Coz you are one of the silent majority with logic boards that are not affected by the mfg issue the rest of us were plagued with. Count yourself lucky that a) you haven't yet had a problem, and b) you should be covered for 3 years from date of purchase in case your luck runs out!
Hmmm... mine took 18 months to die. My second one has been fine since the repair in August... 5 months now?
Anyway, I bought my iBook at the end of May, 2002... right at the beginning of the mfg period Apple is quoting. I called up my AASP and told them about the program (they hadn't heard anything about it yet) and asked them a) to see what they could find out from apple and b) if my serial number was in that range. I'd check, but it's at home and I'm not.
Does anyone know a way to find out your iBook serial number via ssh connection?:-)
I'm sitting in the middle of my ~120 sqft. office (yes, with a door) typing this on my 2.4 GHz P4 running WinXPPro (every silver lining has a bit of cloud) looking out the window across the hall at the scenic view of a lake with foot trails running around it.
The hell of it is that I'm just a contractor here... the actual employees have larger offices with real desks (I have 2 small tables instead) and windows in their offices instead of across the hall.
I get paid good money to do database programming, simple UI design and development and advanced database support (ie, 3rd level, little direct contact with users). Since I'm a contractor, I go home when my 40 hrs are up. Did I mention that I just got my new 1 year contract in the mail last night?
Oh, what's that? This is supposed to be about BAD conditions? Oh... never mind!
Brand new work machine that was config'd when I started 4 months ago... I just assumed that the network admins installed it in the default directory, but I've often been wrong about Windoh!s before!
That depends on if Windoze is installed in c:\windows or c:\winnt. Maybe you're using WinXP Home? I have WinXP Pro at work, and the path is correctly under c:\WINNT.
Due to netscape and mozilla being (for the most part) plug-in compatible, I've been using Oracle Apps via Mozilla (and Phoenix/Firebird) for at least 3-4 years now.
All you have to do is download oajinit.exe (yes, this is windows) and install it. Then, you need to find the dll that's installed (the name contains the version number of Jinitiator, but I'm not at work so I can't say for sure what it is) and drop the.dll into the Mozilla plugins folder. Restart Mozilla and get to work... this may require a pre-existing netscape installation, not too sure. Everywhere I've worked pre-installed netscape for their users. If you have to go that route, it's not too hard to uninstall netscape once you have Jinitiator and Mozilla/Firebird playing nice with each other.
Now, I'd love to see more linux support as a client machine. The only reason I have to use windows at work is the lack of a supported solution to running oracle apps client from linux. The developer apps are pretty crappy compared to the windows ports, but they do work.
Not only do I play an Oracle apps developer on TV, I am one in real life, too!
So, to be ABUNDANTLY (and possibly REPETITIVELY) clear, my Superdrive-free iBook can install iDVD and use iDVD to create a VIDEO_TS folder. I could then use, say, Toast Titanium to burn that folder to an external FW DVD-R?
If that's correct, then I can see paying money for iLife. Currently, I only care about iTunes (which has to be free to drive iTMS downloads and iPod sales) and iPhoto. I'd be a lot more interested in iMovie and iDVD if I could use them in the aforementioned way!
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Doesn't matter. CRTs have some pretty hefty capacitors which store a charge even when unplugged. Hit it with a piece of metal in the right (wrong?) place and it'll ground the charge right through your body.
The parent poster has it right... futzing around inside an open CRT is a good way to end up in a box in the ground.
Converting an AAC to MP3 is actually easy. Change your preferences to MP3 encoding, select an AAC track and choose the Advanced menu option Convert Selection to MP3. Of course, iTMS tracks are protected AAC, which must be... umm... unprotected first.
Or you could burn the protected AAC tracks to disc, then rerip to MP3 if yer that desperate.
And, as I mentioned elsewhere, I didn't mean all about AAC to imply ONLY about AAC!
Right... they send out a free copy of a film, but only after the receipient has signed a form that is analogous to an NDA. If someone violates an NDA you had them sign, then yes, you have a right to be pissed at them... called breach of contract or somesuch, depending on jurisdiction.
Right on... I just meant "ALL ABOUT AAC" in that iTunes handles AAC, iTunes runs on PCs, and thus an HP PC can, in fact, handle AACs, protected or otherwise...
"When I asked an HP representative how the company would solve the incompatibility problems, he told me, incorrectly, that the Protected AAC files users download do, in fact, work on HP's products and that converting them is a simple task if they don't."
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but by HP's products, doesn't he mean HPs PCs running a version of Windows? And if so, where does such a user get Protected AAC files? Right, iTunes for Windows. Now, isn't iTunes (win or mac) ALL ABOUT AAC? What part of the HP representative's comment is incorrect?
