Listen to what I am going to say very carefully: I. Poured. Beer. Into. My. Powerbook!

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I considered posting this anonymously, but I feel that after such a purely iditoic act, I deserve only the most public of ridicules.

I got home yesterday, sat myself down in front of my beatiful titanium buddy, my absolute pride and joy, a possession I cherish so highly that my wife has been known to get jealous should I spend too much time with it. I decided that it would be a great idea to grab myself a cold faux-Czech brew from the fridge and enjoy my digital hub. Opening said brew and placing it on an uneven surface, I could then only watch as the bottle eagerly toppled over and discharged bubbly fluid all over my keyboard. I can't really remember what happened next. I may have actually sank to my knees. The screen immediately went blank and the whole computer began to make a horrible fizzing sound. I quickly switched off and cleaned it up, but it was clear that this was rather serious. I was inconsolable, but there was nobody around. I paced the house furiously. I did washing up until I could take it no more. I phoned friends in England even though I knew that it was 3 o'clock in the morning there. No answer.

My night was one long fever-dream of steaming logic boards and sad looking macs. Today I wake to the harsh reality that the whole thing was not a nightmare. It happened and I have committed one of the all time classic "d'oh!s". I phoned the repair place and explained that "a friend" had spilt "liquid" on my powerbook. The upshot of this all is that this is going to cost me big. It feels like some kind of lesson or parable - perhaps I should give up drinking, or home computing.

When your schadenfreude has subsided, you may wish to offer me some words, anything that will make me feel better about being the architect of my own purgatory, such as it is.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude at least you can afford to own a powerbook.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

and beer.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Bummer in the summer, man. My friend spilled Ice Tea (unsweetened) on her keyboard ( Mac laptop) and after spending shitloads on data recovery, the machine was basically a loss. Fortunately it was covered under the insurance. Which I imagine yours.... isn't.

― andy, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I post from a computer that is powered by a foot-pump and connects to the internet via a tin can and a string.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Sweet.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Sympathies. But I did chortle.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

the internet is an evil vice, take this opportunity to enjoy the outdoors or something.

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

nick, I think nick was only kidding.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, I realize that part of the folly engaged in owning consumer electronics is that you will inevitably fuck them up big time, but still, it's not like I own anything else expensive!

Wait...insurance. What lies can I spin that will help me see this through?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I did the exact same thing to my powerbook ten years ago (a 520) and all they really had to do was replace the keyboard. BUT, I turned it upside down the second it happened to drain any liquid out, which is probably what saved it. Worst case scenario though is that your whole motherboard and harddrive are fried, which means it's new computer time.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

this is an argument against beer.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I turned it upside down, too. And it looks like some of the "fluids" didn't make it past the keyboard.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

my friend, after owning his powerbook for only a couple months, bought an mbox (a basic protools setup) and went to the airport to do some field recordings with it. somewhere along the way he forgot to zip up the case and when he picked it up his powerbook flopped onto the floor screen-down. the screen is now essentially useless and he has to hook it up to his home computer monitor.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Right... But...Where is the torrent of consolation that I was asking for?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope that this never happens to any of you.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

dude! have a beer!

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I'm sorry.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

this is obv. terrible news and hope you get yr PB fixed. : /

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha! No wait...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

think of it this way, you either just eradicated a shitload of bad karma you had amassed or you know have super karma points.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I may go and live off the land from now on. Why the hell do we expect machines to run our lives for us?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to make you feel better brah!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

omg adam, i am so so sorry. so sorry. that is terrible.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

will it turn on now? or does it only turn on w/ a keyboard so do you not know? take it to MAC on Shattuck, they'll tell you the extent of the damage.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet you could sock all kinds of little woodland creatures over the head with your shiny powerbook! "Lookit maw I kawt us sum deener! I bangeded it awn thuh head with ma thinky-box!"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Kyle. that place is p[retty expensive. There's a new place in the city that I'm trying.

I haven't dared turn it back on, to be honest.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you at least get a sip of the beer first?

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I finished it off, but it was a bitter bitter brew all things considered.

My keyboard smells like a house the morning after a teenager's party.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck you Trader Joe's and your cheap-ass Budvar knockoffs!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll bet it's fine, there is (or at least used to be) a shield b/w the important parts and the keyboard in powerbooks to prevent against exactly this kind of damage.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, we all know what Powerbook users are like.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I just can't believe it, I'm "that guy" now. I'm so "that guy".

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

BUDVAR! Oh the agony.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, powerbooks can't drink beer!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the guy who poured beer into his powerbook. Hang him in the town square and throw apples at him. Take a polaroid. Tell your grandkids.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

do you have applecare? applecare is specifically for people who do things like take their powerbook to the beach or try to use it in the bathtub.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I was really thinking that the author of this thread had gotten so wasted that he (because a she would never do this) cracked a beer and intentionally poured it into his Powerbook.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought this Mac in the UK. I had Applecare there. but I bought it two years ago.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm very sorry @d@ml. think different.

― bill gates (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Insurance scams please! (Nickalicious?)

fuck you, bill!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sending torrents your way, pal. not once but three times in the past seven months i've been home visiting my parents, who recently bought a nice new mac for the basement office. each time, i've gotten smashed late night by myself and knocked wine/whiskey/lager over on the keyboard. the first time the thing just went crazy, and when i got off the plane the next day there was a voicemail from my mom asking if i had noticed the computer acting up while i was home. dad got it fixed. the next two times, i managed to get things drained and cleaned up pretty well so that the only damage was some sticking of individual keys. hstencil recommend that i get a sippy cup for alcohol, but i think i should probably just learn to be less spastic.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

you should get that hat.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know much about it, but if you've got a tenant's insurance policy sometimes thems got built-in contents coverage up to a certain limit, so you might be able to have it covered that way, although for your claim to be valid it has to be related to a covered cause-of-loss, and usually oopsies like this aren't covered. You're in San Fran though so maybe you could tell 'em an earthquake poured beer up in there. If you have earthquake coverage. Which you probably don't.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"act of god"

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

It's okay. I had an incident with a videocamera a few months back that is very similar. In fact, I posted about it on here anonymously, full of shame... but the upside was that it wasn't my direct fault and that it wasn't nearly as bad as I have suspected. I was expecting an $1100 bill and ended up getting off with only $400 in damage... could've been worse.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

good thinking re: the hat, g!!

