Sticky Dell

I was offline for a couple of days due to the fact that I poured some iced tea into my brand new Dell laptop. Can you imagine telling your boss that your new Dell laptop is, uhhh… sticky and doesn’t work anymore? You really don’t want to do that! This laptop turned into a semi-working, iced tea-smelling craptop.

At this point the Dell is working again. There are several things that just made me change my mind about using the laptop as my primary machine.

• It installs, for no reason at all, “new hardware.”

• The left side of the keyboard isn’t working anymore.
• For no reason, my scroll-wheel started going crazy. This is very annoying when you’re browsing the Web.
• I got the feeling that the laptops runs very hot, but then again I don’t know if this was any different than before the encounter with the iced tea.

So, this is why I did not update my blog. You could say that there is a bright side on all of this due to the fact that I am typing this report on my good ol’ PowerBook. This something I don’t mind at all, although I started liking the Dell each day a bit more.

In other news, for all the people out there who live under a rock…

Apple released 10.4.7, so download, people! This is the list of things addressed in this update!

• Preventing AFP deadlocks and dropped connections

• Saving Adobe and Quark documents to AFP mounted volumes
• Bluetooth file transfers, pairing and connecting to a Bluetooth mouse, and syncing to mobile phones
• Audio playback in QuickTime, iTunes, Final Cut Pro, and Soundtrack applications
• Ensuring icons are spaced correctly when viewed on the desktop
• Determining the space required to burn folders
• iChat audio and video connectivity, creating chat rooms when using AIM
• Importing files into Keynote 3
• PDF workflows when using iCal and iPhoto
• Reliable use of Automator actions within workflows
• Importing and removing fonts in Font Book
• Syncing addresses, bookmarks, calendar events, and files to .Mac
• Compatibility with third party applications and devices
• Previous standalone security updates

I installed the update and it works perfectly! So no worries there!

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