🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <bhrkiq$5e9$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>,
 Vaughan Wittorff <"vww20"@(nospam)cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> PageNinja wrote:
> > 
> > Vaughan Wittorff  wrote: [anally added back in for completeness by VW]
> > > I have noticed a strange bug in Mac OS X 10.1.6, on an iBook.
> > > Everything will be fine for some time.  Then after some hours/days of
> > > having the machine running, often (but not always) after one or more
> > > sleep/wakeups, single- or double-clicking on the main desktop Hard 
> > > Drive icon will cause it to change to a darker-grey version (as usual) 
> > > but with one, two or three thick black horizonal bands across the icon. 
> <stuff deleted> 
> > > Has anyone seen similar behaviour?  Any educated guesses about the
> > > cause?  And most importantly: Is there a cure? (please don't say 
> > > upgrade to Jaguar or Panther - I'm intending to do that sometime 
> > > soon anyway)
> > >
> > mmfmfmf mf Jagmff om Panmff - they fix it. Annoying it was to me too. I'd
> > wait for Panmff now though.
> 
> So does that mean you used to see the same on OSX 10.1?  That would make
> me happy - at least in the sense that I'm not alone (at least didn't
> used to be until I was the last with 10.1).

This was a known bug in Mac OS X 10.1.  Many people saw it, and it was 
discussed in this forum extensively.

> And you know for a fact that Jaguar fixes it?  That would also make me
> happy.

Jaguar fixes it.

> I guess no-one would actually have a cure in OSX 10.1 though?...

There is no cure in 10.1.  However, this bug is entirely cosmetic, and 
is therefore harmless and can be safely ignored.

-- 
Tom "Tom" Harrington
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