Sleep problem update

I wrote in a comment previously:

No, it's a PowerBook G4 12", latest revision (scrolling trackpad).

It goes to sleep normally. On wakeup the light goes out and the drives make the usual noises, but the screen remains off (not blank, and not backlight-off-but-showing-an-image). The one time I tried network access, SSH just hung and ping reported, IIRC, “Host is down”.

It didn’t do this when I first got it, but I didn’t put it to sleep for a while after that so I didn’t notice exactly when it started doing this.

I had an unrelated crash today, and I decided to try something while I had the opportunity.

I turned it off, waited five minutes, unplugged everything, waited five minutes, removed the battery, waited five minutes, put the battery back in, waited five minutes, plugged it in, waited five minutes, and then turned it on again. Now it works.

Ah, modern technology.

Update’s update: Apparently if I do anything but click Sleep at the login screen, it again won’t wake up. Ngh.

GLToy 1.1

I just uploaded GLToy 1.1, a Mac OS X screen saver. From the page:

Miscellaneous OpenGL-based effects with transitions. Highly randomized. Slightly interactive (press I for help).

• Changes in version 1.1:
  • Info area and particle textures work under Mac OS X 10.3 and later, instead of having or being large white areas.
  • New effects: Voronoi diagram; point grid; infinite tunnel.
  • Plot effect has several new functions to plot.
  • Trail effect is somewhat less ugly.
  • Fractal effect has modes where subdivision boxes appear instead of disappearing.
  • Grids effect has multiple styles of grids, and may turn the camera independently of the direction of motion.
  • Chain effect: spheres will be less oversaturated; new "curl" motion mode; fixed incorrect info display.
  • Particles effect: an uninteresting motion mode has been removed.

• Sample images, from version 1.0 (4.5MB)
• Download GLToy 1.1 (152KB .dmg)
• Download GLToy 1.1 source code (92KB .dmg)