Basil’s Blog

Hmmm. Seems that Apple is reporting issues with some MacBook hard drives.
I found a story on PC World about it. The story was also on MacWorld, of course, but that’s somehow harder to navigate for me.
They seem to be not overly concerned, Why?
… it doesn’t appear to be a widespread problem, Apple said it has [...]

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The MacBook is down. Again.
That’s twice. Since I got it in early August.
No, I’m not a happy camper.
Shut the MacBook down yesterday prior to heading to work. Brought it with me, so that, at lunch, I could get online and check some stuff.
At lunch, I turned the MacBook on, and … nothing.
Okay, not nothing.
Got the [...]

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Got to thinking about stealth recently.
No, not because I’ve been hiding for a couple of weeks.
Okay, I haven’t been hiding. I’ve been busy. With work.
I made the decision when I started this little blog to not blog about work. And that wasn’t a problem.
Oh, occasionally, I’d mention the Evil Corporation where I work. Not [...]

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I mentioned that I’ve been really busy.
Really busy.
Lots of stuff going on at work. And some issues arising that have caused them to call me in at like 4:00 in the morning. But, hey, it comes with the territory.
And, there’s a couple of projects I’ve been working on at home. One with another blog. Actually, [...]

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My MacBook crashed recently. Lost the hard drive.
And that’s not a good thing.
Anyway, Tuesday, took it to the local Apple Authorized place. They sent it off to Apple. And Apple fixed it — replaced the hard drive, actually — and sent it back.
Picked it up this afternoon. And have spent most of the evening getting [...]

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I’ve really enjoyed my new MacBook.
Until it broke.
Seems something caused it to not recognize the hard drive.
And, with no hard drive, the computer won’t do much.
So, at lunch (I’m eating a sandwich now), I took the MacBook by the Apple Authorized Repair Center in Columbus.  And they are shipping it off to the MacBook hospital.
Not [...]

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Windows users know all about the Blue Screen Of Death. It’s abbreviated BSOD. It’s that blue screen that happens when something very, very bad goes wrong with your computer.
Even Microsoft acknowledges it as the BSOD, though unofficially.
Well, I got a Mac back in August. A MacBook, actually. And I knew that I would get no [...]

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The Little Princess called earlier this week. She was having problems with her computer.
Well, sort of.
She was having trouble getting on the Internet using her computer’s wireless connection.
Now, when she got her computer recently — it was a replacement Dell sent for one that went bad — she sat on the couch at the house [...]

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Last week, the Little Princess called. She needed two things.
She needed help moving her stuff from storage to her new apartment.
And she had a problem with her computer.
A little less than four years ago, we gave her a Dell computer for college. She had taken her Gateway laptop that her mother gave her in high [...]

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So far, I’m liking my new Macbook.
There are some things that are different. But some things are the same.
My browser, for instance. I quit using Internet Explorer when Firefox came out. And I use Firefox on the Macbook instead of Safari, Apple’s own browser. So the browser’s pretty much the same. Minor differences, sure, but [...]

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