OS X, iTunes, iCloud
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So I have a MacBook Pro and switch between OS X and Windows on a semi regular basis. I also have other devices floating around. Between all of this, iTunes thinks I have 4 of my 5 computer allocation used up, and that's fine.
And my laptop when in OS X is one of those, which is also fine.
In this particular case, I'm trying to play a song that I purchased via iTunes and is on my iPad and the Windows partition but for reasons I'm playing it via iTunes from iCloud.
I then get a popup... "This computer is not authorized to play some randomised filename.m4a, would you like to authorize it?" whereupon I can log in with my Apple ID and it should let me play it.
Or not. So I type it in, get told that this computer is already authorised, that I've used 4 of my 5, and then... no, still not authorised.
But every other song of that album is absolutely fine. It's just 'Never Going Back Again' off the Rumours album. Fleetwood Mac isn't TRWTF though.
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Is that the band with a woman named Stevie, a man named Lindsey, and Bigfoot in it?
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Yes, yes it is.
The other band of awesome like that is ZZ Top. Two guys with awesome beards, the third guy has no beard but his surname is Beard anyway.
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"Where's your beard?"
pulls out drivers license
points at surname
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TRWTF is Apple.
Filed under: [He says, posting from an iPad](#tag2)
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I have no disagreements that TRWTF is Apple. So, let's see, I do a lot of PHP, I use Apple equipment, what else do I need to make the holy trifecta of proof that I really am TRWTF.
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Oracle
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I use MySQL a lot, does that count? Also I have some experience with actual Oracle I should write up as WTFs sometime.
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I almost feel that MySQL goes hand-in-hand with PHP.
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And it's owned by Oracle, so 2.5 out of 3 for holy trifecta of evil?
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Store your data as XML, and you're set.
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Oh, that reminds me, I have a story about that I should write up.
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Store the data as XML in the database, and do lookups by iterating over the whole collection, parsing each XML document one at a time in the client, until you find what you're looking for. Then keep going and finish off that iteration to the very end because GOTO is Considered Harmful.
Filed under: I wish I was kidding with this suggestion, but I've seen it for real in the wild…