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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 |
There have been some writing the last couple of days after a data recovery company have said that all 2.5″ Seagate harddrives made in China used in Apple Macbook and Macbook Pro’s can crash due to a hardware failure.
The thing is that a manufacture can be unlucky and release a batch of “faulty” drives into the wild, and people using them can (will) loose data. The good thing is that if this happens Apple will replace the harddrive (that is why we have warrenty), and probably with one which does not have any faults. In the mean time, remember to backup you data.
Now the funny thing is this (not the loosing data part) is that at work I’ve had 4 computers from Dell which all of them came with 2 Maxtor harddrives. And of these 8 harddrives I’ve had 6 of them replaced due the a crash, and the amount of data lost on this is more than I want to think about. But Dell knew about this issues, and everyone who got a computer from Dell would have a catastrophic failure and data loss at some point. But there was no recall or no big writing on the wall for that reason.
technorati tags: Seagate, Apple Macbook, Apple Macbook Pro
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 |
One of the things I was looking forward for Apple to add of the “new” things in Leopard was proper sorting of folders in Finder.
I’ve always used the following sort order 1) Folders, 2) everything else in alphabetic order by type, and it seams like Apple do know how to do this, and it really anoyes me as it makes finding what I’m looking for a time consuming thing – especially when one have a few hundred files in a folder.
At least there is a way to make sure that folders always are first (or last), if one modify the /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/
InfoPlist.string by following this howto.
But it still only sort on one column.
How can it be that iTunes can sort on multiple columns when Finder can’t?
Maybe Mr. Jobs only have one kind of content in his folders……
Also it looks like the sorting by name is broken in Leopard; in Tiger one could choose to sort by Kind, and then the rest would be sorted by Name (or that is my assumption), but in Leopard it looks like if one choose to sort by Kind the non Folder items will be sorted randomly. Just have a look at your Applications Folder, choose to sort by Kind and the first items will be more or less random.
Just have a look at this
This is my Applications folder Arrange By Kind, humm…..
technorati tags: Apple, Finder
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 |
It finally happened, someone got around to write an trojan horse for OSX, we have been lucky so far, and as it is, this trojan horse is not really that clever. Or as one could say the people who actually get infected are not that clever, as it requires them to do two manual things;
1) download a file (.dmg – file image)
2) install it – which actually requires a password (administrator)
There is a good article about it on Macworld, which also talks about how to remove it (which is quite simple), and also funny enough how to see if you have been infected.
Also the only place one can get only this thing from a porn site, which means that the people who get infected probably will not talk to loudly about it:-)
technorati tags: trojan horse, OSX
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 |
I’ve not been using X11 on Leopard that much but there are something I really dislike; like it absolutely have to open xterm when I launch X11, and it’s close to impossible to stop it doing so.
There is more talk about the issues on the X11 discussion list.
And some one (that is Tim Baur) have figured out how to roll back X11 to the version from Tiger. Here is one post about it.
technorati tags: X11, Leopard
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 |
Hey, it’s new it’s bright, and it works – kind of.
I do some web development on my Macbook Pro, and one thing I’ve found is that even though Apple decided to ship PHP5 with Leopard, they did not compile it with (as I have found until now) the following modules:
- mysqli
- gd
I can live without ‘mysqli‘, but I cannot live without gd, as it would mean that I cannot do any graphics manipulation.
Vidyut Luther have a good list of what’s in Leopard and what is not.
For PHP5 there is Entropy, but it’s not yet for Leopard, there is NAMP which looks like a better solution. But then one have to rely on their Apache installation and not the one which comes with Leopard.
I don’t know which is the worst, or the best, but both of the option annoy me, as Apple could have compiled the missing modules into PHP.
Update:
Just found that there is also XAMPP.
technorati tags: Leopard, gd, mysqli
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Friday, September 14th, 2007 |
Well kind of, but still. I’ve had my MacBook Pro for 19months and is still quite happy about it, I’ve applied all the patches for OSX they’ve asked me to apply, and it still works (there was an issue with wireless and battery, but there was a workaround for that).
As for the hardware, I got the first battery replaced as there was something wrong with the one which it came with, and now the last couple of weeks I’ve seen that the battery charge went from 45% to 0% in a matter of minutes. So I found this technical document on their support site saying that if this and that is the case; call support….
Which I did, and now I’m getting a new battery again – for free!! how cool is that?
Update; well it turns out that the replacement battery is free, only if the new if returned within 10 days – got an email with stated that it was €102 for the battery, and after calling Apple Support again, I was told that they will only bill me if I don’t return the old battery with in 10 days, pew…..
technorati tags: MacBook Pro, battery
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 |
There have been reports that AirPort in Apple MacBook’s and MacBook Pro’s stops working after applying OSX Security Update 2007-007 (10.4.10 Universal).
I did not have it initially, and only saw it when I was using my MBP on battery, and it’s even worse some people as they get kernel panics.
Mine even got worse after I installed the AirPort update AirPort Extreme Update 2007-004.
But lucky us, someone have figured out how to downgrade the AirPort driver, to the one prior to 10.4.10, read about what to do here.
Please be advised that this could render your computer useless….
technorati tags: AirPort, OSX
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