Picayune upgrade begins today

If all goes well, it will be quick, painless and most importantly, successful.

  • Quick: It’s done before Sunday night
  • Painless: I don’t need to reinstall, reimport and/or re-enter much
  • Successful: This won’t look any different, nothing is lost and the new features function

If it isn’t, I’m sure you’ll know.

Nov. 1, 2009 Afternoon Update: It was a mixed bag but too much of the bad kicked in to force the original Mini G4 back on until I get some more skilled assistance.

The Good:

  • My DSL’s set up allowed the Intel Mini to act as an Open Directory Master which is mandatory for iCal.
  • The iCal element did work through my iPhone with a test account.
  • The Wiki & Blog elements also worked.
  • Now Up2Date worked! That was amazing since it’s pretty old and I may upgrade it (vaporware still).
  • Timbuktu took a couple moments to kick in but this needs to be upgraded.
  • QTSS had no trouble.

The Bad:

  • My own admin account was locked out and I couldn’t change the password with root. This was odd because all the denials I received stated my account being the admin of the directory which is correct yet it shouldn’t have been on the password server, especially if I’m in a local directory.
  • WordPress and redirects were completely crippled. No point in upgrading if my site is down. It was another reason why I never bumped the G4 Mini up to 10.5 (Leopard), due to Apple’s complete change in solutions.

Looks like I will be on an “obsolete” OS for a while longer.

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