It looks like the cats peed on the connector, shorting it.

Water (or cat piss) and Mag-Safe don't mix.

Quote: Originally Posted by baw http://www.flickr.com/photos/rheauch...7594082940769/ Wait for the Rev.B! Which rev of the PowerBooks had the problem with power supplies ca…

Quote: Originally Posted by fadercraig haha, i just went to have a look and the pics are essentially gone...replaced by some big blocky pixels. Insert consiracy theory! from t…

Quote: Originally Posted by mrmister I don't really understand how all the flickr people *know* it was cat piss that did it--maybe they all have nasty cats and are more familia…

That happens to me, the cat goes in the shredder. ;p (no animals were harmed in the conception and execution of this post)

The photos can now be seen here. http://wiredblogs.tripod.com/cultofm...try_id=1437672

I would bet that if the cat had pissed on an older powerbook model with a traditional connector, there would have been a problem, too. My sister's cats eat the cords on her comput…

NOBODY is going to convince me that those scratches are a result of an electrical fire, or the result of ten days of normal use. No way.

i look forward to seeing the end result of the tests done on the system by the engineers. i hope that the findings are not witheld for some legal reasons or other. If the guy is ca…

looks like grease was some how involved in this fire not "cat pee" if you look around the connector there are orange marks....lask i checked metal on fire didn't produce orange res…

I came across some .exe files which belong to Photoshop. Spotlight indicates they have something to do with droplets, is this normal? I thought .exe files were found in Windows onl…

.exe files will only run on windows, not on OS X.

The droplets from Photoshop are indeed .exe's and run fine in OS X; however, they are more "cross-platform" scripts as you can pass them between Mac and PC's without issues.

They're scripts for Photoshop. If you right-click an image in the Finder and go to "Open With...", you'll be presented with those various scripts to do whatever it says they do to…

Something got screwed up with my iDisk and I can't fix it. Everytime the finder tries to access the iDisk I get the spinning beach ball of death forever. That includes shutting o…

It sounds as though your local iDisk image is corrupted and the Finder is stalling while trying to mount it. Try turning off iDisk synching altogether (not just switching off autom…

if im lucky for quicktime to even play my files it only plays maybe the first 1/5 of it. are there any known issues about this? this is my first mac too so not too sure if there's…

try to re-install it maybe there was files that is not installed properly..

Quote: Originally Posted by DCapple try to re-install it maybe there was files that is not installed properly.. yeah tried to reinstall it and make sure there wasnt any upd…

My guess is they're all mpeg files that were re-joined after splitting by simply concating the files instead of remuxing the whole mpeg. Use VLC to play them instead. There are w…

Quote: Originally Posted by Uncle Skeleton My guess is they're all mpeg files that were re-joined after splitting by simply concating the files instead of remuxing the whole mpe…

mpgtx will fix, join, and split MPEG files that will work in QuickTime. This is the only program I know of for the Mac that actually works. Most other joiners (even after joining…

has anyone had any luck converting .avi files to work on the ipod video. i've tried isquint and podner and after they convert i get no sound on the ipod when i watch it. am i doi…