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Author Topic: How can there be a copyright issue with a commercial DVD? Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 01-25-2006 05:18 PM                        Why would a modem require a particular OS version? Modems are pretty generic devices, except for crappy Winmodems (is there such a thing as a "Macmodem"?), but I don't think that anyone makes an external Winmodem.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-25-2006 05:31 PM                        Well as long as I'm bashing Apple A long time ago (relatively speaking) my dad bought one of the first-generation iMacs. What a piece of junk! It locked up all the time. The official Apple fix for that problem was one firmware update after another, along with OS updates (this was OS 9). None of these "fixes" ever really fixed it either. We had a couple of those iMacs where I used to work too, and they were always unstable. Here's an anecdote that proves nothing, but it makes me feel good about using Dell PCs. We had an electrician at our office to add a couple more circuits to one area. He's working on the breaker panel and accidentally pinches a wire against the panel. This caused a big "SNAP!" and blew the main breaker in the basement that feeds the entire 2nd floor (more tenants than just us). At the time we had 40+ PCs and a half-dozen servers running. The servers are on UPSs, but not the PCs. Well all the PCs abruptly shut off of course. We finally restored the power, and every PC came right back up with no problem. Nothing was lost. But one of the other tenants has a Mac G-Something-or-other (G4? G5?). It wouldn't boot when power was restored. Dead. Nothing. Could have been a fuse in the power supply I suppose. He took it to the Mac Store, who replaced the power supply. He was pissed! Being a lawyer, he demanded that the electrician pay not only for the repair, but for 8 full hours of lost work. I never did hear how that was resolved. Scott: You'd have to ask Apple. The modem came with a notice saying it wasn't going to work with anything less than 10.4.3, and when my dad tried it anyway, it didn't work. Post-update, the modem worked fine.  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-25-2006 08:56 PM                     Dave--sounds like that tenant got 'd big time! If the store had the customer in mind, there's a much easier fix they could have tried... One day my G4/866 just would not power up. Thinking the power supply was bad, I removed it and started calling around to locate a replacement. (Kind of difficult on a Saturday afternoon.) The last place I called, the bookstore at the university I work at, luckily had the one I needed in stock. While on the phone, the technician asked about the nature of the problem...turns out a power glitch could confuse the power-management system and prevent the computer from starting up. The solution? Open up the computer...and press a reset button on the motherboard. Back in went the power supply and, after pressing said button, the computer sprang to life when the power button was pressed. Removing and replacing the power supply was a waste of time in hindsight, but the right help saved me some $80.00 on a power supply (not to mention the extortionate tech rates I would have paid had I not been able to do the R&R myself).  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 01-30-2006 11:36 AM                        Jon, yeah, I don't know what the real problem was. A guy I work with who's Mac-savvy suggested removing the battery from the motherboard for a while so it would drain the CMOS settings and force a hard reset. Mr. Lawyer Guy was too impatient to try that.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 01-30-2006 01:07 PM                     Kinda interesting that APPLE didn't place that reset button on the OUTSIDE of the case for easy access and mentioned this in the owners manual when systems that needed resetting... Or..is this a marketing/service ploy of APPLE to snare more sales by "hiding" this button from the consumer by having the consumer think that their system went "Ka_Plooie!" since it didn't fire back up.  |  IP: Logged

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