<div dir="ltr">Happy Birthday dude.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Dave Horsfall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@horsfall.org" target="_blank">dave@horsfall.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">With the various sob stories heard here about a bollixed upgrade, I<br>
thought I may as report success.<br>
<br>
Having Mavericks 10.9.5 (and 10.9.4 before that, and Snow Leopard 10.6.8<br>
before that), it went like a dream, costing me three hours, a few cups of<br>
coffee, and a massive hole in my ADSL budget (to the extent that I'd<br>
brick-walled it, and now I'm throttled back to 256MB/s).<br>
<br>
Didn't like the garish colours, but found the "dark" option, courtesy of<br>
the GottaBeMobile site. Not too fond of the new Calendar either, but what<br>
the hell; a change is as good as a holiday, as they say. The new<br>
Reminders is a bit spiffy.<br>
<br>
Looks like my Apple ID has changed once again, and I had to use my Yahoo<br>
address this time, as all my other ones were taken. Odd.<br>
<br>
Went to disable iCloud (I simply don't trust it, based on confirmed<br>
stories I've heard about Yosemite snitching to Apple even when privacy is<br>
requested - see <a href="https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home" target="_blank">https://github.com/fix-macosx/yosemite-phone-home</a>) and it<br>
threatened to delete all my documents on the Mac, so I'll look at that one<br>
later.<br>
<br>
Usual relativistic time-dilation effects, such as "about a second" taking<br>
a minute or more, but I'm used to that now.<br>
<br>
Already had MacPorts 2.3.2 (installed earlier), and Xcode 6.1 had already<br>
made itself at home, but MacPorts is still rebuilding itself many hours<br>
later (probably because of my now crippled ADSL link).<br>
<br>
Copious use of Time Machine being made, and just as well because I'd<br>
deleted a document I thought I was copying inside TextEdit.<br>
<br>
Getting various installation notes during the build, which I've probably<br>
lost in my scroll-back buffer. I wish these were squirreled away<br>
somewhere, with a note at the end saying "Please see blah blah for post<br>
installation notes" or something; now I'll never find 'em, so they'd<br>
better not be important.<br>
<br>
Keep getting a pop-up to do with Java being required for some site or<br>
other, but that could be Firefox in the background.<br>
<br>
Keep seeing warnings about "Warning: Deactivate forced. Proceeding<br>
despite dependencies." here and there; dunno what they mean.<br>
<br>
Anyway, no show-stoppers as such, and MacPorts is still beating away at<br>
an awesome 256MB/s.<br>
<br>
Oh, and I turned 62 today.<br>
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Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU) "Bliss is a MacBook with a FreeBSD server."<br>
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