happy pre-birthday to me
Apr. 12th, 2004 01:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousapelliI have killed the laptop.
and by the way, i HATE returning from someplace to find strange Facilities workers in my room, even when I'm not already pissed off because I'm returning from the computer center sans computer.
I've no idea whether he noticed Mulciber or not. He didn't comment on him during his waffling about whether or not F&O would pay for my laptop charger replacement, which is due to the nibbling of rampant mice (the free-range ones, not the ex-roomates), so maybe not. Which is hilarious because he put mouse sticky-traps in half a dozen places around my room.
But back to the point, the laptop won't turn on. Just won't. No sad mac face, no torn folder, no nothing. There was a suicide note when I turned it on earlier, a page of code I'd never seen before that ended in "type mac-boot if you want boot to continue", which I can only suppose is ibook for "Goodbye Cruel World!" since it is the last thing it said before ending it all.
I'd like to hope the Computing Center can fix this, but since they have problems with things like "keeping extra laptop chargers in stock", i'm not feeling real up at the moment.
and by the way, i HATE returning from someplace to find strange Facilities workers in my room, even when I'm not already pissed off because I'm returning from the computer center sans computer.
I've no idea whether he noticed Mulciber or not. He didn't comment on him during his waffling about whether or not F&O would pay for my laptop charger replacement, which is due to the nibbling of rampant mice (the free-range ones, not the ex-roomates), so maybe not. Which is hilarious because he put mouse sticky-traps in half a dozen places around my room.
But back to the point, the laptop won't turn on. Just won't. No sad mac face, no torn folder, no nothing. There was a suicide note when I turned it on earlier, a page of code I'd never seen before that ended in "type mac-boot if you want boot to continue", which I can only suppose is ibook for "Goodbye Cruel World!" since it is the last thing it said before ending it all.
I'd like to hope the Computing Center can fix this, but since they have problems with things like "keeping extra laptop chargers in stock", i'm not feeling real up at the moment.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2004-04-13 12:01 am (UTC)Maybe it's something wrong with all iBooks, and we should petition Apple for money and free stuff? My iBook keeps killing Safari and eating hard drive space for no good reason, and I think it's only a matter of time before it pulls kernel panic on me.
Er, you could force open the CD tray and see if you can boot from a disc, but I doubt it'll work. Maybe you should crack it open and see if hardware's gone bad; it sounds like a really bad hardware problem, but I don't know what.
no subject
Date: 2004-04-14 04:30 am (UTC)It's funny though, mine really hasn't had any major problems in the two years I've had it, other than the vertical line disease it caught last summer. This is the first time it's done something truly horrible.
sigh. the computer center's got it at the moment, so god only knows what they are doing to it.