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Question on how to best deal with RSS

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Does anyone have any tricks or work-arounds that might discourage RSS while I’m waiting to take my MacBook in for repair? For example, I’ve found that my computer comes out of sleep mode with no trouble (i.e., without crashing) as long as I leave iTunes running when the computer isn’t in use. Also, holding down the power button until I hear the screech of death and forcing the computer to run on one processor helps prevent RSS.

The reason I’m asking is that since RSS, I’ve been using my laptop more as a desktop, treating it very gingerly, not moving it around, making sure the power cord is always plugged in so it wont have to run on battery, etc.

I hate feeling tethered to the electrical outlet!

Any suggestions or am I stuck here, in this chair, when I should take my work outside on the back deck?

6 Responses to “Question on how to best deal with RSS”

  1. jakimj Says:
    October 1st, 2006 at 6:20 am

    I am waiting on parts (my store does the work in house) - but am mostly functional - running between 47 and 50C

    1 - When you get your MB on - save your work automatically - I’ve set programs that have this preference to save every 2 minutes.
    2 - get a utility that shuts off 1 of the processors - I use MacPilot and don’t know about others.
    3 - Book from an external drive (be careful)
    4 - I am using a cooling pad - but don’t power from the USB - I externally power
    5 - Turn off sleep for the computer in the energy saver preference panel
    6 - Shutdown instead of reboot when prompted - and remember to hold the button down.

    I still get RSS 2 or 3 times a day - usually when first booting - or rebooting

    I am expecting to have to do this multiple times - and love my MB but almost regret buying it. Smells like an experience 11 years ago with a duo 280.

    But - even working as it is right now (crappy) - I get more working minutes per day than I do with my work issues T42 - which spends 20 minutes a day booting and shutting down, and when the scan or backup kick in - - operate at LESS than half speed -

    I spend 5 minutes a day recovering from RSS (though 1 month ago it was not shutting down at all) - and by saving my files often - my total down time is less than 10 minutes because even off the external drive - it boots fast.

    I have 7-10 business days until my parts show up.

  2. Gerwin Says:
    October 1st, 2006 at 3:03 pm

    What works for me is:

    - Boot MacBook
    - Wait for RSD
    - Power up holding power button until the creech of death

    After that it works quite fine most of the time. Strangely.

  3. mickgee Says:
    October 2nd, 2006 at 7:47 am

    Weird thing is that my MacBook works great right after I run a RSS stress test. That seems to clear up the problem. How fucked is that?!

  4. Maxime Curioni Says:
    October 15th, 2006 at 8:34 am

    I can also confirm that my MacBook often has a RSS at boot time. Restarting the machine while holding the power button makes the RSS problem go away… until next boot or wake-from-sleep !

  5. Theodore Says:
    November 29th, 2006 at 11:57 am

    Problem with RSS Feed in WordPress.
    I have a subdomain that I installed wordpress for another blog site, but the subdomain site's rss feed points to my parent site.
    Can anyone come up with any suggestions?

  6. Tom Says:
    December 8th, 2006 at 2:47 am

    Great Post, Deffinitly bookmarked to view later.

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