I HATE APPLE

I was looking at the bluetooth keyboard and some employee came up to me and he very pointedly looked about 8 inches to the left of my eyes while we were talking. Also, not very helpful about battery life in BT devices. I ended up getting the wired keyboard and a mighty mouse as I love the mighty mouse so.

I got hit on my a girl in the checkout line who liked my bag, which I had just bought a new cell phone holder for at the bike shop on 6th Ave and Canal though. She was cute.

http://www.chromebags.com/metropolis_olive.jpg

never buy luggage of any sort without a moneyback/replacement guarantee

The funny thing about this is that I seem to be the only person who actually let "geniuses" take my computer who got it back with files fully intact, non-wiped. Which pissed me off cos I was at that fucking Apple store for like 5 hours doing the back up on spot and I actually didn't care that much about "losing" data that was mostly easily re-gettable anyway (I would've only lost a handful of photos from my digicam that I didn't have on hard disc from my old computer, and term papers from previous semesters that I still had hard copies of anyway). The genius basically refused to send my computer into the shop without me purchasing a $200 hard drive and backing up all my "important" data, myself, in front of everyone in the damn store. Son of a bitch.

There is something liberating about a clean drive though. Like the first stage of a break-up when you feel free before you get lonely and wonder what did I do?

Doesn't mean anything right now (except perhaps to me, TOMBOT, JW, and Ed), but still interesting.

this is interesting because it means (to me) that apple has finally got to the point where they feel confident enough that we (the users) aren't going to notice the cpu load of handling everything as part of a rel db (well obviously since we all play along with iTunes already).

I'm slightly more interested in rumors about the inclusion of a Torrent client as part and parcel of 10.5.

I don't consider it to be that big of a deal... Your average 10.x.x point update runs over 50MB and Apple has to pay for that bandwidth just like everyone else. Being able to distribute that out in exchange for some iTunes credit makes a lot of sense.

I believe it's unlikely that the "torrent" components will be extensible out to developers. Back during the Rhapsody developer meetings there was a lot of talk about being able to hook into OS X's software update engine and use it as a general application updater but then Apple decided not to.

FUCK

I'm syncing it and I notice that 'mdimport' is taking up a lot of cpu time. I go and check and SPOTLIGHT INDEXING IS ENABLED ON MY IPOD WTF?!!??!

So to turn it off:

sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/iPodNameHere

seems faster

Spotlight isn't so hot, but it isn't *BAD* persay

When you turn Spotlight off for the disk, it makes a file to tell it not to index that. And that file takes up just enough space that you can't image an system install disk to it. Grrrr.

Still is a pisser that it takes up space on a tiny disk, just trying to tell it not to take up space.

for fuck's sake. i think i've used spotlight about three times. hmph.

stet: don't you have SOMEONE ELSE'S perfectly good PB5300 running 8.5 to make nice disk images?

tits. either way, we're fooked, aren't we?

obviously, this bugs me.

even though titanium is soft enough to bend that much when i drop it, i'm having no luck bending it back into place (maybe i'm not using the right tool??)

obv this isn't covered by applecare, since they don't cover "accident". any way i can trick them into fixing it??

Where should I start bugging someone to gimme my rebate slip? Store manager, or higher up?

So as it stands, I’m out $400 (which as a poor college student, I’d like back)

If you can't afford to be out $400 (+ the price of whatever laptop you'll replace that one with) you are not budgetting proper.

Turns out all I have to do is bring my receipt to the Apple Store, they'll do a 1:1 exchange and add whatever iPod I want to the receipt so I can get a rebate.

WARNING: Genius bar people are useless!!!!!