2006-02-27 Media

We were given access to a newish iBook that was purchased on eBay. The iBook of course is not "stuff" for this page but the data left on it is fair game, i.e. it was unambiguously discarded and we got it for free. No cleanup had been done prior to shipping out the machine. As far as we can tell the story goes as follows:

• Previous owner, let us call him Arthur, is given a Mac laptop and told it is cool and he should "switch"
• Possibly with some assistance, Arthur manages to transfer a whole pile of stuff from his old Windows machine's "My Documents" folder over to his shiny new Mac including dubious Windows executables and various media.
• iTunes detected his music (600 plus songs sourced seemingly from filesharing in various formats) in this media pile and maybe Arthur was happy with that.
• Arthur was however probably unhappy that he could not get his new Mac to play any of his porn collection stored in some Windows Media Format.
• Hence Arthur decides that he does not like Macs.
• Hence the Mac was sold on eBay, complete with all his data, after only 14 boots (we checked /var/log/system.log*).

Here is gets a little self-referential. Below is a picture of the machine (we think) that we found on the HD of the machine itself, probably taken for the purposes of eBaying said machine. Of course, the machine itself is not actually "stuff" by our definition, but the picture of it was free and hence appears here.