Re:All UK beers suck, I know, I tried Boddies
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but you can look for Sam Adams, they're almost as good
I've spent years looking for Sam Adams in the UK and have yet to find any. I have to get friends and family to bring it back from the US whenever they're visiting the other side of the pond...
Until we scrapped our V-Bombers (Valiants, Victors and Vulcans - and the TSR2 had the project not be dropped) the Royal Air Force had nuclear armed bombers flying 24/7 during the Cold War.
Like the USAF the RAF also had squadrons at 15 minute alert readiness, however most wings could be in the air within 4 minutes (unsure on US alert times).
Anyway, getting back to the point, the USAF did have nuclear
armed B-52s flying 24/7 on three flightpaths IIRC, I'm a little hazy on the specifics but I remember them to be a box path encompassing Canada, Alaska and the Arctic, a flight out of the eastern seaboard which basically went to the mid Mediterranean and back, and a flight off the western seaboard?
I've got an rev. b iMac (the almost-original bondi blue style) with a dead monitor. As near as I can tell the electronics are all fine, but without a working display it won't boot. I'd love to get it running again, minimallly as a "hidden in the closet" server, or better still by finding someone with another dead iMac with a working display where I could merge the parts together into one working machine.
Rev. A-D iMacs (all the tray-loaders) can be fitted up with an ATX PSU (or keep their existing supply) and be connected to an external monitor pretty easily - As long as you don't mind transplanting parts into a generic case.
If you open the machine up, you may just be able to connect an Apple monitor to the logic board, the first few revisions used a standard Apple monitor connection for the CRT.
Can't remember a precise link at the moment, but have a hunt round on the Applefritter forums for further details.
Sorry, the UK is not the 52nd state. I know that because your health care is too cheap compared to the US
Only if you don't mind waiting until you're in a life or death situtation before you actually get treated. The only way to get effective healthcare here is to go private - or emmigrate!
Instead, the US has just purchased your foreign policy...the toy poodle (Blair) was just thrown in with the purchase.
Buy our economic policy and get a free slimey toad.
All Micro$oft products for Mac OS are very poor and crash a lot of times
I've been using Office v.X heavily since it was released and it's never crashed or failed on me yet. Internet Explorer is another kettle of fish tho...
MI5 is, in effect, a trimmed down version of the FBI - concerned primarily with threats to national security and major crimes. The "Secret Service" doesn't exist as such, officially it's MI6 or SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) although now the majority of the work of MI5 and 6 is encompassed by GCHQ.
The patch was available yesterday before you were officially allowed to buy jaguar
Unless you pre-ordered your copy from Apple and had it shipped. My copy arrived first thing Friday (23rd) morning and I was pretty surprised to find there was already a software update available...
The wheeled versions aren't protoypes or previous designs, but genuine production machinery built by Timberjack (who are a sister company to Plustech), in particular the 1270D which is another cool toy.
True, the Lockheed SR-71 is the Blackbird. It's the Sikorsky H-60 helicopter that carries the Black Hawk moniker, and at 296km/h it's one hell of a lot slower than a Blackbird too:-p
Chances are that Apple won't hold up your warranty if they find your eMac's been opened up by a dealer and had a SuperDrive fitted. It's not one of their configurations so they'll not look too kindly upon it...
With the iPod, you're stuck with 5 or 10 gigs unless you buy a whole new unit
Not so, all you have to do is pry the back off it (very easy once you've done it a couple of times) and then slot a new card in there. And if you're capable of doing that then you're more than capable of copying all the files across from the old card - particularly when you've the Unix power of OS X at your fingertips. I'm planning on doing that with mine in the next few months - now that the 20Gb drives can be had for a little over £100
What do you really expect from 10.2? I am asking because every Mac user who installed OS X was expecting a performance improvement from the next OS X upgrade, and from what I've seen, they were all disappointed. So far.
I have actually seen OS X performance improve noticeably on my iMac (G3 400) between 10.0 and 10.1.4. Apps are launching much faster and I haven't had a kernel panic for about 8 months now.
My Indigo roars along fine, by no means is it slow. But that won't stop me from buying an eMac in June...
Re:No PCMCIA? No Modem? No Thanks.
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It _is_ actually possible to put PCMCIA cards into an iBook, however it's an ugly procedure and involves a fair bit of work - two of the data pins are swapped. It's not really practical for everyday use (at least in an iBook).
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but you can look for Sam Adams, they're almost as good
I've spent years looking for Sam Adams in the UK and have yet to find any. I have to get friends and family to bring it back from the US whenever they're visiting the other side of the pond...
According to my scanner local emergency services (NE of England) are currently using 128-133Mhz - with aircraft chatter ranging from 110 to 125Mhz.
Until we scrapped our V-Bombers (Valiants, Victors and Vulcans - and the TSR2 had the project not be dropped) the Royal Air Force had nuclear armed bombers flying 24/7 during the Cold War.
Like the USAF the RAF also had squadrons at 15 minute alert readiness, however most wings could be in the air within 4 minutes (unsure on US alert times).
