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MacOS X 10.5 "Leopard" is as fantastic as everybody says it is!
It's ridiculously pretty (duh), has a nice, crisp loop compared to Tiger's more hazy feel. The laptop feels a little bit snappier, but that might just be me. The new Mail.app is as good as I thought it would be; and I can't wait to dive into all the other apps that I have to play with.
First things first, though; right now, am copying files off my old 80GB hard-disk onto my Mac (via "Karanth", my very old Linux laptop, no less! The poor dear is literally groaning under the strain, but that's only because the fan is pretty clogged up, old and noisy. For the geeks: I've mounted the Ext2 partition onto Karanth, connected the two laptops together with Cat5 - don't you love how Macs don't need crossover cables?! - and am now using `scp' to do the copy). Once this is done (it's almost finished half a gig in five minutes or so; for the full 10 gigs, that 100 minutes or around an hour and a half), I'll reformat the hard-disk, set it up as a Time Machine backup, and go to sleep while my computer backs up as much of itself as it can. That way, whatever happens, I'll have something to restore my computer off of. Like I said, I've already got e-mails and photos backed up, but I'd prefer everything to stay the way it is, if at all possible, thanks!
If I can keep my laptop moving until next month, I might invest in a "proper", full-disk backup solution like the 1TB Time Capsule. Even my entire home folder isn't going to fit on my current hard-disk! But that's all details for another day: if my computer should die tomorrow, I want something saved somewhere, and I hope that this is going to be the ticket.
P.S. Leopard is much smarter about RSS feeds than Tiger was - for instance, of course the feeds should go with the e-mails! Opera's known this for ages, guys, try to keep up! Which means I have much less of an excuse to miss your posts. So more commenting for all!
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I'm loving this, in case I forgot to mention this before. I stopped just now and looked out from out my two windows, and the view is so splendid it makes my heart ache. My bed is perfect: right length, right height, right width; right degree of softness even, perhaps. My table is going to be at the perfect height beside it. There's ton of space to be used for dunno what, TV or XBox or whatever (after I get rid of my boxes, I guess). There's plenty of wall for posters or signs or whatever. And my wardrobe should fit my books and clothes and whatnot really well. Yay!
Seriously, I am really enjoying this. When I grow up, etc.!
Now: to slowly unpack and organize, to get back on track with life in general and grad school in particular, and to start all the extracurriculars, etc. But for now, to curl up in m bed with a Saramago will be enough for me, kthnx bai. Indeed!
I like being happy. I guess it suits people to be so.
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It's eight twenty in the morning, and I've been up all night (sleep schedules funky again, etc.). Funnily enough, it's the whole household: Gerard, Ifty and me were up until seven this morning, and watching House for the last hour or so of that. Consequent to the sleep dep and run around etc., I'm in a very blissful state at the moment, where everything seems like ... just the best it could all possibly be, all of it, stars and constellations across the infinite spaces of planet Earth.
Yay.
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."