1. You made the laptop computer.
2. You made the OS running on the laptop computer.
3. You made the iTunes program running on the OS on the laptop computer.
4. You made the iPod.
5. You made the OS running on the iPod.
6. You even made the frigging dock cable plugging the iPod into the computer.


Thu Sep 10 22:51:05 ernie \[0x0-0x1d01d\].com.apple.iTunes[309] : Child process initialized.
Thu Sep 10 22:51:13 ernie AppleMobileBackup[326] : BackupAgent starting up...
Thu Sep 10 22:51:13 ernie \[0x0-0x1d01d\].com.apple.iTunes[309] : Child process initialized.
Thu Sep 10 22:51:13 ernie \[0x0-0x1d01d\].com.apple.iTunes[309] : 2009-09-10 22:51:13.395 AppleMobileBackup\[326:903\] BackupAgent starting up...
Thu Sep 10 23:00:15 ernie com.apple.launchd.peruser.502[131] (com.apple.AddressBook.abd) : The following job tried to hijack the service "com.apple.AddressBook.abd" from this job: \[0x0-0x20020\].com.apple.AddressBook.abd
Thu Sep 10 23:00:18 ernie PreferenceSyncClient[338] : Error: Can't get session for client com.apple.PreferenceSync, bailing
Thu Sep 10 23:00:36 ernie SyncServer[342] : \[110ed0\] |SyncManager|Warning| removing client com.apple.Mail.Notes from plan because I couldn't send it a sync alert
Thu Sep 10 23:05:17 ernie \[0x0-0x1d01d\].com.apple.iTunes[309] : Child process initialized.


How the fuck could you ever pretend this crap is appropriate to ship to your paying customers? This shit is fucking ridiculous.

Love,
matt

PS: I don't think that object instance has a string repr method or whatever you call it in your crazy Objective C.

[EDIT: As is often the case, the malfunction occurred much closer to home. Turns out (as I had sort of suspected) that I signed up for service on their site myself; so I could contribute to the EFF. Razoo are great people and tried very hard to help me figure out how my account was created.]

So a couple of days ago, I got an email from Razoo encouraging me to add information to my user profile there. It was sent to an email address that I only use for LiveJournal, and the username is my lj username. I sent their support address an email asking how this account was created, and they gladly sent back useless information: my username and email address (which I already knew), and also that the account was created in December of last year.

Anyone else gotten spam from these guys? I suspect that they are just scraping lj accounts and adding them as "users" on their site.

Choco taco.

So I recently made a change from Speakeasy over to Sonic.net. It was a little sad for me, since Speakeasy overall had been very good to me for the last four years. Their network performed well, and their customer service was friendly, helpful, and generally very clueful.

The problem was that over the last 4 years, technology has made its inexorable march forward. Sonic is now offering ADSL2+ (plus!) where Speakeasy, the last time I checked, had no plans to offer it. The difference between my Speakeasy ADSL and Sonic's ADSL2+ was all about speed:

Speakeasy: 3mbps down, 768k up, three static IP addresses: $95.30/mo


Sonic: 10mbps down, 1mbps up, 8 static IP addresses: $90/mo


The observant may note that I am not getting the full 10mbps from Sonic. That's because I am about 9500 feet from my CO. I am surprised that I'm managing to get 6.7mbps, to be honest. They do have a 6/1 service tier for $70/mo, but I am far too greedy to leave 700kbps on the table. (edit: now that I think about it, a 30 percent premium for a 10 percent speed increase is sort of a bummer. Will have to think about that.)

Sucks to say goodbye to Speakeasy, but I did try to call and ask if they could offer a more competitive price before ordering Sonic- they had me on hold for 30 minutes before I gave up.

always there
a constant reminder

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