It failed.
It failed.
I have Apple Care.

Dropped it off Monday (5/31), got it back Friday (6/4). I wonder how many logic boards I will go through.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=104746&cid=8915809

i actually don't use a mouse pad but i use an ikea placemat. its a large flat smooth surface. i use that because with mousepad would roll of the edge and have poor aim while gaming. the placemat offers a large, less resistance surface area where i wont slide off while aiming around my mouse.

if your iBook died, you'll probably want to sign this petition. if there is a class action suit, you will get a check for 25-cents and the law firm will get a few millions.

http://www.petitiononline.com/ibook123/petition.html

11/16/2003 approx. 1am:
my friend plugs in his 15gb iPod to my 600mhz iBook so he can charge it overnight.

11/16/2003 morning:
my iBook is dead. i manually reboot and hear the startup tone but the LCD is still black. this same problem happened to my friend and i actually witnessed it, so i kinda have an idea that the logic board is dead.

11/16/2003 morning: i call apple care and they run me through some test and my ibook is still dead. they said they can mail out a package to me, so i can send back my iBook. I tell them that there is an apple store near me and I will take it there to see if they can do anything.

11/16/2003 early afternoon: the guy at the apple store says there is nothing to do and that they can send it back, i said, that's okay, i will just mail it back to myself. i wanted to have the ibook sent from my work place and then delivered back to my work place rather than go to the apple store to pick it up.

11/16/2003 afternoon: the apple care guys says that they will send out a package to me and i might get it Monday or Tuesday because their database is being updated. (note to self: if you hear "our database is being updated" or "i need the key" hangup or leave the store. these are synomyns for "kiss your shit goodbye")

11/17/2003: no package

11/18/2003: i call apple and they say that the package was never sent out but they will send it today.

11/19/2003: i called airborne express to see if i will get my package, they said that its still in transit and i will get it tomorrow 11/20/2003

11/20/2003 lunch time
i entered my tracking number:

"11/18/03 7:23am Picked Up by Airborne. Shipper's Door"

so i called them because i have seen this same screen for the past few days. the guy tells me that the package hasnt even been shipped out of their warehouse yet. IE its fucking lost man! the package was suppose to be sent overnight. fuck it. i will have the apple store, deal with it.

11/21/2003:
went to the apple store dropped off my ibook and asked the apple ppl to take of it.

11/23/2003:
called apple and asked if my ibook was fixed. he replied that apple doesnt receive shipments on the weekends

11/24/2003:
apple has rec'd my iBook and i have been refresing the page looking for status "repaired"
sons of bitches!

11/25/2003:
sweet...got my ibook back! everything is good again!

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my ibook died. my friend's died the same way and he got his back in three days. of course, i won't get back mine for three weeks! (that is just speculation though).

I started playing with iTunes more and added 7 new albums, two of them which I havent listened to since they were released which are Flying Saucer Attack's Distance and The Rachels' Handwritings. Currently, iTunes is holding 1.80GB/371 songs of songs. Also reviewed some of iTunes built-in radio stations, SomaFM supplied a healthy dose of indie rock/college radio not the "alternative" bands.

One of the games is BF1942 mod Eve of Destruction ... finally, a mod with decent helicopter controls. the version i played tonight was 12% release...man does that violate some copyrights. in anycase, i played the map "Charlie Cant Surf" (does that send a hint of a copyright violation?). Its all about the Hueys...I actually got a decent gunner who didnt bail out when I was over a flag. I flew in a wide circle so he could strafe VC in the village. That was a tons o' funs. I returned to the US base still in badly damaged Huey which I managed to land however I landed on a non-flat surface and flipped my Huey. This mod might take me away from Desert Combat....Fiction One out.

March 30th 2003 purchased a 600mhz iBook w/ airPort and sold my old 366mhz iBook on eBay.

This has nothing to do with technology I just wanted to update my journal with non-news.

So I have OS 10.2 (commonly known as Jaguar) running on the iBook. After two installs I got the OS I sorta want, let me explain. First install, I installed all the lang. packages, which I would never ever use at all. So I reinstalled and I used the Unix File System...my hard drive appears as"/" on my desktop. I can change it however it resets itself back to "/". Maybe Apple's HFS wasnt so bad.

So far the iBook is mostly for IMing and surfing, however, I did take it to one meeting and took notes in Excel.

In the one deck circle, "iCal"....

- a 366 MHz PowerPC G3 processor;
- a 10GB IDE hard drive- a 400 Mbps FireWire- a CD-ROM drive
- an AV port
- ATI RAGE Mobility 128 8MB
- 320mb of RAM

...installing OS X as we speak

Wait...this is my own journal!