Wesley's Tool-Box

XiGL.net, a companion site to Tool-Box.info, is now open for business. The name is supposed to rhyme with 'jiggle'. It's an experimental site made purely with Apple iWeb. Because of the highly integrated nature of this tool with iPhoto, which I use to manage my vast pool of photos, I might be maintaining a photo gallery on that website instead of here. I just had the basic pages set up, so go take a look.

Due to personal circumstances, The Toon-Box series will be on a hiatus for now. I hope to come back soon.

The forums were virtually unused, and I decided to take it off.

This morning saw Apple announcing the first official Macintosh computers with Intel CPU such as the MacBook Pro. These machines come with OS X 10.4.4 for Intel, and Apple updated the PPC version of OS X to the same version. I downloaded the update and ran it... and the system wouldn't boot anymore.

The keyboard commands to force booting to the optical drive refused to work, so I had to take the Mac mini apart, physically remove the hard disk, and force it to boot from the OS X install DVD. After that, I set the boot drive to the optical drive, turned the system off, reassembled it back to the way it was, and started installing OS X 10.4 from scratch. Using the archive-and-install option, the old installation was saved for later recovery of data.

I've tried updating the existing OS X to the more or less 'newer' 'beta' version of 10.4.3, the 8F1111 build. The upgrade process reset the server settings so I had to restore the correct setting I've set up for this system. As a result the server has either been not up, or working weirdly for about an hour.