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Apple: Make the iPhone 5 ethically

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Every day, tens of millions of people will swipe the screens of their iPhones to unlock them.

On the other side of the world, a young girl is also swiping those screens. In fact, every day, during her 12+ hour shifts, six days a week, she repetitively swipes tens of thousands of them. She spends those hours inhaling n-hexane, a potent neurotoxin used to clean iPhone glass, because it dries a few seconds faster than a safe alternative. After just a few years on the line, she will be fired because the neurological damage from the n-hexane and the repetitive stress injuries to her wrists and hands make her unable to continue performing up to standard.

Right now we have a huge opportunity as ethical consumers: The launch of the iPhone 5 later this year will be new Apple CEO Tim Cook’s first big product rollout, and he can’t afford for anything to go wrong — including negative publicity around how Apple’s suppliers treat their workers. That’s why we’re launching a campaign this week to get Apple to overhaul the way its suppliers treat their workers in time for the launch of the iPhone 5.

In many cases, people literally are dying while making Apple products. Reporters have documented cases of deadly explosions at iPad factories, and repeated instances of employees dying of exhaustion after working thirty to sixty hour shifts. In some of the factories Apple contracts with, so many employees have attempted suicide that management installed nets to prevent employees from dying while jumping off building ledges.

Can Apple do this? Absolutely. Apple is the richest company in the world, posting a profit margin for the last quarter of 42.4% yesterday. They’re sitting on $100 billion in the bank. According to an anonymous Apple executive quoted in the New York Times, all Apple has to do is demand it, and it’ll happen – “Suppliers would change everything tomorrow if Apple told them they didn’t have another choice.”

Use the form to the right to sign the petition to Apple telling them to make the iPhone 5 ethically.

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This is the end of the line my friends. The
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been an experience of a lifetime, we wish
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iOS 5: "PC-Free" what a an awesome feature, you have never seen before! IRONY

I had just little time watching Steve Jobs and his other geniuses to present their new awesome revolutionary stuff, we will no longer be able to live without.

The #1 new feature, which struck me like a hurricane is PC-Free!

Imagine, they have even spent their artistic awesomeness to create a logo for that feature. Isn't it just beautiful? An Iphone USB cable getting cut by some scissors. Amazing!

After so many years, of annoying people with the crappiest piece of software ever made by Apple Inc., the most hated Itunes sync software, will no longer be needed to get a cellphone (e.g. an Iphone) or other mobile devices working! Wow!

But isn't that exactly what other companies were able so many years before? Couldn't I just plug in the SIM and power it up, to make all of my previous NOKIA phones up and running? Of course, this worked ever since.

But as Apple Inc. has mentioned to make their mobile devices PC-Free, does this no also mean, Mac-Free too??? Well, I guess this is included, but to offer this great new revolutionary awesome feature as Mac-Free, would certainly not be appreciated by all the Mac people working at Apple Inc.. So the rather use a somewhat derogatory term, which applies only to computing devices, not made by Apple Inc..

Thanks my dear Ubersteve, to finally not require me to use your f$cked $p Itunes crapware! But this new thing will certainly come at a price, which means that I have to use your new iCloud services to get a phone up and running.

F$ck Y$u ! No Offense just joking ... I certainly do love all of the wisdom, that you are willing to share among non-believers like myself. I am so grateful!

iTunes annoyances: Determining Gapless Playback Information

I hate Itunes, there is no doubt about that. It is the most annoying software ever created by the morons at Apple Inc., the wonderful makers of Ipod, Iphone and Ipad. Wow! Steve Jobs is a billionaire, but don't expect that his geniuses are the best in the industry. This is more than evident whenever you have to deal with your Iphone using the Itunes.

What is my nightmare of today?

I just like to add some mp3 songs to my Iphone. Getting this done, is the way I like it, but I finally managed to get it done.

So I just tried it again, and got annoyed.

What was the problem?

It just would not start the actual syncing, so the Iphone would not tell me it is syncing, just nothing happened. Well, nothing I had in mind, but there was certainly something, something else happening.

Instead of syncing the Itunes had another wonderful plan, not my plan, to do something. And this is shown in the following image:

iTunes Dialog:
Determining Gapless Playback Information

Instead of the syncing (aka uploading/copying music) Itunes started a process to determine the gapless playback information. Whatever the purpose of this is, and there may be a reason to do it.

But it is NOT OK, NOT TO DO WHAT I WANT ITUNES TO DO!

If Itunes wants to help me in a certain way, which requires to do the gapless crap thing, then it should do it in a way, which does not disturb me. But the Apple Itunes wunderkids never pay much attention to this approach. Instead they usually consider the most primitive solution the best. In this case, Apple appearently never heard of a multitasking, a process, which allows de facto simultaneous execution of different task! So in this case Apple could do the gapless crap in the background, but could actually do the syncing in the foreground, which would deliver the results that I rquest. But it does not, and so I have to wait indefinitely until the gapless crap is finished, to get some songs synced.

