Reinstalling an upgraded iMac

[stj]

Re: Reinstalling an upgraded iMac

change your lock barrel - they arent expensive.

[Spork Schivago]

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if u're worried, u can get a personal protection order or restraining order if u're genuinely worried about the safety of your daughter.

btw, your mother-in-law seems to have a psychiatric condition if she thinks your daughter is her daughter. i recall a certain mental health condition where one mistakes or thinks another's child is their own. cant remember what its called tho.

however, i could just have been a freakasaurus and it could just be dementia which is NOT a psychiatric disorder. its a neurological disorder of the brain. two dissimilar, different things. i recommend consulting a doctor/shrink and finding out whats wrong.

u'd want your mother-in-law to get the best care possible for what she's suffering from and not have it develop into a toxic family relationship which is both bad for a new father like yourself and also bad for the elderly. u might wanna resolve your mother-in-law issue fast so u can concentrate on your daughter. a drained/exhausted father is as bad for your daughter as having no father at all.

I wish you could remember the name. I'll give you more symptoms, maybe that can help?

She's become paranoid. She thinks we're trying to keep our daughter from her, but she still calls her her child. She has two goats and I sent her a link about goats and some sicknesses they might get this time of the year. And all of a sudden she freaks out and says she's never coming to our house. I ask why, and she says it's obvious we don't want her here.

Do you see a connection between sending links about her goats and us not wanting her here? Because I don't.

She says she sees these ghosts and hears them. When people say they see and hear stuff that isn't there, I start thinking things like schizophrenia, maybe some type of bipolar, etc. She says she can't sleep at all. When you talk to her, it's like she's not there, like she's somewheres else.

I've tried getting her to talk to a doctor, but she says they'll just lock her up. She thinks backwards. For example, we're telling people if they're sick, not to come around right now. Our baby doesn't have the strongest immune system, right? She says we should be taking the baby around sick people so it'll get a strong immune system. She says if the baby's constipated, give the baby juice. She's way too young for juice. She says instead of taking the baby to the pediatrician, we need to take her to a real doctor, we should take her to Jessica's doctor.

She wants us to send her pictures every single day and if we don't send one, she's gets PISSED!!!! It's really like she thinks we're watching her daughter or something.

When this first started, in the hospital, when Jess was giving birth, Jess said she didn't want anyone back there but me and the people delivering the baby. Her mum tried sneaking in three times!!!! She tried taking pictures of my wife giving birth. She said she was going to post them on facebook. She got upset when I cut the umbilical cord. She said that was her job. She said she wanted to actually deliver our daughter but she said the hospital wouldn't let her, which means she asked them if she could!!!

Umm, what else. The whole saying she was going to take her for 6 months and when we said no, saying she was going to move in for a few months. She's straight up lied and told her wife we refused to let her see the baby. She says we have these rules that are too strict, but when we ask what, she says stuff like how we make her take a shower every time she comes. We never once told her to take a shower before she came!

And she wants to be reeeeeallly involved. Like going to the pediatricians with us. Before the baby was born, she said we hurt her feelings because we wouldn't let her to go the baby doctor appointments with us. Those things are personal and are meant for a wife and husband, not a mum and daughter, unless the daughter wants her mum there, you know?

It just goes on and on. We want to get her help. We gotta talk to her wife though and let her know what's going on. Her wife, we've only seen her twice now. Last time, it was very short and she yelled at my wife and me. We didn't know what was going on or why we were getting yelled at and she just stormed off. Turns out, Pam told her we said she couldn't see our daughter anymore. We never once said that, ever. It was just a straight up lie. And ever since then, whenever I call, asking for her, Pam always says she's sleeping. I think we need to drive up there sometime when Pam isn't there and just lay everything out on the table to Linda and let her know there is something very, very wrong with Pam right now. Something horribly wrong.

Jessica's dad, he still talks to his ex-wife, and Jessica's Aunt, Pam's sister, they both told us not to leave her alone with our daughter because they noticed something is wrong with her and are afraid she'd actually take her!!!

