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.)
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“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.
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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…
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