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What would have normally been a typical update turned into a hectic chain of updates, upgrades, delays, and frustration. It’s an old tune I’ve sung many times, but with new lyrics.
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\nIt all began with my over-taxed router. At over 8 years old, it was really crushing under the strain of all the various gizmos, phones, tablets, wireless and wired PCs, etc. So I decided to replace it with Apple’s new Airport Extreme 802.11ac, a squat little thing that would resolve a number of issues.<\/p>\n
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Monday, 9:00 AM.<\/strong> The Airport Extreme arrives. I must confess, Apple does a sweet job with their packaging. It’s a thrill to unbox their hardware.<\/p>\n 9:06.<\/strong> I disconnect the old router and connect the new Airport Express.<\/p>\n 9:15.<\/strong> Hmmm. I can’t program the new router because Apple’s AirPort Express utility is out of date. An update must be downloaded from Apple’s web site. But wait! I don’t have Internet access because I disconnected the old router.<\/p>\n 9:18.<\/strong> I re-connect the old router.<\/p>\n 9:22.<\/strong> The new AirPort Express utility won’t install on my Mac because OS X is too old. I have Snow Leopard. The upgrade wants something newer, which ticks me off because I don’t upgrade operating systems. Snow Leopard is what I consider to be the last decent OS X version. I do not<\/em> want Mountain Lion.<\/p>\n 9:35.<\/strong> With heaving reluctance, I visit the App Store. It’s been so long that I must verify my Apple ID.<\/p>\n 9:50.<\/strong> After re-verifying a dozen times, I finally check my inbox. There’s the confirmation message! I open it and click the link to prove to Apple that I am, in fact, Dan Gookin. That’s me. Yessir.<\/p>\n 9:30.<\/strong> OS X 10.8.4 is downloading.<\/p>\n 11:30.<\/strong> OS X is fully installed. Now I have to update a bunch of other software. The system is running molasses slow. The Mail program is re-indexing my massive archive of email. Some startup programs beg to download new versions.<\/p>\n 12:15.<\/strong> Two restarts later, OS X 10.8.4 looks like it’s finally up. I’ll later blog about what I hate, but I finally install the Airport Express utility upgrade. More downloading. More waiting.<\/p>\n 12:20.<\/strong> The new router is up and running, but the Internet isn’t. I have to restart the entire network.<\/p>\n 12:25.<\/strong> The Internet is up, but the wired computers can’t access it. Thus begins some massive tweaking of IP addresses, port forwarding, and other immortal nonsense.<\/p>\n 12:40.<\/strong> The Wambooli PorchCam is offline. More network tuning and tweaking.<\/p>\n 12:56.<\/strong> I think everything on my Mac is working fine. But:<\/p>\n Tuesday.<\/strong> Parallels, the Windows emulator for the Mac, doesn’t work. I need to re-install it. Fortunately, that process goes smoothly and I get all my stuff back.<\/p>\n Thursday.<\/strong> I can’t run Did I mention how much I dislike upgrading operating systems?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What would have normally been a typical update turned into a hectic chain of updates, upgrades, delays, and frustration. It’s an old tune I’ve sung many times, but with new lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4887"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4923,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4887\/revisions\/4923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}gcc<\/code> on the command line. My version of Xcode is quite old, so I download the new version. gcc<\/code> still doesn’t work. I install the command line tools from Xcode. gcc<\/code> still doesn’t work. While plowing through the various folders, I see that the older version of Xcode didn’t uninstall. So I just – against my own advice – delete the \/Developer<\/code> folder. All of it. That did the trick, gcc<\/code> now works.<\/p>\n