There are various things you should do before you actually move over
to TIGER.
1) Purchase a copy of Tiger. Well OK, this could the second last
thing on this list but who can wait?! ::-0
The other items should be done before you bring your Tiger DVD near
your computer.... just to be sure.
2) Back up your important data. There are various ways of doing this:
- burn important data to CD: the definitive source of help for this
is.... the HELP menu. In the search field select "Search all Help"
and type in the word "burn". This should get you on the way.
- burn important data to DVD (if you're lucky enough to have a DVD
burner) (see previous HELP suggestion)
- copy important data to another hard drive/computer. There are
various ways of doing this but the simplest is to connect an external
FireWire drive to your computer and use that. You can also connect
another computer in "Disk Mode". Search all HELP for "disk mode". You
should see an entry for "Transferring files between two computers
using FireWire". Check it out.
- if you have a .Mac account, you might also contemplate using
the .Mac Backup utility. Backup is free with .Mac and fairly
straightforward. You check off the bits you want backed up and set
the backup destination (.Mac account, CD, DVD, other hard drive,
etc.) and you're off. It didn't seem to list everything I had wanted
to backup, however, but it did do things like preferences, iTunes
catalogue, etc.
- lastly, is Carbon Copy Cloner, a free utility (although donations
are accepted) available at: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
The downside of this is this won't work under Tiger... yet. The
author is making changes even as you read this. I haven't used this
but have heard people talk about its use. It is easy to back up
everything, apparently, and restore it later..... to versions
10.1-10.3. Like I said, 10.4 is coming....
- all of the above. Just how important is your "important data" to you?!
3) fix your hard drive. Chances are that things have gone slightly
awry on your drive over time and you may not be aware of it. Apple
provides the "Disk Utility" to handle this. Now you can find this
utility on your hard drive but to be able to fix anything you must
boot with your original OSX install disk 1 and launch "Disk Utility"
from that menu. If you launch from your local hard drive you will be
able to Find problems but not Fix them. HELP can be helpful here as
well if you search for "disk repair" and also check out the HELP
within "Disk Utility" itself.
I would suggest that you do both "Repair Permissions" and "Repair
Disk" for you drive since they fix different things.
4) Now that you've spent countless hours backing up (you did back up
your important files that you can't recreate and won't be able to
work without, didn't you?) and fixing things, now you're ready to
install Tiger.
You have basically two choices (well, technically three but two are
just variations on a theme).
You can "install in place" (referred to in the "Installation and
Setup Guide" as "Upgrade OS X". This basically deletes anything to do
with your old system and installs 10.4 in it's place. The variant of
this is "Archive and Install". This will install the complete new
system for you but first it archives your old System, applications,
etc. (into a folder named "Previous System) and then does the
install. You won't be able to boot from the "Previous System" but you
can copy things out into your new Tigerly world.
There is also a "Scorched Earth" option - well, OK, Apple doesn't
call it that but, well, you get the idea. "Erase and Install" does
just that. It erases your entire hard drive (well, the one you select
during the install process) and then installs 10.4 into this pristine
space. The upside is that you are pretty much guarenteed no hard
drive problems (yes, I know, you did the hard drive repair
earlier.... but what if...) and you are definitely guarenteed that OS
10.4 Tiger will be the first things installed onto this hard drive -
which might make it perform better since it now has the choice real
estate on your hard drive.
The downside? No user IDs. No applications. No preferences.... other
than the defaults that come with OS X. If you've used the .Mac Backup
utility, some of this can readily be restored.... but probably not
all of it. For example, user IDs must be created before you can
restore the preferences for same.
All of that having been said, it's not a complicated process. It just
takes some time to be safe.
FYI: I did the Archive and Install choice. Things are working well so
far and I'm happy (so far) with the performance I'm seeing.
Good luck and happy Tiger'ing,
Wayne Billing
You can also find an audio version of this at:
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~billing/casting/Install%20Tiger%20Prep-
postprod.mp3
Hello Everyone:
For those of you who have not already registered (and those of you not
on apple-list who I'm spamming with message), please find the attached
invitation to our OS X 10.4 Tiger Technology seminar. The Winnipeg event
is on May 10th from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Sheraton Winnipeg, 161
Donald Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 1M3.
