stephanie is: 
grr grr…
bah. my laptop still won’t boot up past the “happy mac” icon. i have tried everything my dad and i can think of so far – including a clean install of the system software. bah bah bah! all i was doing was emptying the trash and it froze. i am so sorry streaming and one of the cams is down. my daddy is gonna talk to some mac experts tomorrow. does anyone else have any ideas?
i got two packages from my membership sale today. they just made me want to be grumpier. i am trying not to be though. the first was supposed to be a size xs pink summer dress and pink flipflops. the flipflops are backordered till the end of the month. okay. the dress is very cute and suits my coloring. their size sx is supposed to be for people who wear 0 -1 juniors. *raises hand* i am 1 – 3 on the bottom and 0 on the top. and dammit, the top of the dress is HUGE. i would need c cups to fill it out and i arely fill a AA training bra. i am going to sew it somehow to fit. it doesn’t come any smaller. the other was a pair of knee boots. a more casual leather-like chunky heel boot that i have been hunting for. it is size 7 cause i wear 6.5 – 7. they are really big. i could live with room in the foot part, but i look like i am wearing a 200lb man’s combat boots (erm, with heels, heh) or golashes or something. and there is even a stretchy panel in it… i would need my legs to swell about 4 more inces around before they would fit. i have to return them. do you think the size 6 would have a smaller calf size? perhaps i should email the store…
why can’t i have a normal body so i can find clothes that fit me? boobs would be real nice about now. i would have to gain 20+ pounds before i would make it up to an A cup (a small on prolly). and at that point my butt would have gone from a 1/3 to a 7/8 at least, making me STILL unproportioned. i have been 10ls heavier and i was still an AA (and size 0 top) but wore 5/7 pants. i was very miserable in my body at that time and refused to have a tucked-in shirt without something tied around my waist for years. i am much happier being closer to proportion, but my butt can not physically stick out less to match my flat chest any more. i have a tail bone in the way of that.
bah.
okay. grump grump grump. hopefully i got all that out of my system. sigh. i will do a camshow tomorrow. hopefully my laptop will be working my then so it can be streamed. i will do one regardless though.
Oxford University has many things about virus, and macs too.
Maybe you could find something there…
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/micros/prevent/viruses/alerts/alert_index.html
poka,
Ivan
No current mac virus will stop it booting.
Pardon me but:
From Oxford university virus database:
As of September 2000 there are approximately 60 Macintosh specific viruses and over 5000 macro viruses which can directly affect Macintoshes.
Macintoshes can also act as carriers of viruses for other platforms.
Macintosh worm Affects: Power Macintosh
Replication: Uses the QuickTime AutoPlay feature to copy itself from and to infected diskettes when they are inserted.
Example: Autostart A
Naming: There is no standard naming convention for this type of virus.
Master Boot Sector virus… Macintosh and PC
Affects: Master Boot Sector (aka Master Boot Record) of hard disks and boot sector of floppy disks. They can infect any Mac or Intel-compatable PC which is configured to boot from a floppy drive. More secure operating systems such as Windows NT can be infected but may prevent the virus from replicating.
Language: Assembler
Replication: Loads into memory when an infected PC is booted and then infects any floppy disk used in the PC. A PC which boots from an infected floppy disk becomes infected. If the BIOS settings are changed to prevent the PC booting from the floppy drive then the PC cannot become infected. Can and will corrupt master boot record to hang boot at DMI.
Example: Angelina
Naming: There is no standard naming convention for this type of virus.
Granted I am not a Mac person, but this is interesting, no?
-ivan
i doubt it is a virus… i guess anything is possible, but i don’t use that puter for email or surfing the internet and it doesn’t have a floppy drive.
interesting yes…. but you appear to have misinterpreted it…
“Master Boot Sector virus… Macintosh and PC”
The macintosh doesn’t have a boot sector – all that could be altered is the system file… (read comment below)
Hey there. :*) You are step #8 of my magical journey! Have a nice day!
and i am step #7…
You are right, mac uses a loader in master boot record called LILO. Doing fdisk /mbr would erase this and restore hard drive to original condition.
However, mac also detects if LILO is there, and doesn’t over-write it. It is possible to do DOS boot, fdisk /mbr and then do a clean re-instal of mac OS.
I hope this helps.
poka,
Ivan
I think I know you…
you would not infect your shit with microcrap…
don’t kisten to this guy. You know mac does not use LILO. Dude Mac boots off the ROM.you can’t boot a mac with dos disk..which is what you are suggesting.
