I just wanted to say that I'm taking a few days off from this forum. Not because there is no need for a break,(I like this forum totally obsessed about it, like chatting with mythbusters fan around the world) but simply cause my computer has been failing a lot"crashing mostly" more than ever. MAny people say it's because of the memory ramm inside the laptop that is malfunctioning causing to crash my whole system. I mentioned a few weeks earlier on a post in this water cooler section. That I was having Kernel panics on my Apple laptop, for all of the windows users that like system crash kind of thing. So later on today I'm taking my laptop to a macintosh specialist/technician to do a little repair on my computer. It will take three days to check the entire system and one to fix the problem it might have on the system.

I know some of you might say, we don't mind take all the time you need, you will not be missed around here. You barely post anything in this message board, plus you spent most of the time on the water cooler. But the thing is that I felt in the need to inform everyone that I will not here because of the technicalities of my laptop. But sooner than ever I will come back.

I will miss this forum and everyone.

See you later.

I always heard that an Apple computer won't crash! Maybe that's one that the mythbusters can bust?

I've seen it happen, but this is with the older Mac OS.
I have only heard stories of the latest Mac OS crashing.

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Originally posted by just-the-facts:
I always heard that an Apple computer won't crash! Maybe that's one that the mythbusters can bust?

we use Macs at my HS i can vouch, they crash, a lot

I had an old mac, it crashed a lot. It doesnt mean that is mac that is perfect every system has it's flaws.

See you when you return, how could we miss you if you never went away. xox

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I have only heard stories of the latest Mac OS crashing.

To be honest, there is no 'Mac OS' anymore; there is a Mac UI acting as a visual interface to an underlying Unix OS.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing; Unix has been around forever, and has been severely stress tested in the most hostile of environments. It is one of the most stable OSes commonly available at the moment.

Of course, you can get exactly the same OS, with a different UI, by installing Linux on any PC, for a fraction of the cost of a Macintosh. Finding applications to run on it may - or may not - be a problem; it depends on what you use it for and what sort of work you're doing on it. But if stability of the OS is your main concern, there's little or no difference, other than the Mac interface component being relatively new and untested in the same way that the Unix architecture has been.

In my opinion, the main cause of OS crashes (besides user abuse) is the size and complexity of the program. The larger the OS program, the more likely there will be problems. Unix and linux, being much smaller programs, will crash less. Windows, Vista, and etc have much larger programs. Thus, there is more likelihood of it crashing.

Hurry back, Mac, you will be missed.

Good luck with that Mac.

So isn't the technician several days late now, even giving the benefit of the doubt and a few extra days?

Small nitpick, osX is based on BEos, not on UNIX, it is a *nix variant though.

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Originally posted by kharnynb:
Small nitpick, osX is based on BEos, not on UNIX, it is a *nix variant though.

Wrong. I'm usually pretty reserved, but if wrong was a quantifiable item that would be the most of it I've ever seen in such a short sentence.

Mac OS X (it's not osX) uses a Mach based kernel with a lot taken in from FreeBSD circa the late 4.x/early 5.x timeframe (notably the bulk of "userland" or non-kernel components). It owes much to NeXTSTEP, which was the OS for the computer produced by NeXT (Steve Jobs' venture before returning to Apple).

FreeBSD is a genetic Unix derivation (not a clone like Linux) derived from the BSD 4.4-lite release which contained no AT&T/USL copyrighted code and thus satisfied the requirements of the UCB/BSD/USL settlement.

BeOS was an original OS designed for computer systems from Be Inc.. It was a great system but never really gained a market foothold. There was activity porting Linux applications to it and it may have had some degree of POSIX compliance, but it wasn't really a Unix variant any more than Windows is.

Last I heard Palm had the rights to BeOS and it was dead (and unavailable to anyone else who might want to use it). To the best of my knowledge there are no components of BeOS in Mac OS X.

I apologize if I got any of this wrong, I wrote it up quickly without going after much reference material, but I think it's pretty straightforward. I'm curious how you got your information so mixed up ...

Hello everyone, I'm back again to this board ready to begin posting.

Thanks a lot(that includes Alanna,roofingguy, lordfrogenhall, and curiousponderer also everyone else) for your kind words and your concerned. I'm glad to be back seeing everyone reply on my thread. It was nice to see, people in here telling you to come back soon to joined the MB message board again. Got to say, as corny as it may sound, I miss not only the board itself but the people who writes in them on a everyday basis. Totally miss the humor, and everything else in it. It was total madness, seeing that I couldn't log-in to see what was happening around in here. I hope that I haven't missed anything on this forum, while I was away for a few days to repair my laptop.

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Originally posted by: Roofingguy.
So isn't the technician several days late now, even giving the benefit of the doubt and a few extra days?

Well, to tell you the truth it has been an odyssey with my laptop(especially with the technician). Last week on tuesday afternoon I took my computer to be checked by a mac specialist. He was totally amazed to see me come in, with a very old mac. He literally almost handed a award, for still using that computer figuring how old it is. To let everyone know yes, it's powerbook G4 (500 MHz) that was manufactured on 2001(where portable computer where becoming the new trend of technology to people) still working fine until it got messed-up with that system crash.
Anyhow, He gave the news on friday morning that it may the memory Ram that has been installed on your computer, since I haven't made any upgrades until I bought 8 ago(probably that was the reason why it failed my system because of old ram's).

After he switched that old thing with new ones, he though that memory ram was the only problem causing that system crash, but it turn-out that the hard drive was also failing when he did further test on the system. So I had to wait almost three days for the new hard drive to arrive on the workshop, so that technician installed it on my laptop. I had to buy a portable hard drive, to transfer all my old files to the newly installed hard drive. Well, after all of that I got my computer back, working like brand new(new out of the box). It feels a bit faster than ever before.

I will come back later(to catch-up with all the old posts around in the other sections), I just wanted to let people know that I was back on business.