PowerBook lid keeps popping open
Well, having only had my 15″ PowerBook back long enough to reinstall everything, you can imagine how upset I am that the latching mechanism on my unit seems to be faulty. It keeps popping open at random. That is particularly annoying when you are working with the PowerBook closed and plugged into an Apple display; suddenly all your applications jump over the popped-open PowerBook screen as if blown off the screen by a hearty gust of wind. Closing the lid sends the unit into sleep, which brings the whole affair to its sitcom-esque, annoying pinnacle.
After several days of this, I am sure that it isn’t just a break-in period for the new LCD. So, I’ll be calling AppleCare again tomorrow. Crap.
Speaking of crap, I was notified of a comment posting on my January 9th entry ColdFusion MX on Mac OS 10.3 with JBoss. The comment is simply, “piss”. I do hope I haven’t seen the onset of those stupid spam-bots that post things like the guy on Servlets.com is seeing. That would suck, and there’s no AppleCare for that. 8^)
If you haven’t already, upgrade to MT version 2.661. Your index page is showing 2.64. They’ve added a few comment spam fixes.
It’s about a 15 minute upgrade. Just read the doc and overwrite a few files, then test.
This is supposed to get a lot better with the as-yet-mythical 3.0 release which will apparently integrate user accounts and the like. We’ll see if it cures the disease without killing the patient.
Comment by Tom K. — February 18, 2004 @ 3:14 pm
Tom, thanks for the motivation; I had been procrastinating with the 2.661 upgrade but your note inspired me to go ahead. Hopefully this will weed out the little spam annoyances.
Comment by Barry Hawkins — February 18, 2004 @ 4:50 pm