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ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista
CWmike writes "Apple 's latest version of iTunes crashes Windows Vista when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC, scores of users have reported on Apple's support forum. Plug in and Vista crashes and shows the 'blue screen of death.' The errors began showing up immediately after updating iTunes to Version 8.0, which Apple released Tuesday as part of its iPod refresh. 'I just installed iTunes 8 over my iTunes 7 on Vista [and] now whenever I plug in my iPod, I get a blue screen death. Three times so far. Even if it is plugged in on boot, I get a blue screen," said a user identified as 'sambeckett' on the support forum about 90 minutes after Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapped up the iPod launch."
Yay!! I was getting worried I was never going to see the BSOD again.. Welcome back old friend
I thought you were going to say that Vista was causing the iPod metal shell to become highly charged and was responsible for electrocutions.
After all, Vista kills babies!
That really IS horrible. I did not know that anyone was actually using Vista. - Steve J.
Expect Slashdot comments to blame Vista too.
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"
iTunes ain't done, 'til Vista don't run!
It really seems that causing a BSoD is something that would have come up in testing, no?
Anything you say will be held against you.
This sounds like a feature, not a bug.
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
"iTunes has detected illegal music files. Now trashing your computer . . . please wait for the lawyers to show up."
No good deed goes unpunished. - Avon, Blake's 7
Well, you know how it is; QA labs are always underfunded... Maybe their budget wouldn't stretch to a Vista license. Or they couldn't figure out which version to buy.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
"Wow PC, it looks like your Vista users are really having headaches running great software like iTunes 8. Mac runs them just fine."
"You son of a bitch." (Pulls out a gun)
"Whoa PC, whoa, let's not..."
BLAM.
So, it's MS's fault that an app released today crashes their year-old OS? Oh, they should have tested it, right?
It's official. Most of you are morons.
I blame Vista.
I went to RTFA. Before it showed me the article, though, I got a page that asked, "What are you waiting for? Make the move to Microsoft Vista with confidence."
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Expect Vista to bla #####
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Personally, I blame Linux.
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Clippy: It looks like your printer is on fire. Would you like to:
* Call 911
* Put it out.
* Let it burn.
Microsoft debugged it on a vista box
Fixed that for you. Signed drivers, and all.
They hired an marketing expert so they could work those things out...
It's just that the machine wouldn't stay up long enough to run through the test script when when they plugged in the iPod.
Patent litigation: A doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction... in which everyone seems willing to push the button
I think it unstalled your speel checker.
Pop quiz: What does the kernel use to access hard disks, memory, and whatever other hardware is in your system?
Lincoln wrote the bug tracking software.
$_ = "wftedskaebjgdpjgidbsmnjgcdwatb"; tr/a-z/oh, turtleneck Phrase Jar!/; print
He mixed Apple iTunes sloppy code with Microsoft Vista sloppy code.
That is why I don't use iTunes or Vista, both have sloppy code in them that cause crashed. When you cross both of them together you crash the system or at least cause it to lock up.
It is also why my G3 iMac was never upgraded to Mac OSX and still runs Mac OS9, because of Apple's sloppy code in OSX. If I convert it to a new OS it will either be Linux or AROS, because both of them are stable and being ported to the PowerPC platform or have a port already.
Apple "borrowed" a lot from Commodore, first it was the Vic-20 Commodore logo key copied as the Apple logo key on the Apple //e, then it was the Commodore Vic-20 and Commodore 64 compact design copied with the Apple //c, then it was the Amiga Workbench and co-processor support for 4096 colors and above with the Commodore Amiga in the Macintosh II (The Macintosh II was basically an Amiga 2000 rip-off after the Mr. Coffee Classic black and white Macintosh series was an epic fail), and then NeXT was an AmigaOS rip-off using BSD Unix (AmigaOS/AmigaDOS was based on the Unix-like TriPOS and Steve Jobs learned from his epic fail to use Unix as it is more like the Amiga to help make Next survive), Pixar ripped off the Newtek Video Toaster that Amigas had used (Steve Jobs saw how Amiga 2000s with the Video Toaster did great desktop video for movies and wanted to borrow that tech for Pixar), and then Mac OSX got the AROS and AmigaOS 3.X look and feel but with the Microsoft Windows bloat. AROS does not have the Windows bloat but still has the AmigaDOS/Workbench "less is more" approach in that it is memory efficient and doesn't need a high end processor with tons of memory to run it.
