Gadgets – Lessons Learned

External SuperDrive woes

April 19, 2017 (August 13, 2017) Gene McCulley

I have a MacBook Pro (“Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013”). I also have an external SuperDrive, revision 2.00 according to drutil. At some point, the MacBook Pro decided that the SuperDrive is “Unsupported”, according to drutil. Lots of people report similar problems. They advise setting a boot-args parameter, mbasd=1, in the NVRAM (by executing nvram boot-args="mbasd=1"). Unfortunately, […]

Sweat Versus Apple TV Remote

March 6, 2017 (August 13, 2017) Gene McCulley

I have run almost every day on my treadmill for the last four years. I have an Apple TV set up in front of the treadmill. This has allowed me to watch a lot of movies, television shows, documentaries, and TED talks while getting my run in. One thing I didn’t expect to happen is […]