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sippy cup for alky is fun. Great for mixed drinks cuz you can just shake 'em up and no spilly.

x-post "act of god" under many policies really is a covered cause of loss. oh beautiful for spacious skies...

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude that was my idea for lauren's birthday present!!!

(I'm starting every post in this thread with "dude"... that's my own little tribute to you nordic)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't millar do this same thing sometime last year?

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've poured full beers in a few Vox amplifiers, which have vents on the top. The volume halves immediately... and then halves again.

― andy, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, at least you can sell the Powerbook for parts? Assuming you're going to need to buy a completely new one instead of switching out some parts.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

In the future, robots will run on alcohol.

Try turning it on. It's like when you're about to reformat your hard drive -- all it takes is a moment and the suspense is over.

― Vitamin Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I sleep in an inflatable igloo with my iBook beside me. This morning I woke up lying in an uninflated corner of it, having rolled right on top of the open iBook. The screen is already well dodgy, only working at certain angles, but this made it worse. It wouldn't display anything until I restarted. This iBook has very little life left in it. I'm just hoping the publishing royalties due later this week will be enough to cover a new one.

My flatmate recently poured coffee over her iBook keyboard. We took the keyboard off and it dried out and worked fine. But then the screen conked out and had to be replaced under guarantee.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

were you trying to get a more rock and roll sound out of it?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i just dropped a Hostess Bannana Nut Muffin Loaf on my keyboard.

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

is it a work keyboard?

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:28 (twenty-one years ago)

This is why life needs an 'Undo' function.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

In the future, robots will run on alcohol.

http://artottawa.ca/images/animation/bender.gif
"I see you tasty beery sustenance!"

― nickalicious realizes the significance of this character to leee (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. Wow, that sucks. Genuine sympathy.

I *know* I'm going to do that, or something similarly dumb, someday.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

this is why life needs an Undo function

aswell as a soulseek full of potential girlfriends

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

why does momus sleep with his laptop?

sorry @d@m, the big suck

― kephm, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

adam.

i am so so so sorry. did you notice that momus sleeps in an igloo? perhaps that will cheer you up.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, it did. Just a bit.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Take off the keyboard and remove everything you can access...the RAM chips, airport card, etc. Clean any part of it that looks like it might have come into contact with beer using distilled water. Leave it to stand and dry as long as you can bear to (a couple of days is best). It may be that a good cleaning will be all it needs...

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

that's awful, man. i have seen the horror of a camcorder dropped into a cooler full of icewater, so i can sympathize.

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmsalt, that's very helpful and comforting. Thanks.

vahid, taht's scary.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't you tell the insurance people that a stray cat piddled on it?

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

why does momus sleep with his laptop?

The iBook has become a part of my iBody. Seriously. My flatmate walked in on me today in the bathroom and I was sitting there on the toilet writing my LiveJournal while peeing. At night the iBook becomes an iRadio. I fall asleep listening to Nightwaves. The sooner I can get the thing implanted under my skin the better.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread's turning into the Matrix.

― Vitamin Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

(I am Digital Flesh.)

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

it just got weird didn't it

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

*shudders*

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel for you.

In December I spilled the most spillable of drinks, a martini, onto my iBook. In the middle of writing a term paper, with no real backups. I managed to get the paper off (barely), and had to spend a load of loaned money on a new G4 (had been saving up for it a while anyway, but I still had months to go on that).

The iBook worked again in a few days after drying out, but then the keyboard went back to broken soon after. It took about a month before it was working again. I ended up selling it cheap.

Make sure you leave the battery disconnected and set it out to dry for a long time. Hard disks and such should sealed up pretty well, so hopefully not much damage got done to the logic board.

― Silas Beauford (Silas Beauford), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

They should make martini glasses with weighted bottoms.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed they should.

― Silas Beauford (Silas Beauford), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

They should ban liquid.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

You just need a beer helmet.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

or a powerbook made out of j-cloths.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I suppose it would cancel out the sympathy factor if I asked if anyone could hook me up with FCP3? (Or 4, even!)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't let your powerbook steal your girlfriend.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, that sucks. Have you tried turning it back on again?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

No. It is with the nice repairmen now. they were very helpful.

The diagnosis is fothcoming. It's like having a loved one in the hospital and steeling yourself for the worst news...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Were they snickering because they could smell the beer?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

No, they seemed like they understood. They seemed like men who know beer and computers and understand what fickle mistresses each can be.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://molly.ett0.com/mac_hw_beer_f.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

ibeer

― kephm, Tuesday, 30 March 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i once spilled water on my laptop and it was fried. :(

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.livejournal.com/users/with_gusto/73708.html

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The diagnosis is not good. I am very very sad and I don't know what to do. :(

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

what did they say?????

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

:( can you at least recover your data from the drive?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

is a second opinion out of the question?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

They said that there is already mold in it and that the logic board and cd drive may well be fucked. It is being sent somewhere for a second opinion, but they already offered to buy it for parts.

I have to call the insurers. I want to cry.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

They MAY be able to recover the data- what can I do with it if they can?

I'm not good with these things (as if that isn't fucking obvious).

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

they can give you the harddrive if it's unscathed (or if they offer you a good price for it, they can burn the data to CDs/DVDs).

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

mold ALREADY?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

WAIT!

Apparently I can claim insurance on it!!!!! And it's insured for up to $4,000! What now??????

(yes mold already, after one day!)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

omgomgomgomgomgomgomg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice!

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

How do I do this? Do I just get a check?

