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Archive for October, 2007

Leopard Happiness

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

A couple of things I am happy about with Leopard:

It fixes the annoying print dialog bug that allowed you to save a printer configuration, but didn’t actually save it.  For instance, in Tiger, I save a “grayscale” print profile and made it my default, thinking this way I wouldn’t accidentally print in color, thus [...]

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Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 1

Monday, October 29th, 2007

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review: Page 1
OK, go get a cup of coffee and a donut and sit down and enjoy.  The Ars Technica review is so very thorough and enjoyable to read.  I only wish I had time to create that kind of detail in a posting…
And the author [...]

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Some More Leopard Thoughts

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

Well, let me start off by saying I do like Leopard, despite it screwing up my hard drive on upgrade (I should never have done a pure upgrade given my fairly complex system. Archive and Install is your friend)
At any rate, here are some things I like, and some I don’t.
Things I [...]

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Leopard Install Notes

Sunday, October 28th, 2007

So, here are a couple of notes on Leopard install, based on my experience:

First and foremost, back everything up
Do an Archive and Install, not an upgrade.  The upgrade corrupted my disk.  Luckily I had a backup and was eventually able to get the old drive mounted in read-only mode to copy stuff off of [...]

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Ode To Duct Tape

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Duct tape is, perhaps the greatest invention of all time. I was out backpacking (see the Little Lost Cove Cliffs trip) w/ my son last weekend. I hadn’t worn these boots in a while, but they looked good when we left. Half way into the hike, I started to feel something [...]

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Mail Smarts

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Ah, gotta love my old bank. For several months now, I have been getting statements for an account that I closed not once, but twice now. Turns out, I still, supposedly, have 1 penny in my account. So, every month, the bank mails me the statement, at a cost of $0.37 [...]

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