I couldn’t help but chuckle at the *Fact *that was included at the bottom of a recent request to join someone’s LinkedIn network.
Fact: Adding 5 connections makes you 3.7x more likely to receive a job offer
I wonder just what the evidence looks like to back such a suggestion up?
All things considered, it would actually be a pretty data set interesting to analyze…
Last night I decided it was time to take the plunge and upgrade my MacBook Pro to Leopard.
All in all, the upgrade was fairly smooth and required no intervention from me after it was started. There were a couple of gotchas I discovered after attempting to use the upgraded system which I’ll discuss in a bit more detail below.
Gotchas
The lack of an admin user was a slight inconvienence. The fix required booting into single-user mode and adding my current user to the sudoers file and then using dscl to add the user to the admin group.
Web Sharing was easy to fix by re-enabling it in the System Preferences.
The MailTags forums say that a beta release supporting Leopard should be available early next week.
Given that this laptop is also my development machine at work I was happy to see all of my tools still functioning. I recently migrated to using MacPorts-built versions of PostgreSQL and Subversion, they’re still working with no re-compilation necessary.
The changes to Mail.app look nice and I’ll be looking forward to seeing if they’ve eased any of my Exchange-related burdens.
I’m also keen on seeing how well the Spaces implementation works. I was using VirtueDesktops for sometime but ultimately got frustrated with some of the focus issues with applications across desktops.
Overall things look nice. I’ve never been much of a Safari user but the improvements around search and inline PDF viewing are a nice touch. Firefox could really learn something here.
That’s it for now, a generally positive upgrade experience but we’ll see how the next few weeks work out.
First off, the Kensington Expert Mouse is an amazing trackball. Of course, I guess the popularity of them has declined to the point where I wasn’t able to find one in any of the local computer stores. Closest thing was the traditional Logitech thumb-based trackball, less than ideal. The mouse is a gift to my dad and he wanted absolutely nothing of the Logitech.
None of the retailers (Futureshop, etc.) listed on the Kensington website listed the expert mouse, plenty of other Kensington gear but not many mice. Amazon.com does sell them but of course won’t ship hardware to Canada.
Ncix.com also had them listed but as a special order item. Have trackballs gone that much out of style?
To make a long story short, I’ve ordered it from cdw.ca and it should be shipped to my dad any day now. If anyone else happens to be looking, don’t bother checking stores, just order it online.