Juha Haataja: Universally PersonalWhat I Almost Didn't Do Today.Becoming a science fiction author- February 22, 2008 The local library was selling old magazines cheaply, and I picked up five issues of Portti, which is a Finnish science fiction magazine (and I guess a bit of a fanzine as well). I haven't had time to read Portti for several years, but now (during the so-called skiing holiday here in Finland) I managed to do a bit of reading. It was a surprise to find my short story in the issue 42006. (Story title "Kala jolla oli polkupyörä", Fish with a bicycle.) I took part in the Portti short...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/universallyPersonal/2008/02/23.html#a4889 Leopard - 10 days, 9 hours, 39 minutes- February 22, 2008 Leopard has been running for well over 10 days on my iMac, since the first boot after installing 10.5.2 upgrade. (I switched from Tiger at the same time.) There have been minor nuisances, and some stupid things I did myself. For example, I shut down the external Time Machine backup disk without unmounting it first. Fortunately no data seems to have been lost or corrupted. Two days ago I started doing Time Machine backups of my iBook over the wireless connection to the same external disk on...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/universallyPersonal/2008/02/23.html#a4888 Leopard - 6 days, 5 hours, 27 minutes- February 18, 2008 I have now been using Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.2) for over six days on my iMac. There have been no problems, and I have even remembered to switch on the external disk for Time Machine backups every once in a while. I was anticipating some problems, but it seems that there are few if any. In fact this may be the smoothest Mac OS X upgrade ever, and I have been using all versions since 10.0. Most 10.X version changes have caused some problems, but this didn't, at least so far. Impressive. On the..http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/universallyPersonal/2008/02/18.html#a4887 Leopard works well on iBook G4 and aluminium iMac- February 16, 2008 I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard a few days ago, and there have been suprisingly few problems. (Almost none in fact.) The biggest surprise was that the parental restrictions defined in Tiger were immeadetely functional in Leopard without any tweaking. Thus, the children are allowed to use certain software, and only those. Also, I was afraid that certain older games would not work in Leopard, but all seem to work so far. I had two games which didn't fit into parental restrictions under Tiger....http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/universallyPersonal/2008/02/16.html#a4886 Upgraded my iBook G4 to Leopard- February 15, 2008 After a few days worth of positive experiences of Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.2) on my iMac, I upgraded my iBook to Leopard as well. I have the last version of iBook G4 --- a 12 inch model at 1.33 GHz. There is 80 GB of disk, and I recently upgraded the memory to 1.5 GB. I made an "Archive and install" type upgrade, which went flawlessly, although it took quite a while. At the same time I took the opportunity to remove some old software and documents from the iBook. There was even some Mac OS 9...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/universallyPersonal/2008/02/16.html#a4885 Good Leopard - or bad- February 13, 2008 I have been corresponding with SSP on Leopard user experiences. He has had negative experiences with EyeTV and iTunes: "multitasking in X.5 is rotten and things skip a lot". However, for me things are different. EyeTV seems to work in Leopard even smoother than in Tiger. For example when pausing a recording and then continuing, there is no that small "hiccup" in the beginning of playback as there was with 10.4.11. And this is while multitasking - usually I have 4-5 users logged in to the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/universallyPersonal/2008/02/13.html#a4884 Made finally the leap from Tiger to Leopard- February 12, 2008 The second update to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.2) was released yesterday. I today upgraded my iMac from Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). I bought a copy of Leopard last year, but postponed the upgrade due to worries about incompatibility. I made a default upgrade, and there were no problems although the iMac had lots of additional software installed (including system utilities etc.). Everything is running as smoothly as can be wished. I read a lot of complaints about the details of Leopard from the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/universallyPersonal/2008/02/12.html#a4883 10,000 music tracks, over half unheard- February 11, 2008 Since moving my iTunes music from iBook to iMac I have been growing the collection. I used to have a lot more classical music on the iBook, but disk space constraints forced to remove some of the music. But now I have read a lot of the music back from the cds. And I have also bought quite a few albums from the iTunes Store, and eMusic as well. Currently I have a bit over 10,000 music tracks in iTunes. There are several dozen tracks which have been listened to over 150 times. But there are also.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/universallyPersonal/2008/02/11.html#a4882 |