[DM-MUG] Re: questions

[Kate]

> Some really strange things have happened...My new 2 month old 
> powerbook g4 got really hot on Sunday.  So hot in the back and bottom 
> that I could not keep my fingers on it for 5 seconds.  I do not have 
> it on anything that would hold in the temp. and have not changed 
> anything.  I even lifted it up and set it a couple of inches above the 
> table and suspended it on something that allowed air flow.  That 
> didn't help either.  My battery went from 99% to 95%.  Yesterday I let 
> the battery discharge and recharged it and it is now back to 99%.  It 
> has not done it again since Sunday but then the weather has been 
> cooler.  I called Mac support and they have noted this.
>
> This morning while having several windows open and having opened 
> realone player window after downloading it, the little rotating 
> pinwheel started spinning and would not stop.  It would not allow me 
> to open or close anything.  It went wild and crazy. I closed the lid 
> to put it to sleep.  When I lifter the lid, the screen was blue with a 
> half inch white box and inside the box (you guessed it) the crazed 
> spinning pinwheel.  My mac was possessed!   I couldn't restart or shut 
> down with the upper right power off button, the 
> ctr/option/4leafclover/eject combo.  Luckily I have the missing manual 
> which said to use the ctrl/4leafclove/power combo.  That worked.  
> Whew!  What happened?  Did I do something to start this?
>
> I have been looking for a inexpensive accelerated dial up ISP and 
> found quite a few but not many support Mac in the accelerated service. 
>  Flxtek does.  The email that the company sent me this morning stated 
> that but they had not tried Safari.  Anyone  familiar with flxtek.com?
>
> Sorry this is so long.  I have never written to y'all yet and I guess 
> I had it all bottled up.  Thanks. Kate Q.
>