Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Apple TV upgrade not upgradeable itself

Upgrade to 2.0 .... try upgrading to 2.1 : forget it, there is a bug whereby it can't download the 2.1 software. Rebooting the AppleTV does not work, nor does sitting there pressing it 80 times.

Restoring to Factory settings does - meaning back to version 1.0 before forward to version 2.1

Lame.

Monday, July 7, 2008

.Mac sync craziness - Microsoft could have done better


More needless policing from .Mac in respect of syncing files.  


I do have two Macs. The other has not been on for a week, whereas this one I use daily. 

.Mac is telling me there's a conflict.  Its wrong there is no conflict. Indeed there are not 76 conflicts.  It sees some incompatibility between file times on the server versus my MacBook Pro.  

I guess both use NTP for time synchronization, so this is confusing. 
More confusing perhaps as this did no
t popup yesterday or last week as an issue, and I've done nothing to affect this.

Then it vetoes my attempt to choose "use most recent version" making you wonder why it could not have known that in advance.

Lastly, why can't it understand something about the contents of a file.  That's revision control 101, and Apple seem to have missed it.  These files have not changed, its just that the dates are a little askew.

Apple pay your developers a bit more, and fix your usability bugs will ya.  Jeez, Microsoft could have done better.