From the “iBook update Bomb and How I saved the Day” Dept.

Well, I kind of saved the day….read on.

Today Apple released a large OS update weighing in at 22 MBytes. It was suppose to offer a whole whizzbang set of functionality to the OS.

In particular: Quartz Anti-Aliasing of fonts—So Now I have smoothed fonts all away around.

I updated immediately as soon as I found out about the update. It went fine for me. Unfotunately for Mike, his update crashed his computer. It would no longer boot.

We had the other OS 10.1 gurus take a look at Mike’s computer. No dice.

Coincidentally, I had brought in a stack of CDs containing software that I had acquired, and one of them was Tech Tools Pro—a disk repair utility. One run, and everything was OK, Mike could boot back in to OS 10.1.4 and do work.

Now this is the part that I thought was unwise. Mike tried to install the 10.1.5 update again. In fact, he tried doing it so many times, he ended up breaking his computer. Now, if this had happened to me, I would have never attempted to update my computer again…especially if it’s the computer that I use to do work. Mike was just so focused on getting this update. He kept mentioning: “I don’t have time for this shit.” I even told him maybe he should lay off of this until he get’s back to Calgary; he didn’t listen. I thought it was weird. He wasted the entire day rebooting, using techtools, restoring his drive, and reinstalling the operating system.

I left the office with him still fiddling with his iBook.