{"id":927,"date":"2009-10-19T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:24:11","slug":"snow-chains-not-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/927","title":{"rendered":"Snow chains not needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Snow<\/a>Five weeks after the package arrived I have installed Snow Leopard—and it was a bit of a non-event.<\/p>\n

First I image-copied the boot disk using SuperDuper!<\/a> This is a great little program that does exactly what it says on the tin and I had a convenient empty hard drive that came free when I bought my new NAS system<\/a>. This took almost exactly one hour. I had previously verified that copies made this way were bootable A caution worth observing before you do this is to make sure nothing auto-starts at login that modifies data; for example your mail program which could download new mail. Otherwise you could lose things as you switch the boot from one drive to another.<\/p>\n

Then insert the DVD and follow the instructions; it couldn’t be easier. It said it would take 55 minutes but was waiting for login in 35.<\/p>\n

And then what? … Nothing really. It had forgotten my wallpaper preferences. It went away for five minute to install the first patch (10.6.1 announced a couple of weeks ago). Although it had remembered most of my preferences, some, like the Spaces assignments and the auto-start programs didn’t take affect immediately (I think the second reboot after the patch cleared most of that—Update: Skype seems to ignore its Spaces assignment). Otherwise everything looks and works just the same. I had read about some of the enhancements but wouldn’t have found them for quite a while without being told. I saved 8G of disk space, big deal! And I have so much spare capacity having overspec’d the machine that I can’t see any performance improvement. Never mind, it is a warm feeling being up to date.<\/p>\n

Did anything not work? Well I had to re-install Popfile<\/a> my anti-spam system as the proxy ports weren’t linking up. BBC iPlayer seemed to have a bit of a problem; it kept asking for permission to access my keychain and then proceeded to expire a program I had only downloaded a few days ago. I will have to keep an eye on that one. The Sonos desktop needed to re-register with the Firewall.<\/p>\n

What haven’t I mentioned? I must confess to a bit of deception at the beginning. Before step 1, the backup, I had done quite a bit of research and upgraded every program in the box to the latest edition. That is why I am so late in making the move. It wasn’t until last week that all the programs I rely on had been fixed. There are a few others that I am still waiting on patches for e.g. Springy<\/a> but I can live without that for a bit (the basic program works anyway). Crossover<\/a> requires a paid for upgrade<\/a> but a hack has been published for version 7<\/a>. Update: blowed if I can get it to work. I may abandon that one rather than have to fork out every six months for the sake of a single application.<\/p>\n

Update: Canon printing required the driver to be re-installed though the scanner side of the networked MFP was fine. As expected, CyberDuck<\/a> FTP needed the beta test version installing. For reference Adobe Flash & Shockwave, Firefox, Thunderbird, SoundSource, SoundFlower, LineIn, KeyPassX, TextWrangler, NeoOffice, Adium, \u00b5Torrent, SoundApp Reborn, Lame, Silverlight, Max<\/a> CD Ripper, Growl, The Gimp, Silverlight, Audacity (v2), XNJB<\/a> MP3 sync and VMware Fusion<\/a> (I am still on v2) gave no problems at all. <\/p>\n

Canon Easy-PhotoPrint required Rosetta, I was expecting at least one package to require this though I hadn’t checked before hand. What is curious is that, when I now look at the System Profiler Software page, almost every program is mentioned twice, sometimes with identical information. I don’t know what is going on there. Update 2: Problem solved; it is using Spotlight and that was searching my SuperDuper copy of the previous system as well as the current one. A quick change to the preferences fixed it.<\/p>\n

I still need to thoroughly test the Canon Camera stuff and so I will update this over the next week as I do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Five weeks after the package arrived I have installed Snow Leopard—and it was a bit of a non-event. First I image-copied the boot disk using SuperDuper! This is a great little program that does exactly what it says on the tin and I had a convenient empty hard drive that came free when I bought […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}