This is very strange...

Ok. This really surprised me, with all the talk about how great Apple computers really are.
I've had my Powerbook G4 since July 8th, 2005. Yes, I got it over the summer, so I haven't had it that long.
My Powerbook has been acting sort of weird lately, I'm not sure if I had a virus on it or what. So that leads to my first question. How can I check to make sure that my laptop is virus free?
Anyways, yesterday I noticed that a couple settings were switched around, and then I opened my iTunes and noticed that all my music was gone and then iTunes was acting as if I had just installed it and was doing the whole introduction thing and everything. Thank god, I found my music safely stored in a file on my laptop and just reimported my music, which didn't take that long. Then I opened iPhoto and it did the same. All my pictures were gone and it was leading me through the whole setup process again. I was so annoyed and at first I couldn't find any of my pictures and then found half of them stored in the Pictures folder under the iPhoto library, and then found the other half in the Pictures folder but in the Kodak Easyshare file, which was strange.
Today I shut down my laptop to clean it and then after I was done I restarted it again and then all my settings were changed back to the default and the background was set to default and everything. I don't know what's going on but now all my documents are gone, which doesn't really matter that much because there wasn't anything THAT important on there, but still. I don't understand what's going on with my laptop. Should I take it in?
Thanks and sorry for the long post, I'm just concerned and want to know what's going on.
Any help is appreciated!

It's safe to say that you don't have a virus.
Have you changed anything, either on purpose or possibly by accident, relating to your log-in?
More specifically, did you change the name of your Home folder at any point after you initially set up your machine?
If so, see if this KBase article helps: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854
Tuttle

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Hello,
First of all sorry for my bad english, I hope to be enough clear to explain this strange problem.
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About one week ago, after installing the new iLife suite and iWork suite I have seen that it was impossible to connect at few web sites: Google, Version Tracker, eBay.... just this and two or three other.
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Ah.. this issue coming only on the G5 desktop with the Powerbook I haven't any problem...
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Thanks a lot

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Maxijamz wrote:
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I was having this problem. The settings on my wireless router was set to hide my IP address so it wouldn't connect. When I changed that, I connected no problem. While this is annoying since I don't want my IP address to be out there, I just switch my router when I need to connect to the App/iTunes Store. Hope this helps. It worked for me.

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Hello Everyone,
This morning I found very very STRANGE error in Adobe CS6 about text properties. Here you go.
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This is very strange error I have seen ever.
Do you guys have any reason why CS6 act like this?
also do you have any option to fix this issue?
For your information:
I just done copy past. Nothing else.
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FroQ

Wow, this is absolutely incredible... you try to parse an empty String to an int and it throws an exception... I'd never have thought.

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Form parameters are request-scoped, hence the request.getParameter("hiddenObject"); call after the submission of the second form returns a null value because the hiddenObject parameter does not exist within the second request.
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document.hiddenform2.hiddenObject2.value = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;
document.hiddenform2.submit();You will then come across a similar problem with your third drop-down if indeed you need to resubmit the form...
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{quote:title=Console.App shows this when starting Address Book}
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ever encountered this problem....................
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solved by self,
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Here is a self contained small demo of my conundrum.
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import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
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import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
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Looks like you didn't read the API for Container#doLayout().
Causes this container to lay out its components. Most programs should not call this method directly, but should invoke the validate method instead.
There's also a concurrency issue here in that the panel's components may be painted to the image before revalidation completes. And your GUI, like any Swing GUI, should be constructed and shown on the EDT.
Try this for size -- it could be better, but I've made the minimum possible changes in your code:import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;
import javax.swing.border.LineBorder;
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private static JPanel panel;
private static JLabel label;
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        panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
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        panel.add(b2 = new JButton("Two"));
        panel.add(b3 = new JButton("Three"));
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        b2.setEnabled(false);
        b3.setEnabled(false);
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        // with the actual size we want.
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        label = new JLabel();
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        button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
          @Override
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
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            panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
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            panel.revalidate();
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              @Override
              public void run() {
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                    panel.getPreferredSize().height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
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                panel.paintComponents(g);
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        frame.getContentPane().add(thingy, BorderLayout.CENTER);
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}db
edit I prefer this:import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.swing.*;
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    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setSize(400, 400);
    frame.add(panel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    frame.add(label, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    frame.add(button, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    frame.setVisible(true);
private void layoutAndPaint() {
    panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.X_AXIS));
    panel.revalidate();
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(panel.getPreferredSize().width,
            panel.getPreferredSize().height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        Graphics g = image.createGraphics();
        panel.paintComponents(g);
        g.dispose();
        label.setIcon(new ImageIcon(image));
        panel.setLayout(new BoxLayout(panel, BoxLayout.Y_AXIS));
        panel.revalidate();
}db
Edited by: DarrylBurke

This is very strange...

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