HP machines run windows. iTunes is available for windows (and will be on all HP machines soon). iTunes Music store is the biggest (only?) provider of Protected AAC files. Sounds pretty simple to me...
Right... so I move somewhere the cost of living is lower, only to find... no high tech jobs! Or at the very least, no OPEN high tech jobs.
Or how about this scenario: most of us don't have enough saved up to quit a job, then move, then find a job. I certainly don't. When I was laid off and went looking for a job, companies wouldn't speak to me if I wasn't located in the same metropolitan area. Can't get a job without living there, can't afford to relocate there without a job.
Classic Catch-22... now what were my choices again? I just got offered a permanent job for the same salary I got fresh out of grad school 4.5 years ago (with no experience). I have no choice but to take it. It certainly beats $416/week in unemployment, which would be running out in a month or so anyway.
I'm not claiming some entitlement or birthright. I just want to know what's the motivation for educating yourself if it won't lead to a better paying job? Why shouldn't I become a high school drop out and get a job slinging hash for minimum wage? If all I can earn is minimum wage, that's a damn sight easier than busting my ass to get programs written, debugged, and out the door on time!
And yes, when I was 16, I had a minimum wage job, slinging pizzas at a Chuck-e-Cheese, so I know what minimum wage jobs are like. My job now has a lot more meaning than whether or not a pizza gets dropped on the floor... net loss: 2 pizzas, the dropped one and the free one that went out to the customer with an apology. I now work much harder than I did before, with much higher stakes, and I expect to get paid better than minimum wage.
Exactly. What's my motivation to spend 10 years post-high school getting several advanced degrees if corporations expect me to work for the same minimum wage (or less WTF???) that a high school drop out makes slinging hash as some greasy spoon?
I'm sure Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America, made this comment from his cell phone, lodged behind the wheel of his luxury car headed back to his 6 bedroom $2.5M home, fresh off a lunch of caviar and Dom Perignon... I hate to think that the head of an organization named the Information Technology Professionals Association of AMERICA could hold such a dim view of American technology workers.
Actually, the really important stuff has to be in the top half of page one... hence, who you are and how to find you, a brief summary of your background and your hard skills come first. The rest is just there for the sake of the people who are interested in the top half of page one!
You make a lot of valid points, especially the last two. Everybody assumes that references are available. If you cannot provide references, then there is no chance they will offer you a job. The last point is nice in that companies know they don't have to jump through a lot of legal hoops (H1-B anyone) to hire you.
That's intersting... when I was laid off earlier this year, my former employer paid for me to attend sessions at a career management company for a couple months. One of the first things I was told was that a one page resume makes you look inexperienced and under-qualified.
Also, an summary (3-4 sentences describing your background) statement should be immediately followed by technical skills, then past experience. In the IT/IS world, it's not so much where you've done work, but what you've done and how you've implemented it.
In fact, the layout I've seen for chronological style resumes in a technical field is:
Name/Contact Summary Statement Technical Skills (can include 1 or 2 soft skills) Past Employment (up to 15 years, listing start and end years only)
* Key accomplishments (which is where you pad shorter resumes) Relevant Technical Societies, Awards, Patents, Pubs. etc. Education, omitting graduation dates if you're worried about age discrimination (inadvertent or not).
Objective statements are currently "out"... or so I've been told by numerous HR people and quite a few headhunters. Everyone knows you want and job, and most likely you want a job similar to others you've held in the past!
The use of Free tools and creating a derivative of a Free tool are completely different. Perl is released under the Artistic License. However, Larry does not require that every Perl script be similarly licensed. But if I take the source code for the Perl language and modify it, then those modifications must be kept private (ie, not distributed at all), or released under the same (or similar) license (I'm not an expert on the details of the Artistic License)...
I use vi to write most of my programs (which happen to be database programs). I'm not required to release my programs under the BSD license (that's what vi is released under, right?)
This is A Good Thing(TM), since otherwise all windows programs would be owned by Microsoft (VC++/VB/ASP/etc.), Borland (Borland C++), etc. Each of those tools is property of the company which developed it. The use of the tool is allowed under a license which you receive upon payment. Works you create with those tools are yours, UNLESS they involve building upon/extending the tool itself (which is typically forbidden by your license).
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I cannot confirm this, as my ibook seems to be unreachable (the wife probably closed it), but a friend suggested
ioreg -bls | grep -i serialnumber
May work, may not; may work super-fast, may grind for ages...
Coz you are one of the silent majority with logic boards that are not affected by the mfg issue the rest of us were plagued with. Count yourself lucky that a) you haven't yet had a problem, and b) you should be covered for 3 years from date of purchase in case your luck runs out!
