It seems that my last two weeks has been spent dealing with computer problems, wondering why on earth one shells out for such things.
First it was Radio Userland, which died (never to recover) simply because I moved it from one directory to another, and then it was Final Cut Pro (which costs real money, though not compared to AVID etc.)
Couldn't get the the fucka to work when I returned from Provence. Spent days trashing preferences, typing in incomprehensible (and scary) Unix commands, swapping firewire cables (boy have there been some scare stories about fried firewire ports) doing surface scans of hard drives....nothing, whatever happened, the video chopped like a cheap kung fu movie.
But now I know. I know that my faith in Apple should never have faltered. I know that I have sinned. The problem lay in the camera. Its firewire port had not exactly fried, rather it had merely simmered. It was made by the same people who made a certain Windows Laptop I made the mistake of buying a few years ago. That one lasted just one year. It was made by the same people who made a certain Network audio player which worked with no operating system other than the short lived Windows 98 (ME, 2000, fuggetabahtit.) In short it is a Sony camera. I am getting sick and tired of the half built products. If only I could get over that Playstation addiction.
Posted by tomfox at November 13, 2003 02:28 AM | TrackBack