I HATE APPLE

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our laptop ist kaput. i mean, the charger is. bah
I just had to replace the charger, which I had electric-taped back together, after a puff of smoke came out from the frayed wires. The thing was always expensive and now, because the iBook is on its way into history, is kind of hard to find.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Investing in an iGo universal power adapter ($80 at Radio Shack) isn't a bad move, for this and countless possible future situations.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

KEYBOARD VOLUME CONTROL ON POWERBOOKS

you know what i'm talkin about. when you try to turn the volume up or down with the keyboard and it responds like 10 seconds after you press the button, and moves one tick at a time, making a broken "thup thup thup thup thup" sound.

FOR YEARS NOW

(maybe this has changed with the intelbooks but AAARRRGH)

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

fedex delivered my new apple to the wrong address this morning :((((

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

You can turn off the volume chime.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I HATE FEDEX
When I used to live on Spadina Rd (that's Road not Avenue) - oh how I loved those trips down the the El Macombo to get my packages.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

milo I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about how a random 50% of the time there's a 10-15 second delay after you press volume up or down and it goes "thup thup thup thup thup." I'm like to kill somebody with that shit.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

Fedex fucks something up every time I deal with them. UPS is consistently grebt.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

yea, agree 100x

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

ups fucked me up with border charges around xmas :(

CAN NOT CTACH A BREAK.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

4 quick movies to watch

http://www.internet-nexus.com/2007/01/im-mac-im-pc.htm

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:24 (nineteen years ago)

Who thinks making parody videos is a good idea? Sheesh.

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 29 January 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

The very first parody (with the guy jumping up and down "Jack Russell fucking terrier") is where these should have stopped.

― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://img442.imageshack.us/my.php?image=masakothehumorlessvf3.jpg

― Frogm@n Henry (Frogm@n Henry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/46/170645523_eacbb1ad37_m.jpg

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

fuck you mighty mouse roller-ball that always stops rolling.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

I'm about ready to make "switch" back to PC.

-- jay blanchard

"PC"

― roger goodell (gear), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

"make 'switch'"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

eh it's sorta fucked that they bundle in an iSync for your .mac account, but you can't get iSync to work with a stupid fucking USB travel drive

the "genius" was all "oh yeah, why would you need a travel drive, you can just use your wireless w/ .mac" ... i worry that this company panders a bit too much to the "sit around in a cafe doing fucking nothing all day" crowd.

someone recommend me a good sync utility that's cheap (willing to pay $40 or less, i guess, for shareware but not $100) so that i can get my files in order.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

i understand rsyncx is recommended but i can't find any readable documentation on it (don't know shit about unix) and it seems a bit hardcore for my purposes.

i just want to be able to open an application that just picks the newest revision of files off the drive and my hd and updates/overwrites the older ones.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

well ... actually, can anybody w/ rsyncx experience tell me if this seems workable:

i've got a directory on my computer that's got everything that's on the travel drive on it ... looks just like the thing.

so before i go to bed at night, do an rsyncx with my directory as source and my traveldrive as destination and "folder contents only".

when i get home from work (after playing w/ travel drive contents at work) do a rsyncx with the traveldrive as source and HD as destination.

should i do "update" or "two-way"??

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

I've never used rsyncx, but rsync itself is dead easy to set up and does exactly what you want.

In the situation outlined, it surely shouldn't matter which you do, because only the files in one place should have changed, so there won't be any changes to sync in the opposite direction.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Sunday, 4 February 2007 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

unsurprisingly Gates hates apple too although half of what he claims in this (about Microsoft creating the file menu system) is wrong. oops.

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

specifically, this bit of delusional weirdness:
In many of the Vista reviews, even the positive ones, people note that some Vista features are already in the Mac operating system.
You can go through and look at who showed any of these things first, if you care about the facts. If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you’re interested, [Vista development chief] Jim Allchin will be glad to educate you feature by feature what the truth is. I mean, it’s fascinating, maybe we shouldn't have showed so publicly the stuff we were doing, because we knew how long the new security base was going to take us to get done. Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine. So, yes, it took us longer, and they had what we were doing, user interface-wise. Let’s be realistic, who came up with [the] file, edit, view, help [menu bar]? Do you want to go back to the original Mac and think about where those interface concepts came from?"

― kyle (akmonday), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Gates in self-colonoscopy non-shockah.

