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I had gotten a virus a few weeks back and cleaned it out. Now, when I have to do a reboot it takes about 1/2 an hour to fully restart my pc. It basically makes little clicking noises. Last night I went in and did a step by step restart and found the command where it usually got hung up in starting and tried the restart again and skipped the command that caused it. The pc rebooted in 20 seconds. How do I completely remove these commands so it doesn't do it again?

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 25 June 2003 15:17 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

When you plug an iPod into a computer after having been walking about listening to it all day and a little graphic of a spinning disc with a magnifying glass over it comes up, what's happening?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 July 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Sherlock Holmes has come to inspect your hard disc for kiddie porn.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 July 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

On my iPod? How does that work?

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 18 July 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't play the innocent.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 18 July 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Cozen, I get that sometimes. It means your disk is screwy, just restart it. BTW, I owe you an email- (and some CDs)I haven't forgottten!

Also...If Ed is still here- My girlfriend's burner won't re-write, erase or read a CD-RW once we have initially burned some files onto it. Help! What is wrong? It's an internal ibook cdrw drive.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

If I get a tone coming not out of the speaker but from the inside of my G4 laptop, does it mean the drive is going bad?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Boring computers is pretty easy if you have a pretty decent power drill.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Or you can just read it the manual.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

My iPod seems to be more than a little fucked. : ( I plugged it into the iBook last night to update and it stalled so I disconnected it to play with it, see if I could correct it (even though it had stalled on the 'Do not disconnect' screen) and it had form little oily (not oily per se but slightly vaguely rainbow coloured) sacks if you looked at it from the correct angle. I figured that was ok and probably just the heat and probably the heat making it a bit wonky so left it till this morning. I go to turn it on and all it gives me is a black-line about 4/5 pixels thick along the top of the screen and then it leaves after about 10 secs. Everytime I touch a button: the black line and then the disappearance. How do I reset it? What should I do here? Stick it in the fridge so it can cool down a little? It's not over hot, now, just room temperature. I don't know how what to do with it, I feel jilted.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 14 August 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It's still under guarantee, isn't it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 14 August 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I got it in a competition (Bang magazine; it's inscribed: "Bang! It's only rock and roll!") so I don't know but I'd presume so. I'm pretty scared actually it looks quite done in. I guess I should phone my uncle Piet (the Apple dude) or consult the Apple store on Great Western Road. Meep.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 14 August 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It is broken².

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

:o(²

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

To reset the new iPods you flip the hold switch on and then off, then hold the play and menu buttons in until the Apple logo comes on. Dunno if that'll work with yours, but worth a try?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll give it a try, thanks Sean. I think it's back to Apple with it though, it looks fuckt.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 14 August 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried that and still the black line along the top of the screen. The display must be destroyed by the heat or something. I really hope it's under guarantee / warranty.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 14 August 2003 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think it won't be. take it to the apple shop for an opinion.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 August 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I will.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 14 August 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

YES! I got it working, I had to lumber around the 'Support' section of the Apple site and found the 'Restore' option which is more drastic than simple 'reset' apparently but it seems to have worked. Just need to remember / reconfigure all my settings now, but that's no problem.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

WOO HOO! Probably means reformatting the drive and re-uploading everything too, eh? But still better than paying for a service call.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, it's not too bad I only had a gig (277) of songs on it anyway, so that's it good to go again. Better treat it a lot softer than usual. (Apple products are a lot more flakey than people make out but I still totally love them.)

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 14 August 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

BUT MACS NEVER BREAK DOWN MACS NEVER BREAK DOWN

Repeat the mantra and you will discover you only believe it to have been broken. Because Macs never break down.

< / schadenfreude >

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

More iPod misery:

I am trying to install my new iPOD but whenever I plug it in it just flashes 'Do not disconnect' forever and (presumably as a result), when I try to run the iPod software updater both the 'Update' and 'Restore' options are greyed out. The iPod appears in my iTunes panel, and it lets me move tracks onto it (I unchecked the 'automatically update iPod with new tracks' option), but still the display on the iPOD just flashes 'Do not disconnect'. Dragging iPod to the Trash tells me I can't as it's in use. So I have to disconnect it. Then it tells me off for not putting the device away properly.

But all the tracks I loaded onto it are then there on my iPod and play fine! But I don't want to be disobeying the 'Do not disconnect' message every time. WHAT'S GOING ON? Someone help me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 24 August 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

It's still doing it. I was happily listening to a track on the iPod and thought I'd try connecting it mid song. The song stopped playing and the the dreaded 'Do Not Disconnect' messages started flashing without end.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 24 August 2003 10:21 (twenty-two years ago)

OK that was all a bit weird but ejecting the iPod in iTunes now seems to solve the problem. Maybe it always did. I don't know.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you got the hang of this yet Nick? It only says 'Do not disconnect' when the iPod is actually mounted (ie the wee iPod icon comes up on the desktop) and you can stop this by checking some button in the iTunes' iPod options (allow active iPod fiddling or some option). If you don't have this checked then you can't transfer text files to its Notes folder and can't manually transfer mp3s &c. And to get rid of DND flashing just eject the iPod via the iTunes button or via right-clicking the mount icon. I don't know how much of this is helpful or how much you know.

