What the He11 is wrong with Apple
Ok, I know i am going to catch static for doing this but my apple just confuses me some times. I am a recent PC convert and i have to say that i love my I-Book, I love that i can ssh in to my servers, I love Fink, I love I Tunes, hell even office on an apple is better than on a PC(But i do have to admin that it crashes as much as on a pc).
I love that yesterday i had Dreamweaver MX, Photo SHop, CocaMySQL, a few web browser windows, a few finder windows open, 1 ssh session, BB Edit, Thunderbird(email), I Tunes, Nitro(jabber im client) I counted a total of 13 items open on the desktop, there were 3 more minimized in the finder bar(what ever you call it) an every think worked smooth. Not happening on a PC.
This is my gripe, why can i have 13 windows open at the same time, 3 minimized but today after i turn on my i book to eject a data cd that i left in it my computer came to a screaming halt and it took a total time of 2 Mike Ness songs and one Dre to eject the CD?
I love that yesterday i had Dreamweaver MX, Photo SHop, CocaMySQL, a few web browser windows, a few finder windows open, 1 ssh session, BB Edit, Thunderbird(email), I Tunes, Nitro(jabber im client) I counted a total of 13 items open on the desktop, there were 3 more minimized in the finder bar(what ever you call it) an every think worked smooth. Not happening on a PC.
This is my gripe, why can i have 13 windows open at the same time, 3 minimized but today after i turn on my i book to eject a data cd that i left in it my computer came to a screaming halt and it took a total time of 2 Mike Ness songs and one Dre to eject the CD?
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Originally posted by agallant
Ok, I know i am going to catch static for doing this but my apple just confuses me some times. I am a recent PC convert and i have to say that i love my I-Book, I love that i can ssh in to my servers, I love Fink, I love I Tunes, hell even office on an apple is better than on a PC(But i do have to admin that it crashes as much as on a pc).
I love that yesterday i had Dreamweaver MX, Photo SHop, CocaMySQL, a few web browser windows, a few finder windows open, 1 ssh session, BB Edit, Thunderbird(email), I Tunes, Nitro(jabber im client) I counted a total of 13 items open on the desktop, there were 3 more minimized in the finder bar(what ever you call it) an every think worked smooth. Not happening on a PC.
This is my gripe, why can i have 13 windows open at the same time, 3 minimized but today after i turn on my i book to eject a data cd that i left in it my computer came to a screaming halt and it took a total time of 2 Mike Ness songs and one Dre to eject the CD?
Office crashes that much on you? Anyway that's besides the point to answer your question I have no idea. Does it happen everytime or was it just a one off? Did it give you the spinning beach ball of death?
iTunes also is pretty protective of CDs, even when playing off your hard drive.
Oh and you shouldn't be using iTunes if you are working. That's why god made iPods.
Best advice, don't leave discs in the drive especially slot-loaders. If worse comes to worse you need to reboot and hold down the mouse button to eject. If its stuck further, oh boy. On my Cube you need to basically take the drive out of the machine in order to manually eject it.
The Macintosh (and UNIX style) method of not ejecting a disc without some forethought is for the best. Windows can allow disc ejection, and when the app calls for it you blue screen.
Originally posted by Stoo
Does Mac OS X has FKEYs, like cmd+shift+1 to eject disks?
there is an eject buttton on the KB, my friends iBook had it in the upper right of the keyboard, if mem served it was /\\ with 2 lines under it, but I may be wrong.
Originally posted by GreggWSmith
Maybe the poor machine was horrified by you taste in music and was afraid you would put one of your music cds in it?
I assume you're referring to Dre and not Mike Ness.
Originally posted by Playmaker
to eject a disc upon start up hold down the mouse button while you boot (its the same drill on the lappys). And as one apple care rep told me a few years ago a lot of problems are resolved by zapping your PRam every so often.
How do you zap your PRam?
I believe that is how it's done. Well I'm not sure why it takes so long...there isn't an excuse. If you just bought it, I would say call Apple and ask them.
Also while windows XP isn't bad at crashing at all, OS X doesn't crash as much as it
I'm not really into that genre, but Social D is nothing compared to Fugazi.
Originally posted by ast3r3x
Restart holding down Shift + Command (Apple Key) + P + R
Actually, restart while holding Option + Command + P + R.