Re: I think I know you…
Can you not boot mac from floppy?
If you can boot win98 from floppy, why not mac?
Does mac not produce boot disk to go to prompt only?
It is obvious that mbr is corrupted. Some way must be found to re-write it.
Hm, you criticize but you offer no suggestion for improvement.
I only suggest DOS from my experience.
Mac does use LILO. This is referenced from database library at Oxford University.
LILO is just small overlay in MBR to find MAC OS and continue to boot. IF LILO is corrupted, then machine does not know what to do, and hangs.
Re-installing does not overwrite LILO because install detects that it is there not if it is corrupted.
Linux uses LILO, win9x uses LILO, even DOS uses LILO. Of course, they are not the same, but same general idea. If there is no LILO, then how does hardware know what to do? hard drive does not com from factory with program built-in.
Only other way is to low-level format drive and start over.
-Ivan
Re: I think I know you…
I think I see confusion:
LowLevel Initial Loader (LILO) A {bootstrap loader} which loads the part of an {operating system} needed to load the remainder of the operating system. LILO was later adopted by Linux users to mean Linux Loader.
On early computers the bootstrap loader was always very short (great efforts were expended on making it short in order to minimise the labour and chance of error involved in toggling it in), but was just smart enough to read in a slightly more complex {program} (usually from a card or {paper tape} reader), to which it handed control; this {program} in turn was smart enough to read the {application} or {operating system} from a {magnetic tape} drive or {disk drive}. Thus, in successive steps, the {computer} “pulled itself up by its bootstraps” to a useful operating state. Nowadays the bootstrap is usually found in {ROM} or {EPROM}, and reads the first stage in from a fixed location on the {disk}, called the “{boot block}” in the master boot record. When this {program} gains control, it is powerful enough to load the actual {OS} and hand control over to it.
I did not mean to boot into DOS, it was just illustration because I do not know names of MAC OS’s or programs.
Sorry for confusion.
-Ivan
MacOS is NOT LINUX/UNIX. It is incapable of running DOS. It has a ROM-Boot which checks for a file called “system”. if it finds it it hands over control to that file…
Yes, but I think you missed a step. ROM calls LILO from master boot record. LILO then calls ‘system’ program on HD.
(LILO is Lowlevel Initial Loader, not Linux loader, although Linux people use it for that).
The Macintosh has NO command prompt (shell) mode. It is a completely graphical interface (Not including OS X – but we’re not talking about that here…)
There is NO MBR on HFS+ (Hierachial File System Plus – ie. Macintosh) hard disks. It is unnecesarry. The ROM itself looks for the Blessed System Folder and then searches for a file called System inside that folder. This is all done by the ROM chip itself. The computer IS getting this far already as it is getting to the Happy Mac icon. As it freezes here however I would recommend that Stephanie zaps her PRAM by holding [Command]-[Option]-[P]-[R]. This will wipe any settings that may be conflicting with hardware. However, it seems more likely to me that the system is problems from either a corrupted system file or else there is a hardware fault that is preventing the system from starting up. The most likely cause of freezes at the Happy Mac icon are SCSI conflicts… try unplugging all SCSI devices and then adding them one-by-one. Maybe it’s a problem with SCSI termination…
the prob is fixed now…but…
The powerbook series she has is IDE.
Since she locked while empting trash and rebooted it is definatly a system folder prob.
I would of booted off cd and then simply unblessed and renamed the system folder on the hard drive. Then do a clean install and move the custom files over. Doing a clean install while the screwed up system folder was present would not be a good idea since it still reads data fro mthat system folder.
As for the hard drive booting process…..dogcowguy is right.
the drive initialization just sets up the drive for storage. It imparts no MBR to it.
I wish she had a external scsi drive. Then I would tell he to hold down the option key at boot. The rom will then scan all drives for a “blessed” folder. She could of then just picked the external.
Now…Steph…upgrade the bitch to 9.1!!!!
I think we have semantic problem. So, for everyone else out there:
OK, puter 101:
On power on, computer reads ROM.
ROM has (very) small program that reads CMOS data and technical track on hard drive and transfers control. (tech track is invisible to most users unless they have binary sector editor).
MAC ROM does have more info, but not everything. It can’t know if you have setup partitions, etc.
