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X-Rays Of A TiBook's Interior
A reader writes: "A fine application of expensive medical equipment: producing neat desktop pictures by taking an x-ray of the guts of a PowerBook G4. Guy Mullins has the details." The actual photos are on a separate site.
Guy Mullins has the details." The actual photos are details." The actual photos are on a separate site.
I've heard that cutting and pasting can be difficult on Linux, but that's just silly.
Well, this is really cool, though I'm not sure I actually learned anything from the pictures. Except that it would be fun to have the use of a really good medical x-ray machine, along with a few household objects. But I already knew that. And you did, too, didn't you?
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Out of curiosity, are laptop batteries always made up of a large number of linked, smaller, cylindrical batteries?
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Found it on resexcellence on Friday.
Don't xrays wipe drives? I think I can see the hard drive in the xray - in the middle at the bottom - the CD drive is on the left, and the batteries are on the right I reckon.
Anyone know what effects XRays have on magnetic media? I always used to post floppies with a 'magnetic media, do not xray' sticker on em?
Fantastic images tho.
trhats cool looking. I have set the first image as my desktop wallpaper
And it's the desktop to my TiBook.
What format is that TiXray.orig picture in? (The 9.8MB one).
Now, *that's* a great desktop pattern for a tiBook.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
September 1,2001-Apple Computers(APLE) have come out with a new piece of software called iXRAY, which will, X-ray your computer for bugs. We got ahold of Steve Jobs, here is what he has to say: "While creating our latest program, iMovie we where flabergasted by the error messages that said 'bug #93827239' So we have come out with iXRAY witch will find the bug for you in your computer!" UPDATE:"It seems hours after the release there have been numerous bugs in the program which actually X-RAY your brain and get all your memmorys, it seems that a program called GATOR has put a small add-on (virus?) into the iXRAY please use caution when using iXRAY
Yes, but that makes it (extremely lame) porn, and Slashdot is not an adult site. It could get sued for leaving that there.
It appears this gentleman has a fetish for Nerf darts and has somehow tapped them as an energy source... Perhaps he got pointers from the Spud server?
I don't know about you.... but I have to place a big lead sheet over my body when I get an xray. This guy might need to rebuild his desktop file or something ;).
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Wouldn't the X-Rays damage some parts of the computer such as the hard drives, batteries, etc. etc.? I'd like to know if this computer was still usable without any odd problems after this X-Ray was taken.
void women (int money, time_t time);
I feel bad for whoever's TiBook this is... he didn't get the AirPort card! that means he has to actually leave the internet behind when he goes to the can!
(I just got my TiBook, and the airport range is less than spectacular anyway... sigh.)
CAUTION!!!!! XRaying Windows machines WILL cause your X-Raying machine to crash!
By suggesting the use of an X-Ray machine to examine the interior of this computer, you are describing a method by which one can determine the layout of the circuit board (which is protected by copyright).
Since the case is secured by a means to prevent access (screws) except as authorized by the copyright holder, you have, in effect, transported a method to bypass said method of "encryption." As such, you have potentially violated rights under the DMCA.
Please remove the description of the x-ray methodology and all links from your site. Failure to do so may make you potentially liable for copyright violation and subject to civil penalties.
DMCA - the Peter Principle of Legislation
The little guy just ain't getting it, is he?
TiGutz in Blue
;p
TiGutz plain
The 3m and 9m files will half to wait for later
Sexy stuff.
Computational Madness in a round package.
Linux? Don't you mean Stallman/GNU/Linux?
What are the 4 circles on the bottom right?
Kinda cool, see the firewire and usb ports, and the dual speakers. Even the 802.11b antenna. The battery doesnt look very hi-tech. lol
Could the X-raying of electronics be a violation of DMCA? Seems like there might be a lot of copyrighted work in there, right down to the patterning of PCBs. And an X-Ray machine certainly could be used to circumvent a factory sealed case... Should have gone to L-school
Yes, see that shadow spot in the top left? Yes, it looks serious. Looks like a mycrosoftius tumor. Probably malignant. We'll have have to remove several ASICs, the hard drive, and a few capacitors. You may even have to subscribe to Office XP. It doesn't look good. Please tell your family and have your credit card limit increased.
