Leopard On My Mac mini: Day 1
Oct. 29th, 2007 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thatcrazycajunJust installed OS X Leopard late last night, after scoring a copy for $10 off at the Fry's out in Gwinnett County. (No, I was bloody-be-damned NOT going to try downloading a 5-gigabyte OS from BitTorrent or some such, over my bargain-basement DSL line...and was too impatient to wait for Amazon or CompUSA to ship it.) So far, so-so...no major problems as yet, but would love to figure out how to change the menu bar's color back to white from that translucent screen...and how to disable the Spotlight menu, since the way I did it in Tiger doesn't work this time. Will keep y'all posted as the week progresses and I try various new features and usual operations. Stay tuned if you want to avoid any bugs I run into in your own installation.
The installation process itself was smooth enough, if time-consuming. (The initial time estimate the install program displayed was over 3 hours[!!], but actual elapsed time was somewhat less—call it 90 minutes from loading up the DVD to full normal operations.) Only malfunction so far was that the Last.fm client launched automatically on startup when I hadn't told it to, but an uninstall of the client with CleanApp took care of that. (Synium Software makes CleanApp, and I highly recommend it for getting rid of unwanted applications and all their little ancillary files secreted hither and yon in the Mac OS's Unix underpinnings; see product page here.)
Most of the installed software so far seems to work, and the new OS and Safari 3 installed by the Leopard disc even took care of the crashiness I was suffering with Safari under the old Tiger system. (On the demerit side, Safari 3 plays no nicer with LJ's rich-text editor than its predecessor did; so I still have a reason to keep Firefox around.) Now if Leopard will let my Mac talk to my color printer again the way the old OS did before I moved, I'll be a happy little coonass.
The installation process itself was smooth enough, if time-consuming. (The initial time estimate the install program displayed was over 3 hours[!!], but actual elapsed time was somewhat less—call it 90 minutes from loading up the DVD to full normal operations.) Only malfunction so far was that the Last.fm client launched automatically on startup when I hadn't told it to, but an uninstall of the client with CleanApp took care of that. (Synium Software makes CleanApp, and I highly recommend it for getting rid of unwanted applications and all their little ancillary files secreted hither and yon in the Mac OS's Unix underpinnings; see product page here.)
Most of the installed software so far seems to work, and the new OS and Safari 3 installed by the Leopard disc even took care of the crashiness I was suffering with Safari under the old Tiger system. (On the demerit side, Safari 3 plays no nicer with LJ's rich-text editor than its predecessor did; so I still have a reason to keep Firefox around.) Now if Leopard will let my Mac talk to my color printer again the way the old OS did before I moved, I'll be a happy little coonass.
