Yes, you can boot Mac OS 10.6.4 via eSATA
As my MacBook Pro enters the twilight of its long and storied career as my day-to-day working machine, I have begun to back it up obsessively. I have Time Machine back up to a 500GB La Cie drive attached by USB to an Airport Extreme base station, and I clone the laptop disk each night (well, early morning—the backup is scheduled for 4 am) using SuperDuper! to a G-Drive 500GB portable. The G-Drive is definitely stylish looking. Its FW 800 ports seem to have quit, though (or maybe the MacBook Pro’s?). I think there’s a loose connection somewhere. It derails the SuperDuper! cloning routine, and, even though the cables are pretty well-seated in the ports on the laptop and the drive, the drive disconnects itself at random. I was at the Apple Store today—shopping for a new MacBook Pro, I might add—and I saw the same thing happening to the G-Drives connected to the laptops on display. So beware the G-Drive.
In any case, I was at the lab, and feeling *really* obsessive, and I started cloning the laptop to the 1TB LaCie drive I have there. I have that drive connected to my MacBook Pro by eSATA (External SATA), using the expansion card slot. I didn’t even consider whether the machine would boot from the eSATA drive when I started. I probably shouldn’t have admitted that—who would listen to someone who just goes right ahead without even doing a cursory Google search? Caveat lector—but, well, the cloning came off without a hitch, as did booting from the eSATA drive. Also: it was FAST!
New release of BibDesk
The BibDesk development team is pleased to announce that BibDesk 1.4 has now been released. You can download the new version from within BibDesk itself using BibDesk > Check for updates; and if you start an older version of BibDesk, a dialog box will appear, offering the option to upgrade.
You can also upgrade by pointing your browser to the following address:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bibdesk/BibDesk-1.4.dmg
This will cause the download to begin immediately.
Or, you can visit the BibDesk home page at
http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
to upgrade manually, or to learn more about BibDesk.
Note that the version number has bumped up from the 1.3.x sequence to the 1.4.x sequence, in keeping with the BibDesk policy of increasing from x.x to x.x+1 when a new Mac OS version is released—in this case, Snow Leopard support for an earlier Mac OS revision is dropped. In this case, support for Tiger (OS 10.4) has been dropped. Tiger users may continue to use versions in the 1.3.x range, but the code will not be updated any further for those versions, and the Sparkle updater will not notify users of new versions in the 1.4.x range.
For those who are interested, here are the release notes for version 1.4:
BibDesk Release Notes
Changes since 1.3.22
NOTE: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is no longer supported as of 1.4
New Features
• General improvements for 10.5 and later
• Skim notes are now indexed for filtering in the background, which can improve opening a file
• New web group parser for IEEE Xplore
• Allow arbitrary letter characters in generated URLs
• Use standard status bar and divider styles and animate them
• Allow hiding the status bar in the detail editor
• New menu items to toggle the groups and the sidebar
• You can now duplicate groups
• Show overflow item in search bar if needed
Bugs Fixed
• Fix a potential bug when running shell tasks
• Fix AppleScript sort command for special fields
• Properly resize images on Snow Leopard
• Coerce scripting properties passed in with “make” command
• More subdued warnings when external groups fail to load
• Include custom publication type in detail editor popup
• Only sort by import order when switching to a search or web group
• Safer calling of script hooks, fixes potential tcrasher and inconsistent state
• Fix some saving issues when saving needs permission
• Compare all fields for item equivalence when we don’t know the type
• Allow volume and boooktitle fields as group fields
• Avoid a race condition in shell script execution
• Fix attaching file import sheet
• Avoid showing more than one warning sheet when opening a file
• Fix small toolbar items
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