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As I mentioned, there is a new toy. Liz is resigned to me spending a little bit of time in front of this beast. Not least because It’s my first taste of the fabled mac OS. Having dumped windows a few years back and having spent time in the comparative openness of linux it’s like putting on a suit and tie (a nice suit and tie that makes you look good). You feel a little restricted and then you look in the mirror and think ‘damn that’s pretty smart’.
I know that under the hood is a variant of unix, and I can open a command line and play in bash so that’s not a problem, and I know that the programs are there if I want them (Firefox instead of Safari for example). The good thing is that most of it just works (Time machine is a thing of beauty), but therein lies the bit I have to get used to. There are parts I should not mess with. Otherwise it will stop just working and start just not working.
And another thing I learned in the process:
A backup is not a backup if you haven’t verified it.
A backup is not a backup if it is the only copy.
My backup of photos from May last year onwards was corrupted. I only found out when I came to restore it. Now I’m looking for something to recover corrupt archives (heh, makes me think of librarians cackling). Still, it’s not so bad, there are photos on Flickr and most of the stuff I really want is on paper (harder to corrupt a piece of paper), despite that, I did feel rather foolish/annoyed.
I shall not think about it for a while as tomorrow we’re off to do another three days of the Camino de Santiago. So guess what the next post will be about.
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apple eh? sounds good. As for the next post on the Camino, given previous posts on this, my advice is take a brolly!
Oh I shall be enbrollied, yes siree…
enjoy the new toy. hope the next section of your pilgramige is dry
John, John, John……………I am dumbfounded!!
How could you possibly not have known these things?
Hold your head in shame and remember “Mother”!
(Speaking of which, I got an email from Paul Anderson – addressed to “Mother”………they never forget!).
I have any number of excuses, it’s just that they’re all rubbish…