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From: Woody on 26 Apr 2010 11:30 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! -- Woody
From: Rowland McDonnell on 26 Apr 2010 12:41 Duncan Kennedy <nospam(a)nospamottersonbg.couk> wrote: [snip] > I find it remarkable the length people will go to to justify over-priced > Macs on the grounds that they are imune from viruses. I find it remarkable that people make allegations like that, for which there appears to be absolutely no evidence whatsoever. No-one's claiming `immunity from viruses'; and Macs stopped being over-priced about twenty years ago. (Macs were originally sold at an unusually high markup, on Scully's orders. That didn't work out, so they changed to a sensible price - at the start of the 1990s) N.B. There are no MacOS X /viruses/ in the wild at the moment; there is plenty of MacOS X malware out there in the wild - no viruses, but plenty of malware. So the lack of viruses really is totally irrelevant. [snip] 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: Gareth John on 26 Apr 2010 13:51 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. G. -- From Gareth John Please pull out the plug if you want to reply by email
From: Woody on 26 Apr 2010 14:27 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!) -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 26 Apr 2010 15:09
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-sturdy-laptop-makers Apple does relatively well, across a study of 30,000 laptop warranty events. Cheers - Jaimie -- When the ad says "Kills 99.9 percent of bacteria!" my reflexive response is "...and the 0.1 percent left can bench-press a truck" -- David Staples, asr |