That's three things to be angry at Apple for today
1) I cracked open an old iPhone toy application, and the usual guess-where-I-hid-a-reference-to-that-expired-signing-certificate game was a fun way to spend more time configuring a build than it took to make the code changes I needed.
2) I usually use Dropbox for this sort of thing, but I didn't want to synch a personal project with some of my other Dropbox clients, which can be work machines. So, I used iDisk to host the project directory, but being WebDAV, it kept complaining, in a very obnoxious center-of-the-screen way, about symlinks. iDisk seems to exist only to tell me that it can't do things I want it to do, such as, say, synching to the server.[1]
3) Finally, this evening, I lost network connectivity for some of my machines, and generally killed network throughput, because the Airport Extreme[2] lost a connection to a WDS client[3]. It decided that losing a downstream wireless AP was reason enough to go into alert mode, and killed all connectivity. Airport Utility did pop up a dialog on One, but being a big chunk of Aluminum, and therefore non-portable, I wasn't near it to find out why so many devices were wonky.
On the bright side, I did finally justify a use for the third Futurama -- I mean Futamura -- projection this weekend. The hard part is understanding and the harder part is implementing. But that has nothing to do with Apple, or angry.
[1] Remind me to tell you about the fun to be had when a git-managed project gets copied to iDisk, or try it yourself.
[2] k1x0r on the admittedly complicated-for-a-home-of-two-people network diagram. Dotted lines are wireless, solid lines are ethernet. Green blobs are APs, blue are devices.
[3] fux0r on the same diagram. Yes, it's a childish name.
[4] Don't worry, garbage collection will pick up this one.
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