Am I really supprised? No.
Pictures from the EFF Event at the DNA Lounge that included a grudge boxing match:
So Apple has released the new version of Mac OS X to the world. Us mac-weenies have been awaiting this without much patience. But it finally came.
I hastily (but lovingly) opened my box yesterday and gazed lovingly over the new CDs awaiting my pleasure. Then I saw it. The Scratch. On the CD. Oh shit. I vainly thought, it will be ok, it will still install.
I put in the CD in and booted my machine.
whirr…whirrr….whirr.
“Installer error 38”
CRAP!
::frustration passes::
Jacob, my friendly Apple sales guy appologizes profusely and promises to next-day air me a copy ASAP. Very nice of him, but I am still disappointed.
So I ponder removing the scratch. Hmm. What do I need. Mild abrasive. AHA!
TOOTH PASTE! (actually Colgate to be more exact)
I spend countless minutes carefully rubbing the scratch out. It looks good. I hope.
I again try to make a disk image of the CD (a task which has failed many times before).
And I watch as the progress bar fills.
whirr…whirr…whirrr
But it keeps going!
Success!
A new copy of my CD is burning now. Hopefully it will work.
This is really a mac-geek thing. Read on if you are interested, if not, don’t bother. OK, after all of the excitement of my last entry, Things are happy again. I will try to give a short overview of what I did, problems I had, and what I did to fix them.
The Install
I booted off of my newly created CD, and all went well. Given information I had read on other sites (and my own inclinations) I picked the “Clean Install” option, and picked to preserve my existing users and network settings. I would recomend this option for everyone who has enough drive space. There is almost no downside.
The install went quite smoothly.
At my first login, my Palm Sync stuff bombed out with an error, but otherwise everything came up ok.
Here is what I had to reinstall or upgrade:
- Palm Desktop
- Keyspan USB to Serial drivers
- MySQL
- GPGMail
The first three I had to redo because of the install type I did. They had installed kernel extensions that needed to be updated or just got moved to the “Previous System” folder. But I would have had to redo the Keyspan drivers anyway as the old drivers would not have worked with 10.2.
I also had to recreate my NFS mounts for my MP3s. Initially this confused iTunes, but after a reboot all was well.
I had to reactivate PHP inside Apache. 3 line fix.
I uninstalled my copies of ASM, TinkerTool, and SharePoints until they have 10.2 compatible versions.
Impressions
Wow. Here are the salient points.
- It is faster; much faster
- iChat is cool (after you turn off the balloon talk)
- Mail is even better, the Junk filter is uncanny even without any training
- Did I mention it was faster?
- Lots of little UI polishes that make it look much nicer
- The integration between the Address book, iChat, and Mail is slick
That is all for now. Post questions if you are curious about anything.
A good discussion of traffic flow. Read and learn. Physics is cool.
post your guesses.
From the NYT: Top Republicans Break With Bush on Iraq Strategy
From the BBC: US Republicans split over Iraq attack
Read.
Discuss.
This is just a quick “thank you” to all the people who helped in my birthday events. It was lots of fun; and beyond what I was expecting. Getting older is not so bad.
I have written an opinion piece on my main website entitled:
It covers why I have chosen to use the accepted web standards even though they seem not to be very well accepted. This is probably a topic many of you feel strongly about, so here is a place to let your feelings be known and rip my arguments to shreds. Time to belly up to the bar!