"Welcome to APPLE COMPUTER customer service, how may I help you on this beutiful day? My name is Mike" "Ahhh, yes I seemed to accidently X-Ray my brand new Powerbook G4 to get slashdotted but all my files seemed to get erased! What should I do?" *customer service guy faints* "Hello?" "......" "HELLO?!"
I just know that one day some sick bastard will bring his ti-book to an x-ray technician who'll be started to find a gerbil shoved up his PCMCIA slot.
Shut up you whiny "oh no the DMCA is gonna put me in jail" faggot. All you do is sit around all day and run Linux and pirate software, you hippie freak. Go back to Sweden where you can fuck JonKatz in the A-hole (you know you like it) all day.
That thing runs off 8 AA batteries!
I suppose. I know they've deleted DeCSS and scientology documents that were posted, too. Somehow, I just can't get upset at them protecting themselves.
I noticed many people mentioning the fact that this pic makes a great desktop image. I'm just curious: How many of us have even seen our desktops lately. I almost always have at least one if not more windows maximized. The most I see of my background image is when it flashes by when I flip to a new virtual desktop.
I once had to obtain a new battery for P75 laptop and that battery could not be had from anywhere. However, the cells were in Batteries Plus' catalog and they were able to rebuild the battery for me.
I used to work as a technician for a firm that rented environmental instrumentation and we recelled batteries all of the time. It is a common practice for more than just laptops.
How'd they get that in somebody's mouth to take the picture?
Strange that you would get modded -1 for this response. Suppose I will too. Damn, the meta-moderation can't happen quickly enough, as far as I'm concerned.
light is light...X-rays are X-rays. they're both electromagnetic radiation.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.--R. Wiggums
are you saying I should cluck like a chicken???
Do so while bashing her skull in with a lead pipe. Works every time!
Imagine having to postpone emergency surgery because the X-Ray techs are too busy restarting their Macs after receiving those friendly "bomb" and "Error: type xx" dialogue boxes
Well, actually.. the reason why they are using Macs is that they are a hunderd times more stable than Windoze.
To be more precice :
Mac's don't crash when they are used.
And contrary to windoze, it is very normal to work more than a month without any crash.
Macs have been used in medical imaging for years. When I was on my internship, I worked with a guy who worked at Seimens and all their work was Mac based.
alright well if you want to call me the moron, at least get it right yourself. Technically "Light" is infrared, ultraviolet, or visble. My point is that x-rays are no more harmful than visble light. If we could "see" x-rays we would call it light as well. Fundementally radio waves, x-rays, and visable light are all the same thing anyway. Which is the only thing you got right.
I'm holding out for the MRI.
"And contrary to windoze, it is very normal to work more than a month without any crash."
LOL!:
[rloef@ariel wd:rloef]$ uptime
10:51pm up 203 days, 1:00, 9 users, load average: 0.08, 0.07, 0.04
I love Macs, and my next computer will be an ibook. But let's get real here...
And contrary to windoze, it is very normal to work more than a month without any crash.
You obviously never owned a Powerbook 5300 or any other Mac running OS 7.5 :(
I love Macs, too, but anyone who would call classic MacOS "stable" is full of shit.
These images make great new desktop backgrounds... :)
in case you hadn't noticed, 'classic' MacOS is up to version 9.2.1 now...
Nor have you used win2k, I go 2-3 months between restarts, and that has been for hardware changes. (3 times)
Oh, so that's where the AirPort card slot is in these.
For the humor impaired--yes, I do know where the AirPort card goes. I do believe that the TiBook Engineering team's meeting with Steve Jobs went something like this, however:
Jobs: Wow! That's thin, and sexy! We're going to sell a billion of these! Raises and stock options for everyone! By the way, how do you put the AirPort card in?
TiBook Team: Um, AirPort card?
Jobs: AirPort--and it's Absolutely Vital that the home user be able to install this card by themselves, without fucking anything up--as simple to install as RAM. You've got that in there, right? Otherwise, you're going to be shitting Titanium bricks really soon...
