Often tied in with other tech or code posts; Apple/Mac/iOS speculations, hacks, and other errata.
With a little help from an eyeglass repair kit’s screwdriver, my pocket knife, and the liquid willpower of #9, I managed to get inside of the iPod… figure 1 In figure 1 (above), the tip of the pocket knife’s screw driver indicates approximately where I chose to start. This point was chosen based on some […]
Spent an hour trying to deal with this: Only to get frustrated with the fact that it refuses to go in to “Disk Mode” so that I can wipe it’s little brain and make it work again. Alas– bad Stoli. Moved on… A came home and she and I went to town on the yard […]
Was scoping the Tiger-install Flickr stream that TUAW has up when I made a special mental note of their last image: ELEVEN HOURS!. I would expect the Spotlight to take some time indexing. Especially if you’ve got a lot of material for it to index. What made me chuckle slightly was the “11 hours”. I […]
Tiger’s release yesterday has me relatively jazzed but I’m still holding out for new hardware. The 2.0 GHz G5 iMac would be nice. Here’s to holding your breath… As you can see, even w/o the hardware updates, the iMacs are still shipping w/ 10.3 installed. This being only one day after the release, I guess […]
As an RSVP to Engadget’s article… Non-server versions should ship w/ Tomcat pre-installed and pre-hooked in to Apache. Instant WebDAV for local iCal hosting/sharing. WebDAV client integrated into Finder. Subversion client integrated into Finder. Fix those FileVault bugs once and for all. (Really. Seriously. Not a feature.) iCal needs to export to Excel. Or if […]
KetelOne returns to the fold today with a brand new logic board etc. Went through the usual motions of reporting the updated MAC address to the local sysadmins to get back on to the network at work etc. and launched my productivity back through the roof. Call me superstitious but VNCing across the two machines […]
My AppleCare honeymoon ends today when I came home to a “drop-off attempt” notice from DHL at my home address. This coming after Friday’s call where I was assured that I’d put my request in to them well in advance of when it was scheduled to ship back out. There I was on Friday, all […]
To expand on my last post a little… The “good” qualities of this customer service experience have only continued. First off, the box arrived when they said it would. But then inside the box, past all the foam packaging etc. that they told me would be included, there was a stack of these tape strips […]
After approx. 2 years of steady, happy use, I had my first serious hardware failure on my dear ol’ KetelOne. Indeed, I got stung by the Faulty Logic Board issue. It was the weirdest thing, I was just plopping numbers into one if my Excel spreadsheets when out of nowhere the screen just goes blank. […]
Feeling worse before I’m feeling better, I suppose. Ugh, usually I’m at least feeling OK enough to fit some work in from home (for half-credit on the day where applicable…) but this has really knocked me on my ass. It’s not even like full-blown “Hi! My name is Severe Nausea!” or “I’m Major Nasal Congestion, […]