Long post - MacBook unresolved shutdown issue. Help?

Briefly, my wife's MacBook (2.0 w/1 GB) started the shutdown spiral after almost a month of rock-solid performance. It escaladed (or spiraled) quickly and the genius at the Apple Store quickly boxed it up and sent it to Tennessee for repair. The intial runs of shutdowns were so bad that we were unable to complete a back-up of the important stuff.
Now, here's where we start to get disgusted with Apple.
I'm afraid the story has taken a terrible turn for the worse. The first repair came back after 2 weeks and the machine was fine for another 2 weeks. Then the shutdowns started. Apple Care sent up a nifty little capture tool that made a quick .img out of the system and crash logs which we then sent to Apple for the "engineers" to look at and offer suggestions.
Shutdowns get noticebly more frequent as the week progresses. Apple asks for more capture files.
Then the screen goes haywire. Whether booted from the HDD or a CD, nice, comforting multicolored vertical lines. System seems to be booting okay, but the video is still a nice series of lines. At this time we can't complete a fresh system back-up.
Apple recognizes that the video is a new problem and sends us a box for a quick return for repair. So, trying to be patient, we send the MB off to Tennessee. Again.
The MB makes it back in five days and the display works fine, everything looks good. We made a quick back-up (just in case) and everyone is happy. According to the repair paperwork, they replaced a DIMM and a few other parts. Since the logic board was replaced the first time, they apparently left that alone.
The next morning the shutdowns begin again. Apple Care says they will send another box but they don't understand why it might continue to do this. Neither do we.
Back to Apple again. Now the repair status says "Awaiting parts on order".
So, Apple Computer Inc., at what point do you think we have been patient enough with the process and replace the computer?
Anyone else have their MacBook in for a third time?
PowerBook G4 - Still running like a champ! Mac OS X (10.4.7) Awaiting the 3rd repair on MB

Ouch that must really suck. So far I Haven't had any problem with my BlackBook...
As for the Coloured lines, their is a simple fix; flash the PRAM and then chance your display size and reboot. Then they go away.
For the random shut downs, I suspect the problem has too do with the heat sensors on your computer. All x86 Machines are programmed to shut down when the machine is overheating. Looking at the videos of the macbook shutting down, it looks like they don't know when they are overheating and turn off.

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A rather long post of me talking gibberish and asking LOTS of questions.

