I wouldn’t have guessed that I’d be picking Spaces as my killer feature in OS X 10.5 Leopard. I tried various virtual desktop systems in the past but was never overly impressed so I expected more of the same from spaces.
But I was pleasantly surprised when I turned on Spaces to see what was there. [...]
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I’m still waiting for SuperDuper! to release a Leopard compatible update. While the current version can be used to clone a disk under Leopard and make the data available on the cloned disk, the metadata isn’t consistent and the cloned disk probably isn’t bootable.
I’ve been using the Time Machine for local backups and Mozy for [...]
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Just as Time Machine was beginning to grow on me as a viable backup option I ran into my first annoyance. And it is annoying.
Until now Time Machine ran almost unnoticed by me. But tonight I had a Parallels VM open for several hours. The good news is that Time Machine didn’t seem to be [...]
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Due to the time and hassle of rebuilding my Parallels Desktop(aff) VMs I wanted to use the VMs I had already created. This was simple to accomplish. I didn’t do anything special to prepare but all my VMs were shut down the last time I used them, not just suspended. I also didn’t have any [...]
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I got Leopard installed and running in good time and without any problems. So it was time to start installing the apps. So far the app installations have gone fine although a few minor Leopard problems have cropped up.
The first thing I installed was Yojimbo because I keep all my configuration info, serial numbers and [...]
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The Leopard DVD was waiting at more door when I got home tonight, left by Fedex 10 hours earlier (damn work!). My memory upgrade had arrived earlier than expected and was waiting with the DVD. So I set about executing my upgrade plan, which is to do a full erase and install.
I synced my iPod [...]
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