Still struggling with the upgrade a bit.
To my relief, I found a way to remove that horrible Aurora boot up screen. I felt like I was in a rock band, so I flipped out the graphic to a simple wave solid colour. Much more pleasing a greeting on boot.
No luck on the transparent [...]

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Definite quirks in this one.
Time Machine and Parallels are not getting along too nicely. Although I disabled the backup of the parallels directory for the virtual machines (as recommended), time machine is locking in an infinite loop, resulting in a failed useless file.   That causes me to have to get into the unix command line [...]

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Went through the upgrade process this weekend to Leopard with very few frustrations, but still a few.   
Parallels, the virtual machine for other OS’s, didn’t convert over correctly.  The load drivers didn’t migrate in the startup, which caused me to have to download and reinstall.  That partially worked.  I still get more crashes when launching the [...]

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Absolutely no progress this week. I think I spend a total of 1 hour on it. I know what I have to do, but distractions took over, and my lower back isn’t making it easy to sit still too long. Well, then there is the chess again.
I’m looking at new chairs, as [...]

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Some news has been floating around the net on the case of the web site www.imslp.org that offered the download of public domain versions of music in score form. Most of these documents were from very old publications and as such were of poor quality in terms of accuracy and editing etc. Yet, [...]

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A little schoenberg action, since I am reading Ross’ chapter at the moment:

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Alex Ross, of the New Yorker, has a new book out, and was recently out here in California pushing it at Berkeley. Sorry I missed the party, but I did manage to pick it up, and it surprised the bagoogles out of me. I was expecting some dry one sided play by play, [...]

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