Kyle Schneider

So, I’ve posted a couple times recently about my iBook. The hard drive died, I sent it in… had some issues when I got it back. Then no web browsers worked properly. Well, the hard drive is dead again (or something).
On boot, I see this screen:

What’s this mean? It’s searching [...]

I’ve spent a good bit of my night attempting to solve a problem I ran across earlier after reinstalling OS X (10.4.latest) on my iBook. Most web pages aren’t rendering correctly in any browser that I install.
Safari’s behavior:

Notice the search box. Also, uploads to flickr aren’t working.
Firefox, Camino and Opera’s behavior:

Quite a bit [...]

So besides dealing with a broken laptop, what else have I been up to?
Well, last weekend was Winter Carnival, Michigan Tech’s annual celebration of snow and alcohol. Melissa came up to see me, my brother Scott was in town and I got to see a few other people that I rarely get to spend [...]

I’ve had an Apple iBook G4 for almost 3 years now and most of the time, I like it. At 1GHz, it’s slow, especially when I try to use Photoshop CS2 and Camera Raw. I don’t have many major complaints though.
Well… technically I only have 1 major complaint. The build quality is [...]