― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 17 February 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Regular (clean!) pencil erasers worked for a friend of mine.
― Allyzay Rofflesberger (allyzay), Friday, 17 February 2006 16:50 (eighteen years ago) link
the only reason i upgraded was to get my new mobile phone to work. woo, i thought at first, look at all these whizzy features.
little did i realise it'd be so fucking slow-ass and pointlessly buggy. for no apparent reason, the user drop-down just disappeared from the menu bar; i had to log out and back in again for it to reappear.
10.3.9 rocked. two weeks of 10.4.4 has been painful. i sincerely hope the 10.4.5 upgrade fixes some of this ... but then given that i read a thread this afternoon about how it stopped someone's iPod working, i'm kinda apprehensive.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 17 February 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
Runs significantly better now.
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 18 February 2006 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
so i've bought some memory for the powerbook in the hope that might make the experience of using 10.4 marginally less painful.
and i discover that, in order to install it, i need a philips size 00 screwdriver.
because yes, of fucking COURSE i have one of those knocking around the place. can't move for fucking tiny jewellers' screwdrivers round this gaff.
JESUS CHRIST, apple, what the FUCK is wrong with using a marginally more sensible size of screw?
nobody i know has got one of these fucking things either, so i'm going to have to buy one. i think i'll send it to apple when i'm done with a note saying: "dear steve jobs. shove this RIGHT up your arse, you cunt."
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 7 March 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― R.I.P. Concrete Octopus ]-`: (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 22:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Greig (treefell), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 06:41 (eighteen years ago) link
i don't wear glasses. mrs fiendish does, but a) she's away in england and b) she doesn't have such a thing anyway. nor, it seems, do any of my speccy chums.
and, oddly, i don't tend to keep the ephemera that falls out of xmas crackers, thinking: "gosh, one day this 50p piece of crap will come in very useful when i need to put £38 worth of memory into £1200 worth of computer."
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link
(I have been known to keep the tiny screwdriver sets you get in christmas crackers, so I have one for my glasses case, one in my main clarinet case, one in the spare clarinet case, etc etc etc)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:29 (eighteen years ago) link
not really. i know a couple of fiddlers and a lot of people who blow. but that's it.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Clockmakers? Scale modellers?
(you can tell I'm barrel-scraping here)
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
But no glasses I've ever had have had Philips screws. But my regular (they're called "pozidrive"¿?) mini screwdriver was originally bought for this purpose, yes.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
one for me; 14 for mr jobs's rectum.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
If you're going to get a pc laptop at least get a decnt one like a samsung or a lenovo.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Ed - are you suggesting that Sony Vaio isn't a decent laptop? Or that Samsung is better? (genuinely curious as I've considered getting one)
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Samsungs seem to be well built, well specced and good value. Lenovo's are known for bombproof reliability and build. Best tiny sub-notebook is a fujitsu-siemens.
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
i think he came back with a pencil and a notepad.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
10.4 still eats ass, though.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
every time it wakes up from sleep, it wants to configure a bluetooth keyboard. also, every time it wakes up, the audio balance is set to Left 100%.
― vahid (vahid), Monday, 20 March 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 20 March 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link