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It’s with immense pleasure that I am announcing that I’ve ordered my first ever Apple computer, the newly-released MacBook laptop through LCI. I’ll receive it at latest by mid-august.

Here are the detailed technical specs if you want to know the details (en résumé, White / 2GHz Intel Core Duo / 1Gb RAM / 80Gb HD / DVD Writer / Wi-Fi / Bluetooth).

I’ve been dreaming of a Mac for years…

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…as if I expected it to run some other operating system

Read this for a (partial) description of all available user commands (accessible from a Telnet session).

Disclaimer: use your brain!

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As I wrote in my previous post, my set-top box stopped working on the 18th (less than 24 hours after being installed). I must have called Mauritius Telecom around 8-9 times since (twice today). And, of course, no bloody technician has come to my house yet to get that thing replaced.

My Livebox (with Wi-Fi) works perfectly and that’s the only reason I’ve not launched a Bazooka rocket on Mauritius Telecom Tower yet…

So unprofessional

An update

A nice lady just called me to tell me that technicians will come at 14:30 today. I’ll keep my fingers crossed…

Another update

Two technicians came and I told them that the power supply was surely dead. They replaced it and voilà… the set-top box is alive again. Here are two problems I’ve noticed:

• The TNT channels BBC World and Doordarshan have only left audio. There is no audio in the right channel. I don’t really know if the problem is with the MBC or the set-top box.
• I’ve noticed that the set-top box stops sending a proper colour signal after some time (i.e. the image becomes monochrome with some high-frequency artifacts). I am still investigating this matter (don’t forget that I’ve not used the set-top box a lot).

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