[Spork Schivago]

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change your lock barrel - they arent expensive.

The tumblers? How? I heard people say this before as well. But how the heck do you change those pesky things? I tore apart one of the knobs, I can't seem to figure out how to open up the thingamajig that contains the tumblers in it to change the key pattern or whatnot.

But also, once I get it changed, how do I get a new key that fits?

[stj]

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you buy a barrel and 2 keys as a set.

[Spork Schivago]

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you buy a barrel and 2 keys as a set.

I gotcha, I know what you're talking about now. We have a total of five knobs that need matching keys. They got codes on them, right? So I can match the same keys to the barrels so we can use 1 key for all 5 locks.

The door locks we bought are these: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Kwikset-C...-RCS/202099337

And although they look really nice on the doors, they're kinda garbage. There's a very small tolerance for the screws. For example, if you tighten them nice and snug, the bolt won't come back out after you turn the handle. So you have to loosen it up, but then it gets wobbly. So, we tighten it and then turn the knob and back the screws out, ever so slowly, until the bolt comes back out. But every so many weeks, we need to go and do it all over again, because they get too loose and start sliding around.

Maybe we should buy a better doorknob? I wonder if all doorknobs have this problem. I can't remember this happening at the old house at all.

What do you know about skelton locks? I tried googling, but I couldn't find any entry way skelton locks, just the locks for use inside the house (ie, bathroom door, etc). Do they make any for entry ways (ie, the door that takes you into the house)? We have a couple really old doors that look really really nice but have the skeleton locks. One of them, the lock needs some work, and we thought it'd be nice to replace it. I'm sure they're probably not the safest, but in the end, if someone wants in, I doubt any type of lock will stop them.

Thanks.

[rhomanski]

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There is truth to that but you can make it more difficult. Call a locksmith and find out what the good ones are. It came out a few years ago that you can get in any door just by putting the wrong key in and bump and turn the handle. Most door locks will turn while you have the tumblers all moving up from the bump. Takes about 3 seconds to get in any door. There are only a few types that won't and they are industrial types. You know that solid stainless steel knob you find in schools and hospitals and such. They've known about this since before I was born but never told anybody. If you want to keep your family safe spend a little extra. After the news pushed the story on every channel for a couple weeks, most people who want to hurt you know about it

[keeney123]

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I gotcha, I know what you're talking about now. We have a total of five knobs that need matching keys. They got codes on them, right? So I can match the same keys to the barrels so we can use 1 key for all 5 locks.

The door locks we bought are these: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Kwikset-C...-RCS/202099337

And although they look really nice on the doors, they're kinda garbage. There's a very small tolerance for the screws. For example, if you tighten them nice and snug, the bolt won't come back out after you turn the handle. So you have to loosen it up, but then it gets wobbly. So, we tighten it and then turn the knob and back the screws out, ever so slowly, until the bolt comes back out. But every so many weeks, we need to go and do it all over again, because they get too loose and start sliding around.

Maybe we should buy a better doorknob? I wonder if all doorknobs have this problem. I can't remember this happening at the old house at all.

What do you know about skelton locks? I tried googling, but I couldn't find any entry way skelton locks, just the locks for use inside the house (ie, bathroom door, etc). Do they make any for entry ways (ie, the door that takes you into the house)? We have a couple really old doors that look really really nice but have the skeleton locks. One of them, the lock needs some work, and we thought it'd be nice to replace it. I'm sure they're probably not the safest, but in the end, if someone wants in, I doubt any type of lock will stop them.

Thanks.

You can stop the screws from backing out with blue thread locker. If you ever want them to unscrew it about 22 lbs. of force to unscrew them. If you want them to be permanent use the red thread locker.
Also if you want a locksmith to key them it is a lot cheaper if you bring your locks to him instead of him coming to your locks.

