Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2010
God bless the blue-shirts at Apple stores for helping non-tech savvy users find what they want, but they try too hard when you already know what you want. I had heard stories of this, but hadn’t experienced it yet. I walked into the Apple store today to buy a Mini. That’s it. After waiting around [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 18th, 2010
I’ve suddenly discovered the iPad is deadly convenient for books and movies. Instead of milling around Barnes & Noble or waiting for a 2-day FedEx from Amazon, I can one-click order things and they show up via the Kindle app on the iPad. Want to watch a movie? It’s usually right there [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 2nd, 2010
I do a lot of reading on my iPhone. Beyond e-mail, news and Twitter, wherever I light I spent more time reading lengthy whitepapers, vendor documentation, and the occasional blog post. Scrolling around and pinching on a little screen to see details of illustrations or the next column gets old after a while. So, I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2009
After another early venture to the Apple store, I finally got my hands on an iPhone. Today I discovered the speaker doesn’t work. At first I thought it was a Feature[tm] that iTunes, games, etc didn’t play sound without the ear buds. Then I called it and discovered it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2008
New fans installed in MacBook Pro. Expensive lil buggers, $49 each from eBay. One of the more tricky MBP repairs I’ve done. Several fiddly little wires to move out of the way. After spending 45 minutes flipping through Google Earth on dual monitors, I declare success since it didn’t overheat and shutdown.
Since [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2007
I’m amused, the FAA airport facility directory for the Empire, NV airport (1A8) has a remark “displaced threshold marked by 8 white tires.” There’s also a one-foot berm around the runway, presumably to keep all the dust clear.
I’m headed to Amsterdam either the week before or the week of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 10th, 2007
I am finally credit card debt free, yippee! I gave in and paid off my last two cards in one lump sum. Digging around in one of my bank accounts I had setup to auto pay off a card, it had long been paid off and I had a $800 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 29th, 2006
Either my MacBook Pro with sketchy RAM (which only reboots about once every two weeks now) or the 10.4.7 update screwed me over. During the update it rebooted and hosed the OS. There’s all sorts of whacky unresolved dependancies causing the MBP to not boot. It even reverts to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2006
At work I left my IBP running memtestosx. I learned that at a certain point, it would spontaneously reboot with the 1 GB stick in. I went up to Fry’s and exchanged it for another. Sat out in the parking lot, put in the new memory and ran memtestosx [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 26th, 2006
I have some sort of cancer infecting my Apples that’s making me nervous. I think the battle of PowerPC vs Intel is happening on my kitchen counter. I reinstalled everything on my IBP. Now I’m having some sort of occasional spontaneous reboot problem that happens regardless of what I’m doing.
On a whim, [...]
