Ubuntu 11.04 broke my MacBook Pro

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2011-05-09 at 08:51 +1200, chris wrote: 
> On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 12:03 -0700, rikona wrote:
> > Hello Ric,
> > 
> > Sunday, May 8, 2011, 10:39:41 AM, Ric wrote:
> > 
> > > I toasted a perfectly good 15" Multisync, back when they cost mega
> > > bucks. Xvidtune took what I stupidly gave it and gleefully took out
> > > the flyback. It just went ZEET! and a puff of smoke issued.
> > 
> > Hmmm... interesting. I also lost a Multisync the same way, even to the
> > ZEET + reeeeally bad smell - an even larger one, for mega+ bucks.
> > 
> > > God, I was sick.
> > 
> > Meeeeee too!
> > 
> > I've been cautious since.
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> >  rikona        
> > 
> > 
> 
> Which is why I use my Sony multisync when using new software or distros.
> Has mega protection
> Please tell me I have been good.  :-)

Mine sure didn't. And I cried like a little girl over it, too. I had to
go back to using the 14" POS I had stuffed in the garage. I loathed that
monitor and myself for blowing up my dream monitor. A 15 inch Multisync
was a fair amount of coin then. That was when I discovered flyback
replacement hell, too. I could never get the replacement, without
finding out just who actually made it. Some outfit in Taiwan, that lived
in alleys and moved around a bit, was who made it. F-me. :( Ric


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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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