[iBook] wake up and back up to me

[Mark]

On Jan 14, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

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> At 9:11 AM -0600, 1/11/07, Mark wrote:
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>> On Jan 11, 2007, at 6:27 AM, Matt wrote:
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>>> I want my iBook to back up to my MyBook firewire'd external hard  
>>> drive in the middle of the night
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>> I would just open up iTunes and turn the visualizer on, that will  
>> keep your computer awake all night long.
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> This will cause your portable screen to go bad. My son has done  
> this on his last 3 PowerBooks and every one of them has had screen  
> damage from the back light continually being on. Better to turn the  
> screen all the way off.
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> Robert Ameeti
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I've been doing this for over 4 years with 2 different laptops  
without any issues. If you don't want to take the risk simply push  
the F1 key until the screen goes completely black, that should take  
care of the possible screen issues.

700MHz iBook G3       1.33GHz iBook G4
640MB Ram	                512 MB Ram
OS 10.3.9                      OS 10.4.6

"Laugha while you can monkeyboy."
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