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Interlude of peace and love

Have you ever noticed that there are occasionally periods in which things just work, particularly with computers?

I find that there is a confluence of coherence about every four years. I’m not sure if it’s just because the vendors – the Evil Apple Empire, or Micro$oft, whoever – recognises that if they don’t actually dangle a carrot of functionality from time to time we’ll all give up and start knitting or making model planes or killing software vendors or something, or if it’s an outcome of cycles of dysfunctionality that cancel each other out like standing waves, but I’m in one now.

Sure, I had to download 341Mb of the latest update to OS X 10.5.2 to get it, but saints be praised, the Mac, the interwub, and even the connection to Micro$oft’s evil Exchange server (now there’s an oxymoronic name for that piece of… enterprise software) are all working. It helps, of course, that I’m hardly using M$ products, but that’s a given.

I wonder how long it will last this time.

PS: Even Time Machine is now working…

19 Comments

  1. Sophie Hirschfeld Sophie Hirschfeld

    Well, now that you’ve mentioned it here … will Murphy’s law come into play? Will your electronic Utopia stick around once you have mentioned its existence to the outside world?

  2. Sophie Hirschfeld Sophie Hirschfeld

    Well, now that you’ve mentioned it here … will Murphy’s law come into play? Will your electronic Utopia stick around once you have mentioned its existence to the outside world?

  3. Sophie Hirschfeld Sophie Hirschfeld

    Well, now that you’ve mentioned it here … will Murphy’s law come into play? Will your electronic Utopia stick around once you have mentioned its existence to the outside world?

  4. And what’s wrong with knitting prey tell? 🙂

  5. And what’s wrong with knitting prey tell? 🙂

  6. And what’s wrong with knitting prey tell? 🙂

  7. John S. Wilkins John S. Wilkins

    From the perspective of a software vendor, it doesn’t line the pockets of software vendors.

  8. John S. Wilkins John S. Wilkins

    From the perspective of a software vendor, it doesn’t line the pockets of software vendors.

  9. John S. Wilkins John S. Wilkins

    From the perspective of a software vendor, it doesn’t line the pockets of software vendors.

  10. Lucas Lucas

    I remember spending an hour in an Apple store looking at OS 10.5. The only feature that I found which I really wanted was tabs in the terminal program, and even those couldn’t be switched with a hotkey. I’m thinking I might wait until OS 10.6…

  11. windyridge – start knitting pocket liners!
    Bob

  12. windyridge – start knitting pocket liners!
    Bob

  13. windyridge – start knitting pocket liners!
    Bob

  14. windyridge – start knitting pocket liners!
    Bob

  15. windyridge – start knitting pocket liners!
    Bob

  16. samk samk

    I’m not feeling the love. Because my beloved laptop would only post occasionally, I sent it to the manufacturer for repair.
    Got it back from the manufacturer today. Now I don’t even get a battery charging indicator. Took a look under the keyboard and there are ground wires hanging loose. Metal tabs above the screws meant to retain them. All sorts of nonsense.
    The bright spot is that I sent it without my hard drive.

  17. Completely OT –
    John or anyone else: when did ‘kind-based’ creationism (you know, God created various kinds, which all fit nicely into the ark, and when released onto a post-Flood world rapidly microevolved into the various, say, cat species, etc.) first show up?

  18. Completely OT –
    John or anyone else: when did ‘kind-based’ creationism (you know, God created various kinds, which all fit nicely into the ark, and when released onto a post-Flood world rapidly microevolved into the various, say, cat species, etc.) first show up?

  19. Mr Wilkins you give me courage to finally install my copy of 10.5 that has been sitting on my desk for two months because I’m scared of the melt down!

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