Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a Today’s Links (31/10/07)
- The Newton Guide
A new guide to Newton stuff. Looks good. Except that none of the links work. - A Place Where Its Possible To Dream (from The Herald )
Glimmers In Limbo preview. (‘Pish’ according to one erudite commenter.) - Best just to grin and bear it
Review of the Turner Prize show. I seem to be the only person in the world who things Mark Wallinger’s Sleeper is total pap. - Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: the Ars Technica review
Typically exhaustive. - TidBITS Networking: Leopard Simplifies Sharing
It’s the ‘boring’ stuff like this that I’m most looking forward to in Leopard. (Which I won’t be installing for a wee bit - my laptop is in total disorder, full of unused applications &c, and I like to have things spick and span before upgrading.)
“upgrading”? I’ve never done a Mac OS X upgrade, but when it comes to operating systems wherever possible I prefer to make sure I have the apps I need to re-install to hand, backup all user data, and then perform a clean install and restore data.
It may just be geek superstition but I always feel better this way. I kinda see it as the difference between trying to patch up an old car where you don’t know what suboptimal surprises may lurk, and having something shiny, new and in a well understood state. And if nothing else you get a file system that is fresh and largely contiguous.
Posted by Andrew Back at 1am on 02.11.07
That was exactly the sense of ‘upgrading’ I was using, a sense which may be exclusive to me!
I always make a bootable backup on an external drive, then do a clean install and slowly but surely transfer everything across (manually - I don’t trust that Migration Assistant thingy). Getting rid of all the cruft hanging about on my hard drive is just to make this easier…
Posted by Jack Mottram at 1pm on 04.11.07