I'm typically fairly terse in emails. For a number of my friends I have to write in a deliberately pompus or circuitous manner in order the get past their spam filters who assume a short message is spam. *sigh*
On many of the more recent drive, the level is accessed through the slot itself. It is typically in the lower right corner if viewing the slot horizontally (where you would insert a disc silk screen up)
Because I had to use this yesterday on my work Dell...
I haven't looked on my new iMac yet, but have yet to fine a Mac that doesn't have a manual eject mechanism, it's just hard to find them sometimes.
To manually eject a disc you will need a paperclip. Somewhere to the bottom right of the slot there will be either a hole for the paperclip, or there will be a press plate accessible from within the slot (sometimes it takes a little bit of feeling around carefully to find it.
These days on newer Macs I generally reboot and hold down the mouse button to eject, that way I know it's going to behave. They are pretty fast to respond assuming the 'bad' disc hasn't caused them to lock up - at which point you would need to reboot anyway.
Very young children will insert things into any slot they can find (double entendres unintended there). when I used to work as an Apple tech, I would spend plenty of time removing coins, paper clips, random junk from floppy drives and CD drives and from the cases of any Mac with large enough air vents.
Friends with young children have told me about having to have video recorders serviced repeatedly from young children putting toast and other crap in the tape slot.
When doing laptop support at the secondary school, I saw very little of this behaviour. Generally only when one child deliberately vandalised another child's laptop.
I used to work for an economics professor who was interested in computers. He had worked for a number of major banks over the years, and at one major bank he had spent sometime examining some of the code for one of the back of house systems to improve is understanding of programming.
This particular system had a history of falling over every couple of months and the bank would have to call in a specialist consultant who maintained it. The Eco Prof found a section of code which he didn't understand, and asked one of the banks' full time programmers to explain it to him.
It turned out the consultant had left a logic bomb in the problem which would go off every 60-90 days (he reset it with a random period each time he came in) requiring 'the specialist' to be called in to fix the problem at contracting rates.
The bank staff removed that section of code and the consultant got no more work from them.
Years ago they were touting gene modification to change your hair colour - I so wanted to grow emerald/jade green hair - that and flying cars, the future isn't what it used to be.
I had the same Apple Extended Keyboard II for years across a number of computers until my first iMac and USB. The keyboard lived on for several years further on my old PM8100 set up at my parents place for them to play with. It was a trouper.
I just got a new iMac about two weeks ago and I'm still trying to work out if I like the new keyboard. I'm stlil getting a lot of typos as the action is lighter than my previous keyboard.
WoW may be old, but it still has 9 million or so players world wide, so may not be old news yet - plus there's been the odd patch and expansion since release...
And if you think that Macs are only capable of simple computing, more fool you. It's a fully functional Unix environment with professional tools, sure the user interface makes using it easy, but that doesn't mean it's only used by computer novices.
This is one of the head banging on desk attitudes that always amuses me about the Mac vs. Windows debate. People always coming back to the argument that Macs aren't serious computers because you can't play games on them.
BTW my shiney new 24" iMac plays WoW just fine thanks. And my assortment of Nintendo consoles have continued to work regardless of which computer I'm currently running.
Hrm.... Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil was a campaign for nearly two years with my old D&D group. While some aspects of it were great, the sheer size of it meant that with any sore of decent AI for the mobs the party should have had no chance.
The balance of approximately 7 encounters should fully deplete your characters reserves and require them to rest held true - then the enemy creatures should have been able to communicate between themselves and set up a impregnable defense.
The amount of work required as a GM to keep track of which mobs had moved out of their original zones was hellish, and tracking loot drops of magical items was a huge admin task all of it's own (if identify was played as per the rules, the players generally couldn't identify every item when they picked it up - so it could be hours if not sessions later you were telling them what they had looted).
In part it is the module layout which complicates the admin - I ende dup using checklists of key items required later in the module to see when they had been looted and subsequently identified, and to check off which room's mobs had been encountered and killed (and in which location). While it made running the sessions easier, it mean tI spent nearly as much time on sessions prep as I did runing the sessions.
Personally I just use TextEdit in plain text mode on a Mac or EditPad on a Windows box. It has the advantage of sohpisticated find/replace is required and the ability to just type without formatting getting in the way when composing documents of any length. On a Mac, the OS provides the spell checker, no need for an extra one built into the application.
might also try taking a pencil eraser to the print nozzles. Don't ask me why this works.
The reason this works is the ink is corrosive and minute leakage (or even oil from you hands from handling the cartridge) can result in oxidation of the contacts which allow the printer to pass information to the printhead as to what to print.
The eraser across the contacts removes the oxidation without damaging the contacts. And - yes it works. I recommend using a good quality plastic eraser like a Staedtler Mars Plastic.
