The Joy Of Getting Your Computer Fixed
Web // Jim // 18th March 2006
It was a very dark moment for me when my imac broke a few weeks back, and not just because it was the only light source at the time in my sad-looking room. First came denial - there were ultimately fruitless trawls through the techy backwaters of the online mac community looking for a miracle cure.
Next there was anger as the realisation that my hard drive had committed digital hari-kiri dawned, leaving me with a very expensive box that lit up and flashed a beautifully designed question mark at me but did fuck all else.
Finally came acceptance that I had completely lost everything and might as well take the computer in to the mac shop in the Bull Ring to get sorted. Their experts got onto it straight away, as you can see from the image the "Tobemeister" ascertained that the HD was indeed "Fuct" and they put a new one in, while managing to conform to every popular stereotype about IT support types. No complaints from me mind.
There is a reasonable happy end to the story as (despite Apple's evil DRM related attempts to prevent it) there is a way to rescue the many gigs of music off your ipod and get it back onto your mac. It is called iPodRip and it is worth its virtual weight in virtual gold, you can get it here.
Comments
Jim,
strange you should mention the requirement to get music from an ipod to a mac. Have just had the exact same problem moving things onto another one of my 5 computers Apple lets me have over here in Australia. ipod2mac is a lovely application.
Nick : 02/04/2006 15:08:42
Still, this DRM business keeps the recordable CD industry going. I can only copy stuff to 2 more macs. This bloody hard drive had better last.
Jim : 02/04/2006 15:37:50