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Is Apples MacBook Pro Rotten To The Core?

by Ron Bieber on Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Articles like this top Digg article of the morning from ZDNet make me extremely nervous about my new purchase. I tend to be somewhat of an “early adopter” once I actually make a decision and I’m starting to rethink that purchasing strategy. I have (so far) had no problems with the MacBook, but according to the article it could take a couple of months for the symptoms to occur.

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The Labs Adds A Mac

June 19, 2006

Your looking at the first post to this web site completely written on a Mac.
Yep, thats right. A Mac.
Since the release of OS X I’ve wanted to make the leap to the Mac. The idea of a Unix based system with the useability of a Mac intrigued me to no [...]

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Bieber Labs Servers circa 2001

November 10, 2005

Photo by rbieber
circa 2001-2002
‘Elmo’ and ‘Bert’. My machine is on my desk to the right of these (named ‘Grover’). I went through a phase where all machines were named after Sesame Street characters. I stopped just before having to use Snuffleupagus.

Going through old pictures I found this one [...]

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Hardware Upgrade At the Labs

April 2, 2005

About two years ago I bought a Compaq Presario 3000 laptop computer as my primary machine. It started overheating whenever I would try to check things out of a source repository or build software on it. I had it dual booting Windows XP and SuSE Linux 9.1. The [...]

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