Technical track provides data on PARTITION info for hard drive, how HD is formattted, (FAT16, FAT32, NT, HPFS, HFS+, etc.) and other info.
This is also called ‘master boot record’. ALL hard drives are setup this way, even SCSI.
I run SCSI drives and at one time had a MAC drive in re-formatted for HPFS.
Otherwise, there is no way to read hard drive.
Understand we are not even near the OS yet.
Now augmented ROM program begins to read OS data, and starts final boot sequence into OS. Only now can computer see folders, programs, overlays or anything else actually saved on HD. Now is when system files are read.
Only 2 ways to restore mbr. (1) from program that can read backup of mbr and re-write it, or (2) complete format of HD.
As for Steph’s machine, You may be right about when it locked up on trash folder, or it may be a glitch that caused an accidental scrambling of the MBR at the same time. I have seen both. I have not run MAC for years, but Windows is famous for weird glitches. (No, I do not run windows, but I take care of machines that do).
Mbr corruption is very rare. I have only seen it twice in last 10 years. First time the machine got to DMI and would go no further. Second time it got to OS2 startup screen and hung. It seems to depend on what part of mbr is corrupted and how badly. I still have not determined what corrupted it either time. Maybe just magnetic fading?
Same thing in MAC-speak:
The boot sequence applies to machines built prior to the introduction of the NewWorld architecture in the
iMac and later Power Macintosh G3 computers. The boot sequence is similar for all Macintosh computers, however the steps are
not identical. For information about the steps in the NewWorld boot sequence, see Introduction to the NewWorld Architecture
and Startup Sequence in the NewWorld Architecture.
1.Hardware is reset.
2.Open Firmware creates the device tree. This device tree is composed of all the devices found by the Open Firmware code,
including all properties associated with those devices.
3.The Name Registry device tree is created by copying the Macintosh-relevant nodes and properties from the Open Firmware
device tree.
4.The Code Fragment Manager and the interrupt tree are initialized.
5.Device properties that are persistent across system startups and are located in NVRAM are restored to their proper location
in the Name Registry device tree.
6.The Name Registry device tree is searched for PCI expansion ROM device drivers associated with device nodes.
7.PCI expansion ROM device drivers required for booting are loaded and initialized.
8.If a PCI ROM device driver is marked as kDriverIsLoadedUponDiscovery, the driver is installed in the Device
Manager unit table.
9.If a PCI ROM device driver is marked as kDriverIsOpenedUponLoad, the driver is initialized and opened, and the
driver-ref property is created for the driver’s device node.
10.The Display Manager is initialized.
11.The ATA Manager is initialized.
12.The SCSI Manager is initialized.
13.The File Manager and Resource Manager are initialized.
14.Device properties that are persistent across system startups and located in the Preferences folder in the System Folder are
restored to their proper location in the Name Registry device tree.
I go have ice cream with Ivan now, Ummm, chocolate with marshmallow…
Yum!
-Lena
you might try posting in the mac live journal community there’s a bunch of Mac"nerds" that may be able to help
Yes, this is probably best idea, instead of listening to idiots like us argue about dumb crap.:)
-Ivan
Grump Grump Grump
Steph wrote: “why can’t i have a normal body so i can fit clothes that fit me?”
You think you have it tough? I’m just a hamster… it’s real hassle finding underwear in my size… 🙂
bleh 😛
if i could share some of my t33ts i would! see, it’s one of those things… you wish you could have em when you don’t got em and you wanna get rid of em when you have too much…
too little and too much of a good thing = crap
maybe tomorrow will be better for you 🙂
*hugz*
Sizes
Don’t feel bad about being out of proportion. Most people are in some respect. I was wearing size 12 shoes when I was ten. I now wear size 14 wide.
I can only give you a guy’s perspective on boobs: Don’t worry about them. Most guys would much prefer someone that they find interesting over someone with big boobs. Besides, you already found someone who loves you very much. You’ve got it made! 🙂
Michael
[email protected]
ps. I’m not a Mac guy but if you’ve done a clean install and it’s still having problems try installing another OS on it, like Linux, to see if the hardware is at fault. (I.E. If linux runs, the hardware is good, try again with Mac, if it doesn’t run take it to a Mac store and see if they can test it out for you.) Email me with questions if you want. (http://www.linuxiso.org ready-made images to burn to a CD, most are bootable.)
i don’t think anybody has a ‘normal’ body. unfortunately, clothing fits somewhere where the average body is.. course, the average body doesn’t even exist. everybody’s unique! take me for example… wide hips, large shoulders, biggish boobs, smallish waist… well anyways shirts never fit right and well i can’t find pants that fit right either. shopping sucks! and it was supposed to be an entertaining girly occupation
call me….
