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Found a cool site from rajasa

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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.

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

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



This is what should've been on it:



Or this:

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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.

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-ubermacgeek-

On mine, I get a sneak preview into Mac OS X Leopard, to be released in October. Sometime this month, I'll get another sneak preview of my baby. Some of you may not know this but my baby's scheduled to be born in... October. So if everything goes according to schedule, my kid and Mac Leopard will share birth month.

Supercool. (Maybe not)

-/ubermacgeek-

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It's so nice of Steve Jobs to announce the future of Apple on the day of my birth ;) It's 3 minutes to Jobs' Worldwide Developer's Conference keynote speech (and my birthday) and every Mac fan out there is waiting anxiously to hear about the latest news on Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard", iPhone, the rumored brushed-metal iMac, and an addition (already??) to the iPhone family.

I was gonna take the day off today and just hang out somewhere with my very pregnant wife, but something came up at work, (and a little thing called WWDC keynote speech) plus I have to finish the design for our Summer brochure by today, so I'll be working on it soon as the speech is over. We have an exhibition to take care of in about 2 weeks so that brochure had better be ready by the end of this week.

So instead, I'm taking Wednesday off and also because tomorrow is State of Origin game 2, that means I won't have to make up an excuse to leave work early since the game kicks off at 5:00pm local time.

Poké Sushi tonight :D


WWDC here we go.

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