I can’t decide whether this is the sign of obsessive attention to detail, or just a hardware designer out to lunch – but when you put a PowerBook into ’sleep’ mode, there’s a little white light on the screen latch that slowly pulses. Almost like it’s snoring.
Archive for 27 March 2004
Scoble on Microsoft and RSS:
I really wish all of our teams here would publish in RSS. Syndication is another area where Apple is really kicking our behinds again.
Which I guess is a direct result of being the supertanker of the software world – you might have a hell of a lot of momentum, but it’s going to take you a hell of a long time to turn around. The smaller, more agile players out there are able to provide what people want now, while M$ is still obsessing about its roadmaps.
A slightly hair-raising moment a couple of days ago – logging into the Powerbook, everything seemed suspiciously – default. No bouncing icons, no backdrop, no contacts and worse, no mail. Turns out I’m the victim of the vanishing Filevault syndrome – the logging-out process is supposed to go through some sort of a clean-up process before shutting down. and sometimes it’s a little too enthusiastic about cleaning up. With the net result that everything vanishes.
As it turned out (after a call to the Apple support people – oh the shame, seeking help from another real human being instead of Google) the data was still there once I’d gone back in and turned Filevault off again. It popped back up as a .sparseimage file, buried away somewhere non-obvious. Double-clicking the file brings up a prompt for the password, after which it mounts as a disk image. Then copying over the Library folder and playing around with the permissions means that it’s possible to retrieve application settings etc.
The first entry to force a page rebuild
