Quote: Originally Posted by john h There have been reports of people spontaneously bursting into fire. Why not a Macbook Pro? Perhaps if the Macbook Pro also happens to be…

keep an ear out for an mbp that has choked "on vomit"

haha, i just went to have a look and the pics are essentially gone...replaced by some big blocky pixels. Insert consiracy theory! from the link, caution, copyright infringment …

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 second that, I would love to learn how to make cursors for Mighty Mouse (I do not have the time for making themes) but I can not find any tutorials? I bought Mighty Mouse and the…

What do you mean "logged in as root" with the login window sitting on top of everything? Like literally a desktop, Dock, etc. running under the root account, and then a login wind…

do you have roommates? -r.

It was both logged in and at the login screen? Huh? Like, you have both root and fast user switching enabled and the root account had the icon next to it?

Quote: Originally Posted by Tomchu What do you mean "logged in as root" with the login window sitting on top of everything? Like literally a desktop, Dock, etc. running under t…

Check NetInfo Admin to see if root is enabled. If it is, someone knows your admin password. And if it isn't, something's very strange.

I'm willing to bet it was a friend playing a prank. It could have also been a screenshot set as the wallpaper that possibly contributed to the effect in some way.

Do you have your computer set to turn on at a certain time? It's not possible to send a remote command to a computer that is truly powered off without using special network cards d…

Oh wait, I thought of something else, do you have your computer set to turn back on after a power loss? If so, maybe you had a power outage? I think if the machine is already off w…

Thanks for the replies. root is enabled on my computer and it was scheduled to start up everyday at 7:30am. The door to my room was locked so no one had physical access to my co…