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Before reading this MASSIVE post, please read the bottom at the stupid amount of P.P.S.'s as they probably have a lot of information that I forgot to put in the middle or something.
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Hi, I'm some guy on the internet and I am 15 years old. For the sake of this post and the answers I hope to have, please ignore my age and understand my maturity and I hope that you can understand why I would like to learn this language so much. I seem to have major issues with learning this language and online tutorials and stacks of books do not seem to do the trick. Please do not reply saying "this is not for you, try something else" because although I do not know much in Java in terms of making good applications, I have learned quite a few things and I am able to make simple things with the console such as making a calculator where the user has to type in what operator they want to use and then they are asked to enter two numbers in which they are timed/added/divided etc. together and it gives the answer. Considering this I really want to continue learning this language because I find it fun to learn and fun to program in, yet I am having serious stress issues because I can't understand simple things and I just forget some of them and I then find it difficult to make simple applications. For example, I am trying to make a simple snake game where you have to find all the apples and eat them and then your body grows larger etc. but I just can't think of how I would do it. I know a few simple application type things and maybe how to put them to use, but I just don't know how to use them in this situation and how to start off making games like these.
Just to tell you a little bit about my background of programming, I have known about programming since I was about 11, I made a virus in Visual Basic believe it or not. It would disguise itself as Mozilla Firefox and would slowly delete random files that were opened or edited in the last month starting from the last used files in said month. It would delete a set amount of files every time you booted up and it was pretty nasty. It was obviously quite easy to get rid of it and it probably had many bugs, but it was a nasty virus nonetheless. Anyway, that lasted around 2 months and I never really picked up on programming until around 13 at which point I learned a bit of Java up until the System.out.println part, so not very far at all and I barely understood anything. Then I kinda picked it up at 14 last summer (2012) and learned almost as much I know now over the summer holidays and then kind of left it until after Christmas because I couldn't really get past a certain 'barrier' so I got bored and gave up. Until now. After Christmas I got back into it and starting learning a few more things, understood functions a little more and downloaded a bunch of source code from lots of different websites. I've now been extremely stressed out for the past 2 weeks going crazy because I can't fit anything else into my head because I just forget it or just don't understand it. So I am now in a complete frenzy not doing homework, being a douche to my friends and just not being very social or doing stupid things.
Unfortunately this is going to be a rather long post as you can probably already tell and there will be a 20 Q's kind of 'game' below where I ask things that I desperately need to know and maybe things that I want to know but don't necessarily need to know.
If you can, I would greatly appreciate it if you could answer all of the first 14 questions in one post instead of 1 or 2. Also, please do not post anything unnecessary or nasty as I am a new poster here and I just want to get started in Java and I have my own reasons for starting at such a young age and my intentions are rather personal. So please treat this matter with maturity and I hope someone can really help me.
I am sorry for any misspellings or grammatical errors, I am fully English, I am just rubbish at spelling.
THE QUESTIONS!!!
1) What is SUPER used for, when should I use it and why should I use it?
2) When making a new class and you type PUBLIC [insert class name here](){} what does this do and why does it need to be the same name as the class it is in?
3) Why do you need to make new classes inside already made classes sometimes?
4) What is the use of NEW and why do you need to use it when you are creating something like a JFrame, where for example you would use it in your main function and have NEW [insert name of function with JFrame inside]();, why can't you just do [insert name of function with JFrame inside]();?
5) What is actionPerformed, where is it used and why should I use it?
6) When using a function, what is achieved when you call another class and make another variable inside said function? Eg, public [insert class name here]([insert other class name here][insert new variable name here]){}
7) What 'type' is an ENUM? Is it an int? String? Double? So if I were to make ENUM [insert name of enum here] {A, B, C, D, E, F, G}; So what would happen if I were to say PUBLIC [insert name of enum here] B = 5; what would that mean? Would that assign it as an integer?
8) When should I use enums, what is the point in them?
9) What does [inset object here].ORDINAL mean? What is it used for and when should I use it?
10) Although I understand that the RETURN statement is used to end a function and return it with a value if there is one specified, but when it returns it with that value that you may have specified, what happens to that value, how do I retrieve it and how do I use it? When will I know when to use RETURN?
11) Briefly explain how to use KeyEvent, getKeyCode and just anything else to do with accepting user input and how I would use it.
12) When using the KeyAdapter, why do you need to make a new class inside an already made class? What does this achieve? Why can you not extend it on the current class you are using instead of making a new class? This links back to the 3rd question.
13) What is the difference between ++object and object++? Does it really matter which way I use them? Why should I use them differently and how will it affect my code if I use them differently?
14) What's the difference between an IF statement and a BOOLEAN statement? They are both booleans and if used correctly can be used to do the exact same thing with just one or two lines of codes difference. Which one should I pick over the other and why? Which one is better to use for what kind of things?
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15) What is the best way to get into the mindset of 'a programmer'? What is the best way to understand the ways in which you would build an application and learning the step by step processes so you know what you have to do next and how to do it.
16) I seem to always be worried that it takes programmers 5 minutes to program a very simple game, like Tetris because I've seen videos and just other places where it makes it look like it takes them a very small amount of time to make something that might take me months to learn. Is this how it works? Or can it take hours to program 5 classes for a very simple game? If so, why does it, if said programmer hypothetically understands the language well enough to make said program? Surely they would know what to do and how to make it so it would not take long at all?
17) How often are IF and ELSE statements used in common programs? I feel when I am making a program I am always using them too much and I just stop programming from there because I feel that I am using too much of something so maybe it isn't the right way to do it or maybe there is a better way to do it.
18) What would be the best way to learn programming for someone who finds it difficult to teach himself said topic yet has no efficient way to have someone teach him? I feel I am somewhat intelligent enough to learn a programming language, I have gotten this far, so I feel I should just keep going. Besides, despite the difficulties I have and the ridiculous amount of stress I get from not being able to learn on my own, I find it very entertaining to program things, read over other peoples code and slowly learn the world of programming. I feel that I see myself as a programmer in the future and I just really hope that I can learn this language quickly before I am too old to have time to learn this as a hobbie as I do now.
