Milkshakes for...

This is now happening with some Amazon orders. There's an Amazon warehouse within 10 miles of my house, and it used to be that I often received orders the day after I placed them if they shipped from that warehouse. Recently, I've seen things listed as sitting in the UPS facility in Indiapolis for a day, so they get two-day rather than next-day delivery.

I have ordered, received, opened/played/disliked, returned all IN SAME DAY from Amazon. (same day, all within 8 hours)

Here is the check-out screen I was presented with...




Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 04/20/2012 06:16AM by El Jeffe.

Can't speak to AU Customs, Tony, but in the US, "Point of Entry" can actually be flexible. Certain carriers are bonded and allowed to move goods through to several points within a quarantine zone before finally being inspected.

Aside from that, also US but perhaps more prevalent, is that if you only pay for a certain class of service, you only get that class of service, regardless of whether the opportunity exists to improve it or not.

...Safari.

I'd typed up a lengthy post in another thread and was about to post it when - for no explicable reason - Safari decided to refresh all of the browser windows (about ten) that were open. The text disappeared of course.

Grrr...

There should be an app for that! (not saying there is. But really, there needs to be a a safety net)

My wife had that problem a lot since a few Lion upgrades back. It has diminished some with the most recent update. We think that it has to do with letting her hands get too close to the trackpad, and the new gestures Lion has added.

Oh, that's a good insight and possibility. I was wondering if it was something to do with "Safari Web Content" (whatever that is, but it takes up a lot of RAM) quitting or restarting.

ddt

Filevault 1 users and Mac OS X 10.7.3.

Apple and their "internet recovery" method for reinstalling Lion pre-indstalled on MacBooks.

My parents live in an area with shitty internet and use a USB dongle which means "internet recovery" just doesn't happen...

If Apple's not going to put lion on an install DVD can they at least have it on a thumb drive with each laptop they sell?

On the (slight) chance that you don't know this: there is a slightly sneaky way to burn a Lion install DVD using the installer that you can download from the Mac App Store.

Ooh! Is the installer free or do you mean the 3.9 GB file you download from the app store?

Sadly, I mean the 3.9 GB file from the app store. If you view contents, you can find a disk image inside which can be burned to DVD. Or USB thumb drive for that matter. There are guides out on the web. But, yeah, you'd have to buy Lion if you don't already have a copy of the installer. Not ideal, but probably no more expensive than the price increase Apple would throw on every Mac they sell if they included a 4GB thumb drive.

This is what I did. Sadly, I don't have the bandwidth or Dropbox space to share an image.

ddt

Thumb drive instructions.

Apple's Migration Assistant.

New MacBook Pro, so used MA to copy from old MBP. First, it refused to let me use FW Target Disk Mode. I have FW 800 on both of these Macs, and still had to use Ethernet. Hell, it was a major battle to keep it from using wireless.

After a few days of random oddness, I figured out that, for my Applications folder, MA only transferred the app files themselves, archives, and .nib files. Any other supporting documents were not transferred. A lot of my games have a lot of ancillary files in their folders, my emulators have ROM files and disk images, and many applications had documentation and read me files. WTF? I know Apple is moving to a single-file app model, where all required files are within the app itself, but they have to realize that many third party apps do not follow this model. What's so hard about copying the whole Applications directory? It could be done as a single line in Terminal!

Snow Leopard forever!

Milkshakes for migration assistant. Because it sucks.

Made the mistake of signing onto wifi before I realized the new machine had a gigabit ethernet adapter in the box.

After that couldn't get MiAss to see ethernet. There's the little radio button… conveniently dimmed.

Had to create a user account and launch from within the OS. And you know what? I'm going to have to delete that user account later because I know the Mac OS won't let you use MiAss when the target machine already has a user account of the same name. Been burned too many times that way!!!

Plus it's been half an hour since MiAss started saying "less than a minute remaining." Can't they get anything right??? : .... (

That's what I meant about a "major battle to keep it from using wireless." I ended up forcing a reboot to exit MA and start over again. There is no way to keep it from using wireless once it knows the password.

Magsafe 2.

It's the crapster.

It is incompatible. You know how many plugs we've got around here? Let alone around the world. Why oh why?

It comes out more easily. The side connection was harder to knock off.

It's more subtle. Looks slicker.

What gives, eh, Steve-O?