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Try zapping the PRAM.

Jeff,

Check to make sure mousekeys hasn't been enabled.

After you startup, do a spotlight search for universal access. ctrl + f7 should allow you to select elements with the keyboard.

sorry

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John Willoughby
Try zapping the PRAM.

How quaintly 1990s! Next I'll restart with extensions disabled.

That did the trick, JW. Thanks.

Whenever the world is in need of a solution twenty-five years out of date, I'll be there.

No, wait. Wait, what? That actually worked?

ddt

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ddt

Here's the situation: Noah's going into fifth grade, and I figure he could use a computer. But he'll only need it for a year, because in sixth grade he'll get a netbook of some kind (I know, I know, but the school district doesn't have the budget for MacBook Airs). So would it be evil of me to give him my three-year-old MacBook Air and get one of the new ones for myself?

yes. you should instead give ME the MacBook Air. I have two gumdrop iMacs, an eMac, and iMac G5, that your kids would LOVE! :)
Where do you need to do the exchange?

My kids are running with regular, old white plastic MacBooks. An MBA would meet their needs just as well, if you don't need/want Boot Camp. In fact, the storage limitations of an MBA might be a positive, since it would keep you kid from downloading EVERY PICTURE OF A CUTE, FUZZY ANIMAL ON THE INTERNET. Or, maybe that's just my kids.


Besides, you deserve a new MBA. And Bill does not deserve an MBA of any kind until he assimilates and buys an iOS device.

Anyone know where I can find a 4xG5 shell with CPUs intact for less than it would cost me to get a loaded current mini? I'm seeing $900+ for intact quads. I have 12G of memory and disks to move over if I can find something to host them.

In a stunning display of poor timing, it appears my desktop has died (2nd time in its brief 7 year life) due to CPU failure. I'm looking for parts in other channels so that is an option too.

And of course, I have nothing that will boot my G5 boot disk natively (where is where my entire environment is for everything I need to do). Getting to the files is one thing. Getting all the preferences and so forth is something quite different.

Oh, and you want to know what hell is? Running a 30" Cinema Display attached to a 2005 Mini. 1280x800 in gloriously huge pixels. It's a Cataract Display. FML.

Maybe I can find a SATA PCI card and resurrect the Sawtooth to be able to do some real work... but not at 10.30 on a Monday night... grrrrr....

[EDIT] Changed the Mini year... if it really were 2006, I wouldn't be in this predicament.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2012 09:00PM by porruka.

Well, I have a dual G5 with no hard drives, but the rest should work. Weighs a ton, though, to ship... . Basically been a doorstop for two, three years.

ddt

ddt, thanks.

I don't need anything but CPUs afaik. Depending on which dual it is (there are 10 different models) my memory might or might not work. I've found a source in LA that can match my model for under $400 (painful, but doable) and I could have it this week. Timing is the real kicker; I'm in the middle of some stuff that this is going to *kill* the momentum on.

Ugh.

I might still be interested in the shell regardless though. Let's talk via email about what slow-boating might entail?

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John Willoughby

Besides, you deserve a new MBA. And Bill does not deserve an MBA of any kind until he assimilates and buys an iOS device.

heartless bahsturd!

So I've been receiving a ton (no, really, I measured it) of spam using or spoofing my own email address as supposed sender. My question: If I use the Bounce script to deal with this, am I teaching various and random servers, or even the internets in toto, that my email address is a spammer?

ddt

I don't think they even check to see what bounces. Why would they? It's free and if anybody ever held the bounced address, somebody else might use it in the future.

It's the domain name that'll usually get blacklisted if the ISP's mailserver has a history of spam.

Can be a real bitch to get unblacklisted.

An expected, but unfortunate, problem has come up. I've been repurposing some of my old Macs for my wife and kids. Any apps purchased through the Mac App Store require me to register them with my Apple ID. No problem, that is as it should be. But now that my wife is using the machine, I don't want to keep this as an authorized machine, counting against my authorized Macs. Or have my wife using my password to upgrade them. Deleting the apps so that I can download them from her App Store account doesn't work, since the machine remembers that they're my apps, and won't let me download them again unless I use my Apple ID to do it. There does not seem to be any way that I can make the Mac forget that it was ever my machine.

Ideally, what I'd like is to be able to de-authorize like an iTunes account and have all of the apps purchased disappear or demand to be re-authorized with an Apple ID that has purchased them.

The only way that I can see to cure it is to erase the Mac partition and re-install OS X. (Stand off and nuke it from orbit; it's the only way to be sure.) This seems insane, especially as there are many non-App Store apps that I'd like her to keep. And I think I'd have to install Snow Leopard and re-upgrade to Lion. What a pain in the ass. Anybody have any better ideas? There must be a log of apps purchased somewhere...