2010/2/5 P N Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>: > On Feb 5, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> paul stenquist wrote: >>> On Feb 5, 2010, at 1:09 PM, AlunFoto wrote: >>>> 2010/2/5 Martin Trautmann <tr...@gmx.de>: >>>>> You may obtain this info easily for the Mac. Just open the terminal and >>>>> enter: >>>>> ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | >>>>> strings >>>>> -6 >>>> >>>> ROTFLMAO. >>>> "easily", eh? >>> I did it. If I can do it, anyone can do it:-). >> Oh yeah? Get Dave Brooks to type that in accurately and I'll believe >> anyone can do it! > I copied and pasted it. Dave can do that:-).
Having dabbled with both grep and sed in their Windows incarnations, the expression was very amusing to me. Mostly because it requires a very intimate knowledge of what goes on under the hood in the Mac OS, and of how RegEx works. It's hardly an expression one can concoct from just looking at some beginner's tutorial... :-) While googling the display model numbers turned up by Martin, I noticed that the ioreg expression is posted around many mac user forums, in every language I'm able to "guesscipher" without assistance from translation robots. Panel substitution seems to be more of an issue for Mac users than I ever imagined. It seems to be at least on par with what Dell has been doing. It may be because of Apple's position, as Godfrey explained. With their kind of production volume, it makes sense to spread risk by having multiple suppliers for the parts. I wouldn't be surprised if they did the same with eg. hard drives and RAM. But it still sucks not to inform the customer. -And that goes for Dell just as much as for Apple, of course. Btw, I had an insider help me order my Dell to increase the likelihood of getting the "best available" panel for the model. but I still don't know for sure whether it turned out lucky... :-( Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
