Posts Tagged ‘applesucks’

Ping Off, Steve

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Dear Steve Jobs,

Ping sucks, big time.  If you are going to try and demand that we all let you be the gateway for deciding what kinds of music we are allowed to like and what bands we want to follow, you’re going to have to develop a decent taste for music.  You don’t even support 90% of the stuff that’s for sale in iTunes.  I gave it a shot, ’cause I like stats and tracking history and whatnot, but I turned it off today, and probably won’t ever try it again.    Now if only I could turn off the stupid ping button that shows up on every track.

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Mac OSX Time Machine Doesn’t Work

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

For the last two days, I come home to a screen with the message,

“Time Machine Error

Unable to complete the backup, an error ocurred while copying files to the backup volume.”

No other details, no suggestions on fixes, no indication if this means all backups are trashed, or just the most recent.

But it gets better; turns out this is a known issue, hence the reason Apple dis-recommends using Time Machine as a backup, only as an archive.

Steve Jobs sucks again.

UPDATE:  Still broken this morning, but of course, if you grep the syslog for backupd messages, it says that actually, the backup completed successfully.  I wonder who is telling thru truth.  I sure know I wouldn’t trust any vital information to Time Machine, if I were you.

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