Dear Niall

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Lucy

Dear Niall,

Can you provide Mac technical advice now that Kev has gone?

Not too sure about hardware but since OSX is unix based I can probably help with software issues

[Niall]

Originally Posted by Super Sammy!

I don't know if Niall can, but I can if you need

I also realise that I've now responded to three of Niall's past questions Dear Sammy

Don't blame me for you hijacking my thread!

[Lucy]

Originally Posted by Super Sammy!

I don't know if Niall can, but I can if you need

I also realise that I've now responded to three of Niall's past questions Dear Sammy

Sweet, although I may have fixed it now. It was playing up when installing software (examining available volumes for ages) so I booted from disk and tried to repair permissions but it wouldn't. After lots of fiddling it wouldn't boot at all but I went into single user mode and typed some shizz in that I found online and now it is operational. Not sure if it is a brief respite before my HD dies. Any thoughts?

Originally Posted by Niall

Not too sure about hardware but since OSX is unix based I can probably help with software issues

It's all Greek to me, any insight is useful.

[Niall]

I don't know about that one...I doubt installing software would cause a disc to stop booting properly, sounds like to symptoms of some underlying problem, as you say, could be a problem with the hard drive...back up anyway! Sammy?

[Super Sammy!]

Originally Posted by Lucy

Sweet, although I may have fixed it now. It was playing up when installing software (examining available volumes for ages) so I booted from disk and tried to repair permissions but it wouldn't. After lots of fiddling it wouldn't boot at all but I went into single user mode and typed some shizz in that I found online and now it is operational. Not sure if it is a brief respite before my HD dies. Any thoughts?

How old is your Mac? I've heard a few stories of hard drives stuffing up, but usually it's out of the blue rather than slow and steady. My Mac has also started slowing down significantly as the hard drive has started filling up, that could also be a reason for it. Do you have the program Onyx? It's not the speediest thing in the world but it has repair tools to help your hard drive, as well as cleaning tools and that.

I realise this is all super basic advice, but it doesn't seem like too much of a problem. If a few commands fix it, I imagine it's just disagreeing with something.

[Lucy]

Originally Posted by Super Sammy!

How old is your Mac? I've heard a few stories of hard drives stuffing up, but usually it's out of the blue rather than slow and steady. My Mac has also started slowing down significantly as the hard drive has started filling up, that could also be a reason for it. Do you have the program Onyx? It's not the speediest thing in the world but it has repair tools to help your hard drive, as well as cleaning tools and that.

I realise this is all super basic advice, but it doesn't seem like too much of a problem. If a few commands fix it, I imagine it's just disagreeing with something.

Errr, 3 and a bit years old. It's slowed up a bit, a lot of fan chuffing than there ever used to be. Upgraded the RAM recently but doesn't seem to have made much difference. I don't have that, will have a look when I get home. It was behaving all of last night so I think some permissions must have fucked up and wouldn't let it boot and single user mode fixed that.

Thinking I may have to move on from it at some point as the battery is also slowly dying, barely lasts an hour now, but I just need it to hang on a few more months.

[Super Sammy!]

Originally Posted by Lucy

Errr, 3 and a bit years old. It's slowed up a bit, a lot of fan chuffing than there ever used to be. Upgraded the RAM recently but doesn't seem to have made much difference. I don't have that, will have a look when I get home. It was behaving all of last night so I think some permissions must have fucked up and wouldn't let it boot and single user mode fixed that.

Thinking I may have to move on from it at some point as the battery is also slowly dying, barely lasts an hour now, but I just need it to hang on a few more months.

If it's working fine now, I imagine it'd be nothing major. Mine took 10 minutes to boot the other day and I was terrified Onyx is just software to keep your hard drive running as well as it can and fixes any boot errors. Three years should be fine though for age for the hardware, so wouldn't worry too much about that.

You can do a bit to help the battery life, but when it's gotten to that point, you'd perhaps go from an hour of battery life to maybe an hour and a half. My battery's health fluctuates between 75% and 90%. http://www.coconut-flavour.com/ this app here shows your battery health. I don't know if you want to bother, but you could always calibrate it (charge it up full, drain it to absolute empty, leave it for 5/6 hours, then charge it up full again, repeat if wanted).

[ninja]

Dear Niall,
everytime I have tried to change my avatar for the last few months, I get this baby; 'Upload failed due to failure writing temporary file.'
I know my file is a size which the board can handle, so what's going on please?

Thanks man!

[Niall]

Is it a gif you are trying to upload from a url?

[Dave.]

Dear Niall,
Why is there a + sign beside some names in the 'Active users viewing this thread' box?

[Super Sammy!]

Originally Posted by longan

Dear Niall,
Why is there a + sign beside some names in the 'Active users viewing this thread' box?

Just means that they're on your friends list on here. Not sure why, just is that way

[Dave.]

Originally Posted by Super Sammy!

Just means that they're on your friends list on here. Not sure why, just is that way

Oh ok, sweet

[Neil.]

Dearest Niall//Wasps/Neill/Nelly/Alternativelytsimilarname,

Eye see you bbz



lol jk via pm message. If this is a bit too much, could you either spoiler it or pm me?

[Niall]

Wasp orifices. Not approved.

[Super Sammy!]

I hate it when I wake up and vomit wasps.