Comments on: iBooks Don’t Get Thirsty http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/03/11/thirsty-ibook It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:00:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-hemorrhage hourly 1 By: Chris Pirillo http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/03/11/thirsty-ibook#comment-742 Chris Pirillo Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=392#comment-742 <p>d00d. Drivesavers.</p> d00d. Drivesavers.

]]> By: Anders Jacobsen http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/03/11/thirsty-ibook#comment-743 Anders Jacobsen Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=392#comment-743 <p>Sorry to hear about that!</p> <p>Ibas ( http://www.ibas.com/ ) are quite famous for tricky cases; but there is a whole load of options nearer you on this list: http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Hardware/Storage/Data_Recovery/</p> <p>Good luck & let us know how the story ends!</p> Sorry to hear about that!

Ibas ( http://www.ibas.com/ ) are quite famous for tricky cases; but there is a whole load of options nearer you on this list:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Hardware/Storage/Data_Recovery/

Good luck & let us know how the story ends!

]]> By: l.m.orchard http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/03/11/thirsty-ibook#comment-744 l.m.orchard Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=392#comment-744 <p>Woo! Thanks for the pointers guys - this is one of those things that I know, in theory, that someone does somewhere. My first impulse was to take a laptop apart and plug the drive in and see what happens. But, I squashed that impulse as very dumb. And possibly very expensive.</p> Woo! Thanks for the pointers guys - this is one of those things that I know, in theory, that someone does somewhere. My first impulse was to take a laptop apart and plug the drive in and see what happens. But, I squashed that impulse as very dumb. And possibly very expensive.

]]> By: Jason Clark http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/03/11/thirsty-ibook#comment-745 Jason Clark Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=392#comment-745 <p>Wow. Same thing (nearly) happend to me on Sunday... except I did the knocking over. Poured a whole glass of water onto the keyboard of my (month old) 15" Powerbook.</p> <p>In a fit of superhuman speed brought on by fear of a $2K+ doorstop, I grabbed it, inverted it, and unpluged AC power all in one motion. Hit the power button, hit enter on all the prompts, and got it shut down in under a minute.</p> <p>Once I felt I'd got all the water out that I could, I set it upright and removed the keyboard. I <em>carefully</em> dried any visible water inside with pieces of paper towel, and used a hair dryer to get the moisture out of the keyboard. Half hour later, upon reassembly, It started up fine... and then screamed like a banshee for abt 2 seconds.</p> <p>After a few more random (and heartstopping) screams, some keyboard testing, and leaving it open for a few hours to dry somemore, I'm happy to report it's alive. Slight rattle in the left speaker, I think, but beats a dear machine. </p> <p>Best of luck recovering your hard drive. I wasn't nearly so lucky when my work laptop's (dell win2k) HD died abt 6 months ago... only to learn that I had a major project that <em>wasn't</em> in my backups or source code control.</p> Wow. Same thing (nearly) happend to me on Sunday… except I did the knocking over. Poured a whole glass of water onto the keyboard of my (month old) 15″ Powerbook.

In a fit of superhuman speed brought on by fear of a $2K+ doorstop, I grabbed it, inverted it, and unpluged AC power all in one motion. Hit the power button, hit enter on all the prompts, and got it shut down in under a minute.

Once I felt I’d got all the water out that I could, I set it upright and removed the keyboard. I carefully dried any visible water inside with pieces of paper towel, and used a hair dryer to get the moisture out of the keyboard. Half hour later, upon reassembly, It started up fine… and then screamed like a banshee for abt 2 seconds.

After a few more random (and heartstopping) screams, some keyboard testing, and leaving it open for a few hours to dry somemore, I’m happy to report it’s alive. Slight rattle in the left speaker, I think, but beats a dear machine.

Best of luck recovering your hard drive. I wasn’t nearly so lucky when my work laptop’s (dell win2k) HD died abt 6 months ago… only to learn that I had a major project that wasn’t in my backups or source code control.

]]> By: l.m.orchard http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/03/11/thirsty-ibook#comment-746 l.m.orchard Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=392#comment-746 <p>Yeah, unfortunately, this spillage must've happened sometime in the wee hours when I was snoring away. So, it had plenty of time to bathe and get well and thoroughly sizzled. My girlfriend found it in the morning, and loathe was she to wake me with that news. Apple informed me that the repair would likely cost just slightly less than the price of a new iBook.</p> Yeah, unfortunately, this spillage must’ve happened sometime in the wee hours when I was snoring away. So, it had plenty of time to bathe and get well and thoroughly sizzled. My girlfriend found it in the morning, and loathe was she to wake me with that news. Apple informed me that the repair would likely cost just slightly less than the price of a new iBook.

]]> By: Ultimatum http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/03/11/thirsty-ibook#comment-747 Ultimatum Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=392#comment-747 <p>haha... Les.. its Ultimatum from Industry. Glad to see you havent lost your unique sense of humor. heh.</p> haha… Les.. its Ultimatum from Industry.
Glad to see you havent lost your unique sense of humor. heh.

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