Instability Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Certain USB hubs could cause system instability on Macs

by Chris Ward (Mar 10th, 2011)

Stumble up to your Mac first thing in the morning, tap the keyboard to wake it up and -- what? I incorrectly disconnected my Time Machine backup drive? I never touched it, I swear! Turns out, this is not my fault for once. Apple has just released a support note explaining how, in a certain ...

Dear Auntie TUAW: Is My 2.0 iPhone Slow and Buggy?

by Erica Sadun (Jul 30th, 2008)

Dear Auntie TUAW, I've been looking to see if there was a post about this, but have people been noticing that the 2.0 firmware on their original iPhones has made them slow, partially responsive, and more buggy? I'm looking for a way to downgrade mine until they get it figured out. Thanks! Signed, ...

iPhone Tales of Woe: Booting to Single User

by Erica Sadun (Jul 27th, 2007)

A short while back, Digg hosted a link to this crashed iPhone showing single user mode. In that case, the error message stated that the iPhone couldn't "exec /bin/sh for single user: No such file or directory." Now that the iPhone has been thoroughly hacked, this error has evolved somewhat. Last ...

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