The Slakinski Log

Wow this is pretty cool when you get good blogging software for a devicethat fits in the palm of your hand granted I could blog from my old palm 3 but it was never this easy!

Great job Veronica and everyone else on the Mahalo Daily Team!

It appears that the MacBook Random Shutdown bug has its own website! You know when an issue has gone from bad to worse when the issue gets its own website On the site is a description of why it occurs in the first place, stories from users having this issue plus more.

For a product I love so much, why does it have to be so bad?

Update: Looks like Dave Winer just posted a link to a story in PC World regarding the issue.

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5 times now has my MacBook randomly shutdown. Luckily I was never in the middle of doing any real work — its usually right when I boot up or wake it from sleep. But still it should never happen in the first place. I’m actually going to just deal with the issue until Apple has a known working fix for it or issues a total recall of the line.

Sean also had his book randomly shut down on him a number of times and had it fixed. Problem is he isn’t sure he has the “right” fix and doesn’t know if it will start happening to him again.

Dave Winer has been keeping track of other fellow mac users with this and other related issues.

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Wow, Microsoft came up with a useable tablet computer! And on top of that it looks like they took some design nods from Apple — make it simple.

Check out the leaked promo video here.

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How did Kevin Rose know? who is his source?

But hours before the big keynote from Mr. Jobs came this post from Kevin Rose:

15″ intel Macbook - order tomorrow, ships Feb (thinner, dual core) iPod FM receiver iWork/Life ‘06 New remote of some type Photocasting (iPhoto) OS X.4.4 w/new widgets

He was right on all 6 accounts. I bet Apple really wants to know who his source is.

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Roku Labs has a new radio out called the Soundbridge Radio and it has a lot of really cool features. The biggest one for me was that it could play tracks via WiFi from iTunes! But it pays to read all the information because this killed the deal for me:

*iTunes Music Store files (”Protected AAC”) cannot be played.


What!!!! That sucks!

If Apple is stopping 3rd party radio manufactures from playing protected tracks then Apple needs to release an iTunes compatible Radio, but I would rather them allow the 3rd party people to do it. Why not get the Airport Express? Because it has no remote, and no visual information of what song is playing — this Roku radio offers that.

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Robert Scoble is saying for media center and xbox360 you are going to want 802.11 “A”:

802.11 “a” routers. I went to four stores yesterday and couldn’t find them anywhere. Why are these hot? Well, if you have an Xbox 360 and a Media Center. Oh, wait, I’m not supposed to talk about those yet. Heh! Let’s just say that 802.11 a networks are gonna be hot this Christmas.

I’m assuming he means 802.11a which was a wireless standard being pushed by Intel and never got much traction. Its also probably the reason why he couldn’t find any… simply they are not made anymore. My best guess is that Robert misread something and means 802.11n, because I have no plans on buying 802.11a equipment for my xbox anytime soon.

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We work with Apple, ATI, and Nvidia to make everything run as well as possible. Doom 3 had AltiVec code in it, and there were driver changes to make things work better. The bottom line is that the compiler / cpu / system / graphics card combinations available for macs has just never been as fast as the equivalent x86/windows systems. The performance gap is not a myth or the result of malicious developers trying to make your platform of choice look bad. — John Carmack

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Scoble, our favorite Microsoft blogger is asking Uncle Bill for an MS iPod killer, and wants it before August 1st.

We have five months to come out with a great new set of music players and get a great marketing campaign going. Why is that? It’s called back to school. If we don’t get something going by June then we lose another generation to the iPod. Do you want to let that happen?

Last I checked it takes longer than 5 months to QA hardware products, let alone design one from scratch and get it to market! I think Microsoft is smarter than that, and they are going to play the same game they did with Palm a few years ago; refine the Portable Media Center over and over until people really love it and find it more useful than the Palm stuff, also while working with the hardware manufactures to get the design down pat. Patience is Microsoft’s best played game not the rushed plan Scoble as set forth.