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Multiple Monitors for iBooks

Posted by pudge on from the i-wonder-if-the-warranty-covers-open-firmware-hacks-gone-bad dept.

nevershower writes "I found this while reading MacOSXHints. It's a firmware script for Radeon iBooks that allows them to use monitor spanning! DO NOT run this script if you have a Rage iBook. It might permanently bork your laptop." Borking is bad, especially if it is permanent.

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  1. Swedish Chef by Strog · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mmm Bork Bork Bork.

    Funny for Muppets but not funny for your laptop

  2. The meaning of bork by floydigus · · Score: 5, Funny

    A quick search on Google returned this site.

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    1. Re:The meaning of bork by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 3, Funny

      Confucious say, man who post then argue with moderator like train with no wheels: very quickly, get nowhere.

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  3. Re:Apple Laptop Keyboards Unsuitable for Unix User by tm2b · · Score: 5, Funny
    I am a long-time Unix user. That means I need to have the Ctrl key to the left of the A key.
    Oh, please. It means nothing of the sort - different Unix vendors have been placing the Ctrl and Caps Lock keys in different places for years. Look at, say, 15 years ago - 1987 - DEC keyboards, IBM RT keyboards, Sun2 keyboards, and (the upcoming) Sun 3 keyboards were very different.

    A truly long-time Unix user (vs. a "my favorite vendor's Unix" user) would be used to adapting to different keyboards and would get on to truly important personal preference wars, like emacs vs. vi, X11 vs. WM, or the OTBS.
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