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Something nifty like that seems a bit more apple than the first impression of the new imac given by the latest Think Secret article.

A quick & dirty apple-ification of the Vaio W series they compare it to in vague terms comes up looking like this little piece. Certainly looks like it could be made by apple, but with the history of the iMac really being something unique, I suspect it'll be Just That Bit More.

Might as well print your own bogus money. You could even print a $699 bill. Put Darl's picture in the center. "In Laywers We Trust" or similar. That would cost you nothing, except time. If it's good enough, do a rear image, and save both as TIF files for sharing.

I'd pixelled up an SCO Dollar once. Send in 699 of them

Or 1400, your choice :)

...and couldn't resist putting a bit of a spin on it.

I've told this one on /. before, but it doesn't hurt again. It was slightly luckier than your case.

I bought a used Mac on eBay - $10 including monitor, and I thought that was a bit lucky. It arrived, and I understood why the description was "sold as is".

It'd not only been through a flood (silt and leaves all through) but had been used as a nest for mice for a good while. there was nesting material, mouse turds and pee all through the thing as well.

Thankfully, all this had happened while it was in storage :). With a rather long involved clean that included washing a motherboard under running water for ages, and completely disassembling the PSU to wash everything out, it worked. Even the HD was happy. There was a good bit of corrosion over some of the tracks and IC legs, but it doesn't seem to be getting worse after a spray over with furniture polish.

And now, I own a pet mouse. One that's just kept right out of the insides of computers :)

That is a pretty specatcular fire, but I am more interested in the naked woman on the ground in the fetal position

What do people want powering their laptops and mp3 players - a well proven electronic device with safe failure modes...

Try telling that to the user of this laptop. No it's not common, but laptop batteries DO sometimes fail spectacularly & dangerously.

Is that better or worse than a Quadra Pounder with Cheese

The most scary part is that you'd never know if they were into doing that sort of thing or not. And how old is this guy? 22! gahhhhhhhhh!

A much better (and much larger) version of the panorama has been available at the NASA site for days.

That's a pretty huge image. Take the full version and zoom around - there's proof martians have advanced technology

It's a fake, created by the owner of this site

A fake, lifted from a guy's site that does photoshop stuff. You can tell if you look closely.

site is here;

His stuff is really very good on some of it.

No, it's a fake. Geez, someone here is sure to believe _anything_ that someone mocks up in Photoshop. Take a look at his gallery of 'v-hacks' on his site.

haha nice fake on the powerbook fire.. the other photoshop work on the site (gallery here) is pretty good, some funny ones.

But you know you're going to spread FUD with this..

Oh well.

The Milk theme is one of the only ones that don't make my old monitor look fuzzy under OS X. Some other good themes, not in this contest, can be found here. ResExcellence

And some of the gaudy ones... just want to make my powerbook burst into flame.

How much you wanna bet that powerbook still boots?

I'm amazed at the complete lack of subtlety in any of these themes (ok, except for one of them which looks OK.

Does anyone here use the really black black themes? I find them a pain switching from a black desktop to a suddenly white browser window for example.

And some of the gaudy ones... just want to make my powerbook burst into flame

Quick screen capture of the entire (tiny) article here

The GDM link points to here (japanese)

The Xeon roadmap link points to another vr-zone article here (probably also slashdotted)

Kinda contentless, apart from the pic.

I came across this picture of a Mac Classic running OSX in Color linked on /. months ago. It however is a certain fake, as are most (all?) of the ones on that site.

The best hack I'd seen was on a colour classic, where an LCD was found to just fit its display, a slot loading DVDrom was mounted an inch below the display, with a slot cut out freshly, and shaped to perfectly match the floppy drive slot on a quadra of the day, and a 6500 motherboard with 500MHz G3 installed were all fit inside the case. It was -very- well done.

applefritter has the thread about it but unfortunately all the pics are now down.

A japanese fellow has done a nice tidy conversion too.

Personally, I have no problem just pixelling up the completely fake ones :)

Note: yes, I would still prefer LAME too because it's highly configurable, but it's foolish to insinuate that iTunes' encoder is inferior in any way when this clearly isn't the case.

