28 October, 2007 by Andrew
I spent the majority of yesterday reinstalling all my apps on my new Leopard powered system.
It all went well except I discovered that Super duper is not yet compatible with Leopard although it should be shortly.
This is important as Time Machine does not make bootable clones of your system (as far as I can tell). It’s fine for file recovery and turning back the clock but less useful if you get a hard drive failure for example…
Some further observations:
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27 October, 2007 by Andrew
I picked up my copy from the new Apple Store in Lakeside shopping mall, Essex. It opened last week and it’s quite nicely laid out, it’s about the same size as the Bluewater store.
The estate agent looking young guy who served me said no free t-shirt for me (boo!) as I was too late at 6:30pm, the queue outside the store for 6pm had been halfway down the mall apparently. (and processed that quickly, hmm, me smells something, that would be 500 people processed in under 30 minutes, I very much doubt it…).
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23 October, 2007 by Andrew
I had the opportunity to buy a second hand but nearly new Nikon D200 digital SLR at a great price.
As I had recently purchased a new lens for my D40X the kit lens was surplus to requirements so I decided to sell my 4 month old Nikon D40X kit along with the spare battery, case and remote and 52mm filter. I put it on Ebay and it sold within the week leaving me just over £100 to find to get the D200 body (I managed to haggle £100 off the asking price for a quick sale!).
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