Just chiming in on this...hope you don't mind...
My teacher gave me a Mac II a couple years back, and it had 7.1 on it
along with Pyro, and the (now infamous on this list) the Grouch init.
But when I had first gotten the machine, I did not know it was there.
So, with the speaker all the way
Ian writes,
Just chiming in on this...hope you don't mind...
My teacher gave me a Mac II a couple years back, and it had 7.1 on it
along with Pyro, and the (now infamous on this list) the Grouch init.
But when I had first gotten the machine, I did not know it was there.
So, with the speaker
On Jul 4, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Yersinia wrote:
...I have a seriously infantile sense of humor about certain things at
times. To wit,
It's called TheGrouch.sit on that page.
ROFLMAO! I can't help but ask if this is (a) something that's actually
going to damage my Macs (G3/266, OS 9.2.2 and 5300c
On Jul 4, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Doc Holliday wrote:
What I personally liked was being able to get my Mac to play the
The Good Morning Vietnam!!! clip from the movie.
That was my startup sound for a while. I also had the Warner Brothers
Merry Melody theme as my startup, too.
--
Bruce
Doc Holliday wrote,
What I personally liked was being able to get my Mac to play the The
Good Morning Vietnam!!! clip from the movie.
And Bruce Johnson replied,
That was my startup sound for a while. I also had the Warner Brothers
Merry Melody theme as my startup, too.
Startup sound clips
On Jul 3, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Geoffrey Davis wrote:
the closest thing I ever had to a virus was putting on the thing
that makes the computer get happy when you plug in the power cord,
i did it to my wife's powerbook once...
As I recall, there wee a bunch of novelty inits one dropped in
As I recall, there wee a bunch of novelty inits one dropped in
the extensions folder that did amusing things; unable to control
mouse, started scanning like an old BW TV (complete with snow),
beeping, burping, brought up custom screens telling you your HD was
deleting (complete
On Jul 4, 2005, at 10:55 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
As I recall, there wee a bunch of novelty inits one dropped in
the extensions folder that did amusing things; unable to control
mouse, started scanning like an old BW TV (complete with snow),
beeping, burping, brought up custom screens telling
Didn't that one come along with a bunch of other such inits in a book
called Stupid Mac Tricks? I was system admin on a large Mac Plus
network and one person bought the book and installed the init that
disabled certain keys on the keyboard. She installed that on just about
every computer on
I remember MacBarf... I left it in my computer about ten minutes before
I trashed it. Funny once or twice, but after that, embarrassing.
What I personally liked was being able to get my Mac to play the The
Good Morning Vietnam!!! clip from the movie.
I was watching Independence Day on TV
Whenever you emptied the trash, Oscar would come out of the trash can
and sing a fragment of his 'I love Trash' song. Each time you emptied
the trash he sang another verse, so the only way to get him to sing
the whole thing was to repeatedly put things in the trash and empty it.
I used to have that one. It was really cute. Oscar the Grouch popped up
when the Trash either emptied or had something in it--I don't remember
which. I never had any trouble with it at all. It always made me smile
when working on something intense. It's been a long time since I
thought of that
Yep, I've done mac support since 1989, starting at college. We
were badly hit by viruses from time to time under late OS 6 ( I
think early 7), as you can imagine - loads of students all runnign
their OS off floppies that they swapped more often than bedmates. . .
weekly scans with
On Jul 2, 2005, at 6:44 PM, The Real Seed Catalogue wrote:
Since then, I've been hit twice more. Once was only a couple of
years ago, I think on 8.5 (or was it still 7.5.5? - which was
pretty good really) . This was an evil ***er that lurked in your
system and only trashed the HD if you
on 7/2/05 5:44 PM, The Real Seed Catalogue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep, I've done mac support since 1989, starting at college. We
were badly hit by viruses from time to time under late OS 6 ( I
think early 7), as you can imagine - loads of students all runnign
their OS off floppies
the closest thing I ever had to a virus was putting on the thing that
makes the computer get happy when you plug in the power cord, i did
it to my wife's powerbook once...
They only virus I've ever seen on any of my macs is the Beeping virus.
That's hardly malicious, just annoying, and
Yep, I've done mac support since 1989, starting at college. We
were badly hit by viruses from time to time under late OS 6 ( I
think early 7), as you can imagine - loads of students all runnign
their OS off floppies that they swapped more often than bedmates. .
. weekly scans with
on 7/2/05 5:44 PM, The Real Seed Catalogue at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yep, I've done mac support since 1989, starting at college. We
were badly hit by viruses from time to time under late OS 6 ( I
think early 7), as you can imagine - loads of students all runnign
their OS off floppies
the closest thing I ever had to a virus was putting on the thing
that makes the computer get happy when you plug in the power cord, i
did it to my wife's powerbook once...
As I recall, there wee a bunch of novelty inits one dropped in the
extensions folder that did amusing things; unable to
With regard to my thread last week OS 9 Security ? , which this
thread seems to be a response to, out of posts to this list and the
PCI list
representing 1200 users NOT A SINGLE CASE OF OS 9 virus, Trojan Horse
or Worm was reported.
--
PowerBooks is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/
There were some worms that came out about the time Apple started the
Snail/Intel commercials. They just slowed the Macs down using the
auto-start feature of Quicktime and were pretty easy to disable and
remove. It hit about a dozen of my client's machines and started after
unsolicited
There were some worms that came out about the time Apple started the
Snail/Intel commercials. They just slowed the Macs down using the
auto-start feature of Quicktime and were pretty easy to disable and
remove. It hit about a dozen of my client's machines and started
after unsolicited
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