Hmmm... mine took 18 months to die. My second one has been fine since the repair in August... 5 months now?
:-)
Anyway, I bought my iBook at the end of May, 2002... right at the beginning of the mfg period Apple is quoting. I called up my AASP and told them about the program (they hadn't heard anything about it yet) and asked them a) to see what they could find out from apple and b) if my serial number was in that range. I'd check, but it's at home and I'm not.
Does anyone know a way to find out your iBook serial number via ssh connection?
I'm sitting in the middle of my ~120 sqft. office (yes, with a door) typing this on my 2.4 GHz P4 running WinXPPro (every silver lining has a bit of cloud) looking out the window across the hall at the scenic view of a lake with foot trails running around it.
The hell of it is that I'm just a contractor here... the actual employees have larger offices with real desks (I have 2 small tables instead) and windows in their offices instead of across the hall.
I get paid good money to do database programming, simple UI design and development and advanced database support (ie, 3rd level, little direct contact with users). Since I'm a contractor, I go home when my 40 hrs are up. Did I mention that I just got my new 1 year contract in the mail last night?
Oh, what's that? This is supposed to be about BAD conditions? Oh... never mind!
Brand new work machine that was config'd when I started 4 months ago... I just assumed that the network admins installed it in the default directory, but I've often been wrong about Windoh!s before!
That depends on if Windoze is installed in c:\windows or c:\winnt. Maybe you're using WinXP Home? I have WinXP Pro at work, and the path is correctly under c:\WINNT.
Due to netscape and mozilla being (for the most part) plug-in compatible, I've been using Oracle Apps via Mozilla (and Phoenix/Firebird) for at least 3-4 years now.
.dll into the Mozilla plugins folder. Restart Mozilla and get to work... this may require a pre-existing netscape installation, not too sure. Everywhere I've worked pre-installed netscape for their users. If you have to go that route, it's not too hard to uninstall netscape once you have Jinitiator and Mozilla/Firebird playing nice with each other.
All you have to do is download oajinit.exe (yes, this is windows) and install it. Then, you need to find the dll that's installed (the name contains the version number of Jinitiator, but I'm not at work so I can't say for sure what it is) and drop the
Now, I'd love to see more linux support as a client machine. The only reason I have to use windows at work is the lack of a supported solution to running oracle apps client from linux. The developer apps are pretty crappy compared to the windows ports, but they do work.
Not only do I play an Oracle apps developer on TV, I am one in real life, too!
You say Lucas is 60 now (that's in 2004)... if so, then how will he be 66 in 2012, *eight* years from now?
But at least I can pay $2 6 months after the wreck and still see the carnage... unless the celluloid rots from the mound of tripe imprinted upon it.
So, to be ABUNDANTLY (and possibly REPETITIVELY) clear, my Superdrive-free iBook can install iDVD and use iDVD to create a VIDEO_TS folder. I could then use, say, Toast Titanium to burn that folder to an external FW DVD-R?
If that's correct, then I can see paying money for iLife. Currently, I only care about iTunes (which has to be free to drive iTMS downloads and iPod sales) and iPhoto. I'd be a lot more interested in iMovie and iDVD if I could use them in the aforementioned way!
Doesn't matter. CRTs have some pretty hefty capacitors which store a charge even when unplugged. Hit it with a piece of metal in the right (wrong?) place and it'll ground the charge right through your body.
The parent poster has it right... futzing around inside an open CRT is a good way to end up in a box in the ground.
Converting an AAC to MP3 is actually easy. Change your preferences to MP3 encoding, select an AAC track and choose the Advanced menu option Convert Selection to MP3. Of course, iTMS tracks are protected AAC, which must be... umm... unprotected first.
Or you could burn the protected AAC tracks to disc, then rerip to MP3 if yer that desperate.
And, as I mentioned elsewhere, I didn't mean all about AAC to imply ONLY about AAC!
Right... they send out a free copy of a film, but only after the receipient has signed a form that is analogous to an NDA. If someone violates an NDA you had them sign, then yes, you have a right to be pissed at them... called breach of contract or somesuch, depending on jurisdiction.
Right on... I just meant "ALL ABOUT AAC" in that iTunes handles AAC, iTunes runs on PCs, and thus an HP PC can, in fact, handle AACs, protected or otherwise...
Quoth Thurott:
"When I asked an HP representative how the company would solve the incompatibility problems, he told me, incorrectly, that the Protected AAC files users download do, in fact, work on HP's products and that converting them is a simple task if they don't."
