Webs’ Random Ideas

Check out my wife’s really cool fall themed board she made.

This rogue will be the death of me. I have been searching for it since 7 this morning. The entire factory power is shut off and we can still see it. So its either battery powered or UPS. Which should make it easy right?

Ha!

I just deleted a bunch of user accounts, so if you try to login and find nothing, I apologize. I tried to be careful, but sometimes I miss things. Let me know if you need help, but I just tested my user creation process and it seemed to work for me.

Republicans have trapped themselves into a corner on this debate. They don’t want government intervention and will give all kinds of anecdotal evidence and little pieces of “facts” about how terrible the government is at doing anything. Yet when you question them they have ZERO solutions. Why? Because they backed themselves into a corner.

Think about it. If the government sucks at doing anything then how can we trust the government to keep the same health care system we have and just add stipulations to what the private companies can and cannot do. It goes against their original premise.

But this isn’t the way I go about such discussions. To me there are plenty of facts and moral obligations that those I do have discussions with could see.

A documentary I saw on PBS…

Watch it if you want to be afraid to get on the road with teens. It worked for me as the scary thing about the movie was that the teens new and signed waivers for having a camera installed in their vehicles. Yet they still drove terrible. I couldn’t find a video clip online, so just look at your listings for PBS. I am sure they will air it again.

Below are my documented steps of installing Snow Leopard:

1. Inserted disc with 10.5  up and running
2. Click the icon to install 10.6
3. Click through the menu options
4. Click Install
5. Enter User account info
6. Install process starts
7. Install reports about 1 hour before it will be finished
8. I came back and it was already finished with a setup assistant
9. I entered the info and had a warning about “Rosetta”. This app translates PowerMac apps to work on Intel CPUs so I think I should of installed from the get go. After a restart and seeing the message again I put the CD back in, opened it and clicked on “Optional Installs”. Then the “Option Installs.mpkg” which opened a wizard where I was able to select the other packages. This walked me through the rest.
10. Once finished I rebooted and everything seemed fine. Only odd thing was that I needed to re-enable the airport or wifi card.

All files and settings didn’t seem to go anywhere. Everything looks the exact same. As far as I can tell the upgrade didn’t even happen. In fact, if I didn’t tell and show my wife I was upgrading her system, she may have never known.

A gander at the list should tell any tech that the upgrade was crazy easy. Any tech who has done an upgrade knows the pains and this one presented none I could find. Also that list is pretty short and most of the items were on there to pad the list. I think it would of been a little pretentious of me to only have 3 items.

My wife has a macbook I bought here last year. Previously she was using Linux, but the laptop it was running on was getting old and I found her using my gaming machine with Windows so she could do work stuff. So many organizations still use applications/tools that are only compatible with Windows. I wanted her to have her own machine.

It’s been running fine. The only annoyance I picked up on was the system not logging into our home wifi or other trusted wifi networks automatically. Not a deal breaker, but annoying nonetheless. But besides that I am a geek and a techie so I like fresh running clean systems. So I got my wife the upgrade.

When it comes in and I get my hands dirty I will post more. To be honest I’m going in with the expectation of dropping in a CD, clicking one button, and sitting back and waiting while Apple does the rest. Of course I will back things up just in case, but I’m expecting things to be easy and smooth. We shall see what happens…

I missed the announcement that Google has stopped development on Google Notebooks. Which sucks cause I loved it and used it all the time. It’s just been awhile for me since I have become busy. Looking at the site it seems I am about 7 months behind… dang

Luckily I can still get in and figure out a way to move my notes, but damn that will take some time. In the meantime I guess I will check out Google Bookmarks or look for other systems.

learned the hard way.

Never touch *.nix permissions from Windows. I ended up having to delete my folder and then recreate it in unix to fix the permission issue. Luckily I had nothing of high importance in the folder.

… File permission issues with a file copied from Windows but edited through *.nix. I copied a file with root permissions to a folder only my user account can access. For some reason local root cannot access that folder, I think because it is an NFS share. Normally not a big deal, just play around with placement of file. But the file is 3.4gigs. Ugh!

The short way of stating this is file permission hell…