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01/21/2005: "Back on Mac"

Got my 12" Powerbook back from AppleCare. Some chuf @ Flextronic sent me a note telling me not only that my "non-Apple" (Kingston) memory was incompatble with my "iBook" (I don't own one), but added that the memory caused the problem, and recommended that I not re-install my 1GB SO-DIMM. Feh, we both know that they replaced the disk drive (and IDE cable), because there was problem with the drive. Nice one, asshole.

Spent 5 hours last night rebuilding things:

First you run the "Software Updater, watch it download over 200MB of stuff. Twice, because the damn thing crashed half-way though the install the first time. Then the real fun began:

Update the Bluetooth firmware: check
Quicksilver: check
Fugu: check
SSHKeychain: check
Xcode 1.5 (also a large download): check
Carbon Emacs: check
OpenMCL: check
SLIME: check

Attached the iPod and ran iSync, *poof* went one of my two backup copies of AddressBook. Turns out that iSync just blindly copies things to the iPod, presumably because the iPod doesn't have a way to change any of the data that iSync will manage. This is just lazy programming, Apple.

Fortunately, my cell phone also had a copy of data, and after pairing the phone, iSync managed to do the "Right Thing" (tm) and I have the contents of Addressbook back.

Setup Mail.app (and then wait for the folders to sync), and finally gave iChat my account details. After all that, I sat down and watched the Keynote from MacWorld, over a week after it happened.

Unfortunately, the only copy of the songs I've purchased from ITMS live on my iPod now. ITMS won't let you re-download these. Thats also a bad move on Apple's part.