19) I am someone who hopes to become a games developer as I thoroughly enjoy playing games as much as I do finding out how they work. What would be the right way about learning how to make games? Should I stick with Java or should I go to C++? I've only stuck with Java because I have more experience with it and I feel that I should learn an easy language and get used to OOP and other things before I go off making complex programs with a difficult language. I know how to print something to the console in C++ and that's about it.
20) I have no way of having an education on programming in my school at the moment and all courses that have programming in them aren't very good - you make a simple application for coursework and you do a computer physics exam at the end of the year, not too helpful for me. Also, I don't have many friends that are diversed in any language of programming and the ones I do have, coincidentally, absolutely none of them are any good at making games or painting anything in graphics or anything to do with frames and windows. They're all about the console and making mods for games instead of making full on programs with a window and what not so it's difficult to get any of them to teach me anything. I've looked at college courses and none of them are for my age and what I am wanting, or they are just too damn expensive. I have also looked at online courses, one-to-one tutoring etc. but they are either way too expensive or they aren't very good in terms of being in a country half way across the world or maybe they have bad ratings. Anyway, what I'm trying to ask, despite all the negative put backs and all the issues that seem to follow me whenever I try to learn this damn language, what would be the best way to teach myself this language or any other language, or where are the best places to have someone teach me for free/cheap prices? I just essentially want to make something basic like a video game like Tetris or something so I at least have some knowledge of making a video game so I can maybe learn other things much easier.
P.S. I am in top sets for all my classes at school, so any intelligence issues aren't a part of this. I guess you could maybe call it laziness, but I just prefer to say that I am too used to people teaching me things and doing things for me rather than teaching and doing things myself. So if I were stuck on an island alone I really would not know what to do at all because I would mainly rely on other people.
P.P.S. Just for anyone's curiosity, I use Eclipse as my IDE on a Windows 7 Ultimate OS.
P.P.P.S. I am British.
P.P.P.P.S. I have read through about 4 books about Java, but on most of them I just get really bored and stop reading them half way through because they either don't explain what I want to know or they really suck at explaining what I want to know.
P.P.P.P.S If you are going to post a good tutorial, please post one that I have most likely NOT been on. PLEASE. I have gone through MANY tutorials which all of them don't do me any favours. Please post one that you think that I might not have seen and actually tells me what EACH line of code does and WHY it does it and WHY I might use it and WHERE I might use it. Etc.
P.P.P.P.P.S If this is a TL;DR kind of post, then I am awfully sorry to have bored you, please go onto another post, but thank you very much for taking the time to actually LOOK and CLICK on my post. However if you do not have any intention of helping my dilemma, please leave as although I am asking for A LOT for FREE, I really don't need pointless posts that really do not solve my problem. Thanks.
P.P.P.P.P.P.S (Last P.P.S I swear! I just keep forgetting things.) If you have any questions to ask or I might not have asked something properly, feel free to ask as I will probably be refreshing this page non-stop for the next 2 weeks. Thanks ^^
For all the people out there who are THAT awesome to post here answers to these questions, I really salute to you and I would VERY gladly give you money for your time and effort, if I had the funds to give you what it's worth. ;-)
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Before reading this MASSIVE postI didn't read it. I went straight to the questions. The rest of it was a complete waste of your time. Nobody cares whether you are 15, are stressed, get bored, etc. You should spend more time learning and less time emoting, and typing.
I am rubbish at spelling.So fix that. If you stay in this business you will have to spell properly or get nowhere. Compilers won't accept mis-spellings: why should anybody else? Get over it. In a few years you will have to write a resume. If I get it and it is misspelt it goes in the bin.
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2) When making a new class and you type PUBLIC [insert class name here](){} what does this do and why does it need to be the same name as the class it is in?That's two questions. 'public' is used for a purpose that is described in [etc as above]. The class name needs to agree with the file name because that is a rule of Java. Period. There's a reason for the rule but you should be able to discover it for yourself eventually, and it doesn't actually matter what the reason is at this stage in your development.
3) Why do you need to make new classes inside already made classes sometimes?Why not?
4) What is the use of NEW and why do you need to use it when you are creating something like a JFrame, where for example you would use it in your main function and have NEW [insert name of function with JFrame inside]();, why can't you just do [insert name of function with JFrame inside]();?Meaningless. You have to use the language the way it was designed. Same applies to most if not all your questions.
5) What is actionPerformed, where is it used and why should I use it?See the Javadoc.
6) When using a function, what is achieved when you call another class and make another variable inside said function? Eg, public [insert class name here]([insert other class name here][insert new variable name here]){}I cannot make head or tail of this question. You could try making it intelligible.
7) What 'type' is an ENUM?It is of type Enum.
Is it an int? String? Double?No, no, and no.
So if I were to make ENUM [insert name of enum here] {A, B, C, D, E, F, G}; So what would happen if I were to say PUBLIC [insert name of enum here] B = 5; what would that mean? Would that assign it as an integer?I'm getting sick of this [insert name here] business. Try making your questions legible and intelligible. And again, an enum is not an int.
8) When should I use enums, what is the point in them?When you want them. Not a real question.
9) What does [inset object here].ORDINAL mean?Nothing. There is no such construct in Java. There might be an occasional class with a public variable named ORDINAL, in which case it means whatever the guy who wrote it meant. If you're lucky he documented it. If not, not.
10) Although I understand that the RETURN statement is used to end a function and return it with a value if there is one specified, but when it returns it with that value that you may have specified, what happens to that value, how do I retrieve it and how do I use it?You store it in a variable, or pass it to another function, or use it as a value in a statement, for sample as an if or while condition.
When will I know when to use RETURN?Err, when you want to return a value?
11) Briefly explain how to use KeyEvent, getKeyCode and just anything else to do with accepting user input and how I would use it. In a forum? You're kidding. Read the Javadoc. That's what I did.
12) When using the KeyAdapter, why do you need to make a new class inside an already made class?You don't.
13) What is the difference between ++object and object++?This is all described in the Java Language Specification [etc as above] and indeed most of this stuff is also in the Java Tutorial as well. Read them.
Does it really matter which way I use them?Of course, otherwise they wouldn't both exist. Language designers are not morons.
Why should I use them differently and how will it affect my code if I use them differently?That's just the same question all over again.
14) What's the difference between an IF statement and a BOOLEAN statement?The difference is that there is no such thing as a boolean statement.
POINTLESS QUESTIONSThanks for stating that.
THAT I JUST FEEL LIKE ASKINGBad luck. I don't feel like answering pointless questions. Ever.

