Apple Sabotage

Less interesting and a lot less rewarding than Fantasy Football are my adventures with trying to run Windows on our new iMac. I had it all running beautifully using a Beta version of something Apple calls Boot Camp. It lets you choose whether to boot up into Windows or into the Mac operating system, OSX. Dara's game, Titan Quest, only runs on Windows, and if we could not run Windows, we would have gotten a different computer. Everything was fine until the automatic "software update" feature on OSX suggested I download and install a new version of firmware -- basically software that gets burnt into the hardware of the computer. After I did that -- poof -- no more Windows. Three weeks of pretty serious geeking, Googling, and fretting have left me a bit wiser, but with no joy. I am reduced to haunting message boards of German hackers. Dara is even less joyous. Perhaps worst of all, I have lost some of the aura of computer geek invincibility I used to have around the house.