I reinstalled OS X today using the “Archive and Install” method. It basically moved my existing /Applications, /Developer, /Library, /system, /private directories to another place, installed a fresh copy of the OS, then restored my apps and accounts. Several things were broken afterwards like codecs, printer drivers, VPN, and some Adobe CS2 files. I was able to root through the files and restore most of the stuff.
One thing I was excited about was the promise of the built in OS X VPN client doing group authentication. It seems “L2TP over IPsec” is different than “IPsec”, which I need to connect to our Pixen. Short story is, I’m stuck using the existing Cisco VPN client.
However I am excited to find that Yahoo finally got around to releasing Messenger 3.0 beta. I’ve been stuck with 2.5.3 for a few years primarily because other y! clients like Fire don’t do cameras. The camera support in 2.5.3 is buggy, there’s been cases where the camera will crash my client and the person that was I was chatting with. Yahoo’s stance has always been “who uses macs? there’s not enough for us to care.” The new client looks iChat-ish and video seems promising.