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Apple Support: About Wireless Diagnostics
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5606
iOS and OS X: Recommended settings for Wi-Fi routers and access points
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4199
It may also be worth doing a search for the specific model number of your router to see if anyone has noted any issues with Mavericks.
Regards,
- Brenden

I need a MacBook experts, master to help me!!! I just tried the craziest move on my mac! My dad's gonna kill me if he finds out!!!

I need a MacBook experts, master to help me!!! I just tried the craziest series of moves on my mac.
Begun when the mac hung for nearly an hour. I held the power key to force a shut off.
This made me think of erasing some things on my hard drive. I used cmd r for disk utility and begun erasing volumes.
Then, I thought instead, why not just reinstall OSX since nothing I wanted was on it.
I tried to reinstall OSX but this time it loaded then suddenly said, an error occurred.
I Went back to disk utility and cleared stuff I can't even remember.
Another unbelievable thing happened. The disk utility actually hung for a good ten minutes! i went and forced a shut off again.
Now, whenever I turn the mac on, a flashing folder appears.
at this point, I usually turn to the net for answers.
Greatest thing is, every cmd something I try doesn't even trigger a reaction. Only cmd opt showed my mouse cursor.
i Do not have the original OSX install disk for my mac. Any geniuses got any clues???

Your post somehow found its way to a low-traffic forum about technical issues with posting in Apple Support Communities. I have asked the Hosts to move you to a more appropriate hardware forum for your product.

