Re: TiBook HotPlate

2002-08-31 Thread MikkiWokk
In a message dated 8/30/02 2:01:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << on 29/08/02 15:38, Moore, Rick at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all! > > My TiBook suffers regularly from heat exhaustion. The fan kicks on > constantly, and every once in a while, the DVD drive refuses to mount any > discs

Re: A Little Startup Tidbit

2002-08-31 Thread MikkiWokk
The article in the Apple Knowledge Base (Article ID 106696 ) specifically states this works on single-volume systems. You indicate that you do have two partitions on your drive, which is why the X-key boot will not work for you. Michelle --- Michelle K. Wachtel, Apple Produc

Re: root password

2002-08-31 Thread Jon Glass
on 8/30/02 5:47 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you are the sole user of your machine, you may never have a need to access > the root account, and by default it is not enabled when you get your machine. > So if your intention is to avoid Unix, in all likelihood you can do e

Slightly OT: Apple USB keyboard

2002-08-31 Thread Roger Shufflebottom
I bought a nice new Apple USB keyboard to use with my TIbook 800 when at home. It just didn't seem to respond properly. I'm a not-quite-touch-typist (but fairly quick) and I found that some characters were missed. Particularly the Shift key just didn't half the time! I persevered for two weeks