I was just digging through tons of newsfeeds when stumbling over this entry in KDE hacker Aaron Seigo’s blog. Just beautiful.

Yesterday I posted that I have to pay the full price for an update to Tiger for I came too early. Six days. Vic commented that I should try contacting Apple and so I did.

Obviously I’ve been not the 1st caller today bringing up the ‘Tiger-update-topic’ and we went right into business. After mentioning that I might as well return my box and reorder with the only drawback beeing that I wouldn’t have a nice PowerBook on my table for some days (which _would_ have been a horrible for me, but I didn’t tell them ), the friendly guy on the other end offered me 50€ discount. Understandable. Apple would have to pay for both, my shipment back and resending a new PB, QA on the one I send back, repackaging, paperwork and I don’t know what else.

Anyhow, I wasn’t satisfied for that would be still 79€. I mumbled something about fair dealing, market share, reputation and evil competitors and the friendly guy put me on hold. On a side note: they have some nice music playing in Apple’s waiting loops. Somehow I imagined the Apple employee dancing around his desk to exactly that tune, checking his watch for 1 minutes and 26 second to go by just to tell me “sorry, that’s all we have to offer”. Just he didn’t do that.

He came back on the line telling me that he has permission to grant me a credit to my account worth 100€. 29€ to go! Well, I didn’t push it any further although I had the feeling it probably would’ve worked out to get Tiger for the ~10€ they charge for shipping for those with hardware bought after April, 12th.

Anyhow, I’m not greedy and they obviously _did_ understand my point of view or at least consider the effort of all that refund/resending, and they did not even try to talk themselves out of it. Besides that I knew that OS X.4 was going to be announced anytime soon, so I could have been patient as well. Which of course, I can’t be when it comes to new toys. All in all, fair deal for me. Ten minutes later I had a confirming mail in my inbox.

There’s also lots of discussion on this topic on the announcement on /.

Apple announced OS X.4 “Tiger” for April, 29th. Nice, so don’t have to get used to 10.3. Wait.. errr.. the Up-To-Date Program only applies to boxes bought on or after April, 12th, I ordered my Powerbook on april 6th. Tough shit.

Well, “This happens often and yet, Ricky doesn’t know why.”

It’s not like I’m not used to such things..

Safari really has a stability problem here. It crashes every now and then when visiting a site and It can’t be reproduced by visiting that same site again. Strange enough. Konqi is a lot more reliable, if it crashes on one site it will most likely do so when visiting that site again .

When trying to upload something to FTP, I hit <command> + <k> and easy enough, I’ve been asked for the login data and my ftp-server was accessible via Finder’s side panel. Unfortunately I had no write access. A quick search revealed that Finder indeed seems to lack the ability to do so. Bad luck, really. GPL’d Cyberduck works fine but having a external app for my very basic FTP needs.. oh, the Help states that Safari can do it.. no, it just opens Finder. nah..

There has been quite some feedback on the First impressions OS X made, more to find on OS news. Fish to some of those there, it’s even free! Speaking of which, it’s all about choice, isn’t it?

Anyhow, I’m crawling through the suggestions and hints just now. Thanks! Audio Recorder just seems to be what I’ve been looking for. Audacity is a bit oversized and the others only record to somewhat obscure formats. Well, my application needs are probably satisfied by now..

And speaking about GNU/Linux and broadcum, err com, I also have a D-Link DWL-122 stick (Prism2) here, should work just fine. 11mbits, though. Petition, anyone?

I’ve also been recommended MarsEdit over ecto. I’m writing this entry using MarsEdit but I’m just much more comfortable with ecto. There’s no simple switching between WYSIWYG and html, spell-checking doesn’t seem to work properly and formating is much more easier using ecto. Eventually I copy & pasted this into ecto

Thanks again for all the comments, I really appreciate it.