Journal, Opinion and Rants!
I am growing impatient. Still waiting for the ADATA 128GB S599 SandForce 2.5-inch SSD that I ordered last week. Based on the tracking number, it has now been sitting in the local distribution center since Thursday, waiting to be delivered. It should have been delivered on Friday or Saturday but now I have to wait until Monday or Tuesday.
On Monday October 11th, 2010 I was having problem with my iPhone 3GS which is also my primary phone. After losing all network connections, it rebooted and going into DFU mode. I tried reinstalling the latest iOS available for the iPhone 3GS but I kept getting a baseband error message. I spent quite a lot of time looking for a way to get the iPhone 3GS working again. Unfortunately I found out that the problem was hardware related.
Tuesday Afternoon, I tried installing the latest iOS available again. The same baseband problem persisted. So I called AppleCare for assistance. Unfortunately during the conversations with an AppleCare representative the phone connection was interrupted. I managed to set up an appointment at an Apple Store Genius Bar.
I arrived at the Apple Store Genius Bar a few hours later. Shortly after explaining the circumstance, the Apple Genius took down the iPhone 3GS serial number and told me the good news. I was getting a replacement for the iPhone 3GS. I also noticed on the Genius Bar Work Authorization & Service Confirmation sheet the informations I provided to the AppleCare representative a few hours earlier.
Within minutes I had an iPhone 3GS replacement in my hand.
I now have a working iPhone 3GS again. Thank You Apple Genius and AppleCare.
I really am grateful for the help from the Apple Genius for going out of his way to make sure I have my problems resolved.
I’m replacing the hard drive of my MacBook Pro Core Duo.
What in the world Leo Laporte is thinking? He had been warned before, way before the first “Windows Weekly” podcast. Yes, “PODCAST” not the lame “netcast” term Laporte is trying to push.
Originally Laporte asked his audience if Paul Thurrott would be good for his Microsoft-centric podcast. Despite of the opinions against Thurrott, Laporte proceeded with the Original Microsoft Defender an produce the auditory abomination known as “Windows Weekly”.
Paul Thurrott, also known as the unofficial Microsoft P.R. Machine and the Original Microsoft Defender, has been making a living writing anything about Microsoft. He’s been showing his true color of disliking anything that is nt from Microsoft. Who in their right minds think that Microsoft Zune is a great product. (Pardon me for using the following term) Only Microsoft Sheep do, and that includes one of the biggest of them all, namely Paul Thurrott. Thurrott praises XBox 360 and look down upon Nintendo Wii. Despite of Wii’s triumph over XBox 360, Thurrott calls Nintendo Wii as a “joke” and a novelty console.
As for the Wii, I’m going to have to disagree with the consensus and call it as I see it: Unless you have very young kids with no video game experience at all, skip out on this console. The Wii is a joke, a novelty console that doesn’t offer much staying power.
It must have pained Thurrott greatly to call Sony Playstation 3 an XBox 360 equal. Let’s face it, XBox 360 sees the highest failure rate in the recent video game console history. I for one have seen containers full of defective XBox 360 ready to be shipped to China for “repairs”. They all are suffering from the same problems that is called the red ring of death.
In the recent auditory abortion called “Windows Weekly”, Thurrott tried to explain the whole Microsoft $300 Million campaign. Despite of the poor perceptions from the technology crowd, Thurrott steps in as the Microsoft P.R. and defend the campaign. Thurrott implies that he has the inside knowledge of the campaign and keep interrupting Leo Laporte on the subject. Thurrott also thinks that “Mojave Experiment” is such a success of sticking it to Apple and their “Get A Mac” ad campaign.
It is clear that Thurrott is being Passive-Aggressive and Defensive about the subject.
If only Thurrott would shed the “I’m an unbiased tech-enthusiast” and admit that he is a Microsoft Fanboy, then there would be no problems at all. After all, I also listen to Laporte’s “Macbreak Weekly” podcast. At least the people in “Macbreak Weekly” admit that they are huge Apple fans.
If you could be objective and have the patience to listen to the droning voice of Thurrott, you can find all the self-contradicting statements Thurrott made in “Windows Weekly podcast. One of the recent one he’s made is about bloat-ware. In “Windows Weekly” 74, Thurrott takes a stab at iTunes 8 and essentially call it as a bloated software. In “Windows Weekly” 66, Thurrott defends Microsoft Windows, and says that it is OK for being bloated because the hardware now can support the software. Thurrott would do the technology world a favor by keeping his opinion (if he has any, it’s all Microsoft P.R. materials anyway) to himself.
“Windows Weekly” is in need of a good panel to discuss the world of Microsoft. It is tiring to listen to Thurrott alone spewing Microsoft propaganda, ad garbage about everything non-Microsoft. It is possible that Leo Laporte couldn’t find anyone who would work with Thurrott on the podcast. At one time Laporte let people call in and contribute to the podcast. Definitely there were a few people callrd on Thurrott’s lies.
Paul Thurrott calls himself as a non-partisan tech-enthusiast just like Fox News call themselves as “Fair and Balanced”.
