A shade over seven days since I arrived home from India, I am off to the post office to courier six sets of two DVDs. Spent most of yesterday burning, designing and printing discs, and then decided that each of the disc boxes should have a different cover, to feature each of the major sponsors. Looked cool, took time.
So, nearly two weeks of Indian rally related stuff, but now life returns to normality for a while, so how about spicing up the day by installing Snow Leopard? Two copies arrived this morning, one for me and one for Nik upstairs. Nik calls me after an hour or so to tell me that he can’t upgrade, his machine just shuts down after a few minutes in a display of digital spite. As we have almost identical machines, this is a cause for some concern. But I embark on the exercise anyway and sit and scowl at the monitor for 45 minutes just in case there are signs it might betray me. It doesn’t, so now I am upgraded and things feel marginally snappier. Nik removes his somewhat obscure mouse and tablet combination and Snow Leopard finally, grudgingly agrees to install on his machine also. Sighs of relief all round. Spend an hour trying to find some exciting new features to justify the 1,200 baht price, and fail. I mutter “foundation for the future” to myself in an unconvincing manner.
In a orgasm of upgrade fever I embark on an update of our Acer Aspire One netbook and manage to totally screw it up, to the extent that nothing much happens when I turn it on, just a blank screen with a mouse cursor. Much googling indicates a BIOS refresh via a memory stick might be in order. It isn’t, because afterwards I am not even blessed with a mouse cursor. Some sort of memory stick based complete restore may be the next step; after which I suspect even the power light will fail to function. Anyone want to buy an Acer Aspire, “needs some work”?
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2009-09-01| Billy says… and what on earth where you upgrading the Acer Aspire from and to? …. Ubuntu to XP … surely not ..
2009-09-01| Spike saysFedora Linux I think. The little toy told me it wanted some updates, I clicked to install them; and it screwed up. Plastic piece of shit.
2009-09-02| Billy saysah, Open Source … worth approximately what you pay for it … and sometime less …
2009-09-02| NeoteenX says:) Well its not open source issue :) u can always fix it boot it from a linux live cd format that system and boot with a previous version of fedora and more ever fedora is always cutting edge :P sometimes it does bleed..
and oh Snow leopard has features 1000s of them haha but all hidden ;) i am still waiting for 10.6.1 .. that be the time for upgrade coz lot of people faces issues with Lightroom messing up after the upgrade
2009-09-02| Spike saysExcept it doesn’t have a drive; will have to do something with a memory stick (smash the screen with it would be an option).
Lightroom is OK with SL on my machine; but SL has screwed up all my colours so will have to re-calibrate.