My Canon A70 picks up the hotplate on a stove, which appears red to my eye, as a bluish purple

The Article Link

Mirror attempts:

http://www.danamania.com/starwarscar/

http://dephine.zapto.org/Slashdot/

http://www.jeffwilhelm.com/files/images/swcar/

http://cs.baylor.edu/~wilsonj/xwing.html

Would anyone else like to try? Of course, its probably too late, as all mirrors have been slashdotted...

I honestly don't know. It's bizarre. It's the same mentality as a fellow I know here who puts every reflector, sticker, and gadget outside and inside his car. antennae, bumpers, air fresheners, popup tissue holders... you name it, the car has it. Maybe some people NEED to be surrounded by clutter.

In any case, I've mirrored the pics in a smaller size:

http://www.danamania.com/starwarscar/

And a higher again one here

Easy enough to make if you download the polar shot here and apply photoshop's Polar coordinates filter.

When I lived in Sydney, one of the nearby dumps had an area where old computing equipment could be left. It -claimed- to recycle these properly, but I can't vouch for the truth behind that.

There seem to be many places that will take ancient working machinery too, and use it as donation equipment - for some people, a simple 386 is heaven. In 2001 I helped shuffle some of this stuff around, and for students who had absolutely no access to a computer for doing university work at home, a 386 that could edit text was a godsend. No, it's no use for software development or comp sci courses, but for those students who do only need to type up essays and the like, a simple machine with floppy is well appreciated and more than enough. Not every college course is comp.sci or IT.

Personally, I just get a new one and push the old ones to the side. They seem to become part of the furniture and I don't notice they're there any more :)

That is exactly what I see too, and it's much worse at smaller text sizes. Looking at the same colours on a white background seems to completely remove any focus problems, so I settle for a black/colour on white/pastel terminal :).

This is an example of what's horrible for my eyes

It's not a bad small out of the way server for the old learning experience. The whole idea of starting admins-in-training on the most minimal hardware instead of having them throw 3GHz PIVs at serving a home site that gets 5 visitors a day just begs for inefficiency down the line.

I started my site on a 33MHz Quadra. It'd still be using that if I didn't rely on quite a bit of PHP in places. There was no reason to jump up too far, so a PPC601 was the next machine up.

What the whole experience has taught me is how to keep things running efficiently by knowing the system well, and remembering never to do stupid things, like post the URL on slashdot. :)

A 20 inch powerbook? come now, that'd look so silly!

For those who don't like PDFs, the bills as .jpg

http://www.danamania.com/temp/us20bill.jpg

I liked the little relief rainbow too, so much so I scanned the front of a Quadra 700 to make it into a backdrop. It has a nice sized rainbow apple logo, and sits on my OSX backdrop as a little reminded.

The pic is here. I forget the res, it's probably still 1024x768 from when I used to use an iMac. Do with it what you like.

On the right is a Photoshopped old 15 (note the two-tone case edge and black keyboard) to make it the size of a 12.

The owner of the site specializes in making "vhacks": photoshopped dream Macs.

For a clickable comparison of the two machines in the above post, see http://www.danamania.com/temp/1512.jpg

I don't know if this was a real apple product released or a true case mod...

I don't know if this was a real apple product released or a true case mod but someone did a widescreen mac SE/30. I can't imagine trying to source one of the widescreen 9 inch displays

haha I know a dumb transexual who changed his name to dana scully because he is unhealthyly and strangely infatuated with gillian anderson

do I have the product for YOU.

All the features of a desktop in a radical new form factor :)

I've done a couple myself, especially when learning a new language, playing with different constructs provided, and finding those little unique 'features' that I don't yet understand.

If I can't differentiate between luckily stepping into a solution without understand it fully, and coming across something that the language SHOULDN'T do, I'll comment it as such. Not usually quite as concisely however :).

a grrl & her server

I'm just compiling KDE 3.1 - in the middle of part of the code (for KATE the editor I think) is

warning: why does this work?

a grrl & her server

Around the middle of July last year the drive in my web server (a 10 year old 250mb SCSI) died. The first I knew about it was an error along the lines of "device is bolixed".

It's about the most accurate error message I've seen yet - within half an hour it just wouldn't spin :)

a grrl & her server

The prompting thing I think, is a pretty likely thing. It helps, if nothing else. After I was born, my parents and I lived in a house along a river, one which we moved out of when I was 2 and a half, and into the house we lived in for the next 20 years or so.

