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And it's not a problem when that happens. The blank section is error-corrected around, and the disc works fine.

Here's one I did, with a huge oily fingerprint purposely put on a DVD before recording, it was burned, and the 'shadow' of the fingerprint shows up as a huge unburnt patch after the original print has been wiped off.

The disc worked fine afterwards, and worked fine for quite a while until I lost it.

I found quite a different result. I nabbed an old photoshopped pic I did a few years ago, and uploaded it. TinEye came back with two results, being the two source images from the photos. That's impressed the hell out of me.

Gatesfeld search results

For the full size photoshopped version, Gatesfeld if you want to try the search yourselves.

I found quite a different result. I nabbed an old photoshopped pic I did a few years ago, and uploaded it. TinEye came back with two results, being the two source images from the photos. That's impressed the hell out of me.

Gatesfeld search results

For the full size photoshopped version, Gatesfeld if you want to try the search yourselves.

Another short story, well worth the 5 minutes it takes to read, is The Hole Man by Larry Niven. It has a pea-sized planet-gobbling black hole as a central part of the storyline.

http://www.danamania.com/tmp/holeman.txt has a copy.

As others have said, the size of the Bolivian salt flats is the thing here. And they're not just big in the sense that you can measure them as larger than bonneville, they're big as in "go to google earth and see the huge white splotch on south america" big.

http://www.danamania.com/tmp/salar.jpg for a pic.

No nonononono! If you're going to prank, prank the hard issues :-)

Since most people either don't respond, respond with abuse, or tell me I can't dictate to them what to do with their web page, I gave up emailing them to ask nicely if they could host a pic of mine somewhere else if they wanted to use it. Now I just replace it like Mike did with something embarrassing to the particular site owner who's hotlinking to my images, or for myspace - more often than not I replace the image with http://www.danamania.com/temp/dontloadthis.jpg - I don't know the source of the image, but it's a 964 byte .jpg header of a 10,000 by 10,000 pixel image. It tends to completely ruin formatting on the page it's embedded into so the whole page is unusable, and it's tiny enough not to impact on my bandwidth.

It used to crash X11, make IE perform illegal instructions or freeze, and make OS X browsers beachball - but alas, in the years since I came across that file software has become more capable in handling extreme sized images :)

In case the image doesn't work for some, Yet Another Mirror at subnet mask

Dana

It's not actually mine, it's my mum's (although I did pay for it, so I suppose it is mine in a way...), and since she lives a long way away, it's hard to just pull it apart at a whim :).

However, this, this and this would suggest it's not as nice as earlier ones - particularly since you have to go in through the front, past the screen, to get at the guts of the newer models.

And I still think they could have used a (replaceable) PCIe-slotted video card without changing the iMac form factor much...

with a page width of 9,000 pixels because somebody posted a picture of a duck flying into a window with the caption "PWNED!" 14 years ago.

That's partially the 'fault' of people who run sites with images that myspace users insist on hotlinking to. I know I'm not the only one tired of finding my bandwidth is a bit less than I thought after some popular myspace git has hotlinked an image (or a whole series of them) on my site, and every poor sod reading their page loads it forevermore.

Now I just mod_rewrite all hotlinked referrals from myspace to load this 10,000 by 10,000 jpg. If it doesn't slow their machine down at least it screws up their page formatting something shocking. Hey, the web is free, they're allowed to hotlink images from my site - I make no guarantees those images will stay as they were seen of course - impolite treatment runs both ways.

Not that most of them notice. Really. Thankfully the image is just a 900 byte broken jpeg header.

This new one's definitely lacking in the interior design department.

Actually, its pretty much the same as the iMac G5 w/iSight. Granted, the iMac G5 before that looked a bit neater on the inside, but I hardly see how that matters, since the machine is not meant to be user-serviceable.

See for yourself.

They look exacly like the isight G5 iMacs. someone posted a link further up with pictures of all iMacs for comparison

People seem to have the impression that these Intel machines have been designed haphazardly, and the lack of aesthetics inside have made for many comments online that the insides must have been designed by Intel themselves to look so different to the G5s. A friend of mine has put together a picture of various models to show that they are almost identical inside to the previous model G5 iMacs. It's those G5 iMacs with iSights that introduced the messier interior, not the Intel ones.

Just so people know.

You just have to look at this photo to see where all the problems are. I wouldn't be happy with a product that showed that much scratching after a year, let alone a few weeks. If mine looked like that before the warranty was up I'd return it ASAP.

I guess by your comments it shows you're happy with being given a product that scratches up far too easily, but most people would expect more of a company like apple.

Here's the link to the photo of the nano where the ding is visible for those who are interested.

