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May 23, 2005

Peecee power!

I was happily computing 2 nights ago, when my “table” collapsed. You see, I have this small adjustable table which is right in the middle of my main PC (windows) and bed. That’s where I usually place my laptop and incidentally, my 200GB external drive (which contains my music, work, ebooks, and incomplete anime).

For some reason, the support suddenly gave way, which sent the top part crashing down, along with the stuff on it. Luckily, my Powerbook was on the bed at the time, but my hard drive wasn’t as lucky.

May 7, 2005

It’ll be a while before this ends…

You can’t blame the Mac users in the net flooding their blogs with Tiger stuff, I for one am one of them. As each day passes, one cannot help but be pleased with how Apple is shaping their OS. I’ll be discussing the other nice little surprises I’ve found while on the new OS.

But before that, lemme get the other kwentos out of the way:

I just got a new 200GB hard drive and nice aluminum enclosure to boot. The enclosure was a great deal, considering it was the last display stock. It was aluminum, with grilles on the side (for ventilation) and can connect to a USB or FireWire port. Another bonus was a secondary FW port which allows you to put another FW device should you decide to (like an iPod for example).

I already migrated my whole music library there which freed up about 51GB in the laptop. I also set it as a scratch disk for Photoshop.

May 5, 2005

Tech support

http://www.bukaspalad.com, as of this posting, is dead. We’re forced to move it to a new server since the old one was terminating the account.

I was informed of everything, and I basically just agreed to whatever arrangement they intended to make. I wasn’t paying the bills so who was I to suggest anything.

I wish I had though…

May 3, 2005

Tiger first impressions

Finally installed Tiger (or 10.4, or build 8A428, whichever naming convention you prefer). I must say I’m impressed. Not so much so to be raving about it. While spotlight, and all the other new features are beautiful additions. I’m more inclined to be on the it’s-not-a-breakthrough-since-it should’ve-been-done-from-the-start mentality.

There is something positive to be said however out of all of this. Tiger simply proves that Apple takes its user interface designs seriously. We can see that while all OS manufacturers claim to be in constant pursuit of the best OS experience, it is very telling that Apple actually delivers.

Sure, even Tiger still has a few irritations here and there – but as far as the competition is concerned (Windows, Linux, etc.) I’d have to say that OS X is on the right track.

May 1, 2005

Le Tiger

I’m in the process of taking the Tiger plunge. Right now I’m taking my time (better safe than sorry) backing everything up.

For those of you who don’t know, Tiger is the latest build of OSX that has been getting all the hype recently – a Longhorn killer so to speak, but I would keep those sentiments on hold until Longhorn actually debuts.

Anyways, my main concern is retaining all my data since I’m planning to do a clean install. So I’m trying to list down (and backup) all folders and files that I may need.

This post may be useful in the future when I plan to upgrade yet again. So I might as well list down the databases/files I usually use.

The easiest way is to backup your whole ~/Library folder (the ~ means user directory) Of course, you may have a bunch of MP3s there (your iTunes library), so I suggest backing that up separately. You may also want to backup /Library (in the root directory) for good measure… you never know if and when you may need it.