In case you have an ext2/3 formated partition you have to access from OS X, don’t upgrade to 10.4, yet. ext2fsx v1.3 isn’t compatible to Tiger and the cat just won’t show the appropriate partitions. Well, I had to fill every single free MB on my desktop, the powerbook, my mp3-player and some old harddrives nearly forgotten in some corner, to empty my external, 250GB capacity, ext3 formatted storage device, for I needed to change the filesystem. Linux seems to support HFS+ way better than OS X supports Linux’ filesystems and therefore I’m probably better off with OS X’ native fs. I am just in the process of refilling that thing again.

Errrr, that have been some bytes being pushed around here using all available interfaces and devices: Wi-Fi, twisted pair, USB, FireWire, 2.5″ HDD to standard IDE converter, DVD-Writer and I don’t know what else. Guess the only devices I didn’t use are my Digicam, my 128MB flash-stick and various devices usually hanging out in my kitchen. If my band would be a little bit broader I even might have considered uploading that stuff.. wasn’t there a saying involving backups, uploading to FTP and real men?

Haven’t even had too much time to play around with Tiger. Besides the obvious, Mail’s extended IMAP functionality and iChat’s Jabber-support come to mind.

Regarding the new LCD, it’s just amazing. While the picture of my old Dell 1800FP is also great, this definitely is a new definition of desktop workspace. Two minor drawbacks, though: For one the display seems to stress the powerbook pretty much for the fan is spinning all the time when connected. Addressing all those threemillionthreehundredandfourthousand pixels appears to be hard job to do. At least the powerbook can handle the 1920×1200 resolution. On my desktop, it doesn’t seem to be that smooth. On a glance, neither my FX5200 nor my FX5900XT have been able to drive the display correctly. Haven’t looked into it, yet, but according to a friend that might be a real problem for he also isn’t able to run the display with full res using DVI with his FX5200 and web searches are bringing up tons of of issues regarding that topic..

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