I feel a story thread cannot go without this being mentioned:
http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

My most favorite story ever.

A lot of ports (from Win/Lin) to Mac get borked. Some ports are just horrible, and the UI so cramped you can't figure them out.

Also, when I upgraded the laptop, which had Quay on it, to 10.6, the whole thing broke down. Every 5 seconds, a dialog box popped up how the system broke it. Since I'm not an admin on the laptop, my dad had to come and delete Quay. Now I still have to find a way to remove the launchd entry as root.

A really great story! For those who care, it is often the case that the third prong of an outlet is not actually at ground; it depends on how far away it is grounded and how much current it carries due to an imbalance in the 110 volt loading on the two sides of the of its 220 volt circuit. It is called a common mode voltage.

When I was a grad student at MIT in the 1960's, most labs were running 1 or 2 volts common mode (as measured to a copper water pipe), and since my thesis involved a lot of tricky instrumentation that I built myself, it was easy to blow away a day's work if you weren't careful about that.

@renaultsoftware -- Yeah, take Steam for example. It's great to have it, don't get me wrong. But working through all the kinks has been a somewhat trying experience. My wife's install of Steam recently borked itself (she was not happy, she likes her Torchlight). Steam actually had to give me step by step instructions on how to remove it completely from her hard drive so we could re-install it. Not fun...

I heard Steam was available when I bought iCreate (in France). But I don't download games or even play them: I'd rather do some work in Xcode or do my homework, than waste my time on games. But I'm not your wife, and I know a ton of gamers who'd be happy to have Steam or whatever.

@renaultsoftware -- Well, in my wifes defense. She doesn't do any programming, and she's done with college, so she has no homework. Seriously, what else is there to do in life :D.

Ah, why doesn't she learn programming? ;) Still, some apps can be VERY borked. I remember at school, some games were horrible. No mouse, all Win32 stuff. :P

Related to borked apps, does anyone have tech support stories? I remember when we still had dial-up internet last summer, which broke one day. We had to call Bell Canada, but their support lies in India. One guy asked "are you using the Windows Macintosh?" Is this guy talking about Parallels, Fusion or Bootcamp? I'm sure he was talking about Windows OR Mac.

"Thankyouforcallingoursupportlinemynameischinthanaichelvanhowmayiassistyoutoday???!!!"

Ah, Indian tech support - so many memories. Definitely a victim of it's own early success. Compaq Canada used them for a while then switched back to Mississauga.

Ah yes. We're hoping to get a family plan with Rogers, since they have tech support in our own town (Pembroke, Ontario), and besides their iPhone deals seem so sweet. As my mom said about Bell, "the higher their Eng[r]ish the lower their tech help!"

I'm amazed that you think Rogers is "sweet". They're among the most expensive in the world. That's why I have a Touch and a bottom of the line, cheapest plan GSM phone.

Well Rogers is one of the only iPhone providers where you can get a reasonable family plan.

And Rogers isn't alone in overpricing, either -- you really don't get choices because there's no real competition.

I'd like to see if there are borked mobile apps out there. Probably so.

USA Today Crosswords has been borked several times. Currently working, sorta.