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Azureus performance tip that I only just now realized... Go to /Utilities/Java/J2SE 5.0/ and open up "Java Preferences." Change your runtime settings from J2SE 1.4.2 to J2SE 5.0. Close and then fire up Azureus again.

Runs significantly better now.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 18 February 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

fucking HELL.

so i've bought some memory for the powerbook in the hope that might make the experience of using 10.4 marginally less painful.

and i discover that, in order to install it, i need a philips size 00 screwdriver.

because yes, of fucking COURSE i have one of those knocking around the place. can't move for fucking tiny jewellers' screwdrivers round this gaff.

JESUS CHRIST, apple, what the FUCK is wrong with using a marginally more sensible size of screw?

nobody i know has got one of these fucking things either, so i'm going to have to buy one. i think i'll send it to apple when i'm done with a note saying: "dear steve jobs. shove this RIGHT up your arse, you cunt."

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Haha I have the screwdriver you need, I had to buy one too, for the SAME STUPID FUCKING REASON.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

You can use Tweezers

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Or a hammer.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:25 (twenty years ago)

i tried tweezers but the screws are fucking tight and i don't want to knacker the heads. and yes, when i was emptying out my tool box - just in case i could find such a screwdriver - i came across a small rubber mallet. and just for a split second, i did consider ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

I have one because my glasses always fall apart.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

I had the same problem. Bought a 00 screwdriver and the screw was too shallow to take it. Had to borrow someone else's to get the job done.

― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:19 (twenty years ago)

oh, rats' cocks. christ.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:55 (twenty years ago)

If you've ever worn glasses on a daily basis you will have one of these screwdrivers. Also, they come in Christmas crackers.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:39 (twenty years ago)

I also had to buy a pack of tiny screwdrivers. But they've come in handy for other things, so I'm not too upset.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:41 (twenty years ago)

If you've ever worn glasses on a daily basis you will have one of these screwdrivers. Also, they come in Christmas crackers.

i don't wear glasses. mrs fiendish does, but a) she's away in england and b) she doesn't have such a thing anyway. nor, it seems, do any of my speccy chums.

and, oddly, i don't tend to keep the ephemera that falls out of xmas crackers, thinking: "gosh, one day this 50p piece of crap will come in very useful when i need to put £38 worth of memory into £1200 worth of computer."

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:20 (twenty years ago)

Do you know any woodwind musicians? They're liable to have one hanging about too.

(I have been known to keep the tiny screwdriver sets you get in christmas crackers, so I have one for my glasses case, one in my main clarinet case, one in the spare clarinet case, etc etc etc)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Do you know any woodwind musicians

not really. i know a couple of fiddlers and a lot of people who blow. but that's it.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Don't we all!

Clockmakers? Scale modellers?

(you can tell I'm barrel-scraping here)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:34 (twenty years ago)

I am clearly in a minority of people who think it unthinkable that anyone woyuld not have a full set of Philips, Flat head and Pozidrive, scredrivers and driver bits (I have various torx and security screw bits as well but I don't expect everyone to have the same perversions). (All hail the PZ2)

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:39 (twenty years ago)

yeah well my pbook's hard drive fried out this evening so you can take your little screwdriver problem and ~~stick it up your fucking ass~~ have some perspective on the issue.

― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:41 (twenty years ago)

i'm not laughing. i'm not. i'm ... grimacing as i share your pain.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:15 (twenty years ago)

I've got one Simon, that I bought at a supermarket checkout in NYC, thinking "that'll be handy". It is! I'll bring it into work and you can borrow it. Be in from 12.30.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:05 (twenty years ago)

No, wait, I haven't. It's not a Philips head. But I'll bring it in anyway because I've definitely used it on tiny Philips screws before. Well, you can have a look.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:08 (twenty years ago)

using a pozidrive scredriver on a phillips screw make baby jesus cry

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:09 (twenty years ago)

alba, that's kind of you ... but i'm going to crockett the ironmonger at lunchtime to point gruffly at bits of metal and pretend i know what the fuck i'm talking about.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:12 (twenty years ago)

If you've ever worn glasses on a daily basis you will have one of these screwdrivers.

