Canon PowerShot SD700 IS
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panic: we are hanging here…
Making technology less impersonal…
Apple Humor Inside
9 responses to “Ghost in the Shell”
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it looks like someone dropped the laptop… So I suspected a disc error (soft error if the head flew off track, hard error if it touched the disc surface). Disc Repair did not work. So I put it in terminal disc mode and was able to transfer all the files off. It took a reformatting of the hard drive well, and is updating the OS now. So I suspect the disc soft error scenario. All should be well, except for the big dent in corner of the metal casing…. The Apple humor really helped me chill about the whole ordeal.
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reformatting? did you lose data? (I read you "took all the files off", but sometimes is not that "all" possible) =(
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I was an avid Be user, and I loved getting error messages… they were in haiku.
My favorite example…
A file that big?
It might be very useful.
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Exception handling is quite the science for CPUs in fact the concept is brought up to the highest layers of modern languages. What do you do when the unexpected happens? There aren’t enough programmer hours in the world to manage all these. We will be seeing stack dumps forever.
Modern hard discs have an accelerometer status that can be queried to see if the disc has been dropped. There was some discussion about actually sensing it is dropping and parking the head. When I was dropping discs, I had to drop them only about 6 inches to get an indication. Any higher and I destroyed its capability to report this data. Of course the data was kept on the disc. I can’t wait for flash drives. This moving part technology is getting old.
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with my last powerbook, i used to get these kernal panics all the time which i had never had before with any of my previous macs. appeared that it was faulty ram which was the issue as i knew of 3 other people having the exact same problem with their PBs. if it’s still not working, it might be worth checking if one of your sticks of ram has been dislodged from the force of the impact…
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imagine huge big labs having a search item which tag you to tags humour just kills me… ooch 🙂
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