She travelled over the Nullarbor to get here, and, after living with us for over 18 months, the time has come for Zhaan to leave us and move to her new home.
Son no 2 moved out last weekend into his own place and took her with him.
Some photos of Zhaan :
Above, resting on her favourite couch.
And below, amongst the wildflowers in the local park a few weeks ago.
I see from Facebook Henry Q had hard drive troubles and has got himself a new computer. I have a computer saga of my own.
You may remember that earlier this year, I got myself a Hackintosh to replace my aging Apple Mac Mini.
Why a home-made Hackintosh? I like the Mac OS but not the prices of their computers; a home made Hackintosh was the cheaper option.
It served me well for the last 10 months or so, but lately started to overheat and crash, and got especially worse after upgrading to the latest operating system, 10.7 or Lion, as it is called.
In the last month of Winter, I had to resort to running it with the case open and with a little USB fan blowing on the processors.
However, come Spring, the CPU temperatures started rising and the machine started crashing again. My consultants, ie the sons, proposed many solutions - all of which necessitated pouring more money into what looks like a gone case, with no guarantee of success.
So I decided that what I heard a wise old lady (wife's cousin's mother-in-law) once say was right. BUY CHEAP, BUY TWICE!
As an electronics chain store here had a special on Apple Macs at that time, with $168 off the model I wanted, I decided I'd order one online. I chose a laptop because I could operate it in clamshell mode at home and can also take all my data and apps with me on holidays.
The 13 inch Macbook Pro arrived the day after Steve Jobs died.
THEN THE TROUBLE STARTED!
After a successful migration of my stuff, everything seemed ok at first.
Then I noticed I had no sound. All sound controls were greyed out.
No worries, I thought. I'd check out the Genius Bar at the Apple Store in Perth City, traveling there free on my Senior's card.
The guys there gave excellent service: I had a 15 min appointment, but they spent over an hour with me, testing the machine by booting from their hard drive (sound worked), and then re-installing the OS on my machine (sound didn't work).
The suggestion from them was that I take it home and do a clean install and everything should work fine.
At home, I did a clean install (sound worked), and migrated my data (sound didn't work).
I was beginning to suspect it had something to do with the Hackintosh.
I remember when the Hackintosh was set up, we had a problem with not having sound. Son no 2 had to get some other drivers to get the sound to work.
I now felt that these drivers must be overriding the Mac drivers and searching for the non-existent Hackintosh hardware.
Several more clean installs, re-migration of data excluding different settings each time, I still no sound.
Had Son No 2 take a look: he did find the Hackintosh drivers, removed them, but sound still didn't work!
Finally I decided to migrate stuff manually and laboriously , finally finishing late yesterday with everything working!
What name shall I now give this computer?
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