These adjuster people sound scary.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit! nice one dude! aluminum PB all the way!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

you are getting a better powerbook, cry for joy. get the harddrive out though if you want to save all those tunes

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't want to be adjusted!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm new to insurance claims.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

but do take it to some other place. If they're offering to buy it for parts, then that might be considered an ulterior motive.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't understand how mold could have grown on this overnight. I've spilled beer on my floor and not cleaned it up for months and it never grew mold.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

wow! you get $4000? i might pur some beer in my car!

― mullygrubber (gaz), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe there was mold in it already, from some undetected dampness?

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe it's penicillin! eat it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I really don't think so.

But now for the real toughie - 15" or 17"???

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm allergic to penicillin!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

15. 17 seems ridiculous

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

you could alternately get a hipped-up 20" imac!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Even for editing?

I mean, I'm a small guy. I have a small lap. 17" is not really a laptop to me.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't I HAVE to get a Powerbook?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

think about how much beer you could get into a 17 tho

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, I still want a laptop. If they send me a check, do I get to spend the remainder on fancy doodads?

(haha Mark!!)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

just because it's insured UP To $4000 doesn't mean they'll give you $4000; they would probably give you market rate for replacement. But if it was filled with personal stuff you need, you can probably argue for up to the limit.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

there's no difference b/w the 15 and the 17 besides the screen i think

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, add $2 for the beer.

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

get one of these. my coworker just finagled one out of our stingy workplace. it is beyond impressive.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like the sound of this mold.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Tracer. It's nood good.

Did my mac cook the beer?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Nood good? meant not good.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Still, god bless Renter's Insurance. I recommend it if you don't have it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so happy that a coworker just called me "bro-brah" and I didn't really mind!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

YAY

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

did he hump your leg brah?

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a G5 and an iBook for your portable moments. Oh, and now that you've got $4000, definitely buy a copy of FCP4.

Okay, you probably can't fit that all into $4000, but that's a pretty damn good deal you've got there, so best of luck! What insurance do you have on that anyway - I need some! :)

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't know how much a Po(o)werbook costs but it was most likely the Pentium Fae teaching you a lesson for getting SHITE AAApple MAAAc and not PC.HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAA
p.s Sorry for your loss etceteraaaaa etceteraaaaa

― zenome kistachion, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I have stumbled across this thread after a day of work and I am sad for @d@ml.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

If it makes you feel any better, @d@m, when my dad had a computer store he fixed someone's disk drive by removing the mouse (furry sort, not clicky sort) from it.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm glad you have coverage @d@m. I can't imagine doing this. Although, I do chug a few whilst using my laptop in a rather darkened environment.

I once spilled a giant coke on my dashboard and the radio konked out. The speaker had been rattly beforehand. But after a few days the syrup hardened, the radio worked and the rattle went away. It's all in the luck, of course.

― jim wentworth (wench), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread makes me want a beer so badly.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

no no, wait, that's the longing and depression talking.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread points up a big plus in the owning of desktops. I've got through three keyboards for my PCs by spilling stuff on them, but for £10 I can get a new one.

(Adam, big sympathy. Maybe your new-found (if temporary) computerless state should be celebrated by getting rid of the @ signs in your login name that always mess with ILX code?)

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't buy that mold story, sounds like you need a second opinion--or that they should've followed mmsalt's advice of cleaning with distilled water before declaring it a loss. I once spilled an entire pint of water on my laptop keyboard, while in the middle of essay/thesis writing, and just stood there, panicking, holding it up while it dripped onto my desk. I managed to do a proper shutdown somehow, took out all the component parts and left it all to dry for several days, and it's been temperamental but alright since. Anyway, sympathy. Those several days of computerless suspense really sucked. (I think Ken was the recipient of my frantic text at the time it happened...)

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

People, he gets $4000! Don't start with all this fixing it lark.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 15:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe your new-found (if temporary) computerless state should be celebrated by getting rid of the @ signs in your login name that always mess with ILX code?

but that's only when I'm on the funny thread! And how often does that happen?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 17:30 (twenty-one years ago)

way way too often in this ilxor's opinion.

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

What exactly do you mean?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/this_week/jpg/chiklis.jpg

― kephm, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

"Horrible fizzing sound" does not sound good... I hope you get a powerbook again soon!

Somewhere on ILX is the story of how I dropped my old pb520 onto a marble library floor... so I feel your pain. Of course I got it repaired, and the damn thing still works, although it's too old to be very useful. It gets pulled out of my closet every so often to marvel that vintage 1995 software can still display websites. ;-)

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 1 April 2004 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so I talked to the adjusters yesterday- scary people. But hopefully, I can wangle enough money to get the 15" with the Superdrive, which would be errrrr...nice.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 April 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

niiiiice!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 3 April 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

It would be even nicer if you mailed the new Powerbook to me.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 3 April 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You'd just hump it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 April 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Stop being crude around Mr. Perry, who is young and impressionable.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't just hump it.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I would buy it a nice dinner first and compliment it on its accessories first.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

First first first first first first first first first fistr

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

take it to dinner first? set up all its favourite music on one CD and then present it with a bouqet of its favourite flowers, and on the accompanying card have a poem which you found out from their best friend is their favourite? and then, only THEN, when the moment is right and the evening is almost at an end, pick that plastic and metal bitch up and make it the happiest damn machine in the world , MAGIC.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

oops x-post, MINDMELD

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ronan, you are a true poet for our age.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

kill your televison (err, powerbook)

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

NONONO pour it a nice beer and tell it looks ravishing!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

i would still really like a beer.

― mark p (Mark P), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Your slendy titanium casing reflects the light so ravishingly. Here have a tall cool one.

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 3 April 2004 22:40 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom has yelled many times at me and my dad about drinks near the computer, but she is the one who is allowed to drink AND eat at the computer. Just her luck, she spilt water on her key board some time last year. Then she had to go out and buy a new keyboard. We went to the computer store and I asked why we were going there. "I spilled water on the key board to the iMac." I just began to laugh at her.

