• Never leave the machine plugged in all the time. Laptops are meant to be portable. Using it as a desktop that never runs on the battery will destroy your battery life.
• Cycles are your friend. Never letting the battery complete a cycle will greatly diminish your run-time. Try to avoid charging the battery unless it’s drained past 30%. Any time the battery drains past 50% and charges more than 50% counts as a cycle. The farther you let it drain before the charge – the better its overall health will remain.
• 30 cycles in a year is not a good thing.
• Let the battery drain completely a few times a week.

• Never let it sit for long periods of time without use. Batteries need to be loved or else they won’t love you.

And if you follow those “tips” you’ll have a very healthy NiCad battery and a dead LiIon battery. What is this tool thinking? Has he never looked into this at all?

CYCLES ARE BAD.

Leave the unit plugged in, don’t discharge if possible, and charge as soon as you can when you get near power.

Even Apple says this, so why is this ‘tard being an smug idiot?

One more reason not to trust “community” tips.

So I’ve been posting my updates to Twitter during the conference for a couple of reasons: first, if I tag them “#wwdc” then everyone at the conf will see them and that’s kind of neat and second, FB is pulling them for status, so it’s a quick double-update.

Well, I posted this one yesterday: http://twitter.com/ahknight/status/2092801084

Little did I know, the first part of that was more true than I thought. The Stump guys themselves were searching Twitter for references to themselves and the host, at the start of the show, starts off: “So I saw on Twitter that some guy said he had ‘the best question’ for us tonight. Is he here? Is that guy here?” After that initial, “Oh. Crap.” I stood up to take my lumps only for the host to have apparently moved on to something else. As I went to myself “eh, oh well” one of the other folks on stage points “he’s over there!” and I’m subsequently called out entirely.

“Come up here. Come here.”

So I put some things down and start the long walk up to the stage. As I go there, some big video cameras start to float around me (obviously with operators behind them, but as far as I can see they’re cameras with legs). Yay, make me more nervous. Thanks!

I get up to the stage and the host points to the stage and says to come up there. Oh boy. So I do. He then says some things that I’m sure other people remember but around this time I realize I probably have a social disorder of some kind as everyone sounds like the teacher in Peanuts cartoons. I do make out that he’s said that he’s going to abide by the statement I made: the experts will have two seconds to answer my question. Go.

So I paused and organized my question, much to the disappointment of the audience, though the host backed me up a little with ‘what you don’t know is that just standing on the stage makes you lose 25 IQ points’. Then I released:

“What two pins on the LC III were disabled on the LC II?

It’s not that I didn’t know this before about them; after all, the bunch of kids that fucked over CES last year and ruined the presentations of a lot of hard-working people. No, this just reinforces it.

In early December, Apple said they wouldn’t be presenting at MacWorld anymore and a lot of asses starting saying that the reason the whole company would miss out on the trade show was because SJ couldn’t do the keynote due to his health (which is a rather silly reason to pull a multi-million dollar company out of trade show) instead of the given reason of … it’s just not that important, anymore. Having been to one, I agree. It’s just not that important anymore. The internet has far surpassed it in terms of marketing value and showing up year-after-year is probably a big waste of time and money.

But, of course, people wanted to make it about his health.

Why? Well, Apple’s had a lot of investors worried about the health of Steve Jobs because he’s been getting thinner every time he appears publicly. They worry about how Apple will get on without him, etc. etc. The things that investors do. That’s one thing, but then they made buying decisions based on this. That’s a whole other thing. So SJ writes up a nice little piece explaining what’s wrong and that he’s trying to fix it (and, of course, effectively says that it’s no one else’s business, anyway, which is right). The board responds with a “we’ll let you know if it’s time to worry” statement. All’s well.

Kind of.

Then the bum streaks at Gizmodo throw up the headline that flies in the face of all the facts:

Answering recent coverage about his health, Steve Jobs has published this letter addressed to the Apple community.

After working with Mac OS X Server for a few days trying to setup an Xserve for the business I’m starting to recall all the reasons I told myself I’d never use Mac OS X Server again after leaving Apple.

MySQL client libraries and headers are not included with Mac OS X Server 10.5. If you are developing a MySQL client application for Mac OS X 10.5, you’ll need to download the MySQL client libraries and headers.

You can’t build MySQLdb for Django apps on Mac OS X Server without the MySQL libraries and headers, so follow those directions to get the files and then you can use the MySQL that shipped with the OS rather than trying to fight with another MySQL installation.

I’d love to get an iPhone, but I have a small problem: there aren’t any that I can find. I’ve called, I’ve emailed, I’ve chased my own tail — all with the result of being frustrated, tired, and dizzy.

The Apple Store at The Domain in Austin has taken up the attitude that they’re just going to stop answering the phone, it seems. They’ve left the opening day announcement about their July 11 store hours up and then you get perpetual ringing after that.

Down at Barton Creek it appears slightly worse: the number is always busy. You can’t even get to a menu; the line is just solid busy when I call it.

The AT&T store has given up stocking the devices and tells me that I have to:

• Walk in.
• Setup the account.
• Order the phone.

• Wait 10 to 21 days for it to be delivered.

sigh.

I guess I’ll stick to the iPhone Simulator for testing for now…