To satisfy my own curiosity, I reinstalled OS X Snow Leopard today.
It took about 48m to install the OS. I excluded all printer drivers, foreign language fonts, and translations.
You can’t trust the estimated time to completion. It started by reporting only 17m. After 17m, it changed to 18m, at which point I quit watching. Returning [...]
Tag Archives: Mac
Reinstalling Snow Leopard
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
BlackBerry Desktop Manager coming to Mac in September
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Good to hear.
(via engadget)
Reinstalling Leopard
Sunday, June 21, 2009
To satisfy my own curiousity, I reinstalled OS X Leopard today.
It took about 1.5h to install the OS and 30m to install the base apps like iDVD and so on.
This was on a 2.0GHz Core2Duo Mini.
Separators in the Dock in Leopard
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Here is one way to separate items in the OS X Dock in Leopard.
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add ‘{ "tile-type" = "spacer-tile"; }’
killall Dock
Setting up QBZR on OS X
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Bzr is nice to use. It is tailored for the masses (of which I am a member). It has the usual UNIX support, but it has first-class Windows support, too. It has a nice UI if you want it. The community is great, too.
A few days ago I installed it on OS X and [...]
Mini-malistic Mac development environment
Saturday, June 6, 2009
It looks like the “non-pro” hardware is clearly the best place for me to start; the Mac Mini and Macbook fall into this camp.
My original thought was that the Macbook would be a perfect fit since I could hook it up to an external monitor at home and take it along with me when I [...]
Evaluating the ADC Select Membership
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Apple offers 3 levels of memberships: online, select, and premier (0USD, 500USD, and 3500USD respectively). They differ of course on features. For the time being, the select looks the most reasonably priced so I wanted to learn more about how it might make sense.
From what I read, the biggest perks are the 2 support tickets [...]