I’m finally getting around to installing the pre-release of Tiger (the new OS X), because I really want to have it in place before the general release on Friday. This is simply pride, but hey, it’s making me happy. Because I’m a big believer in clean OS installs (why not give it every chance it can possibly have to succeed, instead of forcing it to live on 1.5 years of cruft from my previous install), I’m nuking my laptop drive, reformatting, repartitioning and starting fresh. This gives me a chance to partition it out so I can dual boot with GenToo Linux, which will be sweet. I want to be the geek with KDE up on my Apple Powerbook.
Before doing this, I’m making a complete image of my hard disk as it stands now to a Firewire drive. It’s been going an hour so far, and it’s maybe a third done. 40,000 MB / (60 * 60 * 3) seconds = 4MB / sec. That sucks. That really, really sucks. I’m starting to understand why my laptop performance has been so crappy lately, if 4MB / sec is all it can muster off the disk. Keep in mind that this is streaming off a disk which is *not* the boot partition. Grrrrr.
Starting to relax a little bit about my impending trip to Asia. I asked if we would have access to the internet from the room where I’m giving the training. They said “yes!” (I wrote down “yes”). Sadly, they continued “our new corporate headquarters in Beijing is being finished this week, and we move in next week. Internet will be live by the time you get here (the Monday after that). I crossed out “yes” and wrote “no.” My contacts also seem to be the kings of expanding project scope. We’ve already gone through a couple iterations of “here’s the deal,” “okay,” “okay?” “okay,” “just one more little thing you could do for us…”. The next attempted expansion of duties will be shot in the head, even if it’s a reasonable request. They’ve had their couple of freebies, now they need to pay more.
Moved the melons to the soil out back beside the garden. They seem happier there, already, but maybe it’s just me that is happy and the melons which are just sitting there. Who knows?
Watched “The House of Flying Daggers” which was another gorgeous film with lots of kung-fu ass kicking. It was sweet.
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