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Proposed headline for The Onion: Resetting SMC on MacBook Pro fixes problem for Apple customer
[UPDATED Jan 1 2012: Nevermind. After two problem-free weeks, the issue is back, and this time resetting the SMC doesn’t fix it.]
I know, it sounds like a joke, right? Whenever you have a problem with a Mac the first thing anyone suggests (including Apple) is resetting the SMC, and of course it never fixes anything. Well I’m here to reveal that an SMC reset finally fixed something: Thunderbolt Display flickering during Thunderbolt disk I/O.
I’m posting this here for Google’s sake, since I was unable to find anything related in my searches. I’ve had my early 2011 MacBook Pro plugged into a Promise Pegasus R4 and a LED Cinema Display for about six months now and they’ve been working great. But when I added a Thunderbolt Display to the mix, the displays would flicker whenever I wrote to the Pegasus array. I unplugged the LED Cinema Display so that it was just the Thunderbolt Display and the Pegasus, and I would still get flickering when I used the disk. If I switched back to just the LED Cinema Display and the Pegasus, then things worked just fine.
I called Apple, and the first level tech support listened to me then escalated the issue to second level, and the first thing that tech did was ask me to reset the SMC. And sure enough… the problem is gone!
Now, this still leaves the issue of USB audio corruption during disk I/O, but that’s apparently a thornier issue. At least for now I can workaround the issue by using DisplayPort audio through the LED Cinema Display.
Free!
- Comcast: Great news! We can offer you cable TV and Internet for the same price you're paying now just for Internet.
- Me: No thanks, I don't have a TV in my house.
- Comcast: But… but… the service will be free!
- Me: I. Don't. Own. A. Television.
- Comcast: Oh. Um, well, maybe you'll get one for Christmas!
- *click*
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The chilling takeaway of this whole debacle was the irrefutable air of anti-intellectualism; that inescapable absurdity that we have members of Congress voting on a technical bill who do not posses any technical knowledge on the subject and do not find it imperative to recognize those who do.
This used to be funny, but now it’s really just terrifying. We’re dealing with legislation that will completely change the face of the internet and free speech for years to come. Yet here we are, still at the mercy of underachieving Congressional know-nothings that have more in common with the slacker students sitting in the back of math class than elected representatives.
"Dear Congress, It’s No Longer OK To Not Know How The Internet Works. Read it and weep.
Mechanical Black - Together in Electric Dreams. Words fail me. Looks like James Gosling felt the same way.
Internet Explorer to start automatically updating itself in January
Much like Firefox and Chrome before it, the feature will ensure that consumers and business users alike will be up-to-date with the current version of IE, without the hassle of updating manually.
Yes!!!
Microsoft will also offer IE8 and IE9 Automatic Update Blocker toolkits which will allow enterprise admins to make the leap on their own schedule.
No!!! The same people who kept most of the world on IE6 for the last ten years will now keep all corporate desks on IE8 for the next ten years. Sigh… I so look forward to still testing on IE8 in 2020.
(Source: theverge.com)
"That explains a lot."
Daring Fireball Linked List: Daniel Craig on ‘Quantum of Solace’. Indeed it does.
"No DRM, no regional restrictions, no crap. You can download this file, play it as much as you like, burn it to a DVD, whatever."
Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater. Awesome.
"Numbers alone don’t explain iOS’s developer support. As Anil Dash pointed out last night, Symbian remains the world’s most-used smartphone OS. Unit numbers haven’t helped them."
Daring Fireball Linked List: What Eric Schmidt Actually Said About Developing for Android First
"Discovering that the revered British actor Mr Nighy is a man of stylistic principles comes as no great surprise. […] it turns out he only wears blue suits. I don’t mean that when he wears suits he only wears blue ones, but that he only, ever, wears blue suits"
"A federal judge in New York on Monday threw out a settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and Citigroup over a 2007 mortgage derivatives deal, saying that the S.E.C.’s policy of settling cases by allowing a company to neither admit nor deny the agency’s allegations did not satisfy the law."
Judge Blocks Citigroup Settlement With S.E.C. - NYTimes.com. YES YES YES! What you call “activist judges”, I call “checks and balances”.
Love this xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
