Parental Force

As a parent it’s important to think about the future of your children. As I’ve grown older I realize more how important first impressions are. It’s important to make a bold and distinctive mark upon people during that first meeting. As such I’ve decided to purchase this for Kari.

Lasting impression will it leave.

Awesomely Bad Error

Check out this error a co-worker of mine discovered while trying to dual-boot his MacBook Pro.

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In a nutshell we tried to edit the partitions after running the Boot Camp Assistant. The problem arose when we started to use the Zen imaging utility (SUSe based) to partition a chunk of the Windows partition. This error is telling us that we fubared something really good and now need to reinstall the whole OS.

A few geeky Mac things

Novell ZenWorks – We were able to get the Mac to boot off our imaging CD (SUSE) and were able to start a backup. We were aslo able to reimage the XP partition, but got a HAL.dll error on reboot.

I assisted a Mac user in restoring saved data from a backup of his HD. Apparently he was storing documents (over 210 of them) in the following directory.
./Library/Extensions/AppleMPIC.kext/Contents/Resources/English.lproj

I have no idea how they got there, or how he was able to navigate to them.

Interesting notes about the Macbook

In the service manula there is a specific section regarding Temperature Concerns. It points to a KB article on Apple’s site.

“Apple Notebooks: Operating Temperature.”
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=30612

The whole top, including the keyboard is one piece. Neat.

The MacBook has a small Subwoofer, the Pro does not.

Magnets are everywhere. There’s one on the side for a sleep sensor, the one in the Magsafe connector, and two positioned on both sides of the integrated isight, to the far left and right corners. The magents used to keep the lid shut are huge. Ok, not freakishly huge, but about the size of 2 1/2 keys on a Macbook keyboard.