Function Disjunction
My iBook is broken. Or as the French say 'kaput'. And you know it is the french who say that. Only had it a year. Right it died just after the manufacturer warranty expired. Trouble began in back in mid May. Wifi at the University, what Apple calls Airport, began giving it fits. it would crash while asleep (at any rate not waking up). wifi would send it into a hard freeze as soon as it was turned on - as soon as my finger came off the touchpad button. At my sisters on her non WAPed local network it worked occasionally but had trouble staying on. After a while, an hour at the most it would freeze up. At this same time it began not coming back up after a restart - it locks up during restart right after telling me how many cached and uncached personalities it has (verbose boot: cmd v). It does this even after running Apples hardware tests over it. Which come up claiming it passed, claiming that the airport card is alright (which i doubt). I'm not even sure where the airport card is on this buggy. It's not under the keyboard, because thats where the RAM card went. I have it up in "safe mode" at the moment. It does nothing else. It doesn't do much in safe mode, there is no internet connectivity, iTunes is disabled. I intend to back up everything and leave it alone. If it is a memory, disk, or motherboard problem I probably don't want to change the state of the drive. When it's replacement arrives and I've moved everything over, then I will try an archival n' install, or a clean install. Whatever it desires. Unfortunately since I run a Radio Userland web log, which means its organizing database is tied to this machine, posting is problematic. If this gets posted it means I was able to provoke it into going through its paces without being connected to the internet, and then peel the items out of the local back-up to place in the atomized folder on UMD's WAM server.
Tran tells me that we need problems and aggravation in our lives to feel purposeful and engaged. I love this charitable and philosophical side she shows, but I almost suspect she is somewhat amused by all this.
11:42:02 PM  ;;
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