… and they want me to rebuy it!
(You have to be kidding.)
Argh!
They will replace Snow Leopard because the machine went in with it and came out without it.
But they want me to rebuy the iWorks and iLife!
Same logic should apply.
Argh!
I hate computers. And, their enablers.
It’s either a product and it’s all my responsibilities. Or, it’s licensed, and my serial number is all that I should need.
Argh!
Now, I gotta find those disks.
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The adventure continues.
My DROPBOX strategy has a flaw. For some reason, a significant portion of my PDF files were deleted. (No idea why?) Clearly, sharing among machines is a winner. BUTT (there’s always a big but) I need a ‘vaulting strategy’. The deletion could have been disastrous. But, it took four hours to recover the files. And, I immediately made a copy. So, I need a synchronization strategy for each platform. Basically a synchronization utility that copies the latest files to the sharing directory and updates back in. Have to think about that.
“Manifests” for each machine are obviously needed. I have to start that now on the other platforms. Need to have the link to the source and possibly the last distribution.
Need a data review and archiving strategy.
In next year’s storage plan, I need to have it monthly archive.
No need to save all the ‘stuff’ I am saving. Argh!
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OK, it came back from Apple wiped.
❶ Lost the Snow Lepord OSX, Iworks, and Ilife upgrade. Have to find the distribution disks. (That was last year. Know how much stuff has flowed under the proverbial bridge?)
❷ CARBONITE did its job. All my data is back. (Not software. Ouch!)
❸ DROPBOX put an extra data backup in its folder. (Data back up redundancy. Love it.)
❹ GOFLEX drive did NOT back up the applications directory. (ARGH! Not recommending that any time soon.)
❺ What ever clipboard manager I was happily using B.A. (before Apple mucked it) is lost in the mists of memory. (Note to self: keep your own manifest of what’s on the machine! Argh!)
❻ Dumped Apple’s lame MAIL Client. Deployed THUNDERBIRD3. (PIA to redefine all those accounts. Would have had to do it for APPLEMAIL. So bite the bullet.)
❼ Blogs have been neglected and irregular during this adventure.
❽ Old APPLEMAIL archives are “lost”. Argh!
❾ Oh, and thanks Apple for the “Thanks for purchasing your Mac.” message. Argh!
❿ Old system of accounts on the MACBOOKAIR is wiped. Guess I’ll just forget about “separation” of USER and ADMINISTRATOR roles. Argh!
The adventure continues.
p.s., I dumped APPLE’s software for Open Office.
p.p.s., Started a “manifest” of stuff I put on like NVU.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/08/editorial-wikileaks-julian-assange
WikiLeaks: The man who kicked the hornet’s nest
As the disclosures continue, a number of questions about the way the world has changed are becoming more clearly framed
* Editorial
* The Guardian, Wednesday 8 December 2010
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The academic Clay Shirky has blogged persuasively this week that the US government should openly use the law against WikiLeaks and others rather than muscle. “Whatever restrictions we eventually end up enacting, we need to keep Wikileaks alive today, while we work through the process democracies always go through to react to change. If it’s OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for doing something they wouldn’t prosecute a newspaper for doing, the idea of an internet that further democratizes the public sphere will have taken a mortal blow.” We agree.
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Several interesting points:
* The inet is not as resilient as expected. It’s supposed to route arond failures, but it’s politcially “controlled”.
* The DNS infrastructure is a single point of failure with respect to that political control.
* With this spur the creation and deployment of a peer to peer bittorrent style dns? Will everyone discard DNS in favor of “phone numbers” like 1.2.3.4? People remember 10 digit phone numbers when they need to.
* Will WIKILEAKS create a new genre of “tabloid journalism”?
* “We, The Sheeple” have gotten a real wake up call into their Gooferment and their politicians. Will it change anything?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://download.pogoplug.com/meet/
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The Pogoplug is the perfect accessory to your connected life. Imagine accessing all your files and media at home from any laptop or desktop computer, anywhere in the world, or sharing this content with friends and family without having to upload. There’s even an iPhone application so you can always “phone home” to get your files!
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It installed quickly and easily.
It works as advertised.
(Doesn’t seem to like when the platform hibernates?)
Have to figure out how to sync various machines on the home network. No immediately apparent.
RECOMMENDED!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2010/11/chrome-os-poll.php
Poll: Do You Want to Use Chrome OS?
By Klint Finley / November 30, 2010 11:00 AM
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We recently covered five cloud-centric OSes available today. Some of them have been around for years, and can run on old desktop computers. None of them has yet to catch fire in the enterprise or anywhere else – not even Meego, which is sponsored by Intel and Nokia. It seems that people are more excited about Android than Chrome OS.
Is Chrome OS, or one of the alternatives, something YOU would want to use?
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The question, with “cloud computing”, with “cloud operating systems”, or even with Windoze with it’s Update “Service” that can change the underlying OS without User or Administrator permission, is “change control”.
How do I know that it works and works in a functionally identical manner when I can’t have “change control”?
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ECTO, the blog posting software, developed a bug … …
… … it lost the left column of the main screen that allows you to select the blog you want to post to. Nothing on the support site and I know they take days to reply. So, I tool a change and reinstalled.
Problem solved.
The MACBOOKAIR has to go in again. (Monday?)
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Posted by reinkefj
Case close. Broken hardware (maybe? probably?) But “closed” from their POV. Not mine.
Now you see why it’s “NOTRECOMMENDED”?
Like DELL, I think they are living of reputation.
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Posted by reinkefj
“No output sound devices defined” (No input either.)
Conclusion after ½ on the phone is it’s a hardware problem.
NOO, really!
Argh!
They want me to leave the machine for three days for them to diag, order parts, and repair.
You gotta be kidding me.
Or, I can send it in and this is with the extended warranty.
Argh!
This is for a machine that won’t sync. (They never figured that one out either.)
Hence my time machine is a giant router in disguise. That’s all it is good for.
Argh!
BAck when I first got the machine and wasn’t totally “on” it, the screen took a week to replace.
Cloud computing, with all it’s version control issues, is looking better and better.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
Major irritations with the way applications are handled on the IPAD. Can’t nuke stuff without going to iTunes. Some applications show up in the “settings”, but most do not. (Why is that?) After upgrading the os, I find I have a new piece of “crapware” added in. Said piece of software has a dumb “sequential” password validation against rules that are not known in advance.
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