Poorly MacBook
Posted by stephen on Monday, 25th February, 2008 @ 15:24
My MacBook's not been sleeping too well lately, constantly waking up in the middle of the night with a scream of the DVD drive (you'll know what I mean if you have one of the whinny ones like mine). Also, Bluetooth has been pretty unreliable in it for months now, and it turns out that not unrelated. Apparently the bluetooth module occasionally suffers a short on it's USB cable to the main board, hence it rudely awaking OS X from it's slumber.
Yesterday I decided I'd had enough and that it was time to operate and cut out the malignant Bluetooth, as it's not something I make much use of. So I proceeded with some trepidation...
I disconnected what I initially assumed was the Bluetooth cable, only to realise a couple of minutes later it was actually the middle speaker, so I connected it back up. In the process I'd had to pull a lot of the internal cabling around to get under the optical drive. It seems that just liberating and re-laying the cables has solved my Bluetooth problems without even having to disconnect the module. And so the MacBook was stitched up and is now working happily again and sleeping soundly through the night. Much yayness. Just need to operate on myself now so I can sleep more soundly...
Unvalentine's Day
Posted by stephen on Thursday, 14th February, 2008 @ 18:08
This week Charlie bought a new computer and spent what seemed like 5,000 hours clicking dialog boxes in Windows Vista: "Which feels more like a satirical cartoon about infuriating bureaucracy than an operating system."
3G iPhone Take 2
Posted by stephen on Wednesday, 06th February, 2008 @ 13:49
Time to get my N80 unlocked and loaded with my T-Mobile SIM for a happier iPhone?
