Today is Dump GoDaddy Day
If you’re not familiar with SOPA, you should be. Especially if you own your own domain name. Especially more-so if your registrar is GoDaddy. You see, GoDaddy initially (loudly) supported SOPA. GoDaddy has since retracted their support for SOPA (at least publicly) because it became such a bad PR move. Still, the mass exodus from GoDaddy has begun, including myself.
This is not an endorsement, but something I thought was a good show of support: NameCheap.com (another registrar) is offering $6.99 domain transfers today and will also donate $1 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
In closing, if you’re a GoDaddy customer, I encourage you to read up on SOPA and consider switching registrars.
Steve Jobs stayed tag-less by leasing a new car every six months | AppleInsider
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California vehicle laws stipulate that anyone with a brand-new car has a maximum of six months to affix a license plate to their vehicle. This loophole was utilized by Jobs, according to ITWire, to avoid putting a plate on his car.
“Jobs made an arrangement with the leasing company; he would always change cars during the sixth month of the lease, exchanging one silver Mercedes SL55 AMG for another identical one,” author David Heath revealed. “At no time would he ever be in a car as old as six months, and thus there was no legal requirement to have the number plates fitted.”Ha that’s a pretty sweet move.
(Source: vb)
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With Steve Jobs’ passing, we have lost one of the greatest technological innovators of our time. Jobs wasn’t just a savvy businessman, he was a visionary who made it his mission to humanize personal computing, rewriting the rules of user experience design, hardware design and software design. His actions reverberated across industry lines: He shook up the music business, dragged the wireless carriers into the boxing ring, changed the way software and hardware are sold and forever altered the language of computer interfaces. Along the way, he built Apple up into one of the most valuable corporations in the world. Quite a run. He will be missed. (via Steve Jobs’ Greatest Achievements | Gadget Lab | Wired.com)
whatyougotacrushonme askedDisplay issues generally are one of 3 components:
- Display panel itself
- Main Logic Board (issue with the video subsystem)
- Components between the two including the Inverter board
If it’s something like an inverter board (generally no backlight but there’s actually an image on the screen) you’re looking at the cheapest repair there. Main Logic Board or display panel are costly. It’s not that they’re ripping you off, it’s that they weren’t exactly sure which component had gone wonky.
It also sounds like they may not have properly set the expectation of what it could cost vs what you’d like it to cost.
Repairs like this are the #1 reason to buy AppleCare - one repair of a Main Logic Board out of warranty is easily enough to buy AppleCare.
LOVE this for our friend Amit.
via What Would Jennifer Do » Blog Archive » I Love You Amit. I Hate Cancer.:
The past few days my twitter feed has consisted of three things:
1. The Yankees
2. Steve Jobs RIP
3. Help Amit Gupta!So, I guess the Yankees lost a game or something. Then, Steve Jobs died far too young and sadly we couldn’t do anything about that.
But then, there is Amit- one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. His enthusiasm makes the world seem a little more fun, a little less depressing, and a lot more awesome.
And now very suddenly he’s battling leukemia.
I’m tired of talented wonderful people dying of cancer. Do not stall. Get a Q-tip, stick it in your cheek and mail it back. The process is free and you can sign up right here. International friends check out this list of registries here.
For those of you who are kinky and like to swab in public with friends then there’s a party October 14th in NYC. More info here.
Please help get the word out any way you can.
If you are in Germany, no problem, because the registries exchange data, and ZKRD in Düsseldorf does so with marrow.org – there is also DKMS, bigger, but only recommended by, not cooperating with marrow.org (teach me better if I am wrong).
In case you are ever going to give birth to a child, make sure to donate left-over umbilical cord blood stem cells, because they are very helpful here, too.
Do it!
sam-ebs askedTake it in pronto. It could be a few different things, but from your symptoms, it could be the LCD panel itself, your Main Logic Board or anywhere in between including the LVDS cable being pinched through the hinge.
fuckyesnicole askedSorry, but AppleCare is a one time deal. There’s no “renewal” option for it.
krpnski askedOooh boy, printers are one area that you’ll get death matches over. Myself, I like HP and Canon. They’ve never done me wrong. I despise Epson.
Others will swear by Epson and say HP or Canon are shite. It’s all jaded by personal experience.
For driver support, you can’t go wrong with HP. Apple builds them into the OS and keeps them up to date, which is very nice.
For AirPrint, HP has a good selection of products, thought it looks like you’re into the All-in-one type printer/scanner/fax etc unit.
Myself, I have a (3 year old?) HP Photosmart. It does print,scan,fax and copy, has wifi (802.11g), separate ink tanks (CMYK,PC,PM), a duplexer, an auto document feeder (very nice for multi-page scan or fax), wireless fax and a photo tray (for separate 4x6 photo paper).
I think I picked it up for about $250 from Staples at the time (and got $50 knocked off because I recycled my old printer with them).
While it seems like a bit of a hefty investment for a printer, I have had zero issues with it. The ink is also reasonably priced and you can find an entire set of the ink on eBay for ~$35. (In a pinch you can find ink for ~$11 each retail.)
Now that I’ve had it for 3+ years, the per-year cost really starts nose-diving the longer I keep it. If you go cheap and get a $99 printer, you may end up replacing it in a year. It can add up.
Moral of the story: don’t cheap out. Get a nice one that will last some time.
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