AirPorted

Spent most of last night installing an AirPort card into andricongirl's iBook.

I think I have the wrong attitude to installing hardware. I'm too careful.

Seriously. I'm always worried I'm going to break something, snap a printed circuit board or tear a wire. So I handle components gingerly. And I stress and swear when they don't work.

Much like the AirPort card didn't work.

To fit the card you remove the iBook's keyboard, open a little wire bracket and plug the card in. Did all that. But then I couldn't get the wire bracket to click closed. Tried pushing the AirPort card in further. It wouldn't budge. Tried forcing the bracket. No dice. Ended up pulling the bracket out and reshaping it with a pair of pliers.

Restarted the computer. No AirPort.

Repeat process. Reseat the AirPort card. Wrestle with bracket. Reboot. Still no AirPort.

Check Apple support website. Download latest AirPort update (14MB over dial-up). Still no AirPort.

Finally - and this was about midnight - reopen the iBook and just shove the AirPort card into its slot.

And it clicks in about an extra millimetre. And lo, we have AirPort.

A* and I celebrated by rifling each other's iTunes libraries. (She won. Only because she's been ripping stuff to her library for longer.)

And the moral of the story?

Computers are like dogs. If you act timid around them, they'll play up. You have to show them who's boss.

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Greg Araki's new film, Mysterious Skin will NOT be banned in Australia.

Good. Sanity prevails.

The Age has an opinion piece about the matter: An important movie that should be seen