This is just bad or actually no usability!

iTunes "Gorillaz" or "gorillaz" WTF? iTunes just sucks!

After getting my Windows 7 back, to boot on my mainly Ubuntu machine, it also gave me horrible crappy iTunes back as well.

After syncing my iPhone with that rotten piece of crap, I am always in bad shape. This is such a ridiculous piece of software.

What kinda morons would ever like iTunes? WTF? Complete idiots!

Just see what my Iphone shows after
the syncing nightmare:

Iphone Ipod Artists selection
showing Gorillaz and gorillaz

OK, computers are damn stupid machines, so is software running on those stupid machines. Itunes does no know anything, so it may consider it is worth syncing files from a band called Gorillaz as Gorillaz and gorillaz. Wow, makes an extra band name in my artist list..

This is so ridiculous, but what can you expect from Apple, nothing except an ever changing terms of 52+ pages.

Why can't they just merge those two bands as one artist? Well, they can't, cause they are such a bunch of morons!

Itunes just suck$! Bad software.

Another Itunes usability nightmare, among a sea of such nightmare, in a later posting!

In dire need of ITunes - Reactivating Windows partition for Ubuntu / Linux Systems

I am using Ubuntu aka Debian aka Linux as my main operating system. It is just great, easy to use, and looks as sexy as any other OS these days.

But as I have an iPhone, which annoys me regularly, I need a Windows partition on my notebook to host iTunes. Even though I do not like iTunes, I just need it to manage my iPhone. So it worked just fine over a long time, but recently I could not use iTunes anymore! The reason was very weird, suddenly Windows 7 disappeared from my GRUB2 operation system list. So there was no way to boot Windows 7 anymore, and therefore iTunes was gone as well. I could basically do little with my iPhone, in regard to uploading and changing my music on it. There are some other iTunes alternatives available on Ubuntu, but they are not too cool right now and to not deliver the same set of features, even though iTunes is really bad.

After accepting the fact, that I could not boot Windows 7 anymore, I tried to fix the problem. And this time I actually managed to fix it.

Apparently the current version of GRUB2 has some issues with mounting NTFS partitions, which make the auto detection of the Windows 7 partition impossible. As a short term remedy to the problem, we just need to tell GRUB2 about the Windows 7 partition manually, which is not that complicated.

First of all, you need to get some information about your hard disk and its partitions.

Download the Boot Info Script at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/

This is script, which delivers comprehensive partition of you hard disk. The output may look like this:

============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================

=> Grub 1.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #2 for /boot/grub.
sda1: _________________________________________________________________________

File system:       swap
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:

sda2: _________________________________________________________________________

File system:       ext4
Boot sector type:  -
Boot sector info:
Operating System:  Ubuntu 9.10
Boot files/dirs:   /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img

sda3: _________________________________________________________________________

File system:       ntfs
Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:   /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /grldr /boot/grub/core.img

sda4: _________________________________________________________________________

File system:       ntfs
Boot sector type:  Windows Vista/7
Boot sector info:  No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:  Windows 7
Boot files/dirs:   /Windows/System32/winload.exe

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ _____________________________________________________

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00026691

Partition  Boot         Start           End          Size  Id System

/dev/sda1                  63     9,992,429     9,992,367  82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2           9,992,430   209,985,614   199,993,185  83 Linux
/dev/sda3    *    209,987,584   210,192,383       204,800   7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4         210,192,384   824,387,583   614,195,200   7 HPFS/NTFS


blkid -c /dev/null: ____________________________________________________________

sda1: UUID="131ff342-2567-4916-a64b-13bca2a542c3" TYPE="swap"
sda2: UUID="f9f8bf18-b65a-4104-86d0-b9e7559784d2" TYPE="ext4"
sda3: UUID="76484BEE484BABA5" LABEL="Door systeem gereserveerd" TYPE="ntfs"
sda4: UUID="12EA518AEA516ACD" TYPE="ntfs"

=============================== "mount" output: ===============================

... tons of other lines ...

This is a lot of information, and there is no need to understand all the lines in this script output. Instead you just need to get the UUID, of the hard disk, which is used for booting Windows 7 or any other Windows version.

In this example, the UUID in charge of this, is 76484BEE484BABA5 . In your situation, the number will be completely different though, or may be very similar.

After you have found the UUID, it is only matter of minutes to get Windows up and running again. Be patient, we are almost there.

You need to add the following lines to the /etc/grub.d/40_Custom file:

menuentry "Microsoft Windows 7" {
insmod ntfs
set root=(hd0,3)
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 76484BEE484BABA5
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
}

But you need to change the UUID to your individual UUID number. You may also need to change the set root value.

After you have changed the existing file or have added the given lines, just do:

sudo update-grub

Your system will ask you for your root password.

This will update the grub information.

Then reboot and, you should see Windows 7 again in your GRUB2 boot menu.

Good luck!