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August 24, 2006
Apple issues Battery Recall
Apple and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Thursday announced a recall of 1.1 million battery packs made for Apple’s PowerBook and iBook battery packs. Information on the recall has been posted to the CPSC’s Web site. Users who have batteries affected by this recall are entitled to a replacement battery, free of charge. Instructions are available on Apple’s Web site.
Apple follows Dell in recalling the laptop computer batteries, which were manufactured using battery cells made by Sony Energy Devices of Japan. “These lithium-ion batteries can overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers,� said the CPSC in a statement. Dell has recalled more than 4 million Sony-made battery packs.
It is important that Macintosh Powerbook and iBook users follow the instructions provided at Apple's page on this issue and determine if there batteries are affected. Users are instructed to remove affected batteries from their computers and use them with AC adapters until replacements are sent.
Posted by dschmura at 02:12 PM | Comments (0)
August 22, 2006
Firewire Target Mode via Command Line
To set a machine to boot into Firewire Target mode for one boot only, run: sudo nvram boot-command='set-defaults target-mode'
From Matt Rosenberg via the MacEnterprise Mailing List.
Posted by mcneal at 01:31 PM | Comments (3)
August 21, 2006
IRC Client Suggestions
I asked macsig for some suggestions on what IRC clients to checkout and here's what some people had to say.
Amoreena Myerscough wrote "Colloquy, X-Chat Aqua, Conversation are all good for OS X. One caveat about X-Chat is that the version I tried last year did not recognize /onotice msging, which MIRC and I believe the other two clients do. That may have changed in more recent versions. Conversation is very simple and almost like your typical IM program. X-Chat and Colloquy are more MIRCish in nature."
Kevin Worth said "I've been using Colloquy on recommendation from the Plone.org people. It has worked very well for me."
Andrew Mortensen said "Colloquy is good."
Cameron Hanover said "I spent $15 on ircle years ago, and have gotten my money's worth. xchat aqua is a decent free one, I've heard. I don't think much of Colloquy."
Kris Steinhoff said "I don't use IRC often, but I've used ChatZilla (a Firefox extension) which was OK."
I personally have started to use Conversation and have been very impressed with its ease of use and iChat like interface.
Posted by mcneal at 03:25 PM | Comments (0)