Re: Power Mac Coffee Table!
It´s not technical and it´s ugly. There are many different, more constructive, more creative - and more helpful - things one can do than create fashion to image geekiness. For $600 I´d rather buy a Mac Mini. It´s far more useful than furniture that is dangerous to pets and little children. Thanks for the link, Dan. Got my blood moving faster! On 08/24/2012 11:58 AM, Dan wrote: http://www.techhive.com/article/2000340/the-classy-coffee-table-gives-old-power-mac-g4s-a-new-lease-on-life.html :) - Dan. Jon. Fashion, the attempt to image the ¨zeitgeist¨, is ephemeral at best. Few things are more disgusting than the attempt to create ¨fashion¨ from things that we work with every day. True geeks tend to ignore fashion because we are interested in practical things, things that serve us and those around us. We have a mechanical, practical, engineering desire to make things work faster and more efficiently and to make them easier to use. Serious, nerdy things are the antithesis of designing for vanity. How much fashion can you see in hospital operating rooms, in dentists´ chairs or in auto repair bays? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
Re: Has this ever happened to you?
Just a suggestion: buy the best quality CDs or DVDs you can afford and then back up the disk. For games or other optical media used often, === Use The Backup! === Store the original away where it´s dark. Read up on the lifetime expectancy (mtbf) of CDs and DVDs. Defend yourself against crap sales and manufacturing. Become the real-world tech-warrior equivalent of your game avatar. BTW, with a little research online, you can replace and even upgrade an optical drive for an economical price. If you are mechanically inclined. The only disadvantage is they´re a little noisey when pushing open a G5 door. No Fear. Jon On 08/28/2012 09:00 PM, smac0031 wrote: I got the DVD drive out of my computer. I gave up holding the whole computer at various angles and shaking it to get the cd-rom out of it. Roughly, a little over half of the cd-rom has fallen out of it. The mechanism in the DVD drive seems to be jammed and only little bits fall out now. I am seriously considering using my ship vac next, although the last time I used my shop vac on my computer I had to buy a new keyboard. I think this drive is most likely destroyed. The thing that impressed me the most is when it came apart the clip on drive door popped open and shot out the the center button bar and it flew half way across the room If you will recall, G4's have a door covering their optical drives and the button is in the center of the door and there is a plastic bar that extends over to the right where the actual button is on a CD drive to open it. It might look nice, but it's lame, if you ask me. This bar shot out of my computer. Disk read error. Maybe Apple's later system software has a very high level of copy protection that results the disk blowing up and jamming up your optical drive. That was my most favorite game ever. I guess I should quit screwing around. Mark Murphy -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
