So, Leopard is finally here. I started my upgrade yesterday. First of all I made sure I had a good backup. Superduper did that for me. I had a complete clone and a user files backup as well. I then made sure as many applications as possible were the latest versions. Some have had patches made available even since I did that. 1Password has had two updates since yesterday morning.

All went well during the process of upgrading. My machine rebooted fine. All in all I have to say, a very smooth upgrade.

I have been working through my applications and all seems to be working fine for the most part. Below are a list of my findings so far :-

* Repairing disk permissions just gave me the stripped progress bar. It didn't seem to do anything.

* Quicktime went back to standard version.

* Final Cut Studio 2 had lost its serial number. When I tried to put it back in, it would accept it, but as I wasn't an admin it would not right the file to the disk. I had to log out and do it again as an admin.

* Growl Mail doesn't work. They are working on an upgrade

* Built in VPN doesn't work with the office Cisco VPN and Crypocard, but the Cisco Client works fine.

* Spaces works great, but I think it will take some getting used to. The preference pane could do with being bigger. Once you add a lot of applications, it is hard to see which Space they are in.

I will post more information as I work more in Leopard.

Tags: Leopard, Computers, os x, upgrade

I had just got out my car and when I noticed some mushrooms on the floor between all the leaves. Luckily I had my camera with me and I decided to try and take some shots. I was really pleased with the way they came out.

One lesson that keeps going through my head is, don't just shoot standing up. I got down flat and took these shots. I have also submitted them to iStockphoto. Lets see what they think of them. I was beginning to lose faith in my photography skills, but whatever happens I really like these ones.

Tags: Mushrooms, Autumn, Leaves