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Highland park is blooming - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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#cryptic, Adrian and Rachel Lea Fox liked this
Does AT&T waive early termination fees if I move to a neighborhood with no reception?
Scoble, Alex Scoble liked this
The internets seems to say no: http://forums.att.com/t5... I believe AT&T's "solution" is for you to buy a MicroCell: http://www.att.com/shop.... Their ETF policy makes no mention of terms under which the ETF would not apply.
- Mark Trapp
Macbook Pro won't boot. The sleep light comes on but the screen stays blank. The sleep light glows brighter when the lid is closed. Any ideas?
Tried removing battery, holding power button for 10 seconds, removing RAM, etc.
- Benjamin Golub
Did you check to see if it was just the display that died? Does it chime when you start it up?
- Mark Trapp
No chime.
- Benjamin Golub
"It's dead, Jim"
- Tinfoil 2.0
Resetting the PRAM/NVRAM didn't work. It's like the Macbook is asleep. I'm going to try running the battery down.
- Benjamin Golub
It's upgrade time! Are you a 13", 15" or 17" sorta guy? O_o
- Adrian
If removing the RAM didn't help, that sounds like it might be a logic board problem. Does target disk mode work?
- Mark Trapp
Definitely sounds like the motherboard is kaput.
- Adrian
Target disk mode doesn't work either.
- Benjamin Golub
The worst part is I erased the sparsebundle that Time Machine was stored on in an attempt to get Time Machine working again (it hasn't backed up for like a week). That did work this morning; but the backup didn't finish before the machine got into this state :(
- Benjamin Golub
You said you reset the NVRAM, but was that just Command+Option+P+R? Relatively newer MacBooks have an SMC, which is reset with Left Control + Option + Shift with the power adapter plugged in and pressing the power button. The adapter indicator light should blink from yellow to amber to green if you do it right. Some people call the SMC the NVRAM, so just double-checking.
- Mark Trapp
Well, unless it's an unrelated failure, your hard drive should be okay: you should be able to unplug it and copy the data.
- Mark Trapp
It's a late 2008 Macbook Pro. Trying the SMC thing.
- Benjamin Golub
Here are the full SMC reset instructions just in case my abbreviated version doesn't do anything: http://support.apple.com/kb...
- Mark Trapp
SMC reset is the modern "zapping the PRAM"?
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
SMC reset didn't work.
- Benjamin Golub
Is it connected to any external devices? Even a USB keyboard or mouse?
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Nope.
- Benjamin Golub
Yeah; appointment scheduled for this evening :(
- Benjamin Golub
Apparently it's a common issue with the nvidia chipset on the logic board. They are fixing it for free!
- Benjamin Golub
from iPhone
Oh sweet! I was going to ask if you had tried hooking it up to an external monitor. I have a 2008 MBP whose display died a similar death but it works great if you have an external display.
- Akiva
External monitor didn't work. The thing isn't posting at all.
- Benjamin Golub
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Wow. Much worse than my situation. Although I've discovered that it's rather difficult to get people interested in buying a laptop that only works with an external monitor...
- Akiva
YouTube - Bubble-sort with Hungarian ("Csángó") folk dance - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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imabonehead and Anne Bouey liked this
Via Andrei Alexandrescu on Facebook. I thought FriendFeed would also get a kick out of this.
- Benjamin Golub
Open Compute Project - http://opencompute.org/
Ahmet Yükseltürk, Laura Norvig, chaz2b and 14 other people liked this
"We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the ground up. The result is a data center full of vanity free servers which is 38% more efficient and 24% less expensive to build and run than other state-of-the-art data centers1. But we didn't want to keep it all for ourselves. Instead, we decided to collaborate with the entire industry and create the Open Compute Project, to share these technologies as they evolve."
- Benjamin Golub
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I need to read more about this.
- Ha3rvey #teamMonique
my servers are so vain they probably think this post is about them
- John
1301926238.0524099
Restarted Twitter consumer. Just testing.
- Benjamin Golub
Thanks, Benja..... B-GLOB????? J-Wo is tripping this morning!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Test it like it's hot!
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
IAmA 74-time Jeopardy! champion, Ken Jennings. I will not be answering in the form of a question. : IAmA - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Louis Gray, Bret Taylor, Anne Bouey and 3 other people liked this
Ken Jennings (aka WatsonsBitch) seems like an awesome guy. I had no idea he was so funny and witty.
- Benjamin Golub
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Something in my apartment does ~200 MB down and ~40 MB up even when we are on vacation. TiVo maybe?
testbeta, Andy Bakun, Louis Gray and AJ Kohn liked this
Sounds like a likely culprit. Seems like a lot of traffic, though, just to get some guide data.
- Akiva
What app do you use to track this, Ben?
- Louis Gray
What does Tivo download on its own besides guide data?
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
Louis: DD-WRT
- Benjamin Golub
Pittsburgh Steelers - Here We Go Steelers - 2010/2011 - Fight Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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January 23, 2011 - http://www.smbc-comics.com/index...
