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That's just awesome!! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Ken,
sorry I can't help you much here, but I have to agree with Lars in regards to lenses. My area of expertise is in higher end photography, the megapixel race is sometimes vaild, but overall in the compact camera range it is the quality of t...
Damian, these pics are impressive. You've given me a new standard to clean by!!!!!
Yeah the worst I've heard of when updating is a friend with a g4 15", updated his 10.4 and couldn't reboot!!! Oouuuuucccchhh. He rang a bit frustrated but we worked our way through it. Not the nicest experience when waiting for the new goodies.
I'm wondering if it messed with the permissions. Also, I've heard of updates causing multiple restarts before all is well, but it's the machine that reboots it's self a few times.
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- When did you get your first Mac?
- In1998 with the imac. Of course my first encounter with Apple was in 1980 at school. Then using Macs from 1991 onwards at work.
- How many Macs do you own?
- Lots, don't let my wife know!!!!
- Where do you live?
- Pakenham (Packenem)
- How did you hear about RetroMacCast?
- Macintosh Folklore Radio (great podcasts also)
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10.5.7 Airport problems
Hi all, just letting you know, I've updated from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7 on a Macbook Pro. I had a few updates to download other than just the os X update, so it took awhile. The problem occurred when I restarted the machine, when it had showed the desktop all was fine, then the airport icon was turned off. A bit strange, but when I clicked on it to try and reconnect to my network, it would not allow me to turn on airport?????? What the???? I opened system preferences, still the same. I rebooted, no ch… Continue
Posted on June 11, 2009 at 8:43pm — 2 Comments
Donations
Hello everyone,
Even though things are tough at the moment, do you think each and every one of us could donate $5 by mid year? I think that money would go a long way to improving this podcast even further. I personally don't think a small thank you to these guys is out of order. What do you think?
Cheers,
Hillbilly
Even though things are tough at the moment, do you think each and every one of us could donate $5 by mid year? I think that money would go a long way to improving this podcast even further. I personally don't think a small thank you to these guys is out of order. What do you think?
Cheers,
Hillbilly
Posted on May 31, 2009 at 11:00pm — 4 Comments
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 2:10am on August 17, 2009,
Hillbillybear said…
- I am envious of the success of your SE. I'll have to track down the chemicals and give it a try.
- At 12:17am on August 17, 2009,
Lars (WhyOSX) said…
- Hi ! I accidentially clicked your chat off - it's early in the morning in Mid Europe. As you already have found out, there are people everywhere experimenting how to restore older computers (not only Macs). Some of them with surprising successes.
- At 7:01pm on July 31, 2009,
Hillbillybear said…
- I hear you. I like the term "interesting", that can sum it up for a lot of us.
- At 5:24pm on July 31, 2009,
macdownunder said…
- Hi Hillbillybear.
Thanks for your message.
I certainly do have some interesting conversations with my wife about the collection. Particularly - now that our kids are older and we're running out of space in our house.
JD
- At 12:40pm on July 2, 2009,
Kathryn said…
- I hear ya! I love to take my machines apart and see what's inside, even if I know I can't fix it, I'm still curious enough to look. Must be pretty interesting to be a tester for PCs. Getting paid to make PCs crash, love it!
- At 6:01pm on June 13, 2009,
Lars (WhyOSX) said…
- Try a simple thing as Apple+Mac+PowerBook+How+to+open+pdf as a 'Google'-search.
This leads you to the 'MacForums', the 'LowerendMacs' or a few other user groups.
A friendly guy once linked me up to a special 'How-to-open-a-PB-1400' since I have one with a croaking speaker. One result was that if you do this (and the machine is a little older), it is a reasonable thing to change the PRAM battery at the same time. But he wrote it like this (qoute): "Removing the battery means removing everything but the battery"...
- At 3:16am on June 12, 2009,
Lars (WhyOSX) said…
- It's always a pleasure to me to share my experiences with people who really do want to keep their old machines 'alive' - sometimes I fail(ed), and then it's an even greater joy when I get things going again.
And Kathy is absolutely right - one reliable machine has to be working straight ahead, at least.
We, who usually have alternatives, can keep a second machine as a backup first and secondly as a substitute, for the case of the unexpected !
- At 10:37pm on June 11, 2009,
Kathryn said…
- Hello Hillbillybear! Thanks for the compliment on my blog about the PRAM debacle. I had fun writing it, but not much fun going through problems. I usually enjoy working on my computers, tracking down problems and trying to solve them. I get a real sense of accomplishment when I can figure out a problem. But, not when it's my main computer that I count on everyday.
Thanks again!
- At 9:20pm on May 14, 2009,
Claudio Miranda ("QuadSix50") said… - Hey Hillbillybear! Thanks for adding me to your friend's list. As I said, fantastic pictures of those PowerBooks. I keep drooling over them whenever I see them. :-)
Talk soon!
- At 10:09pm on March 19, 2009,
James said… - Welcome Hillbillybear! I hope you'll add a picture to wipe away that sad mac.
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