Skip to main content

Apple: Snow Leopard

I upgraded to Snow Leopard today. The upgrader refused to run until I deleted my Linux partition:
When trying to install Snow Leopard, some people are having a problem where the installer will not recognize the current boot drive as a valid destination for Snow Leopard. Instead, it will display the drive with a yellow triangle on it, indicating something is wrong with that drive. When the drive is selected, the installer claims the system cannot boot from the drive. From cnet.
There's more about the issue here. Once I upgraded, I found out that when you upgrade OS X, you have to install all your MacPorts from scratch. Hence, I didn't get much work done today. On the bright side, I really like one of the new backgrounds! ;)

I'm thinking of trading my MacBook on Craigslist for an IBM Thinkpad T61p.
Labels:

Comments

Jeff said…
I love my thinkpad, but it's just not as pretty as my powerbook.
5:00 AM
flagellum said…
Is there a way to export your mac ports installed ports in some format so that it's easy to get back to that state on a new box?

I guess you could "sudo port installed" and go through each one, but it would be nice if you just new the "leaves" of the dependency tree so that you just install them and it pulls in everything else.
4:51 PM
jjinux said…
> I love my thinkpad, but it's just not as pretty as my powerbook.

Man, don't I know it!
9:41 AM
jjinux said…
> Is there a way to export your mac ports installed ports in some format so that it's easy to get back to that state on a new box?

> I guess you could "sudo port installed" and go through each one, but it would be nice if you just new the "leaves" of the dependency tree so that you just install them and it pulls in everything else.

I think "sudo port installed" is the only option available. I don't think it tracks dependencies in the way you've suggested. (Although Debian does.) I remember reading that you should run "sudo port installed" and manually remove from the list the things that you don't care about because they're dependencies.
9:45 AM
bsergean said…
My wife has a Lenovo W500 (the "new" T61p) ... and she was thinking about switching to Mac ...
7:30 PM
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ubuntu 20.04 on a 2015 15" MacBook Pro

I decided to give Ubuntu 20.04 a try on my 2015 15" MacBook Pro. I didn't actually install it; I just live booted from a USB thumb drive which was enough to try out everything I wanted. In summary, it's not perfect, and issues with my camera would prevent me from switching, but given the right hardware, I think it's a really viable option. The first thing I wanted to try was what would happen if I plugged in a non-HiDPI screen given that my laptop has a HiDPI screen. Without sub-pixel scaling, whatever scale rate I picked for one screen would apply to the other. However, once I turned on sub-pixel scaling, I was able to pick different scale rates for the internal and external displays. That looked ok. I tried plugging in and unplugging multiple times, and it didn't crash. I doubt it'd work with my Thunderbolt display at work, but it worked fine for my HDMI displays at home. I even plugged it into my TV, and it stuck to the 100% scaling I picked for the othe
1 comment
Read more

ERNOS: Erlang Networked Operating System

I've been reading Dreaming in Code lately, and I really like it. If you're not a dreamer, you may safely skip the rest of this post ;) In Chapter 10, "Engineers and Artists", Alan Kay, John Backus, and Jaron Lanier really got me thinking. I've also been thinking a lot about Minix 3 , Erlang , and the original Lisp machine . The ideas are beginning to synthesize into something cohesive--more than just the sum of their parts. Now, I'm sure that many of these ideas have already been envisioned within Tunes.org , LLVM , Microsoft's Singularity project, or in some other place that I haven't managed to discover or fully read, but I'm going to blog them anyway. Rather than wax philosophical, let me just dump out some ideas: Start with Minix 3. It's a new microkernel, and it's meant for real use, unlike the original Minix. "This new OS is extremely small, with the part that runs in kernel mode under 4000 lines of executable code.&quo
50 comments
Read more

Drawing Sierpinski's Triangle in Minecraft Using Python

In his keynote at PyCon, Eben Upton, the Executive Director of the Rasberry Pi Foundation, mentioned that not only has Minecraft been ported to the Rasberry Pi, but you can even control it with Python . Since four of my kids are avid Minecraft fans, I figured this might be a good time to teach them to program using Python. So I started yesterday with the goal of programming something cool for Minecraft and then showing it off at the San Francisco Python Meetup in the evening. The first problem that I faced was that I didn't have a Rasberry Pi. You can't hack Minecraft by just installing the Minecraft client. Speaking of which, I didn't have the Minecraft client installed either ;) My kids always play it on their Nexus 7s. I found an open source Minecraft server called Bukkit that "provides the means to extend the popular Minecraft multiplayer server." Then I found a plugin called RaspberryJuice that implements a subset of the Minecraft Pi modding API for B
4 comments
Read more