Gah.
Well, after two weeks of no iBook, the replacement logic board finally arrived in stock. Serge at Winthrop was helpful and efficient as usual, but once again, Apple seem to be sending out fucked up replacement parts.
This new board features an innovative "fade to blue" feature, fading to the placid apple blue background every ~20 seconds, for about a second. It _looks_ like a software issue, except it also happens when booting to the 10.3 installer CD.
Anyway. Time to mail fair-trading and ask how many times a company is allowed to do dodgy "repairs" on a broken product. And try to brave the apple callcentre. If anyone has ideas on who to prod at apple to get something useful happening, I'd like to know....
*sigh*
Update: I think the problem is that it is spontaneously deciding to run "detect displays". And sometimes it even changes the res, to 800x600 etc. Spechial.
I'm borrowing my sister's iPod currently, and thought the calendar on it looked nifty (though limited). So, feeling like having a slack Sunday arvo, I hacked up a bit of python, which'll proxy through your requests to timetable.uwa, and then feed out a vCal file which you can import into your random calendar programs, phones, etc. Seems to work, though haven't bothered with longer-than-45min events yet. Probably won't be hard to fix it though.
matt.ucc.asn.au/ttparse/ttproxy.py is the url, the source is in that dir if you want it. Let me when it breaks. And since mermaid is really slow (that's where the above link is hosted), WAIX people can use 203.24.97.244/~matt/ttparse/ttproxy.py. It should be faster.