No more frustrating wait for an OTA Update

I came across this excellent thread at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626895 which provided very clear instructions on changing the yakjuxw version on my Galaxy Nexus to yakju, which should make any further OTA updates available without waiting months!

One just needs to read it all through a number of times, and be sure to test each stage before doing the final update. The reading took days, while the actual update took minutes :)

So, I now have Android 4.2.2 and the YAKJU build.

Upgrading Hege's 17" iMac

The idea was to install Lion on her Leopard system, but during the initial backup and preinstall checkout I found her system had only 1 GB RAM! Would Lion run on that? Then there was her old 2004 copy of MS Office which was 'a must' - Lion wouldn't like that. Initial backup of her 34 GB used space took an hour or so, installation of Snow Leopard from DVD took getting on for an hour more..

During this time Hege went for a walk in the local woods, and took a wrong turn, so by the time she returned it was getting late, and we were both tired. This turned out to be a good thing, as it allowed my grey matter to work in the background. First thing next morning I swapped 1 GB RAM from my Old 20" iMac (same vintage as Hege's) with one of her 512 MB cards, and was blown out of the water by the difference this made! (BTW, Lion ran OK on my Old iMac with 1 GB RAM)

Then I bought a SuperDuper license, installed ClamXav, OpenOffice, & VLC, cleaned up her Desktop, updated Snow Leopard & iTunes, ran a Smart Copy of SuperDuper, and tested a few things before Hege came to see the great results :)

We decided to leave Lion for now..

Until now I was pretty happy with the speed of my 21.5" iMac, but running Ubuntu 12.10 Beta and Windows 8 Preview in VirtualBox proved to be frustratingly slow. On checking my RAM I found only 4 GB and two empty slots, so after checking which RAM I needed, I found 2x2 GB kits in the Apple Store for kr. 1640,- ($280). Hmmm! To cut a long story short I ended up buying 2x4 GB Crucial RAM for under $70... that should speed up VirtualBox ;)

It arrived just after lunch

What a surprise.. was just going to have a doze when I heard a van pull up outside, and sure enough it was TNT!

It was solidly packaged, both the external box and the inner one. Really well done..

I took it carefully apart, looking at things carefully as I went. Found which way round the power dinx should go though I have a feeling it goes either way. Powered on, answered the few basic questions, and up it came. Found the network with no difficulty, and while I was feeling my way around, thinking it was becoming rather warm, a Software Update popup told me a whole bunch of updates were ready to install. They installed in no time!

I had some difficulty getting Softsqueeze to start, it clearly didn't like the one from the iMac, but eventually it installed 3.6 and I'm listening to Andsnes thro' the Viba earbuds :)

More tomorrow