Unusual DVD behavior

I just went to insert a DVD into my PB and nothing happened, the drive did not grab the disk.
I checked System Profiler > Disc Burning, System Profiler said there were no devices available!
I restarted the machine, checked System P again, and recieved the same message.
I moved the computer closer to me to start typing this mesage, and a click kind of sound happened like the DVD drive was ejecting a disk, however there was no disk in the machine.
So I thought I'd restart again, hoping the DVD drive had come back to life. And it DID!
System Profiler sees the DVD drive, and the drive mounts and reads disks! Wohoo!
BUT... does this mean the drive is failing, or is this just some freak event?
Christo

This could be caused buy handling and how your computer is handled as well.
This is not to say you have treated it rough, it just means you could have leaned in the Optical Drive area of the case. It might be a glitch as well but remember that Laptops are precision electrical devices and they can do some odd stuff for sometimes no apparent reason

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I've been asked to create a table with unusual behaviors, and I'm a little stuck on how to implement it. The table has cells with dates and blanks in it. The following rules need to work:
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a. If the user single-clicks on the cell, the cell should be selected. At most, the date could be highlighted and copied, but not changed
b. If the user double-clicks on the cell, a popup window should appear that allows entry of detailed data about the date. This overrides the default behaviors of entering edit mode on double-click.
c. If the user presses F2, the cell should enter edit mode and allow the user to edit or remove the date. This prevents the user from accidently changing an existing date, which is supposed to be a rare occurance anyway.
2. If the cell has no date, then:
a. If the user single-clicks a cell, double-clicks a cell, or uses the keyboard to navigate to a cell and then begins typing, the cell should enter edit mode and allow the user to enter a date. Once a valid date has been entered, the rules for #1 apply.
Optional:
The user can remove a date by clearing the date, but it would be nice if they could select multiple dates for deletion.
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Torgil wrote:
PatrickRThomas wrote:
Fair enough, but in all the topics I've seen on this site, I almost never see someone respond once they've been given an answer to their question. Why call me out on it and not everyone else?It's not just you. It's becoming more and more common actually. Here's an example from only yesterday (reply 3):
[http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5340766]
Now, you may not like this, but the fact remains that this is how this particular forum works, and if you want help from the regulars here it's in your best interest to stick to the forum rules. Arguing about it almost never helps your case. (Personally I don't care much either way, but that's just me and as you can see from my posting history I'm not here very often so my opinion doesn't matter much.)
Finally, if you want help on JTables in particular, camickr is your man, so you might want to stay on his good side :-)In that thread you cited, it's fair to point out that the person never responded, but calling him a louse, etc. was uncalled for and unprofessional. If someone had politely said that I should reply to my other threads, I would have apologized and moved on. However, that's not what happened. I was called out in a way intended to humiliate me for 2 instances, not for my failure to reply, but for failing to reply quickly enough. That's what I found to be so ridiculous, and hence, my sarcasm. In the third instance, perhaps I should have responded with a "thank you" to the second response that I received. I'll take my lumps for that one. I also took offense to the suggestion that I only replied to my previous thread because I wanted help on this one. That was just a baseless accusation.
And for the record, the reason that I'm responding to this topic so quickly is that my email notifications are working this time. I do check my watchlist when I have a question that needs answering, but if I get pulled off onto another task, I may not check it for a while. I can't help that.

Please Help - Highly Unusual AddressBook Behavior

I'm having a really strange problem with Apple's address book that I was hoping somebody could give me a hand with.
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In tinkering with it a bit, I've discovered that the only way I can actually select anything (and thereby even use the address book) is do the following:
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As I stated in my post I realize that this is a highly unusual phenomenon and I really don't expect anyone here have an answer for what the heck is going on!
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Needless to say, nothing has fixed my problem!!
I would be beyond grateful if anyone could help me out with this issue, as I've run out of options here...
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Create a new account, name it "test" and see how your AddressBook works in that User acct? (That will tell if your problem is systemwide or limited to your User acct.) This account is just for test, do nothing further with it.
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On your computer, create a new recurring event with an alarm time a minute or two in the future, far enough to give you time to sync your iPhone.
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Sync your iPhone again.
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singerdf wrote:
Recently, I have been experiencing problems with my built in isight camera. All works fine after a recent start up. Then after 345 min- a couple of hours, I get the camera in use by another application error and my video icon disappears in ichat and I cannot use Photobooth. Apple has replaced the camera, done an archive and install of Snow Leopard and replaced the motherboard. Still stuck at the same place.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
If your iSight problem still occurs in more than one  app and more than one user account, the reset suggested there often restores proper function of inbuilt iSight.
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I have tried in a test account and it takes longer to fail there. I have unplugged all USB devices.k
I do not understand this.
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If so, does the problem reappear under exactly the same circumstances as before you managed to get your iSight working again?
We are really lost and confused.
I am a simple user with very few third party applications.
*If onset of your problem occurs while you are using some Flash-based video web functions*, user bcus28's suggestions about your Flash Plugin merits consideration.
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We will watch for your status update and may be able to offer other suggestions based on the details in your response.
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Unusual lParam behavior upon creating a thread

Hello,
I need some help passing a struct as a parameter to my thread.
I have a few variables in a structure and what happens is that only 2 specific values change their values upon calling CreateThread(...). I will post the code here to simplify the explanation:
struct ThreadParams {
HINSTANCE hInstance; // duh
HANDLE *hevent; // pointer to an array of 3 event handles
HWND *hwnd; // pointer to an array of 2 valid window handles
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I can show it if needed, but the declaration of tParams is at the very beginning of the WinMain, so it should be okay, I also tried declaring it as a global variable, but there was no change.
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LMB = false, SHIFT = false, constant = complex();
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if (glContext.setup(read_file("tex_vs.glsl"), read_file("tex_fs.glsl"))) {
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return glContext.error;
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prevDrawTime.QuadPart = currentTime.QuadPart;
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Spotify has 2 different account types. You can see the difference between the two at the bottom of the homepage: http://spotify.com
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I have an old version PalmOne LifeDrive (TM) with a 1660mAh battery.
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