I mentioned in the last post that my Mac died on me. Well it was a slow and painful death. Oh how I wept!
Okay, it didn’t actually get to the ‘dead’ stage before I sent it off for reincarnation. Suffice to say I discovered my hard drive was on its way out when my latest backup failed due to an ‘invalid root node’ error. Cue much cursing and biting of nails as I tried in vain to fix it before discovering it was a hardware problem after all.
Luckily my cover doesn’t run out until next month, so I sent the Mac off for repair. That was over three weeks ago and I got my Mac back yesterday afternoon. Now fitted out with a brand new hard drive and the shiny new coat of a “Snow Leopard” (Mac OS X 10.6), everything’s the way it should be.
Well, almost. Since all my files are still on a bootable external hard drive running Mac OS 10.4 “Tiger”, it’s moving day all over again. But it’s always nice to have a clean slate. Plus, i’m now in my element messing around with all the ‘new’ changes in Snow Leopard. I like Snow Leopard overall, though i’m not convinced by the new 3D dock. I’ve also had some teething problems with iTunes that i’ll mention in a follow up post.
I’ll do a proper review of Snow Leopard in the next few days, as well as covering some of the other changes i’ve been making.
July 1st, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Meh I don’t know why you don’t just switch to the dark side. XD
July 1st, 2010 at 6:14 pm
What, and reformat my hard disk x number of times a year? Now who do I know that had to do that?;-)
July 2nd, 2010 at 5:01 pm
Don’t remind me. I was tempted to do it this week cause of a naughty Trojan that caused me grief. The reason was because it cloned itself and that means the old Safe Boot crap but it takes up the whole day scanning XD
I think it’s gone now but can never be sure since it pops up whenever it likes.
Anyway I replied to your twitter message but it keeps overloading so:
“Thanks but the portfolio isn’t 100% complete yet. I haven’t got a resume and my professional stuff needs to be unlinkable and greyed out.”
I suppose you heard Martin got a job interview? Makes me hopeful
July 2nd, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Ah sounds like a nightmare all right!
Yeah, got your Twitter message 3 times, lol.
Nope, hadn’t heard that! Good stuff=)