Quote: Originally Posted by patricr I want to add a weird fix for my continued panics for 9 months. Replaced RAM, motherboard, CPU and reloaded OSX multiple times. All under war…

>>Did this get reported to Apple specifically as a bug? Can you reproduce it on other systems?<< NO- that is the weird thing, we have 80 various Macs, and none of them…

Thanks for the posts Detrius. New eMac here at work with Omni Technologies 512MB ram. Started getting freezes and then computer would only show bluescreen when restarting. Ran A…

Thanks for the information, Detrius. I'm hoping you can suggest something to help me out here. A few days ago my iBook G4 (1.0 Ghz, 60 GB, 768 mb ram) started getting constant pa…

Quote: Originally Posted by UFOff ...The scary thing is that I read your symptoms of bad RAM and that seems like what I have. The really disturbing thing is that you mentioned …

Thanks for the reply, Detrius. Unfortunately, I transferred everything over and attempted to do a clean install, which erased everything. Luckily, I do have a backup from a few…

People notice when things happen shortly after the expiration of a warranty, and they tend to note that fact. If it were 6 months or more after the expiration of the warranty, peo…

I was updating Tiger on my PB 15" 1.67 to 10.4.2. The update bar stopped at about 95% and was stuck there for over an hour. I tried to stop it, but the buttons were grayed out. …

accidental double post...sorry

After several hours of having been away from my computer, I turned on the monitor to find a panic message layed over the screen saver. Note that I did not copy down the entire mess…

Corrupt stack almost certainly means bad RAM. The stack is an object in memory. There are other possibilities, but you are almost certainly looking at bad RAM. Check out http://…

My ipod 4g is in constant use at the bar where I work, anyway, I think some beer or liquor from my fingers inded up in the crack where the click wheel meets the face of the iPod. …

Quote: Originally posted by Ratspittle: My ipod 4g is in constant use at the bar where I work, anyway, I think some beer or liquor from my fingers inded up in the crack…

You could pop it open, remove the battery, then spray it with alcohol while holding it upside down so the residue runs out. Then let it dry completely before reassebling. Truth i…

Hate to say it, but this is another reason I love my 3rd gen iPod and no movable buttons.

Well, I took a piece of tissue, wet it with alcohol (not the drinkable variety) and held down the scrolly wheel in different directions, and cleaned it...worked like a charm. back …

Quote: Originally posted by Ratspittle: Well, I took a piece of tissue, wet it with alcohol (not the drinkable variety) and held down the scrolly wheel in different dire…

http://www.carrafix.com/EasyWMA/

or use the windows version of itunes

Transcoding is never a good idea (unless it works with WMA lossless files as well)

Hi there, was wondering if anyone noticed how much hard drive space the iPod Photo needs for pictures... I bought my wife one for her birthday and when it synced for the first time…

Mine's about 1.3GB with about 1K of photos.

What's interesting is that I spoke to Mac Genius and he wasn't aware of the iPod Photo cache, either. He thought that it just made a cache when it optimized the images for the iP…

Get an external HD.

Quote: Originally posted by Randman: Get an external HD. Yes, but that would negate the benefits of having a Powerbook for the portability... not to mention the wa…