I used to think I loved computers, but I think I've realized that, like jwz, I hate computers.
I never ran Windows for anything but games. I've always run FreeBSD or Linux (since 0.94!). I hate Apples the least, but maybe that's because I've owned them for the shortest amount of time and they haven't had time to turn on me.
Well, until now. The hard drive in Lori's refurbed Macbook died a couple of weeks ago. Completely dead. Out of the blue. We got the laptop less than a year ago.
My MacbookPro had a CPU fan that sounded like a jet taking off. Fortunately, I waited until my DVD drive died before I took it in. I bought Apple Care for the MBP, and I do believe we'll be buying it for the Macbook.
Recently, I noticed that one of my java applications wouldn't work anymore. Eclipse worked fine, but this other one wouldn't work. If I invoked it manually out of the .app directory, it would run just fine. Then I couldn't get tilt scream pong to work until I replaced the PPC JavaApplicationStub with the one from /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Resources/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub. I figured Rosetta and Java weren't playing well together, but I still didn't put it all together.
Then I noticed that Microsoft Word had stopped working. I couldn't even re-run the installer from the CD. Then it hit me that Rosetta had stopped working for me. Apparently it was the Quicktime 7.2 Update that hosed me.
So I had the joy of doing an archive and install. Most things came back fine, but of course I've been finding niggling things here and there.
So I don't hate Apple yet (I even convinced work to buy me an iMac), but I guess it's only a matter of time.