You can't just buy a new one and pretend nothing happened like my mom did? Is it more to get a new one than to get it repaired?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

My mom has yelled many times at me and my dad about drinks near the computer, but she is the one who is allowed to drink AND eat at the computer. Just her luck, she spilt water on her keyboard some time last year. Then she had to go out and buy a new keyboard. We went to the computer store and I asked why we were going there. "I spilled water on the key board to the iMac." I just began to laugh at her.

You can't just buy a new one and pretend nothing happened like my mom did? Is it more to get a new one than to get it repaired?

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

So sorry.

Just goes to show I've got a slow computer.

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 3 April 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My housemate and I have an insurance policy that covers accidental damage to both our laptops (even if we take them out of the house). I think you should have invested in something like this. Perhaps it is not too late. If you're prepared to wait a couple of months, you could insure the laptop now and then claim you broke it at some time in the future...

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 4 April 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(Insurance fraud? I don't know what you're talking about...)

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 4 April 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, so I don't get $4000, but I get almost $3000 for a replacement! And I can wangle an educational discount cos I work at a school! Hooray!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.andrews.lv/misc/signals.jpg

― Dada, Monday, 5 April 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I have a couple of questions fo any mac people that would care to pitch in their two cents.

1. The repair people say that the logic board and cd drive are pretty much fried, but have offered a nominal fee ($50-75) to buy it off me for parts or display (the screen is apparently undamaged and cosmetically it is fine, on the outside at least). Is this fair or should I get a second opinion, which would involve dragging this fucked powerbook around the all the repair centres in the bay and maybe going to all the trouble of listing it on Ebay and posting it out, etc.? Or shall I just wave goodbye to it, seeing as I am getting the insurance money anyway?

2.Also, it looks like I might have around $300 to spare once I buy the Mac and pay tax. As someone who uses a lot of apps (and a lot of memory-sapping apps at that) for image and video editing and a bit of music, what would be the wisest peripheral/extra to invest that amount into? A bigger hard drive? An external HD? Or maybe just...haha...extended Applecare (though I am re-insuring it on the renter's insurance)?

Thanks for everyone who helped with this, by the way. I really appreciate it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I would max out the RAM before going for more HD space.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I think so too. I have an external anyway. I just don't really understand the extra RAM options on the Apple site (all this ISO stuff means nothing to me, I just speak mb!).

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

is your old hard drive still good? save it at least. put the rest of the broken shit on ebay with an explanation of what happened and see what it goes for.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean SO-DIMM, not ISO. What is the benefit of 1 SO-DIMM vs. 2 x256 SO-DIMMS? Is it a joke?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

U R SO-DIMM

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, that did cross my mind.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve Jobs is a riot.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i have a dvd for you.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Ooooh, what is it?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd love to see The Slow Century, you must have that.

(I'm enjoying The Fixer, btw)

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I have 2 dvds for you. (i thought you would!)

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 5 April 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah max out the RAm with that $300.

But I have a question, can you get back any of the data off the broken laptop??

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, they can put my HD in a firewire enclosure and supposedly retrieve some if not all of the data.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

get some ram bro!

and that's great news. is it the superdrive model you'll be getting?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

ps i finished my dvd yesterday!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooray! Send it to me! I will Paypal you!

(So you think I should get a Superdrive? I was considering keeping it the combo to cut some costs...)

Someone explain RAM to me!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

it's like a sheep

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, they can put my HD in a firewire enclosure and supposedly retrieve some if not all of the data.

Did you have the rest of the data downloaded onto a separate server? (Though I was tempted to giggle I didn't, see?)

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The more RAM you have, the faster your computer will run. How much did you have last time?

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I understand how RAM works, I just don't get this ISO-DIMM business.

I did have 512mb.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I SO SO DIMM.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

if you wanna use final cut adam, make sure you at least get 512mb, and any more is just good. i think if you don't buy it from apple (someone else probably knows a good place) it's MUCH cheaper. you can probably max the thing out for under $200 & you'll never regret it!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm...cheaper even with an educational discount factored in? anyone know cheap Apple retailers in the SF Area?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 April 2004 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i think apple is notorious for overcharging for their RAM!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 5 April 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, is yours an iBook with a breathing green sleep light?

If so, mine blew a few weeks ago and the apple repair place next door charges £80 just to touch it, and according to Dr. Ed he can probably install the light (which also has something to do with backighting yr laptop pixels) if we can but lay our hands on one in exchange for the unobtainable Brit delicacies of your choice.

Mac sell them for silly money, it's more expensive than those damn flying saucer lead/converter combos, so if you can be a bit savvy and talk the repair place into taking everything except said light for parts, that would help the ILX pooter organ donor programme very much. I'll toddle off to the shops tomorrow and see what chocolate is in limited edition mode and report back.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah adam i was gonna say. ed can probably shed some light on this, but in my brief experience as a mac owner i learnt that apple charge through the nose for ram that isn't necessarily any better than the stuff you can buy and install yourself. do yr research on this front, as obviously some ram is total shit (sorry, i know nothing abt. so-dimm) but i would strongly advise against topping up yr ram via apple unless you're into throwing money down the tubes.

i am also deeply impressed by things like superdrives and of the opinion that you should definitely get one in yr next laptop.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

What is the benefit of 1 SO-DIMM vs. 2 x256 SO-DIMMS? Is it a joke?

Absolutely no joke. PBG4's only have 2 RAM slots in them, so get it configured with 1 512MB SO-DIMM so you can put another 512MB in there.

If you get 2 x 256s, you'll have to toss one away in order to put more RAM in.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Ed is, sadly, asleep but will surface around 7.15 BST.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 5 April 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, is yours an iBook with a breathing green sleep light?

Sadly Suzy, it is not. It's a G4 Titanium Powerbook. :(

But if either you or Ed needs a powerpack/plug thingy for an iBook or Powerbook, I have one that I can send your way!

Elvis-thank you, that clears everything up!

Last question - it just occured to me that the repair place have the battery, which must be worth something, no? Also - are all the G4 PB batteries universal? Maybe I can sell that or use it on my new Mac?

