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tommyrot - Dec 31, 2013 6:50:07 am PST #23496 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Can you just do a search-and-replace on the entities, (i.e. s/¢/¢/g) instead of adding the ENTITY declaration?

That's a good idea. But I just talked to my boss and he wants to go in a different direction. (Only a few files have that entity problem so we're gonna just have an exception for that issue.)


Jessica - Jan 02, 2014 4:11:11 am PST #23497 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Ok, who wants to help me with Tasker? I've turned on just about every "silent" setting I can in my "work" profile, but the phone is still making the annoying "bloop" sound every time the screen turns on or off.


beekaytee - Jan 02, 2014 10:21:06 am PST #23498 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

I need a reality check.

I have two Mac G5 towers, dual cores, etc. that are Powerpc and not Intel chipped.

Does it make sense for me to try and sell them via Craigslist,(cash would be super helpful right now) or should I take the opportunity to drop them off at an e-cylcing event a friend can drive me to this Saturday.

They've been sitting in my living room for months, along with a huge Dell monitor that began acting wonky last October.

Does tech stuff like this even sell?


tommyrot - Jan 02, 2014 10:24:34 am PST #23499 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Does tech stuff like this even sell?

Dunno. Maybe someone could turn then into small office print and file servers?


DCJensen - Jan 02, 2014 10:55:03 am PST #23500 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

I'm using a G5 right now!

Before I lost my job, I was considering helping my cousin Steve buy one for $75 on Craigslist to upgrade from his old G4.

I've seen them prices higher and lower.

Check out everymac.com for current market value, then undercut that price on Craigslist. See if you get any bites.

You might have to give the monitor to a recycling house.


msbelle - Jan 02, 2014 10:57:03 am PST #23501 of 25496
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

be sure to thoroughly clean off any data that might on there. My mother bought a used laptop once and we found addresses and meeting notes on there.


DCJensen - Jan 02, 2014 10:59:57 am PST #23502 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.

Unless you have incredibly sensitive data, reinstalling OSX and telling it to repartition and reformat should be enough.


beekaytee - Jan 02, 2014 11:00:07 am PST #23503 of 25496
Compassionately intolerant

Okay. I have a couple of days before the e-cycling. I'll post a craigslist ad this evening and see if I get any bites.

And, msbelle...so THAT. The mini I'm coming to you on now had a bunch of private information on it, even though the family thought they'd cleaned it.

One of the towers isn't booting, so that one may have to go unclean, but the other has been stripped already.


Rob - Jan 02, 2014 11:44:01 am PST #23504 of 25496

When I can't get a computer to boot to reformat before recycling I'll often just pull the drive out and snip the connection between the drive controller board and the drive before recycling the parts separately.


NoiseDesign - Jan 02, 2014 1:45:03 pm PST #23505 of 25496
Our wings are not tired

You may get a little money out of the G5 towers but there just isn't a lot of value left in them any more. They can't run anything approaching a recent OS and recent software won't run on them.

I wouldn't expect more than $75 out of them.