I never would have said I remembered the old house, until I went to visit it as the whole old street/riverscape it was in was being re-landscaped. Most of the houses in the street were empty having already been bought out by the local council, and my parents took the chance to take a look through. I can't say I noticed anything about the front exterior of the place, but once inside I knew it intimately - where the kitchen was, the bricked up doorway in one of the bedrooms, the sun room and the two steps that led down into it, it all came flooding back in general terms like that. The backyard was also familiar, in its curious shape (thirty feet wide and hundreds long), the drain underneath blackberry bushes right up the back... the way it sloped off to one side...

Everything -fit- immediately, in the way that it usually takes me a few weeks to feel I know where everything is in a new place. It was an experience :).

Apart from that I can barely remember yesterday!

a grrl & her server

This is exactly what happened recently when a computer theft racket was exposed where young kids were sent to steal machines from schools here.

Whoever reported it wrote that kids were paid up to $AUS500 for each "hard drive" stolen from schools - the reality is kids were allegedly paid this much for stealing brand new fileservers and laptops.

a grrl & her server

Yes! The amiga HAS to be it. the last decade worth of "but wait till you see what's coming!" is only a small taste of what's to come.

But you can get the AmigaOne now!

alright... you can order the AmigaOne now!

...ok ok so you can place an order for the motherboard of an Amiga One now!

Still gotta wait another 6 months for the OS. Hrm. that does sound suspiciously like "wait till next year..." again.

a grrl & her server

I don't know if I want to be a mac user anymore

Personally, I prefer the new sunken-look ones, but it's fair if you like the previous...

Talking to a few other mac people I know, they're acting like Apple is on crack for ruining a GUI by changing those few little buttons. The response seemed more volatile than when flowerpower imacs appeared

We scare me sometimes.

a grrl & her server

The "Mac Is Dead"/"Apple Is Dead" thing has been going on since 1984. It's the complement to "The Amiga is coming back!" rumours :)

a grrl & her quadra

*pats you on the head*

you're drunk. go sleep it off.

a grrl & her server

'cos those of us with brit skin don't tan, we go near a window and if we're lucky we'll come away with just a few freckles. Dare to venture outside and we're burnt raw. Swapping for skin about 3 shades darker would be a nice fix!

(of course being ugly as sin is a... uhhh secondary reason :)

a grrl & her server

My sister used to work in a fabric store, and quite a bit of product from India was sold there. Rolls would arrive all bound up tightly in hessian and card, and need unwrapping/rerolling to remove the inevitable kinks in the rolls from shipping. In the middle of a roll of cream fabric were dark red stripes - which sometimes happens when ink is spilled, and that part is marked and avoided when it comes to selling. At the end of the red marks however, was a 2" sliver of finger, complete with partial fingernail and bone. ugh. At least it had dried up enough not to stink out the place.

My own personal worst was an eBay buy - a Mac IIcx that was bought "as is" as the seller had no way of testing it. No wonder, as it had been through a flood, was packed up with silt, and had a mouse nest up under the power supply, with lil mousey droppings n pee all over the place.

It worked after a (very thorough) cleaning :)

a grrl & her server

I carry quite a bit in mine, but I make sure to keep it small. Ugh. Carrying anything more than a watch bothers me.

Perhaps it's some kind of hidden luddite thing, but being laden down with gadgets isn't my idea of fun. I have enough friends who constantly carry mobile phones, a PDA (and a backup dead tree address book), security-blanket-water-bottle, not to mention a digimon keyring, auto keyless entry gadgetry, twenty keys and then the array of various jewelry-like bling.

I swear if it weren't for stretchmarks I'd probably be running around as naked as the day I was born, and happy.

(no I didn't really have a point)

a grrl & her server

"He" is a funny looking kinda guy.

"He" is a funny looking kinda guy.

Re:cobalt qube (Score:4, Interesting)
by danamania on Sunday November 10, @09:08PM (#4639885)
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Of course, I do go and post links to it here don't I :).

Yes, it is very wise of you to not include a link to your webserver, especially given what kind of hardware you're running it on.

Hey ... where's that whimpering noise coming from?