Dear 2009:

[etherial]

Die in a fire.

kthxbye

Edit: specifically, a glass of grape juice had a tragic encounter with my computer. If anyone out there can help me figure out what, if anything, can be done to salvage my poor mac mini, please call my cell or leave a comment here.

Comments

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest cleaning with rubbing alcohaul and letting it dry for a week.

The internerd may have more specific and more well-tested advice.

[stillking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, at this point there's very little to be lost by the disassembly/isopropyl method. I might suggest booting up the hard drive in someone else's chassis (or putting it in an enclosure to boot as an external drive, or putting it in another chassis' secondary slot as an extra drive), purely for data-recovery purposes; Linux and BSD machines should be able to mount this without too much trouble. (I am less confident wrt Windows.)

-- Sven