But no glasses I've ever had have had Philips screws. But my regular (they're called "pozidrive"¿?) mini screwdriver was originally bought for this purpose, yes.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:15 (twenty years ago)

pozidrive is also cross head but with intermediateflashes to prevent cam out.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

right.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ewbc.de/onlinelearning/eopt/data/en/11259.gif

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:33 (twenty years ago)

I hate cam out!

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

following a lengthy trudge around glasgow city centre, i am now the proud (?) owner of a 15-piece "precision screwdriver set".

one for me; 14 for mr jobs's rectum.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

hope it works

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

if it doesn't, there'll be a powerbook for sale on here tomorrow. and i'll be off out to buy a sony vaio.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

I THOUGHT I had a full set as Ed states until I tried to upgrade my RAM.
I even have an eyeglass kit and the bits in there didn't work. That #00 is a bitch.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

xpost

If you're going to get a pc laptop at least get a decnt one like a samsung or a lenovo.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:19 (twenty years ago)

ooh, thanks for the tip. it might just come to that.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:28 (twenty years ago)

The guys at Penny Arcade, longstanding Windows enthusiasts, have now decided that OS X is a free lifetime supply of blowjobs, confirming that everything that made the mac great in my eyes is completely eradicated and I should just get on with my life.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:30 (twenty years ago)

x-post

Ed - are you suggesting that Sony Vaio isn't a decent laptop? Or that Samsung is better? (genuinely curious as I've considered getting one)

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:34 (twenty years ago)

Build quality on Vaios is suspect and they never fit decent graphics chips which could be a bother if you plan to upgrade to Windows Vista.

Samsungs seem to be well built, well specced and good value. Lenovo's are known for bombproof reliability and build. Best tiny sub-notebook is a fujitsu-siemens.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah also never buy Sony unless your life is being threatened. I mean if you want to give yourself 500 immediate reasons to go right back to Apple and be happy about it, yeah, buy Sony.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:39 (twenty years ago)

actually, a friend of mine did exactly this. he lost his rag with his new iBook, bought a vaio ... and took it straight back to the shop within 12 hours.

i think he came back with a pencil and a notepad.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:47 (twenty years ago)

yay screwdriver. yay extra memory. yay for a powerbook that flies.

10.4 still eats ass, though.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

how does one (easily) insert non-keyboard ascii characters on a mac (like ALT-asciicode on a pc)? i can't find no character map; all i can do is go into word and insert symbol then copy/paste...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:04 (twenty years ago)

Most of them are some combination of option and other keys to find out what they are the is a little app called KeyCaps or Keyboard or some such in the utilities folder which shows you what the modifier keys do.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:08 (twenty years ago)

thanks!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

alt + various (sensible and non-ascii) key combinations. eg alt+e primes it to put an acute diacritic on the next character you type; alt+u primes it for an umlaut, etc.

x-post

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

there must be a list of these somewhere but i'm fucked if i can find one after a five-second google.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Alternatively, you can go to System Preferences -> International -> Input Menu tab and check the Character Palette on. You'll get a new menu item with a flag and then select "Character Palette" from it.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

could somebody tell me what's up w/ my powerbook?

every time it wakes up from sleep, it wants to configure a bluetooth keyboard. also, every time it wakes up, the audio balance is set to Left 100%.

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 20 March 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

maybe it senses your right ear is deaf?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 March 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

http://i.dslr.net/avatars/891208.gif

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

I was having a weird audio issue like that and eventually chalked it up to somehow hitting the key combination that changes audio balance! It's stopped doing it, but I have no idea what I was hitting. Presumably a key combination in iTunes.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:02 (twenty years ago)

you are all gay

― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: is a guy with a belly button piercing (ex machina), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:04 (twenty years ago)

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