Feed on
Posts
Comments
Tumblr

Tag Archive 'service'

An Apple a Day Keeps the Computer Working

Posted in nerdliness on Mar 21st, 2004

Several days ago my PowerBook started exhibiting some rather odd symptoms. Typing in any of the Cocoa applications (Safari, TextEdit, X-Pad, et cetera) produced doubled punctuation and double spaces between words. And just for variety, icons in the toolbar of Mail refused to work. Click on the compose icon and no window appeared. Quit Mail [...]

Read Full Post »

Eeyore Gets A New Tail

Posted in nerdliness on Jul 31st, 2003

My Powerbook, affectionately known as Eeyore developed a nasty problem with its CD-RW/DVD drive late last week. On Thursday I was burning a series of CD-RWs, transferring a Red Hat distribution I had downloaded to disk. The first 4 burns when perfectly. The fifth stopped about a third of the way into the burn with [...]

Read Full Post »