Yesterday evening after 10 o’clock the family iMac refused to work. A restart resulted in triple beeps. So far nothing out of the ordinary, and a diagnosis was easily established: bad memory. Luckily, my netbook uses the same type of SO-DIMM’s, and I had a spare module at hand. So with a bit of fiddling the iMac and the Netbook were up and running again, albeit with less RAM than before.
I started searching for memory upgrades on eBay and Amazon, but finally ordered two 2GB modules from a German shop. And that is where things really went wrong: the SSL-encrypted order and payment application for this shop was incredibly slow and unreliable! In the end, after an hour and a half, I sat before the screen with two identical orders, one of them paid through PayPal. It took me another 15 minutes to set the quantity of the other order to zero…
Mission accomplished. I do hope no one has to experience such slowness in my apps!