[Spork Schivago]

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There is truth to that but you can make it more difficult. Call a locksmith and find out what the good ones are. It came out a few years ago that you can get in any door just by putting the wrong key in and bump and turn the handle. Most door locks will turn while you have the tumblers all moving up from the bump. Takes about 3 seconds to get in any door. There are only a few types that won't and they are industrial types. You know that solid stainless steel knob you find in schools and hospitals and such. They've known about this since before I was born but never told anybody. If you want to keep your family safe spend a little extra. After the news pushed the story on every channel for a couple weeks, most people who want to hurt you know about it

Bump keys been around for quite a while now. There's more to them then just putting a key that doesn't fit in, at least when I was looking into them. You had to file them down to the shortest peak or whatever it's called and do some other fancy shit, but when you was done, it should have been able to open any door the key would fit in.

There were some experts that were talking about it, I think they discovered these keys, a long time ago. They were saying how they were contacting lock companies and letting them know about the flaw, the lock companies didn't care. They said there was even a real easy fix, I want to say something about magnets, but they just didn't care.

[stj]

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you can get manual & electric picks and training gear from the chinese shops for peanuts.
only electronic locks are safe now.

[Spork Schivago]

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Have you see the keys Rhomanski's talking about Stj? The bump keys? They're pretty amazing. He's right, if the key fits in the lock, you can open it with just the bump key. I think that's how a lot of punks steal cars.

I want to get a manual lock picking set though. I want to learn the skill. I want to get one of those clear locks as well, so I can practice on that and see how I'm doing.

[stj]

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go look on BangGood and DealExtreme - you will be amazed how much stuff they have and how complex some is.

radial lock? no problem,
4sided "cross" lock? no problem.
side-dimple lock? no problem.
car doors? no problem.
for every problem, there is a product.

want a present for your kids? get them a translucent lock and set of picks for "training" !!!

[ChaosLegionnaire]

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lol this is starting to sound like oblivion/skyrim lock-picking. now all u need is to be a member of the thieves guild!

[Spork Schivago]

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Just a late update.

I never got that 512KB copied off the old hard drive, but I found a Samsung 250GB down in the basement. The Maxtor 250GB that was originally in the Mac is actually a little bit bigger than the Samsung 250GB. I used ddrescue to copy everything but that 512KB. Then I tried using dd to write the image back to the Samsung. It errors out, saying not enough space. The old Maxtor is something like .87GB larger.

I used gparted to shrink the partition that contains the OS and data. I then used gparted to created an hfs+ partition on the Samsung. It created the Apple Partition Map and two other "empty" partitions. Then I created the largest partition I could create (around 250GB or so). With her original Maxtor, the APM was the first partition, then there was a 128MB "empty" partition that just contained all 00's. Then the ~250GB partition with all the data, then a 5KB "empty" partition with all 00's. With gparted, it went like this:
1st partition -> APM
2nd partition -> ~250GB data partition
3rd partition -> "empty" partition
4th partition -> "empty" partition

This didn't seem to bother the iMac though. It booted just fine.

Now I'm going to purchase the RAM. I don't have any 1GB DDR sticks. I'm going for this RAM:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/2GB-KIT-2X-1...AAAOSwZ1lWgun6

That should max it out and finish this machine.

[Spork Schivago]

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Has anyone tried that Instahackintosh program?

I have a retail Mac OS X 10.5.6 ISO I'm burning to a dual layer. I'm going to download the 10.5.8 upgrade from Apple's website. If I understand what Instahackintosh is, I think I should be able to use the 10.5.6 disc and the 10.5.8 update to make a retail 10.5.8 installation DVD. That way, in the future, if I need to reinstall Mac OS X, I can do a fresh install of 10.5.8 and not have to worry about updating 10.5.6 to 10.5.8.

Any one who has done what I'm talking about doing? Thanks!

[Spork Schivago]

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Never mind. I just installed 10.5.6 and upgraded to 10.5.8. Second Mac I've done now and it's really not that hard to upgrade it. I think it'd be more work making the updated disc. Thanks though.

[Topcat]

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If you're feeling adventurous..... https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=59162

[stj]

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Linux would be best, you would have all the latest drivers for usb devices etc.