I HATE APPLE

problem is is that apple would have to pay a royalty on every copy of iMovie with Mpeg-1 encoding support and that isn't worth it (see also SanDisks trouble with one of the mpeg licensing authorities). Mpeg-1 has awful licensing for encoding, MPEG-2 is even worse, MPEG-4 is much saner.

here is a big list of email addresses and real addresses and phone numbers at apple for you to complain to, if you wish - http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/action-alert-tell-steve-jobs-and-apple.html

which, it strikes me, could come in handy for some of the other issues that have been brought up on this thread.

"My Macbook has been struck by the affliction that's affecting quite a number of the machines; it keeps switching itself off, eventually getting into a cycle of turning itself off every time you hit the power button. A PMU reset fixes it, or at least allows you to boot it up, but the problem comes back a few hours later. What fun. It's in with AppleCare at the moment, but many have got their machine back 'fixed' only to have it begin again a few days afterwards."

Something similar started happening to my G4 Powerbook (1.67GHz, 1 GB RAM, 100GB HD) last week. I checked in some of the Mac online forums, and the problem seems to be fairly widespread, especially with machines purchased in 2005. Apparently, the cause is a faulty temperature sensor in the trackpad which sends misleading information to the machine's power management unit. I checked my system log using Console, and noticed that the message: "Power Management recevied emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep" appeared several times. Luckily my computer is still under warantee (for another 4 days),and I bought Apple Care. I'm taking it into the Apple store tonight, and I hope that they can sort it out quickly, without me having to go back several times. I've heard mixed reviews about Apple's customer support.

OK, now I do hate Apple.

if you're using bash as your shell:

for f in *.zip; do unzip "$f"; rm "$f"; done

(NB do not blame me if this goes horribly wrong and fucks your machine up, cos I haven't tested it)

Ed, that reminds me why I don't do that - there seems to be a weird Finder bug on my machine, whereby if I right slick on more than one file that's selected, Finder immediately crashes 75% of the time. Very annoying!

Note also that, when it crashes while opening an archive, it often leaves behind large invisible temp folders.

[ducks]

i see rather more of that beachball than i'd really like, even at other times

bit frustrating.

leaving dual core aside for now, how do these powerbook compare to pc laptops, performance wise?

i dunno. i mean, i cant justify the expense of a macbook pro, but i didnt really expect the powerbook to struggle with what seems a relatively light load

i might try installing it on the dell, be interesting to compare performance for it

yea, theres lotsa different ways of keeping the cpu down, but, you know, "deleting any system-draining plug-ins", isnt really what im looking to do!

you know what i'm talkin about. when you try to turn the volume up or down with the keyboard and it responds like 10 seconds after you press the button, and moves one tick at a time, making a broken "thup thup thup thup thup" sound.

FOR YEARS NOW

(maybe this has changed with the intelbooks but AAARRRGH)