Or is software getting harder and harder to "play with settings"
The best way for me to get to know how software works is the old lets-see-what-this-does-when-I-select-it. Especially during an install of windows.
I feel like in the last few years that I have to know more and more, before I start, exactly what needs to be done during installation or else everything is poop.
Very frustrating
OK, I'm a day or so behind (basically, that's the story of my life). ![]()
Anyway, on Thursday's podcast the gang talked about the woman who had her iBook in and out of repair and was losing authorizations on iTunes because of it.
It used to be when you couldn't deauthorize a computer that you had to call Apple and have them deauthorize *all* your computers so you could reauthorize the ones you still have. Now you can actually do that through the iTunes Music Store. the catch is you have to wait until you've gotten to the maximum computer count (5). So in the case you discussed, the FairPlay DRM isn't "getting in the way." If for some reason the woman has to send her iBook back again and again, when she reaches 5 authorizations on iTunes she can just delete them all and start again.
Yes, it's a little bump in the road, but it's not, you know, Sony rootkit bad.

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