Saturday, November 24, 2007
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Must Clone thyself... but all is well anyway

If there's a way to clone one's self for today, I would have done it.

I have two family members on sick bay. As you know, my dad underwent an elective procedure yesterday (which incidentally went very well). But Nico decided to join in the mix and was in and out of his fever also yesterday.

This prompted me to go home yesterday and tend to him (Nico) today.

So for today, I had to attend to my dad and Nico, and then run some errands and get some work done in the office, and then attend choir practice and mass. So I had to clone myself and make at least 3 copies.

Fortunately, some smart scheduling did the trick. I dropped Nico and her nanny at the clinic and did some work while waiting (since my office is near the clinic). Then, I even managed to have my celfone repaired and picked up some awesome upgrades for Scarlett while I was at it.

Likewise, my sister stepped in for hospital duties for my dad so all I did was secure some supplied my sister brought there.

As for Nico, he has a sore throat so all he needs are some meds and a lot of rest.

Then, I got Scarlett's RAM up to 2Gb now... in preparation for her major Leopard facelift.

And then... there is Leopard...

Yes I know, I read all the warning signs of early adoption. But because I did not make the jump to Leopard immediately, I benefited from the wisdom of the pioneers.

All the literature I read states the best way to install Leopard is a clean install, namely a disk reformat and a fresh OS X 10.5 installation. But I have too much content that such installation may take all day. That's time I did not have.

The same literature also agree that the upgrade option was very dangerous, as any wayward "old" application may loose you the entire system. So I did not choose this option because I did not have time to troubleshoot Scarlett if something went wrong.

So I chose the next best thing to avoid installation problems: Archive and Install. It preserves your old settings and creates and archive of it, and then completely installs Leopard over it.

And it worked like a charm. I must say, I did not have any problems getting Scarlett to run on Leopard. Of course, there are some incompatible programs I have to troubleshoot but basically, I can already live (and work) with my system now as it is.

With the horror stories I read about Leopard installation, I was really afraid to do this today because of my schedule. But looking back now, it was really a relatively painless experience, even less painful than a clean XP install, and less time consuming, to add.

The process when so well, I had more than enough time for choir, which also went relatively well.

I will blog about my thoughts on Leopard so far tomorrow. So I can have something to blog about... tomorrow.

Here's to a good weekend for us all!

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