February 2009
120 posts
While I’m out, my computer will be copying 178.9 GB of iTunes music and video from my Time Machine volume to my new drive.
Heading out to Trader Joe’s. I’m hungry.
But I didn’t want to risk restoring from TM any copying over important files that had been silently corrupted due to my bad hard drive.
Decided to selectively restore from my Time Machine backup, which seems both like a fresh start and a pain in the ass.
Heading to bed. Have OS X, all updates, iPhone SDK, and MacTeX installed. Also have one screw in the DVI port and one on the floor, though…
Ate too much Chinese food. Ah, the perils of not going grocery shopping.
Acquired a new hard drive from Best Buy. Going to order some food, watch some TV, review some book, and then take it for a spin.
I would love using OmniFocus on iPhone if it didn’t take what seems like two minutes to catch up every time I start it.
This new CBS iPhone app makes me think about how much it would rock to have Hulu for the iPhone.
Watching Time Machine back up my drive, 1 KB at a time.
Looks like I’ll be heading to Best Buy tonight to buy a new hard drive. Anyone want to buy the replacement drive coming from OWC?
Getting a freeze-up on my MacBook Pro. This is not good.
Booted up into my old system. Things seem OK. Going to run Disk Utility.
Verify Disk says everything’s okay. Maybe I just had an extended bout of filesystem corruption before?
Finally trying out Safari 4 Beta in something other than Vista (which is the only OS I could boot on this machine when it came back).
Feeling cool by listening to jazz on a crappy clock radio while doing homework.
The Time Machine restore utility estimates 17 hours and 45 minutes to go, with 8.7% completed. I hope things speed up.
Bad sign: system “restored”, but is booting off of the Leopard DVD, I think.
Apparently the restore did not copy any files over. Looking more like a hard drive issue, then…
Now trying to verify my Time Machine volume, on which there are apparently many multi-linked files to be checked. (Who knew?)
Not convinced that my hard drive is actually damaged. Doing a restore from Time Machine.
There is a sign saying, “Let a member of our staff know if you are here for a times test. I am, so I did. And the lady got a bit huffy. Hrm.
Took a new set of pills for a test tomorrow. It’s kind of scary; I don’t expect any reactions, but I have no idea what it will do.
Two bowls of pasta is what happens when I stay up late to take a pill, unfortunately.
Using @ellen_s’ laptop, which I’m still very grateful for, but which also means that my tabs are on the bottom and my Cover Flow is lacking.
Thinking that I ought to start upping my Omega-3/Omega-6 ratio: http://tinyurl.com/aqm5be
Every time I open a web site that’s pretty much just an embedded Flex application, my asshole tightens just a little bit.
Gearing up for my NLP midterm.
The problem with not eating breakfast is that I end up having three lunches.
Got the call from Apple Service. Apparently, my (3rd-party) hard drive is at fault. They’re sending it back to me.
Hoping that the Apple Repair Status page is just slow to update, and that they really did receive my MBP yesterday.
Trying to remind myself that having tests for a problem do not indicate that I have that problem.
Thinking I just got push-polled for Luke Ravenstahl.
Watching the Penguins. This is not making me feel any better.
Glad that Ellen let me borrow her computer. The iPhone is nice, but it’s not a laptop replacement.
I hand-wrote a letter, and I liked it.
Should be back from the depot by next Wednesday or Thursday.
That caused CPU overheating, which caused machine freeze-ups, which caused IO errors, which caused filesystem corruption.
Thankful to John from Apple Store Shadyside who triaged my MBP last night and kept me in the loop. Verdict: fan sensor failure.
Trying to remember where I put my iBook.
Reduced to using the Internet Channel on my Wii for using a Flash-based site.
Left my laptop at Apple Store Triage. Hoping to get a diagnosis soon.
Waiting at the Genius Bar.
According to two posts on the Apple forums, that error means there is a bad sensor, and typically indicates a logic board error.
If I have to send the machine in again for repairs, I’m going to be pissed. I *just* got the logic board replaced for the NVIDIA issue!
Apple Hardware Test reports error “4SNS/1/40000000: TGOD”. Maybe Pascal was right. Running extended test now.
Disk Utility on the Leopard DVD said my filesystem has an “invalid node structure.” Upon rebooting into OS X, the machine just shut down.
AKA: Fuck.
Found the following string in the most recent iTunes binary: “Hit me on your iPhone Homie”
defaults write com.iconfactory.Twitterrific tweetTextFilter -string “\s*RT\s”