[Ti] black gunk on tibook screen / startup chime

[Kynan Shook]

"GUY K" <yugyug at mail.com> writes:
> back on the list after sometime away. I hope this issue hasn't been 
> covered
> recently.
> My tibook screen has developed some black gunk on its screen, no doubt 
> from the
> keyboard, that is impossible to remove with ordinary cleaners (I don't 
> want to melt
> the screen here...) I use a piece of paper religiously now when I 
> close the screen
> but does anyone know how I can get rid of it ?
> Also...a bit of the subject for this list but....  I have been trying 
> to replace/remove the
> apple startup chime. I have tried applescript on os9 to 
> semi-succesfully control the
> tibook vol. but is there a better way in OSX?

You should be able to just rub it off; use a soft cloth and water, and 
spend several minutes on it if you have to.  If you think you need 
something more, try Klear Screen <www.klearscreen.com>.

The startup chime is stored in the ROM, and, short of burning your own 
modified ROM (and stealing the rest of Apple's ROM, violating copyright 
law...), you can't totally remove or replace it.  The best you can do, 
as I'm sure you already know, would be to write a shutdown script to 
mute your volume when you turn off your computer.  You could go all 
power-Applescript-user and have it save your current volume before 
shutting down, and return it to the previous volume when booting up 
again.  Other than that, I don't think you have any options.

What are you doing rebooting anyway, especially in OS X???  You (and 
everybody else) should only be sleeping your computers; it's easiest to 
use, just as safe as being shut down, and as long as you use your 
computer at least once a day, it probably saves a little bit of power 
(sleep over a number of hours uses less power than starting up for 
about 3-5 minutes).


Kynan Shook
kshook at mac.com
http://homepage.mac.com/kshook/index.html