Decided that since I was rotating all of this software around, I might as well take the hit and upgrade to Tiger.

Backed up the Powerbook to external disk last night via rsync, then started the upgrade to Tiger while I ate lunch. Took about an hour to install Tiger, and now it looks like about 2-3 more hours for Mail to re-index so that I can operate again.

First impression: Man this thing is slow! I can only hope that it is just spotlight doing the first index thing that is making this thing crawl right now.

Looked at the widgets, they are nice eye candy. I like the addition of more colors in the widgets, makes the occasional trip to the dashboard brighten up that small part of my day.

I can’t say much else until this indexing thing is finished… Spotlight is estimating 119 more days… UGH!

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Update: Yes, Mac OS X users have to manually delete 44 files in one of the steps of the upgrade. I say live with it. I would rather have the DUN upgrade than wait for an automated upgrade to be tested and released in another 4 months.

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I ran the update last night. When they say expect to spend 30 minutes, they are kidding, it’ll take an hour or more. I did everything over Bluetooth sync, and it all went just fine. After about an hour I had my phone back, and it still made calls and had my data in it, so I have that going for me.

I had previously been using the ’shadowmite’ DUN hack to use the phone as a Bluetooth modem, and refused to update to the last firmware release because of it. Now, Bluetooth DUN is fully supported, and it still works. It actually even has a cute little icon that changes from the normal Bluetooth icon to a laptop/bluetooth icon to tell you that it is connected to the computer. The 15 second power up/down seems to be gone, and you even get a warning if you are on a data connection and try to make a call.

Nice work, Palm and Sprint, even if it is a little bit late.

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