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Smelly Phone Alerts via Geektechnique.

I remember reading the back page fo Amiga World in 1990-ish where they announced the new "Digi-phew" add-on the the then-breakthrough Digiview.

We dropped by http://www.microcenter.com today. I picked up the Speck Products 3pk Skin Tight iPod case and MacAlly 3-in-1 Laptop Kit (Optical scroll mouse, USB 2.0 hub, retractable FW cable) which originally retailed for $28.99 and $59.99.

I've got the mobo from the iMac 400 running in the 350 shell. It runs fine, it's got 256MB RAM and a 10GB drive. I partitioned it to have OS X sitting on the last 4.5GB (SL iMacs don't care about the 8.4GB thing like TLs and Beige G3s) and left the space between it and the Driver and Patch partitions marked as "Free Space". Then I installed OS X and ran all the updates. Deleted IE too. Then I loaded the Ubuntu 5.04 CD and tried to start from it. The iMac flat refused. No 'C" working here. Tried OF. boot cdrom gave me issues with XCOFF crap and stopped. Then I remembered a trick: boot OF, type mac-boot as if you wanted to boot OS X and hold down 'C' right after you press Return. Bingo! Booted right up from the CD. It seems sometimes OS X plays with the system and things don't want to boot as they should. This iMac would boot from the Ubuntu CD fine w/o OS X on the HDD. Odd.