Sunny Side Up

Wow, check out the dust on these, nothing's been touched since 2008, few things seem to be missing here and there but everything looks just the way I remembered it from back then. Don't see much that's different, if any. Anyone around by the way?

Found a cool site from rajasa

Labels: apple, cool, crazy, fun, interesting, life, mac, media, pondering, web

So last night I had the opportunity to do a full restore of my system from Time Machine because I had to wipe out my HD in the morning. I set Leopard to custom install so it would only take up 7 GB instead of the 12 GB from a default install set up. 20 minutes later, my MacBook was ready to go. Yep, it took only 20 minutes to install on my MacBook 2GHz Core Duo with 1GB RAM.

My Time Machine drive is a 500 GB WD MyBook Pro connected through Firewire which I've been using since December 12 '07 so it already has quite a library of backups. I had 225 GB left because apart from the Time Machine backups I also use it to backup other data.

After the MacBook restarted, it went through the fancy spacey intro video before asking me to enter my personal details, after which it asked me if I want to transfer my information from another Mac. I chose to transfer data from my Time Machine backup which meant having to transfer 30+ GB. Being fully prepared to wait until the next morning, it was a nice surprise to find that it was done in a little under 1 hour. Naturally I set it to transfer absolutely everything so I don't have to go through the hassle of reentering my network settings, creating accounts, installing and updating apps, etc.

So now, with everything all back to proper working condition, I plugged in my modem to grab all the emails I missed during the day. Right after activating Mail, it asked if I wanted to import all my emails, which of course I did. Apparently Time Machine doesn't completely restore your system. Particularly emails. It needed to recreate all my accounts and settings although thankfully I didn't have to do that manually and the emails and accounts were restored from Time Machine's database instead of having to redownload everything.

While waiting for Mail to sort itself out, I reached for the modem icon on the menu bar ... only to find that my internet settings are missing. ALL of them. Somehow the Time Machine failed to restore my internet settings through IM2 and indosatgprs, my .Mac sync settings. What's weird is that my AirPort passwords work fine. I can still connect to hotspots that I logged on to previously.

Yes, I told Migration Assistant to restore them. So now I have to resort to internet sharing through adhoc AirPort network.

Another weird thing is that Time Machine refused to continue the incremental backups I've had since the beginning, instead it began a complete backup as if it was never ran. So in addition to the very first full backup, I now have two full backups. This means it took up an additional 30+ GB instead of just adding the difference.

I followed the instructions on this thread at Apple's Discussion forums but it didn't help my case, largely because I found out about it only after it had done the full backup after the restore. I need to find a way to recover that extra 30 GB.

Labels: apple, mac, pondering, technology, work

Your Taste in Music:

90's R&B: Highest Influence 90's Alternative: High Influence 90's Pop: High Influence R&B: High Influence 80's R&B: Medium Influence

You Communicate With Your Ears

You love conversations, both as a listener and a talker. What people say is important to you, and you're often most affected by words, not actions. You love to hear complements from others. And when you're upset, you often talk to yourself. Music is very important to you. It's difficult to find you without your iPod.

After 7 months selling mobile HSDPA plans from Indosat M2, I bit the bullet and signed up for it myself. Considering I do my webcrawl mostly at work (and my limited budget), I took the 1.2GB option just so I can have access to the net at home and when I'm not at work.

I was going to go with Fastnet but those guys haven't got any link to my house. Also apparently people are having issues with sharing their connection. I need that done without much hassle, we have two computers so we shouldn't need physical routers and complicated steps.

I don't feel like posting the hassle I faced signing up to a service I help popularize (it's unbelievably retarded) so I'm just gonna brag about my speeds.

HA!

Nothing unusual about this screenshot but how Stacks' Fan view with a bunch of folders on the desktop is absurd.

Labels: apple, crazy, funny, leopard, mac

This is what's on Apple's website since 6:00p.m. yesterday



This is what should've been on it:



Or this:

Labels: apple, geek, insanity, jakarta, joke, leopard, mac, stupid

Rp. 100/minute.
3G over bluetooth phone.
Cheap, relatively fast.
Was online from home to hospital yesterday with no drop outs. That's nearly 1 hour.
Pure wireless network.

I love my set up.

Labels: cool, geek, internet, jakarta, mac, mobile, phone, wireless

I'll be doing most of my updates on Twitter from now on. Microblogging is faster to do and more convenient. Ever since I managed to get mobile twittering to work on my phone (Apparently my XL number doesn't let me register to Twitter but Indosat does), it's become more manageable.

So head on to twitter for faster updates. I'll reserve this one for long posts. Need to manage LJ as well, it's already in a coma for too long.

Labels: blog, future, internet, twitter, web

After getting fired by Microsoft a few years ago, Clippy seems to have found himself a new job at Apple. From dishing out comments in Office to becoming hardware support for iPhone.

Labels: apple, crazy, geek, insanity, iphone, joke, microsoft, technology