Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Added March 6, 2026: In 2026, these instructions aren’t useful unless you have the right combination of 15 year old hardware and software. But I’m keeping this post as a reminder that troubleshooting technology is a puzzle where you have to look for the missing pieces.…
Added March 4, 2026: I lost my CDs at some point in the last (almost) two decades. iTunes is now called Apple Music. Amazingly that link to Amazon Music still works. Added for good measure, a link to Spaced Out on Spotify.…
Where do you think an Apple Store would you in Knoxville, Tennessee? Probably somewhere at in Farragut right? Maybe Turkey Creek, there’s lots of high end stores out there. Nope, Knoxville’s Apple store is in West Town Mall.
Cheers to Knoxville for getting an Apple Store.…
Added March 11, 2026: I kept this post as a reminder that computer pricing follows a familiar rhythm. Using an inflation calculator from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis tells me that $1,999 in 2006 is worth approximately $3,199 now. I paid $2,765.09 in November 2023 for the MacBook Pro I’m using now that’s a bit above the base model.…
Apple released a beta of Boot Camp today, an “official” Windows/Mac dual boot solution. It will be built in to OS X 10.5 “Leopard”. The ability to easily dual boot means that my next computer will be a Mac.
Of course I recently bought a G4 mini, and my Dell is not even a year old, so my next computer is a few years down the road.…
The hard drive on my iMac died, it would have cost $300 to fix. So instead I went on eBay and got a G4 Mac mini for $500 including shipping. I could have gotten a new Intel Mac mini for a little more money, about $100 more.…
Well, earlier this month I reported that my iMac was dead. Well it’s alive again. Turns out that it wasn’t dead after all. Joe at MMCS had it for a week and it ran rock solid. He defragged the drive and fixed a few disk permissions but he didn’t find anything would cause a kernel panic.…
It appears my iMac is dead. It was getting a bit long in the tooth, I bought it in February of 2003 as a refurbished unit from Small Dog Electronics and it’s seen a lot of use since then, mainly as a web testing machine and iTunes jukebox.…
Macworld San Francisco is a busy place with lots of new stuff. iPod shuffle, the Mac mini, and lots of new software were introduced.
The iPod shuffle is Apples entry into the flash memory based music player market. Looks good and should sell well, especially since it has the iPod name.…