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The Doctor Is In (3/19/00)
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Hallelujah, Apple was finally posted a fix for the dreaded iBook/PowerBook disk corruption bug. You've heard about this, right? In a nutshell, if you turn on the "Preserve memory contents on sleep" option in the Energy Saver control panel, you run the risk of permanently scrambling all the data on your hard disk in "certain low-memory situations." The upshot of this is, if you get struck by the bug, you open your iBook to find it crashed. When you restart, you're left staring at the dreaded blinking folder icon. Not a pleasant way for any Mac to wake up (or fail to).
Despite the fact that iBook users the world over were losing data left and right, it took Apple an inordinately long time to acknowledge that this bug even existed; interestingly enough, the Tech Info Article that finally described the problem seems to have since been deleted. But that's okay, since Apple's now fixed the problem. The company claims that the newly-released Sleep Memory Extension "eliminates the bug," but don't expect the "Preserve contents" feature to work as advertised: all the extension does is make the "Preserve contents" checkbox "dimmed and unavailable." Hey, why fix a broken feature when you can just disable it altogether?
Is it just us, or does this remind you of the guy who goes to his doctor and says it hurts when he raises his left arm? The doctor's response is, "Don't raise your left arm." (Ba-dum ching.) Apple's fix delves even further into the realm of absurdity, though, being tantamount to duct-taping the poor guy's arm to his side. That said, we're pretty confident that this is just an interim measure until Mac OS 9.0.4 finally gets out the door. At that time, we'll probably see one of two scenarios. The first is that the "Preserve contents" functionality will be restored and it'll work properly, without Osterizing one's data. The other possibility is that "Preserve contents" won't be dimmed-- it'll be gone altogether. Hey, amputation's a harsh cure for a mild touch of bursitis, but it is a cure, isn't it?
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Other scenes from that episode: 2162: Another Day, Another Win (3/19/00) Is it just us, or has Apple's legal team been hotter than a pistol lately? That billion-dollar patent infringement lawsuit filed by Imatec was finally dismissed in January. Over the past several months, Apple secured preliminary injunctions in three out of four of its suits against the iMac cloners and settled those cases favorably... 2164: Bumping One's Head (3/19/00) Okay, this is just too weird to pass up... By now you're all aware that Steve Jobs has bailed on his commitment to deliver the keynote address at the Spring Internet World conference in a couple of weeks...
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