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Ashapalan said:
i tried to put a link in but couldn't get it to work after numerous attemps.

That really is a baitch. I've already imortalised it in a quote. Now millions of people will point at you in the street and say under their breath "there's that guy from the macrumors forum who didn't know how to link a url". :)

If it makes you feel any better I went to delete my 'System Folder' (that's the OS9 one) in Terminal but I left off the final quote, and therefore trashed two things instead. One was something called 'Folder' which didn't exist so that didn't matter, the other was a thing called 'System', that's the folder with a little blue X on it. That *did* matter.
 
dogbone said:
That really is a baitch. I've already imortalised it in a quote. Now millions of people will point at you in the street and say under their breath "there's that guy from the macrumors forum who didn't know how to link a url. :)

If thats the price of immortality, so be it!
 
dogbone said:
If it makes you feel any better I went to delete my 'System Folder' (that's the OS9 one) in Terminal but I left off the final quote, and therefore trashed two things instead. One was something called 'Folder' which didn't exist so that didn't matter, the other was a thing called 'System', that's the folder with a little blue X on it. That *did* matter.
Ouch... that's exactly why I prefer the other way of doing it...

rm -rf /System\ Folder

Thank God for Archive Install :)
 
Benjamindaines said:
Thank God for Archive Install :)

You're not wrong there. I felt a little pale and slightly nauseous after I did it. I like the way that you can do the most terrible thing in Terminal and you don't get any indication that anything has happened. In space, no one can hear you scream. But Achive and Install brought everything back. I've now got a complete hd clone, I took it as a warning.
 
dogbone said:
I felt a little pale and slightly nauseous after I did it.

That really is the most amazing thing isn't it? We suffer an immediate and very real physiological reaction to a non-physical stimulus.

I remember once wanting to clone a live, commercial website in the early hours of the morning and I actually entered "rm -rf important_customer_website" instead of "cp -rp important_customer_website"! Why, well I'd just deleted a load of stuff (server maintenance) and the "rm" was obviously imprinted in my thick skull. I felt sick to the pit of my stomach when I realised what I'd done.

Thank God for backup tapes!

Btw, how did this gallery thread become a "Confessions" thread? :)
 
Recently got a new Powerbook, so here's some pictures :)
I had to buy a monitor arm because I ran out of space on my desk for the Powerbook. Picked up a used one off this guy in town - man it STUNK, he was a heavy smoker... had to give it a good cleaning, and put new foam on it because it was so gross. So to all you pack-a-day-smokers, your stuff smells :p

Onto the goods!

april06-powerbook.jpg


april06-macmini.jpg


april06-decks_powerbook.jpg


april06-inaction.jpg
 
bowzer said:
Recently got a new Powerbook, so here's some pictures :)
I had to buy a monitor arm because I ran out of space on my desk for the Powerbook. Picked up a used one off this guy in town - man it STUNK, he was a heavy smoker... had to give it a good cleaning, and put new foam on it because it was so gross. So to all you pack-a-day-smokers, your stuff smells :p

Onto the goods!
Awesome, I love that last shot :)
 
jaysmith said:
i swear, when i start working again, i'm buying that monitor. more people seem to have them now.

Just got mine in the mail 2 days ago.

It's definitely nice, especially for the price (I got mine for 380 after a mail-in rebate!)

The resolution is great, the colors are nice, and it's brighter than my MacBook Pro
 
AvSRoCkCO1067 said:
Just got mine in the mail 2 days ago.

It's definitely nice, especially for the price (I got mine for 380 after a mail-in rebate!)

The resolution is great, the colors are nice, and it's brighter than my MacBook Pro
does it rotate 90degrees? thats a must in my next monitor, perfect for page layouts. also, is it vesa-mountable? because in that case i wouldn't need to rotate it.
 
So, here is mine. Here is just my iBook G4 800 MHz. I have eMac 1 GHz on the other side of the room.

Spec:
iBook G4 800 MHz
640 mb
40 gb
10.3.9

eMac G4 1 GHz
1gb
50 gb
10.3.9

Oh, and age is 12.

btw. Someone did have here setup, where was a iBook, iMac + LCD where were the same picture all of them. Whare did u get that pic? :rolleyes:
 

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