No idea what happened exactly, I am still trying to test out various suggested solutions.
It is said the Apple invited DOS attack from its beloved users by opening the ipod touch/iphone 2.0 app store last Friday (7/11). I shouldn’t jump in this too early. Days ago, guys around have already experienced the Firefox 3 download craziness. It’s weird if it’s also the problem this time for Apple. It’s just hard for me to believe that the lesson is so hard to learn.
See this post ” An unknown error occurred (6) ” on Apple forum: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1598985&tstart=30
Apple has documented how to deal with this, but apparently doesn’t work in this case, at least not for me:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307120
Maybe I have to wait… to have the 2.0 version and any free app
David selected some answers from his readers:
see more here:
* Who are the morons who respond to junk-mail offers, thereby keeping spammers in business?
–”That would be my sister.”
–”My mother, O.K.? Now you know.”
–”Statistically speaking, half of ALL people are below-average intelligence. That fact can explain MANY things.”
–”Naive people, like recent immigrants; old people whose adult children just set them up with a computer for the first time; and the truly desperate who’ve already tried other methods of penis enlargement.”
* Laptops, cameras and cellphones have improved by a thousand percent in the last ten years. Why not their batteries?
–”Chemistry. Quoting John Hockenberry from a Wired magazine story: ‘Current can be altered by changing a battery’s size, but voltage is determined (and fixed) by the atomic makeup of the materials used. Those attributes, recorded in the good old periodic table of elements, were configured shortly after the big bang and are not subject to clever human modifications.’”
The reason I want to update my blog today, is really because of David Pogue’s Post: Pogue’s Imponderables
Here are some questions he listed in his post:
* Who are the morons who respond to junk-mail offers, thereby keeping spammers in business?
* How come there are still no viruses for Mac OS X? If it has 6 percent of the market, shouldn’t it have 6 percent of the viruses?
Read more from his post…
This was written months ago, somehow I didn’t publish it right away. And here it goes:
这一回我面试的公司叫Limewire，是一个软件公司，你很有可能没有听说过，但其实问一个美国小本，他就很可能知道。它卖的产品和电驴(emule)相当，所以不妨称它为一个与VeryCD相当的公司。估计它在美国的知名度也不会下于VeryCD在中国的水平。这个公司倒是有很多好处，最牛的是5个星期的带薪假。这个公司也据说是由一流高校的人员组成，招我的HR是个普林的毕业生。
HR根本没和我通过话，我们只是email联系，约定技术面试的时间而已。由于我面的只是Web Developer的职位，靠着这几年折腾的经验，应付电话面试基本没有问题，而且是自我感觉不错的通过了。等了将近两星期，(我倒忘了是否有催他们)，总算有了回应，说是还要一次面试。这第二回的面试，历时很短，面试我的人也一开始就表明说他其实是Designer，可能没什么技术问题要问我，问的也真是一般HR才问的问题。我也就丝毫不明白为什么还要这一轮面试，只是想着多来这种无关痛痒的问题吧，我又无所谓。
事后，我也只是再猜想他们估计不太想要我，但又找不到更合适的，就把我先耗着。等到他们写信据我的那天，我突然意识到很有可能是我没回答好第二轮的一个问题。那个问题就是你为什么要申请我们公司。其实，我已经在决定申请前，就Google、Wikipedia了这家公司，心里还是感觉这家公司挺牛的，虽然还没有上市，而且公司的前景很有可能被打击盗版的力度所影响，但他们的技术毕竟也可以作别的用处，关键人气也很旺，技术精英还都是牛校的。我只要大概能说说这些，估计他们也会认为我对他们公司还是有认同感的。可结果，我现在回想一下，估计也没有可能再说出更烂的回答了－－大概就说我看到广告呀，所以就申了。而其实他们这第二轮面试的主要目的就可能是想看看我到底是否有诚心想去他们公司，在这样的情况下，被据自然是情理之中。
第二件事说的是纽约时报，现在去逛书店的时候，总是感到特别自豪。因为书店最前台上的书籍全写着the New York Times Best Seller。为一家百年老店、老字号的感觉还是挺优越的，呵呵，又臭美了。我在被录入NY Times以后，也才意识到曾经阅读过的心灵鸡汤的出处，作者Jack Canfield，纽约时报的专栏作家，将一些旧闻收集成册后，出书心灵鸡汤。我当时也是这本书的爱好者，还买了本正版。可是其实面试的时候，当我和一位产品经理说我是纽约时报的读者时，他竟然问起了我哪个栏目或者作者我最喜欢，当时一下子就吓出我的七魂六魄，幸好还能马上面不改色的说，我一般只读头条啦。想想都心寒，有时候就是讲多错多，也都不知道急刹车是否管用。当然也在于我心里不够底。幸好这里的问题估计只属于锦上添花型的。
除了公司的主页，还有很多网站可以帮助你决定是否申请、如何申请（面试经验）的网站，著名的自然有我们的mitbbs 待字闺中版(jobhunting)，由于找的毕竟是美国工作，有空可能最好还是去去vault(打开天窗说亮话？)，wetfeet(听听过来人的教训?毕竟下过水，湿过鞋)。(如果真是那么用意深邃的地方，感觉也像是中国人办的:p)。不过个人感觉，找的如果是大公司，或者金融咨询行业的，这两个网站可能用处更大一些。他们还销售具有行业针对性的面试书籍，有的学校可以免费浏览，我因为只找了几天的咨询工作，也就没再深入细读，没有更多评论。
今天看见chemfox在来美四年有感，我们也快了，就两天。
毕业论文也终于在今天顺利答辩了，然后又赶去上班，只好错过普林的庆祝会。（今天本可以 参加三个party，竟然一个都没赶上…）
这两天都忙着准备答辩，原本总想会累着要睡了，可这会却还精神。估计scorp是比我更累了，都已睡了，她一早起来就去实验室，然后又接我去答辩，完了又送我去火车站，晚上又来接我。明天的一些毕业手续又还是她去干，再加上之前论文的打印装订也是一手操办，一点都不像是我在拿学位:)
我本来还想让scorp别出席我的答辩，然后我就可以在致谢词说：
Thank you for my wife Jie not being here, so I can save the time acknowledging her to complete the presentation.