Archive for the 'Shorts' Category
The shorts for Tuesday 3rd October 2006 are:
- PSM3 Magazine get their hands on the PS3 – Fast, quiet, heavy and a dust magnet (above) [link] [video]
- Zune Wireless basically worthless – You can’t connect to the internet via it’s WiFi or sync to your computer via its WiFi [link]
- Microsoft Unbox Zune for CBS’ camera with blatant marketing speak – “brown is the new black is the new white” [link]
- DVD Jon has reverse engineered Apple’s FairPlay technology and is licensing it to companies [link]
Today’s shorts for 21 September 2006.
- USBCell provides a rechargeable NiMH battery in the shape of an AA battery to use in normal devices (above) [link]
- Office 2007 details revealed for Mac, including new UI, with the ‘ribbon’ from Office 2007 for Window [link]
- Microsoft steals Zune P2P idea from WeedShare? [link]
- Apple sells 125,000 movies on the iTunes store within the first week of its launch [link]
- iTV has Hard-Drive, well according to Disney’s Iger, the answer is yes! [link]
The shorts for Thursday June 29, 2006.
- LAPD to trial GPS darts, like in the moves (above) [link]
- Apple replacing some MacBook’s with the colour defect [link]
- MacWorld’s 23 things we want in Leopard [link]
The Shorts for June 28th 2006:
Today’s short links are:
- Green fliud found oozing from the backside of a number of G5′s (above) [link]
- 600 PowerMac G5′s used to digitally re-encode and master the Ultimate DVD Collection of James Bond [link]
- Hilarious recording of an AOL user trying to cancel the account which he doesn’t use, but the rep tries to say that he used yesterday [link] [mirror] [mp3 mirror]
Over at iFixit (previously called PBFixit) have now expanded their guides, which offer detailed images and notes to take apart various Macs, to include the MacBook. Lots of info on how to take it apart, and on how to replace individual components such as the logic board, the RAM, Optical drive and more.
Your dreams have come true. There is a cure for the whine that requires no programs to run and persists between reboots. It requires the editing of one file. Please attempt this only if you understand what you are doing. I take no responsibility for your actions.
Here are the steps:
1. Find the file: -> System -> Library -> Extensions -> IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext
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With this method the only change is to the throttling matrix retaining all the code of the kernel extension relating to the MBP otherwise.
This seems to be working for some people but not for others. Remeber to backup IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext, as some users have reported that this ‘fix’ has decreased their battery life by an hour or more.
As a long-time Apple and UNIX user/programmer, I never aspired to work at Microsoft. Then my wife got a job at Microsoft, so I needed to leave Caltech/JPL to work in Seattle. I didn’t actually apply to Microsoft — a friend of ours who worked there circulated my résumé and Microsoft responded rapidly and set up a last-minute interview. Although I had five other offers, Microsoft made the best impression.
I’ve been working at Microsoft since October, 1999 as a full-time Software Design Engineer. Four products I’ve worked on have shipped, two more are in beta, and I’ve also “consulted” for many other teams across the company, thereby influencing directly and indirectly a large number of Microsoft’s products. Between my experience and my wife’s, I think I’ve gotten a pretty solid feel for what it’s like to work in a product group at Microsoft.