Derek Gallo

I have been a long time Windows user but recently purchased a Macbook Pro since they can now run Windows anyway. After only 2 days, Macintosh didn’t get off to a great start. I watched a DVD on the notebook and upon finishing, the dvd wouldn’t eject. Everytime I pressed the eject button you could hear the drive start to eject the disk and it would sound like it bogged down then you could hear the drive suck the dvd right back in. The dvd never popped out at all. The dvd would load up and play everytime but I couldn’t get it out of the macbook. I even tried restarting.

I resorted to searching the web for people with similar problems. I found many but they were mostly situations where the macbook didn’t recognize the dvd and therefore didn’t give the eject option to begin with and then cause booting problems. They all suggested to use cardboard to stop the disc from spinning during bootup and it would then eject. Even though my problem was similar I decided to give it a try. No luck. I tried lodging the cardboard in ways to help guide the disc out but no luck either.

You could hear the disc slam into something as it tried to eject. I resorted to just tilting the computer in different ways while trying to eject the disc. After many many tries it finally just came out! I had the macbook tilted forward about 45 degrees with the cd drive facing slightly downward. I wanted to see if this problem would persist and if I would need to take it in so I kept inserting an ejecting any cd/dvd I could find multiple times. NONE of them jammed.

What was the cause of my dvd jamming then? I looked closely at the dvd and could see that it was ever so slightly warped. This was no doubt due to the case the dvd came in. It was one of those that you have to really pull on the dvd to get it free from its holster, thus bending it. The cd/dvd slot on the macbook is so slim it must have been hitting something on its way out.

This seems easily avoidable by Mac. Can’t they implement some sort of guide system in the cd/dvd drive to help guide the disc out and prevent this problem? After all, the dvd cases like mine are pretty common and the dvd was barely warped (like a mm maybe).

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Below are my results from my programmer personality test.

Your programmer personality type is:

DLSB

You’re a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.

You like coding at a Low level.
You’re from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an intimate relationship with the computer. You don’t mind juggling registers around and spending hours getting a 5% performance increase in an algorithm.

You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There’s no communication problems, you know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.

You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as freely as possible to help simplify the task. We’re not writing on paper anymore so we can take up as much room as we need.