Thread: Freaky Shit!!

Well, she says she hasn't connected her ipod to it so I'm completely stumped.

Apparently I already woke her up at 4am this morning to ask her. oops.

Originally Posted by slackula

Says the Mac basher who just owned up to owning 12 Macs and was proven wrong at the top of page 2 in this thread. C'mon 'fly, give it up man, you are burning out.

Originally Posted by slackula

Go back to WoW and leave the adults to talk amongst themselves mate.

Such a silly troll would even be dumped by in any WoW guild. Even if his character was an orc.

Originally Posted by slackula

Your "silly Quack Quack" has nailed your arse to the wall in every Mac or OS X thread you have posted in.

hardly, he only managed to make a fool of himself and expose typical mac users for the douche that they are, he is fucking hilarious, almost too good to be true

Originally Posted by slackula

Well well, using irrelevant Battlestar Galactica references is certainly going to solidify your credibility in a comp support forum where you recently jumped the shark!

link ? jumped the shark ? I have only confessed that I was previously a misguided mac user, with all the faults of a typical mac user, that is being manipulated by Apple and their propaganda. I have seen the light since, switched to Linux and WinXP, and I never felt so much liberated. Mac users are tools and I speak from experience

Originally Posted by slackula

Go back to WoW and leave the adults to talk amongst themselves mate.

Sorry, I don't do mactards game and I don't see the connection between adults and mac toys.

is this you butterfly ?

http://matg.home.comcast.net/~matg/mac.swf



for future reference Google

Originally Posted by baldrick

http://matg.home.comcast.net/~matg/mac.swf

holly shit, fucking pissed myself laughing

and the saddest thing is that it's actually all true

thanks for the Google link, found that pearl from a Guardian journalist

Charlie Brooker on why he hates Apple Macintosh computers | Comment is free | The Guardian

I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, "I hate Macs", and then I think, "Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.

Cue 10 years of nasal bleating from Mac-likers who profess to like Macs not because they are fashionable, but because "they are just better". Mac owners often sneer that kind of defence back at you when you mock their silly, posturing contraptions, because in doing so, you have inadvertently put your finger on the dark fear haunting their feeble, quivering soul - that in some sense, they are a superficial semi-person assembled from packaging; an infinitely sad, second-rate replicant who doesn't really know what they are doing here, but feels vaguely significant and creative each time they gaze at their sleek designer machine. And the more deftly constructed and wittily argued their defence, the more terrified and wounded they secretly are.

Aside from crowing about sartorial differences, the adverts also make a big deal about PCs being associated with "work stuff" (Boo! Offices! Boo!), as opposed to Macs, which are apparently better at "fun stuff". How insecure is that? And how inaccurate? Better at "fun stuff", my arse. The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye. For proof, stroll into any decent games shop and cast your eye over the exhaustive range of cutting-edge computer games available exclusively for the PC, then compare that with the sort of rubbish you get on the Mac. Myst, the most pompous and boring videogame of all time, a plodding, dismal "adventure" in which you wandered around solving tedious puzzles in a rubbish magic kingdom apparently modelled on pretentious album covers, originated on the Mac in 1993. That same year, the first shoot-'em-up game, Doom, was released on the PC. This tells you all you will ever need to know about the Mac's relationship with "fun".

Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. Of course, that hasn't stopped me slagging off Mac owners, with a series of sweeping generalisations, for the past 900 words, but that is what the ads do to PCs. Besides, that's what we PC owners are like - unreliable, idiosyncratic and gleefully unfair. And if you'll excuse me now, I feel an unexpected crash coming.

Confirms me belief. Nobody has a clue how these thing work.They are magic!

Originally Posted by slackula

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

Nah, its my wifes ipod, I don't even know where she keeps it and she wasn't there.

If it was lying around within range maybe Bonjour could have picked it up?

That's not how it works -- iPods don't have networking built-in (except iPod Touch which has WiFi, but not capable of synching over WiFi).

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

^I'd not checked that, but just did and there were 4 files in there that I've not seen before.

Location: Music/iTunes

New Files: iTunes Library
iTunes Library Extras.itdb
iTunes Library Genius.itdb
iTunes Music Library.xml

If these are 'new' files to you, haven't you had an updated version of OS X since OS X 10.2, or rather no updated version of iTunes since iTunes 5 or 6?

These are regular files that iTunes generates since at least the past year.

Does your wife know more about iPods and Mac than you do? ;-)

Originally Posted by Norton

The list you gave doesn't seem right. Look at Preferences, Advanced, iTunes Music folder location. Should show device/folder

You're on to something here - it sounds like FP has his music folder located in a non-standard location, otherwise his music would be kept under the 'iTunes Music' folder.

Originally Posted by Norton

Wife - No problem.
FP - How did you do it?
Wife - (tells all)

Wife: My brother's cousin's friend, who is taxi driver, found a laptop in his taxi. He found all this music on it, and gave me a copy. I know you were so sad about your loss, so I copied it on your Mac when you were sleeping -- it may not be the same music, but I figured it's a lot, so you would enjoy it anyway, na?

Originally Posted by baldrick

is this you butterfly ?

http://matg.home.comcast.net/~matg/mac.swf



for future reference Google

Zowie, someone's trolling for traffic to their article -- must be a tough time, what with all the economic downturn, and Apple being the only company doing not just well, but thriving.

That's what's funny about pundits bashing Apple -- doesn't stop Apple from having yet another record quarter, selling the most of everything, in a time when everyone else is cutting back, cutting corners, and booking phenomenal losses numbering in the billions.

Apple, and us Apple users, will keep smiling.

