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I am not running the most current version, that's for sure.

Where can these updates be found? Are they easy to install?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link

disktools = disk utility?

Yes it is. I was thinking of 10.3 which combined DiskUtility and DiskCopy into the single "DiskTools" app.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:22 (twenty years ago) link

Where can these updates be found? Are they easy to install?

I've never touched OSX so I can't say, unfortunately.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:31 (twenty years ago) link

you can download form the nicotine site, just unpack it , navigate to the directory in the terminal then type python2.3 ./pyslsk

― Ed (dali), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:38 (twenty years ago) link

If I plug in the power cord BEFORE I open up the laptop, it won't wake up.

Try this:

1. In the Energy Savings panel, under the "Sleep" set the "Put computer to sleep when it is inactive for" slider to any time you choose. Just something different than what's there.

2. Deselect the checkbox "Put the display to sleep when the computer is inactive for:"

This will force the computer to use the top slider to put the display to sleep at the same time the computer goes to sleep. The upshot of all this is that is forces the power manager to update itself.

What I've been doing is just taking out the battery and then putting the battery back in to force restart but I feel this is possibly a bad idea.

Holding down the power key for 15 seconds should do this and is MUCH better than taking the battery out.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago) link

Totally don't remember. rm -rf .nicotine or something. Scope around.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link

So now, X-11 sometimes won't start, and when it does, Nicotine only opens up for about 10-15 seconds before crashing on me. What is going on? Should I reinstall?

Have you run a fink selfupdate/update-now yet? The python code for OS X has gone through several updates over the past couple of months.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

Also the Mac Soulseek board has a lot of these questions answered already.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Friday, 20 February 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago) link

What the hell kind of name is nicotine??

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

how do I get the pictures I uploaded to photobox.co.uk to show up here?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

Is there anyway to block those doubleclick and valueclick cookies on a browser like Opera?

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

Of course, without mucking up all my other settings.

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 20 February 2004 23:49 (twenty years ago) link

in preferences, you have settings for each server/domain's cookies (under privacy) - so i think you can go in there and uncheck everything for the offending servers (?)

― ron (ron), Saturday, 21 February 2004 02:23 (twenty years ago) link

what does one do when you run out of letters to map drives to in windows? Can you map drives to proper names? It's about to become an issue here at work.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago) link

Ed - does this help?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, it's a bit old. this?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:42 (twenty years ago) link

Not really, most of the software we use can't cope with UNC names.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:52 (twenty years ago) link

I just thought I might get lucky. What version of Windows is it anyway (not that it will make a difference to me, but it might help someone else)?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 23 February 2004 23:53 (twenty years ago) link

2000 and XP

All I want is Unix/OS X style mounting, oh and to reprogramme things so the slashes go the right way, I'm bored of always typing the wrong slashes for paths

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:11 (twenty years ago) link

ed - appleworks just crashed on me. I was trying to save a .doc (that is very important) to disc and it quit. and now I can't find the .doc. is there anyway I can recover this?! : (

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago) link

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― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:15 (twenty years ago) link

I found it!!!!!!!! auto-save. wow I'm pretty happy.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:19 (twenty years ago) link

stable doors and horses, never save anything direct to floppy, save it to hard drive first then copy it to floppy. YOu did have it saved somewhere else, didn't you?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago) link

just out of interest a floppy disk, wtf? why? etc.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

he didn't say floppy, did he?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago) link

oh by disc I meant 'to my hard-disk'. ew floppy disc.

everything is cool now. I had no idea the mac had an auto-save function. makes sense tho.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:24 (twenty years ago) link

My mind inserted floppy, crazy. Autosave is in appleworks, rather than in the mac.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:49 (twenty years ago) link

cozen does have a floppy aura.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago) link

It's a kind of brewer's hoop.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:52 (twenty years ago) link

I am now wearing a mack everywhere I go. this isn't relevant to the thread, I just don't want you to be thrown should you ever see me again. can I wear a mack with impunity?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago) link

What colour is the impunity?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 01:00 (twenty years ago) link

the screen on my iBook keeps intermittently cutting out. sometimes when I move, sometimes not. if I give it a knock it corrects itself. or it can resume showing what was on the screen but 'dulled'. te sound remains when the screen cuts out. all the programs keep on running. this leads me to think I have a loose connection. mine is one of the early models of the iBook (2gen?, 3gen?) and someone said there was a fault with them, a design fault, which meant the screen-bus rubbed up against and got damaged by the hinge (??) or something. am I going to have to take this back by the sounds of things / get this repaired or does anyone have any other ideas. diagnoses?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:51 (twenty years ago) link

my PC laptop screen does the same. a guy once told me it was pretty easy to open up hinge-housings and fix the connection but I never have.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago) link

is it frequent to the point of irritation?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:02 (twenty years ago) link

when it happens, yeah.

not when it doesn't.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:04 (twenty years ago) link

this is happening all the time to me. : /

does anyone believe the scene in 'all the real girls' where she breaks his heart and she keeps on saying 'I love you'?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 03:07 (twenty years ago) link

This isn't a question, but it is boring and about computers and if I say it anywhere else everyone will think I am a total GEEK (even more than I am), but anyway I just flashed my BIOS for no reason other than pure maintenance and now I feel all fresh and clean and up-to-date. ahhhh...

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 06:38 (twenty years ago) link

how quaint, bios

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 06:43 (twenty years ago) link

???

was that a mac snob remark. If so I kill you with motherboards!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 07:01 (twenty years ago) link

Why does my PC try to connect (dial up) to the internet everytime it boots up Windows 98? I have (I think) removed the crappy Gator app GMT that I thought was doing the deed, but it's still doing it.

Any ideas?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 11:43 (twenty years ago) link

Help me ILXors!

First I get a Symantec pop up saying the Welchia B virus has been detected on my computer. I click OK (because there's nothing else to click). Then another Symantec box tells me that access has been denied and no action has been taken. I click OK. Then a third box pops up saying Welchia B has been deleted.

I downloaded the removal tool just to be on the safe side and it found nothing and I also ran a whole system scan which also turned up nowt. Then, 10 minutes later the three boxes pop up again.

Does anyone know why this might be happening? I disabled System Restore before using the removal tool.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:37 (twenty years ago) link

I've had the same set of three messages about four times this morning.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:38 (twenty years ago) link

Have you googled welchia B? Or gone to one of the antivirus sites? www.antivirus.com might help.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:40 (twenty years ago) link

Do I need to when I've been to Symantec? Have I been throwing my money down the drain?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:45 (twenty years ago) link

Cozen, at the moment I've got the same problems as you. If it's really a design fault they should fix it for free (one would hope). Do you have any info about Apple saying anything about this?

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

Madchen, I'm talking about for info - it might tell you that it's a hoax, or that those are the symptoms of infection, or that it's harmless, etc. etc.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link

HOW CAN IT BE A HOAX IF SYMANTEC HAS A FIX TOOL?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

AND IF THE MESSAGES ARE COMING FROM MY VIRUS SCAN SYSTEM? AAARGH!

Hem. Sorry.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=welchia+b

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago) link

Madchen, first of all make sure you are up to date with windows patches. Then make sure you are fully up to date with symantec. Then open the symantec application and run the scan again.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

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