{"id":38,"date":"2007-11-26T19:35:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T00:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timeoff.org\/wp-rp\/2007\/11\/26\/ipod-trouble-follow-up\/"},"modified":"2014-07-15T02:41:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T06:41:30","slug":"ipod-trouble-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2007\/11\/26\/ipod-trouble-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod Trouble (follow-up)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I kept my Monday appointment at the Apple store, where I hoped that a Genius would be able to resurrect Pam’s ailing iPod. It wasn’t to be.<\/p>\n

They called my name right on time, seconds after I walked in. The girl smiled pleasantly as I handed over the device and began the tale. As she deftly worked the buttons and cabled it to a Mac laptop we spoke in elevating levels of geek-speak. Finally, she frowned. “It’s not even taking a charge,” she pronounced. We continued, speaking of ports and diagnostics.<\/p>\n

\"iPod
\n\"I\/O<\/p>\n

Then on to the USB Test itself.<\/p>\n

\"Selecting
\n\"USB<\/p>\n

I like hex as much as the next guy, but I don’t know what that particular code means in this context. I said as much. “It’s just an identifier.”<\/p>\n

We moved on…<\/p>\n

\"Back
\n\"Aha!
\n\"These<\/p>\n

Drum roll please…<\/p>\n

\"DP
\n\"DN<\/p>\n

And apparently here lies the crux of the biscuit. She didn’t say what DP and DN meant, only that it wasn’t good. “There should be some numbers here.”<\/p>\n

And then she was off and running about what my options were. Out of warranty for more than a year, I could buy a replacement, they’d be happy to recycle this one, and on and on. I told her I’d consult with Pam, but as I’m in the industry I’d likely pick one up wholesale if it came to that.<\/p>\n

And that’s what I did. Picked up a Nano at cost. We’ll see how this one holds up. And there’s a new Classic-shaped paperweight in the house, waiting to be taken apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, I kept my Monday appointment at the Apple store, where I hoped that a Genius would be able to resurrect Pam’s ailing iPod. It wasn’t to be. They called my name right on time, seconds after I walked in. The girl smiled pleasantly as I handed over the device and began the tale. As … Continue reading iPod Trouble (follow-up)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[21,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}