Please feel free to invite anyone who you feel would be interested in
this session.
You can register online at:
www.apple.ca/go/tiger_education
Regards,
Doug
Internet May 25, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
LIVE WEBCAST: Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" for Scientific and Technical
Computing
For General Audiences
Join Apple in this densely-packed webcast on how each new feature in
Tiger applies to Apple's scientific customers.
For more details:
http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=34802&s=300
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Internet Jun 16, 2005 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
LIVE WEBCAST: Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server for High Performance
Computing
For General Audiences
Learn about the technical underpinnings of Apple's latest OS, and how
new features and updates will benefit users of Mac OS X-based clusters
and grids.
For more details:
http://seminars.apple.com/goToEvent.html?id=34901&s=300
Tiger ships on DVDs. To trade in your DVD for CDs. Apple offers a Media
Exchange Program
whereby you can return your Tiger Install DVD (along with $10) in
exchange for a set of CDs. For complete details of this offer, which
expires on July 9, 2005, download this PDF file:
http://images.apple.com/macosx/pdf/tigermediaexchange.pdf.
...from:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
Customers who purchase a qualifying new Macintosh computer on or after
April 12th, 2005 that does not have Mac OS X v10.4 "Tiger" included can
upgrade to Tiger at a cost of US$9.95.
The program ends on July 22nd 2005. Your order must be postmarked or
faxed by July 9th 2005, so order your upgrade now.
The list of qualifying computers can be found at:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/list.html
Hi,
Some of the very technology savvy people on list will have realized
that Apple has posted the next major revision to Quicktime (QT), now at
version 7.0.
There seems to be consensus on the web regarding four accepts of the QT:
1. The video quality to absolutely phenomenal - High Definition video
over the web ... who would thought it possible so soon.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/hdgallery/
2. If you purchased the upgrade to QT Pro 6.0, your release key will
not work to enable the pro functionality in QT 7.0. However, the
upgrade price has not changed from version 6.0. Please bear this in
mind if you are running FinalCut Pro in a production environment, as
you might inadvertently disable your workstation until you pay to
obtain the QT 7-Pro upgrade.
3. QT 7 includes the new video codec H.264. Okay so you're thinking
"what does that mean" ... see point (1) above. This kind of modern
mathematical compression technique requires significant CPU power to
drive H.264 video at full frame rate (24 frames/sec). Specifically a
high speed G4, 1.5GHz or better to see full frame rate.
4. For content creators H.264 also requires significant CPU power to
encode video in H.264 (e.g. G5 processor).
That said, QT 7.0 looks to be a excellent product for video
professionals and regular users of video content. However, you might
want to pause for a second a review your use of QT and how the new
version will run on your equipment BEFORE downloading the update.
Regards,
Doug
Good Morning,
Please find the attached invitation to the Apple Canada OS X 10.4 Tiger
Technology seminar. The Winnipeg event is on May 10th from 8:30 AM to
5:00 PM at the Sheraton Winnipeg, 161 Donald Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 1M3.
Please feel free to invite anyone who you feel would be interested in
this session.
You can register on-line at:
www.apple.ca/go/tiger_education
Regards,
Doug
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Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP
Senior Apple Computer Consultant
Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba
204-474-6196 (Ph.)
204-474-7556 (Fax)
http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/
...from:
http://www.macworld.com/2005/03/secrets/mayosxhints/index.phphttp://www.newmediamanuals.com/podcast/OMT-Summarize-Services-
OSX_030.mp3
http://www.acqyr.com/home/2004/02/summarize_your_.html
- Sherlock's Lost Translation:
Sherlock has a built-in translation function (it actually uses the
SYSTRAN engine http://www.systransoft.com/index.html). Launch it. Click
the Translation "flag" button. Enter the text you want translated.
Click translate.
Here's an example:
By far, there's too much information surrounding us all. It's close to
impossible to absorb everything! After all, we live in the "knowledge
economy" so reading reports, articles, emails and documents is a part
of our every day life.
