Apple website was broken when I was trying to get my fucked Ipod (which arrived that way in the mail) replaced and it wouldn't set up an account to register the Ipod to, and the phone operators needed my account details before they would do anything.
In the end I wrote a bitchy email, and to their credit they did get it sorted pretty quickly.
Re Itunes,
I figured Mac users would have it better. It's so stupid, you can add folders to your Library, but not to Playlists. So if you have a folder with, e.g. your fave hardcore punk songs, that you want to put on your Ipod, you'd have to add the folder to the Library and then go through the Library searching for each song individually by artist! WTF!! Unless I go through and retag each song and change the album to "Fave punk songs" or something.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
[sniggers like a six-year-old at juvenile out-of-context fnarr-ness; composes self]
see, being very old-fashioned and paranoid [1], i've never run with my iPod. indeed, i bought a Shuffle expressly for the gym. i kind-of figured that jogging about with a small and delicate hard disk wasn't a good idea.
but then everyone else in the world seems to exercise with their iPod, so ... i'm sure i'm just overly paranoid.
i also bought some of this after i broke the first one. i heartily recommend it.
[1] although stupid enough to let my drunk friends fuck about with my powerbook at 6am on monday. gaaah. i came so close to losing you, by beloved.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Unless I go through and retag each song and change the album to "Fave punk songs" or something.This is the insane shit PC users do that makes me mental.
― I'm Hi, Jared Fogle (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― biz, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
http://home.egge.net/~savory/wolfschf.jpg
― donut gon' nut (donut), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 16:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― biz, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link
best chest-thump ever
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd heard good reviews from my friends and was tired of the constant crashing of Windows XP, so I finally broke down and bought an iMac. It arrived today, and my whole family gathered around to watch me open it. My mother and father--who hate Apple, although they don't really know why, and had fought me tooth and nail to buy another Dell-- actually oohed and ahhed and as I extracted the sleek, self-contained desktop from the box.
Setup took less than a minute, and I was so excited to start it up it felt like fucking Christmas. Of course, something went wrong. No matter how many times I rebooted it, all the screen displayed (in truth, all it would ever display) was an error message in four languages on a dull grey screen.
I spent several hours on the line with a condescending Applecare representative who mumbled constantly and in one instance told me which key to hold down by pronouncing the sound of the letter rather than its name (note: "ssssssss" does not really carry well over the phone), and then berated me for misinterpreting his instructions. After zeroing the hard drive and reinstalling twice, he finally concluded that my brand spanking new computer was totally fucked. I'm moving to Brooklyn in less than 7 days, and come Monday I'll have to ship it back to Apple and pray the new one arrives before the moving van.
It is a such cocktease, sitting there on my desk, taunting me with its terrible, inoperable beauty. I hate you, Apple.
― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 28 August 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 August 2005 06:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Sunday, 28 August 2005 06:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 28 August 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
They had better be able to rush the new iMac.
― Laura H. (laurah), Sunday, 28 August 2005 07:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 28 August 2005 07:22 (nineteen years ago) link
I am looking forward to buying a Mac Mini so I can get rid of mp3 stuff on this one.
― the food has a top snake of 1 (ex machina), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
can't seem to reset PRAM (no idea why it won't do it).
would like to smash it with a hammer, and might even have to suffer the expense and final humiliation of getting someone to look at it JUST SO I CAN REINSTALL OSX & THEN SELL IT.
Mac 'problems' are SO MUCH more intractable than Windows it's not even funny.
Going to bed at maximum pissed off.
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:27 (eighteen years ago) link
How do you know the PRAM isn't resetting? Have you tried resetting it from Open Firmware?
I agree that 'problems' should be in quotes.
Going to bed with a girl.
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 01:50 (eighteen years ago) link
holding down option at power on give me a nice padlock though. Something amiss in open firmware? That'll be fun to break.
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Cheers stet, I am BACK IN CONTROL. That felt bleak :(
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link
(intractable problems also, sometimes, means *good security* that is unfortunately un-userproof -- like all *nixes)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 10:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Waht exactly that accomplishes security wise when I have been able to wipe & reinstall the machine many times without being asked for it(??) I am not sure, but it said "security" so I added it.
That above post is a shining example of "things not to try when you should have been going to sleep already"... embarrased.
Anyway, in the process I finally realised (after some googling) putting Linux on this thing isn't going to be feasible after all. The WIFI will NEVER work, because Apple/The airport card manufacturers simply won't allow drivers to be written for it for other people.
So finally I have my definitive reason to sell it. Goodbye iBook.
APPLE ARE YOU READING THIS? THE 'FINDER' IS *SO* BROKEN THIS EX-WINDOWS USER CANNOT, AFTER MONTHS OF TRYING TO ADJUST, LIVE WITH IT ON A DAILY BASIS WITHOUT -EXTREME- FRUSTRATIONS AND IS ACTUALLY (NOW i CAN'T USE LINUX INSTEAD) GOING TO GO AS FAR AS REVERTING TO THE INTEL/WINDOWS WORLD WITH A LOSS OF MONEY TO MYSELF & PUT UP WITH VIRUSES & INSTABILITY & CRAP OF WINDOWS... BECAUSE IT'S _STILL_ A BETTER ALTERNATIVE TO TRYING TO USE THE (OTHERWISE GREBT!) OS X OPERATING SYSTEM WITH A *MIND-BOGGLINGLY AWFUL FILE BROWSER*. AND SOME OTHER PROBLEMS, BUT THEY ARE SMALL BEER IN COMPARISON TO THE 'FINDER' ISSUE.
(the finder 'alternatives' ALL suck massively too)
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link
there used to be a cute "genius" but i don't see her around today.
― mies van der rohffle (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Without it being fixed, replaced or viable alternatives becoming available. It actually IS enough to make me switch platforms unfortunately. The whole Apple users always downplaying it's importance (and the importance of anything else wrong with OS X - see,hear,speak no evil about it) is something I find kind of hilarious.
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link
http://daringfireball.net/2003/05/steaming_pilehttp://daringfireball.net/2002/11/that_finder_thing
If it works for you, I'm happy! But I find it genuinely un-liveable-with. Ho hum.
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
have you tried pathfinder, fandango? i think it's sweet. you can even quit the finder while you're running it.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost ?
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Pathfinder didn't really solve all my issues Tracer, it felt to me like what it was: a buggier, overfeatured & inconsistently thought-out, third-party replacement for something that shouldn't need replacing.
I mean I know some people have problems with (for comparison) Windows Explorer's performance & bugs... but I never ever got to the point of desperately wanting to try alternative shells like I did with 'Finder'.
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Do you have a logitech mouse?
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
What's probably happening to you Tracer is that when you click on the file, you're telling the window to redraw it's contents, which often will change file positions, and always creates a weird second copy of the file for a second, so if you just double click, things are moving around, you'll get files you don't want.
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
the most pervasive problems with OSX aren't issues once you realize that that the window contents don't update right away.
this is fucking stupid too
― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
This IS ass-backwards, but it's fixed in Tiger apparently.
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
jon, i'm not using a mouse at the moment, i'm using the trackpad.
xpost right.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 16:59 (eighteen years ago) link
Picking the selection up by the icon in this view always works.
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
eh? i always view files this way, and i never have any problems moving them around.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
it's called "[tracer] - hard disk - 1998 - mac os"
what struck me was how neat and organized everything was. everything in subdivided folders. everything in its place. i had added little icons to everything. i think i know why. because i got to choose where everything went. with os x you don't get to choose. it chooses for you. now i've got like 80 files on the desktop, two different "tmp" folders... yeesh.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link