Never, ever go see this movie. Unless of course you want to see Paris Hilton die :). If you do happen to come across this movie, save yourself a whole heap of time and sanity and just skip to 72 minutes into the movie, and watch the next 5 minutes. It really is the highlight of the movie!
I’m now in the waiting time to get all of the replacement hardware that I’ve returned under warranty in the past few weeks. I’ve had to send back 2 x 160Gb Maxtor SATA drives, 1 x Digium TDM400P VoIP FXO and 1 x BenQ 20.1” LCD screen.
The fun continues. The hard drives started pulling read errors and on a full format came up with bad sectors - very bad for data - even though they were less than 18 months old! The FXO card developed a fault where it wouldn’t pass audio, and the LCD screen developed a couple of bright pixels.
This means I’m currently stuck using my trusty 12” PowerBook G4 (even with the dodgy Superdrive!) until I get my screen back. When will it end :)
If you know either of them, you’ll know that Tyson has now married Bec! This makes it the only time in the history of the Clugg family that there have been three Mrs Clugg’s alive.
After being in the bridal party and having a great weekend, my congrats go to them both and I wish that they will have a long and happy life together.
I think this was the most digital camera aware wedding that I have ever heard of - with well over 3Gb of photos being taken throughout the day. I know that this is at least 750 photos that I have access to, and many, many more that I will never see!
As posted on my petition, I have sent yet another email to Apple Australias Hardware Manager, Geoff Winder.
I don’t know if I will actually get a reply this time, as it’s been well over a month since my original email, and weeks since a follow up went unanswered. I have also tried calling Geoff, but only manage to get his voicemail.
As much as I like my new Apple gear, I have to say that Apple SuperDrives suck. I mean really suck. SuperDrives have to be the black hole of DVD writer suckyness. When I bought my gear, I decided to put DVD writers in both the 12” PowerBook, and the Mac Mini. Stupid me - and here’s why.
When you put a DVD into these units, you will be very lucky if you happen to pick a brand of media that these units actually like. Chances are, if you don’t say a prayer to your prefered diety first, your media will only be recognised as 2x media. It doesn’t matter what the label on your media says - the SuperDrive will only treat it as 2x media. Different brand of media you say? What about 5 different brands? Heh. Still the same issue. Throw these discs in any other writer on the face of the planet, and they’ll burn perfectly!
After months of trying to get Apple to actually do something about this firmware issue, as well as contacting the drive manufacturers (who said it’s all Apples fault for using defective firmware!), nothing has happened. So now I’ve started a petition to get these drives to be a little less suckier. If you are also affected by this issue, please sign the petition at http://superdrive.crc.id.au