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but by HP's products, doesn't he mean HPs PCs running a version of Windows? And if so, where does such a user get Protected AAC files? Right, iTunes for Windows. Now, isn't iTunes (win or mac) ALL ABOUT AAC? What part of the HP representative's comment is incorrect?
HP machines run windows. iTunes is available for windows (and will be on all HP machines soon). iTunes Music store is the biggest (only?) provider of Protected AAC files. Sounds pretty simple to me...
Right... so I move somewhere the cost of living is lower, only to find... no high tech jobs! Or at the very least, no OPEN high tech jobs.
Or how about this scenario: most of us don't have enough saved up to quit a job, then move, then find a job. I certainly don't. When I was laid off and went looking for a job, companies wouldn't speak to me if I wasn't located in the same metropolitan area. Can't get a job without living there, can't afford to relocate there without a job.
Classic Catch-22... now what were my choices again? I just got offered a permanent job for the same salary I got fresh out of grad school 4.5 years ago (with no experience). I have no choice but to take it. It certainly beats $416/week in unemployment, which would be running out in a month or so anyway.
Fuck the new reality...
So, you've run into that too? Or were you one of the management bastards feeding me that line of shit last year?
I'm not claiming some entitlement or birthright. I just want to know what's the motivation for educating yourself if it won't lead to a better paying job? Why shouldn't I become a high school drop out and get a job slinging hash for minimum wage? If all I can earn is minimum wage, that's a damn sight easier than busting my ass to get programs written, debugged, and out the door on time!
And yes, when I was 16, I had a minimum wage job, slinging pizzas at a Chuck-e-Cheese, so I know what minimum wage jobs are like. My job now has a lot more meaning than whether or not a pizza gets dropped on the floor... net loss: 2 pizzas, the dropped one and the free one that went out to the customer with an apology. I now work much harder than I did before, with much higher stakes, and I expect to get paid better than minimum wage.
Exactly. What's my motivation to spend 10 years post-high school getting several advanced degrees if corporations expect me to work for the same minimum wage (or less WTF???) that a high school drop out makes slinging hash as some greasy spoon?
I'm sure Scott Kirwin, founder of the Information Technology Professionals Association of America, made this comment from his cell phone, lodged behind the wheel of his luxury car headed back to his 6 bedroom $2.5M home, fresh off a lunch of caviar and Dom Perignon... I hate to think that the head of an organization named the Information Technology Professionals Association of AMERICA could hold such a dim view of American technology workers.
{shudder}
Her...
Actually, the really important stuff has to be in the top half of page one... hence, who you are and how to find you, a brief summary of your background and your hard skills come first. The rest is just there for the sake of the people who are interested in the top half of page one!
You make a lot of valid points, especially the last two. Everybody assumes that references are available. If you cannot provide references, then there is no chance they will offer you a job. The last point is nice in that companies know they don't have to jump through a lot of legal hoops (H1-B anyone) to hire you.
That's intersting... when I was laid off earlier this year, my former employer paid for me to attend sessions at a career management company for a couple months. One of the first things I was told was that a one page resume makes you look inexperienced and under-qualified.
Also, an summary (3-4 sentences describing your background) statement should be immediately followed by technical skills, then past experience. In the IT/IS world, it's not so much where you've done work, but what you've done and how you've implemented it.
In fact, the layout I've seen for chronological style resumes in a technical field is:
Name/Contact
Summary Statement
Technical Skills (can include 1 or 2 soft skills)
Past Employment (up to 15 years, listing start and end years only)
* Key accomplishments (which is where you pad shorter resumes)
Relevant Technical Societies, Awards, Patents, Pubs. etc.
Education, omitting graduation dates if you're worried about age discrimination (inadvertent or not).
Objective statements are currently "out"... or so I've been told by numerous HR people and quite a few headhunters. Everyone knows you want and job, and most likely you want a job similar to others you've held in the past!
The use of Free tools and creating a derivative of a Free tool are completely different. Perl is released under the Artistic License. However, Larry does not require that every Perl script be similarly licensed. But if I take the source code for the Perl language and modify it, then those modifications must be kept private (ie, not distributed at all), or released under the same (or similar) license (I'm not an expert on the details of the Artistic License)...
I use vi to write most of my programs (which happen to be database programs). I'm not required to release my programs under the BSD license (that's what vi is released under, right?)
This is A Good Thing(TM), since otherwise all windows programs would be owned by Microsoft (VC++/VB/ASP/etc.), Borland (Borland C++), etc. Each of those tools is property of the company which developed it. The use of the tool is allowed under a license which you receive upon payment. Works you create with those tools are yours, UNLESS they involve building upon/extending the tool itself (which is typically forbidden by your license).