Sorry to keep boring everyone with this.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

keep everything and sell whatever you can't use as bits on ebay.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

You can definitely sell the battery used. They're really expensive to buy new, so if you hadn't run it down too much, you should be able to ebay it.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Adam, your next computer; a 'ruggedized' PC!
http://www.digitaldynamics.com/images/k6_water.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

If you're going to get RAM, go with Crucial - good service, straight-forward, and reliable. I just recently installed 512 MB I got on my new Powerbook from them and no problems whatsoever. If you don't believe me, though, just check out the usual Mac messageboards and ask around; most of them will mention Crucial.

― RAMboy, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anyone have a guesstimate of hwt i could get for parts on Ebay or somewhere like that? Consider that my logic board and cd drive are gone, but I have a battery, a UK power pack, body, and an apparently functional screen. I realize we're not talking much.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

But the repair people are offering $50. I must be able to get a little more than that.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure you could because replacement screens are probably $200 new. Just put the whole thing up and say what's wrong with it. I'd guess you'll get over $100 at least.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

That would be fine.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm taking offers, btw!

....errrr, anyone?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

$51.00

― dean! (deangulberry), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Apple really does screw you on any RAM additions. They were asking $300 last time I checked on their website for a 512MB upgrade I wanted for my powerbook. I googled and grabbed the same thing for $100 at some little site out there. Quite the savings.

― cws (cws), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Bump, as a friend thread uptop

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooray! Molio 2 lives! And what a beautiful thing he is.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmmmmmm Superdrive.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

you have it already?!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yes oh yes my friend.

It's sitting next to me, still in the box!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

If the box is beerproof, maybe you should leave it in there?

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I just have to install the OS. And then all the old apps. And all the drivers for the printer and my iPod. And then nicotine. And then slsk...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

We have a new rule about drinking near the computers now.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Though I ate cereal next to my wife's iBook this morning...still living on the edge and lovin it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Of course, that was clearly foolish of me.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like she doesn't need a rule.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Look, if she'd have been there, I wouldn't have been drinking in the first place.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.hugsetc.com/2002/imsowwy/sowwydog.jpg

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

what do you mean you have to install the os? it didn't come with panther?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but I have to make with the discs and all that.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

make what?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Love!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, not war?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Despite what you've heard, love is NOT a battlefield.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

all those years of school, wasted!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

CAUTION 2: DO NOT USE HEAT to dry any part of the keyboard. No hair dryer, no blow torch, no hanging out to dry in the sun—nein!!! Your keyboard detests heat even more than it does liquid beverages. You may use cool air only, and if you have an air compressor it will work just fine, but use care with that too as pieces will fly into corners where you will never find them if you start simply blasting them with high pressure streams of air. damn

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 12:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget endless years of Software Update-ing.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm on my new Mac now! Wheeeeeee!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 11 April 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i am still on keycaps. i hope i can buy an apple keyboard on easter monday. i have a review to write.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 11 April 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

adam please hurry back to soulseek so i can download the rest of the aim high/dj target thing from you. noone else has it. thank you.

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 11 April 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

shit i meant NO ONE

― mark p (Mark P), Sunday, 11 April 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

...

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:28 (twenty years ago)

You did it again?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:32 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004SCX6.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Say it ain't so.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 26 September 2004 01:47 (twenty years ago)

No, it ain't so! thank god.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Sunday, 26 September 2004 05:26 (twenty years ago)

I'm drunk but goddamn, no beer is getting on my PowerBook.

I mean, goddamn. That would suck.

― Comme personne d'autre que William (common_person), Sunday, 26 September 2004 07:03 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

my brother was throwing gourds around and knocked a glass of coke on my laptop this morning. it's completely pooched - won't even boot to bios - and now i'm engaged in an epic struggle to salvage my hard drive. the data recovery software i have is currently 490 minutes away from completing its first scan; even worse is that i have two stories due tomorrow and i was in the final edit stages on both of them, but now i have to fucking TRANSCRIBE THE INTERVIEWS AGAIN (w/ multiple sources!!) and rewrite them completely from scratch. beyond the fact that i have no computer now (no warranty!), its canadian thanksgiving and my family just took all the food to my grandparents, leaving me alone on my sister's laptop to cobble together the beginnings of work i have already done, thank you very much. i kind of feel like`throttling the world. fuck you for gourds god!!

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago)

FUCK YOU FOR GOURDS

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I don't undestand the gourds part though.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago)

i dunno, it's october, my mom had this little display of pumpkins and gourds on the kitchen table, so my brother started cockily tossing one up into the air and catching it, with one hand, like star pitchers with 98mph fastballs do in the movies to demonstrate to the audience that they're really good at pitching. except my brother sucks at pitching with real baseballs on a good day, and he's no better with gourds, and so it slipped out of his hand and a giant glass of coke streaming into my lifebook's innards. now the kitchen smells of stuffing and turkey (except there's none actually HERE, mind) and i am left home alone hating the world and gourds.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:59 (twenty years ago)

SENT a giant glass of coke, whatever.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:00 (twenty years ago)

aaarghhh!!! mark i am so so sorry

(i seem to be posting a variation of that a lot lately)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:32 (twenty years ago)

Damn gourds.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:39 (twenty years ago)

things are better now. i recovered some data and found some turkey.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago)

There was turkey in your laptop?

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago)

wonh wonh wonnnh.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:57 (twenty years ago)

wonh turkey?