For what its worth - you actually supported the GPs case - he wasn't saying iPODs are fragile (which is what you rebutted) - he was saying he wants an indestructable mp3 player.

The current generation of iPODs (as your post so elequontlty pointed out) are not designed to be indestructable - like mobile phones, there just isn't the market for it.

I'm finding mine pretty tough. It has no case, sits in pockets and goes walking with me, sits on my messy desk, has been slept on most nights since I bought it, driven with, packed in my camera bag, it's been lost temporarily between cushions on the sofa, dropped in a mug of hot tea (oops) and been slammed in the car door of a 1960s Falcon (oops 2), which dented the back a little. It still works, the screen is crystal clear and I have to look really hard to see the two identifiable marks on the front - one an indentation on the side of the plastic, and the other is similar, but just above the click wheel - both really need looking at closely in the right kind of light to find. I've dropped it a couple of times on the desk or coffee table, I think those marks came from that.

If it's a fragile scratch-prone thing then I must have a magical nano, cos I'm seeing none of that.

photos at http://www.danamania.com/temp/nano2.jpg counting upwards. The first image is at one week old, others taken on the days since then - it's almost 3 weeks old now.

looks like it's just here!

The problem just doesn't stop there

It might support it, but city governments are doing everything they can to force copyright trash on people.

How long until we get our own government copyrighting citizens, and using copyright laws to do what they can't with the patriot act? Doesn't sound so far fetched too me.

Microsoft are too used to making ridiculous statements with no basis in reality or logic.

See here

The disclaimer notice was supposedly needed because this satirical blog entry was picked up and put on linuxtoday, osdir.com, newsforge and several other places as real news.

Why? Because MS spew the most insane rubbish as press releases, and people have been sucking it up for so long that it seems just another day when they'll release something so stupid it's unbelievable... few question their blatant propaganda so they release more and more.

This logic that more patches = less secure is just more of the same.

Recently, Microsoft security specialist David Keppelmeyer implied that businesses that adopt the Firefox browser and migrate away from using Microsoft Internet Explorer cause the fewer remaining IE users to bear a heavier brunt of attacks (fixed number attacks/number of IE users). That is, migrating away from IE is a selfish and callous measure towards the community of IE users.

Keppelmeyer also implied that black hat writers of exploits for IE deliberately used open source browsers to protect themselves from IE exploits. In the mind of readers, Keppelmeyer's qualification that "not all open source users are necessarily creating malicious software" does leave open the possibility that perhaps only 90% of open source users create malicious software.

Do you agree with Keppelmeyer's assessment?

Because people believe microsoft FUD, people listen to it, soak it up, and without critically thinking go "yeah... they're right... that's what I need".

witness this

I do know that the picture is from danamania. But come on, she is running her web server on a PowerMac 6360 - although that box is a lot more responsive than the Quadra 605 she used to run it on, we still should look for mirrors before linking to her site. :-)

To make them truly unstoppable you could combine two top brands together!. Mmmmm Apple and McDonalds.

You're right! Why get a 30" stationary display when you can have a 30" Powerbook?

You might like to know that picture was drawn by danamania the same insane amiga owner who got OS X running on a 68k. Or maybe it's still booting.

Someone tell me this isn't real? Man that's the perfect powerbook. Did apple leak a prototype or something? I think sum1 is gonna be sued.

Whoa. screw the G5 powerbook, I want a G1 Powerbook!.

Ultra portable or what?!!

http://www.danamania.com/glgallery/vhacks/quadra_p ounder/

Quatra Pounder with Cheese?

I wish I had taken the blue pill.

You're forgetting the whole Ultra-Top-Secret Mac Designs Site that's on this new-fangled interweb thingy...

NextStep in 1989 was an endless series of brilliant concepts and ideas that are just now coming into mainstream operating systems. Truly ahead of its time. As someone else mentioned, the foundations of OS X are a lot more mature than people realize. Cocoa is truly a fantastic way to develop apps. Even simple things like menu item enable/disable becomes automatic due to the way messaging works (i.e., if no methods are found to handle the Print message, then Print gets grayed out automatically).

There's an old NeXT magazine advertisement that in rather typical computer company style advertises NeXT as a big 'next big thing', proclaiming how ahead of their time they are with a list of future important things to come in desktop computing, and how they have them all.

Looking back, they seem to have done well - take a look here

Read/write optical drives, UNIX, Postscript, their OO dev environment.

Well no it was not allways an argument as older macs in 1990 did not also come with a keyboard and mouse so you could also buy any extra ones back then too and that was 15 years ago. Many performas were sold in a flexible package that did not need you to buy all apple peripherals. Anyway this is nothing new in design either there was an older mac that was almost the same as this one see this one for a photo. Only floppy drive not CD.

