I’m completely exhausted. This past weekend, I went up to Gunma and Tochigi. I drove over 700 kilometres and took 600+ photos. As a result I haven’t gotten much sleep and I’m in a cranky mood. On top of that, I’m doing a complete hardware upgrade/overhaul of my computer systems and home network. It’s taking ages and while reformating/reinstalling Mac OSX I couldn’t find my image editing software, so I haven’t been able to do any blog posts. I’m afraid I’ll have to go to a store and actually buy software!! Well, I did manage to upload these photos to wet your appetite. They are grasshoppers or “inago” as they are called in Japanese. Yes, in Japan they EAT BUGS TOO! OMG! Sometimes, the inago are crunchy when they are deep fried, like those mini shrimps that stare at you when you bite their heads off, but usually the locals like their inago slightly juicy. On the sign, it says they’re full of calcium. I bought a pack and ate them for lunch today. Put some inago between two slices of whole-wheat bread with lettuce and some low-fat cheese. Yummy.
When you reinstall OS X you should partition your HD thusly:
- OS
- Apps
- Files
- DVD-R Burner
- Users (For portable home directories)
Then the next time you need to reinstall, just blow away the OS volume only and resinstall the OS and everything else stays the same - including all your settings and Application support files in the Users vol!
Good Idea!! Questions
1. How to I partition and then subsequently move Apps and Users Directories to other volumes?
2. For a 160GB drive, how would you allocate the sizes?
Grasshoppers..hmm.. i never eat some, but they really don’t look like yummy ^^
But if i find some ( where can i get them other then to drive that far ~~), i will try some for sure. I always wanted to know how Flip tastes (you know, the grasshoper from Biene Maja…*uguu*)
I’ll try that “iinago” for sure, but only if I’ll be in a cranky mood too ;)
YOU DID???
I hate inago and DO NOT eat them….
I have a 160GB in my Mac mini at home and here is how I allocate it:
- 10.4 - 20GB
- 10.5 - 20GB (I have the prerelease but it will be out in Oct.)
- Applications - 30GB
- Files - 30GB
- Users - 5GB
- Media (for stuff like TV and torrents)
- DVD-R - 8.3 or 4.6 depending on if you have single or DL burners.
Backup all your data onto a completely separate device. Boot into the OS X installer CD and then select Disk Utility from the Utilties menu in the installer. When DU opens select the hard drive on the left and then click the “Partition” tab on the right. Then select the # of partitions you want for each and its size. It helps to lock each partition after you set it. I would recommend turning off journalling also. When everything is set, click the Partition button and it will blow away all the data on the drive and create multiple partitions. When done quit DU and you’ll be back in the installer. Now install the OS onto the 10.4 partition.
Search on the Apple Developer Connection website for “Portable Home Directories”. There are also some people who have done it on macosxhints.com so check there. Good luck!
We call them crawfish over here in the U.S. We have big crawfish boils where we spice up the water that we boil them in and we add garlic bulbs, corn on the cob, and potato’s. Yum Yum!!!
Even better Roy, if you want to repartition, you must try portable home directories. It will make your Mac so much faster!
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2007041217125440
I used method #1 and it works great!
Kirk, I think you’re thinking of the shrimps in rivers. These are grasshoppers! Locust!
Mike, thanks for the tips. I’ll look into it.
Well, Roy, you are a better man than I. (I’m a woman, so that goes without saying.) Once I was staying at the home of a friend in Tohoku and her grandma served me some inago that she had caught herself in a nearby field. She told me that 3 inago have the calcium of a glass of milk. I don’t care how health-conscious I am and how much we girls need our calcium, I couldn’t stomach more than one inago. The taste wasn’t so bad, but the little legs stuck in my teeth… :-p