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 11 October 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago)

phew! did you find your articles?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago)

make the bastard pay for it.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 01:12 (twenty years ago)

Grrrr, that sucks. I am still curious where in your laptop you found the turkey, though. ;-)

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 12 October 2004 02:09 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

you shoulda gotten a hermetically sealed keyboard

sorry if it was already posted, but there is no way i'm gonna read 4000 posts

― JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

By the way, I recently spilled a copy of milky, sweetened coffee ALL over my Mac keyboard (not laptop) and successfully washed it out -- basically I held it under the faucet until runoff was no longer coffee-colored, then set it out to dry for about 2 weeks. I've been told that you can actually run the things through the dishwasher, but that you have to let them get ABSOLUTELY dry for fear of an electrical short when plugged back in. Et voila, it worked.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

"Copy"? A cup, obv. Had it only been a copy of a cup of coffee, it would have presumably been much less liquid and more ink-on-paper. Barring molecular duplication of some sci-fi nature.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

GOURDS

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

I BROKE ME IPOD

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

i was sort of drunk last night and i decided i had to drink tea before i went to sleep. so i made a nalgene full of chai, drank some of it, and left the bottle on the floor with the cap off (right near my keyboard) and passed out. i woke up at maybe 6 am and saw that it had tipped over on the keyboard but i thought nothing happened! then at 7 am my computer said BOOP BOOP BOOPBOOP BOOP BEEEEEEEEP a lot so i turned it off. i didn't know what it was until i really woke up around 10. the keyboard was full of chai! it's ruined! i just had to buy a new one! i thought of this thread.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Saturday, 29 October 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

It's dead ipod/computer week at ILX. My ibook's hard drive died last week, so I had to mail it in to be repaired, and it came back with a scratched up screen! Then my ipod shuffle died the other night. So I dropped the ibook and the suffle off today at the Apple Store -they're going to replace the scratched screen and get me a new shuffle. So no music or ibook for a week.

It was a zoo at the apple store, since their genius bar appointment system was down and they had only one genius on duty. People were waving ipods and laptops all over around the bar & the poor guy on duty looked insanely frazzled.

― lyra (lyra), Saturday, 29 October 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

i soaked my new ipod in the rain accidentally a few weeks ago, but it was still in warantee and i sent it into apple, who replaced it promptly.

i then spilled coffee into my keyboard the following week. the old one might be fine by now, but it was all screwed up so i got a mcally icekey, which was a very wise decision becuz the keyboard is so lovely and much better than a typical apple one.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 30 October 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

i had to send my coffee back to the store to be reheated but it was cold by the time it got back so i threw my ipod in it

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 30 October 2005 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

i soaked my new ipod in the rain accidentally a few weeks ago, but it was still in warantee and i sent it into apple, who replaced it promptly.

Oh, can this do them in then? I use my ipod in the bath (through little portable speakers) and always end up skipping songs with wet hands. Every now and then the touch wheel stops responding, but all it needs is a hard reset. What happened to yours, did it just go blank and give up on you?

― melton mowbray (adr), Sunday, 30 October 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

A friend is tearing her hair out about her iBook. She says it's suddenly (? think it's suddenly anyway) started not charging up properly. It charges for about 5 mins, then the light goes out and she's only got 20-odd minutes power to work with.

Is this likely to be a problem with the charger, the battery, the world energy market or what?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

does it work while plugged in?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:32 (nineteen years ago)

My mum had the same problem. I don't think she couldn't even get it to work plugged in. I think it was something to do with the screen. Could be wrong though.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 16 December 2005 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

anyone have any tips on the best way to sell on a powerbook g4? its little more than a year old and in good condition. obviously thought about ebay but as i have no sellers history might put people off.

also what would be a reasonable amount for it to go for?

― mason storm (mason storm), Friday, 16 December 2005 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

does it work while plugged in?

No, it seems to need to run off the micro-charged battery.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 16 December 2005 11:31 (nineteen years ago)

Alba - my wife has the exact same problem with her iBook. Being my wife, she has never sought to remedy it, she just keeps it plugged in.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

oh I didn't read that properly. never mind.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

i got beer in my phone two weekends ago but it seems to be working ok now

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Reset the power manager! Instructions in the manual or online if you search Apple's site.

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Alba - my wife has the exact same problem with her iBook. Being my wife, she has never sought to remedy it, she just keeps it plugged in.

she needs to buy a new battery

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

-- mason storm

Where are you and how much would you want for it? I really need a new computer, but I am broke and you probably live nowhere near me.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

she needs to buy a new battery

I know! But she won't spend money on her computer for some reason. And then she uses mine instead and...TOUCHES THE SCREEN!!!!! grrrr

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

She points to things on the screen and says look at THIS (jab! jab!) and THIS (jabjabjab!), aren't they interesting?, like that.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

she needs to buy a new battery

I don't think my friend needs to do this, though. Batteries die slowly, not suddenly, don't they? Last week she was getting a couple of hours charge, now it's 10 mins.

There seems to be something weird, cause I think she's saying that she can't run it off the mains supply direct - it seems to want to run off the pathetically-charged battery even when it's plugged in.

I'll tell her to look into this 'reset the power manager' thing - thanks mike.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm.. she also says "the charger pin thing doesn't stick neatly into the iBook" so maybe there's some physical damage. Oh well.

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Anna --- i'm in london ... its my girlfriends so i'm a bit sketchy on the details, but its approx 1 year old and i believe she paid about £1200ish so i'd imagine £600-£700 region [i'm sure there's some scope for negotiation however]. i'd imagine it has all the bits you'd expect to come with it.

if your interested i'll pass on her email and she can give you the full spec etc

― mason storm (mason storm), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Could I ask why she is selling it? Not that I mean to cast suspicion, just curious about other people's experiences with their PBs.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

London! Brilliant! The email I have here works.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

London! Brilliant!

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Adam ... you have to stop changing your screen name. You confuse me daily.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

she hardly uses it. makes for an expensive desk ornament.

plus she's going to be out the country for a while building straw houses on some sort of sustainable development project that pays peanuts. so cash is more attractive than shiny powerbook right now.

london too eh? by any chance are you red-headed anna? if so our paths crossed briefly a few years back (i'm friends with chr!s br0wn + vicky p) if not then ignore this bit. got to run now but will email stuff over the weekend.

― mason storm (mason storm), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

She is red-headed anna! She's really nice.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Friday, 16 December 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Aw thanks. Yes, that is me. Hello!

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 16 December 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

i had a g4 that was doing this. problem mysteriously vanished when i upgraded from os8 to os9.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 16 December 2005 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have homeowners or even renters insurance? You could try to say it was a leaky roof. A coworker at my last job spilled iced tea all over her laptop and we collected on it.

