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January 08, 2008

Leopard is spinning   Tweet

A month or so has passed since I upgraded from Tiger to Leopard. Upgrading my iMac to Leopard took less than an hour, and after that everything was ready and fine.

One ugly problem however, after I downloaded and installed the first fat Leopard Security Update (35mb), but that was entirely my own fault. When the reboot took a little longer than I expected, and I assumed nothing was happening at all, I hard yanked the iMac into a reboot, and that was ooh soo wrong. The machine booted up into a fresh new welcome screen, wanted me too enter a new user, but kept rebooting up in a loop.

The result was that I had to do a safe reboot, and a complete reïnstallation from the Leopard CD. Having done that (went smooth again in an hour or so) I fired up Time Machine for the first time on a clean 250 GB external hard disk. After that disk was formatted Leopard started copying files and told me the first back-up process would take more than eight hours. So I went around to do other things and when I came back late at night the iMac was sleeping, and behaved very well when woken up.

Check out the video from Walt Mossberg and read his article: Leopard: Faster, Easier Than Vista.

Posted: January 8, 2008 10:12 AM (222 words).  Tweet 

Leon Krijnen
Verslaggever bij BN DeStem. Schrijft over defensie, fotografie, mensen, de zaterdag column en doet de techblog Interface. Publiceert op DutchCowboys/Leon. Maakt ook een serie over mooie Brabantse café's. Op Krijnen.Com publiceert hij vanaf 1995 van alles wat. Rijdt racefiets of een van zijn oldtimers, Dorus Dream, of de ouwe trouwe W 180. Gek op Apple.
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