To rip apart a PowerBook

So now, I have a nice bit of stuff to do.

My friend’s PowerBook (1.2GHz Aluminum model, 15”) appears to be going south. So, I’m going to have to rip it apart, check out the hard drive, and see what’s wrong with it.

If anyone looks at my history with laptops, You’d know that I’m not one to do this. But, on the line (If I get this done) is a almost-new, hardly used iPod Photo (30 GB), which will replace my ailing 20 GB iPod 4th Generation.

So, tomorrow, I’ll be lugging around TWO Macs in my backpack (The PowerBook G4 and my own MacBook Pro).

I have a digital camera, and I will take tons of pictures.

Wish me luck.

Internet’s back, and Myspace

Yay. I now have some solid internet. I should be able to update more now. (And I have a nice update in the pipeline, trust me)

The quick and second topic, Myspace. I got a girlfriend, and she convinced me to get into myspace somewhat. I’ll go with it, but I’m going to use PROPER grammar, and I’m not going to make my page nigh unreadable.

Here it is.

http://www.myspace.com/antidarkmatter

Career options

This is a small update to my previous entry.

I’m going to provide a reason WHY I dislike Corporations.

So, why do I dislike them? Mainly, It’s all the excuses that my head is being filled with that is causing me to loathe Corporations.

In school, I keep getting what I’m going to refer to as the corporate cop-out. Every time I fail at something, be it a project, an assignment, or something, and I get some unfair treatment (Refer to my previous post, an Open letter to the Mount Diablo School District, for some examples.), I’m always told that “That’s how it is in Corporate America.”

Cut the shit. Seriously. This is high school. I couldn’t give a damn about how corporations will handle me later on. Stop thinking future, start thinking present.

This copout is especially evident in group projects. Two of my partners fail me, leaving me to make up the slack. “THAT’S HOW IT IS IN-” you get the point.

While I’m probably sure that Corporations are cool, fun, and what have you, the opinions these idiots throw at you make you hate them, quick.

Total Phailure, and a surprise.

Well, the move absolutely failed. Feh. ParsGB either went down or cancelled my acount. Whatever.

So today I decided to update my computer to Mac OS 10.4.9 (Yay, the end of the line for Tiger has been reached. Too bad I jumped on the bandwagon way too late, with my MacBook Pro in Nov. 2006.)

Unfortunately, I have to sit out in my backyard to guide this thing through the update as I have no solid internet at my house yet. More on that in a minute.

So far, I can say that 10.4.9 has an entire slew of improvements for the various applications, such as the iApps (iCal, iSync, etc. ), and its a ~160 MB download, for Intel Macs, at least.

I tried to download on my school’s network (T1 line, should be super fast, right?), but alas, so many people were hitting the school’s network during that time, so it would take around 60 minutes, more time than I had to blow. So I took the thing home, sat outside, jacked some sap’s wireless bandwidth, and got the update.

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Update: Got the download.

I have noticed a few performance enhancements. AirPort works a LOT better on my Core2 Duo MacBook Pro. It’s able to maintain a connection a lot better than ever before. Not sure if its a side-effect of the 802.11n Enabler, but hey, can’t complain.

Also, a biggie for MacBook Pro C2D owners like myself. The Volume has been fixed. I get audible sound at ONE bar on the Sound Control Panel. ONE BAR! Holy hell, Apple listened to our complaints! Before, I had to turn it up to 4 bars to even get AUDIBLE sound.

So far, the update seems to be all good. I’ll post more as I discover more.