Been away, anything happen!

Hi folks,

 

I have been away for a while, got lots going on in the outside world so finding it difficult to get the time at the moment. Stealing time when I can, which isn’t often. I don’t have any new articles to write about, the only Mac related thing that has happened is that I have upgraded the RAM in my PowerBook from 768MB to 1.5GB. Still waiting to see a truly noticable difference, maybe iMovie/iDVD will show me more!

 

Also I conceived the idea of an iTunes Server, more about that later…………

 

Unleash the Tiger & give me back 20GB!

Earlier this week I was playing around and trying to hook up my cell phone to my Powerbook (to act as a fax modem). I followed an article from Apple (see it here) and discovered then something wasn’t working! So, I started to read the forums and discovered bits and pieces and started to play, repairing permissions etc… I even reinstalled some stuff form Panther, let me explain that my Tiger disc is in storage in the UK, not with me  I called in some help and played with some more files, but it just didn’t work. As I didn’t really need to fax anyway, more seeing if it would work, I decided to leave it, and update when my copy of Tiger arrives in the USA with the rest of my stuff.

 

Later on I wanted to check something on my Airport, and discovered that Airport Admin Utility was missing from Utilities. On closer inspection, so were other things

“What had I done??”

I was left with two choices, downgrade to Panther or buy another copy of Tiger. I recalled reading that downgrading isn’t always easy, things like mailboxes are hard to do, and I am one for the easy life.

 

Therefore, I made the decision to buy another copy of Tiger, so off to the Apple store I went.

I thoroughly backed everything up onto an external drive, in two different locations, just to be safe! Then did an Erase & Install using the Tiger disc, this went very smoothly and I spent all day dragging data back to my Powerbook. When I had finished I found that I had recovered 20GB, yes 20GB, of space. Which I was pleased with as my disc was getting full.

 

 I think, but don’t know for sure, that this was due to no Previous System Folders, no Classic installed, no iLife ’04, ’05 & ’06 upgrades, etc…

 

Well, I am back up and running now, data all restored and a much emptier hard disc, oh and I have two copies of Tiger now! Roar, Roar!

 

I got my first Mac

Above is picture of my first, and currently, only Mac.

The picture wasn’t taken at the time of its arrival, as you can see its filthy, but well used and loved.

Within the first week of having it, it fell from my shoulder, in a laptop bag and crashed onto a Marble floor. Thats quite a long way for a 15” laptop, I’m 74” tall! Anyway it went to hospital to get fixed, they didn’t do the best job, but after 8 weeks there was no way I was giving it up again.

I also got an iPod mini and Airport Extreme Base Station at the same time. Yeah, lucky me…..