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What did you do while M-F was down??????

coach_z

coach_z


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i dont have no mac's
over the past little while i have done the following:
*talked to my parents
*talked to the rest of my family
*looked for jobs other than starbucks
*repetedly clicked on my m-f.com bookmark
*sat in the IRC chat while just about no one was there
*went food shopping

it was an awful time!

-chris
 
dtravis7

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MacMini M-1 MacOS Monterey, iMac 2010 27"Quad I7 , MBPLate2011, iPad Pro10.5", iPhoneSE
Talked in IRC with Coach_Z about his dads XP system and printer.

Did you get it working?
 
iWonder

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iBook 12" G4, 30 GB, 768 MB RAM. iPod 5G 30GB.
went to school
played games
clicked the m-f bookmark once or seven times
 
surfwax95

surfwax95


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15" Powerbook G4 • 24" iMac • iPhone 3Gs
Visited the billion other Mac forums I participate in...

*gasp*

Blasphemy!

j/k I got a lot of work done.
 
inflexion

inflexion


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12" 1Ghz PB 768Mb 10.4.5 30Gb Video iPod 40Gb 3G iPod 1Gb iPod Shuffle
Clicked on the link a few times a day and visited some other forums, oh an played Outrun 2006
 
geekboy2000

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20" 2.0GHz Intel Core Duo iMac, 1.5 GHZ PPC Mac Mini, MacBook MB403LL/A
Tried repeatedly with fingers crossed. Spent more time reading Digg.com. Drank a few Manhattans. Bought some stuff on Amazon. Repeated as necessary.

Mark
 
macAttack

macAttack


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iBook
looked at macrumors....too bad they have nothing good there.
 
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Graphite


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MacPro 3.0Ghz 16GB RAM, 4x256 Vid, 30''cinema display
when was m-f down?









:biohazard
 
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aantoine90


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It has been down for the past few days. 3-5 days actually. It was weird.
 
Jeremy W

Jeremy W


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I got a lot more work done here...clicked the bookmark several times...
 
Dillinger-63

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MacBook Pro 13 Inch, 2 Mac Mini's 1.66 & 1.83, 2- iMac Intel i3 iPhone 4 & iPad 2 32 gig.
I checked in once or twice a day, then one day, Yowsa! It's back on-line.
 
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BlindingLights


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iMac 17" Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz 512 MB Ram 128 vRAM 60GB HD
ate
slept
used my iMac for everything else
 
baggss

baggss


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3.4 Ghz i7 MacBook Pro (2015), iPad Pro (2014), iPhone Xs Max. Apple TV 4K
Surfed other Mac/Apple forums....
 
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Kokopelli

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Click refresh, frowned, clicked refresh, sighed, clicked refresh, started crying, clicked refresh..... you get the idea.

Really just went about my day and checked the site a couple times a day till it was up.
 
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AstralZenith

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ehh everytime M-F goes down I pleasure myself 5-6 times until I am forced to get a bag of ice and its usually back up by then!
 

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