Just after my last post I had the eye op. in Drammen. Susan drove me and all went well, but it was uncomfortable reading and writing for the rest of the week, partly due to the salve I had to use 3 times a day til the following Friday.
Anyway, now I'm back in business and there's quite a bit to mention.. first I updated Suse to KDE 4.1 RC1. That went surprisingly smoothly, though at first I didn't realize where you could select it, i.e. on the login page which normally is bypassed. Nvidia is working well and the fonts are better now, so Suse is really looking good when you compare its 1280x1024 resolution, approx the same as the Macbook, with the iMac which is much higher definition. There was also an update which included a kernel update. Luckily I had read the 'new posts' and noticed a grub error thread, as it hit me too. The new kernel entries were made in menu.lst, but slightly wrong.. hd0 instead of (hd0,1) in a couple of places.. made a new Eltorito CD and backed up using both Paragon and Macrium. The latter is distinctly faster on both the XP drive and the Suse drive.
Next was a Firefox - Dropbox fiasco. Oddly enough I had returned the PC to its normal profile a few days earlier without trouble, but both Macs refused to let me in after the change, saying there already was a copy of FF open. In the end I had to bite the bullet, Zap FF and reinstall from scratch. This went fast enough, but I had forgotten it would zap the passwords too.. so now I have clean copies which keep asking me for old passwords, until they have been re-entered :(
Next was July 11th, another of those absurd Apple days with people actually queuing up overnight for the privilege of buying an iPhone 3G in a store - that was the only way you could buy one! That I'll never do! And of course the systems crashed, the queues took ages to move as the servers were down, people were sent home to complete the activation through iTunes and had to sit there hitting a key for 4 hours or so in order to complete.. of course Apple gets a tremendous amount of attention as a result and even negative factors seem to benefit them! I'm waiting for the first Android, about which it has been very quiet lately, but I think an HTC model will be out in a couple of months ;)
MobileMe was updated at about the same time as above, and even that was a screw up, so much so that everyone is getting 30 days extension of their agreement! I'll try it again early one morning and see how it like updating my iTunes folder now.. bet its still running at 15-20KB/sec.
That's about it.. I removed Acronis True Image totally from the PC and am keeping both Paragon and Macrium images in easily recognized folders on the combo drive. Really must take 2nd level backups to the new REDNTFS partition.
Anyway, now I'm back in business and there's quite a bit to mention.. first I updated Suse to KDE 4.1 RC1. That went surprisingly smoothly, though at first I didn't realize where you could select it, i.e. on the login page which normally is bypassed. Nvidia is working well and the fonts are better now, so Suse is really looking good when you compare its 1280x1024 resolution, approx the same as the Macbook, with the iMac which is much higher definition. There was also an update which included a kernel update. Luckily I had read the 'new posts' and noticed a grub error thread, as it hit me too. The new kernel entries were made in menu.lst, but slightly wrong.. hd0 instead of (hd0,1) in a couple of places.. made a new Eltorito CD and backed up using both Paragon and Macrium. The latter is distinctly faster on both the XP drive and the Suse drive.
Next was a Firefox - Dropbox fiasco. Oddly enough I had returned the PC to its normal profile a few days earlier without trouble, but both Macs refused to let me in after the change, saying there already was a copy of FF open. In the end I had to bite the bullet, Zap FF and reinstall from scratch. This went fast enough, but I had forgotten it would zap the passwords too.. so now I have clean copies which keep asking me for old passwords, until they have been re-entered :(
Next was July 11th, another of those absurd Apple days with people actually queuing up overnight for the privilege of buying an iPhone 3G in a store - that was the only way you could buy one! That I'll never do! And of course the systems crashed, the queues took ages to move as the servers were down, people were sent home to complete the activation through iTunes and had to sit there hitting a key for 4 hours or so in order to complete.. of course Apple gets a tremendous amount of attention as a result and even negative factors seem to benefit them! I'm waiting for the first Android, about which it has been very quiet lately, but I think an HTC model will be out in a couple of months ;)
MobileMe was updated at about the same time as above, and even that was a screw up, so much so that everyone is getting 30 days extension of their agreement! I'll try it again early one morning and see how it like updating my iTunes folder now.. bet its still running at 15-20KB/sec.
That's about it.. I removed Acronis True Image totally from the PC and am keeping both Paragon and Macrium images in easily recognized folders on the combo drive. Really must take 2nd level backups to the new REDNTFS partition.
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