Smoking Venue And Hoster

[Stefan]

Hi Musicman. Just got a MacBook Pro and am using Hoster on it via BootCamp to startup in Windows 7. Now I have the best of both worlds. It works fine. As far as smoking voiding warranty..good news. People look after their cars and computers better than they look after themselves, so maybe Apple are helping covertly in helping smokers give up.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Stefan

so maybe Apple are helping covertly in helping smokers give up.

Aw cmon, gimme a break? As if ppl in that bar are gonna quit because they think THEY might be hurting your computer.

[Musicman51]

I never really thought about it before. But i use one of those laptop cooling boards with dual fans to keep my laptop cool. Actually i guess those fans suck the nasty air in and blow it right into the inner workings of my laptop. Coating my motherboard, connections, and the laser eye of my CD rom drive with cigarette smoke and nasty french fry gease. As well as my mtu external drive, it to has it's own cooling fan sucking in the nasties to ... yuck. I sure wish michigan would go smokeless. We are behind the rest of the country in that regards. We have the highest unemployment rate in the nation. So we need the tabacco tax. We just raised the tax again, almost 3 bucks of every pack is for tax. A bag of roll yur own tabaccie, is up above $50.00 a pound. A pound of pipe tabacci is close to $30.00 a pound. I use to smoke 3 packs of cigarettes a day before i gave it up cold turkey back around 1990..

[muzicman144]

Originally Posted by bryant

Aw cmon, gimme a break? As if ppl in that bar are gonna quit because they think THEY might be hurting your computer.

I kinda took the message as maybe people would quit smoking to avoid harming their OWN computer, such as voiding the warrenty on their personal computers at home. At least, that is how i read the post. I believe this is the point intended of the post.
muzicman144

[ddouglass]

I don't think Apple is saying that the smoke causes the computer to fail, but that it is hazardous to their technicians. As one person pointed out OSHa put it on the same list with isopropal alchohol and a comple ofther cleaning fluids. This is why Aplle will not make their technicians work on those computers.

[Mitd9922]

Salt air is more of a problem with my equipment. i do shows mostly on or near enough to the beach in Fort Lauderdale and I notice more connector problems with my mixing boards than my cpu. Anyone know a good way to clean these inputs?

[ddouglass]

You might try a thin coat of white lithium grease ( electronics kind) to keep the salt from attacking the metal in the connectors.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Mitd9922

Salt air is more of a problem with my equipment. i do shows mostly on or near enough to the beach in Fort Lauderdale and I notice more connector problems with my mixing boards than my cpu. Anyone know a good way to clean these inputs?

you probably can use CRC, it comes on a spray can, this will prevent moisture going into any electrical stuff, just like what Dale was saying

[marklwood]

OK, I take it all back.

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[ddouglass]

Thats pretty extreme.....lol!!

[Musicman51]

Could it be our michigan senators enjoys karaoke, use Hoster, and read this forum? My dreams have been answered. You guys aren't going to believe this, but our legislature just passed a workplace smoking ban???huh??? gotta be this forum to thank for this..how else could you explain it??? read this, and watch the video. Now it doesn't cover casinos so you detroit cats don't git yur hopes up. I think this is wonderful. Just passed goes into effect May 2010.......
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/michi...es-smoking-ban

[JNS02]

MusicMan, Michigan is trying to pass a law to stop smoking in all public places. The only exception would be casinos. I also think that since VFW's, American Legion's, Am Vets, etc. are not 'public' they may also be an exception.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by muzicman144

I kinda took the message as maybe people would quit smoking to avoid harming their OWN computer, such as voiding the warrenty on their personal computers at home. At least, that is how i read the post. I believe this is the point intended of the post.
muzicman144

Oh I see, but it is also known that ppl will only quit "anything" for their own reasons, not someone else's, and I think Apple knows that as well. Let's face it, if they won't quit for their own health, you really think they're gonna quit for their computer's health.?

[marklwood]

Wow, that was a little harsh. Sorry Bryant.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by marklwood

Wow, that was a little harsh. Sorry Bryant.

Ouch.

I see your point though, and may very much be the case, who knows?

[Musicman51]

My intentions of this post had absolutly nothing to do with the smoking VS: non smoking controversy. Ya'all can smoke till your hearts content, as i stated i use to burn up over 3 packs aday. My intentions were simply to bring to your attention the new rules Apple is going to adhere to. I do think others will also follow along with them. I think we will see a new trend here. I sorta agree with what someone said about doing that study, and the failure rate. It really doesn't matter what may or may not be worse for our computers. Dust for example doesn't cause a toxic situation for repair tech's, neither does salt water air. And no one forced me to give up the winstons, i did it cold turkey on my own, same with the miller lite, and jack chasers. That made alot of sense also about replacing the warm air in my laptop with cooler air outside of it...i never really thought about that.