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From: Rowland McDonnell on 26 Apr 2010 15:25 Gareth John <g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Never heard of anyone needing suckers to get into Macs, I haven't. None > > > of mine need that sort of approach AFAICT. > > > > Well, I will tell you about it tommorow as that is my job for tonight, > > to replace the disk in my iMac. The disk has arrived, so I guess I will > > use the gps mounts from the car to open it with! > > Whatever happened to those bow-and-arrow toys that my generation played > with so recklessly? A moist rubber sucker on a three-inch stick sounds > like just what you need. They were around in the mid 1990s when I had to rebuild my VF500 engine. 500cc, four cylinders, 16 valves. Not big valves, not with four of 'em per 125cc cylinder for all that it's a revvy short-stroke engine. I had to buy a cheap toy bow and arrow set - a /small/ one - to find suckers small enough to use as a grip for valve grinding. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: J. J. Lodder on 26 Apr 2010 15:36 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Never heard of anyone needing suckers to get into Macs, I haven't. > > The aluminium intel iMacs need suckers to pull the screen off, which is > how you get into them. Actually the protective glass plate in front of the screen, Jan
From: Woody on 26 Apr 2010 16:02 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > In article <1jhkm05.13wnrnl1nkn3fbN%usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk>, > usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: > > > Gareth John <g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com> wrote: > > > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Never heard of anyone needing suckers to get into Macs, I haven't. > > > > > None of mine need that sort of approach AFAICT. > > > > > > > > Well, I will tell you about it tommorow as that is my job for tonight, > > > > to replace the disk in my iMac. The disk has arrived, so I guess I will > > > > use the gps mounts from the car to open it with! > > > > > > Whatever happened to those bow-and-arrow toys that my generation played > > > with so recklessly? A moist rubber sucker on a three-inch stick sounds > > > like just what you need. > > > > The car GPS mount worked fine. I didn't realise how easily it would come > > out - it is a great design. > > > > In fact, as I talk I am waiting for the mac to boot up with its new disk > > and see if it works (before I put the final screws in!) > > So how long did that take, then, from soup to nuts? took about 45 mins to go from complete iMac, to screen off, hard disk replaced, machine completely back together and started up reinstalling the disk. Then a few hours to fill that disk up! -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Pd on 26 Apr 2010 16:08 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > g.john(a)PLUG.btinternet.com (Gareth John) wrote: > > Whatever happened to those bow-and-arrow toys that my generation played > > with so recklessly? > > And catapults, conkers, marbles, air rifles, climbing trees, ... and using your jumpers for goalposts, eh? Ah, happy memories, small boys in the park, rush goalie, four at the front one gone home for tea, beans on toast, isn't it? Oh yes... -- Pd
From: Phil Taylor on 26 Apr 2010 19:28
In article <14pbt5h1emr495hnr15kkj2nc99krvptuv(a)4ax.com>, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:11:01 +0100, Bernard Peek <bap(a)shrdlu.com> > wrote: > > >On 26/04/10 14:59, Duncan Kennedy wrote: > > > >>> So you see the moans. Not the praise. As you might expect. > >> > >> Yes - I accept that - but in relation to units sold of decent quality > >> equipment, I'm nt yet convinced that Macs are any more reliable than > >> decent Win PCs. > > > > From conversations with monks elsewhere I've concluded that the > >hardware is now about as reliable as a PC and the OS sucks a lot less > >than it once did. I'm still unlikely to spend my own shekels on one, > >even if unrecovery made that feasible. > > > http://lifehacker.com/5524704/laptop+reliability-study-highlights-the-most-stu > rdy-laptop-makers > > Apple does relatively well, across a study of 30,000 laptop warranty > events. I'm a bit dubious about the statistics presented here. To start with, the three-year failure rates ("projection") are entirely made-up; they don't have that data, so they just multiplied the two-year rates by 1.5, on the assumption that the attrition rate is the same each year. That's very dubious. Even more so is the fact that they don't give any confidence limits, so the differences shown between the brands may not be significant at all... Phil Taylor |