Leopard and Toast

I installed OS X 10.5, Leopard. On the Minintel. There is a lot of talk about superfluous graphical toys, and I do not like how the new dock graphics make it hard to tell which program is running, but it is fast and smooth.

I got it installed with a re-partition (to get rid of an old FAT partition which I never used) and format, then installed the software I use, Tivo desktop, Parallels, then Roxio Toast 8. Toast would not start. Tried all kinds of stuff, deleting plist prefs files, disk utility to check permissions (some were messed up). Nothing worked. Finally, while probing settings I noticed (again) that Parallels does all kinds of fancy stuff inside the networking. They fiddle down inside the OS something scary.

So, I started all over again, installing Toast before I let Parallels look at the computer. It worked. Toast installed, the update installed fine and put Tivo to Go in there.

There is a program from Eternal Stormsto change the awful transparency of the menu bar. This is an essential.