Dear Apple...
Aug. 14th, 2009 09:01 pm![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zoeimogenDear Apple,
Whilst I like your laptops and shiny media devices like the AppleTV, you really don't seem to "get" networking, do you? Stuff like "Error -6753" is rather... 1990, woudln't you say? And restricting the device so it can only be configured from it's wireless port isn't helpful either because there are multiple access points in the network and forcing a laptop to roam to that access point is non-trivial. Actually, I might have gotten somewhere with that one had it given me a helpful error message, but I was pretty fed up by the time I figured it out so I just reset to factory defaults - at which point I found out that the ticky box for "allow this device to be configured from it's ethernet port" isn't available in the automatic setup, so I locked myself out of it and had to start again.
Back in the year 2009, we have configuration of network devices via web/telnet/ssh/SNMP, so that people who are not using Windows or MacOS might have a chance too.
Of course, if it wasn't for the fact the device is too dumb to detect and act upon a loop in the network that it's caused, I wouldn't have to mess with it in the first place.
Edited to Add: And the AppleTV has messed itself up with a firmware upgrade again. *sigh*
Whilst I like your laptops and shiny media devices like the AppleTV, you really don't seem to "get" networking, do you? Stuff like "Error -6753" is rather... 1990, woudln't you say? And restricting the device so it can only be configured from it's wireless port isn't helpful either because there are multiple access points in the network and forcing a laptop to roam to that access point is non-trivial. Actually, I might have gotten somewhere with that one had it given me a helpful error message, but I was pretty fed up by the time I figured it out so I just reset to factory defaults - at which point I found out that the ticky box for "allow this device to be configured from it's ethernet port" isn't available in the automatic setup, so I locked myself out of it and had to start again.
Back in the year 2009, we have configuration of network devices via web/telnet/ssh/SNMP, so that people who are not using Windows or MacOS might have a chance too.
Of course, if it wasn't for the fact the device is too dumb to detect and act upon a loop in the network that it's caused, I wouldn't have to mess with it in the first place.
Edited to Add: And the AppleTV has messed itself up with a firmware upgrade again. *sigh*