Serlock's translation:
French:
De loin, il y a trop d'information nous entourant tous. Elle est près
d'impossible d'absorber tout ! Après tout, nous vivons dans l'"économie
de la connaissance" ainsi les états, les articles, les email et les
documents de lecture est une partie de notre chaque vie de jour.
Greek:
Κατά πολύ, εκεί πάρα πολλές πληροφορίες που περιβάλλουν μας όλοι. Είναι
κοντά σε αδύνατο να απορροφήσει όλα! Τελικά, ζούμε στη "οικονομία
γνώσησ" έτσι διαβάζοντας τις εκθέσεις, άρθρα, τα ηλεκτρονικά
ταχυδρομεία και τα έγγραφα είναι ένα μέρος της κάθε ζωής ημέρας μας.
...and back:
By far, there is too much information surrounding us all. It is close
to impossible to absorb all! After all, we thus live in the "economy of
knowledge" the states, the articles, the email and the documents of
reading is a part of our each life of day.
By far, there very a lot of information that surround us all. It is
near impossible it absorbs all! Finally, we live in the "economy of
knowledge" thus reading the reports, articles, the electronic posts and
the documents it is a part of our each life of day.
...and, of course,
English->Japanese->English->French->Greek->French->English:
Very, they are there of many data elements which surround us whole. It
is roughly impossible thing which absorbs of all! Very back, we lived
in the <economy of knowledge>, consequently the State of the book, the
article, the ELECTRONIC MAIL and the document it is a part of our
everyday lifes.
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- Summarize Proust:
"By far, there's too much information surrounding us all. It's close to
impossible to absorb everything! After all, we live in the "knowledge
economy" so reading reports, articles, emails and documents is a part
of our every day life."
So begins one description of Apple's OS X "Summarize Services". To
summarize, "Summarize Services" is a service which will summarize a
large body of text attempt to distil out the essence - you get to
choose how much distillation takes place.
Here's an example where the text has been taken from:
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/proust.htm. This entry has 13 paragraphs and
nearly 2000 words (according to Microsoft WORD).
OS X's "Summary Services" at summarize to setting 1 and "Paragraphs":
---------------------------
Remembrance of Things Past does not have a clear and continuous plot
line. The narrator is Marcel. He is not Proust but resembles him in
many ways. Marcel is initially ignorant - only slowly does he begin to
grasp the essence of the hidden reality. At the end he is preparing to
write a novel which is like the one just presented to the reader.
Marcel's childhood memories start to flow when he tastes a madeleine
cake dipped in linden tea such as he was given as a child. "And as
soon as I had recognised the taste of the piece of madeleine soaked in
her decoction of lime-blossom which my aunt used to give me (although I
did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this
memory made me so happy) immediately the old grey house upon the
street, where her room was, rose up like a stage set to attach itself
to the little pavilion opening on to the garden which had been built
out behind it for my parents (the isolated segment which until that
moment had been all that I could see); and with the house the town,
from morning to night and in all weathers, the Square where I used to
be sent before lunch, the streets along which I used to run errands,
the country roads we took when it was fine."
--------------------------------
Microsoft WORD summarizing at 1% setting:
---------------------------------------
From 1882 to 1889 Proust attended the Lycée Condorcet. Proust suffered
from asthma throughout his life.Proust and Bergson knew each other
socially.
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Microsoft WORD summarizing at 5% setting:
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From 1882 to 1889 Proust attended the Lycée Condorcet.(Proust inReading
in Bed, selected and edited by Steven Gilbar, 1995).
From 1895 to 1899 Proust worked on an autobiographical novel that
remained unfinished. Proust suffered from asthma throughout his life.
Proust is generally considered a pioneer of the modern novel. Proust's
work widely influenced authors in different countries, among them
Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. One biographer mentions that Proust
liked tight underwear.
A prolific writer, Proust also was an avid letter writer.
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You can access OS X's "Summarize Services" by selecting a piece of text
(email, text document, web page) and choosing "Summarize" from the
Application>Services menu. Changing the settings will dynamically
change your summary.
