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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.

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Oh Apple, say it ain’t so!

The best post I’ve ever read all day about the whole Apple debacle.

It’s all very well being preachy about right and wrong, but come on if every crime, no matter how small, was punished to the full extent of the law the whole population would be living under house arrest.

For those of you who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about. There’s been quite some lengthy discussion about Apple suing some kids. A little over two months ago, Apple decided to finally put its foot down and act on some people who have illegaly distributed preview versions of its upcoming OS called Tiger.

For a detailed scoop of the issue: http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000369.html

Despite Apple having every right to take such a course of action, it seems to be gaining a lot of bad press – comparing them to Microsoft as a cold-hearted corporation.

For the buzz it has generated: http://www.drunkenblog.com/drunkenblog-archives/000473.html

Most noticeable is that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak himself, as well as other respectable Apple software developers seem to have taken the side of the defendants (to a certain extent).

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