Today I purchased the Mac OS X Leopard and the iLife '08 at the Apple Store Ginza.
It was Saturday today, but the Apple Store is be crowded with a lot of people who make window-shopping (Also a lot of people was purchasing the Macs and iPods). I could not avoid a sense of explosion in popularity of the Apple in Japan.
Apropos, about installing the Mac OS X to my iMacG5.
I have a lot of movie files and sound files in my hard disk. For that matter, the most of the movie files are DV and the most of sound files are AIFF. Yes, almost files that should be backed up are very huge. This means it takes long time to the backup these files. This is not so interesting task for everyone.
Of course I plan to install the Mac OS X Leopard by clean install because it stands to reason that clean install is best way.
I will make backup copy while sleeping tonight. I hope it to be finished by tomorrow morning.

tag : leopard

I'm using still the Mac OS X Tiger. Upgrading the operating system is difficult because some application may not work for compatibility problem.
For example, I'm using a video capture unit I-O DATA GV-1394TV/M for timer programmed recording. This video capture unit works with a special software which provide programed recording function. This special software wakes up the iMac from sleep mode automatically on programed time, then capture unit will be recording programed TV show. Afterwards, this software does the iMac in the sleep mode. It's working very fine on the Tiger. I feel it's very useful video recording system.
So I was afraid it would not be worked on the Leopard because it seems that it's using critical API (depends on the version of the operation system) for the processing that wakes up from sleep mode.
Also I'm managing 3 web site by the RapidWeaver ( I'm using still RapidWeaver v.3.5.1 ). If I would upgrade the Mac OS X Leopard, I have to upgrade RapidWeaver too. In this case, I'm afraid about compatibility of the RapidWeaver because each web site is not so easy.
But I received decisive comment in the other day from Mr. Lieven as shown in follows.

Mr. Lieven wrote :
the postcard viewer plugin for rapidweaver doesn't work any more on the latest rapidweaver 3.6.5. when you touch a setting in postcardviewer, the thumbs get oversized and there is no way to fix it. people on leopard have to upgrade to RW3.6.5, they cannot use the current postcard viewer plugin any more.

I will go out to Apple Store in Ginza to buy the Leopard and iLife '08 at the end of this week.
Please advise to me for information about compatibility information of RapidWeaver from guru of the Leopard !!

tag : leopard

A happy new year !
On yesterday, I went on the annual seven lucky gods trip ( SICHI-FUKUJIN MEGURI ).
We have a lot of seven lucky gods in Japan. This year, we selected the Shitaya area seven lucky gods. The Shitaya area is one of the famous downtown area in Tokyo. Also with Mr. Mukashiya Imamatsu who is great Raugo master. It was beautifull and mind day yeasterday. It was perfect weather for SICHI-FUKUJIN MEGURI.
After visited seven lucky gods, also we enjoyed a annual new year's party in Ueno.
However I felt stomach discomfort because I had new year's party 3 times in this week. Yes, too much alcohol...

The year-end and New Year holidays was gone. Today kicks off another year of work.
I want to do work more sensibly more than last year. And I want to make a private time for playing music and developing plug-ins.
I look forward to continuing progress in this year.

P.S.
I added new photo album of the seven lucky gods '08. Enjoy !

tag : seven lucky gods , rakugo