Titanium Team [palming screwdriver]: Oh, right! AirPort! Hahaha, we were just fooling. Of course we have that built in! Too bad we didn't bring a screwdriver to this meeting, we'll show you how to put an AirPort card in at the next meeting! You don't really need two PCMCIA slots, right?
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Yes, I have noticed. What's your point?
at least try to be funny? or spell? or something. shit, at least show some effort for chrissakes
While I browse the web just as much as the next person, I spend a lot of my time using typing at the command line terminal. Specifically, I use aterm, which I set to be translucent (a randomly chosen hue). Images like that x-ray which are monochromatic look especially cool tinted, and because it's fairly dark, white text will look good superimposed on top. In fact, I just added it now. Thanx, Guy, you're one cool d00d!
Black holes are where the Matrix raised SIGFPE
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Don't forget he sees the image from the other side of your monitor, thus the source of the confusion.
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... is excellent if you don't run any applications or measure your uptime in nanoseconds. I've used six through ten.... the systems I've had the MOST problems with were 8.1 on an 8600 and 9.0.4 on an iMac. The most annoying- which doesn't count due to the fact that I'm payed by the hour to hassle with it- is a G3/Media 100 with 8.6.
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I had one of those HP Lovecraft moments a few months ago- I began to seriously question my sanity when I realized that the only Mac at work that hadn't been rebooted in over a month was..... my workstation. The one that was used every day, all day- a G4/733 with OS 9.1. The only time it's blown up in the last month was when I attempted to connect a bad firewire drive to it.
For UNIX, that's a fart in a hurricaine. For Windows, it's next to impossible (my boss runs Win2k and reboots at least twice before lunch, the sysadmin for the building cycles his every week or two).... and for the Macintosh OS, I'd thought it propability zero.
Wish I could get that level of uptime on my damned 9500 [G3/333, 196 RAM, Lucent USB, no-name Ethernet, Adaptec SCSI, Infinity and ATI video cards, Sonnet IDE card w/ an IBM and Fujitsu drive.... every piece of gear in the beast is made by a different manufacturer. Wouldn't stay up for more than ten minutes until I put OS X on it.
Did you see the shadowing around HD?? Maybe a virus or something.... Any recent installs of GPL software?
...I was stopped at JFK airport because they couldn't figure out what I was carrying. They could only see two almost empty boxes except for a very dark area on the X-Ray machine, and some wires coming out of it. They probably thought "someone set up us the bomb" (TM), but it actually was a pair of Labtec computer speakers. Very fine speakers, I use them since 95 without problems. But It really got me confused to explain to them what I was carrying. (english is not my native language). I also had a HD with me, but at my pocket not my backpack, so it didn 't go through the monitor, only the metal detector. Not any problem with it also, I still use it.
It's the same (size/res) as the PICT file. Pretty damn exciting.
Your mouth is like Columbus Day.
It's AAPL not APLE. Don't ask me why, as APLE isn't taken, but AAPL is the symbol they are traded under.
The properties of EM radation change drastically over the spectrum. For example, visible light is easily blocked by little solid matter, even a 1mm sheet of aluminum is enough to block all but the most intense lights. On the onther hand, radio waves will go right through. That's why you can pick up TV signals in a room, even if little outside light is getting in. Don't assume that the properties of one frequency range of EM radation necessairly apply to another.
at uni we have both macs & windows. I used the M$ boxen for a while, but decided they were a pain in the ass & switched to using the macs. of course I soon found that the macs crashed even more than the windows computers. no joke. they were unstable as fuck. one would crash on me (hard lock. completly frozen. these are imacs btw) at least once per session I used one. so I switched back to using the windows ones. of course I use one of the solaris boxen over in the COSC department whenever the room isn't full.... but they don't have many of 'em. :-(
That's funny, I'm been working on my Windows2000 box for 4 months now without a crash. Actually, it wasn't a crash, I just powered it off when I went on vacation. Stop feeding stupid stereotypes. Win2k is about a million times more stable than Win9x.
We still run a couple of machines on OS 7.5.5, I was looking at one of these the other day and it had just passed 200 days uptime, and as far as I recall the last time it was down was due to a powert-cut.
the reason they use Macs is that they've got WORK to do, and can't spend three weeks trying to work out why their graphics card drivers don't work.
