Monthly Archives: March 2008

Reinstalling Leopard on the MacBook Air

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If you do a Google search for anything related to leopard macbook air installation or reinstallation, you get all these blog posts about how the included DVDs will only work on a MacBook Air. This is obviously not news… Apple has been including system specific discs for some time… But really, that’s beside the point. This post is for those that are really truly looking to “(re)install leopard on a macbook air”.

This is in the users manual, by the way, on page 46. It looks like that there is an included application to do just this called: “Remote Install Mac OS X”. Thank you, Quicksilver, for making my search for this application that much quicker.

Very Important (and the mistake I made twice): DO NOT try to run the Mac OS X Install Disc 1 through Remote Disc. This is not the right way to reinstall Leopard on your MacBook Air. You’ll just keep putting in your password and restarting your computer wondering why nothing is happening.

It’s taking a ridiculously long time for my MacBook Pro at the “Waiting for MacBook Air to start up…” dialog box, which is highly discouraging. I even bought the Ethernet dongle so that this process would be made at least fast as if I had a USB external DVD drive (Gigabit ethernet isn’t the bottleneck (1 Gbps), it’s the USB 2.0 (480 Mbps)).

Oh. It’s done. Time to go nuts and reformat the thing.

And yes, I’ll start blogging again soon. That’s one of the many reasons why I bought this thing to begin with. Now… if it’ll work as it should, I’ll be very very very happy.

Legend… wait for it… "air"-y.

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It has happened. It took me quite a long while to do this, but, I pulled the trigger. Now to spend the rest of the night configuring the darn thing so I can actually start doing some work.

Sidenote: I love Time Machine. It’s just the restoring part that’s a little painful and untrustworthy. Time to do what I do best: Go and bring a machine back to its awesome state after a reformat (in this case, a new purchase).

Another Sidenote: I haven’t posted on the blog using the actual WordPress interface for a while. Doesn’t seem to shabby, but I still prefer the TextMate bundle.

A Third Sidenote:Â WordPress on Safari doesn’t like to retain html tags in the visual edit mode. That’s why the post before without paragraph tags. What’s the deal…

Tired of my Twitter Updates Yet?

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Subtitle: “Suck It Up and Write.”

It’s been a while, I know. As each day passed without a worthwhile post being put up here, it got harder and harder to write. My thinking is that if I could somehow blog about how I haven’t been able to to blog, it’ll get the ball rolling, and the dailies will follow.

Physical Limitations

Subtitle: “I’ve got tunnels in all up my extremities”

Yeap. My wrists are acting up again. And quite a bit, actually. I feel like exercising and working out helped to lessen the pain, but… I’ve also been having issues with my ankles for two months. Turns out that after seeing the doctor for the first time since I got my work permit, I might be onto something called Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome. We’ll see if I have both Carpal and Tarsal next week after I get some strange electrical testing done on me.

It could be that all these issues are connected to some kind of Hypothyroidism. I hope not.

Also, for about a week, my jaw wouldn’t open all the way. I’m only realizing now how much I grind my teeth as I sleep. Might be why my jaw feels a little stiff when I wake up.

And I’ve been having pain in my upper left abdominal region. This one is still up in the air. Maybe poor posture?

So to sum it up: My body is like… melting away. This leads into…

StatusFix

Ah yes. My first multi-member project that I hoped to be a part of. Health complications definitely made me a little bit hesitant to continue in this endeavor. Also, there were huge lessons I started to learn as I partook in this project.

Which will follow later.

So those that don’t know yet: I’m off StatusFix. It still feels kinda like my own project, but it’s… time for the next project?

The Next Project

If my wrists aren’t going to be stupid, I’ll be posting the details to my next awesomeness. Also, I’ve secured another client to work for. At least I’ll be secure in that for a little while.

New Toy: AppleTV: Delicious

  • Overall, it’s great… when it works. I’ve had it crash and start on me twice, and it hasn’t been a week yet. Once, I had this weird green screen that made it restart on its own; the other time, I had to physically hard boot it. That was just at the beginning: now it’s getting better.
  • It’s made me watch video podcasts at the beginning, because I didn’t have any video content on it at first. Like Diggnation HD, which is pretty entertaining, although not that informative (this podcast stuff is another post on its own… my goodness, is someone keeping count on how many other posts this single entry is going to spawn?)
  • Over 802.11g, it’s slow. It’s slower than I could have ever imagined. Streaming music isn’t a problem. It’s the part where I want my entire music library and a few TV shows/movies on AppleTV. The first sync took me an entire night.
  • Rather than hack it, I’ve just started to re-encode things into H.264. Not the best codec for quality… or maybe it’s just the fact it’s re-encoding from .avi files. Hope to figure this out.

Twitter: It’s destroying the way I blog

Seriously, it’s making it blogging too easy. I also looked at Tumblr.

Less friction to getting my content out means faster updates. It also means a HUGE decrease in signal-to-noise ratio.

A second blog

See what’s going on? These sections are becoming Twitter updates. Oy.

But yes, I’m thinking about starting up a second, much MORE focused blog. I’m just trying to figure out the logistics of keeping and maintaining two WordPress blogs. I might have to call on some source version control software to automate plugin updates and such.

BLAH BLAH BLAH

Okay. I’m blogged out for now. Come back later for something more worthwhile.