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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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't we all!

Clockmakers? Scale modellers?

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

right.

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

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

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

I hate cam out!

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

hope it works

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks!

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

maybe it senses your right ear is deaf?

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

every time it wakes up, the audio balance is set to Left 100%.

this has happened to me for years, i think it's something to do with my cheapo Edirol audio interface, but it's incredibly annoying and i'm amazed it's gone on for so long with no fix.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.macedition.com/partingshot/sad_mac_20010914.jpg

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

― vahid (vahid), Monday, 20 March 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

every time it wakes up from sleep, it wants to configure a bluetooth keyboard.

Go into System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Bluetooth tab. Uncheck "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer"

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:18 (eighteen years ago) link

aha. thanks. how about the balance problem?

― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 05:43 (eighteen years ago) link

aha. thanks. how about the balance problem?

What version of iTunes are you on?

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

all fucking versions

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link

my ire is not directed at you chris ... fairly certain it has to do w/system prefs, at least that's where i always go to re-balance the output

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:14 (eighteen years ago) link

So for the first time in a very long time I had to admit defeat and replace Apple hardware with something else.

I've been struggling with a 14TB (yes terabyte) Xsan network with anywhere from 3 to 4 million files on it. This isn't really even an extreme case, it's a high-traffic printer that is routinely dealing with hundreds of thousands of ginormious files. Anyway, files are getting corrupted, two brand-new Xserve controllers are going deaf, and just imagine even trying to use Spotlight on several million files. And Apple's enterprise-level support? HA!

I love my PowerBook, but I also love the new Sun SunFile T2000 server I just installed here too.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link

my ire is not directed at you chris ... fairly certain it has to do w/system prefs, at least that's where i always go to re-balance the output

There was actually some audio balance bugs fixed in the 6.0.3 update to iTunes. The fix was reportedly specific to people using the Airport Express "play-through" option, but it supposedly helped other folks having similar issues.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:21 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (simonmai...), March 8th, 2006 4:47 PM. (grimlord) (link)

did he come back with one of these??
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0811831434/002-9196454-6764004?v=glance&n=283155

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 01:39 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost yes, i actually almost never use itunes, though i'll try the itunes update and see what happens.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link

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