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I received my new refurbished iMac on Thursday. As you can see, I unboxed it and fired it up.

What happened after the fancy Welcome clip?

Nothing.

There are a few things to fill in to set up OS X.

At Select a Wireless Service, the computer froze.

So, I restarted and tried again, this time choosing no network. The computer froze.

I unplugged the wires, plugged them back in (just the power cable and keyboard), tried again. Same result.

Time for Google. I found two similar cases - one which seemed to resolve itself, another one (also a refurbished set) which is unresolved.

Since it was late, I didn't try reinstalling the OS.

I called AppleCare the next day, and the support guy asked me to do everything that I've already tried. He also asked me to do what I was intending to do anyway - reinstall the OS.

Still hung at selecting a network (whether I choose no network or my home wireless network).

After all that trouble, support guy 2 (I had to call back after the reinstallation and got a different guy) concluded that my iMac was DOA - Dead On Arrival.

Not a good advertisement for Apple, eh?

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:08:17 -0700 Thanks for WALL·E! =) http://acroamatic.posterous.com/thanks-for-walle http://acroamatic.posterous.com/thanks-for-walle

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:37:34 -0700 Orwell blogs from the grave (sort of) http://acroamatic.posterous.com/orwell-blogs-from-the-grave-so http://acroamatic.posterous.com/orwell-blogs-from-the-grave-so http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/

George Orwell's diaries will be published in this blog, each post exactly 70 years after it was written. The blog should last four years, as he started the diary 9 August 1938 and stopped in October 1942.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:41:00 -0700 Lecture Theatre Technology Demonstrations 24 July 2008 http://acroamatic.posterous.com/lecture-theatre-technologies-d http://acroamatic.posterous.com/lecture-theatre-technologies-d

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:58:39 -0700 Post to other blogs via Posterous! http://acroamatic.posterous.com/post-to-other-blogs-via-poster http://acroamatic.posterous.com/post-to-other-blogs-via-poster http://snipurl.com/autoposteverywhere

Email to Posterous, post to Blogger, Wordpress.com, Tumblr, LiveJournal...

Posterous getting more amazing by the day.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:54:50 -0700 Saving Gaia Challenge Clips http://acroamatic.posterous.com/saving-gaia-challenge-clips http://acroamatic.posterous.com/saving-gaia-challenge-clips
http://rawclipx.podcast.sg/category/saving_gaia_2008

Watch Toddycat Marcus Tay in the Saving Gaia competition.

Clips not that substantial though.

And you'll have to install Microsoft's Silverlight - their version of Flash - to view this.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:42:08 -0700 Tan Pin Pin Collection: Invisible City, Singapore GaGa, Moving House - 16 Aug launch http://acroamatic.posterous.com/tan-pin-pin-collection-invisib http://acroamatic.posterous.com/tan-pin-pin-collection-invisib http://www.tanpinpin.com/wordpress/?p=383
This 3-DVD set is being launched on August 16 at Kinokuniya and on 29 August at Books Actually.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:51:27 -0700 RAF Changi 1960s http://acroamatic.posterous.com/raf-changi-1960s http://acroamatic.posterous.com/raf-changi-1960s

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:28:55 -0700 A demo for friends http://acroamatic.posterous.com/a-demo-for-friends http://acroamatic.posterous.com/a-demo-for-friends All you have to do is type and email, then press Send.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:46:42 -0700 EnviroFest 2008 http://acroamatic.posterous.com/envirofest-2008 http://acroamatic.posterous.com/envirofest-2008

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1053/kenneth3.jpg http://posterous.com/people/fa5QLXRFg Kenneth G Pinto acroamatic Kenneth G Pinto Sun, 29 Jun 2008 06:49:28 -0700 Discovered Posterous http://acroamatic.posterous.com/my-first-blog-post-255 http://acroamatic.posterous.com/my-first-blog-post-255

Read about Posterous at Michele Martin's blog.

Giving it a whirl.

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