RE: Forte/CORBA inquiry - Long post

Dave,
Are you using any kind of structured object in the parameters to your
CORBA-exposed method?
We have found that Forté will change the order of struct class attributes
when changes are made in the IDE (often even when seemingly unrelated).
Look at the IDL generated in your last deploy to be sure the order of
attributes is the same.
- MikeL
-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:10:17 -0700
From: "Dave Ortman" <dortmanrcsis.com>
To: kamranaminyahoo.com
Subject: Forte/CORBA inquiry - Long post
Message-id: <3989c399.22c.0rcsis.com>
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Hello,
I've been experimenting with accessing Forte through Java via CORBA. While
I have adequate experience with Forte and Java, I'm fairly new to CORBA. As
a result, I've discovered some issues which I can't seem to resolve.
I fear my explanation might be a bit lengthy, but I figure it's easier to
offer
comments when you have all the information. I apologize in advance.
I started by writing a Java application that would access a Forte service
object.
To keep things simple, I didn't use any of our existing code base. I
instead
used the code examples in tech note #10950: Forte Service Objects and
VisiBroker
Java IIOP clients. However, instead of using the VisiBroker ORB, I used the
Java 1.2 ORB. Other than that, I used the same code offered in the tech
note.
This example worked fine. I exported the IDL from Forte, ran the Sun
idltojava
tool, and compiled my Java classes.
I then tried to carry this example forward, and use some of our existing
Forte
objects. Things did not go as smoothly, and I am now left with a few
questions.
I created two new projects in my workspace - CorbaSO and CorbaManager.
In the CorbaManager I created a single class - CustomerManager. This object
has one method which retrieves a customer object based upon a CustomerID
which
is passed into the method. This project has three supplier plans which are
needed to retrieve this Customer object.
In the CorbaSO project, I created two classes - CorbaServer and TestClass.
CorbaServer has two methods: getCustomer and GetDamage. The getCustomer
method
instantiates an instance of the CustomerManager class, and uses it to
retrieve
a customer based upon the CustomerID passed into the getCustomer method,
then
returns the CustomerName (string). The GetDamage method is the same method
that's used in tech note #10950 (discussed above). I just wanted to make
sure
it still worked. I then made a Service Object from the CorbaServer class,
which
I called CorabaServerSO. This project has two supplier plans - the
CorbaManager
project discussed above, and the plan which contains the CustomerObject
(which
is returned by the CUstomerManager class).
Lastly, the test class simply contains a go() method, which I used to make
sure
the CorbaServerSO was working fine. All it does is call
CorbaServerSO.getCustomerName()
passing in a CustomerID, and writes the returning name out the logger.
The code compiles, and it works fine when I run it from within Forte
[through
TestClass.go()]. I then deployed the app and exported the IDL.
However, when looking at the IDL, I find that Forte exported 900k of IDL.
It
exported the IDL definition of every class within the supplier plan
hierarchy.
Given that I only wanted to expose my one service object, I assumed that I
would only get IDL for that one project. Instead, I got IDL for every
object
all the way down the Supplier Plan chain. So my first question is, why do I
get IDL for everything?
To make matters worse, this 900k IDL file is littered with errors - and my
IDL
compiler chokes. I edited the IDL so that it only contained definitions for
the CorbaSO project, and ran the IDLTOJAVA tool on that edited file. That
created
the JAVA files just fine, and I then compiled them into CLASS files. So far
so good.
I then wrote a Java client to call methods on my newly published
CorbaServerSO.
I found that the GetDamage() method worked fine, while the getCustomer
method
yield the following error: 'org.omg.CORBA.UNKNOWN: minor code: 1
completed:
Maybe'. This error is offered immediately after calling the getCustomer
method
on the CORBA stub.
Curious as to why one method worked, and one didn't - I looked to the code
in
the GetDamage method. The code was as follows (all undeclared variables are
input or output variables of type double):
tmp1 : i4;
tmp1 = i4(total * 0.0775 * 100.0 + 0.5);
salesTax = double(tmp1) / 100.0;
tmp1 = i4(total * 0.15 * 100.0 + 0.5);
tips15 = double(tmp1) / 100.0;
newTotalwoTips = salesTax + total + total;
As written above, the code works. I then modified the code to the following
(all parameters were unchanged):
custManager : CustomerManager= new();
tempCustomer : Customer = custManager.fetchCustomer(12345);
tmp1 : i4;
tmp1 = i4(total * 0.0775 * 100.0 + 0.5);
salesTax = double(tmp1) / 100.0;
tmp1 = i4(total * 0.15 * 100.0 + 0.5);
tips15 = double(tmp1) / 100.0;
newTotalwoTips = salesTax + total + total;
After deploying the newly modified code, I find that the GetDamage method
now
does not work. All I did was instanstiate an object, and call a method on
it.
I never did anything with the results. Yet I get the same error:
'org.omg.CORBA.UNKNOWN:
minor code: 1 completed: Maybe'.
So my two question are:
1. Why did I get IDL for every object within the Supplier Plan tree when I
was
only attempting to expose 1 Service Object.
2. Why does a method cease to work via CORBA when I interact with another
object?
Thanks in advance for any help,
-Dave Ortman

In a previous post, I asked:
<<Why did I get IDL for every object within the Supplier Plan tree when I
was
only attempting to expose 1 Service Object.>>
Since writing this, I have come across tech note #11427 - which mentions use
of a IIOPIgnore extended flag which you can set on objects to suppress IDL
generation. Otherwise, Forte automatically generates IDL for any object
which is marked as Distributed.
Most of our objects are distributed. I set this property on the objects
within the two projects I was working in, and the IDL for these objects was
not created. However, the rest of the objects in the Supplier Plan chain
were still translated to IDL. Am I going to have to set this property on
every object? I don't see how I could be misapplying the property - but you
never know.
<<Why does a method cease to work via CORBA when I interact with another
object?>>
Through the use of putline()'s, I've found that the error is generated
somewhere deeper within our application architecture. It may be a problem
with our code - I'm not sure. I would still be happy to hear any input on
the matter.
Thanks,
-Dave Ortman

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