Nov

16

Leopard’s teething troubles

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Leopards teething troubles (image: ) The Mac Mini woes continue. We’d recently taken advantage of Apple’s UpToDate program to order OSX Leopard. It arrived last week, and installation ensured.

And it looked great once it was complete! But, the kicker was, it wouldn’t recognize our shares, or NFS shares, or Samba shares. Seems this is a known issue so, off went Leopard, back on went Tiger.

We’re happy again, and won’t install Leopard until many of the issues are dealt with. And speaking of issues, there’s a cross-platform issues page at macwindows.com, and an excellent list of Leopard 3rd party issues posted over at BioNeural.Net:

[X] Google Earth 4.0
[X] Parallels Desktop 2.5 ( update announced)
[X] Skype 2.7.0.49 (beta)

The full list is here.

Nov

2

Earthrise on the desktop — an Apollo 8 image

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Earthrise on the desktop -- an Apollo 8 image (image: )Today I was feeling the need to update my , and decided to look around for a 1280×1024 version of Earthrise. I couldn’t quickly find one…so I did the next best thing, grabbed this 2400×2400 version from NASA and cropped it. Feel to grab my version here.

** Update Feb 17, 2008 **

Since I’ve got a new 22″ wide format monitor, I needed to rebuild my Earthrise . So here it is, in 1680×1050 rez.

Full credit to the NASA and the Apollo 8 crew (Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders)