In the air tonight

My iBook must have felt left out after reading in other groups about the wonkiness of various of his brethren. He was fine when I shut him down last night. This morning, however, his dial-up modem refused to dial up--the thing would get stuck in a perpetual "Dialing--dialing" do-loop until I was compelled to Force Quit/Shut Down. It took three tries before I finally got on line.

More of the same this evening. Got stuck in Dialing, necessitating Force Quit. Reboot. Thought I would do a Repair Permissions via Macaroni, but when I tried to open up System Preferences via the Menu Bar (I know that's not the name, but I'm a refugee from the PC side of the Force), all I got was a bouncy-bouncy lightswitch. Another Force Quit. Tried the modem again. Phfft. System Preferences again. Phfft again. I think I rebooted a total of 4 times.

Finally, I went into System Preferences via Finder and got into Macaroni. Did the daily fix, which hadn't run in a few days. Then I repaired permissions. After that, I went into Library Cache and dumped some temp files. Then I opened up Internet Connection and tried dialing out that way. Success.

So here I am, hoping that the Tiger upgrade fixes whatever screwiness had overtaken this system. It never seemed as solid as the iMac desktop. I've also never had so many issues as when I started doing light housekeeping on a regular basis. 12 months with only the occasional glitch. Now they seem more frequent.

In the air tonight

My iBook must have felt left out after reading in other groups about the wonkiness of various of his brethren. He was fine when I shut him down last night. This morning, however, his dial-up modem refused to dial up--the thing would get stuck in a perpetual "Dialing--dialing" do-loop until I was compelled to Force Quit/Shut Down. It took three tries before I finally got on line.

More of the same this evening. Got stuck in Dialing, necessitating Force Quit. Reboot. Thought I would do a Repair Permissions via Macaroni, but when I tried to open up System Preferences via the Menu Bar (I know that's not the name, but I'm a refugee from the PC side of the Force), all I got was a bouncy-bouncy lightswitch. Another Force Quit. Tried the modem again. Phfft. System Preferences again. Phfft again. I think I rebooted a total of 4 times.

Finally, I went into System Preferences via Finder and got into Macaroni. Did the daily fix, which hadn't run in a few days. Then I repaired permissions. After that, I went into Library Cache and dumped some temp files. Then I opened up Internet Connection and tried dialing out that way. Success.

So here I am, hoping that the Tiger upgrade fixes whatever screwiness had overtaken this system. It never seemed as solid as the iMac desktop. I've also never had so many issues as when I started doing light housekeeping on a regular basis. 12 months with only the occasional glitch. Now they seem more frequent.