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

If these are 'new' files to you, haven't you had an updated version of OS X since OS X 10.2, or rather no updated version of iTunes since iTunes 5 or 6? These are regular files that iTunes generates since at least the past year.

I think I'd just never noticed them before. Mentioned it in case it meant something to someone.

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Does your wife know more about iPods and Mac than you do? ;-) Quote:

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

Wife: My brother's cousin's friend, who is taxi driver, found a laptop in his taxi. He found all this music on it, and gave me a copy. I know you were so sad about your loss, so I copied it on your Mac when you were sleeping -- it may not be the same music, but I figured it's a lot, so you would enjoy it anyway, na?

Very funny.

Originally Posted by Charlie Brooker

I hate Macs. I have always hated Macs. I hate people who use Macs. I even hate people who don't use Macs but sometimes wish they did. Macs are glorified Fisher-Price activity centres for adults; computers for scaredy cats too nervous to learn how proper computers work; computers for people who earnestly believe in feng shui.

PCs are the ramshackle computers of the people. You can build your own from scratch, then customise it into oblivion. Sometimes you have to slap it to make it work properly, just like the Tardis (Doctor Who, incidentally, would definitely use a PC). PCs have charm; Macs ooze pretension. When I sit down to use a Mac, the first thing I think is, "I hate Macs", and then I think, "Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?" Losing that second mouse button feels like losing a limb. If the ads were really honest, Webb would be standing there with one arm, struggling to open a packet of peanuts while Mitchell effortlessly tore his apart with both hands. But then, if the ads were really honest, Webb would be dressed in unbelievably po-faced avant-garde clothing with a gigantic glowing apple on his back. And instead of conducting a proper conversation, he would be repeatedly congratulating himself for looking so cool, and banging on about how he was going to use his new laptop to write a novel, without ever getting round to doing it, like a mediocre idiot.

Cue 10 years of nasal bleating from Mac-likers who profess to like Macs not because they are fashionable, but because "they are just better". Mac owners often sneer that kind of defence back at you when you mock their silly, posturing contraptions, because in doing so, you have inadvertently put your finger on the dark fear haunting their feeble, quivering soul - that in some sense, they are a superficial semi-person assembled from packaging; an infinitely sad, second-rate replicant who doesn't really know what they are doing here, but feels vaguely significant and creative each time they gaze at their sleek designer machine. And the more deftly constructed and wittily argued their defence, the more terrified and wounded they secretly are.

Aside from crowing about sartorial differences, the adverts also make a big deal about PCs being associated with "work stuff" (Boo! Offices! Boo!), as opposed to Macs, which are apparently better at "fun stuff". How insecure is that? And how inaccurate? Better at "fun stuff", my arse. The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye. For proof, stroll into any decent games shop and cast your eye over the exhaustive range of cutting-edge computer games available exclusively for the PC, then compare that with the sort of rubbish you get on the Mac. Myst, the most pompous and boring videogame of all time, a plodding, dismal "adventure" in which you wandered around solving tedious puzzles in a rubbish magic kingdom apparently modelled on pretentious album covers, originated on the Mac in 1993. That same year, the first shoot-'em-up game, Doom, was released on the PC. This tells you all you will ever need to know about the Mac's relationship with "fun".

Ultimately the campaign's biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow "define themselves" with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality. Of course, that hasn't stopped me slagging off Mac owners, with a series of sweeping generalisations, for the past 900 words, but that is what the ads do to PCs. Besides, that's what we PC owners are like - unreliable, idiosyncratic and gleefully unfair. And if you'll excuse me now, I feel an unexpected crash coming.

Can't argue with that.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by Charlie Brooker

I hate Macs. (...)And if you'll excuse me now, I feel an unexpected crash coming.

Can't argue with that.

Moron - what does this have to do with FP's problem?

^ the same as seppos buying iphones on credit has to do with French princes amazing 22gig in 5 mins network speed

The 22gig in 5min was just iTunes importing the music from somewhere on the machine because it was the first time it had been turned on.

Still got no idea how it got there though.

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

The 22gig in 5min was just iTunes importing the music from somewhere on the machine because it was the first time it had been turned on.

Four pages into this thread now and the penny still hasnt dropped that 22 gig wont fit onto a 500 meg hard drive and that the max internet speed in Thailand would need about 78 light years to download 22 gig

Originally Posted by Spin

22 gig wont fit onto a 500 meg hard drive and that the max internet speed in Thailand would need about 78 light years to download 22 gig

Nah its a 500gig hard drive, and yeah, there's no way it came from the internet. We weren't even in a wifi spot when it happened.

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

an infinitely sad, second-rate replicant who doesn't really know what they are doing here, but feels vaguely significant and creative each time they gaze at their sleek designer machine.

holly shit, that's fucking Scampy right there

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

How insecure is that? And how inaccurate? Better at "fun stuff", my arse. The only way to have fun with a Mac is to poke its insufferable owner in the eye.

Quack Quack

Originally Posted by baldrick

^ the same as seppos buying iphones on credit has to do with French princes amazing 22gig in 5 mins network speed

Sorry, could you try this again -- in English, this time, if it's not too much bother.

Originally Posted by Spin

Four pages into this thread now and the penny still hasnt dropped that 22 gig wont fit onto a 500 meg hard drive and that the max internet speed in Thailand would need about 78 light years to download 22 gig

His hard drive is 500GB, it was long ago established. READING!

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

if it's not too much bother.

no - fcuk off

Originally Posted by baldrick

Originally Posted by DaffyDuck

if it's not too much bother.

no - fcuk off

I figured as much.

so was the mystery resolved ? I am sure there is something he is not telling us

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

"Why has this rubbish aspirational ornament only got one mouse button?"

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Can't argue with that.

You can when it's not, in fact, true.