Well, in a nutshell: for the second time since the beginning of this year, my development iMac has decided to ruthlessly crush a hard drive.

First, it was its internal HD. Because it wasn't such a big one I went to Fry's and bought a 2TB Firewire 800 HD to replace it.

Turns out, iMacs do not like external HDs that much: it's not possible to setup boot camp and it's not possible to ignore the mechanically dying internal HD therefore everything takes forever to do and I don't have half the features set I would get using the built-in drive.

Of course my backup was somewhat old and it took me three weeks to restore everything to a somewhat "OK" state. Well, that's because I would salvage stuff from the old HD by mounting it, copying as much data as possible before it crashed, waiting for the HD to cool off, reboothing, etc.

Today, my Firewire HD died. If you do the math, it is apalling: that HD survived the iMac regimen for exactly 6 weeks.

So, here I am, typing this on my laptop -- which is by no means a development machine -- and apologizing to everybody for the current lack of updates to nBBS.

I will let you know when (IF?) I get back to a state where I can develop.

-Chris.

PS: Of course, in the meantime my son's Macbook drive also decided to give up the ghost. When I google for HD-related Apple horror stories, I am shocked to find so many stories...

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I should add that I had bought Applecare coverage for the iMac.
I do not suppose that there is a limit after which it's too late to register your Applecare agreement. After all Apple has your purchase date and the agreement runs from that date.
Anyway, their web site is telling me that my iMac is not eligible. I wonder what I paid Applecare for, then?
I submitted a scan of my purchase receipt to their web site...we will see where this goes.

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With nothing new here for years- its hard to know if the project is still going on/what progress is done.

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