Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
I’m sure you’re all absolutely fascinated by this, but it appears that the problem is definitely fixed, and, more importantly, I’ve probably got a fresh battery in the new iPod. After nearly 9.5 hours of use (10 hours minus the time it was off for lunch time), I turned it off for 20 minutes, then turned it back on again and it came alive! Woo hoo!
And hopefull that will be the last iPod update I’ll have to post for a while.
In our second last installment, I discovered that my new iPod has a problem that if you play it on battery for 3-4 hours and then pause it long enough for it to turn itself off, it wouldn’t come back on without a full hard reset/reboot. Which is a drag because you lose your place in the playlist you were listening to.
That problem might actually be fixed!
Continue reading “Finally some tentatively good news about my iPod”
Remember how in Rants and Revelations: My iPod is dead… I mentioned how I had to call Apple Care because their stupid web site wouldn’t accept my serial number? Well, either because I actually talked to somebody or because Apple are a bunch of theiving low-lives, I got an invoice today for $49 for a one day Apple Care.
Continue reading “Fucking Apple Again”
There are a lot of things to like about Apple. They make the coolest, sexiest hardware on the planet, especially their laptops and iPods. They did Unix right in a way that 100,000 Linux geeks never managed to do. They put together a suite of applications that make some of the stuff that people want to do with computers dead easy – while purposely making them limited and unpowerful enough to keep the door open for third party products that do the same things only better. When their hardware works, it works perfectly.
Continue reading “Why Apple is going to go out of business”
Ok, my cell phone sucks. And it got worse when I ill-advisedly bought a fancy painted cover for it, which involved taking the guts out of the existing cover and putting them in the new one.
So getting little drop-outs during calls is nothing new. Unfortunately during the call I got a few seconds ago, from a cell phone in Maryland, it happened just when the caller said who it was. The voice was a little familiar, and when he asked if I’ve been flying recently I guessed he’s probably from the Piper mailing list. But since he’d called to ask about his problems with Windows 98, I couldn’t really help. I don’t know that much about Windows, and I’d sort of like to keep it that way.