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Sometimes Testing Isn’t Enough

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on February 15, 2010. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
A Bee. Buzzing.
In the first few days after the release of Google Buzz many people (including myself) criticized Google for exposing their users' private information. This was a couple of weeks after Apple got a lot flak for their unfortunately-named iPad, and the same week that we heard reports of a woman who broke up with her boyfriend after finding some suggestive text messages on his cell phone - messages that came pre-loaded on the phone. I think that all these cases were not caused by a lack testing, but by testing the wrong audience. Let's examine these three cases and see what we can learn from them:

What To Do When Your Mac Is Temporarily Disabled

Written by Aijaz Ansari. Posted on December 24, 2009. Filed under Computers. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
Sad Mac
Last night, my Macbook Pro would not wake up from sleep. After jiggling the mouse and hitting the space bar a few times I powered it down. I powered it back up, and I could hear it booting up, and could feel the hard disk move, but there was nothing on the screen. After a little Googling I suspected the video driver was dead.