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Turn it upside-down and shake it?
Or try this.
Unfortunately, Powerbooks are *really* bad at ejecting stuck discs. When it happened to mine (well, my office's), I had to send it in to tech support. [eta: and that was with a full-size DVD. I'm not sure the eject mechanism can reach a mini-sized one.]
Thanks for the link, Jess.
Neither of the solutions provided there worked, but your "turn it upside down and shake it" procedure worked perfectly.
free firewall recommendations
I've been using ZoneAlarm, haven't had any problems.
I used to have problems with Zonealarm and torrent applications. Have you had problems in that area?
No, haven't tried that, sorry.
thanks for the rec anyway. I installed it. next time I torrent I guess I'll find out!
FWIW, I've used ZoneAlarm for a long time, and I haven't noticed any problems with torrents.
interesting. okay thanks. Zone Alarm was causing some serious issue - maybe it was with Norton and not torrents - but I had to remove it from my computer altogether to do whatever it was I wanted to do.
I had problems with ZoneAlarm and networking and torrenting. I switched to Kerio and everything is sweet.
I should add that it's an earlier version of Kerio that what is on the site now but it should work okay.
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