As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him flint.
-Deep Thought of the day by Jack Handey
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Call me optimistic

Posted: March 26th, 2006 | Author: Barry | 3 Comments »

I’ve gotten into the cheesy and annoying habit of looking on the bright side of things lately. Take today for example: I called Apple to learn more about the nails-on-chalkboard sound coming from my shiny new MacBook Pro. My concern was that it would be ruled ‘within specs’ for noise level and Apple would refuse to fix it. Since today is the 13th day after I received it, it was my last opportunity to return the laptop if it wasn’t ruled a defect.

So I called them up, and it’s a defect. There’s a problem with the power inverter and when the processors aren’t drawing a significant amount of power, the screech comes on. So I have purchased a defective computer and I have to send it in for repairs. I’m happy about this because it means I have a year to do so, and I don’t have to return it immediately. I really don’t mind the noise that much, and if it gets on my nerves I can turn off a core or power up PhotoBooth.

It’s hard to get upset about this problem since the laptop rocks in so many ways. Friday night (well, Saturday morning if you want to get technical) I powered up the preinstalled Apache web server and enabled the PHP module. Then I set up MySQL. I now have a full-powered web server. It’s great. Had I actually known what I was doing, it would’ve taken two minutes. Not knowing exactly what to do, it took 10. Not a bad deal overall. Meanwhile the computer is blazing fast with 1.5 gigabytes of PC5300 RAM.

I’m still holding out for the x86 WMV3 video codec for Quicktime to roll out.

Update: 1000th post!

3 Comments on “Call me optimistic”

  1. 1 Mr. Viddy said at 9:16 am on March 27th, 2006:

    I am only slightly pleased to hear that there is a flaw in the new MacIntel MacBook because I am still a purist, I couldn’t wait for the new machines to ship so I ended up with the Power Mac G5 so I won’t be savoring the MacIntel for many years.

  2. 2 Barry said at 10:56 am on March 27th, 2006:

    Nothing wrong with that, the G5 Power Macs are faster and with universal binaries you’ll always have software available. They’re far from obsolete.

  3. 3 ReynaMitchell29 said at 2:08 pm on July 3rd, 2010:

    Some time before, I really needed to buy a good car for my corporation but I didn’t have enough cash and could not order anything. Thank heaven my friend adviced to try to get the business loans at reliable creditors. So, I did that and used to be satisfied with my collateral loan.

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