I am sick and tired of hearing all the newly enlightened Apple enthousiasts about how cool Apple and Macs are. Everything is so cute! Everything "just works"! Everything is so fast! Everything is so well designed!
Hallucinations can be really great while they last, so just beat the heck out of it man!
Anyway, while I was working late tonight trying to unravel the mysteries of SBP2 all of a sudden the Apple installation toolkit decides to give me a break and tells me that I should install something which I can't remember. It was a mere 2MB download so I said what the heck.
Next thing I know, it asks me to reboot and I kindly decline. However it seems that it couldn't make up its mind whether it was done or not with me, so it started checking again for additional software updates! So it comes up with a new window informing me that I should "update" QuickTime 7.5 and Safari, which of course I didn't have installed on the first place so how could I possibly update them. Just for the record, a mere 28MB and 22MB download each, while the Opera browser that I use is a mere 8.5MB that is if you get the international version.
One thing struck me a bit odd. What the hell is "Safari"?
Of course I do know that it is a browser, but shouldn't they at least qualify it with a subtitle, like "Safari browser"? I mean, I DON'T have it installed on my machine and still they expect me to KNOW what "Safari" is? That's some confidence I must admit, but they did go overboard this time!
Being the curious guy that I am I clicked on "Safari" in order to see the description they provided for it. And here's what expected me:
Wow wow wow!!! Safari is "WhichDescription()". Now I am enlightened too :-D
Needless to say, I unchecked Safari because I don't browse the jungle in the first place and I thought of giving QuickTime 7.5 a try. After a minute or so of downloading, I get a beautiful error message telling me that "There were installation errors".
Think about it, isn't it just so cute? It could have said "There WILL be installation errors" but they didn't want to sound almighty I guess :-D
Anyway I was too quick to dismiss that dialog so I run Apple Update once again to repro the error and show it to you. Magically enough... it installed correctly this time :-) Apple nirvana, keep trying dudes and you will get it!
Have fun!
Dimitris Staikos
P.S: I did like the folding dialog though... So cute...
P.P.S: Yeah I know, MS is to blame since I am running Winddoze in the first place so what did I think?
Hmmm...Quicktime finally installed on a Windoze computer after some difficulty - and you are pissed at Apple? Hmmmm. And I assume everything is working fine without issues? Hmmmmm Now I realize it!!!!! Any Doze user that uses Apple's software, and it works perfectly even if there are any minor inconveniences, gets angry with Apple. Classic! The years of pain you've experienced using Doze has made you hypersensitive. Dude, get a Mac!
Posted by: JPO | August 04, 2008 at 11:38 PM
Looks like somebody is in deep need of a Mac. This silly article was clearly written by someone still uneducated about modern computing.
Get a Mac and be free of all your frustrations.
Posted by: OS11 | August 05, 2008 at 01:36 AM
LOL @ JPO
Finally???
Some difficulty???
Aren't those situations that you face only with Microsoft software?
I know, know... it is not a problem if it isn't windoze. I really don't get it. Why that sentence makes any sense?
Problems are problems, trouble is trouble and idiots are just idiots.
And a last question. Who said it works perfectly? I have seen a lot of bugs in every kind of software. Apple and Linux included. Wake up.
Posted by: me | August 05, 2008 at 11:23 AM
Hey guys, "me" is not ME :-) but I agree with "me". Problems are problems, no matter the OS you are using. It seems however that somehow Linux/Mac users just don't bother too much with the problems they are facing everyday in their OSes, because... they are not caused by the evil M$.
Anyway I have several Vista blunders on display if you care to look in the blog under "Funny Software" so you can't blame me as being prejudiced.
@OS11: "Modern Computing"? Yeah sure, it runs on like 4 different computers if I am not very mistaken, that's way too modern for me.
Posted by: Dimitris Staikos | August 05, 2008 at 12:57 PM