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Josh Kim’s Twitter Updates: 2008-03-20

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  • MacBook Air: Ready to be used. Finally. #
  • Thinking about going to a conference, far far away. #
  • And the joint pain returns. Drat. #
  • I have this thing for conferences now. All’s I need is cheap housing and friend(s) to go with. #
  • Next Sale: Nintendo Wii? Next Purchase: Nintendo DS? #

Josh Kim’s Twitter Updates: 2008-03-19

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  • Yes. In Bed. On Time. Tomorrow is crunch time. #
  • I should never ever have to *wait* for a confirmation email. EVER. #
  • I am now out of your clutches, Comcast! Take that! #
  • Looks like WordPress 2.5 keeps getting delayed… good news for me… More time to get stuff done. #
  • Uh oh. I put on my thinking cap again. Another idea? #
  • Will I ever have time to blog? Find out tonight… #
  • Made an AIM sn for fun. Process is a *lot* better than before. AOL is becoming better… just a bit. #
  • AOL buying Bebo isn’t gonna help AOL catch up, though. #

Josh Kim’s Twitter Updates: 2008-03-18

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  • A new How I Met Your Mother. And I miss it on TV… Thank goodness for torrents. #
  • Yellow Umbrella. #
  • Success. Drag and Drop has returned. Permissions… we’ll see to it tomorrow. #

Josh Kim’s Twitter Updates: 2008-03-17

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  • First reformat of the MacBook Air. Yes… I bought the usb/ethernet cable… Why can I just give the mouse a cookie and be done with it? #
  • Twitter needs to remember what page I was before I logged in… That way, I don’t have to go back twice to remember who I wanted to follow. #
  • MacBook Air: Why do you hate me so when all I got is love for you. Reformat tonight. #

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.