Monthly Archives: September 2004

UNICARE Needs To Go Back To Records Keeping School

I have worked for a few companies in the past — I’m not limited to Roma ISD as a previous employer — and those companies DO NOT like negative word-of-mouth advertising. In fact, one company even flat out told me as an employee to make the guests say positive words in reference to their quality...

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What We Have Here Is A Broken B-tree

After much discussion, via forums of various sites, we have decided to invest in DiskWarrior to repair our B-tree, but we will be waiting on my pay day. In the meantime, the iMac will continue to need two start-ups each time to get it running from the LaCie disk which actually still works. so far.

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Getting Along Without Much Spinning Thingy

This is the iMac the day it died. It had been sitting there for about an hour when I finally got impatient enough to manually turn the thing off. Before I pressed and held the power button, I snapped that picture. No spinning thingy under the apple. At least it was a pretty screen of...

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iMac Specifics…

Okay, here’s what I know about the iMac and its woes. The first time the iMac had troubles, I thought that it was related to my having recently repaired the permissions on the internal hard drive. Upon using the disk utility software that comes with OS X Panther, I discovered that my “B-tree” was corrupted...

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Last Raspy Breaths of a Dying iMac

Yes, the iMac is sick. Very sick. It might be dying. We think it is dying. A very slow and painful death process it has been for all three of us. The iMac. David. Me. There are few things we know for certain, but we will be setting up a new category for the costs...

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