One of the things I forgot to backup were the setting for Dialup Networking (DUN) on my MacBook. I use a Nokia N95 with a flatfee UMTS/HSDPA subscription. Both the MacBook and Nokia N95 have Bluetooth capabilities, so it should be a match made in heaven... Well, not completely.
You need specific settings AND files for getting this to work. First of all, Apple does supply several modem scripts for several phones/providers, but not the HSDPA/N95 combination.
Thankfully, I found this blogposting providing the modem scripts (local version). Having those makes it a lot easier.
Just unzip the file and place the scripts in the following folder:
/Library/Modem Scripts/
I tried to upgrade to OSX Snow Leopard today. 'Tried' is the keyword here. It seems though that the current installment of OSX (Leopard) is installed on a file system supposedly UNSUPPORTED by Apple OSX Snow Leopard.
NOTE: I have no way of knowing if the release I have is the final 'Gold Master'. So it could be that my findings are irrelevant for the actual (official) Snow Leopard OS.
I will however verify my findings when I have the actual 'Gold Master' in my possession.
When you run the installer from the OS (or by booting from the DVD) I get a error message saying that I need a GUID Partitione Table disk to install the new OS on. Somehow I use a different (and unsupported) partition scheme. And I thought that I selected all the best options during the clean install a while back......
There's no way of converting (using Disk Utility and/or Terminal commands) this to the appropriate settings without formatting your hard drive. So a normal upgrade is out of the question for me (or so it seems). And for many others I guess, since I won't be the only one with the 'wrong' partition table setup.
Oké. At the moment I run a server at home. This server runs several services which I need (at the moment). These services include:
- File sharing
- Web server (mostly for testing and development, since this website is hosted @ Dreamhost.com SquareSpace.com)
- *cough*Download station*cough*
- Mail Server (serving several personal domains)
- SSH Server
- Local onsite backups
All this runs on an old (especially in IT terms) PC with Windows. The CPU and other peripherals sucks in electricity like you've never seen before (it's an old AMD Thunderbird CPU from the early overclocking days -> 2000/2001). Apart from being old, it's also responsible for about 70% of my energy bill (a 'rough' estimation). Besides that, it's also responsible for permanent subtropic temperatures in my study.
