Apple are making it hard for me to love them at the moment.
I’ve been spending a huge amount of time fixing up my mother-in-law’s Bondi Blue iMac; decided early on to cut my losses and wipe the hard drive and re-install OS 9.2. But even though she told me not to bother, I decided to try and back up her data.
Big mistake.
You’d think it would be quite easy to get an iMac with the newest version of OS 9 talking to a Powerbook with the newest version of OS X, right?
Wrong.
After much frustration, and yes, shouting at the screen, I found out that Tiger only supports Appletalk over TCP/IP. It won’t talk Appletalk direct. Which explains why I was going nutzoid trying to figure out why the OS 9 iMac and the OS 10.4 PowerBook would talk via my WiFi router, but – amazingly – not if I join their two ethernet ports together with a bit of CAT5 cable.
Next time: the Exciting Story of the MacMinis that Cannot For The Life of them Remember What Screen Resolution They Should Be In.
This is what happens if you go teckkie and start learning Linux. Suddenly you want to be “backing up” and “ethernet” and “command line”. Macs are for designing T-Shirts, Giles, and web sites and writing music. Get out from under that bonnet or it’s Boot Camp for you.
It’s a fair cop but society is to blame. Anyway, I’m trying to design a t-shirt for the 2006 World Service World Cup – if only anyone could tell me when it is and what team we’re going to be…
I spend all day shouting at computers and all evening doing the same. I guess I should be canoeing to work at Howies…