Made-Up Rumor: Apple to Announce Completely New Product on “Let’s Rock” Event

UPDATE: 2 pictures from September 07th, 2008 are added.

Here I am somewhere in the Bay Area not too far from Apple’s HQ (Cupertino) digging for something that technically doesn’t exist. After meeting with an imaginary Apple Employee, I was shown an imaginary product from Apple that might be making its debut at the “Let’s Rock” event on September 9th, 2008. The imaginary Apple Employee who does not resemble Phil Schiller at all, told me that the new product would be made available for retail as early as this Holiday Season, if not it would make its debut in MacWorld San Francisco 2009 (January 5-9, 2009).

A short trip (well, it’s not that short) to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco reveals some clue on what the “Let’s Rock” event is all about. Unfortunately, no products seems to be present at the venue today (Saturday). The imaginary Apple employee mentions that it is not all about the iPod, there’s something more. As a matter of fact, Apple’s creative team are currently brainstorming on a new catch phrase to replace the now classic “One More Thing” slogan. Allegedly, Steve Jobs would not do the “ultra-secret-encore” to introduce the new product if they can’t come up with the new catch phrase. All I can say is: “WOW!”

I have about 24 more hours to sneak around and find out more about Apple “Let’s Rock” event. I’ll be reporting more fake rumors (*wink* *wink*) about the event soon.

All in all I was having fun using the iPhone on the Lombard Street just like what Apple did.

UPDATED: 2008.09.06 20:04 Pacific Time

HP MediaSmart: System Temperature and Warranty Policy

According to HP, a small percentage of HP MediaSmart EX470/EX475 comes with redundant sensors that is showing false temperature readings. HP is providing a software hot-fix for the unit equipped with the faulty sensors. HP will not make any hardware repair on the affected units.

Based HP Technical Support:

The attached software patch disables the notification of the redundant sensor and ensures that you will not receive false hardware alerts in the future. The key temperature reading for your Mediasmart Server is the CPU reading. This sensor is the focus of the temperature control design and is functioning properly, so you can be assured that your HP MediaSmart Server is operating as designed.

The software patch is available only through HP Technical Support, and is not available through HP Web-Site.

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According to HP Technical Support, RAM upgrade will void MediaSmart warranty. To be honest, this is not a good move by HP. The system comes with a mere 512MB RAM, which is not enough for any real server task. Try installing McAfee Total Protection Service add-in, and the Windows Home Server’s performance will turn into a crawl.

Crucial is selling compatible RAM upgrade for HP MediaSmart EX470/EX475, unfortunately HP Warranty Policy does not support such upgrade.

iPhone Software 2.0.2 is Released

Apple releases iPhone Software 2.0.2 today. The update weighs in at 247.8MB for iPhone 3G and available through iTunes. The update for original iPhone weighs in at 241.9MB.

Apple describes the update contains “bug fixes” without any further explanations.

Be sure to back-up your iPhone before applying this update.

iPhone Software 2.0.2 – iPhone1,1_2.0.2_5C1_Restore.ipsw  | 241.8MB

iPhone 3G Software 2.0.2 – iPhone1,2_2.0.2_5C1_Restore.ipsw  | 248.7MB

HP MediaSmart EX470/EX475 Hardware Upgrade

Well, I should have looked for some informations before I started opening up the MediaSmart server. Apparently someone already went through with it, and put up a really nice instructions on how to do it.

It took me quite a chunk of my time figuring out the way to disassemble the unit. After the RAM upgrade is done, I found the instructions on the internet. I could’ve saved a lot of time opening the unit.

Anyway, what’s done is done. The next thing I want to do is upgrading the processor.

Mac OS X: Invisible Home Folder

UPDATE:
I still don’t know how it happened, but I realized that I could toggle the invisibility bit.

One weird thing happened on my MacBook Pro, and I just recently noticed it. I am not really what really caused it, but there are some theories about it.

My Home folder seems to be “invisible” under the Finder. I can see it through the terminal, and through the side bar.

I’m combing through the usual places for clues and solutions.

Yet Another WordPress Upgrade Gone Wrong

Well, the upgrade process was easy with the exceptions that I could no longer view the blog.

I can still access the admin page, but no page can be viewed.

This is not good.

For some reason, the upgrade from WordPress 2.6 to WordPress 2.6.1 went wrong.