Haven’t been active on here in *ages* – which is a pity. I think Twitter took over and ended up becoming something of a distraction for a while, but that’s started to subside recently.
Anyway, the reason for this quick post is to report that I’ve run through a number of OS X upgrades across different machines recently, and all seem to have gone OK. This Apache instance is still up an running, so that’s proof enough that the switchover went well given that there’s a bunch of custom stuff in this which you might expect would get toasted on an upgrade.
The only minor points for me seem to have been a few plugins from various Apps to Mail and Safari – otherwise all seems well so far.
Actually, the main problem I encountered was a less than happy optical drive on one of the machines. There’s a bunch of questions on the Apple Support forums about optical drives refusing to accept CDs or DVDs and there are a set of responses suggesting media type and wandering off to your local repair centre. In this case all it took to get the drive accepting disks again was a blast of air through the drive. I think the drive gets used so little these days that the dust build up must have covered the lens and so the drive just assumes all media are trashed.
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Paul lives, rides and works in Cardiff, South Wales. His work seems to largely entail fixing things and keeping wheels on. Officially, he is actively engaged and interested in Enterprise Architecture these days, but has a secret past that involved standing around on glaciers collecting meltwater samples, and walking through endless fields of wheat taking radiance measurements. 