Posts by Peter Ashby
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Oh and you can cook with it too. My wife's pan fried salmon with whisky cream sauce:
Pepper well a salmon steak per person then fry quickly in butter. Remove and keep warm then to the pan add some double cream and mix in with the butter and bits. The splash in at least two tablespoons of a good smoky malt, Lagavulin or Talisker are our choices. Heat to blend but do not boil. Serve spooned over the fish with a salad.
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Banks's book is a crock of sh*t. There is hardly anything about the whisky in it just how much fun he has drinking it with his friends. He tells you how many bottles of Glenfiddich he puts in his boot to drive home but not how they taste.
Kyle, and 8yo is a youngster. At Lagavulin their standard single malt is 16yo and it's caused them some problems predicting demand.
@Islander, the Scots aren't as precious about the stuff as everyone else is, though most bars here have a jug of water always on the bar for those who want a dash with their dram. Also don't just eyeball the malts behind the counter, ask if they have a whisky list including the ones not on display.
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Elephants are so passé, Hannibal already did it. Lets clone some Mammoths and do it properly . . .
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Russ here is the part we got and where we got it from:
http://www.applemacparts.co.uk/store/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=1361&products_id=64948They say they ship outside Europe to some countries. Ask.
This is the instruction series we followed:
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/iBook-G4-14-Inch-933-MHz-1-33-GHz-DC-In-Board/182/1with pictures of the part in situ. To remove once you have accessed it, you undo the screw holding the pcb in place then unplug the cable from the motherboard (very easy) then you unstick the cable from the motherboard and remove. Replacement is the reverse.
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Famous last fucking words, them ;-)
Okay then. Just to be on the safe side. Unplug the mini before starting work on it. Then all you have to lose is some time.
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Also it wouldn't boot off just the power supply without the batter in. All of which supports that the power supply and the battery were not connected, therefore the DC in.
BTW to do the PMU reset it needs to be off without the power supply connected but with at least a minimum charge battery in. But the startup without battery is the best diagnostic.
Our problem began with a battery that was way past the time for replacement and I think that is what borked it. Kids though, you can tell them and tell them . . .
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I'm pretty sure that's what sank my old G4 iBook -- after I'd forked out for a new battery and power supply. It was eventually regarded as a motherboard replacement job -- and therefore prohibitively expensive.
Which is what we feared, even doing it yourself the cost of a motherboard is prohibitive. However the symptoms did not support a motherboard problem. Specifically a PMU reset did enable it to charge a new battery, for a while, before it fell over again. I suspect too many people assume motherboard and chuck them when it is only the DC in board which is a piece of piss to replace and we paid £39 all up. Much cheaper than the £500 Vis wanted for a motherboard. If you still have the beast, give it a go. There are a lot of screws though and you do need Allen key screwdrivers, but no Torx.
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@Mark Harris
A simple Google of 'replace hard disc in Mac mini' got numerous helpful looking sites. Looks like you just need a thin thing like a pallette knife to ease the sides apart and a small Phillips screwdriver. These things are much less scary than you think and the repair companies want you think. I'm a biologist and have done numerous Mac surgeries, incluing 10 days ago a new DC in board in a G4 iBook which turned it (with help from a new battery and power supply) from a brick that might start up, for 10seconds into a singing dancing portable laptop again. That one took a thin thing and Allen key and Phillips screwdrivers. Be glad it isn't a HD swap on a RevB iMac, that is real surgery. I do PSPs too.Tip, sit where you can touch something metal that is grounded, in our case it's the radiator. Also keep some small containers for the screws in order so you know which ones go back where and they can't roll away, they are very hard to find in carpet. Go on, what have you got to lose?
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I agree that the pubs and children thing is, for those pubs that allow them (try finding one in the centre of London for eg) is good. I once thought it would lead to a more responsible attitude to drinking, with it not being such a forbidden fruit thing that I remember pubs to be in NZ as a teenager (I was not denied my Father's homebrew beer and wine at home). But the binge drinking culture among the young here is horrendous so that idea is consigned to the dustbin.
Part of the problem I think is that there is little to do here for teenagers in the evenings. The cafes close, the cinema won't allow them in unaccompanied after 8pm etc, etc, so as soon as they get even close to 17 they are in the pubs and drinking. It is the only way many know how to socialise.
Maybe its because the beaches are so crap here. I have not swum in the sea here in the UK since we arrived in '93.
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Tom having driven down the Rhine valley on a lovely day not too long ago I can remember very few Schloss that could be described as 'sinister'. The majority got fairy taled in the 19thC and look rather romantic to us.