MY IMAC REPAIR IS DONE!!!!!

WOOOHOOOO! *rushes out the house*

Prepare for updates! >:]

Update On Power Supply

Just to clarify, my iMac’s power supply has been damaged probably because I haven’t turned it off for approximately two years. It’s currently in KMS‘ workshop and they estimate it would take two to four weeks for a replacement to arrive. So no, there won’t be a funeral :P

(Good thing this blog isn’t hosted on my iMac, otherwise you won’t be seeing this @_@)

My iMac Died :(

I heard a weird whining sound this morning that came from my iMac, but I figured it was just a clogged fan so I ignored it. A couple of hours later, while browsing the web, and without prior warning, the computer turned off!

Play Wii on iMac

I don’t have enough money or room space to purchase a new TV so I opted to play my Wii on the iMac. The USB eyeTV hybrid accepts composite cable and allows for full screen viewing. In addition, the included software lets you record and/or encode video directly to Quicktime or iPod format. The quality isn’t great (as expected from any analog signal source), but playback is responsive with virtually no latency.

Uptime

Since the day I purchased my iMac, there have been only three reasons why I would turn it off:

1. I need to relocate it,
2. I want to upgrade its RAM,
3. Or there’s a software update that requires a restart.

Mind you, I use my Mac extensively everyday -and even during the night, I leave it busy downloading over 15 video podcast episodes rather than putting it off into sleep mode. I also thought I could push it over the edge by using the CPU-intensive Folding@Home app for almost an entire month but all that did was make the fans louder. I’ve never come across this kind of performance on Windows machines so kudos to Apple for their truly solid platform and reliable hardware.

Playing with Kubuntu

Thanks to this guide, I finally managed to get the Airport Extreme card (Broadcom’s Wifi Controller for Apple) to work under Kubuntu. My 12″ PowerBook G4 is now set up to dual boot between Mac OS X 10.4 and Linux because I don’t intend to upgrade it in the future.

Despite speed, stability, compatibility and security, the latest version of Kubuntu/Ubuntu is still not fool-proof. I was impressed when it recognized my Bluetooth hardware, but when I came to change my display setting from, “custom 1″ to ‘12″ Apple PowerBook’, the GUI completely stopped working! I had to resort to writing commands to autodetect my display, and even after that I was stuck with 256 colors. Thankfully, there was a backup of the initial preference file and after a few attempts I was able to get it restored.

Overall, I think the Ubuntu development team is heading in the right direction, but in the meantime, I haven’t found any particular feature that I would want on OS X. Keeping in mind that the Linux is completely free, you can’t really complain :P