I like the pretty pictures that the AC posted in the parent message, but here's a disclaimer boys and girls: These pictures are from the Mac OS D's Gallery of Fake Macs.

Yes, the images are lovely, but you have Photoshop to thank for them, not Apple.

In a surprise move, McDonalds is offering a "Happy Meal" for adults. Called the "Macky Meal," it includes a budget Mac system, the Quadra Pounder, as well as a large fries and a large drink.

In a statement, Phil Schiller, VP of Marketing at Apple said, "The purpose of the Macky Meal is to satisfy the hunger of consumers for a great computer and a great meal. I'm lovin' it!"

If it is xserve-like the way that the article says, it could hold more than one PCI slot horizontally while still containing a low profile. I think even a mockup along the lines of this one could contain enough room for two PCI slots, or one AGP and one PCI at least.

Apple is about marketing to core groups that can serve them well. With the success of OS X there are thousands of enthusiasts and geeks who want a light small machine they can try OS X on. A little expansion and that would take care of a large segment of that market. Home users can still get an eMac if they want a plug & play computer with three cables and nothing more, and it comes with a monitor.

This would be a fine enthusiast box. Cheap like one of the pizza box LC cased computers from the early 90s, and even they had one nubus expansion port inside.

posted on macnn already were some mockups someone has done all ready

pizzabox
slab
Titanium

posted on macnn already were some mockups someone has done all ready

pizzabox
slab
Titanium

posted on macnn already were some mockups someone has done all ready

pizzabox
slab
Titanium

This may be very presumptuous of me, but I adored the rust image so much, and read your comment about the soft focus - I couldn't resist attempting a repair. This is it.

Wow, I knew Apples were made to look lickable on the outside but I didn't know they made the cpu look tasty bondi blue also.

As a complete newbie to digital cameras a year ago, I bought an A70, mainly because it was still a cheap consumer cam, but looked to be about the only one with manual controls on almost everything.

For me, for now, I don't need a SLR. I might want one, and surely within a couple of years I'll have one, but until then it's great to learn the basics on. If anyone had an inkling of taking up photography as a serious hobby, I'd recommend going for a cheapie with as many manual settings as you can get - unless you have no problems spending $1k+ on something you may not use much in 6 months, and whose size has become a hindrance for everyday snapshots.

For now, I'm happy still learning on the A70, and there's plenty to learn... one day I might just get out of macro mode... :)

I just picked up a Commodore 128D and surprisingly, some of the old C64 disks still work just as well as they ever did. These are floppies I've carted with me through move after move, and probably date back to the mid 1980s. Reminiscing is nice :).

I love the idea of this book's images of the old machinery. Taking photos of the older stuff I've collected is a hobby of mine, unfortunately it's still only one of those things I ought to spend more time on. poke around here for some of mine.

I just picked up a Commodore 128D and surprisingly, some of the old C64 disks still work just as well as they ever did. These are floppies I've carted with me through move after move, and probably date back to the mid 1980s. Reminiscing is nice :).

I love the idea of this book's images of the old machinery. Taking photos of the older stuff I've collected is a hobby of mine, unfortunately it's still only one of those things I ought to spend more time on. poke around here for some of mine.

From all reports yes it booted but the color map was broken on the x server so it didn't look really great. Here is what it looks like. I think it took slightly less long than expected, only four and a half days.

wrong danamania. The mac-head one is at danamania.com. Photo there too if you're desperate.

> I'd think that interesting too, maybe, but it's wrong. There are
> no air holes in the top of it.

Wrong.

Lower corners

These look like speakers, but not sure...

Internal speakers

But a good though!

Here is a larger view of the inside of the machine. It's one hell of a lot more accessible than the last imac (or any of the imacs to date, for that matter).

Reminds me of the layout of my favourite pizzabox machines - just standing up :)

Ha. I shall power my entire house with my army of one button mice

No! Not down! you must all pay your licensing fees now! Help save SCO!

> I love baked Apples.

They're not as nice looking when they're burnt to a crisp.

What the poster failed to mention was that the patent also included that it was customizable via a software program. You could open the "case prefs" and sets your case to have stripes, polka dots, etc. I am sure it could probably be animated too.

Last time a discussion of this patent was raised, the iBook and eMac power light came up as fulfilling some what apple's described. The on-light is undetectable while the machine is off, lights up a small section of the case, and seems software controllable - it acts differently under OSX and OS9, depending on whether the machine is awake, the display is sleeping, or the entire machine is put to sleep. (it pulses in os9 when the machine's display is asleep, but not when the osx display sleeps, and pulses in a different manner when the whole machine is asleep). It looks like this when the emac is on

What it ends up being in reality is just a white LED behind the translucent casing.