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absintheur

Rabbits, Rabbits, Rabbits; or, How to Fix an iPod by Abuse

May 01, 2006 18:21

So a week or two ago K. dropped my iPod and did the little guy in. Once before it had consumed its own soul and I had to reinstall the software, but software won't take when the hard drive no longer understands that it's a hard drive. I tried about five times anyway, though, before I took notice of the clicking sound: the arm doggedly thwapping ( Read more... )

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Six weeks ago, I would have heartily agreed... anonymous May 3 2006, 00:24:06 UTC

...but that was before I knocked my K2000 out of commission by giving it one too many hearty whacks, in an effort to solve its "my LCD is unreadable because for some reason my power supply likes to freak out (and occasionally drop the pitch a semitone or so)" problem. Which I usually solve with a whacking.

But in this case, about half of the sounds promptly became crazy, glitched-out washes of static and randomly changing pitches. I tried repeated blows; some made it worse, some made it better again.

With my thesis due shortly, this was...problematic. You can't really write a harp part if it sounds like Hrvatski is your harpist.

Fortunately, I opened 'er up, wiggled and reseated some of the cards, and presto, back in business. Turned out the orchestral ROM block had come a fraction loose.

Then again, none of this really violates your basic thesis: if it really isn't working, and you can't afford to get it fixed, give it a whack! An approach that, in truth, works great with my old cheap phone, whenever it decides that the ( ... )

Re: Six weeks ago, I would have heartily agreed... absintheur May 15 2006, 04:07:10 UTC

Well put, well put. We should talk soon, there are stories to tell.

Re: Six weeks ago, I would have heartily agreed... anonymous June 1 2006, 05:15:03 UTC

We should indeed! Tangentially, did you see this?

http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/05/31/2248258.shtml

Re: Six weeks ago, I would have heartily agreed... absintheur June 2 2006, 02:50:22 UTC

No, hadn't seen it. Sounds plausible, though.

anonymous May 25 2006, 19:30:36 UTC

Shall we employ an equable mediator? Or shall we remain gymnasts?

absintheur May 25 2006, 23:02:52 UTC

What's society built on?

anonymous May 30 2006, 14:31:48 UTC

...MR. T...