I just submitted this bug report to Apple: “I wrote an automator script that moves all .webloc files on my desktop into a folder on my desktop. It works fine within automator, but as a folder action, I can see it run when I drop a file on the desktop, but it doesn’t do anything. If I ‘Show Action When Run’ it works fine. Kind of defeats the purpose though.”

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We’ve received hundreds of pieces of German spam from infected Windows machines. Luckily, SpamAssassin is catching most of them now that I’ve tweaked our rules.

Is political international spam still spam? Or is it only abuse? Or simply annoying?

I’m installing Classic support (the old OS 9) from the DVDs that came with the iMac. 325MB, not too bad. but I really like playing some of those old games. Myst, The Fools Errand. Completed installing at 10:03am.

Now to see if it works. I’ve reads reports of problems. But it looks good. took about a minute to boot.

Wow, it takes 1.5GB of space. About half of that is documentation. It’s my understanding that Microsoft developers have to pay to write programs with Microsoft’s code. Apple is free, part of OS X. You can sign up for free, support at the Apple Developer connection.

Finished at 9:57am.

Since I already have the DVD in the drive, I’ll install the XCode Tools. XCode are programmer’s tools so that you can write your programs for the Mac. They take a bit of space, and aren’t for everyone. The readme file does warn that at the end of the install process, it will take substantially longer than “under a minute” to finish up. Started installing at 9:52am.

After a few seconds, the softare Update panels comes up. Only one update so far, iTunes 4.8.

First thing, choose the country for registration. You can also use vocieover. After a few seconds, the iMac started talking to me. Very freaky, and cool. 9:37am.

Do you already own a Mac? If so, you can coonect the two computers together with a firewre cable, and Tiger will copy everything over, settings, applications. you can also copy things over from a different partition on the current Mac.

Select your keyboard. US. Continue.

Your Internet Connection. Enter the TCP/IP information. Continue.

Enter your Apple ID. This is the ID you use for the iTunes Music Store, or for a .Mac membership. Continue.

Registration Information. Hit Apple-Q to not register. This allows you to skip registration.

Create your Account. This is the account on the mac itself. Continue.

Select Time Zone. A cool little map, or a drop down menu lets you choose which time zone you are in. I hit Washington DC without hitting Philadelphia. Continue.

Set the Date and Time. Easy enough. Continue.

Don’t Forget to Register. Done. 9:45am.

The computer will restart in 30 seconds. If you do nothing, the machine restarts itself. Very nice for unattended installations.

Nice gray screen. Cool music starts. Welcome. Velkommen. Bivenue. Nice spotlight effect, then a black Tiger X. 9:35am.

Automator, iTunes, Additional fonts, otherstuff I’m sure. time remaining: less than a minute. I will say, it is very classy to give time estimates like that. Ooh, it’s “finishing installation.” 9:33am

Additional Essentials?? Either it is essential or it isn’t. How could an “essential” be additional?

Now, the Media files are installing. And the Migration assistant, My, things are going quickly now. 4 minutes remaining. 9:30am.