After the tremendous comeback against the Indians, to sweep the Rockies was incredible – they have a great team, and it was a lot tougher than the end result shows.
A great end to a great season! Now to hoping they resign Lowell and Schilling.
..and attempt to install on an iMac.
Skip the verification step – that’s the optical equivalent of reading the manual! It’s brand new, why bother?
Start the install.
Come back to the computer to find… “The installer was unable to validate the contents of the BaseSystem package.” And a helpful suggestion to “contact the vendor”. (eh?) Only option is to restart.
Uh, oh.
Ok, re-run the install – this time verify the DVD. Passes after 20 minutes of testing – confirmed by looking at log and verifying checksum.
Restart install.
Same error. Swell. Now system isn’t bootable and the installation media is toast.
Off to ADC to download 7GB of operating system. There are times I really appreciate FiOS. This is one of them. 2.6MB/s; 30 minutes left.
Didn’t have this problem installing Vista. Installing, anyway.
Henceforth nicknamed “Taco”. In his honor I will partake of free food.
Quite the well-pitched battle tonight. Okajima was incredible.
Who sits out – Papi or Youk?
Microsoft invests $240M in Facebook for exclusive advertising rights, putting a valuation of $15B on Facebook, which estimated $150M in revenues in 2007.
Facebook should send Google a thank-you card for driving up the price. The investment is, umm, interesting in light of Steve Ballmer’s comments last week. Was this a push from aQuantive?
Then again, it’s not like $240M less will be noticed in Redmond’s bank account.. a problem I’d like to have.
No, not that Halo.
Apple blowout helped by ‘halo effect’.
It will be interesting to see if Leopard sustains those gains.
The Sox win the pennant!
Yes!
Eventually the manager informed us it “wasn’t fair to the other customers”, and said he would turn off ‘our’ TV – but compensated us for it.
And the Sox crushed the Tribe. On to game 7!
Uh, oh. Power-cycled, seems to be working. Start game. Console freezes. Try different game. Console freezes. Rinse, recycle, repeat. Eventually the RRD reappears.
Call Microsoft. The friendly overseas call-center person actually lets me deviate from the script, accepts my debugging skills are perhaps being adequate, and puts me down for repair. The timeframe of up to a month is a killer, though – guessing there’s a bit of volume at the service center. Nice gesture of a month credit on Live, though.
This was a launch 360, and while it doesn’t get a ton of use (free time? Ha, ha!), it did take quite a while to die. Credit to Microsoft for owning up to the issue, and especially for extending the warranty without hassle. A $1B charge is nothing to sneeze at.
Now, if they want to send me an updated unit with HDMI output, I’m OK with that..
Sox sweep – Schilling pitched a great game, and back-to-back home runs by the big guys was all they needed. NY had a nice comeback today to make it a series. And the Patriots are 5-0!
Next up – Yanks or Tribe?