I’m going on holiday Little Sister

You idiot, I’m going to Somerset for a week tomorrow, taking Eddie ‘cos he needs lots of country walks to get rid of some of them extra tires.

I’ll be leaving my beloved iMac in a dire state.  Last August my iMac’s superdrive went up shits creek, it wouldn’t eject a disc.  Got it replaced but… Well it happened again today.  I should have known it was coming because the drive had started making the same wheezing sound that it was making the last time I had it replaced.  ‘Cept now it’s beyond warranty land and I’ve kinda forgotten to purchase Apple Care.

Thankfully someone on macintouch has the answer, many have had the same problem and apparently turning the iMac on it’s front and initiating eject whilst jiggiling the slot with a credit card does, after many attempts get the bitch to pop its head out.

I’m annoyed because after the last August’s events I had cut down my use of the internal drive by using a standard dvd drive, rescued from my last PC form many years ago via a IDE->USB affair.  I’ve pretty much only used my internal drive for burning. Yet still the drive hasn’t lasted.  Something tells me that the combination of Vertical+Slot-Loading+Slimline+Pioneer isn’t a good thing.