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Comment on TMI Tuesday – I Wanted to be Lindell Cooley by JorgeV

JorgeV — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:48:48 +0000

I am South American, living in Chile and as three years ago I saw some old videos in pensacola Lindell and I was impressed by his playing and worship, I’m keyboardist and I can say that the last time I tried to get his music, I feel it is one of the top lid are of worship throughout the United States. (Sorry for my English)

Comment on I had grand plans by Dan Camp

Dan Camp — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:31:29 +0000

Been there, done that…NO FUN AT ALL! Praying for your continued recovery!

Comment on Part 4: Where Am I? by Mckenzie

Mckenzie — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:39:26 +0000

Thanks for sharing your story with us John. It resonates with me as I’m sure it will with lots of others that are (or will be) in the same boat.

Comment on Adventures in Technology – Resurrecting an iBook 3G by Robbery

Robbery — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:18:35 +0000

I am fan of Ubuntu and absolutely delighted to discover your post on running Xubuntu on the iBook. Thank you for making this helpful information available!!

Also, thanks to those generous friends who give away their old iBooks! A few months ago, I was given a iBook (PowerPC 3G-600Mhz, 640MB RAM, 20GB hard drive, OS X 10.3) and later purchased an identical used iBook that needed some repair work. Both iBooks required minor logic board repair, a new display inverter, and one had a cracked screen, that I replaced.

Once both machines were functional, I decided to install 10.4 on both. I performed clean installs and both with no issues. After a few software updates, both run rather well with 10.4.1 and are fairly fluid with 640 MB RAM. However, from time to time, during the boot process, both machines will hang during startup. At first the machines are completely unresponsive and get to where they both hang on a gray screen and become uncresponsive. It will happen 1 out of every 8-10 boot proceedures. Although this problem is isolated, it is incredibly frustrating when it occurs.

The machines will go through a similar process each time where they will not respond during power on, to taking at least 5 minutes to show any activity, to booting to a gray/blue screen and becoming unresponsive, to finally booting all the way to OS X. Getting to this point requires that I cycle the power on and off resorting to all of the various reset drills recommended by Apple and finally after 20-30 minutes of futile attemps, the iBooks return and run flawlessly. I can then reboot and the machines and have no sign of the problem (for a while anyway).

I realize the issue could be due to a flaky logic board, bad hard drive or data cable, heat, or possibly the software. I have diligently investigated and tested every hardware related possibility and cannot determine the cause. Both machines exhibit the same behavior and are essentially identical twins in terms of hardware and software. Downgrading to 10.3 did not solve the problem. In fact, the combo update to system update to 10.3.9 made both machines inoperable.

Incidentally, after doing some research I found Leopard 10.5 for Power PC available and read it will run on iBooks with a G3 processor. I may experiment with 10.5 soon.

Has anyone encountered this before with 10.4 running on iBook, PowerPC 3G-600Mhz, with 640 MB RAM? Please fill me in so that I can avoid more brain damage! Thank you in advance for any insight or suggestions!

Comment on Plan B – Pete Wilson by Grant Jenkins

Grant Jenkins — Thu, 06 May 2010 09:17:13 +0000

Great review, dude. I love that you talked about how the book did not offer a formulated approach to success or answers. That was a big take-away for me as well. There are a lot of folks out there making grand promises that can’t be realistically fulfilled, all in the name of God and “faith”.
Grant Jenkins´s last blog ..BOOK REVIEW: Plan B by Pete Wilson

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Comment on Part 3: Identity by Amy

Amy — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:04:35 +0000

Thanks for sharing your heart. It’s good to know that we are not alone in our struggles.

One thing I do know for sure is that God is never surprised at what happens. I have to believe that he can bring purpose out of situations that seem pointless.

Comment on I had grand plans by Nicole Wick

Nicole Wick — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:55:28 +0000

Hope you’re feeling better!
Nicole Wick´s last blog ..Santa and Sex

Comment on Part 1: My Confession by Nicole Wick

Nicole Wick — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 03:54:04 +0000

I’m just catching up on blog reading tonight. Wow. I totally understand. We had an experience that resulted in a similar outcome and we avoided church for almost 3 years. I’m so glad you posted this.
Nicole Wick´s last blog ..Santa and Sex

Comment on Part 4: Where Am I? by cshell

cshell — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:23:11 +0000

Just found your blog from another one…read through your story…this last post resonates with me alot. Very similiar in “where we are at”, just got there quite a bit different.

Thanks for your honesty and transparency…it is so hard to keep are eyes off of “man” and fixed on HIM. I have been betrayed by those closest to me and “getting over it” has not been easy.

God has been teaching me so much about forgivenss,pride,grace, mercy, my heart…i could go on. I’m guessing both you and I will be stronger men on the other side of this

Thank you.