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  • My preferred beer is free. If you drink non alcoholic beer then drink water you nonce! Fosters is the Microsoft of the beer world. If you want games then try skulling a stiefel of hefe weizen or yard of elephant beer. Dobby.
    in Preferred Beers and Beer Styles Comment by dobby March 2005
  • The registry is like a mix of netinfo and the defaults etc (do a defaults read from the terminal and see all the .plist stuff thats there and more). The registry should be modified by someone who knows what they are doing ie, the person that can …
    in why does windows use the registry? Comment by dobby March 2005
  • If you can then re-install the the machine. Format and everything. Apply all patches and see how stable it is. If it is a hardware issue then the OS should also hiccup at some stage not just apps as OS problems will cause it to hang/whitescreen e…
    in Newbie - Applications unexpectedly quitting - happened again! Comment by dobby March 2005
  • How much free disk space do you have? The fuller the disk the slower it will go. Do you have any startup apps that could be slowing it down? Have you run Disk Repair? Is you background picture a default or a personal one thats 100MB? Do you have…
    in long boot time Comment by dobby March 2005
  • You can't access your My Documents folder as a guest. Enter the username and password of the owner of the My Documents folder and it should be fine. If you don't know the owner of the my documents folder then right mouse click on it/properties/sec…
    in Newbie - Unable to see Windows machine from Mac Comment by dobby March 2005
  • Unplug power to motherboard. Check all other cables are firmly home. Reseat Memory. Try monitor power cable. Unplug from mains for 10 mins the plug in again and retry. Dobby.
    in G4 won't power on Comment by dobby March 2005
  • Have you run Disk Repair? Also try booting single user (boot and hold down s) df and get the name of the root volume and run fsck-hfs -y /dev/disk1s10 (/dev/disk1s10 being the result from the df) This can fix bad blocks and sector inaccuricies…
    in Resolve Disk Errors w/o Reformat Comment by dobby March 2005
  • Have you tried setting the resolution in os 9 to 640x480 @60Hz and then booting os X? HAve you tried booting OS X from the install cd and then jsut exiting and restarting. Dobby.
    in G4 - multiscan monitor 20 - OSX - no display Comment by dobby March 2005
  • Sounds like OSX has a resolution conflict. reboot and hold down the shift key during OS X startup. While this turns off extensions on OS 9 it also seems to reset resolution on OS X. Dobby.
    in G4 - multiscan monitor 20 - OSX - no display Comment by dobby March 2005
  • I used it on 2 XServes for a month or so but the performance on our network was shit so I let Retrospect run locally again. Dobby.
    in Veritas? Comment by dobby March 2005
  • If Apple bought Leica then their would be another over priced product for 95% of computer users to mock! Get realistic people. Since when has quality had something to do with success! We all know the number one example that doesn't! Dobby.
    in Leica is in trouble. Apple should come to the rescue Comment by dobby February 2005
  • So, what is exactly the problem? Does the source code work or is the firewall blocking something? Dobby.
    in Problem playing saved .SWF game files in QuickTime Player Comment by dobby February 2005
  • It's quite difficult to setup a non-server version of OSX as an authentication server (cept for netinfo). You need the workgroup manager and a couple of others (open directory assistant) to make it easy. Don't use nis (or nis+). Its not exactly …
    in Set up NIS Server or Open Directory on Mac OS X Comment by dobby February 2005
  • I would prefer a window popping up with a detailed description of the error like windows has eg. "General Protection Error" or "Syntax Error" Those guys really have it made! Dobby.
    in Tiger: R.I.P. Rainbow Spinning Wheel of Death? Comment by dobby February 2005
  • Try running disk repair or diskwarrior over the external disk. You might also need to try a fsck_hfs on it. Dobby.
    in Seriously I need help with my external harddisk! Comment by dobby February 2005
  • We have 30 people using Office 2004 and not a problem so far. (Cept powerpoint but thats such a shit program in comparrison with Word or Excel). Dobby.
    in Office 2004 - Is it stabe yet? Comment by dobby February 2005
  • I still use the headphones from my original 5GB ipod. I think they sound fine. A friend of mine and my brothers ipod headphones (same model etc) sounded crap in comparison when they bought them and took their headphones and mine back to the retailer…
    in iPods Terrible Headphones Comment by dobby February 2005
  • If the mac mini was set to a resolution that the monitor couldn't display that would cause it to stay in saver mode. I have had to reset the PRAM on a Dual 800 that wouldn't work with a monitor. Afterwards all was fine. Dobby.
    in Mac mini & monitor problem? Comment by dobby February 2005
  • CAn you reset the PRAM on a Powerbook. If so then it might be worth a try. Dobby.
    in No previous version of OSX Installed? Comment by dobby February 2005
  • In a large organization I can understand putting in MS OS's due to simple managability of scale and a cost doesn't matter effect. I reckon that 95% of word/excel users would not be able to use the features in word 2 and excel 4 let alone the mult…
    in Why is humanity sometimes so stupid! Comment by dobby February 2005