I believe they are Iron Powder Toroids. The diameter is at 0.050 inch (1.27 mm) and the height is at 0.025 inch (0.635 mm). The Iron Powder Toroids are placed on top of a Retina iPad screen.
Meatloaf T. Cat In Memoriam
Sad news, Meatloaf T. Cat passed away late Monday morning January 21, 2013.
Meatloaf had help us raising and fostering stray kittens we’ve rescued for the past 10 years. We will continue to do so in memory of him.
Meatloaf was one the subjects of our photography work and pictures of him almost made it to National Geographic Magazine.
Meatloaf was a great cat, more than a pet. We all are sad to see him gone. We know that his spirit will carry on as we continue our efforts in rescuing animals, especially kittens.
The bent pins
A few days a go my colleague and I were working on a computer which was having some odd problems. During the trouble shooting, I noticed something with the CPU socket.
At a glance, there’s nothing wrong with the CPU socket, but upon a much closer inspection you can see where the problem is.
Two pins were bent out of shape. It might be causing the computer to randomly crash.
SpinRite: Division Overflow Error!
This is one error that I’ve seen before in the past, but really rare with SpinRite. One computer at the office was having performance issue. How could a computer with Intel Core i7 be slower than one with Intel Pentium 4, which is the oldest computer in the office. After ruling out malware infestation, I suspected that the hard drive was the source of the problem. I then boot SpinRite on this computer to check the condition of the hard drive. Shortly after running Level 2 (emergency data recovery), SpinRite halted and displayed an error message.
Division Overflow Error!
A critical error occured at: B04E from which SpinRite CANNOT recover. The system has been halted!
I’ve just sent the screenshot to GRC support.
It would be a lot easier for me to get a new hard drive and install a fresh operating system than waiting to get this hard drive repaired.
MacBook Pro and SanDisk Extreme SSD 480 GB
I’ve been getting a lot of request lately to install Solid State Disk (SSD) on laptops, especially MacBook Pro. One of my current favorite model is SanDisk Extreme SSD. This particular MacBook Pro is now armed with SanDisk Extreme SSD 480 GB. I also installed 8 GB of RAM.
Short of installing fresh Operating System per owner’s request, I use Carbon Copy Cloner. The only problem is that it took 8 hours to clone 400 GB of data through FireWire 800.
Incestuous Tech Journalism
Wall Street Journal suspiciously omitted the 65 Millions figure off its latest hit-piece on Apple. Tech-sites quickly jumped on the news without using the salt shakers. Sadly tech-journalism is prone to circular logic.
Remember what the tech journalists said about “the next iPhone” back in March 2012?
NBCNews – Will the next iPhone be simply named ‘iPhone’?
Then these so called tech journalists seem to think that the next iPhone after iPhone 4S would be called “The new iPhone” or simply iPhone.
Note: Forgive us for linking to Gizmodo and CNET.
- The Next iPhone Won’t Be the iPhone 5
- Apple iPhone 5 May Be Called ‘New iPhone,’ If Alleged Packaging Box Features Are To Be Believed [RUMORS]
- Wait, it’s not called the iPhone 5, it’s just ‘the new iPhone’?
A lot less people are being critical of what the mainstream press say. There’s a sickening notion of:
If Wall Street Journal published it, then it must be true.”
Wall Street Journal has been wrong on many occasions. Every year since the first introductions of the iPhone in 2007, the rumor of “smaller” iPhone lives on. Whoever made this news up are laughing their asses off, rolling on the floor every time someone reported it.
The current state of tech journalism is far from what it was intended to be. Now it is all about page hits, exclusives and first to report. There are those who know what tech companies are planning and they are not talking. Those who are within Apple’s inner circle are keeping their mouth shut about the next iPhone. Whether or not it would have been called “iPhone 5S” or “iPhone FU”, no one outside this circle know. Anything you read about the iPhone 5S coming this Spring is a complete fabrication of desperate tech journalist wannabes.
Remember, it only takes one to publish unsubstantiated story before the other pick them up and ran with it.I t is an incestuous tech journalism.
Ransomware, Part 1
I’ve gotten a call earlier today from a friend because his computer has been locked by “The United States Department of Justice”. In addition to that “The United States Department of Justice” demands computer owner to pay $300 to unlock the computer “avoid other legal consequences”.
First and foremost, The United States Department of Justice does not run such operation.
This is a ransomware. It replaces Windows 7 shell with its own executable file. Booting the computer to plain “Safe Mode” or” Safe Mode with Networking” will load the malicious executable. Instead, boot to “Safe Mode with Command Prompt” and manually remove the malicious software.
I’ll describe what I did in the next post.
