What could've caused these marks on the casing?

Hi forum.
I've recently given back the Powerbook G4 I was using on my old job. Being depressingly Mac-less, I'm buying a new MBP.
On my old one, I managed to leave behind some interesting and very odd looking marks on both sides of the touchpad. In a wide area presumably where the pawn of my hands were resting evolved a bunch of marks that could look kind of like acid burns.
I would really like to think my hands are not dissecting acid, and further not like to cause these marks on my new MacBookPro.
I'm therefore looking for someone who has seen something like this before, and has some tips and hints on what could be causing it, and how to prevent it.
See some pictures of it:
http://crooncore.dk/powerbook_marks.JPG
http://crooncore.dk/powerbook_marks2.JPG
Regards,
kspr
Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Isn't this funny.
You buy a MBP, and think it is a nice machine, and the next moment you have to realize that all the design just reduces functionalty to be ridiculous...
Why using such an finish for an object that is being used with your hands... next you will probably be able to buy the super iGloves not to scratch or harm you MBP ("others buy ugly magnesium computers, but you have the chance to look great with your novel iGloves and your shiny aluminium case").
Hey come on Apple, design is good but functionnality is first. You are really fooling your customers. By the way, shouldn't design take care of the fact that transportable computer may be droped once in a while? I better not imagine how this computer looks like afterwards.
Well hopefully they will start again one day to change their goals.

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RE: (forte-users) What could have caused the StopWatch classto r eturn

