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#1 2005-10-08 2:12 am
- jrork777
- Jamoke
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The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
...when you screw up.
Recently moved my networking gear around, which ended up necessitating that my 1.25 MDD G4 be wireless.
Was using a Linksys "bridge" (read: gaming adapter) which seemed to be working fine, but soon began to give me problems. In no time I was rebooting the damn thing 3 or 4 times a day. Time to go AirPort.
Browsed around, found an APx card on eBay for 50 bucks after shipping (some of you are already groaning...). Card came today and I just now found the time to crack open my G4 to slap it in. No sweat, have done this dozens of times.
You can imagine my complete dismay when, with my shiny new Extreme card in hand, I came upon your typical, garden variety PCMCIA-style 802.11b AirPort slot.
Damn.
I never even THOUGHT to check on this. My pride in believing I know "all" things Mac must have gotten in my way. So dumb, and on my machine... no way to play that one down.
Anybody else do anything stupid lately?
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#2 2005-10-08 2:39 am
- jkahless
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
I once tried to tighten a screw by turning the screwdriver to the right. Man did I feel stupid.
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#3 2005-10-08 8:26 am
- im_electronic
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
stuck my weiner in the warp drive, it didn't make it go any faster captain!
Please Don't make my brain hurt, ask logical, thought out, and well worded questions.
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#4 2005-10-08 8:47 am
- jrork777
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
Wow... you guys are great. Thanks for the empathy.
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#5 2005-10-08 9:02 am
- ckm
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
im_electronic wrote:
stuck my weiner in the warp drive, it didn't make it go any faster captain!
...and by the by, ye wouldn't happen t'have a wee bit'o mustard, would ye?
(Both lines drived from the audio skit "Stardrek" by Bobby Pickett and Peter Ferrara.)
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#6 2005-10-08 10:12 am
- Short Circuit
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
I think I win the competition today, I just ruined a DVR-105 when I tried to flash it. Its now an ex-superdrive paperweight. Untill I can find a PC head to restore it that is.
W
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#7 2005-10-08 12:14 pm
- F041
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
What is flashing?
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#9 2005-10-08 12:43 pm
- Jack Sparrow
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
titok16 wrote:
it's a girl thing
tito
LMAO!!!! That made my day!!!
Friend: Apple’s gay
Me: I’m not quite sure that a company can be sexually oriented in that way, but if they are, what does that make Microsoft?
Friend: A transgender homosexual bestiality queer
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#10 2005-10-08 12:46 pm
- Cleric
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
Smurf happens.
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#11 2005-10-08 1:36 pm
- Moses
- Life is like a box of Cactuar
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
Cleric wrote:
Smurf happens.
...then you die. 
I can only express puzzlement, which borders on alarm.
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#12 2005-10-08 3:50 pm
- Short Circuit
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
F041 wrote:
What is flashing?
to make it region free, so you can watch movies from around the world.
W
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#13 2005-10-08 4:41 pm
Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
Short Circuit wrote:
F041 wrote:
What is flashing?
to make it region free, so you can watch movies from around the world.
W
That sort of answered the question, but not in a very helpful way...
Flashing is updating the firmware on a specific piece of hardware, such as a DVD drive. Firmware is basically software that's stored in the device. Manufacturers will routinely release firmware updates to fix bugs or support new features.
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#14 2005-10-08 4:44 pm
- Superman
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
oh, btw to the original poster, you can buy a card made by Belkin that is PCI (F5D7000 I believe). It is an 801.11G PCI card that works with the Airport extreme drivers yet fits in a PCI slot. I have one in my 1.25 G4 and bought it for $30 at circuit city.
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#15 2005-10-08 6:04 pm
- Freezer mac
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
jrork777 wrote:
...when you screw up.
Recently moved my networking gear around, which ended up necessitating that my 1.25 MDD G4 be wireless.
Was using a Linksys "bridge" (read: gaming adapter) which seemed to be working fine, but soon began to give me problems. In no time I was rebooting the damn thing 3 or 4 times a day. Time to go AirPort.
