Upgraded the first machine to Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) this morning. All in all it took about an hour (first generation MacBook Pro, so newer machines will no doubt process it a bit faster). The only customization I added to the installation was to include Rosetta, just in case (it’s tiny so [...]
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What were they thinking?
I’m annoyed and confused about NewsGator/NetNewsWire’s recent actions.
For starters, I’ve been a happy NetNewsWire user for several years. It was recommended to me when I started with OS X on a Mac Mini (the original PPC version) when it was still developed independently and had a lite and full (for pay) version. I [...]
Mac Mini Migration Madness
Not so much madness actually because aside from one hiccup things went pretty smoothly.
First some comparisons:
Original Mini, first generation model from January 2005:
512MB RAM PC-2700 DDR SDRAM
40GB disk
1.25 GHz PowerPC G4
ATI Radeon 9200 GPU with 32MB VRAM
Two USB ports
Firewire 400 port
10/100 Mbit ethernet
1 modem (remember those?) port
Hard disk and CD/DVD drive both (P)ATA
Then in comes [...]
iTunes Genius Thoughts
Some thoughts on the new iTunes Genius feature:
If there are tracks that the Genius feature is never going to select, I’d like to know.
I’ve got tracks that I’d like to avoid in certain company but there is no way to limit the tracks it selects from.
Similarly it would be nice to not select tracks I [...]
Update
A bit embarrassing that the first update of the year is in February, but so be it.
Since the last post I’ve had my share of fun. Aside from the usual social obligations around the holidays we were also kept busy for a week in early December by the fall-out after an ice storm that [...]
Linkage
You can’t make this stuff up…
How to split up: Vienna hosts world’s first divorce fair:
“If people untie the knot in good faith, it can turn out that the day you divorce is the best day of your life,” said the organiser, Anton Barz, who also arranges wedding fairs.
Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD’s Coffin:
Pressing [...]
iTerm vs. Terminal
With the introduction of Leopard also came a refreshed Terminal application, which appears to be responding to some of the complaints that have driven people such as myself to using iTerm.
I see no keyboard shortcuts to directly go to the Nth tab in a window, for Terminal. In iTerm that is done using cmd-N [...]
Leopard
I received the Leopard DVD on Friday, shortly after noon, and almost immediately put it to work. Twenty minutes DVD-verification and 45 minutes of actual upgrade time later I’m running OS X 10.5.
Here are my notes such as they are:
The default netatalk package in Debian/Etch does not cooperate with Leopard. You can either [...]
Apple Tidbits
Yesterday Apple finally announced when the next version of OS X (10.5, also known as Leopard) will be released, Friday October 26, and within an hour of finding out I’d pre-ordered a so-called family-pack (since we have 4 machines running OS X in the house). Nothing stops anyone from installing the single user version [...]
I suppose it was time
I’ve had an unpleasant week of unpredictable behaviour from my MacBook Pro where it would simply power off while the battery still looks like it should have enough charge (typically over 10% and under 40%), several attempts to fully and utterly drain and then recharge the battery, resetting the SMC (System Management Controller) data to [...]