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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

We are currently experiencing technical difficulties. Please stand by (and clap, why don't you, because I enjoy applause).


I'm having a few issues with my computer. Mainly that it doesn't want to work anymore.

We think it needs a new hard drive, or that the fan isn't working well. Or both.

Today was my last lecture of the term and despite being perched upon a "fan thingy that fits under a laptop," the computer froze right before my "shop like you're Spock" slide depicting smart grocery shopping for the otherwise Hot Cheeto-/Spam (yes, Spam)-/Tampico "juice"-/ramen-/whatever-I-just-found-on-the-ground-eatin' college student. I was undeterred by the computer's panting and displayed my vast technical expertise by tilting the bastard back until it decided to give way and let me finish. As a just reward, the white Apple is currently resting, and perhaps later I'll get to load some pictures onto Steven's MacGyver laptop (soldered together and brought back from death -- one of his many talents) so I can post some other nonsense.

I have a great chicken portrait from the Farm Walk at Pierce College. The kid liked the chickens, but none of that has dissuaded the small child from eating the dead variety. I'm still keeping my fat mouth shut, but just barely.

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Stumble It!

posted by Ilene @ 4:45 PM  

2 Comments:

  • At 6:37 PM, Blogger Steven Rosenberg said…

    And Ilene neglected to mention that she and the small child are doing their computing with Ubuntu 8.04, a version of GNU/Linux that aims to take the world by storm.

    Find out more at http://ubuntu.com, or at my own http://insidesocal.com/click.

    Next step for the Apple iBook is to get a Firewire-equipped backup drive so I can boot the 'Book from it.

    Then, if it runs fine -- and I'm 95 percent sure it will -- it's time to tear the iBook apart and replace the hard drive.

    In your average Windows-compatible laptop, removing one or two screws gets you access to the drive, and then it's four screws to remove it completely.

    In the Apple iBook, you basically have to crack the damn thing in half and methodically remove a host of parts before you can get the hard drive.

    And Steve Jobs, it's you -- YOU -- I blame.

     

  • At 10:07 PM, Blogger Ilene said…

    1. So by "we" think it's the hard drive, etc., I basically meant: Steven.

    2. Right-o on the Ubuntu/Linux. They make good shirts to let that freak flag fly too.

    3. I am not allowed to take the computer to the Apple store or the other geeks might hunt us down. And Steven is too cheap. And so am I. But if he breaks it, I really will cry.

    4. "you basically have to crack the damn thing in half and methodically remove a host of parts before you can get the hard drive." -- That's what she said.

     

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