August 07, 2011
Goodbye Homebrew, Hello Time Machine
Good morning! We're just back from 8:45 Mass and then breakfast at DFE. Our pastor is on vacation so we had a visiting priest from Nashua. He does a lot of work with the missions in Honduras. It reminded me of when I was in elementary school at St. Cyprians and we used to have fund raisers for the missions in Honduras. It was also the first time we got to see the new daughter of Paul and Sarah, born last Wednesday night.
While we were having breakfast at DFE, we had fun looking at one of those auto-trader magazines. We laughed because they listed a small 20 person shuttle/school bus with 113K miles for $3000. We were joking about buying it so that we can haul our kids and their friends. Sure the gas would be expensive, but the vehicle is only $3000! ;-]
Plans for today: reset the Wii. While we've been enjoying the Wii "homebrew" hacks we did to it, I think Nintendo is still doing some updates and corrupting the setup. We'll try to remove the patches, let it update, and try to bring it back to being a vanilla OEM Wii.
Well I think we did it. We removed all the Wii patches that we could. We removed the the USB Loader, the Homebrew Channel, and BootMii. Then let Nintendo do its System Update. Then powered her down and removed the USB hard drive that had rips of all of our game discs. I'll use that USB hard drive as a Time Machine disc (ie. automatic incremental backups) for my MacBook. Tim is trying some games that were flakey recently and they seem stable now. It was fun while it lasted (~1 year) but somewhere in the last few months things were getting erratic.
My MacBook is backing up to the old Wii hard drive with Time Machine. Michael is happily playing Kirby's Epic Yarn, which had been giving him troubles recently. Meanwhile Michelle and the girls are out shopping for school stuff.
Timothy and I fixed the keyboard on his laptop, updated the iMacs, made sure both had Firefox 5, Spotify and Photoshop Elements 9. We're also going to try the sync feature with my old iPod Nano to see if it can hold our iTunes library and some playlists from Spotify.
Folded the laundry and then ordered two small USB 500GB hard drives for the iMacs. Going to setup Time Machine on them next week. Storage is so cheap and this could help out for those "I lost my document" moments from the kids. It should get only better when those iMacs get upgrades to Apple's OSX Lion soon.
After dinner I ran out to pick up Claire from her farm stand, trying out the CD rip of my latest audio book along the way. On the way back we stopped at Cumbie so she could buy herself a soft drink. Then on to a bank for an ATM stop. In their parking lot I let her feel what a clutch and manual transmission feels like. Maybe next week I'll let her get out of first gear! ;-]
Michelle, the boys, and I are watching the pilot of Star Trek: the Next Generation. While Michelle and I are familiar with it, it's brand new to the boys.
Got the boys tucked in bed with their prayers. Abby has a friend sleeping over, so there's bound to be giggling for the next hour. I'm tired enough that it doesn't matter. Good night all!