That was classic intercourse!
The TiXray.orig file is in DICOM format, and I imported it into GraphicConverter. If anyone's interested, this is what GraphicConverter put in the comments:
Image Type: ORIGINAL\PRIMARYStudy Date: 20010424Acquisition Date: 20010424Image Date: 20010424Study Time: 154340Acquisition Time: 154532Image Time: 154531Accession Number: TiModality: CRManufacturer: Lumisys Institution Name: Institution Address: Referring Physician's Name: Referring Physician's Telephone Numbers: Station Name: OPACS_SENDERStudy Description: Name of Physician(s) Reading Study: Operator's Name: Administrator Admitting Diagnoses Description: Manufacturer's Model Name: Lumisys LS135 Patient's Name: PowerBook^TitaniumPatient ID: Apple Patient's Birth Date: 20010101Patient's Sex: O Other Patient IDs: Ethnic Group: Additional Patient History: Body Part Examined: Device Serial Number: clt35403.datCassette Orientation: PORTRAITCassette Size: 35CMX43CM Relative X-ray Exposure: 1713View Position: Study ID: c0a865080gq5m8Series Number: 1 Image Number: 1 Photometric Interpretation: MONOCHROME2 Pixel Spacing: 0.172\0.172 Study Priority ID: MED Requesting Physician:
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Just tried it out and it works.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
Proof that you are a complete geek when you can actually identify each of the parts on X-ray. Har, har.
-- IV
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Figuring out why, and going back to figure out what other comments we might have missed, is one of our priorities for this coming week.
To the trolls who started this meme, if you are interested in getting these problems fixed rather than just raising a fuss, the next time you find something like this, please submit a SourceForge bug. Thanks. Meanwhile, extended discussion of Slashdot's bugs on a story that's not about testing the Slash code is offtopic and should be moderated as such.
ImageJ is a Java app that will handle the file without a problem and being in Java it is x-platform. Oh, and the source code is available on the download page.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
On the other hand OS X is pretty stable. Not as stable as my FreeBSD machine (which is modestly more stable then my Linux box, but that may be hardware related), but pretty good. It did refuse to unsusspend once last month, and it does panic when you umount -f. I also tend to reboot it a little more frequently for upgrades.
fuck you moderator, this is a good point. you must be an apple geek, in which case you are biased in your moderating.
"My God! It's full of stars!"
Just x-rayed my TI. Dude, I got a lot of porn on my hard drive! See for yerself... http://www.bath-and-body.com/products/kenstixray.j pg
Actually a few days ago, when I was looking for something on Google, I came across an old /. page with nothing but empty posts. The only thing there was were subject lines.
:( (Probably something related with X on the TiBook, or dual-head support on the TiBook.)
So there's quite a few comments gone missing.
Unfortunately I haven't got the link handy any more, and I don't know the search terms for Google any more.
The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can. -- Albertano of Brescia
Yup.
Lithium-ion ones.
Time for laptop manufacturers to standardise the setup so if your Li-ion batteries go you can just swap them out for Nicads or (shock) even one-shot alkaline batteries for emergencies.
At least one digital cordless phone has Nicad AA batteries inside.
It works for portable radios (so much nicer and smaller than a Walkman) so why not in a laptop?
I installed Macintoshes into an MRI/Xray center several years ago. Two years ago we yanked out ALL the Macintoshes and replaced them with Windows NT machines. The immediate reaction on the part of the employees was "yeah! no more crashes!". It wasn't just the instability of the MacOS that was the problem. It was the stunning lack of decent client tools for development. Say what you will about Microsoft business practices but the use of Office tied into SQL server is so much simpler that cobbling together crap with Filemaker. And it scales MUCH better.
But I wouldn't want to live down in the southwest corner near all those storage tanks. I bet there are some nasty chemicals down there.
Isn't aerial photography wonderful?
Oh wait, you're saying that's a laptop?
why is everything in this thread knocked to -1? is this someone's attempt to prevent this thread from being archived?
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Hey!
I resized the x-ray to 1152x768, flipped it vertically, and played with colorization. Good wallpaper fo a TiBook. The gold one is my favorite:
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