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    applet hogging CPU

    Every now and then my 2008 Santa Rosa MacBook w/ 10.5.2 will have it's fan run very fast while nothing is being done. No apps open. No internet traffic. Sometimes it even happens at the login window. I've run Activity Monitor when this is occurring and found a process called "applet" that...
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    Hard freeze on awakening from sleep

    When my eMac w/ MacOS 10.4.8, 1GB RAM awakens from sleeping, I get the spinning pizza of death (SPOD) and the computer does not respond to the keyboard at all! The only thing I can do is to hold in the power button until the computer shuts off, then power up again. I am up-to-date on all...
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    SPOD upon awakening

    When my eMac w/ MacOS 10.4.8, 1GB RAM awakens from sleeping, I get the spinning pizza of death (SPOD) and the computer does not respond to the keyboard at all! The only thing I can do is to hold in the power button until the computer shuts off, then power up again. I am up-to-date on all...
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