Browsed around, found an APx card on eBay for 50 bucks after shipping (some of you are already groaning...). Card came today and I just now found the time to crack open my G4 to slap it in. No sweat, have done this dozens of times.
You can imagine my complete dismay when, with my shiny new Extreme card in hand, I came upon your typical, garden variety PCMCIA-style 802.11b AirPort slot.
Damn.
I never even THOUGHT to check on this. My pride in believing I know "all" things Mac must have gotten in my way. So dumb, and on my machine... no way to play that one down.
Anybody else do anything stupid lately?
used a cordless drill to drive a screw into a ceramic light fixture.
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#16 2005-10-08 6:23 pm
- jrork777
- Jamoke
- From: Chicagoland
- Registered: 2005-02-08
- Posts: 248
Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
Superman wrote:
... you can buy a card made by Belkin that is... an 801.11G PCI card that works with the Airport extreme drivers yet fits in a PCI slot.
Wow, so essentialy it is driver-free? Does OS X actually recognize it as an AIrPort card?
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#17 2005-10-08 6:28 pm
- dv
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
yes
"Now commences the process of cutting off the head, which generally takes from an hour to an hour and a half by an expert workman with a sharp blade." -Reuben Delano, Wanderings and Adventures
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#18 2005-10-08 6:44 pm
- test
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
jrork777 wrote:
Anybody else do anything stupid lately?
All the time - at work I keep doing what the boss says rather than what he means. Damn me and my willfully incompetent inability to read his multi-polar mind.
Patience is a virtue of the weak for it makes them stand still long enough for the strong to crush them with ease.
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#19 2005-10-08 7:30 pm
- sparkn
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
I bought a car real cheap with a bad engine. Then, bought another real cheap for the parts. Both cars had the same bad parts.
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#20 2005-10-08 8:17 pm
Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
jrork777 wrote:
Anybody else do anything stupid lately?
Yes, I know several people who have done stupid thi— oh, you mean us? No, nothing comes to mind. 
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#21 2005-10-08 8:46 pm
- jrork777
- Jamoke
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- Posts: 248
Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
Superman wrote:
... you can buy a card made by Belkin that is... an 801.11G PCI card that works with the Airport extreme drivers yet fits in a PCI slot.
dvpierce wrote:
jrork777 wrote:
Wow, so essentialy it is driver-free? Does OS X actually recognize it as an AIrPort card?
yes
Wow, that's great! I've done a bit of poking around for somthing like that, but that's better news than I hoped for. I thought for sure I'd end up using some third-party crap driver/software.
Thanks a lot!
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#22 2005-10-08 10:35 pm
- Freezer mac
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
jrork777 wrote:
Superman wrote:
... you can buy a card made by Belkin that is... an 801.11G PCI card that works with the Airport extreme drivers yet fits in a PCI slot.
dvpierce wrote:
jrork777 wrote:
Wow, so essentialy it is driver-free? Does OS X actually recognize it as an AIrPort card?
yes
Wow, that's great! I've done a bit of poking around for somthing like that, but that's better news than I hoped for. I thought for sure I'd end up using some third-party crap driver/software.
Thanks a lot!
it depends on what version of the card you get. i think version 2000 works, but i know version 4000 doesn't.
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#23 2005-10-09 3:04 am
Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
sparkn wrote:
I bought a car real cheap with a bad engine. Then, bought another real cheap for the parts. Both cars had the same bad parts.
...same... broken parts?
Damn.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#24 2005-10-10 10:05 am
- sparkn
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
Both had a cracked head. They both run now and I sold one, but not before I spent more more than I paid for both cars.
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#25 2005-10-11 9:39 pm
- jrork777
- Jamoke
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- Registered: 2005-02-08
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Re: The more you learn, the stupider you feel...
Freezer wrote:
it depends on what version of the card you get. i think version 2000 works, but i know version 4000 doesn't.
Well went and picked one up at CC today...
version 3000 doesn't work either.
Found one on eBay that's v1000. Any info on this version?
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