I am off tomorrow.
I am a WAY certified Apple tech and a ADC ( devloper)
Moose has my phone number.
give me a call after like 10 am…cause I want to sleep late.hehe
Re: call me….
As for utils and shit..let me know what you want steph……. At my job when I say apple jump aple jumps. You would not believe the free stuff apple gives me.
Sometimes I think they try to keep me happy as much as my job tries to.
Of course, w/o braging I am uber money offers.
$40 a hour contract $62-64 a hour rollover. i know my shit. Call moose and get my number you may have to drive out to my place or my work to get some uber apps/diags but I work in ashburn
and live in lorton.
either way I will get your laptop up and runnin…
Re: call me….
it is looking like i may have to go to you… i’ll see if my dad has anything to add.
i am so confused! every test says the media is fine and the software is fine. what the hell is going on??
Re: call me….
Of course, and not to brag but I am King of England, Prince of Wales and Czar of all the Russias.
Very demanding job, no?
Re: call me….
ahaha!?
the whole concept of “proportion” doesnt have much validity… i think we just all have it ingrained in us by the media and society which tells us that people without big breasts are “out of proportion”. Thats absurd- small breasts are just small breasts- they aren’t defective large breasts or something. heh.
Models have to be in proportion so the clothes will hang correctly on them. Proportion just isnt relevant to the rest of us. If you are comfortable in your body- then that is what matters. Personally I think our bodies were carefully designed and not hastily thrown together at the last minute 🙂 … so I think you are the proportion you are supposed to be. In any event: You look great how you are- and probably looked great 10 lbs more also.
well there is some validity to proportions. either your top and bottom are symetrical or they are not. human beings are drawn to symitry – and i am drawn to it as an artist. if i was drawing something, i wouldn’t want the composition to be so bottom-heavy.
“I like big butts and I cannot lie” ?
hmm I dunno… they have done studies on symmetry in regards to human faces- scientists have found that people, even babies, respond more favorably to people with symmetrical faces- because that’s more aesthetically pleasing- it someone triggers some positive effect in the brain- i don’t know too much about it except for that…. supposedly the most beautiful people have pretty symmetrical faces. But then again- there are many exceptions to this- people can be beautiful despite a “lack” of symmetry.
As for symmetry of the upper and lower half of bodies, who knows. I know for a fact that a lot of my male friends like huge breasts on thin petite women, and none of them seem to like large breasts on a large, PROPORTIONED woman, so i think the symmetry thing doesn’t apply to bodies so much as faces.
yea… but they usually don’t like it if you like like a pre-teen boy on top.
There’s a difference between a pre-teen boy and a person who is PETITE on top.
let me put it this way: we have seen a decent portion of your boobs on your lj and website, and it is safe to say that they are, in fact, lovely. I think I speak for everyone on this.
I had major issues with my own until I realized that quality is more important than quantity. I guess the ideal for most people would be BOTH quality and quantity, but one out of 2 aint bad.
Plus, keep in mind how much big breasts sag as you age. 2 of my best friends got huge ones when they were like in 10th grade… and within just a couple years gravity had overtaken them. Yuk.
🙂
HmmmZ
Discounting some of the crap people have posted which frankly makes zero sense, even if you had a PC…
Your Powerbook uses the “New World” ROM I believe. This system has a minimal ROM (Open Firmware) that loads the real ROM from the System folder from a file called “MacOS ROM File”.
What can happen when a Mac crashes is that it doesn’t sync the file system to disk, which means the volume index doesn’t work correctly, and the Open Firmware ROM can’t load the ROM File and the Mac stops booting..
Basically, to fix this.. boot from the MacOS CD and run “Disk First Aid” on the disk, then run the “Startup Disk” control panel and reselect your system folder on the HD to startup from. This should fix any problems and the Mac should boot fine next reboot.
Good luck 🙂
Re: HmmmZ
i did that within the first 5 minutes of having the problem with no luck. i have exhausted all the normal fixes…
Re: HmmmZ
Have you tried reversing the power couplings? I would run a level one diagnostic on the plasma conduit, and recheck the phase inducers. Of course, your dylithium crystals could simply be getting old. Good luck! 🙂