Tag Archives: eve

Since I’m going to be away for fathers day, I was given an early present. It’s a new battery for Eve (my MacBook Pro). The old battery was so dead it got maybe 15 minutes. Now I’m back to over … Continue reading →

So… I wanted to increase my Windows partition by 5GB to fit a game. I saved the original partition to the old backup disk using WinClone. Then I realised my main drive was too fragmented to let me allocate another … Continue reading →

My previous backups of Windows were all done with dd. The problem with this is that you need to restore to a partition of exactly the right size. Since my hard disk is a different size, both Disk Utility and … Continue reading →

My hard disk arrived today. The longest part was copying the instructional video to my DV camcorder (I was originally going to use Bree’s laptop to watch the video on but the disk didn’t arrive on Friday like I’d hoped … Continue reading →

The bad sectors have caught up with me again. My disk, once dying then apparently ok has developed bad sectors again. I’ve lost half a dozen files from my home directory. I’m not even going to try rescuing my system … Continue reading →

Holy crap! I installed Apple’s Battery Update 1.3 when it came out (a month ago) and since then I’ve noticed my battery life wasn’t so good. How bad is it? I’m at 49% capacity. I was able to play games … Continue reading →

Yikes! I went to play a game last night (Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight) and it hung. That’s odd… it worked before. Perhaps it’s the new Boot Camp drivers… What’s this? The event log says I’ve got disk errors! Quick, … Continue reading →

I just had a nasty system error. Somehow, when I rebooted the filesystem got corrupted an a singe file (something to do with 802.11x) got corrupted. However, this caused SystemUIServer to crash, leaving me with no menu bar icons (or … Continue reading →

So I’ve been using a custom-built system to deal with the excessive heat given off by Eve. It’s primitive but it works. Basically, a script polls the temp (using an older speedit version) and adjusts the minimum fan speed based … Continue reading →