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One of the ADATA S599 SSD‘s I’ve been using failed earlier this week. First there were performance degradations, then it had trouble accessing files. Soon after the computer would not boot with the SSD attached through the SATA Bus or External FireWire case.
I had contacted ADATA for RMA and will be sending it out this Monday morning.
A client showed me his 1984 Ferrari 308 quattrovalvole. He just finished restoring it and planning to find a new owner for it.
Edit: Finally get to pull the picture out of the phone.
My colleague and I successfully built a Hackintosh Core i7. It took quite a while to get everything right. It also costs more than we originally expected. For now we are sticking with Snow Leopard.
The short story:
There’s Google with Android OS and there’s everybody else with everything else. Google’s Legal Counsel said that companies like Microsoft, Oracle and Apple are trying strangle Android over bogus patents. Microsoft’s Legal Counsel said that they asked Google to jointly bid for Novell patents, and Google said no. Google responded that it’s a trap.
The most interesting part of this Tech Soap Opera are the fans (for lack of better terms). For example, a post by John Gruber (a perceived Apple fanboy and an accused Google hater) was submitted to Hacker News. The post draws anti-Gruber comments regardless of the content. It shouldn’t be about Gruber; it should have been about Google, its competitors and patents.
There is an immediate need of Patent Law Reform.
In the meantime, fans of each faction are reposting the articles and tweets.
I spotted a Subaru 360 earlier today. Now if only I could transfer the picture earlier.
I’m compiling a shopping list for upgrading to OS X Lion. I prefer doing a clean install in lieu of upgrade.
The following are the items I’m getting for installing OS X Lion on a 2010 Unibody MacBook Pro:
Well, this list is generally would be similar with most OS X Lion compatible Macs.
As usual, the echoes of the upcoming iPhone 5 polluting the Internet. There’s a grainy picture of a supposed Apple employee using a prototype iPhone 5, let’s start the copying and pasting! Take all iPhone 5 news with a grain or a boulder of salt; including the one you are reading right now. Yes this very post!
“So I know <name redacted> who works for Apple. This person is one of the executives or managers who are closely involved in the iPhone division at Apple. <name redacted> told me stories about the visits from Foxconn factory in China about the manufacturing process of iPhone 4. Back in December 2010, I asked <name redacted> about the upcoming iPhone 5. I was told not to hold my breath for iPhone 5 this June/July 2011. Fast forward to April 30th, 2011; I was looking into getting a white iPhone 4. <name redacted> told me that I’d be getting an iPhone from Apple, but not the white one. Even though I wanted a white iPhone 4, I was glad to get any iPhone on Apple’s dime. Apple also gave me a micro-SIM card with it. Once again I asked <name redacted> about iPhone 5. <name redacted> told me that <content redacted>. I am now looking forward to the iPhone coming in 2012.”
Who is this Apple executive or manager? It could be Steve Jobs, Phil Schiller, Scott Forstall or anyone in the iPhone team.
About that purported picture of iPhone 5:
“I don’t think that’s an iPhone 5. It doesn’t look like the one I’m testing right now.”
What? Can I see it?
“No. You just have to take my words for it.”
Can I tell everyone that you have one?
“You can’t reveal my identity. Apple won’t be too happy about it.”
OK. I won’t say who you are, but I will say that you have the next iPhone.
This is coming from the same person who told us about no iPhone in WWDC. That was from March 2011.