APODizing the Cosmos

Saturn’s Rings and the moon Tethys (via APOD)
I’ve been getting tired of the Cosmos lately. No, not the actual Universe, but the lovely yet small set of astronomy pictures in the Mac OS X (Tiger) screen saver “Cosmos”.
I knew that there would be gorgeous images like I’d like to branch [...]

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Mac OS DNS fix for Second Life

I’d been completely stumped earlier this year while attempting to try Second Life– the Mac client just “no va”, wouldn’t go, for me. I got an error suggesting that my DNS was busted and that I should try connecting to www.secondlife.com, and open a ticket if that didn’t work. How I was supposed [...]

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Stripes vs. Spots: Staying with Tiger on the Mac

I’ve been on a grand unification quest to find all the duplicates and old versions and generally clean the heck up on my desktop Mac, in preparation for a clean full “reference” backup and then a Leopard upgrade. I’m hearing enough security kerfuffle about the new (dis)improved firewall on Leopard; that I’m feeling [...]

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kill, kill, and KILL AGAIN!!

Mac drop problem was thermal shock. Desk is no longer in kitchen/DR area, under cold HVAC, so basically can’t run iMac G5 when house ambient temp is 75-plus. #$%@!!
Cracking it open and blowing the dust bunnies out, of which there were very few, just cooled it enough so that it takes longer to [...]

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back on the air… maybe…

My desktop mac has been crashing randomly for the past several days. Downloading the 10.4.9 combo dmg, with a permissions fixer, did not solve the problem. Still getting sudden shutoffs, leaving -122 error in ../../private/var/log/system.log.
Also reported were a bunch-o-cruft about difficulties routing and mookin’ aboot (she sez, through clenched teeth clamped about a [...]

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