When Flickr fucks up, it does so, big time! If THAT is not an epic fail, what is?

Ok, so I seem to exist… but elsewhere. Cool, maybe I’m where Peter Pan lives. Maybe I’ll never grow up, never die and just fight pirates for ever. Just what I’ve always wished.

Tags: Flickr, bug, fail

Either the dollar fell down the drain and I was not aware. Or Yahoo! Finance is really fucked up… or is it only the rates they provide to the widget? Except I don’t want to go to their page, which is boring and scarry, to find the exchange rates and I want to be able to use the handy widget.

It’s not the first time, this happens quite often.

Anyway, if this exchange rate is accurate, let me tell you that I will order loads of stuff on the web!

Ou bien le dollar s’est écroulé et je n’étais pas au courant. Ou bien Yahoo! Finance déconne grave… ou bien est-ce seulement les taux fournis au widget ? Sauf que je ne veux pas aller sur leur page, qui est chiante et effrayante juste pour convertir des devises et que je veux pouvoir utiliser le widget.

Ce n’est pas la première fois, cela arrive souvent.

Mais si ce taux de change est le bon, laissez-moi vous dire que je vais commander des tonnes de truc sur le web!

Tags: Widget, currency, bug

Well, I forgot to post this one the day I took it, so here it is, almost a month late. But still worth a look.

That day, I suddenly lost all my FireWire peripherals. Just like that. One second they were there and the next second, they were gone. After a few on/off and unplug/plug processes, I checked the System Profiler and discovered this time, the iMac G5 lost his FireWire interface. He already lost Bluetooth, some USB (not all), AirPort, microphone and/or camera… but FireWire, it’s a first.

It required a restart and a zapped PRAM to solve this.

J’ai oublié de publier ceci le jour où je l’ai sauvé, donc le voici avec presque un mois de retard. Mais ça reste intéressant.

Ce jour-là, j’ai soudainement perdu tous mes périphériques FireWire. Comme ça. Une seconde ils étaient là, la seconde d’après, ils avaient disparu. Après quelques extinctions/allumages et débranchement/branchement, j’ai vérifié les Informations Système, pour découvrir que l’iMac G5 avait perdu son interface FireWire. Il avait déjà perdu le Bluetooth, certains ports USB (pas tous), AirPort, le micro et/ou la caméra, mais le FireWire, c’est la première fois.

Il a fallu un redémarrage avec zapping de la PRAM pour résoudre ce souci.

Tags: , Apple, FireWire, bug, iMac

Obviously, Apple should increase their “firing people” rate, not only in Mobile Me division, but also in iTunes and iPhone divisions…

Here is something that happens all the time, lately… I see that in iTunes, telling me 5 apps have available updates online.

So I click on “Applications” in the list. And get a listing of all the downloaded Applications. In the bottom right corner, a message tells me that I can go and download the 5 updates.

I click on that and I get the following message :

I live in France, so, even if my whole machine is in english (for reasons I’ve already explained, I think), the iTunes Store I’m logged to is France’s and the specific messages are in french too. But here is the translation :

Application updates

No updates are available right now for ••• (•••@mac.com). To look for updates for another account, log in with this account.

[ Finished ]

Well, this is obviously another case of “we hired cheap, incompetent people from microsoft and now we make our users suffer as if they were on the Dark Side and we still haven’t taken the necessary steps to make it right”… Sure, as crappy as Mac OS X, the related hardware and applications have become, they still are far superior in terms of ease of use, elegance, stability and robustness to their windows counterparts. And I wouldn’t cross the line and leave what is still the best system available. But I certainly miss the days when uptime could be counted in weeks, even months and we could laugh at windows users problems, since we now know what it is to be forced to do regular backups, fear fo
Now, please, Apple, do whatever it takes to become the best hardware and software company again. Steve Jobs is known to fire people easily and harshly, for much less than that! Time to practice, Mr. Jobs, time to practice…

Tags: iPhone, iPod Touch, , Apple, iTunes, AppStore, bug

No, really, I’m fed up of sending bug reports to Apple!

Hence…

And I’m quite disappointed, to say the least, that my “personal information is not sent with this report” and that I “will not be contacted in response to this report”…

Tags: Apple, microsoft, bug, Safari

Why oh why?

I was using iPhoto, as I told you earlier and I was so happy with this fantastic iApp. But iPhoto suddenly decided not to let me apply “reduce noise” or “sharpen” effects on my photos. After lots of efforts and time lost, the only solution left was to switch to Aperture.

