Got a phone call yesterday, looks like I might be heading to the UK. “Why?”, you ask….
Well, it seems a good referral has come down from on high for all the Creed visuals we put together for the Weathered tour and now AC/DC is interested in hiring us. They want Ken and I to hop a plane across the pond and have a sit-down meeting to discuss the possibilities.
could be fun.
more later…
Had my first kernel panic today. Whilst syncing my idisk (also had mail, safari, ichat, itunes and launchbar running) I decided to plug in my isight camera. The screen did the “roll-down” dimming and the panic screen came up. Sheesh, I usta do that same routine all the time in Jaguar.
As a side note, Panther seems to start up faster. Less spinning and jumps right into the login info.
Post Script: found out in the system preferences, while you can sync the idisk it doesn’t let you choose the option of syncing manually. it’s only in automatic mode. 
However, the autosync seems to be able to be turned off via a contextual menu (right click/control click) on the local idisk.
Okay, it’s installed, it’s running. and I’m thinking that there’s some work left to do.
First, I did the “Archive” install. I wanted to save as many settings as I could. I tested out this install on one of my edit machines.
On the edit suite, I used Carbon Copy Cloner to replicate the drive (as not to fuck with my original system). Then, when booting up on the cloned drive, did the install. FCP, AE, the Macromedia suite all performed well. In fact, they never even seemed to know there was anything different…and why should they.
After that initial test. I decided that I would install Panther (developer edition) on my TiBook (1ghz with 1gb of RAM).
The first thing I noticed was that my settings were all there (yeah!) and Panther accepted all the little shareware/freeware programs I use all the time (launchbar, watson,etc.).
In Safari, as in Mail.app, it asked if I wanted to change my keychain to Panther’s version. In doing so, it informed me that I could not go back (read: not backward compatible). With only a possibility of, basically, Yes or No, I forged ahead.
Safari was fine. Mail has been improved (but for some reason doesn’t always see an entire URL written in a message). The new finder rocks. Expose is really cool.
Now, it’s time to start messing with folder actions and applscripting.
More later…
Through insurrection and slavery, war and depression, terrorism and triumph…we’re still the best thing going. 227 years strong. God bless America.
i’m up in Sedona, Arizona. Having a bit of a vacation and enjoying not doing anything.
