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In article <2004042616431975249% XXXX@XXXXX.COM >, VirtualWolf wrote: > I've got a 1.33GHz 17" PowerBook, 1GB RAM, 10.3.3, all the latest updates, > MS Bluetooth Intellimouse. I just put the machine to sleep by closing the > lid, and lately when I've been doing this, it'll go to sleep for a few > seconds, then I hear the computer try to access the DVD drive, even though > there's nothing in it, and it'll wake back up. However, it doesn't wake up > entirely...I can hear the fan and HD going and the sleep light isn't on, > but the screen is black, and nothing I do can get it back again. I've tried > SSH'ing in from another machine, but I can't connect at all. The only way > to recover is to hard restart. It doesn't happen 100% of the time, either. I have almost those very symptoms on my desktop! Good, I was wondering if it was simply me. It's not every time though. I sleep the machine, the disks park but don't spin down, the display shuts off but the USB buss appears to still be powered. At this point it's not recoverable as SSH'ing or Apple remote desktop will not connect. Hard reboot is needed. -- MT - Diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 101010
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This is a legitimate question I'm asking here. There are no tricks, no ulterior motives, no trolls. Just a pair of scenarios to which I would like to elicit some serious comments Scenario #1: Windows. You have a PC running ME (but any pre XP verion of Windows back to W95 will do). It has your whole world on it: commercial apps, shareware apps, all your files - some of which you have backed-up and some you don't. You buy a new Windows Boxen, yours being somewhat long in the tooth and say, it's still hovering around a half a GigaHertz. Definately in need of upgrading. Your new machine (all $340 worth <grin>) is sitting there running XP but nothing else. Now, the problem you have is how do you move everything from the old machine to the new? The ideal solution would be something like Drive Copy from PowerQuest. Unfortunately when you finished cloning your old HD onto your new one, you would have the situation where ME (or earlier) will have replaced your XP, and like most new PCs you only get a restore disc with your new machine, not a full copy of Windows as in the days of yore to allow you to reinstall it over the cloned copy of ME. How does one deal with this situation? Is a fresh re-install of all apps with a hunt-and-copy mission for all of your files and documents the only solution? Scenario #2: OSX You have a G3 running OSX. It has your whole world on it: commercial apps, shareware apps, all your files - some of which you have backed-up and some you don't. You buy a new G5, your G3 being a bit long in the tooth. Your new G5 is just sitting there, running the Panther it came with (let's say) but nothing else other than the apps that ship with the machine. Now, the problem you have is how do you move everything from the old machine to the new? The ideal solution again, would be a disc cloning utility like the excellent Mac shareware app "Carbon Copy Cloner." Unfortunately, when you do that, you will now have a machine with Jaguar on it unless you upgrade your old machine to Panther first using the Panther install discs undoubtedly included with your new machine. If Apple has continued true to form, you will be unable to boot from any Jaguar version below 10.2.8. Also, unlike the Windows machine, where both your old HD and your new HD are compatible drives and you can make your old HD (the one with your world on it) the slave and the new HD the master and run "Drive Copy" from either a floppy system disk or, with the newer version, from the skeleton system on the utility's CD. The G5 Mac's HD, OTOH, is a new technology and it's doubtful that you can just connect the drive from your old machine directly to the ATA bus as with the PC. Also, suppose you have a FireWire backup drive, and you have cloned your old HD (upgraded to Panther, of course) to it. How would you operate the computer while you running "Carbon Copy Cloner?" You couldn't run the machine from a CD, OSX doesn't work like that, nor could you run it from the new OS already installed, because you are replacing the contents of that drive with the contents of the FireWire drive. Could you boot the machine from the FireWire drive even though Panther was installed on it from a G3 install? With the old OS, this situation would be a no-brainer. You simply drag everything over -except the system folder- from the old computer to the new one under the new machine's OS, and then copy over your extensions, control panels, fonts etc. to the new machine's system folder, and everything would work. You can still drag Carbon apps from one volume to another (mostly) under OSX and have them work, but I believe that I have read somewhere that Cocoa apps are more like Windows apps in this regard and have stuff scattered all over whither, hither and yon. The questions are: How does one solve each of these, which of these two scenarios is the biggest problem and which platform, ultimately, has the advantage here? As our esteemed Mayor would say: "Cuss and discuss." -- George Tirebiter asked you, "If it's a disk problem, then why did (PC Magazine) say that the G4 also kicked Dell's ass when loading the controls was added to the time?" And Whine-Idiot answers: "It was a misprint"
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