Apple support rocks; wait, maybe not; OK they do
My battery on my almost 2-year old Macbook Pro finally crapped out, as pretty much all Apple batteries do I’m finding out. So I did some research and found out there was a battery recall for Macbook Pro batteries, but mine didn’t qualify according to the serial number, oh well. I then went for the advice of my local Apple retailer, who informed me that I might be able to talk Apple into giving me a new battery, based on some of the poor statistics I had gleaned from the System Analyzer about the battery – basically it was a bad battery. Sunday night I called Apple support (for the first time ever), answered a few simple questions to the automated voice recognition thing, and within about 3 minutes, was on the phone with an actual human being in the United States. Holy crap – Apple support rocks. I plead my case, she tells me that it sounds like I have a bad battery, but then tells me that my battery, based on the serial number, does not qualify for the battery replacement program. Sorry, a battery is considered a consumable item after one year. I say no way, its charge capacity is too low, it has only had one-half of its lifetime charge cycles, and you admit it’s bad. I want a new one (maybe they don’t rock after all). I hold (while she presumably goes and talks to an engineer about the matter) and then I’m told that they will replace it. They do rock! Monday I try to get a replacement from my local retailer, but they are out of stock, so I call Apple back, wait for ZERO minutes, only to get the same tech that helped me the day before – cool! She says they will have a battery out for me in no more than 2 business days; this was at noon yesterday. I come home for lunch today and find the battery waiting for me – about 24 hours after the order was put in. Not bad, eh? Apple support rocks.
How do you get Access databases on the web? I’m just curious….
I wish I knew more about Apache – how to script it. “htaccess” and all that. There is some real power that lies there. I know a few statements that do things, but I don’t understand why. I need a good book on the topic.
The way I do it is just establish a connection to the db like so:
<%
CONN_STRING = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=X:\site\db\database.mdb;"
DIM objConn
Set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
'open the connection to the db
objConn.Open CONN_STRING
%>
Then just query it like anything else with some SQL. I think with ASP there are lots of ways to connect, this one worked for me.
Yeah, there is alot of cool stuff htaccess can do. I was really surprised at the amount of cool stuff that was accomplished simply with the Apache config file and how it can control so much of the behavior.
Thanks for the link, Chad.
I’ve been researching how to set up a testing server on a local machine for months and until now couldn’t find anything. I followed Amit’s tutorial and set up my WWW server in about 20 minutes flat.
Now I can mirror kartooner.com and experiment.
You din’t do it earlier because that would be too easy