WORD provides an AutoSummarize... tool in the Tools menu.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Use iTunes to Organize PDFs
Looking for a different way to organize a massive collection of PDFs?
Use iTunes. That’s right, iTunes. When Apple released The Complete U2
digital box set last year, it distributed the collection’s liner notes
as PDF files. To make sure people found them, Apple modified iTunes to
handle PDF files in its library. The side effect was that iTunes
(thanks to its Smart Playlist feature) also became a good way to
organize large PDF collections.
To test this out, just drag and drop a PDF (or several) onto iTunes. It
will show up in your library, with its Finder name listed as its song
name. To organize your PDFs, use smart playlists. Create a new smart
playlist (File: New Smart Playlist) and set the conditions to Kind
Contains PDF. Select the Live Updating option and click on OK. Now you
have a playlist that contains all your PDFs. If you name your files
following a certain pattern, you can add rules to the smart playlist to
further sort your PDFs. Make a Recipes smart playlist that gathers all
files whose names (“song” names) start with Recipe. Or create a
medical-journals smart playlist that gets all the files with the prefix
"Med_".
Double-clicking on the iTunes entry for this document will open it
using OS X's Preview.
Wayne
Hello,
Thought you'd want to know as of yesterday GRASS GIS is now at version
6.0 after two years in development. Mac OS X, MS-Windows, and Linux
distributions are available. Oh, for those of you who don't know this
product its a FREE (open-source) commercial grade GIS (Geographic
Information System).
Details can be found here:
http://grass.itc.it/announces/announce_grass600.html
Cheers,
Doug
...from:
http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39127655,00.htm
Doctors turn to iPods and open source to cut costs
February 07 2005
by Jo Best
Apple is doctors' orders for storage
While Apple is riding high on the sales of the iPod, the iconic music
player is morphing into a business tool: radiologists at the University
of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), are teaming the devices with an open
source platform to help the medical community cut costs.
UCLA's Dr Osman Ratib, whose background is in medical imaging, wanted
to find a way to sidestep the $100,000 workstations needed to view high
resolution images that required 3D rendering. With help from programmer
and fellow radiologist Dr Antoine Rosset, he created OsiriX, an open
source application, to enable radiologists to teleconference with the
images on Mac desktop systems.
"The platform has similar functionality [to the high-end workstations],
it's accessible to the rest of the medical community and you don't have
to spend $100,000, $200,000 to view the images," Ratib said.
He added that he was a "strong advocate" of the open source
development model. The doctors were able to build the software using
ready-made components and add the environment and interface themselves.
"It took nine months to create... the platform. It very quickly took
off," he said. "Before we'd showed it in any meeting, we had hundreds
and very soon thousands of users."
When it came time to find a way to store the high-res images, Ratib
turned to another Apple staple - the iPod.
Ratib told silicon.com: "It was difficult finding enough space on the
hard disc to keep image sets... They don't fit on discs, they don't fit
on memory sticks."
"It's amazing - [with iPods] people are carrying around 60GB in their
pocket when I don't even have 60GB on my computer," he said. "That's
the beauty of adopting consumer technology."
As well as using the iPod for storing the image sets, Ratib adapted
the software to cope with the iPod photo after its release in December,
giving medical staff a "cute, sexy" way to show images to other
personnel.
Despite warnings from analysts that all removeable storage - including
the iPod - is a security risk - Dr Ratib said that using an iPod
doesn't present an additional inherent security risk.
"It's not the device, it's how you use it... I don't think an iPod has
any different risk to any informatics device. We strongly recommended
to anonymise the data," Ratib said.
"When [users] are outside the institution, they can be compliant or
not, depending on their behaviour. It's not different to copying it to
CD or memory discs."
While Ratib described the medical profession as "a little more
traditional in adopting technology," the software is also enabling
medical workers to start working remotely; the software is compatible
with Apple's videoconferencing software, so physicians can see and
share medical images.
"We rigged the software to mimic the camera... it basically shows
what's on your screen" to other iChat users, Ratib said.
"We were that close to having Steve Jobs presenting it as a feature in
the San Francisco keynote," Ratib said.