Actually, there are certain reasons for businesses to use inkjet printers, but they are quite specific.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of many laser based wide format printers which are frequently used for engineering drawings and the like. Almost all wideformat printers on the market these days are inkjet based - though they tend not to use pissy little cartridges but pump systems for supplying the ink.
Another use for inkjet printers is for printers proofs of documents which will be produced using process colours on offset - you get a more accurate proof than using laser printing technologies.
For general business reports type printing there is almost no circumstance where inkjets will be cheaper/more effective than laser printers - I have modelled this down to printing only a handful of pages per day (at which point te carts can go bad/expire before used and the cost of cartridges will exceed a low cost laser still).
Disclaimer - I work for Xerox in conducting printer fleet and production audits.
Actually, you can 'chip' toner cartirdages, and Lexmark (I think it was) went after a guy for reverse engineering the chipping on their carts under the DMCA laws. about 2-3 years back.
The biggest competitor to stand alone laser printers in the large office market is MFDs from Xerox/Canon/Minolta etc... which lease the device to the customer then charge them per impression to use the device, where the impression charge includes toner and a full service and maintenance contract for around a cent per page or less depending on the expected volumes (more for colour).
Making toner cartridges more expensive would kill the laser printer market stone cold.
Personally I have a 8 year old Apple LaserWriter 4/600PS that gets a new cartridge every couple of yeara depending on how much I print at home. Less now that I work for Xerox with 'free' bulk mono and colour printing.
I get that you were joking, but I suspect it's more like where do small rocks come from?
The two options are accretion (collection and bonding of smaller particles or concepts to gether to form a greater whole) or disintergration (breaking apart of a larger whole - only fragments remain).
In this country Sony DVD players were the only ones that wern't reliably region free (big deal if you want discs from other regions, which are legal and sold openly).
Hrm... when I bought my home theatre system a few years back one of the deciding factors in going with Sony was that all their DVD players were multi-region from the factory - they just didn't advertise it.
I'm guessing from your user name that you are also located in Australia.
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That's a lot of Bloodsail pirates you're going to have to kill...
I'm typically fairly terse in emails. For a number of my friends I have to write in a deliberately pompus or circuitous manner in order the get past their spam filters who assume a short message is spam. *sigh*
On many of the more recent drive, the level is accessed through the slot itself. It is typically in the lower right corner if viewing the slot horizontally (where you would insert a disc silk screen up)
No - I"m not humour impaired.
Yes, it is the bottom right corner.
Because I had to use this yesterday on my work Dell...
I haven't looked on my new iMac yet, but have yet to fine a Mac that doesn't have a manual eject mechanism, it's just hard to find them sometimes.
To manually eject a disc you will need a paperclip. Somewhere to the bottom right of the slot there will be either a hole for the paperclip, or there will be a press plate accessible from within the slot (sometimes it takes a little bit of feeling around carefully to find it.
These days on newer Macs I generally reboot and hold down the mouse button to eject, that way I know it's going to behave. They are pretty fast to respond assuming the 'bad' disc hasn't caused them to lock up - at which point you would need to reboot anyway.
Very young children will insert things into any slot they can find (double entendres unintended there). when I used to work as an Apple tech, I would spend plenty of time removing coins, paper clips, random junk from floppy drives and CD drives and from the cases of any Mac with large enough air vents.
Friends with young children have told me about having to have video recorders serviced repeatedly from young children putting toast and other crap in the tape slot.
When doing laptop support at the secondary school, I saw very little of this behaviour. Generally only when one child deliberately vandalised another child's laptop.
Depends - did you have tutorials and team events etc... at home.
To confuse you even further - in Australia the term "college" can also refer to the Halls of Residence attached to a given University.
For example, I was a resident at International House College, while enrolled at University of Melbourne.
Thus I attened both College and University at the same time.
If no one else has said it already - the key skills they need are numeracy, literacy and critical thinking. Everything else can be learned later.
I used to work for an economics professor who was interested in computers. He had worked for a number of major banks over the years, and at one major bank he had spent sometime examining some of the code for one of the back of house systems to improve is understanding of programming.
This particular system had a history of falling over every couple of months and the bank would have to call in a specialist consultant who maintained it. The Eco Prof found a section of code which he didn't understand, and asked one of the banks' full time programmers to explain it to him.
It turned out the consultant had left a logic bomb in the problem which would go off every 60-90 days (he reset it with a random period each time he came in) requiring 'the specialist' to be called in to fix the problem at contracting rates.
The bank staff removed that section of code and the consultant got no more work from them.
Years ago they were touting gene modification to change your hair colour - I so wanted to grow emerald/jade green hair - that and flying cars, the future isn't what it used to be.
People used to toss these in dishwashers to clean them...
I had the same Apple Extended Keyboard II for years across a number of computers until my first iMac and USB. The keyboard lived on for several years further on my old PM8100 set up at my parents place for them to play with. It was a trouper.
