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2003 / Screen Wakes up at Inopportune Times!

« on: May 20, 2003, 11:11:35 PM »

Last night I thought I would try to temporarily fix the problem by using an astronomy app that turns the screen red.  (NightVision X.)  I set it to its lowest setting so when the screen woke up it would be almost black anyway.  The funny thing is that when the screen did turn on (at 4:00 in the morning naturally) the screen was NOT red and was at full brightness!!!  (I had set the brightness to the lowest level before.)  It exhibits normal behavior if I wait for the screen to black out and then wake it up.  (I.e. its still red and at low brightness.)  Very weird indeed...

Thanks for the links Kelly!    I'll give those a try and hopefully they will fix whatever this wacko problem is!

Even Sleepier Catrina

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2003 / Screen Wakes up at Inopportune Times!

« on: May 18, 2003, 11:25:28 PM »

Leave it to me to leave out important things like which OS I'm using!  

My machine is a dual 800 with Apple's 17" flat screen.  (So I really can't turn off the monitor.)  I'm on the latest OS X (10.2.6).  My ocean waves are from a mp3 and I use Audion to play it.  (iTunes STILL doesn't have an alarm, Audion does however.)  I've never had any trouble with the screen waking like this except for the last several weeks.  

This cron thing is an interesting idea.  Perhaps something I installed recently is causing this.  Is there a command for listing all cron processes?

Thanks for your suggestions so far!  

Catrina

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2003 / Screen Wakes up at Inopportune Times!

« on: May 18, 2003, 08:08:42 PM »

Hello!

I have a rather odd problem this time.  At night I use my Mac to play ocean waves.  (Works like a charm by the way! )  I have the screen set to black out after 5 minutes of inactivity, which of course it does.  The weird thing is that the screen will suddenly come on in the middle of the night!  As near as I can tell there is no pattern to when it will turn back on.  I thought perhaps it might be my mouse, so I unhooked it but no luck.  Then I thought it might be my USB fan somehow.  That wasn't it either.  Last night I unplugged everything USB and still the screen turns on at weird times.  The only user app that I have running at the time is Audion.

I know this is a BIG long shot but does anyone have any ideas as to what to check next?

Thanks,

Sleepy Catrina...

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2003 / Safari Beta 2 History

« on: May 11, 2003, 05:22:38 PM »

I tried removing everything as you suggested.  I did a search for everything with "safari" in it and trashed them all.  (Really just 2 folders and a plist file.)  Then I installed a fresh version.  The history still doesn't work.  Although I did notice that when I dropped by techsurvivors.net using the newly installed Safari it logged me in automatically.  There must be some pref files (for cookies etc) that I missed trashing initially.  

I also tried the new reset option (in the Safari menu) and still no luck.  It seems that the history plist file isn't ever being created in the Safari folder.  I checked on one my other machines that has an older version of Safari.  On my machine the history works as long as the app is running.  But as soon as I quit, poof no more history.  I guess I'll have to wait till the next version before the History works again.  Oh well...  

Thanks anyway!

Catrina

PS:  Does the history work for anyone else using the latest beta?

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2003 / Safari Beta 2 History

« on: May 11, 2003, 02:28:17 AM »

Hi everyone!

Ever since I upgraded to the latest Safari (Beta 2), my history has stopped working.  I've tried killing the pref files (home/Library/Safari) but nothing seems to get the History working again.  I can't seem to find anything in the Safari preferences that might relate to this either.  Am I missing something simple here?  (It's happened before! )  Any ideas on how to get it working again?

Thanks bunches,

Catrina