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Ahhh, fuck. So once again, this morning my computer quit working---it gave me a shaded-screen "you must restart your computer now, push the power button (here's a big graphic of the power button!)". And when I tried to restart, it went for about half a second...then gave me that again. And again. And again. And again.
Finally I gave up and booted off the startup CD, where it was unable to fix the drive, which is what happened a month ago...so once again, I wiped and reformatted and reinstalled OSX. This time I had a more recent backup, thankfully. But STILL! This is NOT APPRECIATED. This damn computer is only just two years old. NOT that old.
Anyone have any ideas?
That's weird, Meara. I'd hazard to guess there is something funky going on with the drive itself, or you have a program that is really messing where it shouldn't.
Many people go years and years without having to reformat a Mac OS drive.
I have been irritated at Symantec since they stopped letting you boot to a useable disk doctor from their Systemworks CD, or I'd recommend the investment.
Hmmm, I wonder what the current SOTA is in bootable, actually useful repair CDs? Diskwarrior, maybe?
Yeah, I think Disk Warrior is what the cool kids are using. I concur with Daniel's diagnosis of possible culprits.
Holy crap.
The RED ONE digital video camera was just announced at NAB. It has comparable specs to the high-end Panavision digital camera (at least as far as the electronics go. I can't say anything about the optics). While you can only lease Panavision's camera, the RED ONE will sell for $17,500.
Apple is now selling a 17" MacBook Pro and it even includes firewire 800.
ahem.
ME WANT NOW!
I'll have to take a look at the finances over the next few months.
X-posted from Natter:
Dude. Tivo is offering an 80-hour box that will record two channels at once! I've never parted with cash so fast in my life. - $250 including a year of service. Also has built in ethernet.
Press release from TiVo about the Series 2 DT model.
Man, I wish I knew the timing on the HDTV one for sure.
Nah, I'll wait.
Man, I wish I knew the timing on the HDTV one for sure.
I was just thinking this.
Nah, I'll wait.
I'm having slightly more trouble thinking this.
HDTV is for people with, you know, decent TVs. So no issue for me as of yet.
I don't have an HDTV compatible TV. But I plan to, and there's no point me replacing a TiVo with a slightly better TiVo knowing a much better one's on the calendar.
So that's my holdup.
