Campions!!! • 05.17.06
The champions league as well!!!
50 years ago it was Real Madrid in its first edition, this year it was Barcelona.
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Archive for May, 2006
My not so smooth Apple Bootcamp experience • 05.16.06
I finally got Windows installed in my MacbookPro and in my case, the experience was less than smooth. First, Bootcamp gave an error before I could even make a partition and I had to repair the OS X system disk which I could not do initially since to do so you have to boot the computer from the CD with the OS and I did not have it with me. Once I repaired the OS X system disk (I wonder how it got corrupted as I hardly used the computer since I got it) I prepared the partition, burned the CD with the drivers and started installing Windows. The installation itself was pretty good but I was shocked to see that the installation of XP (first time I actually saw it) still look and feel as installing Windows 3.1, I heard that Microsoft has change the look and feel of the Vista installation, it was probably time I guess. The real problems started now. The drivers were not being installed properly, I had to removed some of them and install them again (the Bluetooh one was a particularly problematic one) and after thinking I was done, Windows asked me to reboot which I accepted and then it freeze while shutting down. After waiting a while I manually had to close the computer and restart and Windows will not boot. I rebooted the OS X partition and removed the Windows installation CD which was trapped inside (no way to eject the CD manually on a Mac, I guess putting an eject button was not within their design guidelines). Btw, first time I started OS X after the installation of Windows it took forever to start and since Windows was not booting, I totally freaked out thinking that no none of the two OS partitions will boot. After that, reboot again and Windows finally started. I looked to get online but no wireless icon or connection anywhere to be seen. I checked the drivers and saw that the wireless LAN driver was not working well so I try to reinstall it but nothing. I was suggested that it could be a firmware problem so reboot again, start Mac OS X and attempted to upgrade the firmware but nothing, I already had the latest version. Reboot again, start Windows (at this point, several hours since I first started…) and started trying things till a colleague found out that actually, the Bootcamp drivers for the wireless LAN do not work on Japanese MacBook Pros since they use a different wireless LAN card that the US ones, check a thread about this issue here. I guess that I will have to get a USB wireless LAN for the time being…
Other drivers are missing but I cannot figure to which hardware they belong (the camera?) and at this point, I am not trying more things and I am just going to use it for a while to see whether it works well or not.
So not a very smooth experience but I must admit that when Windows was finally configured and I saw it start at the really high res of the MacBook Pro it was pretty cool and it feels very fast, faster than my current Sony notebook. So I hope that I do not came across more issues and I can finalize my switch to a Mac.
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Barca, campeon!!! • 05.03.06
The Barcelona football team just won the Spanish Football League for second year consecutive with still three matches to go, pretty good. On May 17th we also have the chance to win the Champions League against Arsenal, I will be in Tokyo watching the match in the middle of the night with some friends, one of them from the UK so it will be fun.
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