― andy --, Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

that's what this whole thread is about! Adam's amazing coup with his renters insurance.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. I skimmed.

― andy --, Saturday, 17 December 2005 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

hello everyone

this morning i woke up and looked at a pool of water in the middle of the room. there was an ibook in the middle of the pool of water. there were no overturned glasses, and no indications of where the water came from. perhaps the water came from inside the ibook

anyway, the main thing is that it doesn't turn on anymore

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i have bought it downstairs to drain, its making a bit of a puddle on the sofa now. i should go really, and get a tea towel, to wipe that up

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Take the battery out and let it sit for a week. You probably dried it all of by now.

This worked for me.

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

it wet itself

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

after it dried out, did you have any subsequent problems?

its a strange sensation, puzzlement at what happened, with a mix of resignation and a sort of anger. its not a feeling i like, hopefully it will go away soon. it would be very good if it dried out and worked again

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Was there any indication of where the iBook itself had come from or is that part of a mystery?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 12 February 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

what is on the tea towel?

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 12 February 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

the ibook came from the apple store

water is on the teatowel. and a couple of tears

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 12 February 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

it is not a teatowel with writing on it?

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 12 February 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

have you upset your powerbook?

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 12 February 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

oh, no, the teatowel is blue and white checks

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 12 February 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

this happened to me once - an overworked processor starts to sweat from all the effort. Just pour Gatorade on it & it'll be fine

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Sunday, 12 February 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Did you fashion a computer desk out of a block of ice before you went to bed? Think back.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 12 February 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Gareth, don't you have insurance?

-- Adamrl (adamr...), March 9th, 2006.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

i have insurance!

they have referred me to a company called Lakeside. Lakeside were due to come and pick my dead ibook up, and look at it. then they will either repair it, or replace it.

they were due to come to my work, because that is where i am, during the day. but they got confused and went to my house instead. i wasnt there, and neither was my ibook

they are coming tomorrow now, hopefully they'll be more focussed this time.

i dont know how long they will keep my ibook for, until i hear something

my worry is, they will fix it, then return it, but it doesnt work properly, or, it works fine, for a while, then packs up in a few months. that doesn;t seem a very good scenario

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I hope that doesn't happen.

Anyway, I'm sorry to hear about this. It is an awful feeling and I wouldn't wish on anyone, even you know, that cunt from the internet.

good luck

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

its funny isnt it? its things like this, that really help you to see the big picture. and, yea, you are right, even that cunt from the internet doesnt seem so bad after all, and you imagine, if it happened to them, you wouldn't feel any schadenfreude, you'd feel ashamed and a bit silly.

― terry lennox. (gareth), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it wouldn't feel good. this is only the internet after all.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

ok so the insurance people rang me up about my 12" 30gb ibook g4. apparently they are going to replace it with...

...a 15" 80gb powerbook g4.

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

is 15" too big? i liked the 12" size. should i ask for a 12" powerbook instead. i feel im getting a better deal, but, the ibook is cuter

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:12 (nineteen years ago)

wait, there are no 15" powerbooks, on the apple site. what is happening?

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 March 2006 10:14 (nineteen years ago)

ok, so its a 12" powerbook. im glad, it is not 15,

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

what happened to the ibook?

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

water damage

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 March 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

its seems unusual, to say the least, that an insurance company would replace an ibook with a twice-the-price-powerbook when ibooks are still available.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

...without expecting you to pay a hefty excess.

i've heard of new-for-old but that's new-for-much-better-and-dearer.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 27 March 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

maybe there is a massive you-win clause relating to the mystery teleportation of offworld water into ibooks

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 27 March 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

i paid an excess of £50

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 27 March 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

ARGGGHH!! I spilled water on my laptop last night and it's still not turning on.

It was closed, turned off, but plugged in. It was sitting on an end table along with a glass of ice water. I nodded off and when the dog started barking I jerked awake and kicked the table. The water was only on top of the laptop, outside. I immediately got some paper towels, wiped up water, moved the laptop from table and remaining spill and went about business.

Later, I tried to turn machine on, nada. Left it open and propped up in front of a fan all night. This morning, nada. The water was just on the outside for less than 30 seconds!! It was only water!! I can't accept that this would fry the machine.

The only mistake I can think of in my response was not unplugging the AC cord when I cleaned up the spill, didn't occur to me. But still. . .

Once I fried a laptop with just water but that was directly spilt on the keyboard, while it was on, and this was nearly 8 years ago. Surely modern machines are hardier? My previous laptop was a Compaq and I spilt soda, beer, coffee on that thing and it always bounced back.

WTF?!?!!?

It is a Dell Inspirion and is only 7 months old. I am very sad and bewildered.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Friday, 30 June 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

It is a Dell Inspirion

There's the problem. I'd seriously try to tell them "it don't work". I doubt they'd be able to see this was caused by water.

― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

I poured beer in my powerbook last night but it was ok.

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 25 August 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

smells tho

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Saturday, 25 August 2007 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

perhaps it was thirsty

― strongohulkington, Saturday, 25 August 2007 20:00 (seventeen years ago)

my client dropped her blackberry in some beer last night. she asked if "knew anything about blackberries" and if i "knew what she should do".

― gr8080, Saturday, 25 August 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.tbkusa.com/michael%20landon.jpg

― chaki, Saturday, 25 August 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago)

I poured a glass of ice water into my powerbook last week. Did a pretty efficient job of drying it out, it still turns on and I can see all my files on my desktop, but keyboard and mousepad stopped working. Still waiting to hear from Apple store dorks about how extensive/expensive the damage is. ;_;

― n/a, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

my friend spilled beer on my power book almost 2 years ago and the motherfucker still works fine

― max, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

keys are real sticky though

― max, Monday, 27 August 2007 15:16 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

just spilled an entire cup of coffee on my macbook pro.

