Friday, February 19, 2010
This is an update of this post.
Hoping that the service center could more easily repair my IMac with all their available tools, I brought it to their repair center. After one week, I called them for an update and they told me to wait for another 2 weeks for the spare parts. I was very angry since nobody informed me for this excessive delay. Next day I rang up the Apple Customer Service to speed up the repair process and requested eventually a new replacement. Within the following two weeks, this Apple Service Provider came to replace the second time the logic-board and then the third time the power supply which I think, has absolutely nothing to do with my fan problem, It was definitely a sensor issue. Yesterday, I picked up a suction cup and a torx screwdriver and opened up my IMac. What a surprise! I found that in one of the sensor plug, the cable was coming from the microphone, and a sensor cable was plugged into the microphone socket. I swapped both, restarted the machine, and no more fan noise. Leave me your email if you want to know which service provide put the mess in my computer.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
When I tried to activate my iPhone Developer Program, I came across this:
We are unable to activate your iPhone Developer Program membership because we are unable to successfully verify your identity. blablabla….
OK, don’t send any email to the ADC support, they will not reply you. Just pick up your phone, and call one of the number figured in this list.
I called twice, the first one asked me to send my apple order status to an email address that I didn’t noted down because I barely understand his English. The second time I chose to call a Mandarin speaker, she unlock my account without a second and told me to re-activate it and it worked.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
如果話ipad係iphone既放大版，
點解唔話netbook係notebook既縮細版，係細到用唔到個種。我用過netbook，根本唔好用，太細，輸入困難，電池耐用性唔夠。試唸下有吔可能將一個本來比desktop用既OS放係咁細部電腦上比人用，13″已經係頂點。
要出tablet,個UI係第一樣嘢要改, Windows7 又好, Snow leopard 又好，啲button咁細，點操作？用筆定multitouch 好？
Multitasking 究竟需唔需要？睇片時你係咪要edit word file? 人往往就係咁，想所有嘢都要。仔細想一想你究竟要做啲吔嘢先。
對我嚟講，我期待着一部second computer 已很久，no need to besophiscated, 上下網，睇下書，唔使等1 minute turn on Windows 7 先用得。iPhone is already good, but iPad is better. And this is only the
beginning.
Without counting the old days of Macintosh Classic nearly twenty years
ago, I officially started using Apple computer for my daily home use
since 2006, that was my first Mac mini. Within these years, I’ve
changed another model once. More than being satisfied, The Mac mini is
not a sophisticated machine, I maintained it myself, added a bluetooth
module in the old model, changed the HDD couple of times, added RAM,
all DIY without any problem. Two months ago, I bought the new iMac 21.5″. Before
buying it, I hesitated a lot, since it is an all-in-one machine, the
DIY wouldn’t be easy, but I bought it anyway. After one month usage,
one night while I was still sleeping, I was woke up by a strange sound
like a sort of alien language. It was coming from my iMac, internal
speaker. But it seems ok when a headphone was plugged in. The other
day I called Apple for an on-site service. They brought a kind of
logic board, replaced it, the sound problem seems not happened again
but the fans blow at full speed all the time and generated an
unbearable noise. The technician put back the old card, mysteriously,
no sound problem but the fan still ran at 100%. Now, my iMac is
transferred to their repair center and don’t know when I can recollect
it.
Friday, September 25, 2009
emerge tsocks, if you can’t download the package using emerge because you are behind a firewall, manually download the package using your web browser and put it under /usr/portage/distfiles, then type the emerge command again.
once installed, create a new tsocks configuration: /etc/socks/tsocks.conf
local = 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.0
path {
reaches = 0.0.0.0/0
server = 192.168.2.1
server_type = 5
server_port = 8080
}
Then, prefix each command with tsocks like this:
tsocks emerge …
voila.
For existing iPhone 3G subscriber, this is the upgrade plan to 3GS.
我哋個package包兩日早餐，但係每日得兩個quota，因為冇同囡囡買package，淨買機票。去到buffet，俾咗兩張飛，佢指住囡囡，我哋話佢唔食，雞同鴨講咗一輪，佢放咗我哋去食嘢。之後另一個waiter過咗嚟，係紙上寫住child¥1155，冇計。Rules are rules,唯有俾。不過佢哋都好好人好有禮貌。
Buffet裡面有個coffee machine,試咗個expresso都幾好。
食過早餐之後就出街，哩幾日嘅天氣相當好，有太陽。出發前係網上睇過天氣預測話最低去到12度所以帶多咗幾件厚衫，但其實唔駛，一路都好暖。
第一日嘅指定動作就喺去換Jr pass。我哋會去嘅地區唔多而且都係喺附近，所以只會用northern Kyushu pass。出發前已經喺旅行社買咗voucher。去到換飛同頂埋後日搭由布院之森嘅指定席。出發前已經睇咗個時間表,寫定喺紙上俾佢睇，又快又方便。 之後去巴士中心買定第二日去高千穗嘅飛。jr pass 同巴士飛都買咗child fare俾囡囡，其實都唔知駛唔駛，佢哋嘅兒童係指6歲以上讀小學。囡囡啱啱6歲，但係仲讀緊幼稚園。決定長途嘅就買，subway或者市區巴士就唔買啦。
買完飛搭subway去天神轉西鐵去太宰府。首先坐大牟田線，之後喺二日市轉太宰府線。喺太宰府行咗一陣就返天神。
Loft – りぁっくま
屋台 – 燒明太子
