{"id":367,"date":"2004-07-20T00:58:46-04:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-20T08:58:46+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/wordpress\/?p=367"},"modified":"2004-07-20T00:58:46-04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-20T08:58:46+00:00","slug":"bad-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2004\/07\/20\/bad-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad&nbsp;Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Nine days ago I became the proud owner of a PowerMac G4, which nicely matched my new(ish) 15GB iPod.  This evening I became the not-so-proud owner of a 13kg silver paperweight <del datetime=\"2004-07-20T22:27:00-05:00\">and a credit-card-sized white doorstop<\/del>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Somehow, between turning off the machine on Friday night and attempting to turn it on tonight, it flaked out.  Symptoms seem to indicate the power supply is fried<del datetime=\"2004-08-24T02:04:00-05:00\">, and to replace it myself will cost upwards of 1\/3 of the price of the entire computer.  The other option is to have Apple fix it, which will cost just a few dollars less than the computer itself did.<\/del>  <del datetime=\"2004-07-20T22:27:00-05:00\">Neither option takes into account replacing the now-dead iPod I had connected to it.<\/del><\/p>\n\n<p><del datetime=\"2004-08-24T02:04:00-05:00\">So ends my first&#8211;and last&#8211;experience with Apple hardware.<\/del><\/p>\n\n<p><ins datetime=\"2004-07-20T22:27:00-05:00\">Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles&#8230; the iPod, she lives.  Apparently there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/ipod26.html#jun07\">a problem with the iPod<\/a> where <q>the battery would drain if connected to a Mac that was off or sleeping.<\/q>  Nice going, Apple.<\/ins><\/p>\n\n<p><ins datetime=\"2004-08-24T02:04:00-05:00\">Saddle up, the Mac lives again too!  Thanks to Andy Skuse at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mostlydigital.ca\/\">Mostly Digital<\/a>, I discovered that I needed to perform a <cite class=\"term\">PMU reset<\/cite>.  Even better, he diagnosed the problem via e-mail, and at no cost.  Needless to say, <cite class=\"name\">Mostly Digital<\/cite> is my new favourite Mac store.<\/ins><\/p>\n\n<p><ins datetime=\"2004-08-24T11:38:00-05:00\">Wincent Colaiuta shared <a href=\"http:\/\/wincent.org\/article\/view\/163\/1\/29\">a similar story<\/a> about a year ago.<\/ins><\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine days ago I became the proud owner of a PowerMac G4, which nicely matched my new(ish) 15GB iPod. This evening I became the not-so-proud owner of a 13kg silver paperweight and a credit-card-sized white doorstop. Somehow, between turning off the machine on Friday night and attempting to turn it on tonight, it flaked out.&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}