ipod update 1 : admin 0
i don't have an ipod. but every week the software update tool wants to install the ipod update for me. sometimes i just ignore it. sometimes i mark it as inactive. that technique works for all the other junk apple wants to install on my system. but not the ipod update. it comes back. every week. other people have documented this problem. it seems to happen only with jaguar and g3's. and then only sometimes. the boards usually end up in a pretty useless discussion that goes like this: mark it inactive. didn't work. yes it does. no it doesn't. yes, no, yes, no. idiot. pumpkinhead. yeah, so anyway i tried to make it go away. somehow the login window got corrupted and crashes on boot. so os x comes up and i can ssh in. it nat's and dns's and serves static web pages. but all those apps run by finder never get launched. so admin went down. boom. this just couldn't happen last week when the dns was down too. oh no. had to be serial events. pah.