"That's no moon"

U r right, it really dusnt matter how u spell. Its not like their are standards to maintain. Or that its just plane irritating to sea.

(Pedants aside, a large proportion of Slashdot readers are programmers whose brains sound an alarm bell when a sentence doesn't parse correctly.)

I build my own PCs, but every so often I do get to pull apart a Mac of various vintages - most recently, a Mac Pro to put a Broadcom 802.11n module into it (the most IIci of their current line), and a base Mac Mini to bump it to 4 GB and a 500 GB drive (interior design reminiscent of a Cube).

It's actually a very satisfying experience being in amongst the Apple hardware: there's a certain artistry to getting the most use out of the diminished space of their designs, and the feeling is more of being a delicate caver exploring a new miniature subterranean world than serviceman.

The analogy is that building a PC is like "electrical" wiring where you route power cables under floorboards or up walls, there's space aplenty. Inside an Apple is like "electronics" where every atom of space counts. The Mini is like a large PSP.

There's no question you have to delicate turn your delicate setting to 11 when operating inside a Mac.

A PC you can basically upgrade with a blunt hammer.

Microchipped pony.

Just in case you weren't aware, there was some excerpts from the draft of the 3rd book in the posthumously published 'Salmon of Doubt.'

Such as how, on a whim, Dirk trailed someone from London to some remote part of the USA and met a leopard. Or something.