iDied
Man, this is bad. Just before I left on my road trip through Boston, Brooklyn and LA (I've gotta write that one up) our iBook died. And also our two iPods. And before that our video camera died. And just last night our iMac up and died. Before the iBook came back from the shop. Which is very bad because we use the two macs to back each other up, so I really hope we haven't lost, like, the last 10 months of kidpics (minus a couple hundred that got burned to CD), plus all iTunes inputs for the last 10 months. (Since the last time both macs died at the same time and I made sure that everything was backed up to one or both of the little external hard drives that aren't our iPods. At least one of which is still alive, I just checked. I've misplaced the cable for the other one. Gotta hunt around.)
This is starting to cost money. And make my hair fall out from frustration.
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John, sounds like a big-time power problem. There's no way this would happen in the real universe. Or your kids are putting peanut butter into FireWire ports.
I have no idea how beautiful the Singaporean electrical system is, but this just screams "power conditioning."
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman | November 17, 2005 at 11:39 AM
And make my hair fall out from frustration.
this just screams "power conditioning."
Well, obviously.
Posted by: Kieran | November 17, 2005 at 12:20 PM
It must be contageous; my powerbook just up and died on me saturday. It's a sad day. That powerbook got me through grad school and built my blog. Luckily, I had just backe deverything up on my iPod so I dodn't loose any data. Bt still... this sucks all around.
Posted by: Keith | November 18, 2005 at 03:55 AM
Sounds like the beginning of a Vernor Vinge novel.
Posted by: baa | November 18, 2005 at 05:14 AM
we do have the main fuse for the house trip quite a bit, could that be related? OT, hi honey, I'm at an internet cafe on orchard...must learn about Pajamas Media launch...
Posted by: belle waring | November 18, 2005 at 12:30 PM
This almost justifies my ongoing Luddism, or at least it would if my &&%&* stereo still worked...
Posted by: Scott Lemieux | November 18, 2005 at 04:38 PM
we do have the main fuse for the house trip quite a bit, could that be related?
Yes, definitely. "Power conditioning" is when an unreliable power supply gradually or suddenly fries your computer: often fluctuations that wouldn't harm your TV or Washing Machine can be very harmful to your computer. Especially a lot of brief spikes over time.
Posted by: Kieran | November 19, 2005 at 01:08 AM
presumably this is a figment of your imagination; as I have been told so many times by Mac bigots, this never happens to Apple products, only to computers running windows.
Posted by: dsquared | November 20, 2005 at 09:08 AM
god, whats up with macs... when they work, they totally rock, but when they go... they just up and die... no warning... happened to my ibook too...
why can't they behave like windows and get problematic before they decide to die... i mean, windows are just problematic period but, yea... show some signs man!
Posted by: carl | November 20, 2005 at 08:38 PM
Funny. Nobody's ever told me that Macs were magically invulnerable to bad power, or that the operating system made the hardware fail or be electrically reliable.
I suggest power conditioning hardware, definitely.
Posted by: Sigivald | November 23, 2005 at 06:09 AM
I, contrariwise, recommend against power conditioning hardware.
Posted by: ben wolfson | November 23, 2005 at 07:22 AM
Why Ben?
Posted by: Neil | November 23, 2005 at 09:38 AM
One copy is not a backup!
Two copies, each in a separate place, is a backup.
Posted by: F'in Librul | December 08, 2005 at 01:05 PM