Journal JDWTopGuy's Journal: I'm baaaack 6
After five days of torturous life without a computer, I'm finally back online. Allow me to explain.
Wednesday evening, my PowerBook got in touch with its pyromaniac side. Yes, my PowerBook G4 set itself on fire. Luckily I was there and there was no serious damage to anything (except the PB, and it wasn't too bad). I'm glad I have AppleCare on it. So Thursday my PowerBook made its way to Texas to get repaired. According to Apple's online system, it was shipped back today, and should arrive tomorrow.
My torture has been stopped not by the return of my PowerBook, but by the extremely late arrival of my new iBook G4. I'm never ordering from MacMall again.
First impressions of my new iBook:
- It's thick.
- It's much quieter than my PowerBook, almost silent.
- It's also much cooler than my PB.
- Keyboard is nice.
- I can live with the screen.
I benchmarked it at 9.8 million keys/sec on RC5-72, but it's generally a bit slower than that. It may have to do with running dnetc in OS X's Terminal.app. I usually run it in rxvt, which is faster, but as this is a new system I haven't yet installed X Windows/Fink/etc.
I'm waiting for my PB to get back before I go mucking around with all the usual programs (Mail, iCal, etc.) because I want to copy my data from the PB first.
PowerBook Backup? (Score:1)
I had a system set fire to itself, and I NEVER trusted it again. But, this was mainly because the "fire", or more like a really bad burning smell, couldn't be stopped. It seemed to be coming from the motherboard, but it was acually cheaper to buy a whole new processor/motherboard (and about three times faster speed).
Well, with that system, it never saw the light of day again, because when I was trying to locate the burning smell, I decided to take off the
Re:PowerBook Backup? (Score:2)
You have to remember, the motherboard (AFAIK) is being replaced. There should be no more problems. This PowerBook will cease to be mine sometime next month, with about a year of AppleCare left on it. So the chances of me having any problems with it from now on are the same as the probability of Linux 2.8 being generated completely by
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Re:PowerBook Backup? (Score:1)
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[Scene: Planet Express: Farnsworth's Lab. Fry shows Farnsworth the paper.]
Fry: Can you translate it?
Farnsworth: Of course. But only into Beta Crypt 3. A language so complex, there's even less chance of understanding it.
Fry: I had the Professo
Darn. (Score:2)
Does this mean you're going to start whooping my ass again?