Monday, December 24, 2007
More eustachian tube problems in the middle of the night, woke around 3 AM, steam breathing treatment. Began reconfiguring the network and setting up the iMac. There will be occasional downtime for frankfarm.org. Set up the new gigabit switch and the iMac and migrated data. The 24-inch iMac is amazingly large, and the screen is much brighter than the Dell monitor I had before. Patrick's first words when he saw it: "Wow, it's so big!" and then later: "I can't wait to watch Baraka on that." Installed RAM purchased separately. I am surprised that Apple didn't design a way for the RAM modules to be secured; anyone with the right screwdriver can steal an iMac's memory in about 60 seconds. This seems an obvious oversight, a swinging too far of the pendulum after people likely complained that upgrading RAM was too hard in older Apple computers. (I still have my Mac Mini putty knife collection.) Late lunch: leftovers. The iMac is working beautifully. All hardware tests passed testing with no problems. Patrick and I watched movie trailers in Front Row on the iMac.