Flying back to sthlm after my vacation was a bumpy ride.. Usually when flying in 35000 feet you have clear skies, making me sit by the window watching the “soft” cloud ceiling a couple of thousand feet below the plane. This time though, we suddenly hit a wall of clouds, and turbulence. Didn’t make much of it, but when the plane flew out of the clouds you could see lightning going off like crazy further down in the clouds. Couldn’t get a good shot, but you can see the residual light in the cloud from lightning.

So I got myself Snow Leopard, the day it came out, weeee and all that. Now after 4 reinstalls, lost backups, and allot of wasted time I am back on 10.5 Leopard. So what happened?

- DVD drive has died, kinda. I could not install via the DVD as it would not mount the disk. I could however manage to restore back to Tiger!! via the original discs that came with the Mac. I had to clone the dvd onto a USB stick I got, which did not work either due to a timeout. Crappy cheap USB memory. Then I formatted my external drive that feeds the Xbox with stuff, and cloned the install DVD onto that. Worked like a charm!

I was on Snow Leopard, enjoying the changes and feeling good about my Mac now feeling even snappier, even though it is over two years old. I installed all the stuff you need, set up all the nice addons you kinda gets used to and started using it. Didn’t feel much “newer” than Leopard, but I knew that all the good changes is under the hood. 64bit apps and all that. Then it started happening…

- Kernel Panics (I presume) as the system would just hang for no apparent reason. I had to hold down the power button and then restart again. Crap I thought. Then after a few hours the same again. No apparent reason. I was watching a DVD, after a clean reboot no apps started, and it crashed. Rebooted again and watched the same movie, no issues what so ever.

- After around two days with these hang ups, it just refused to start. Booting into Mac OS X triggered a kernel panic even before hitting the UI, with the nice message “You need to restart your computer”. What good is that if it keeps saying it on every boot.

I reinstalled the OS on top of the old one, to preserve all my apps and settings, docs etc. It worked fine for a couple of days, until it started again, the same procedure. A couple of days with kernel panics, and then dead, completely dead.

After a couple of re installs I have given up. Snow Leopard can kiss my ass, I am back on Leopard, where everything is working like a charm. I can hear the fanboys screaming faulty RAM, faulty Drive, Faulty bla bla, but in the end, turns out Leopard “purrs” smoother than the new variant. I am waiting for 10.7.

How one man got infected
How one man survived
How one man stood up against the medical industry
How one man refused to DIE

coming soon..

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Sunny and hot outside, again! Then again I have caught something, and spent yesterday evening out cold with a fever! Dunno what I have, but it is better today, so no swineflu yet. Have to get well before Thursday, since I get visitors from Norway…

Looking forward to my vacation next week, gonna relax and have fun! The last vacation was nice as well, but visiting Norway is hard , so I really never recharged my body that well More like intoxicated it more, haha!

Quiet at the empire as well, things will pick up in a month. Looking forward to it, and seeing sthlm people back in town (we are overrun by tourists atm).

I have discovered online auctioning, and in the last couple of days I have sold my a200 camera and my paintball equipment (that I got around to use twice!). This provided me with enough cash to buy a new camera. I have wanted a prosumer model for months, so the a700 was the obvious choice. I know it is 1,5 years old, and will probably be replaced with a new model this fall. But it was dirt cheap, and I want a camera that can use all lenses, not only new lenses with a chip inside like a380 etc. I have not played around much, but a few shots I have gotten around to take. The camera is pretty cool.

So I finally moved in to my newly bought apartment, and after a brief vacation in Norway, my folks acme down with me to help me decorate. After a hectic week we are fninshed (and I am back working again…..)
More pictures of the new pad at my Flickr page

A couple of friends are doing an adventure trip to Africa this summer, and are ofcourse blogging the whole trip. Follow them on their adventure at:

http://afrikafarerne.wordpress.com/

No I did not either! Final stop östermalmtorg?? Those guys at SL have been drinking again..

Did ya hear? Kinda bought an apartment, celebrated the weekend of norway, singing fairytale, even though it hurts ;p

I am rambling again, mostly because; I am laying in bed, and I cant freakin sleep anymore, insomnia 2k9. Luckily for me, I have my iPhone to keep me company And with it comes NoAgenda podcasts and wordpress blogging, now to check facebook..