Daily Archives: Wednesday, 28 November, 2007

Poor form Glenn

Posted on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 by Jeremy

I must say I was very disappointed to discover that the anti-apple fanboi ‘hacking’ of Glenn Wolsey’s blog (amongst others) by the pseudonym Malcor was a hoax set up by Macheist for the purpose of promotion. Macheist is a website that resells Macintosh shareware. When I emailed Glenn my condolences I asked him if he was aware of by what manner his WordPress blog had been replaced by a static rotten apple image. He claimed to be still investigating the attack and ignorant of how it occured. It turns out he was fully aware that his site was going to be modified in advance, and continued to play dumb after the fact. He has since apologised but I fail to understand why any of them would willing incite concern in the online community as to the security of WordPress and … Continue reading →

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Macbook Pro crash

Posted on Wednesday, 28 November, 2007 by Jeremy

I was doing some drawing tonight on my Macbook Pro using my Wacom graphics tablet. I left the machine running when I had my dinner and when I returned I was unable to wake the machine from sleep. After trying the keyboard, mouse and power button to wake the machine I unplugged the tablet and tried the power button. This time the machine started a long pause on a blank blue screen. When the machine started I noticed the battery had been half depleted and the CPU/GPU were both at 65c. The backtrace error report seemed to indicate the bluetooth module which is odd because I wasn’t using any bluetooth devices. Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0 Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily(2.0f20)@0x9af000->0x9e5fff BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task

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