Tag Archives: mac

New Graphics Card

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Adrian

As my MacPro was a bit poorly, I installed a new graphics card last night. It’s an NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT. Installation was easy (everything is easy inside a MacPro). The card itself is about half the size of the outgoing … Continue reading →

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MacPro health

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Adrian

My MacPro has been getting very noisy and a little unstable recently. It’s an early (2006) model with a mere 4 Xenon cores of just 2.66ghz but still jolly splendid. I’ve tracked the problem down to the graphics card, and … Continue reading →

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Mini off life support

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Adrian

My Mac Mini had drive trouble some time ago and I ‘fixed’ it by booting off an external drive. This has been most acceptable for the last 15 months or so, but recently, with a rejig of media stuff in the living room, … Continue reading →

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Hulk

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Adrian

I watched The Incredible Hulk at the weekend (the one with Edward Norton). For some reason I thought that most people believed that the previous film was rubbish and this was much better, even good, but I didn’t think so. … Continue reading →

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On being a long-time Apple customer

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Adrian

The other day I was thinking about being a long-time Apple customer and that around the very late 90s, early 00s, when Windows PCs were a bit of a joke, it was very easy to feel superior and evangelise a … Continue reading →

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MacBook

Posted on February 28, 2008 by Adrian

After the demise of my iBook, we needed a replacement for wireless interwebbing at home. Lo! a shiny new MacBook has been ordered and shall be delivered in a week or two, but why does ’3 days’ on Apple’s website … Continue reading →

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iBook relapse

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Adrian

iBook seems to have relapsed after a spirited recovery. It was taking a long time to boot, Spotlight felt it was necessary to reindex the drive, then would crash and repeat. After a single-user disk repair session it wouldn’t boot … Continue reading →

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iBook lives

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Adrian

Looks like iBook seems to be recovering after an OS reinstall. After syncing back its personality from .Mac he seems as good as new. Fingers crossed he stays that way.

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Sick iBook

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Adrian

My iBook kernel panicked. And is doing it again on reboot. For those less enlightened, a kernel panic is akin to the Windows Blue Screen Of Death. I’ve yet to do any real analysis, but I fear the worst. Snowy … Continue reading →

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iPhone – after two months

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Adrian

I’ve had the iPhone for two months now, time for the hype to die down, and for normal usage patterns to emerge. During the week, it’s my alarm clock – I put it on silent mode, so calls/texts don’t wake … Continue reading →

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