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Mar. 6th, 2006 01:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI took my PDA with me when I went to the mall for lunch today. I took it along to read the news that I'd downloaded to it this morning, but I decided on a whim to try out its remote Livejournal client while I was there. I didn't say much since it was primarily a proof of concept post.
That post may or may not appear here, before or after this post. The truth is, my PDA reports that it sent the post off to... somewhere, and it didn't get any errors back in the process. Something at the other end of the connection was happy with the journal entry. The only question remaining for me is, where did my post go from there?
If it never shows, I'm all for blaming ActiveSync (which may be the subject of a future angry rant).
That post may or may not appear here, before or after this post. The truth is, my PDA reports that it sent the post off to... somewhere, and it didn't get any errors back in the process. Something at the other end of the connection was happy with the journal entry. The only question remaining for me is, where did my post go from there?
If it never shows, I'm all for blaming ActiveSync (which may be the subject of a future angry rant).
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Date: 2006-03-07 04:08 am (UTC)It was a Christmas gift from his wife, who did a lot of fucking research before making the purchase - taking into consideration our home network, the stuff he wanted it to do, and reviews of the product.
You know... Any time that Plonq has a problem with a machine, he usually gets at least one message from an Apple user doing the whole "omg, I can't believe you use Windoze lolollerskatez" thing. When I see his friends having trouble with their Macs (which happens more frequently than I would expect, based on the propaganda spouted by the Mac community), do I see Plonq responding with, "omg I can't believe you paid so much for a doorstop lollerskates"?
NO.
Having some fucking courtesy. Both systems have problems. Both have advantages. If you have nothing useful to add, feel free to move along.
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Date: 2006-03-07 05:12 am (UTC)And, as a bonus, when they break it is often catastrophic and requires the replacement of parts that are only available from the nearest Apple distributer which in our case was in Sydney, 400 km away. Often the parts were unavailable and he had to wait for them to come from the US. Typical repair time for a Macintoy: 1 week IF the parts were available. If not, 2 weeks to 1 month.
Of course, I was just the dumb DOSbox techy who could hack Win3.1/3.11/95/98/ME/2K/NT/XP into shape. So what would I know about Macintoys.