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Category Archives: computers

Safari does not respond

This is why I keep Activity Monitor open all the time. Safari does not respond and needs a Force Quit.

This is exactly the same as using Ctrl-Alt-Del on a Windows machine and Ending a process - just needed to say that.. And it happens at the moment at least 3 times every single day. If [...]

Leopard and the daily reboot

Open apps: Firefox 3, Safari, Camino, Adium, Smultron, Twitteriffic, Marsedit, Activity Monitor (this always open), Evernote, Shovebox, Skitch, GetDropbox. There may be others, there may be less. It is NOT Spotlight - that is fully off.
Symptom: If I click a dock icon it opens Finder. If I click a link it opens in a new [...]

DSG get it wrong - unsurprisingly.

Currys.digital to close 77 stores
Wrong. I’ve bought stuff from Currys and the staff there have clues. They are polite, listen, answer without bullshit and have more than a clue each. Disappointed I have not been. So the above decision strikes me as odd. What it should have said is:
DSG raze all PC World stores [...]

Moronic tech guys

J’s laptop broke, she saw one online and bought it. It’s an Advent 9112 running Vista.
Arrives this morning and I start to set it up. Find MAC address, add to router and then try try and try to get it to connect. Eventually get the message:
“The capability of your network adapter does not match the [...]

Network oddness

Two unconnected (no pun intended) but odd events.
The router completely reset itself. No connection details, nothing. Thankfully I had a config backup so I didn’t have to put all the machines back in - I have no encryption, but mac address access control. Not perfect but it works. So the full reset was odd, but [...]