Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"

[winterkoninkje]

So Last night I upgraded my OS from 10.2.8 to 10.4; right now I'm getting all my mp3s back from backup since I reformatted my drive in the process since they've added versions of HFS+ which are case sensitive and which have journalling. From what I've seen so far I like 10.4 infinitely better than 10.3 which I intentionally avoided. Tiger fixed many of the things introduced in Panther which I hated, frex it's so much faster and it lets you get rid of all the crap they put in the new windows.

Tiger also took most of the system hacks I did on my old Jaguar installation and made them part of the core. Things like AddTypeing for PHP to work in the Apache install; like getting curl-config --libs to return the proper value; and like keylayouts for phonetic Russian and polytonic Greek. I prefer my layout for Greek over theirs since it's more dynamic, but the phonetic Russian will prolly replace the Russian Easy layouts I've been using (though I do like icon they have for the "Standard" layout better than the "US" icon).

Presently as I attempt to rsync my mp3s back from Balthazar I'm running into issues with it timing out somewhere around the 18th GB. Unfortunately I didn't fully check when I rsynced Fuchikoma up with Bal and so while the folders for everything were put up, not all of the files were transfered. It cuts out around Soul Coughing's Ruby Vroom. So I'm grabbing stuff from an older backup on Bal. If I can get the DVD backups I made a while back to work (they were giving me issues when I was testing them) then I should be able to grab the rest from those. Once that's done, I'll make sure the sync on Bal is complete.

Of the things still on my list to from the upgrade are: install elinks if I can get it to compile, install the latest 3.x version of gcc for when gcc 4.0 doesn't work (correction v3.3 already comes installed), install a local version of Perl so as not to clobber the system Perl when I CPAN things. I figure I'll put off Open Office and TeXShop until I need them. Hmm, it looks like the latest jEdit in some combination with Tiger doesn't like to display japanese text like it used to... I'll have to look into that.

Oh, and apparently my text color scheme looks like garbage on Safari 2.0, along with the text rendering for Gill Sans—all bold and fuzzy. I'll have to look into fixing that; hrmf, and after it looked fine on all the other browsers...