The fixit man came, replaced the graphics card and the test was a brief 5 minute stint of Call of Duty 4. It seems to be working just fine now. Prepare for more explosions later.
An engineer will be out to replace your graphics card
This is what you get when you pay for a service contract. I think it’s been worth it so far – dead power supply, overheating battery and now broken graphics.
Parrotry error….
***Hardware Malfunction
Call your hardware vendor for support
NMi: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
*** The system has halted ***
ef – a tale of memories
I’ve watched the first four episodes. It ticks all the boxes: angst ridden artist, sick girl, trouble with the family, played in flashbacks and flash-forwards. It’s just that the ‘lose the memories’ feels so much like the ’50 first dates’ movie. Damn you Adam Sandler – you don’t leave us alone, do you
Alert sounds can’t be longer than five seconds
This is another issue – alert sounds should be truncated at 5 seconds, not left unplayed.
I wish it was only about the cake…
I had to laugh when I read this – After all, it’s supposed to be a web application. I need to change my password in order to use this desktop application. You have got to be s****ing me.
In their rush to get the product out to the customers…
Apple have obviously made some significant backwards compatibility errors. Firstly, there’s the firewall – altering the on-disk content of applications to make them signed when you accept them. Its an interesting approach, but it’s complete pants. You don’t go around altering binaries on disk. You create a detached signature! It’s not really bloody difficult.
On Vista, you can see *every* rule that exists for the firewall. On Leopard, you only get to see the exceptions you created yourself.
I’ve been having random application crashes. They seem to be related to drag and drop operations that went wrong.
the calendar application does not want to talk to my instance of davical properly (all the calendars disappear after restarting, and I get an error every time I create a calendar).
Then there’s the ‘the application terminated unexpectedly’ – no, it didn’t, I used the <Apple>Q menu item to quit the application.
Context sensitivity on the mail application is kinda limited – It doesn’t detect URL links properly – I have a site that’s called http://foo4/…, and all the link comes up with is http://foo. As I said, a bit limited.
Overall, though, the experience is positive. I would have preferred if apple had simply spent some more time testing the damned thing against anything other than their own applications and services.
And, as soon as they allow a replacement for .mac that can be replaced with an external, non-proprietary service I’ll be a happier person
Cough, cough, wheeze, wheeze
I’ve had this coughy, wheezy thing for the last week. It started during the move with all the obvious feelings of a cold, which later migrated to a regular cough which sounds rotten and does not make me want to go out into the cold – even though it’s bright and all.
On the other hand the new mac is cute.
I love you, weighted companion cube
Half life Orange box. Buy now. You will like, and you will understand
gnome on low bandwidth
I would have to say ‘serves you right’, but even with a reasonably fast cable modem connection X blows goats on remote displays. vnc is an improvement, but the windows remote terminal system kicks ass on a 56k ordinary modem connection. Hmmm….