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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.

Home-network-20100612

[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.

Comments (1)

Jun 16, 2010
Jeba said...
I've also had similar kind of problems when reconnecting to the local area network through the connection manger in Mac OSx 10.6. Somehow it has to be improved..

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