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Monday, February 13, 2006 |
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Emily Chung: "... Think of agile design as user interface design strategy meets agile programming methodologies.' In addition to mental mapping, task flow analysis, and user testing, we’re seeing the importance of a new type of agile process.' In design, just as in development, ‘agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.' Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility.’ In this new process, we suggest that the core values and principles of agile design closely match those of agile development as a whole.' While we imagine that this list will certainly grow and need refinement, there are some major concepts that have already been experienced our clients with great success. ..." 10:12:17 PM  comment [] trackback []
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The same accident that led to my optical drive failing, seems to have damaged my PowerBook's hard disk. As a result, a couple of days ago I was left with my boot drive, including my home directory and all important data, inaccessible. I had no success with OSX's disk utility after booting from the OSX DVD and attempting a repair. My last backup was a couple of weeks old - some recent work was apparently lost. In something less than despair but rather fed up I decided to sleep on the problem. I had heard good things about Alsoft's DiskWarrior and so bought a copy from Micro Anvika in London's Tottenham Court Road. At the same time, I bought a replacement hard drive. DiskWarrior was able to reconstruct my drive and it looks as though I've lost nothing of consequence. I then used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the contents of the recovered drive to the new drive mounted in a Firewire enclosure. Finally, I installed the new drive in the PowerBook and the old one in the Firewire enclosure.
The end result is a faster system (less fragmentation I suppose) and a new found determination to make regular backups! |
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I've installed a Pioneer DVR-K06 dual layer DVD burner in my 12" PowerBook G4 and have finally been able to install iLife '06 (the optical drive in my PowerBook has been faulty for a while). Installing the drive was not difficult but very time consuming and probably didn't make sense using any sort of rational valuation of my time! I found the excellent iFixit Guides to be very helpful. It is well worth printing out their screw guide and taping the large number of screws to the printout as you go.
The drive seems to work well. I've been able to successfully burn DVDs using Backup 3.1, iPhoto 6, Toast 6 and the OSX's built-in burning support. More importantly, I've been able to make some serious backups of the most important data on my PowerBook. |
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