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Hello, everyone, welcome to my blog!

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Part XVII: In which Ally once again learns the true, dark meaning of the word "feature"

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm waiting for doctors to start calling horrible skin disorders or teeth misgrowths "features", that will be the day in which I kill everyone on the earth.

Now what I don't understand is why Apple has v. quietly invented an actually useful feature that seems only available on its most recent PowerBooks. Why don't they make a big fuss about their bloody new style trackpads that allow you to scroll mouse-style instead of clicky-style on webpages??? Why do they make this big deal about AMBIENT LIGHT DIMMING but not about scroll trackpads from 2313?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Shh! Don't talk about fight club.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

/etc
NO. FUCK /etc
WANT
http://oit.uta.edu/desktop/energystar/mac_files/OS_8_Control_Panels.JPG

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:49 (nineteen years ago) link

hmm, maybe i will get one of those sexy vaios instead. hmm.

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I feel like looking at the Apple store online is like walking into some extremely fucked up backwards version of the end of the Wizard of Oz.

"I BESTOW UPON YOU AN INCREASINGLY COST INEFFICENT AND UGLY RANGE OF IPODS! YOU KIDS LIKE IPODS! THEY COME IN VOMIT GREEN AND PREGNANCY TEST STYLES, NOW! HEY! PAY NO ATTENTION TO THAT USEFUL TRACK PAD BEHIND THE CURTAIN! PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE AWESOME WIZARD! LOOK AT THE OLD MAN WITH THE COMPUTER THAT RESEMBLES THAT CAT TOY THAT IS MADE OUT OF A SPRINGY TUBE WITH A FUZZY BALL ON THE TOP! CLOSE THAT CURTAIN!"

Seriously what the fuck, at what point did these people jump the shark?

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost They're cute, ain't they?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost again ...And ask us about our ass-fucking-expensive non-standard warranty!

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

and while we're all at it, fuck an ipod.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Do you all know what cat toy I'm talking about? That thing with the fuzzy base, and then a spring that kind of bends over and at the top is a fuzzy ball for the cat to beat up? Kind of like a Tim Burtony tether ball situation. There was a computer in there today, that looked like that, I swear to god.

xpost I've had no problems with my iPod, amazingly! I imagined it'd like disintegrate as soon as I tried to use it but my battery has held up amazingly well.

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

PREGNANCY TEST

I missed that the first time. hahaha

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

"Dead Rabbit Blue"

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh hey, kenan you might know this right--LCD monitors, is it normal for warranties to NOT cover fixing them if pixels go out? Like is it normal for the warranty to require the screen to be basically totally dead before they'll fix it? That struck me as really weird today, this girl brought in this enormous monitor she purchased for her graphic design firm and there were pixels, dead center, completely out, and the guy was kind of like "Well that's not actually a covered repair" which seemed really weird (she only bought it two months prior, she had her receipt with her).

― Allyzay, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost They're cute, ain't they?

hotcha!

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

"extensions manager"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:00 (nineteen years ago) link

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20030319/images/image6.gif

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Ha ha. I'm picturing an ipod that doubles as a pregnancy test.
Negative = KC & the Sunshine Band - "Celebrate"
Positive = Britney Spears - "Oops I Did it Again"

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:07 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.petitiononline.com/macos8x/petition.html

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

http://mcosre.sourceforge.net/

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Ed not suzy.

ihttp://mcosre.sourceforge.net/screenshots/x_classic.gif

I like OSX but it is orphaning older machines too quickly and Apple's build quality has slipped a great deal recently.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

http://mcosre.sourceforge.net/screenshots/x_classic.gif

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

nobody pee on the ipod shuffle, repairs for such not covered by apple

― chr vita, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

cheap! cheap! fun! fun!

http://www.bensbargains.net/ktalk/1110895419,1631,.shtml

http://www.bensbargains.net/ktalk/1110876590,21579,.shtml

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link

what do you mean by "build quality," ed?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 04:48 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean, that Apple don't build Laptops as well as they used to. I've heard a lot of stories about stuff failing within the first two years of use recently.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 05:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, one of the things about Apple, one of the things you assume you're paying for when you pay damn near twice what you would for a comparable PC, is hardware that lasts for-fucking-ever. It's not unusual for an Apple to last through seven or eight years of daily use. Or... didn't used to be. I have a color Mac Classic, circa 1993, that as far as I know still works. I'm not sure what one would do with it, esp. as it only has a 14.4 modem, but it works.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Had, should read. I gave it to a roomate a couple years ago. Point is, I would not be at all surprised if you could still look at all my old porn on it.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh, shit. This is what I get for looking things up.

There is something of a cult following for the Color Classic. They are quite rare on the used market -- and some users have managed to hack in 68040 boards and even G3 upgrades into the smallest color Macintosh.

