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GarageBand Disk Error Solutions

December 28th, 2009
GarageBand Disk Error Solutions

I’ve been working extensively in Apple’s GarageBand on my MacBook Pro and it’s always worked great, except this afternoon I got the error message Core Audio: Disk is too slow (Write) (-10002). What does it mean and how do I fix it? Do I need a new disk drive??

Dave’s Answer:
This doesn’t arise too often for GarageBand users, from what I have been able to research, but there are definitely many discussions about this particular error message, the “disk is too slow” error, that you can find online.
Unfortunately I haven’t found any definitive answer about why you might suddenly see this after working for days, weeks or even months on your computer with the very same type of projects.

Info Leaked On The Google Phone: Nexus One

December 16th, 2009
Info Leaked On The Google Phone: Nexus One

Google is the master of creating demand, and it started with a single tweet:

New Intel Tech Could Directly Connect Your Brain And Your PC

December 2nd, 2009
New Intel Tech Could Directly Connect Your Brain And Your PC

Last week, Roger Dooley had an interesting post on his Neuromarketing Blog (great blog, by the way) about Intel’s efforts to implant a computer chip directly into our brains, essentially allowing us to interface directly with computers. Roger ponders whether this will, in fact, become a wired “buy button”. I wonder, instead, if this is the ultimate Google search appliance? The idea was floated, somewhat facetiously, by Eric Schmidt, in an interview with Michael Arrington on Tech Crunch this year: