The “Essentials” are being configured, oops, now being installed. Writing files: 35% completed. Time remaining: About 12 minutes. It’s 9:26am.
DVD Check OK
The DVD check completed at 9:20am. There is a skip button if you don’t want to wait (or if you know the DVD is good).
The installation is commencing. Writing files, 12% completed. Time Remaining: About 11 minutes. It is now 9:22am.
Checking your Installation DVD
Oh goody, it’s checking the DVD for problems. Which, yes is a good thing. It would be horrible to have a scratch cause problems at 95% completed, ending up with a non-bootable system.
Tiger ships only on DVD. If you need CDs, you have to pay an extra $10, mail your DVD back to Apple, and then wait for them to mail CDs to you. Ugh.
It’s 9:11am, and the DVD check is at 16% complete.
Installation started at 8:50am
I double clicked the install icon, gave my system password, and Ivan (my iMac G5) restarted.
Fairly simple and standard stuff so far. Choose the language, agree to the license agreement, choose type of install (Erase the hard drive! oh my!). Then I chose “Custom Install.”
First choice: don’t install printer drivers for printers you don’t need. This alone saved me 1.3GB of space. There are some new printer drivers included (Brother, Canon, Electronics for Imaging Printer Drivers, HP, Lexmark, Gimp, Ricoh and Xerox).
You can also choose to install “Additional fonts.” These fonts give you the ability to see web pages (and spam) in Chinese, Korean, Araabic, Hebrew, thai, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, Punjabi, Armenian, Cherokee, and Inuktitut. Of course, I don’t read any of those langauges, it is kind of cool to see them sometimes. And it’s only 129Mb.
Note that the fonts are separate from “Langauge Translations.” Language Translations actually allow you to run OS X in different langaugaes. So instead of English menus, you could see Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Swedish, Brazilian Portugese, or Simplified or Traditional Chinese. Those options add 1.1GB, I don’t speak or read any of those langauegs, so no, not to be installed.
The last option is X11. X11 is “a complete X Window System implementation for running X11-based applications on Mac OS X.” Basically, you can run Unix graphical software on Tiger. It’s very geeky, and most people won’t need this, but I want the option to explore. and it’s only 89.2Mb, so why not?
That’s it, only 2.4GB required. Let’s hit Install. 9:07am.
The First Step: Backup! Backup! Backup!
I want to start out with a pristine system, so I need to backup ALL of my data, applications, settings, etc… I ended up burning five DVDs (around 22GB of stuff). I looked through the materials on the iMac G5’s discs, and I didn’t see the extra applications (Quicken, WorldBook, Appleworks) so I backed those up too. Hopefully they will install with a simple drag and drop from my DVD.
I also copied my data to a Maxtor external firewire hard drive. I have hard rumors that some Maxtor drives don’t like Tiger, so we’ll see.
Goodbye, Panther, I hardly Knew Ya
I’ve been running Panther since just after 10.3.1 came out. It’s been rock solid, a joy to work with, and it’s now been surpassed by OS X Tiger, 10.4. Tiger has a high standard to meet. We’ll see.
"Spammers Turn To Pump and Dump" – This is News?
An article with the revelation that spammers use Pump and Dump to make money from the people that they scam. Spammers Turn To Pump and Dump.
ABZT spam run
Wow, just when I thought the lame loser idiot spammer faking my domain name in their spam had gone away, they start up again. I talked with a lawyer about this, and essentially there is nothing I can do about this, except maybe trademarking my domain name, so I can sue. That’s $500 I won’t need.
Filing a complaint with the SEC is the only thing I can do. Again. For all the good it does.
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Content Negotiation
I’ve been using Apache 1.3x for my web sites. Recently I upgraded one server to have Apache 2.0x. I had been using the “Options +Multiviews” feature to allow me to link to web pages without a file extension. For example, I link to /directoryname/something instead of /directoryname/something.html. This gives me flexibility if in the future I want to change my pages from .shtml to .php.
But the settings in Apache 2 have changed slightly. I had to add in “MultiviewsMatch Any” to my configuration file. I restarted Apache, and voila! It worked.
Wget and URLs with Ampersands
I just spent more time than I should have trying to figure out why wget was not retrieving web pages correctly. I’ve been using wget for ages with no problems. It turns out the ampersand & in the URL was behaving badly. The solution is obvious, once I found it buried deep in a discussion at RedHat.com. Enclose the URL in single quotes. Works like a charm.