Shit! Why did I give this away? Why?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I *still* use my Pismo Powerbook for e-mail and playing out live. When it does die I'll be very upset, as it's the best computer I've ever owned. Never given me a problem. Can't say the same for a few friends whose iBooks and TiPowerbooks have become fairly worthless in less time than I've owned my PBook.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:14 (nineteen years ago) link

i dunno, my 1998 wall street powerbook had a lot of fucking hardware problems.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Your results may vary. I'm just saying, for a long long time it wasn't uncommon for them to run forever without a glitch. Not universal, but not uncommon.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Which may still be the case, for all I know! The "I hate Apple" thread is probably not the best place on the internet to get all your Apple information.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:23 (nineteen years ago) link

mmm... I do see a trend, though. A disturbance in the force.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link

I still like Apple, nonetheless.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link

when will thinkpads have silver brushed metal cases?

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link

It seems as though 99.99999% of the "fuses that blow" are to do with the LCD screenZ0r, which raises to this observer the distinct possibility that humans are not meant to be teaching little crystals to dance on their points. If one recalls the crystal's prodigious reputation for mysticism and its facility at keeping time, it is tempting to draw any conclusion other than the most insensibly horrible inevitability, the dawning dread of which is at first too umentionable to contemplate: the crystals are communicating with each other, they have access to our alarm clocks, and are simply watching and waiting, toying with us, before unleashing an unprecedented productivity loss as the world sleeps til noon. THE CRYSTALS ARE ALIVE, BLAST YOU. In any case, my crystals pout on me in the summer, they start sulking after half an hour or so and won't get turned on no matter what I do. You'd think air conditioning would help but it doesn't. It's seasonal, for some reason.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link

My colleague with an iMac G3 maintains that Macs are more reliable, easier to use and all round better than PCs.

Perhaps that why he calls it 'bastard' and 'oh you motherfucker' so often?

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Apple's laptop price/performance ratio is now more than competitive with other PC manufacturers. The idea that you pay some kind of premium price where A is the cost of an x86 system of comparable specifications and the Macintosh is A*2 is really old hat at this point.

Also this is secondhand information, but I would suggest that the Sony VAIO line is just as "overpriced" performancewise and just as likely to have some kind of stupid hardware failure in the first two years as any Macintosh product.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I want a SparcBook.

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 13:40 (nineteen years ago) link

the Solaris 10 desktop is going to be SWEET.
a Sun laptop is kind of totally stupid though. Get a Nintendo DS instead.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

When I was working on Solaris 2.8 or whatever the fuck it was I noticed how far ahead their X desktop was in terms of basic usability compared to early OS X Finder. Not nearly as pretty but I had a 3 button mouse and could make as many workspaces as I wanted. YO STEVE WHERE ARE MY SWITCHABLE WORKSPACES THAT I CAN ASSIGN DIFFERENT BACKGROUND GRAPHICS TOO AND NAME STUPID THINGS

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG I miss Solaris now. WHERE IS MY OLD SPARC20????

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Dan, is your old SPARC20 UP YOUR ASS?

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

a Sun laptop is kind of totally stupid though. Get a Nintendo DS instead.

I wonder how long before Linux runs and is usable with WiFi on it. It'd be cool to netboot it and use it as an X terminal.

YO STEVE WHERE ARE MY SWITCHABLE WORKSPACES THAT I CAN ASSIGN DIFFERENT BACKGROUND GRAPHICS TOO AND NAME STUPID THINGS

There's actually an API for this in OS X that a ton of the free workspace switchers use. I saw one particularly good workspace switcher that added a folder named "Desktops" to your home directory, allowing each desktop to have items unique to it as well as the global "Desktop" items.

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:00 (nineteen years ago) link

CDE was pretty nice, but the integration level with X11 user applications was awful. My school has a number of CDE Sun boxes in the main computer lab on campus that only us UNIX Wizards with work accounts can use. Its too bad they don't have like ... a reasonable web browser on them. I think Mathematica is installed though. :D

― Dr. Eldon Tyrell (ex machina), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Fuck an X terminal, I want world-routable pictochat and packet voice comm apps. thing has touchscreen, 802.11 and microphone, do math.

but back on topic
I mean seriously though why do I have to go download an extra application to make all my files visible on OS X? On Solaris I just told it to stop hiding shit and boom, even .. becomes a clickable directory. THAT'S HOW IT WORKS STEVE

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link

It's very ironic that Apple is making completely boneheaded Microsoft-circa-1992 moves her in terms of the usability/customizability of their operating system after intentionally moving towards the geek OS which pretty much lets you customize everything as long as you aren't scared of being a computer nerd.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

LCD monitors, is it normal for warranties to NOT cover fixing them if pixels go out? Like is it normal for the warranty to require the screen to be basically totally dead before they'll fix it?

Most LCD monitor warranties require you to have a certain percentage of dead pixels before you can claim. It's usually about 5%, which is a hell of a lot given that one or two pixels in the centre of the screen can be damn offputting.

― caitlin (caitlin), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

That can't be right. At least, I hope that's not right. A 1600x1200 monitor has 1,920,000 pixels. Five percent of that is 96,000. That's a lot of dead pixels. Can you imagine what that monitor would look like?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Wednesday, 16 March 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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