Anyway, getting back to the point, the USAF did have nuclear armed B-52s flying 24/7 on three flightpaths IIRC, I'm a little hazy on the specifics but I remember them to be a box path encompassing Canada, Alaska and the Arctic, a flight out of the eastern seaboard which basically went to the mid Mediterranean and back, and a flight off the western seaboard?
I've got an rev. b iMac (the almost-original bondi blue style) with a dead monitor. As near as I can tell the electronics are all fine, but without a working display it won't boot. I'd love to get it running again, minimallly as a "hidden in the closet" server, or better still by finding someone with another dead iMac with a working display where I could merge the parts together into one working machine.
Rev. A-D iMacs (all the tray-loaders) can be fitted up with an ATX PSU (or keep their existing supply) and be connected to an external monitor pretty easily - As long as you don't mind transplanting parts into a generic case.
If you open the machine up, you may just be able to connect an Apple monitor to the logic board, the first few revisions used a standard Apple monitor connection for the CRT.
Can't remember a precise link at the moment, but have a hunt round on the Applefritter forums for further details.
Sorry, the UK is not the 52nd state. I know that because your health care is too cheap compared to the US
Only if you don't mind waiting until you're in a life or death situtation before you actually get treated. The only way to get effective healthcare here is to go private - or emmigrate!
Instead, the US has just purchased your foreign policy...the toy poodle (Blair) was just thrown in with the purchase.
Buy our economic policy and get a free slimey toad.
The UK is not a Republic but is a democracy.
Completely off topic, but; Democracy my arse, we're the 52nd friggin state buddy - what with Bush and his lapdog Blair...
All Micro$oft products for Mac OS are very poor and crash a lot of times
I've been using Office v.X heavily since it was released and it's never crashed or failed on me yet. Internet Explorer is another kettle of fish tho...
I'm not even sure they're doing anything in Cork except answering phones and getting drunk.
My Windtunnel was built in Cork (or at least assembled there), but my iMac's from the Czech Republic...
IIRC, development work on the B-2 started back in '78. Anyhoo, Northrop and others have been playing with flying wing configurations since the 50's
MI5 is, in effect, a trimmed down version of the FBI - concerned primarily with threats to national security and major crimes. The "Secret Service" doesn't exist as such, officially it's MI6 or SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) although now the majority of the work of MI5 and 6 is encompassed by GCHQ.
And now I'll have to kill you...
The patch was available yesterday before you were officially allowed to buy jaguar
Unless you pre-ordered your copy from Apple and had it shipped. My copy arrived first thing Friday (23rd) morning and I was pretty surprised to find there was already a software update available...
The wheeled versions aren't protoypes or previous designs, but genuine production machinery built by Timberjack (who are a sister company to Plustech), in particular the 1270D which is another cool toy.
Knowing the history of Kangaroos and flying objects I'd have expected them to fire a few Stinger missiles at the incoming object!
True, the Lockheed SR-71 is the Blackbird. It's the Sikorsky H-60 helicopter that carries the Black Hawk moniker, and at 296km/h it's one hell of a lot slower than a Blackbird too :-p
It was Copland, not 'Copeland'
Chances are that Apple won't hold up your warranty if they find your eMac's been opened up by a dealer and had a SuperDrive fitted. It's not one of their configurations so they'll not look too kindly upon it...
Nah, G3s in Colo(u)r Classics are becoming commonplace (sort of). G4s in Colo(u)r Classics are something special.
With the iPod, you're stuck with 5 or 10 gigs unless you buy a whole new unit
Not so, all you have to do is pry the back off it (very easy once you've done it a couple of times) and then slot a new card in there. And if you're capable of doing that then you're more than capable of copying all the files across from the old card - particularly when you've the Unix power of OS X at your fingertips. I'm planning on doing that with mine in the next few months - now that the 20Gb drives can be had for a little over £100
One question: It looks as if the eMac meets the specs for Quartz Extreme. Am I right?
Yes.
Even with printed instructions it only takes 5 minutes max. I've replaced a HD and had my iMac back up and running in under 7 minutes.
I'm amazed that Apple didn't release a rack mount system years ago
They almost did, they built a prototype rack mount version of the ANS, called Deep Dish.
I don't know yet whether the Dazzle USB device will work on Mac OS X, though.
I don't know about a Dazzle USB device, but the FireWire Dazzle DV Bridge works fine under OS X, I use one to transfer video from 8mm to DV.
What do you really expect from 10.2? I am asking because every Mac user who installed OS X was expecting a performance improvement from the next OS X upgrade, and from what I've seen, they were all disappointed. So far.
I have actually seen OS X performance improve noticeably on my iMac (G3 400) between 10.0 and 10.1.4. Apps are launching much faster and I haven't had a kernel panic for about 8 months now.
My Indigo roars along fine, by no means is it slow. But that won't stop me from buying an eMac in June...
It _is_ actually possible to put PCMCIA cards into an iBook, however it's an ugly procedure and involves a fair bit of work - two of the data pins are swapped. It's not really practical for everyday use (at least in an iBook).
At one point it was a regularly discussed topic on the Applefritter Forums. See this topic @ the aforementioned forums for further information :
- Blueberry iBook monitor Hack?
- Airport slot as a PCMCIA slot???