Post #205,268
4/29/05 3:11:42 PM
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Getting ready for Tiger
As long as I'm sitting here, waiting for the FedEx dude, I might as mention what I'm doing to prep my babies for their upgrade.
Dual G4 PMac - Nothing to do here, since I've been experimenting with Linux on it and I'll just wipe and reformat the drive before I install.
Powerbook - My work machine. A little more care and attention here.
- Backup everything (using [link|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13260|Carbon Copy Cloner]) to a Firewire drive.
- Fire up Disk Utility and repair permissions.
- Shut down to single user mode and run fsck -fy (found and fixed minor problems.)
- Reboot with my [link|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19441|Diskwarrior] CD and rebuild all three partitions.
- Run [link|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/26124|Cocktail] on Autopilot and clear out caches, clean up logs and general housecleaning.
At this point, I seem to recall someone mentioning that I should run iSync before I install since synching has changed with TIger and I could lose data otherwise. Anyone have any verification of this? I've been poking around the various Mac discussion groups and haven't seen anything about it yet.
Tom Sinclair
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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Post #205,272
4/29/05 3:41:50 PM
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Look who beat us to it!
[link|http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/678.html|First In Line]
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Post #205,277
4/29/05 4:33:01 PM
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Except for this:
Apple CEO Steve Jobs said last week that Longhorn "shamelessly" copies his company's Mac OS X operating system. "They can't even copy fast," Jobs said at his company's shareholder meeting. My emphasis. Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #205,280
4/29/05 6:23:26 PM
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Installed and running okay so far
It's a bit slow at first because Spotlight is indexing all your files, so be patient.
Also, at first, it seemed like all my apps were crashing or hanging. (Well, Quicktime, Safari and Firefox, anyway.) I did a quick reboot (and boot up is definitely faster) and everything seems to be working fine.
Safari is wicked fast and I found some "Quicktime 7 only " trailers at Apple's site, so I'm checking them out. It kind of sucks that I have to pay for Quicktime Pro all over again, though.
The Power Mac is getting the Erase and Install treatment even as we speak.
Tom Sinclair
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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Post #205,304
4/30/05 1:21:54 AM
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Same here
I had to run back to Fry's - the firewire/USB enclosure I'd picked up for the "backup drive" kept turning itself off. Got a different model that was firewire only.
Darrell Spice, Jr. [link|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass|Artistic Overpass]\n[link|http://www.spiceware.org/|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
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Post #205,317
4/30/05 11:00:00 AM
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Anyone playing with iChat 3?
Now that it has Jabber support, I was trying to set it up to connect to the
IWETHEY server. I'm not sure I configured it right (and I did RTFM), though, so if
I could compare notes with one of y'all...
On an unrelated note, it looks like Spotlight will take some getting used to.
Tom Sinclair
"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
-- The Bursar is a man under a *lot* of stress
(Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
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Post #205,327
4/30/05 2:20:47 PM
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Still waiting for my copy to arrive
I did read the docs for coredata last night and immediately flame the developers for exactly the short sightedness I expected from them a couple months ago.
Specifically, there is no way to write your own data store adaptor as the api remains private. So you can't use CD with legacy file formats. As the team was so busy being secretive and working in a vacuum, I was quite certain they'd bone the poodle in some way and they have lived down to my expectations. Seems they never bothered to think CD would be useful for editing a specifically formatted file like an RSS document.
RSS would be a great CD app as it has a well defined structure from which you can extract an object model, but it requires a particular file format as well.
To quote Asimov - Stupid Asses.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #205,333
4/30/05 2:50:09 PM
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Also still waiting.
Tap tap tap pace pace pace check Amazon's shipping thinger tap tap tap pace pace pace.
This is quite sad, getting this anticipatory over a point release of an OS.
Peter
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Post #205,370
4/30/05 7:17:13 PM
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21 hours in
FedEx attempted to deliver mine yesterday, but the SO was unfortunately away on sundry errands, and so unable to sign for it. Undeterred, I wheeled my extraordinarily rickety car (the front end of which, from the feel of it, will fall off one day soon) onto the freeway and drove the five miles to their Oakland Airport facility to retrieve it. Installation went without incident. Amusingly enough, my copy bears the label "Family Pack: for up to five computers." Damned kind of Apple, and I intend to take them up on it.
I haven't noticed a performance hit (slightly the contrary, if anything), but this laptop is not a production machine, and the indexing procedure likely did not involve any heavy lifting. Spotlight, BTW, is very impressive—not as sexy as Dashboard, but given the somewhat casual approaches to file organization and file-naming I have failed to outgrow since Mac HDs became roomy enough to make this an issue, it's a lifesaver. I could use this at work, where I am frequently called upon to produce and modify files from 2001, 1999 or earlier, but alas, the B&W tower they bought me six years ago may be the last new machine I'll ever see before I retire in another few years...
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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