Major technical difficulties
My laptop has stopped accessing the Internet, whether by Airport or by a hardline ethernet connection. It was working fine this afternoon when I plugged my friend’s DSL modem into it, then wouldn’t work at the CineVegas press office, and still won’t work back at my friend’s house tonight. I’m not accustomed to having this kind of major problem with my Macs, so I’m not sure what to do about it.
The reason this affects you is that all my Friday materials — reviews, “In the Dark” etc. — are on that laptop, with no convenient way to post them to the Internet. The fastest method would be to burn the files to a disc and transfer them to my friend’s iMac (which I’m using to post this), then post them from there. But it’s very late at night and I’ve already spent an hour trying to fix my connection problems. Maybe I’ll try the disc-burning tomorrow.
It’s kind of a serious problem, since I’m supposed to be covering CineVegas for Cinematical, and now I don’t have any way to do that. So hopefully I can figure out why my computer has suddenly stopped accessing the Internet. In the meantime, everything is on hold.
June 13th, 2008 at 5:55 am
So sorry to hear about your technical problems. Doesn’t anyone there have a flash drive? It seems a simpler method than burning to a CD for file transfer. I guess I’m just used to living around tech guys who wear them on lanyards 24/7.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Oh my gosh. I didn’t think that Macs were capable of breaking. Maybe you should get a PC.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:58 am
“Oh my gosh. I didn’t think that Macs were capable of breaking. Maybe you should get a PC.”
Because they’re any more reliable?
June 13th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Just pop in to the Apple Store at Fashion show and have them take a look at it.
apple.com/fashionshow
June 13th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Is this the extremely old iBook that you have talked about before? Or is this a newer laptop?
June 13th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I was about to express surprise that Apple’s don’t have some highly advanced way of allowing you to transfer files from one mac to another… but then I remembered how I found it impossible to “restore” my music from my iPod onto my new PC.
Maybe Apple is assuming the only criminals would want to transfer files from one mac to another over WiFi. I know that’s the stance they take on iPod users.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Macs let you direct connect over firewire last I checked. You could probably do it over usb, too.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
How has everyone missed the obvious fact that it’s just a combination of Murphy’s Law and Friday the 13th bad luck! Duh!
(Bummer though–I was really looking forward to your skewering of “the Happening”)
June 13th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
I don’t think Eric has seen “The Happening” yet, anyway. He was here in Utah this week, and the company that was running the screening for “The Happening” was the same one that is still upset about his junket adventures two years ago, so he was unable to get in. But I did notice that he has posted reviews for a couple other movies today, so maybe he has solved his computer issues.
Oh, and NotJoeKing, the ability to transfer files over WiFi (which Mac does, of course, have) is little help when your WiFi connection isn’t working. I don’t know if Eric’s tragically old laptop has a firewire connection or not, but it’s not extremely hard to burn a CD or DVD, either.
June 13th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
And on top of that, assuming you have a functioning airport card, you CAN transfer files over wifi quite easily.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Jeff,
Yeah I realized that after I typed it. I’m going with the excuse that I’m to used to my work computer where no internet no access to the LAN.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Ok so the programmatic “does not equal” sign doesn’t seem to appear in posts… stupid html and its consumption of less than and greater than symbols…
Anyways, the above should read “…no internet does not equal no access to the LAN.”