{"id":335,"date":"2007-01-01T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2007-01-02T02:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanless.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/new-jeers\/"},"modified":"2007-01-01T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2007-01-02T02:38:08","slug":"new-jeers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.torianus.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/01\/new-jeers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jeers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, my iMac G5 is dead. =( This is now the 4th time (3rd time since May!). I was laying on the couch today, watching Nebraska lose, and all of a sudden I heard the Mac startup chime. If I  wasn&#8217;t oh-so-familiar with the situation I might have thought my apartment had a ghost.<br \/>\nThe poor machine won&#8217;t stay running for any amount of time. It just shuts off with no warning.<br \/>\nThere SHOULD be a claim number for this computer on file with Apple stating that I have an 8 month warranty after the last time I got it fixed (in September), but that seems a little moot since Apple seems to have changed their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/imac\/repairextensionprogram\/\">Service Extension Program<\/a>. It used to say it would cover this issue for 2 years after the original purchase date, but now it says 3 years.<br \/>\nHOWEVER&#8230; When I inquired about getting a replacement machine in July, after the thing had died for the 3rd time, they told me it had to be FIXED 3 times before they would replace it.<br \/>\nI BETTER GET A NEW FUCKING MACHINE THIS TIME!<br \/>\nI am so over this computer. (I mean my iMac, not this $250, 3 year old eMachine running <a href=\"http:\/\/en.opensuse.org\/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org\">openSUSE 10.2<\/a> I am typing this post on. Probably the best $250 I ever spent.)<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-335\" data-postid=\"335\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-335 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, my iMac G5 is dead. =( This is now the 4th time (3rd time since May!). I was laying on the couch today, watching Nebraska lose, and all of a sudden I heard the Mac startup chime. If I wasn&#8217;t oh-so-familiar with the situation I might have thought my apartment had a ghost. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[15,9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uym-5p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":347,"url":"https:\/\/www.torianus.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/12\/internets\/","url_meta":{"origin":335,"position":0},"title":"internets","date":"January 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Hello internets, My iMac is still dead but at this point I think it's mostly my fault that nothing is changing with that. Whenever there are disruptions in the force and especially when I meet resistance in rectifying the disruption, I tend to just ignore the situation all together. 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