Subject: Problem Solving Guy #2 – Monitors and Displays

Here’s our second in an ongoing series of helpful Q&A conversations between John “Nemo” Nemerovski and Guy Serle. Nemo asks the questions and Guy ducks answering them like a felon avoids a parole officer. Uh, not that he knows anything about that. They welcome your suggestions for future topics.

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The Problem Solving Guy – 1

Based on Guy Serle’s generous, well-informed responses to John “Nemo” Nemerovski’s blog entitled “February is COMPUTER FRUSTRATION MONTH,” the duo teamed up for this first in an ongoing, unpredictable series of troubleshooting features. We welcome your suggestions for future subjects, plus any comments, wisecracks, and flames on or off the topic under consideration

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PearPC running Mac OS X 10.3 – A How To!

There it was on the net, something called PearPC, which is a G3 emulator for Windows and Linux environments. Of course, a PPC running on a Windows machine just screamed out for me to try and get it to run Mac OS-X. A quick view of the about page for PearPC at Sourceforge says Mac OS-X 10.3 runs well with some caveats. Cool, how difficult could this be?

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The Day the G5 Died
Keys Out Of Order

Gaaahhh! My hard drive is toast! And NOT the cool Roxio Toast kinda way, either! Toast as in “Hope ya got a backup, this hard drive is dead. D-E-A-D!”

(Oh, yeah, and how I saved and fixed it!)

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Stopping the Worm

By now most of us, I hope, are aware of the new vulnerability discovered in OS X. It is a very bad one and I’m sure it will be attacked by hackers very quickly. Yesterday I decided to research it and do something to defend our household Macs.

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