wheees and woes (computer division)

[dubdobdee]

i: how do you get a cd out of an imac when the spit-out machinery won't actually spit it out?
ii: my friend R came round last night from some tips on how to up his internet profile (he's a stand-up since only recently); i went through a few quite basic things and was feeling he had surely wasted his journey over to mine as they were all terribly obvious and lame, about creating a network of links -- plus the imac was being embarrassingly slow and clunky on like myspace and etc (and it et his CD an wonuldn't spit it out) -- but R was delighted, which made me realise that, just via ilx and lj timewasting, i am actually by no means the least useless
iii: i haven't yet got my spensive laptop up and running because i haven't had time to do it systematically -- and my plan was to make the imac my info hub, as it's plumbed into broadband already, and wireless the laptop off of it, but now there's a CD stuck inside it

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i: yeah i tired that -- it grinds away like it's trying to spit it out but actually it doesn't ever get far enough out to grab (or even be visible)
ii: chortle is his immediate goal -- i thought there would probably be a threshold (for example a minimum number of gigs), and that it's by invite somehow, but he already has contacts...

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Is there a tiny hole that a straightened paper clip/staple might fit in? Again this is repurposed floppy disk info that you probably already know.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Arcane as you like, sir!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ok that is useful to know but it does nothing in this case -- i think a spring has gone (or similar) in the eject mechanism, which is clearly operating but not delivering... it can't push the CD far enough out any more, so i think someone will have to open the box up