Basically Apple started to slowly evolve into Microsoft, and Amiga and the Amiga technology evolved into what the Macintosh should have been in 1985, and evolved into what it should be with AROS into modern times.
Apple even is suing people like Microsoft did like Pystar because of its EULA, which is very much like the one Microsoft has. Apple vs. Pystar is very much like Microsoft vs. IBM over OS/2, so Apple is evolving to what Microsoft was during the OS/2 years in the 1990's.
Remember, Slashdot does not have a -1 disagree moderation, and no, troll, flamebait, and overrated are not substitutes.
The only decent software for Windows that Apple ever made was Quicktime. Even now, unfortunately, Quicktime is kinda flakey but the support libraries for Quicktime that many applications use work okay.
- It's not the Macs I hate. It's Digg users. -
Unfortunately, they changed the number to something to remember more easily:
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
There is still the option to send an e-mail to the fire department, though.
A World in a Grain of Sand / Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Infinity in the Palm of your Hand / And Eternity in an Hour.
Pop quiz: What does the kernel use to access hard disks, memory, and whatever other hardware is in your system?
iTunes?
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You forgot:
Mac throws an iPod at PC.
PC catches the iPod out of reflex.
PC freezes in place and then falls straight back over.
Linux walks by while munching on a bag of chips, looks down at PC on the floor. "Too bad. Doesn't even play Ogg files, anyways." Linux holds up the bag for Mac which has a PPC logo on it. "Chip?"
Mac waves a hand, "No thanks. Trying to quit."
You can fix this by buying a second iPhone and keeping it attached to USB all the time. Or you could just buy a Mac.
- Steve
Clippy: It looks like your printer is on fire. Would you like to: * Call 911 * Put it out. * Let it burn.
Please, let it burn. My DVD burner died, I'll put my DVDs in the printer.
Ignore this signature. By order.
But does it run iTunes?
Didnt your mom tell you the meaning of compatibility? Microsoft is not about to test other peoples shit extensively for pittance.
Why dont you volunteer for testing?
As it is the FOSS masters (developers) like to use the FOSS zombies (users) as guinea pigs(testers) for free anyway. LOL.
Cmon, do the penguin dance.
"I remember there was quite an uproar about stability when NT4 came out with kernel-mode graphics drivers."
MS decided to do the same with NT as Windows-95 because, as we all know, W-95 was a rock solid piece of wonderware that proved kernel-mode drivers were a brilliant idea that should have conferred instant saint-hood on whoever came up with it.
OK, so there were a few unexplained crashes in W-95, sometimes even a few a day, hour, or minute, but it's now been proven that far from being caused by dodgy drivers running in kernel mode, they were actually the result of emotionally sensitive computers not getting enough of what scientists call "love vibes", a special heart-shaped wave that emanates from people who really, really adore their computers, and wouldn't think of shouting at them, let alone throwing them at the floor or through a window.
Dr. Adrian Stoat of the National Center For Spurious Claims is one of the notable scientists who confirm that Pentium-2 computers were especially vulnerable to Love Deficit Disorder (LDD):
"You'd be surprised how many Pentium-2 machines were brought to us for extensive courses of counselling that could easily end up costing their owners thousands of dollars. Yet despite this, some of them never recovered from the humiliation of being forced to display pornography for hours at a time, the stress of repeated verbal abuse, or living in constant fear of yet another savage beating with a copy of "The Road Ahead". Most of these machines have no future outside our special Caribbean Sanctuary For Sad Computers, where dedicated staff nurse them entirely at their owners' expense. Just think how much suffering and money could have been saved if only the people who bought these tragic systems had given them just a little love instead of erroneously assuming that Windows was to blame for every minor failure".
I'm not going to change your sheets again, Mr. Hastings.