Weiqi Gao's Observations - apple tag

BSOF Comes To The Mac

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:50:39 GMT

Oops!!!

Dale Wilson:

Look, it's a Tiger; no, it's a Leopard; no, it's a paperweight, NO.....

I repeated the cycle many times just to be sure that I was really trapped in a loop. I was even able to verify that I was entering the password correctly because when I intentionally got it wrong, the dialog box did this cute little shake (I could almost hear it saying tsk, tsk..) and didn't cycle through the BSOF (that's "Frustration" rather than "Death") -10 for Apple.

It Could Go Either Way

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:26:37 GMT

Elliotte Rusty Harold: Apple's removed the Java 1.6 preview form the Apple Developer Connection, possibly because they expect to ship it with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in a couple of weeks, or possibly because they've decided not to ship it at all. With Apple, it could go either away.

Please let it be the former. That would give me at least an excuse to upgrade my already too slow G4 mac mini.

The Death Of An iPod

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:27:46 GMT

It seems like yesterday when I bought my iPod Shuffles. Well, one of them is dead now. It failed to bring up iTunes when I plugged it into the USB port a week ago. And now the battery is drained. It lasted 941 days.

Went to the Apple Store to ask if it can be fixed. "Not really" was the answer. "We do have an iPod recycling program where you can bring in your dead iPod and get a 10% discount on your next iPod (except the Shuffle)."