― akm, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 00:22 (fifteen years ago)

turned it upside down within seconds and it is hanging over a towel, I'm hoping for the best but assuming the worst. does applecare cover this shit?

― akm, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago)

no...

― max, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago)

how do you get cigarette ashes off a mac keyboard though? some asshole's been smoking in my apartment

― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 00:50 (fifteen years ago)

with a hammer

― max, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 01:31 (fifteen years ago)

my brother just came panicking to me after some leak dripped water into his macbook pro's screen: the internet seems divided between 'put it in a bag of rice' and 'run anything that will heat it up and evaporate the water'. ilx: thoughts?

― lords of hyrule (c sharp major), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 01:44 (fifteen years ago)

i just accidentally dumped beer on my mattress.

― ian, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 02:01 (fifteen years ago)

when i dropped my phone in water a couple weeks ago i took out the battery, opened it, and put it in front of a space heater overnight. didn't try the bag of rice. it works now except the external speaker.

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 02:15 (fifteen years ago)

if only I'd done this to my iphone! I have a sinking feeling I've made a two thousand dollar mistake. I did take the battery out and there was coffee on it, that can't be good.

― akm, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 02:24 (fifteen years ago)

i don't think coffee has electrolytes does it? try to dry it overnight and see how it is. it might be ok!

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 02:31 (fifteen years ago)

oh it does. that's not good

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 02:32 (fifteen years ago)

can you take the case off and rub the insides down w/ alcohol?

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 02:36 (fifteen years ago)

don't know if you've seen this but it (and the comments) look helpful http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-deal-with-liquid-spills-on-your-mac-laptop/
a lot of people blog about dropping their electronics in liquid, spent a long time learning about this last time :(

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

Just keep liquid away from your laptop. Period. Get a separate table to keep your liquid on. How many times do people make this dumb mistake and then write about it on the internet?

― US EEL (u s steel), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago)

hey that's some pretty helpful advice, never thought of it before

― welcome to gudbergur (harbl), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 03:41 (fifteen years ago)

Just keep liquid away from your laptop. Period. Get a separate table to keep your liquid on. How many times do people make this dumb mistake and then write about it on the internet?

― US EEL (u s steel), Tuesday, December 29, 2009 3:37 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

are you trying to tell me i can't jack off while watching internet porn? cuz if so f u.

― ian, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 03:45 (fifteen years ago)

You can at a separate table.

― I X Love (Abbott), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago)

taking it to some repair guy tomorrow. apple store can suck it since I guess I've invalidated my warranty. I'll pay up to a grand to get this fixed but not much more than that.

― akm, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:32 (fifteen years ago)

and oddly enough I was in fact moving a cup of coffee away from the computer when this happened. somehow my fingers just gave out and I dropped the mug right on top of it. probably early-onset parkinson's or some shit, with my luck.

― akm, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:34 (fifteen years ago)

Coffee was spilled into my mac and I unscrewed the back and blow dried it. Wated a few days, and it works, except it won't stay in sleep mode.

― Jacob Sanders, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 05:55 (fifteen years ago)

you want to dry it completely before turning it on. don't listen to that run something hot bullshit

― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 06:09 (fifteen years ago)

if you can get your hands on some 99% pure rubbing alcohol you could try submerging your innards in that - the alcohol will force the water out (like oil and water) and then after you drain it, the alcohol will evaporate very quickly (NB this is some burnt toast folk remedy shit I have read about on nerd sites)

― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 06:10 (fifteen years ago)

I found a repair shop in town that is going to take a look and has a good reputation, at least according to yelp, where they saved some girl's macbook after she spilled orange juice on it. they were pretty prompt about writing me back super late at night too and they seem relatively affordable. so fingers crossed.

oddly, just this morning i was thinking, 'i fucking hate computers" and then this happened. shows me.

― akm, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 07:23 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

So, Sunday night my MacBook Pro (and bed) met with a particularly insidious mix of vodka and 'Mezzo Mix' (Coke mixed with Fanta). Didn't realise until the next day, and now (Tuesday morning) I've turned the computer on successfully three times.

Measurable damage:
- sticky keys
- keyboard lighting mostly out
- DVD drive seems cooked (the whirr at the start sounds sick and it spits out discs without reading them)
- startup takes a really long time.
- inexplicably the three-finger swipe to move to the top/bottom of a page in Firefox instantly has stopped working, but two finger scrolling still works.

Would ILX's advice be to pretend nothing happened and live with the changes, or is it still worth taking to a shop (if possible) that might be able to clean it?

― Franz Kappa (S-), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 10:39 (thirteen years ago)

Being nice and friendly to Mac genius people will get you very far in this situation. My new mbp took a sugary coffee soon after I bought it (they don't cover liquid damage) but they fixed it for me for free anyway.

― owenf, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 11:04 (thirteen years ago)

my dell has a loose connection and will only charge when upside down

― shite pele (darraghmac), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 11:11 (thirteen years ago)

Move to Australia.

― triple black belt in ILX-fu (snoball), Tuesday, 11 October 2011 11:39 (thirteen years ago)

I've recently purchased, and am currently awaiting the delivery of, a new 2TB hard drive to replace my now full 500GB. Yesterday the old drive wouldn't switch on. I freaked out so much... Go little hard drive! Go! You can do it! Luckily after some coaxing it switched on. DABS say my order is "processing"... Fingers crossed it gets here before my old one gives up the ghost forever and I lose the last three years' worth of music in one fell swoop. Uh oh...

― dog latin, Tuesday, 11 October 2011 11:48 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

Bad news: Last night I spilled wine on my laptop. The keyboard seems to be FUX0RED. Fortunately I held on to the keyboard from my old desktop computer, and as far as I can tell everything else seems to be functioning. Later today I plan to make backups of everything on the hard drive.

Question: Can technicians fix this sort of thing? Related question, what would the cost be? (It's not a Mac, it's a low-end PC; a quick glance at bestbuy.com suggested I could buy a comparable new notebook for $270-300.)

― Word Salad Username (j.lu), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 12:02 (twelve years ago)

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