I just got a new iMac about two weeks ago and I'm still trying to work out if I like the new keyboard. I'm stlil getting a lot of typos as the action is lighter than my previous keyboard.
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WoW may be old, but it still has 9 million or so players world wide, so may not be old news yet - plus there's been the odd patch and expansion since release...
And if you think that Macs are only capable of simple computing, more fool you. It's a fully functional Unix environment with professional tools, sure the user interface makes using it easy, but that doesn't mean it's only used by computer novices.
Clearly not a gamer then.
This is one of the head banging on desk attitudes that always amuses me about the Mac vs. Windows debate. People always coming back to the argument that Macs aren't serious computers because you can't play games on them.
BTW my shiney new 24" iMac plays WoW just fine thanks. And my assortment of Nintendo consoles have continued to work regardless of which computer I'm currently running.
Hrm.... Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil was a campaign for nearly two years with my old D&D group. While some aspects of it were great, the sheer size of it meant that with any sore of decent AI for the mobs the party should have had no chance.
The balance of approximately 7 encounters should fully deplete your characters reserves and require them to rest held true - then the enemy creatures should have been able to communicate between themselves and set up a impregnable defense.
The amount of work required as a GM to keep track of which mobs had moved out of their original zones was hellish, and tracking loot drops of magical items was a huge admin task all of it's own (if identify was played as per the rules, the players generally couldn't identify every item when they picked it up - so it could be hours if not sessions later you were telling them what they had looted).
In part it is the module layout which complicates the admin - I ende dup using checklists of key items required later in the module to see when they had been looted and subsequently identified, and to check off which room's mobs had been encountered and killed (and in which location). While it made running the sessions easier, it mean tI spent nearly as much time on sessions prep as I did runing the sessions.
Personally I just use TextEdit in plain text mode on a Mac or EditPad on a Windows box. It has the advantage of sohpisticated find/replace is required and the ability to just type without formatting getting in the way when composing documents of any length. On a Mac, the OS provides the spell checker, no need for an extra one built into the application.
might also try taking a pencil eraser to the print nozzles. Don't ask me why this works.
The reason this works is the ink is corrosive and minute leakage (or even oil from you hands from handling the cartridge) can result in oxidation of the contacts which allow the printer to pass information to the printhead as to what to print.
The eraser across the contacts removes the oxidation without damaging the contacts. And - yes it works. I recommend using a good quality plastic eraser like a Staedtler Mars Plastic.
Look for one of the LJ 4xxx series, all the old HP reliability in a modern shell.
The LJ 5L and 6L were pieces of junk.
business should not be using inkjet, no excuse
Actually, there are certain reasons for businesses to use inkjet printers, but they are quite specific.
Off the top of my head, I can't think of many laser based wide format printers which are frequently used for engineering drawings and the like. Almost all wideformat printers on the market these days are inkjet based - though they tend not to use pissy little cartridges but pump systems for supplying the ink.
Another use for inkjet printers is for printers proofs of documents which will be produced using process colours on offset - you get a more accurate proof than using laser printing technologies.
For general business reports type printing there is almost no circumstance where inkjets will be cheaper/more effective than laser printers - I have modelled this down to printing only a handful of pages per day (at which point te carts can go bad/expire before used and the cost of cartridges will exceed a low cost laser still).
Disclaimer - I work for Xerox in conducting printer fleet and production audits.
Actually, you can 'chip' toner cartirdages, and Lexmark (I think it was) went after a guy for reverse engineering the chipping on their carts under the DMCA laws. about 2-3 years back.
The biggest competitor to stand alone laser printers in the large office market is MFDs from Xerox/Canon/Minolta etc... which lease the device to the customer then charge them per impression to use the device, where the impression charge includes toner and a full service and maintenance contract for around a cent per page or less depending on the expected volumes (more for colour).
Making toner cartridges more expensive would kill the laser printer market stone cold.
Personally I have a 8 year old Apple LaserWriter 4/600PS that gets a new cartridge every couple of yeara depending on how much I print at home. Less now that I work for Xerox with 'free' bulk mono and colour printing.
It's still "Duke Nukem Forever" - it's just the meaning of forever has now changed to describe how long the development took...
I get that you were joking, but I suspect it's more like where do small rocks come from?
The two options are accretion (collection and bonding of smaller particles or concepts to gether to form a greater whole) or disintergration (breaking apart of a larger whole - only fragments remain).
In this country Sony DVD players were the only ones that wern't reliably region free (big deal if you want discs from other regions, which are legal and sold openly).
Hrm... when I bought my home theatre system a few years back one of the deciding factors in going with Sony was that all their DVD players were multi-region from the factory - they just didn't advertise it.
I'm guessing from your user name that you are also located in Australia.
I would normally have tried this step before calling support - unless of course there is an on-screen error message I want them to read...