So far so good, post Archive and Install

It's been almost a week now since I did the Archive and Install, and my laptop is far more stable. I haven't had any crashes and my VPN works fine.

I have noticed that the dock animation is now choppy. I also had to re-install the Cisco VPN client and Parallels, but those are minor issues.

All and all, if you haven't upgraded yet, I recommend doing an Archive and Install. Puts all of your data and apps back into place and you won't have as many issues.

Just Archived and Installed

I've been having random crashes since I've upgraded. It's been ugly. Often, after I reboot, the system would crash over and over for 45 minutes to an hour. Right when I got through to Applecare, it would be working again.

When I called last week, they had me repair permissions. That didn't do anything. Today, they had me do an Archive and Install. So far, no crashes. We'll see from here.

New OSX Mail Client Makes Me Happy

I just finished the OSX upgrade on my laptop. It took a little longer than I thought (roughly an hour). At one point, it said it was going to take 5+ hours.

The first thing I did was to fire up Mail.app to see if it worked properly with my Blackberry. Before, deleting email out of Mail.app didn't delete it out of the Blackberry. Entourage also has this problem. The only thing I found that actually worked was Thunderbird. Thunderbird is all right, but it's just not as smooth as Mail.app.

The Leopard version of Mail.app does work properly. That means I get to switch back!

MacBook Pro is Crashing

My new MacBook Pro has crashed 5 times now. That's a lot for a brand new laptop in 2007.

It seems to crash when I'm using a VPN connection over WiFi. It seems to be a common problem -- there is a big thread about it in the apple form. Most people say they experience the crash on WPA2 WiFi connections, which is basically what I'm seeing. In particular, the places it crashes in I'm connecting to WRT54G router running OpenWRT.

I'm hoping there is a driver upgrade or something released in the next little bit. If there isn't one by next week, I'll probably give AppleCare a test drive. Some people are telling them to do things like create new users and not run a bunch of software. Seems like a giant hassle to me for something that seems to quite obviously be a driver issue.

It's about time..

It's about time I put one of these together. I've got a few things to post and ideas to publish and this seems like the best place to do it.

I'm starting with blogger cuz it works with my gmail account and I don't have to think about it. I'll have to make sure I can post attachments and stuff so that I can upload scripts and patches.

Since I just got a new MacBook Pro, I figure this can also serve as a log for of what I've had to do to make it work. For instance, I'm using an Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth Mouse (it's made it through about 3 laptops now). The side buttons weren't working. I had to install Microsoft IntelliPoint & IntelliType - 6.2 to make it work. I've since configured my trusty forward and back buttons and I can now also get to Expose with a scroll wheel click.

That's enough for now..