Well, ok, why not…

There are quite a lot of issues, the main one being it’s quite slow on my iMac G5 and making the need for a new machine even more obvious.

Another one is the following. And it drives me mad.

While the iPod Touch or iPhone synchronisation with iPhoto’s Library was easy and perfectly working, the synchronisation between Aperture’s Library and the iPhone (or iPod Touch, you got it now, I won’t use both names each time) is simply bugged beyond all you can imagine.

I’ve searched the web around, to find out if there was a solution. And it appeared that some people suggested that Aperture needed to finish generating the preview for the photos for them to appear in iTune’s Photos synchronisation tab.

Ok, well, I let Aperture work (a long time) to generate the previews for my 36,580 photos. And guess what? It only proposes me 111 photos in iTunes! Yes, out of more than 30,000! And only a few of my hundreds Albums and Projects. This is insane. Unacceptable from Apple.

In fact, before it finished generating all the previews, it allowed me to see much more photos from my Aperture Library. This is insane.

They have hired people from Microsoft or what?

Just to be sure and since I still haven’t deleted my damaged iPhoto Library, I switched the sync to that iPhoto and it shows me the whole Library and all the Albums I’ve got. Works perfectly as it should.

So what? I will have to maintain two photo librairies to be able to sync my iPhone correctly? It’s not acceptable. This is a major bug and it has to be solved.

Tags: malédiction, iPhone, , Apple, iPhoto, Aperture, iPod, bug

Because I’m the punch-bag of some evil god, I hold concurrently.

Recently, it’s iPhoto who decided to annoy me. Obviously, I’m not the only one, but we still are not enough to alarm Apple and even less incite them to correct the problem. However, I want to deeply thank Terence Devlin for his kindness and patience.

So, there was little choice and we had to switch to Aperture, since it’s the only way to continue combining archiving, easy sharing and retouching. It’s a lot more demanding than iPhoto and also much slower on our aging machine.

Oh yes, did I already tell you about the other problems? Of course not, impossible, the blog was brain dead…

Well, it “forgot” it had a built-in iSight. And also it knew how to burn DVDs. Obviously, the G5 has been the generation of too much, at IBM, for Apple.

It is more than time for us to put this iMac into early retirement. It is more than time to go for an duo core intel iMac 24”.

Parce que je suis le souffre-douleur de je ne sais quelle divinité malfaisante, je cumule.

Récemment, c’est iPhoto qui a décidé de me faire des misères. Visiblement, je ne suis pas un cas isolé, mais nous sommes suffisamment peu nombreux pour qu’Apple n’y voit pas matière à s’alarmer et encore moins à corriger le problème. Je tiens cependant à remercier chaleureusement Terence Devlin pour sa gentillesse et sa patience.

Donc il a bien fallu se résoudre à passer à Aperture, car c’est semble-t-il le seul moyen de conserver la capacité à combiner archivage, partage simple et retouches. Il est bien plus lourd qu’iPhoto, bien plus lent aussi sur notre machine vieillissane.

Ah oui, je ne vous avais pas dit les autres problèmes ? Ben non, pas possible, le blog était en état de mort cérébrale…

Eh bien elle a “oublié” qu’elle avait une iSight intégrée. Et puis aussi qu’elle savait graver les DVD. Visiblement, le G5 aura été la génération de processeurs de trop chez IBM, pour Apple.

Il serait plus que temps de la mettre à la semi-retraite. Il serait plus que temps de passer à un iMac 24” intel à double cœur.

Tags: malédiction, , Aperture, Apple, iPhoto, bug

Si j’en doutais encore, voici une confirmation supplémentaire du fait que le sort s’acharne sur moi…

Entre autres emmerdes, déceptions, trahisons, échecs, espoirs déçus, voici que 157 858 034 octets de la base du blog, qui était reparti après un passage sous RapidWeaver et encore en cours de restauration, d’ailleurs, ont décidé de partir en fumée, le 13 avril (non, c’était un mercredi). Le fichier n’a pas changé de taille, il est juste plein de… vide.

Les “support ninjas” de Realmac Software eux-même n’ont rien compris à ce qui a pu se passer et encore moins pu me fournir une “moulinette” capable de retransformer le blog publié en fichier RapidWeaver…

Bref, une nouvelle archive de l’ancien blog et un nouveau départ de zéro.

La première version du site est toujours disponible, pour mémoire, là. Et la seconde version, encore une fois malchanceuse, est ici.

Il serait temps que ça s’arrête, tout ça, car je fatigue.

Tags: malédiction, , Apple, RapidWeaver, bug