only one other guess, do you ever leave the machine on overnight? os x does a lot of cleaning up overnight, it could be behind on the trash collection and other automatic system maintenance. other than that, i'd definitely strongly suggest checking for a virus, though it doesn't sound terribly likely with the warm boots being quicker but it's possible. if that fails, it's a hassle but it might be worth reinstalling the os just to be sure that something in it hasn't become corrupt. also, what version of os x are you running? sorry i can't be much more help, i'm holding off on playing with x anymore until i've got a proper hardware firewall up, i just don't know it well enough to trust it's security, and i know being a unix variant there may well be some exploits, or just holes like the screensaver crash and get in without the password bug. besides, given the current state of things i rather strongly suspect apple's been kind enough to put in backdoors, as microsoft has been for years, when the nsa shows up it's hard to say no, and after all, our weasel former vp and chronic liar works there now...
</rant on> once a system has backdoors, you can bet people will find them, particularly if they're intended to be easy for law enforcement clowns, it's happened with calea (the user funded system that lets law enforcement spy on any one's phone calls in the u.s., via the net of all things since '96, and it's known to have been cracked by russian mobs and others in the past even though it doesn't run windows like the department of homeland insecurity and political self-servedness. the people who want you to be worried, but calm, and buy plastic wrap and duct tape, which you may as well leave by the door in a nice stack, the only possible use would be wrapping the bodies after the fact....). Brian Christmas wrote: ----------- > >> G'day from Oz to all. > >> > >> I would appreciate any thoughts whatsoever on this problem. > >> > >> For months now my tricked out G3 DT has been glacially slow on a cold > >> boot startup. Power on to loading progress bar and log in is about ------------ -- "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future by the year 2000, may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons" Popular Mechanics, March 1949 -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