Attila
1. Ops - I DO instantiate it as follows:
[snip]
sw : StopWatch = new;
[snip]
I missed the "= new" in the orig mail message (cut/past from wrong
workspace).
2. LogWriter(deltaT:integer, t1:DateTimeData, t2:DateTimeData)
[snip]
task.part.logmgr.put('| ');
task.part.logmgr.put(deltaT);
task.part.logmgr.put(' | ');
task.part.logmgr.put(t1);
task.part.logmgr.put(' | ');
task.part.logmgr.put(t2);
task.part.logmgr.putline(' |');
[snip]
OK, it's just a quick 'n dirty but it does the job for testing.
Regards,
Dirk
-----Original Message-----
From: Attila Rácz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 7 October 1999 14:35
To: Haben, Dirk
Subject: Re: (forte-users) What could have caused the
StopWatch class to
return a negative v alue?
Hi Dirk,
1. You don't instantiate the StopWatch object!!! So the
attached code have to
throw a NIL exception. On my PC it does:
"Trying to invoke a method on a NIL object (qqos_StopWatch, 1)."
2. Send the whole LogWriter method for analyzing.
Attila
"Haben, Dirk" wrote:
G'day
Suppose the following output is produced:
Loaded Forte Message Catalog 'fortemsg/en_us.cat'
NLM Startup is Complete - Partition's Locale is 'c'
Loading partition CollectResponseStatistics_cl0_Client built on 30-Sep-1999
09:12:28.
Attached to manager for node BLAH.
%DiH-I-VERID: CollectResponseStatistics_v371.002
%DiH-I-BGP, BGP Started...
%DiH-I, Repeat Interval (in milliseconds) 300000
%DiH-I, Sample Account Number: 123456
%DiH-I-BGPSTART, BackgroundProcessing started at: 07-Oct-1999 08:54:16
| Total Time | Account Fetch | Account Fetch |
| in milliSeconds | Start Time | Completion Time |
|-----------------|----------------------|----------------------|
| -194 | 07-Oct-1999 08:54:16 | 07-Oct-1999 08:54:17 |
What could cause the stopwatch class to return this negative value? Here is
the code that is run:
sw : StopWatch;
//that line is actual as follows:
sw : StopWatch = new;
//*****[Dirk]
>>
BP_t1 : DateTimeData = new;
BP_t2 : DateTimeData = new;
BP_t1.SetCurrent();
self.LogWriter('%DiH-I-BGPSTART, BackgroundProcessing started at: ',BP_t1);
self.LogWriterHeading();
tmpAcc : account = new;
sw.fire();
BP_t1.SetCurrent();
tmpAcc = self.AccountFetch(aAccountNumber);
BP_t2.SetCurrent();
deltaT : Integer = sw.split();
self.LogWriter(deltaT,BP_t1,BP_t2);
Oh, and the logwriter is just a formatted logmgr.put(deltaT) ,
logmgr.put(t1) etc
Any light on this one much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dirk
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Attila
1. Ops - I DO instantiate it as follows:
[snip]
sw : StopWatch = new;
[snip]
I missed the "= new" in the orig mail message (cut/past from wrong
workspace).
2. LogWriter(deltaT:integer, t1:DateTimeData, t2:DateTimeData)
[snip]
task.part.logmgr.put('| ');
task.part.logmgr.put(deltaT);
task.part.logmgr.put(' | ');
task.part.logmgr.put(t1);
task.part.logmgr.put(' | ');
task.part.logmgr.put(t2);
task.part.logmgr.putline(' |');
[snip]
OK, it's just a quick 'n dirty but it does the job for testing.
Regards,
Dirk
-----Original Message-----
From: Attila Rácz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 7 October 1999 14:35
To: Haben, Dirk
Subject: Re: (forte-users) What could have caused the
StopWatch class to
return a negative v alue?
Hi Dirk,
1. You don't instantiate the StopWatch object!!! So the
attached code have to
throw a NIL exception. On my PC it does:
"Trying to invoke a method on a NIL object (qqos_StopWatch, 1)."
2. Send the whole LogWriter method for analyzing.
Attila
"Haben, Dirk" wrote:
G'day
Suppose the following output is produced:
Loaded Forte Message Catalog 'fortemsg/en_us.cat'
NLM Startup is Complete - Partition's Locale is 'c'
Loading partition CollectResponseStatistics_cl0_Client built on 30-Sep-1999
09:12:28.
Attached to manager for node BLAH.
%DiH-I-VERID: CollectResponseStatistics_v371.002
%DiH-I-BGP, BGP Started...
%DiH-I, Repeat Interval (in milliseconds) 300000
%DiH-I, Sample Account Number: 123456
%DiH-I-BGPSTART, BackgroundProcessing started at: 07-Oct-1999 08:54:16
| Total Time | Account Fetch | Account Fetch |
| in milliSeconds | Start Time | Completion Time |
|-----------------|----------------------|----------------------|
| -194 | 07-Oct-1999 08:54:16 | 07-Oct-1999 08:54:17 |
What could cause the stopwatch class to return this negative value? Here is
the code that is run:
sw : StopWatch;
//that line is actual as follows:
sw : StopWatch = new;
//*****[Dirk]
>>
BP_t1 : DateTimeData = new;
BP_t2 : DateTimeData = new;
BP_t1.SetCurrent();
self.LogWriter('%DiH-I-BGPSTART, BackgroundProcessing started at: ',BP_t1);
self.LogWriterHeading();
tmpAcc : account = new;
sw.fire();
BP_t1.SetCurrent();
tmpAcc = self.AccountFetch(aAccountNumber);
BP_t2.SetCurrent();
deltaT : Integer = sw.split();
self.LogWriter(deltaT,BP_t1,BP_t2);
Oh, and the logwriter is just a formatted logmgr.put(deltaT) ,
logmgr.put(t1) etc
Any light on this one much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dirk
For the archives, go to: http://lists.sageit.com/forte-users and use
the login: forte and the password: archive. To unsubscribe, send in a new
email the word: 'Unsubscribe' to:
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Attila Racz Lufthansa
Systems Hungary
BUD LSYH
E-mail: [email protected] .-``'.
Tel.: (36 1) 431-2910 .` .' Mazsa ter 2-6.
Fax : (36 1) 431-2977 _.-' '._ H-1107
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