Cr-48 Chrome Notebook Developer Information - The Chromium Projects - http://www.chromium.org/chromiu...
How to boot your Chrome Notebook in developer mode to access the full terminal (ctrl + alt + t then type 'shell')
- Benjamin Golub
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Happy holidays - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Nicola Codipietro, Pixie, RAPatton and 3 other people liked this
Rental cars - http://www.benjamingolub.com/rental-...
Rachel Lea Fox and rowlikeagirl liked this
I *love* the agencies that give you the booklet and say 'take what you like from aisle 4'. We had that in Orlando last year and it was awesome. We drove off in a brand new red Dodge Charger, a car I wouldn't have picked off the web site, but it was a lot of fun.
- Kevin Fox
I miss list comprehensions
Karl Rosaen and Bruce Lewis liked this
When I have to do PHP I sometimes write it in another language first, then translate.
- Bruce Lewis
At this point, I suspect compatibility with external PHP interpreters is not especially valuable for Facebook. Perhaps the language should evolve.
- DGentry
Gutenberg Bible - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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iOS 4.2 supports custom text tones. Software engineers and ops around the world rejoice: a text saying the site is down and a text from your sig other no longer have to sound the same and send you into an unnecessary panic!
Jo Booth, testbeta, Rochelle and 8 other people liked this
finally! wow.
- holly #ravingfangirl
If only they'd allow a no ringer option for some numbers.
- Akiva
I know people who have made 1 second silent mp3s for that purpose.
- holly #ravingfangirl
Yeah. Rochelle has something similar. It just seems like something that should be built in.
- Akiva
agree. it's sort of ridiculous it has taken this long to get custom text tones. I had that on my freakin' RAZR, for god's sake.
- holly #ravingfangirl
One of the best reasons to have jailbroken is now taken care of. WHY SO SLOW, STEVE?
- Josh Haley
I have it set so that my default ringtone is silent. Then I set the ringtone for the people in my phone book to be an actual ring. If you're not in my phone book, the ring is silent. Yay!
- Rochelle
Good idea, Ro.
- Josh Haley
Welcome to Facebook's NYC office - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Ercan Gök, Eric Florenzano and Nicola Codipietro liked this
Moonstruck Chocolate Pumpkin Truffle - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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یک طراح وب and April Buchheit liked this
I'm hoping the Mac App Store becomes apt/rpm for the Mac. Package management is hard; let's go shopping!
Tudor Bosman, Rodfather, Roberto Bonini and Mark Trapp liked this
The guidelines bar a very large portion of Mac development (must use Cocoa, has to be an app bundle), so I doubt it will be as comprehensive as the *nix repositories.
- Mark Trapp
That's disappointing :(
- Benjamin Golub
The Art of the Steal has me all riled up. I think I need to see this collection before it moves.
Paymag liked this
"The only sane place to see art in America" - Matisse
- Benjamin Golub
I wish there was a Gmail Lab to disable the "Send this message without text in the body?" alert
testbeta, İlter Kalkancı, Micah and 3 other people liked this
Putting EOM in the subject does the trick. But I forget sometimes.
- Benjamin Golub
I hate it when people send me emails without text in the body.
- Skyler Call
Why? It's terribly useful. "Cupcakes in the micro kitchen EOM", "Meeting postponed 10 minutes EOM", "Fire, run! EOM"
- Benjamin Golub
That is what Google Talk and SMS are for.
- Skyler Call
Not if you want to send the same short notification to many people at once.
- Tudor Bosman
Hmm. I wonder what the customary abbreviation is at Earth Observation Magazine.
- Micah
Benjamin, maybe they could add the option to remind you to put 'EOM' in the subject instead.
- Akiva
I love EOM. Can delete email without reading - woohoo!! However, I went for years without knowing what it meant. Kept confusing it with OEM ;-)
- Laura Norvig
Ah, I get it. 'End Of Message'
- Skyler Call
from Android
test
Jérôme, Morgan, Kol Tregaskes and 12 other people liked this
pass
- Benjamin Golub
Twitter import is fixed again?
- Jimminy IS Everybody
OMG, I didn't study!
- c.a.j.
Twitter is gonna tweet
- Eric - seven eleven
Pong!
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Space War!
- Joe "Bad Guts" Silence
Thank you, Ben!
- Micah
Yay! Thanks!
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
I'll point out I have no clue if that's what he was actually testing; I haven't had an issue with the importing of tweets, ever.
- Jimminy IS Everybody
Come on Ben - spill the beans. New "Groups" on FB are basically Bret convincing Mark to bring FriendFeed functionality to Facebook. You can tell us. It will be our little secret.
- Nathan Chase
Nathan... or did Mark buy Bret (kinda, you know what i mean) to bring FriendFeed functionality to Facebook :)
- Johnny
Tees
- Morgan
When Ben tests, the world watches! :)
- Charlie Anzman
I see what you did there, Morgan...
- Lisa | #TeamMonique
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10/10/10: Tree on the Erie Canal - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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