Also, I might be saying something you already know here or is less useful but if you set your importing configuration to ACC encoder then you can play .acc files on it which take up a lot less capacity. This is probably unuseful, mister importer.

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks for that, David. I just freaked out a bit at my new toy's weirdness. Unchecking the 'Enable FireWire disk use' (until I want to transfer non-music files onto it) does seem to be the best idea. I do think this could be better explained in the instructions.

Maybe I'll go the AAC way. I guess I like the idea of being able to share my tracks with PC owning friends though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 24 August 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

It did that on the PC too if you just shut down MusicMatch instead of "ejecting" it, and even then it would sit there for about two minutes. Go to the Apple site and see if you can download a firmware upgrade or a new version of the Updater; the firmware has been changed so that it doesn't do any of that crap any more on the Pc, and maybe that also fixes up some of those issues with the Mac, too.

In other news, I found out that you shouldn't reboot Windows while your iPod is still connected, because then it'll scandisk the iPod very VERY SLOWLY for something like two hours before you can disconnect it again.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 24 August 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I only charged mine for like 8 hours before starting to fiddle with it. Err, actually I think I might have only charged it for 2 hours but I'm a big kid and was bursting with excitement but I've had no problems with battery life whatsoever and when it's fully charged the thing seems to last for about 8 hours or approx. 3 days of walking about and library-ing with it playing before requiring charging. They're beyond amazing into something else though, they really really are. They are beautiful, compact, have no moving parts, useful clean interface, good features, good capacity, only a little flakey (they can stall sometimes and do this annoying thing where you select a track and then it doesn't play it but reverts to the main menu). But pound for pound all in all at the end of the day they are the shit.

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 24 August 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"What would you grab first if your house was on fire?"

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 24 August 2003 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

And occasionally, I think I was worried about this problem on here upthread a bit, the thing will ScanDisk when you've been using it out and about for a bit and you connect it to the Mac. This normally takes about 20-30 mins to fully complete, but is nothing to worry about. (I think this might be some sort of post-shock stablising technique to compensate for the fact that it has like 20 mins anti-shock cache. But that's me making a ill-informed guess.)

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 24 August 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Howdy! My hard drive crashed and doesn't even spin up when power is applied. I know there are data recovery services out there who charge hundreds of dollars, but I was wondering if anyone knew of any less expensive/easier (ha!) fixes that might work. I know the chances are slim, but hey, it doesn't hurt to ask, right?

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 24 August 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably not, unfortunately...if it doesn't spin up the motor is probably shot, which means no data coming on or off the drive.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

On Internet Explorer, my homepage keeps on getting set to Globe Finder search engine. Not everytime I come back to the computer, but most times. It's a bit annoying.
Anyone know how I can stop this? I've tried blocking that site.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Download Ad-aware, clean all that spyware junk off yr computer. Then, get Mozilla and browse with that instead.

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, probably the easiest way to fix this is a program called CWShredder. You've got the cool web search hijack which tends to drop little files everywhere on your hard drive. CWShredder is a program that will zap them all at once and should restore your browser to normal, a friend had luck with it.

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Ad-aware recommendation seconded, it will also remove a lot of spyware/ad-related gunk on your hard drive. Mozilla is pretty nice, you might want to try the "Firebird" browser they have which appears to be a leaner version of the Mozilla browser, minus all the extraneous stuff like mail. You have to hunt a bit on the Mozilla site but I've been using it.

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Downloaded Ad-aware and Firebird. Everything is honky-dory so far, though it will take some time to get used to a new browser.
Many thanks, daria and rob.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Excellent! About the only thing missing in Firebird, far as I can tell, is the ability to make bookmarks (favorites in ie) into a toolbar. I have a set of favorites buttons up top on IE, I think Firebird can't do this yet. However you get tabbed browsing to make up for it. Give yourself an "open in new tab" button up top (use view->toolbars->customize to mess with the buttons and get 'em how you like) and you should be all set.

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Firebird should have imported your IE favorites also.

― rob geary (rgeary), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

has anyone exported a RadioUserLand blog and then imported it into iBlog? tips?

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

Arghghgh weirdest problem ever: OS X no longer knows how to "drag" things. I am convinced this is just an attempt to get me to buy Panther. Anyone have any clues?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

er, restart?

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I did. And then I did it again, and now it seems to be working. Weird.

My CD drive still thinks everything disc I put in is a CD-RW and stutters a lot when I try to access it, but I think it's going to need to be repaired. Bleh.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 October 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Database/MySQL question:

I want to enter in names for each item in the table I'm working on. A lot of them start with articles, and I want them to be sorted by name, but I want them to be presented without putting the articles at the end of each name. How can I do this? Is there some sort of function that I can add to the varchar type to not count leading articles when sorting, but still present them when in a list?

Thanks!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Just a reminder - Macs NEVER go wrong, so anyone who thinks they do must be deluding themselves or out of their gourd on PCP and crystal meth. Thanks.

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

put the article in a separate column, concatenate the columns when presenting the data.

can iChat do group chats on rendezvous?

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

put the article in a separate column, concatenate the columns when presenting the data.

Thanks!

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Interestingly my Mac is doing the same non drag thing, but I can't restart just yet.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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