Bristol, 08-18 August 2005

ericP and I visited Bristol for 10 days. We worked from danbri's and we also idly went hunting for house, flat or houseboat.

Decorated brick wall

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 The wall next to Herbert's bakery in Montpelier. This is a seriously mean looking gingerbread man they have.

Bristol

 danbri at work

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 Precious is stuck at the Login Window starting...

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 Feeding Precious with the harware test CD

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click on Apple Hardware Test

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 Meet the Hardware Profile of precious

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 display testing

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 more display testing

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 The Quick Test has been completed and no hardware problems have been detected. Let's be thorough...

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The Extended Test has been completed and still no hardware problems have been detected. I'll open a birthday present and then call AppleCare.

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 Nice! the iron and wine CD

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 Hilarious "forgive me father" birthday card (four nuns lighting up)

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 reset-nvram and reset-all

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 booting on the CD again

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Disk reparation with Disk Utility

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 Permissions reparation with Disk Utility

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 Precious still stuck at Login Window starting

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 AppleCare said Mac OS X must be reinstalled (save settings and user accounts)

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 Finish Up

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Precious happy after reinstallation. First thing I did was sudo bash to check that I was no longer greeted by "Bus Error"

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 Now let's get the zillion updates since 10.3.4

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 Balloon Fiesta

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 Fireworks, glowing balloon and ghosts

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 Glowing balloon and fireworks

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