― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Monday, 31 July 2006 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link
how can terminal fail when the os is on? that's bizarre
and tell me what is wrong with 10.4.7 because i just upgraded
― a name means a lot just by itself (lfam), Monday, 31 July 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link
[touches wood] ... i've been very lucky with my apple hardware, i guess. i've had, what ... one powerbook 5300, one iMac DVSE, this here 12" G4 PowerBook, a first-gen iPod, a second-gen iPod and an iPod shuffle. the only one that isn't still working is the first iPod, and that's my fault for dropping it. yes: even the 5300 still works, 10 years since i bought it. and it's had a fucking ceiling collapse on it.
i'm tempting fate here, i know. perhaps i'm just stealing everyone else's apple karma. i dunno.
what i will say is that my PB5300 was one of the last they ever made (srsly: the fucker got phased out about a week after i took delivery). i've never been an early adopter [1] and p'raps that's the key.
or perhaps i'm just a jammy get.
[1] except with the iPod. and the shuffle. the latter, i have to admit, can display slightly shonkular behaviour at times, especially for something so bloody simple.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Are you sure this wasn't a tired gag playing on Ireland's troubled history?
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 31 July 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Zero trouble here too...
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 31 July 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 06:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 06:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 07:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link
I only got the 20" iMac because I figured it had been in production long enough that they ought to have worked out any major problems.
The rest of "all this awful shit" is pretty much OS X being 100% crappier than advertised. Shit, Ableton & Firefox run on Windows too, I'll just get a core duo ugly machine, at least they don't obfuscate the living shit out of their fucking directory structure and I CAN USE THE TAB KEY TO ENTER DATA INTO ALL FIELDS, TEXT OR OTHERWISE, WHEN I'M ON THE INTARNERT. HOLY SHIT LET'S NOT LET PEOPLE DO THAT, LET'S INVENT A MOUSE WITH A NIPPLE ON IT INSTEAD.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
First attempts prove unsuccessful:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1945000/images/_1949073_mouse_ear300.jpg
― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows where the interfacing goes. (allyzay), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link
I CAN USE THE TAB KEY TO ENTER DATA INTO ALL FIELDS, TEXT OR OTHERWISE, WHEN I'M ON THE INTARNERT. HOLY SHIT LET'S NOT LET PEOPLE DO THAT, LET'S INVENT A MOUSE WITH A NIPPLE ON IT INSTEAD.
PREFERENCES, KEYBOARD AND MOUSE, KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS, FULL KEYBOARD ACCESS. THE END. (WORKS IN SAFARI AND FIREFOX)
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
THANKS THOUGH MAYBE I'LL GET TO TRY IT AFTER I GET A BRAND NEW ONE FROM THE GENIUSES THIS AFTERNOON
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
Any ideas on what I should do with my old cyan G3 - i just don't think i can part with it (even tho the thing is 100% dead). Maybe fill it with skittles or turn it into a toaster?
XPOST
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 15:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:27 (seventeen years ago) link
there were other small bugs including the fact that my audioscrobbler wouldnt work (it kept asking for my password and when i provided it a dialogue box would come up telling me it was already saved in my keychain followed by another DiagBox asing for my password).
most importantly for me, but not for you, was the fact that my arch drawing package powerCADD wouldnt run at all.
― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― carson dial (carson dial), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Do you not realize that Apple basically ships computers with JUST enough RAM to run the OS and core apps??? The first generation G4 towers had 64 MB for Chrissake!!!
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Now he's replacing the RAM and running SECRET TESTING in the back room which is frankly extraordinary, if I had taken this to the old Apple Store in Clarendon I'm sure those folks wold have just packed it up and shipped it off and not even told me they were sorry.
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Although I do remember there being a fairly competent Britishers genius replacing ipods left and right when I was there.
― Mary (Mary), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link
that's weird: the only remotely useful CS dude i've dealt with recently was a bloke called ryan in the states somewhere.
plus ca something-or-other, or something.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Based on the (admittedly) small sampling of laptops and work environments I've run across, I'll give you even odds that most MacBook Pro users are only using Microsoft Office - specifically Entourage, Word, and PowerPoint. Most of them don't care how much RAM they have, they only care that it's not the "low end" model, it runs PowerPoint, can connect to an Exchange server, will output to some sort of LCD projector, and connect to an iPod.
Even in graphic, video, film, audio freak central here in LA - most of the users I run across are Office people and that's it. The geek crowd are already going to max out their RAM from Kingston or Crucial so there's no incentive for Apple to put more RAM in it - especially given the constant volatility of the RAM market.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lmaoborghini (eman), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
They "heard it was better."
Seriously, that's the reason they give. I wasn't going to argue with them since they were paying me to set things up, but in a few of the cases the client bought an iPod at a Apple store (because iPods are an It Item) and then decided to buy a new laptop while they're at it.
Meanwhile, they want to connect it to a corporate network via some weird VPN protocol, connect to an Exchange server, sync to their Blackberry, blah blah blah. To be fair, I like these types of clients more than the OS jihadists though.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 1 August 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link