macbook pro not charging – fixed

So, I know Apple has been getting a bad rap lately for their batteries dying, and perhaps that’s the truth. 

In my particular scenario that wasn’t the case.  My MacBook Pro just suddenly stopped charging yielding a “Not Charging” message at the top.  Powering the machine off and pressing the battery button yielded a bunch of rapid blinks on only 1 led.  This happened after I upgraded to Snow Leopard from Leopard (10.5.8 -> 10.6).  Not sure if it was a coincidence or not.

Yet, oddly,  2 weeks ago, I had a 2 hour charge when on battery.  I thought it really odd… after further investigation I learned that the SMC (System Management Controller) was responsible for battery charging, amongst other things (like closing the lid puts the laptop into sleep mode, which was acting funky too, and this method fixed it)… maybe it’ll fix the laptop from getting so hot (thermal management)… well, one can hope! J

Here’s a quick fix to try, which got me rolling…

-          Shutdown your system

-          pull out the battery

-          press and hold power button for 5 seconds (I gave it 7 seconds “just in case”).

-          Pop battery back in, connect to power (via magsafe), and power on.

-          You (hopefully) should see the charge indicator turn orange, which means it’s charging again – yay!

Here’s the list of functions the SMC is responsible for:

§  Responding to presses of the power button

§  Responding to display lid opening and closing on portable Macs

§  Battery management

§  Thermal management

§  The SMS (Sudden Motion Sensor)

§  Ambient light sensing

§  Keyboard backlighting

§  Status Indicator Light (SIL) management

§  Battery status indicator lights

§  Selecting an external (instead of internal) video source for some iMac displays

Yanked from here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

 

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I’ve never seen this asterisk error message before.

Its hilarious!! “Don’t know how to represent”

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Turbo tax 1992 Edition on 5 1/4″ Floppies – wow

Haven’t seen these diskettes in a while. Kinda nostalgic for me. My dad is ever the packrat. I threw in a 10 pack of KAO diskettes still fresh in the package (and formatted for “time savingness”.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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WPA Cracker Offers Online Cloud-Based Cracking Service

via ghacks.net

gosh… this is getting too easy…

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Showroom Progress

Every day, a little more progress…

The Showroom runs completely and successfully over fiber from our office rack upstairs. Some of the Vinyl Lettering has made it on to the outdoor sign and windows. The pamphlets are ready for customers. On a tech note,we also added another host with 16 Logical cores, 8 gigabit ports, and 72GB to our VMware Cluster. Thanks for running to the DataCenter today Patrick.

Go CytexOne!

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CytexOne & Linden 78 Project

About Linden 78, 230 West 78th Street

This mid-block apartment building at 230 West 78th Street has a very substantial cantilever over the low-rise buildings just to its west along Broadway. As a result, the beige-brick building has a surprising amount of “light and air.”

Some of the 35 apartments at the 20-story residential condominium building at 230 West 78th Street, which is known as Linden 78, have fireplaces with bluestone surrounds and hearths.

The building, which is a development of Urban Residential Properties of which Christopher Martorella is the chief executive officer and sole principal, has 3 full-floor penthouses, ground floor refrigerated storage for groceries, ground floor bicycle storage rooms, a children’s playroom, a garden with a water wall feature, and a landscaped roof deck.

Handel & Associates is the architectural firm for the project.

Urban Residential’s other New York projects include 255 Hudson Street and 505 Greenwich Street, both designed by Handel & Associates, and NoLiTa Place, and the Sycamore, both designed by H. Thomas O’Hara, SoHo 25 on Houston Street, designed by H. Thomas O’Hara and Beyer Blinder Belle.

Linden 78, which is on the south side of 78th Street between Amsterdam and Broadway, has setbacks at the 13th, 15th and 18th floors. Its cantilever starts at the sixth floor on its west side.

The building’s masonry facades give way partially to glass on the 15th through the 17th floors and fully to glass on the 18th through the 20th floors.

An offering plan filed with the New York State Attorney General’s office April 27, 2006 with a total offering price of $109,525,000. The building opened in 2009.

Apartments will have side-by-side Miele washers and dryers and will be prewired with the option off a Cytexone automation system that offers control of heating/cooling and audio/visual systems, lighting and window shades. Apartments will also have walk-in linen and entry closets, one of which will be large enough for “pram parking.”

Kitchens have been crafted by Florense, the green-certified, Brazilian-based cabinetry firm and have Viking and Miele appliances and many will have windowed breakfast areas.

Master baths have Luce Di Luna marble countertops with double sinks, Mezzanine Mink glass wall tiles, Lagos Azul limestone floors.

Ceiling heights range from 9 to 11 feet and the lobby floor has a Linden leaf mosaic design.

There is excellent public transportation in the vicinity and Zabar’s is only a couple of blocks to the north on Broadway.

via cityrealty.com

Just stumbled across this article and figured I’d post it!

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Using Readability with Mouse Gestures in Firefox – a definite time-saver

I love this, I have firegestures set up to display using readability with a quick gesture, it’s quickly becoming my favorite gesture! I find it to be pretty much essential. It’s simple to do:
1. Add a keyword to your readability bookmark, I use ‘rab’.
2. Go into your firegestures options and click on ‘Add Script.
3. Name the script ‘Readability’, in the Script field enter:
loadURI(getShortcutOrURI(’rab’,{}));
Attach it to a gesture, I use ‘D’.
That said, every now and then I run into a page that isn’t rendered correctly, such as this one:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-10-sudan_N.htm?csp=34
The first paragraph isn’t on the readabilityized version.
Thanks!

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I love this comment… I always go searching for it, and sometimes I can’t even remember where it is at all… So, I’m posting this here for easy recollection

I use the mouse gesture “UP” to make any page I’m reading “readable”…. quick and easy!

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Using Readability with Mouse Gestures in Firefox – a definite time-saver

I love this, I have firegestures set up to display using readability with a quick gesture, it’s quickly becoming my favorite gesture! I find it to be pretty much essential. It’s simple to do:
1. Add a keyword to your readability bookmark, I use ‘rab’.
2. Go into your firegestures options and click on ‘Add Script.
3. Name the script ‘Readability’, in the Script field enter:
loadURI(getShortcutOrURI(’rab’,{}));
Attach it to a gesture, I use ‘D’.
That said, every now and then I run into a page that isn’t rendered correctly, such as this one:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-10-sudan_N.htm?csp=34
The first paragraph isn’t on the readabilityized version.
Thanks!

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I love this comment… I always go searching for it, and sometimes I can’t even remember where it is at all… So, I’m posting this here for easy recollection

I use the mouse gesture “UP” to make any page I’m reading “readable”…. quick and easy!

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CytexOne wins Control4 MVP 4 Years in a row!

Thanks to the folks at Control4 for recognizing us! We appreciate it

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CytexOne wins Control4 MVP 4 Years in a row!

Thanks to the folks at Control4 for recognizing us! We appreciate it

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