I HATE APPLE

I also have one of the Soundbridges and it's very nice.

that thing looks perfect, to me. does it work even if the computer isn't logged on and itunes isn't running?

Yeah, it works fine as long as it has network. Obviously you can't listen to yr iTunes music if iTunes isn't running, but there are a zillion Internet radio stations it can tune.

i really love the airport expresses. they're about $20 cheaper refurbed from apple.com, too.

this thread has inspired me!

pulled out my old 802.11g airport express and went to radio shack for a mini-to-RCA cable. Sorted. Awesome.

I have the Squeezebox which is like the above soundbridge but better (hah!).

http://www.slimdevices.com/pi_squeezebox.html

^ I have a hardon for the squeezebox duet and its insanely hawt remote (though Apple's new remote setup for iPhone/iPod Touch is now a viable alternative), but I think I'm good for at least a generation.

I'm not sure that the squeezebox has > $120 MSRP more features than the SoundBridge. Does it do WPA2? I'd (have paid) $120 more for that, perhaps.

I wish these things had a slightly better display; showing cover art would be great. I feel like I saw something that did that

I still think that, unless you want to be able to play internet radio stations in other rooms, you'll get better value for the dollar with a good portable iPod speaker/dock setup.

at about 3pm today i started installing fucking windows on my lovely iMac. (i can get a one-year licence for SPSS from the university library for £10 ... windows version only, though. "oh, yes, we used to do the mac version. but only seven people wanted it. in two years." says a lot about mac-using social scientists, that. so: needs must.)

anyway. by about 3.45pm it was done: internet access, sound and all. i am astonished by how straightforward this was. many cheers for boot camp.

NO CHEERS AT ALL for windows itself, though, which is an absolute fucking horror. i know this; i'm not sure why i'm surprised. i think it's the fact i now have it sitting being ugly on my desk. ugh.

XP or Vista?

that's nice.

what i would like, though, is that when i awitch to list view, IT REMEMBERS. WITHOUT ME DOING CMD-J FAFF.

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cannot fucking shitting believe that's still not fixed!

ugh macs

ugh windows too but crap like that is enough for me to stay happily unconverted to the way for EVER.

XP or Vista?

XP. oh, man, the woe. now, i'll admit that some of that woe was down to the fact that this was, umm, not the most, er, authentic version that's ever existed. but JESUS CHRIST, WHAT A STUPID FUCKING OS.

i think i've got it pretty much working perfectly now. but i intend to spend as little time using it as possible.

It's a dream compared to Vista. Still painful, though.

http://news.worldofapple.com/archives/2008/10/25/latest-snow-leopard-build-10a190-now-available-seed-notes/

XP is probably the best version of windows that ever existed. I rarely had any problems with it. it's the version I run in vmware fusion on my mac if I need to use windows (which is almost never)

don't get me wrong: the whole experience was substantially less painful than i probably expected it to be. still wank, mind.

why would you pirate windows so that you could run an authentic copy of a program that you could have just as easily pirated in the first place

Windows AND VMWare!

that you could have just as easily pirated in the first place

rong, trust me.

also: i have a manual and support for SPSS, which will be useful. i don't need any of that shit for windows (no, really).

Why don't you keep the manual and support and pirate the mac version and use that?

bit late now ;)

and getting an, umm, free mac version that actually works properly sounds like it's surprisingly difficult. this is a reasonable solution that's cost me £10 and a couple of hours of windows-related misery. which, i guess, is a learning experience.

rong, trust me.

I found a seeded copy of SPSS Mac 16.0.1 in the time it took this page to load. What's the problem?

getting a working licence code, from what i can tell.

http://www.codeweavers.com/about/general/press/20081027/

only works in US ffs

i don't even know what SPSS is, how do you explain that?

It does statisticky stuff. I had to use it in psychology ~10 years ago, ugh.

I recently had liquid damage and they charged me 800$ to fix it. Even tho I had AppleCare.

I should be more angry, but I did spill the liquid on my Macbook :(

They fixed my liquid damage for free, but I did leave it for a while before I took it in and played the I don't know why my keyboard has stopped working/all the fans make grinding noises etc.

what's the deal with this immersion-sensor stuff, though? i thought that was specially designed so apple could go: "no wai, ed: at 11.08am on june 23 you poured liquid all over this ... tea with skimmed milk and two sugars, if i'm not mistaken." or something.

It was brandy in my case and clearly the immersion sensor did not get immersed even though half the keyboard and two fans got fritzed.

will keep this in mind in case next time i spill liquid on my computer, it does damage.

so basically brandy is ok to spill on it??

Not sure about all brandy but this one seems to be okay

http://www.nicolas.com/images/nicolas/contrib/grand/p089883.jpg

looks good to me

what is the difference between armagnac and brandy?

armagnac is brandy from the armagnac region in south west france. That one is a personal favourite and it is still under 20 quid a bottle from Nicholas.

it's also the only mac-compatible kind apparently

So I lost the cable for connecting my iPod to my laptop. I’ve tried a few of my coworkers’ cables/charging stations but my iPod does not charge and my iTunes does not see my iPod. What the fuck. Do I just have to go to the Apple store and buy another one because there’s some bullshit proprietary “one iPod=one cable” thing involved here or what…? Anyone ever had this problem?

The only time this is a problem is if you try using the older Firewire cables -- they work for charging, but the Mac won't connect to most modern iPods: has to be USB.

I'm not using a Mac, I'm using a PC. I borrowed some of my coworkers USB cables and my iPod doesn't charge and my iTunes doesn't see the iPod. What the fuck. Is this like a generational problem or something?

I recently had liquid damage and they charged me 800$ to fix it. Even tho I had AppleCare.

I should be more angry, but I did spill the liquid on my Macbook :(

Masturbation is expensive business.

lol

I recently had seed damage and they charged me 800$ to fix it. Even tho I had AppleCare.

I should be more angry, but I did spill the seed on my Macbook :(

Is this like a generational problem or something?

No. All the USB-iPod cables are identical. The dock port hasn't changed since the 3G iPod.

hmmm. I think I have a 4th Gen.