Sunday, November 25, 2007
Sunday, November 4, 2007
DARPA Urban Challenge
Hoo-ray!
Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team has won the DARPA Urban Challenge. On the first try too.
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp
Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing team has won the DARPA Urban Challenge. On the first try too.
http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp
Saturday, October 13, 2007
The Future
In the future will people look back on us today and our quaint ways? Will going to the cinema be an outmoded extravagance that the upper crust affect? If so, it serves them right, having to sit through 16 hours of William Shatner's "The Tempest".
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Apple Problems Resolved!
I've finally fixed my problem with the AirPort card. I'm returning my computer. Richard, the Apple customer service rep who I spoke with was very accomodating and he understood my problem, namely I need the computer to work, and this one wasn't working, nor was the previous MacBook I had. Hopefully Apple has fixed this problem in the new laptops they have just recently produced, but I don't care any more. Apple, as an institution, is not prepared to admit it has a problem to me, a loyal customer, and did very little to make me feel assured that they were doing anything to fix the problem. So I've left Apple in favour of a Lenovo 12.1" thinkpad. I'll be installing linux on it as soon as I get my Windows Tax Refund
On a side note, Richard the Customer Service rep was very helpful and patient, and he went and got a "one time exception" from the powers that be to allow me to return my laptop. This is in fact not the first time that Richard helped me out like that. The other time was when I was returning the first power adapter that came with my second MacBook. It wasn't properly grounded, so I had it replaced. I returned it too late, and between the jigs and the reels, Richard got me my money back. Richard should be promoted, or get some kind of a bonus. In fact, if all the people who worked at Apple computers were as concerned for the interests of the customers as Richard was, I'd probably still be using Apple computers.
So the moral of the story is: Don't buy Apple products, they seem to be dropping quality in favour of attracting a hipper customer base, and some one give Richard in the customer service department at Apple Canada some more money and a promotion.
On a side note, Richard the Customer Service rep was very helpful and patient, and he went and got a "one time exception" from the powers that be to allow me to return my laptop. This is in fact not the first time that Richard helped me out like that. The other time was when I was returning the first power adapter that came with my second MacBook. It wasn't properly grounded, so I had it replaced. I returned it too late, and between the jigs and the reels, Richard got me my money back. Richard should be promoted, or get some kind of a bonus. In fact, if all the people who worked at Apple computers were as concerned for the interests of the customers as Richard was, I'd probably still be using Apple computers.
So the moral of the story is: Don't buy Apple products, they seem to be dropping quality in favour of attracting a hipper customer base, and some one give Richard in the customer service department at Apple Canada some more money and a promotion.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Continuing Apple Problems (Part 3)
I found this forum on Apple's website.
Here the "solution" was to replace the airport card.
Don't know if it solve the problem or not, but if it did, that would give creedence to the theory that Apple is trying to avoid a recall.
Still no word from Atheros.
Here the "solution" was to replace the airport card.
Don't know if it solve the problem or not, but if it did, that would give creedence to the theory that Apple is trying to avoid a recall.
Still no word from Atheros.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Continuing Apple Problems (Part 2)
I called back Apple today and spent an hour on the phone with them. During the course of this call I verfied disk permissions, verified the disk itself (no problems with either) and performed the Apple Hardware Test. Nothing negative came back.
The panic.log file states that the problem is with the AirPortAtheros driver (com.apple.driver.AirPortAtheros(223.47.4)) as per usual. The people I spoke with at Apple did not seem to know that this bug is endemic in the MacBook line, dispite the mumblings that is going on about it on the interweb.
I've contacted Atheros, the supplier of the chips, to see if they know anything about it. While I suspect they won't (because it seems to be a driver problem) I figured it was worth a try anyway. If nothing else it may eliminate unknowns as to where the glitch lies.
The panic.log file states that the problem is with the AirPortAtheros driver (com.apple.driver.AirPortAtheros(223.47.4)) as per usual. The people I spoke with at Apple did not seem to know that this bug is endemic in the MacBook line, dispite the mumblings that is going on about it on the interweb.
I've contacted Atheros, the supplier of the chips, to see if they know anything about it. While I suspect they won't (because it seems to be a driver problem) I figured it was worth a try anyway. If nothing else it may eliminate unknowns as to where the glitch lies.
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