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I'll do my good deed for the day and make a Public Service Announcement.
If you get an "EcoDisc" DVD like the PG Tips Monkey "A Tale Of Two Continents" DVD in the UK or a newspaper freebie, DON'T put it in your slot loading drive! It will get stuck when you try to eject it. I've just had a mad half hour of pressing eject with the Macbook at all angles, trying to get the *&%&%* thing out.
So if you have done it, what to do? I found this site with a bit of googling Put the Apple notebook upside down and slap it! « QOMPUTE
it sounds strange, but it does work, hold the computer upside down (you don't need to rest it on a table) press eject and slap the back of it lightly. If its an iMac it would go screen down I suppose, and a Mac mini upside down.
Eco Discs are thinner than standard DVD's and a lot more bendy. Be careful out there, this is the end of today's Public Service Announcement. That site just saved me a trip to an Apple dealer for a repair!
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Nothing like a good spanking.
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Are CD's really the biggest environmental concern?
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES 
Are CD's really the biggest environmental concern?
I would think the'd be a big concern, I know the amount of CD's I throw away when I screw up burning them is big (imo). I suppose always buying CD-RW's and DVD-RW's would be a better idea.
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
Are CD's really the biggest environmental concern?
No, misplaced apostrophes are.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
No, misplaced apostrophes are.
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I have seen those media before. Pretty awful.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
No, misplaced apostrophes are.
Wow, it takes all kind of skills to make an apostrophe joke. Well done. 
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Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES
Wow, it takes all kind of skills to make an apostrophe joke. Well done.
No, it takes skills to make an apostrophe joke that’s actually funny. Which his was.
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Maybe it's time for a hard drive upgrade if you are digging around in your MacBook or MacBook Pro for the CD.
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Originally Posted by OisÃn
No, it takes skills to make an apostrophe joke that’s actually funny. Which his was.
It was? 
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