― Tuesdays With Morimoto (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

vahid I use deja vu, and I like it a lot. i don't do the "syncing" thing myself but deja vu WILL do that (if by syncing you mean "get rid of the stuff on the target folder/drive that no longer exists on the source folder/drive"). it sits in your system preferences and it can run on a schedule or manually. http://propagandaprod.com/

― Elsa Svitborg (tracerhand), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

on the backup theme, does anyone have any suggestions about how to backup to some webspace? is storage space affordable? e.g. do .mac accounts do this (i've always wondered what they were for)?

― toby (tsg20), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

.mac accounts do this but they aren't the cheapest around. Nicely integrated with the OS (there's a free backup utility included with the .mac subscription).

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

i just want something that will update changes to files made in either location on a daily basis, so that i always have the newest version of whatever files (mostly documents and pictures) at both locations

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

RSyncX in two way is what you need.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

i did some reading on rsyncx and it seems like the best thing to do is write two scripts, one that updates files from powerbook to memory stick and one that updates files in the other direction.

and to run both scripts at the same time and not do anything in between.

and to do this on an extremely regular basis.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

can anybody tell me about chronosync??

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

actually, come to think of it, this would probably be best

first, do a two-way sync to get everything on the memory stickas new as possible.

next, just wipe everything off my harddisk.

then, use rsyncx on a daily basis just to back up my memory stick, and only work with files on the memory stick.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

That does not seem so good, better to have files in two places for security especially as flash memory wears out.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

what would you suggest?

here is the basic situation:

1) i've got about a gigabyte of stuff i take back and forth with me between school and home. lessons, diagrams, worksheets, gradebooks, spreadsheets and so on.

2) i only edit a few items daily, but i need to make sure that everything is up-to-date on both laptop and memory stick as often as possible, especially the gradebook and spreadsheets.

3) when i am at work i work completely off the memory stick because i am hopping between 4 different offices.

4) when i am at home i plug the memory stick in the powerbook, but i don't want to leave it there for very long because it's really awkward to have a memory stick poking out of the side of the powerbook and i mostly work with the powerbook on my lap or in bed or on a crowded kitchen table.

so ... what should i do? mind you, i'm a complete n00b when it comes to rsync and unix-y stuff.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I had a hilarious interaction with Apple's phone support the other day, trying to get unsubscribed from a newsletter when the site wouldn't let me. The guy trying to route my call was so nice but not very bright. "You're trying to unsubscribe from a newsletter? What sort of computer do you receive the newsletter on? Would you call this a misk-e-a-laneous sort of problem?"

― Paul Eater (eater), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

run rsynx Stick to Mac when you come in in the evening and Mac to stick when you leave for work. Work off the mac when you are at the Mac and off the stick elsewhere.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

last question, i swear: rsyncx update or rsyncx two-way?? and why??

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Update. You are only going to be sending files in one direction at a time if you stick to that workflow.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

OK great, thx!! i appreciate the help!!

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2006031,00.html

zzzz baiting zealots

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

If you hit that page from the UK you will almost undoubtedly get the M&W PC and Mac advert.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

And the first comment is a complain about the subs. Heh.

― stet (stet), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

mother FUCK, i don't know what's most depressing about that page:

- the tiresome old argument brooker propounds

- the fact someone as incisive as brooker should bother his arse to propound such an argument, even at the behest of a commissioning editor waving a bag of loot

- the shrieking shrew suggesting "writers" should be consulted about every edit to their copy

- the fact i've wasted two minutes of my life reading it

- the fact i obviously care.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

Some people don't work for Apple anymore, you can bet

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 3 May 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

cf. "my laptop doesn't work and i'm a j.o.u.r.n.a.l.i.s.t."

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 May 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Worked for me!

― milo z, Thursday, 3 May 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

reading the old thread, ally wrote:

"In case anyone is wondering what this is all about, I have had "issues" with my laptop since purchasing it (A YEAR AGO, THINGS THAT COST $2000 SHOULDN'T DIE IN A YEAR), mainly that if I put it to sleep via either apple menu->sleep or by shutting the cover, I've got no better than a 50-50 chance the fucker will wake up again.
Well today it decided it wasn't going to wake up again, ever, as I'm being greeted with a totally white screen."

that is exactly what happened with my pc laptop! except it was more than a year old. anyway i have a mac now and like it but hope nothing goes wrong.

― Maria, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

RESET PRAM

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 3 May 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

ARGHHH FUCK YOU APPLE FOR REQUIRING ME TO GET A ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR DVI TO ADC ADAPTOR, I MEAN FOR THE FUCK OF GOD, REALLY.

― Rock Hardy, Monday, 25 June 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

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