Just to illustrate how computers have been in a pain in my arse, since lord knows when (well Apples since Apple II europlus days I guess ;) ), lets illustrate some G3 gripes and Issues I suffered in 2002, which I recently discovered written down on one of my drives, but never published (maybe as a covering note to apple repair) from back in June 2002, now Apple can take the negative publicity issues from this rubbish lol.

My motorola G3 CPU was covertly replaced, because only on the IBM version of the CPU could you actually install Mac os X 10.0 on, something that all lombard machines were supposed to be ready for. They had a swapout program going on in the US, but nothing ever got setup for UK customers with the motorola version of the CPU. Tech support at Apple US is much better than the UK equivalent, the guy at apple US support admitted to me he owned the same powerbook as I did, and had the Motorola CPU in his replaced almost a year before my query, with the correctly functioning IBM one, he informed that my unit had the same problem as his did before the swap, ie Macos X was impossible to install and run stably. EU and UK governments are good at guaranteeing cucumbers to be straight, but laughable when it comes to take tech companies to task through trading standards, its always been a serve yourself mentality in getting some true response from tech giants and their non recalled fuck ups, How many recalls have you heard of in the last 10 years ? truthfully they should have launched double or triple that number of recalls on products, but have managed to avoid it but playing stumb with their own customers about design flaws in models. early ibook users have allot to complain about in this dept, the number of motherboard failures were appalling, also all post on apple sites are heavily groomed to remove non flattering information.

sadly this machine was in use by my uncle until quite recently, but now has replaced it with a cheap crummy Pc laptop, as there was no low priced apple alternative.
WRITTEN 12 JUNE 2002 ABOUT MY APPLE G3 LOMBARD LAPTOP ——————————>

Dear Apple I have tried upgrading this machine with a 256 Mb memory module twice, bought from a mac memory supplier, who I have explicitly told them, what machine i have ie bronze keyboard with usb and scsi no built in firewire, with grackle memory controller. It is endlessly tiresome trying to sort these problems, The first simm recognized as a 128Mb Ram Simm, when it was described as a 256Mb ram simm from the retailer, The second simm came up with this error “The built in memory test has detected a problem please contact a service technician”

So now I have resorted back to my old 128Mb simm in the top slot.
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perhaps we should rename leopard : fat bloated kitty, snow leopard better be a massive improvement in this direction in terms of user control or these fuckers are just screwing us over again, with more hyper marketed down our throats cruft we get to have no control over.

Why is it only when i try and overwrite an application, I discover to my horror that it wont allow me to write over certain parts of the applications package, due to their being background running processes operating out of the application package with out my permission ? itunes has at least two processes
even when you have supposedly quit the application! Its this kind of cruft that programmers feel they have a write to put over us on us without offering us the choice or anything, because they think were to thick to notice, no wonder my quadcore feels like a 68020, this situation massiveley screwed me over recently when I tried to move a user folder, which had an adobe background process operating out of it from an acrobat reader install.

The software companies have got completely out of control with their use of background processes and presumptious use of the internet to keep a tab on users. The important thing is not whether they write this stuff this way, the important thing is they inform and give us the option not to run this crap, and don’t just presume well be happy with a zillion background process, after all I make a choice as to which programs to launch, I dont want them to be running without my permission ! At least in Macos 9 you had control over this crap via a GUI, ie extensions and control panels now it seems coders are able to run hundreds of bits of background code without ever asking my permission or even bothering to say what they do and what they are communicating with !?!

anybody have any idea why itunes 8.2.1 seems unbeleivably slow in comparison to older itunes ? I swear they have some count loop code they insert when they want us to upgrade to new machines just to make the kit weve got feel slow.