correcting the problem! Let's see if it remembers this new info.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 March 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if anyone can help: I just tried to start iTunes on my G4 and I get a message saying "the iTunes music library cannot be read because it does not appear to be a valid library file". WTF? Is there anything I can do? Should I reinstall iTunes?

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 12 March 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Not to worry: I found a very good answere here: http://lab.artlung.com/other/not-valid-itunes-library/

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Friday, 12 March 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

regedit, removed the drivers, restart =didn't fixed it so wondered what I might have done to cause it: I changed my fan and added memory when ILX was down a couple of days ago, I was sure I didn't unplugged anything but doubled-check nevertheless. Everything was tight but I plugged the fan on another place and it worked!? It looks like the power supply for the cd-r and cd writer can be bypassed if I plug something instead on the board. hé bien.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 14 March 2004 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Sébastien, from where are you downloading the Godard?

― Dan I., Sunday, 14 March 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Since at one point in his career Godard was concerned with socialist solutions to an idealist cinema, I think it's ok to answer: soulseek.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

cool, thx.

― dan i, Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

There's quite a bit of discussion of the "missing preferences" problem on the slsk Mac/Linux Discussion board, and the threads there have a lot of good suggestions.

Still I occasionally run into this problem and the sure fire way out of it is to quit nicotine the second the prefs disappear and then do the following:

1. in a terminal window, cd to ~/.nicotine
2. delete the file named config
3. rename config.old to config 4. Fire up nicotine again - you should still have your preferences and queue lists.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell does "Go to Folder" do in the OS X Finder? How does it even work?― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 14 March 2004 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)

dude Chris, "tt" is some old skool kung fu!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 14 March 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Go to folder: Opens a finder window if you don't have one, and throws up teensy text box. type in a folder name, like "Sites" -it has spiffy auto-fill, so if you type "S" it will show you the name of the first folder that you have which starts with that. then click enter & yr finder window jumps there.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 14 March 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

What the hell does "Go to Folder" do in the OS X Finder? How does it even work?

It's handy if you want to go an invisible folder - like ".nicotine" in the above example.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 March 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

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