After a week in bed and a day before I embrace the real world again Tina and I went to the Giants/Seattle game. The seats were choice (thanks to Uncle George) and even though the Giants lost, much to Tina’s dismay we had a blast. Hopefully it will not incur a relapse of my mysterious illness.
We ended our perfect day at Rockin’ Robs in Rockaway Beach. One cheeseburger with bacon and a pineapple shake please!
Safe Boot mode forces a directory check of your hard drive. This is identical to using Disk Utility’s Repair Disk or the fsck command in the terminal.
- It loads only the required kernel extensions (some of the items are located in /System/Library/Extensions)
- The cache of kernel extensions used to speed startup during normal use is ignored. (The cache file is located in /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache)
- Safe Boot only runs the Apple installed startup items (these items are in the /Library/Startup Items and /System/Library/Startup items – and these are DIFFERENT than the login items).
- Safe Boot can work around issues caused by your software or directory damage on the startup volume.
This is how you Start Up in Safe Mode:
Be sure the computer is turned off. Now press the power button. Just after you hear the startup tone, press and hold the down the shift key. Now release the shift key when you see the start up screen with the gray background with the Apple logo. During the startup, you will see “Safe Boot” on the Mac OS X startup screen.
To leave the Mac OS X Safe Mode just restart you Mac normally, without holding any keys during the startup period.
I went to Tower today and bought the best CD since Queensryche’s Operation:Mindcrime. AFI’s new album is so smooth and loud, it rocks in a way that screams hope and desperation at the same time. I encourage all of you to go out a pick up a copy…$8 @ Tower right now!
How often does a retail-based mac support dude get three days off? NEVER! So when I received my schedule for this week and had Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off I knew where we were going…more pics to come…
Pressit is a complete kit for users who want to print their own CD labels. The kit includes exPressit, a label design software application that requires Mac OS X 10.1 or higher, a set of labels for laser and inkjet printers, and the Pressit Applicator, a device used to actually apply the printed labels onto a blank recordable disc.
Make sure you check out the next big thing from Arlo and Perry, Konfabulator. Create your own widget to hang out on your desktop, mine will query my server logs and give me direct access to them.