{"id":24727,"date":"2011-01-22T14:10:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/01\/22\/technology-woes-and-worries\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T14:10:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T14:10:56","slug":"technology-woes-and-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/technology-woes-and-worries\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology Woes and Worries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple likes its hardware to be closed source. <\/strong> Very closed:<\/p>\n

\nIf you want to remove the outer casing on your iPhone 4 to replace the battery or a broken screen, it won’t be easy anymore. In the past, you could use a Phillip screwdriver to remove two tiny screws at the base of the phone and then simply slide off the back cover.<\/p>\n

But Apple is replacing the outer screw with a mysterious tamper-resistant screw across its most popular product lines, …<\/p>\n

source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Keep an eye in iFixit<\/a> for a fix to this.
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\nA little Linux Naval Gazing: <\/strong><\/p>\n

With the recent announcement from Apple that Steve Jobs is taking a medical leave … I began to wonder if people really think that the entire company is 100% dependent on Steve Jobs … So, does the Linux community have a similar problem when it comes to Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel?<\/p>\n

source<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All I can say is that I am very disappointed that cloning has not been developed any more than jet packs. Very disappointed.<\/p>\n

Tip<\/strong>: How to get desktop sharing working.<\/a> It’s easy and potentially useful even if you’re just using a desktop and a laptop. Like if you share files on dropbox, and your using your laptop in one room while watching the baby, and you realized that you had opened a file on your desktop in the BlogCave and wanted to save and close it just in case, you can access your desktop’s desktop from your laptop’s desktop.<\/p>\n

(We might need more words to express these concepts but I think you get the point.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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