'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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Wacky tech question.
Remember that eMac that turned into a doorstop in February?
Apple dudes tell me it is a lost cause. I accept that but now, I've stubbed my toe on it just about enough. I'd like to freecycle it but can't get it to start to wipe the hard drive.
If I stick a bunch of magnets on it, will that scramble things enough that anyone who tinkers with it will have to start fresh?
If I stick a bunch of magnets on it, will that scramble things enough that anyone who tinkers with it will have to start fresh?
I don't think so. They'd have to be very strong magnets, and even then....
I'd just open it up and remove the drive. Then you can dispose of the 'puter and keep the drive, or (if it still works) turn it into an external drive, or hook it to another computer to erase it, or just trash the drive by going all Hulk smash! on its ass....
I got to play with one of the new MacBook Pros at the Apple store the other night.
Wannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnt
My new MacBookPro is on order. Should arrive some time next week.
Is it possible that my cat walking across the keyboard has shut down the sound within Firefox only? I can play iTunes, and I hear alerts, but when I try to watch various TV shows/youtube/etc, I get no sound.
Youtube is flash. You might see if volume in flash has been set to zero, cause that can be done with one click. Start playing a Video, click on the little megaphone. [Edit: the little megaphone in the video itself, not the one in your desktop.] See if it is set all the way down.
I can play iTunes, and I hear alerts, but when I try to watch various TV shows/youtube/etc, I get no sound.
Sophia, have you tried restarting? I've had issues with listening to streaming video that were fixed by restarting.
I have not.... thank you!
Fancy a $25K Cray on your desk?
Think of supercomputers and you tend to think of multi-million dollar machines that easily take up a football field. With miles and miles of cabling and cooling systems running beneath the floors. That's long been generally true, but not any more.
Supercomputer maker Cray Inc. today announced that it teamed up with Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. to produce a desktop supercomputer. That's right. It will sit on a desktop. And maybe just as surprising, it has a starting price of $25,000.
The Cray CX1 supercomputer uses up to eight nodes and 16 Intel Xeon processors -- either dual-core or quad-core. It's the first Cray machine to use Intel processors. The CX1 has up to 4 terabytes of internal storage and 64 gigabytes of memory per node. The machine also comes pre-installed with Windows HPC Server 2008 [or] Linux.
I just sent a feature request to Apple for the iPhone. I'm wondering if others do it too, it might get put in.
I finally pressed the "Emergency Call" button. I feared it dialed 911, so never pushed it. Nope, it just brings up the dial keypad, but no address book.
My suggestion was to somehow allow a mini-address book for I.C.E. numbers (In Case of Emergency). Should something happen to me, I'd love my phone to be of use in contacting the ones I love without having to know the pass code.