I HATE APPLE

Regular (clean!) pencil erasers worked for a friend of mine.

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.

Runs significantly better now.

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."

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."

(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)

not really. i know a couple of fiddlers and a lot of people who blow. but that's it.

Clockmakers? Scale modellers?

(you can tell I'm barrel-scraping here)

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.

one for me; 14 for mr jobs's rectum.

If you're going to get a pc laptop at least get a decnt one like a samsung or a lenovo.

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)

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.

i think he came back with a pencil and a notepad.

10.4 still eats ass, though.

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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%.