Leopard ate my Mac!

I placed OS X 10.5 installation DVD and followed the instructions like anyone else. Everything went fine and it started installing the operating system. After it finished my mac restarted by itself, started booting back up again then it stopped with nothing but a blue screen and a cursor. I left it like that for a whole hour but nothing happened. I tried restarting it still nothing comes up except that blue screen and cursor. (Mac's "blue screen of death?")

For almost seven hours straight I've been installing/reinstalling, mounting/unmounting, and restarting my Mac thousands and thousands of times that I actually thought it will never work. I even formatted the old disk and installed Leopard from scratch yet it won't get past that phase!

Then, out of desperation, I reinstalled OS X 10.4(.2) Tiger back again and overwrote it with Leopard. The result is a fully functional OS X 10.5 but without my old files. Thank god I backed up all my files before starting this whole process. *siiggghhhh*

Quick notes:

• Takes slightly longer time to boot.
  Still way faster than Windows Shista.
  
• New Finder is outstanding.
  
• Dock looks odd. Not used to it maybe?
  
• Spaces sucks. Expose still does a great job to me.
  
• Verify/repair disk permissions doesn't work?!
  
• Everything's almost the same but works in a different way. Still as simple as possible.

I'm gonna miss Menufela. ;P

OS X 10.5 Leopard

Finally!

1st Redbull Flugtag - Kuwait | Overview

UPDATE: October 2012
Won 1st place in the 3rd event [link]

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UPDATE: November 2010
Won 1st place in the 2nd event [link]

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The event was absolutely mind-blowing. We knew thousands of people will come but we never even imagined it would be that crowded, the beach was literally filled up!

Thanks to Me7sin & fayoora

The weather was very windy out there but that didn't stop the event. Our team did well, the plane was heavy though it helped to cut through the wind and reach a decent distance. Our show went well although we got screwed when they played another team's song (we paused the whole event for a few minutes). Can't loose with Grendizer, eh? :P

The only bad side in the event was the judging. I have no idea how a team like The Phoenix did not win. With their outstanding performance and amazing flying distance I was certain they were gonna snap 1st place, how in hell did they end up not winning anything, not even 2nd or 3rd?! And Black Bird Pearl team winning two awards? Hmmm.... There's something about that, definitely.

All in all, we covered 10 meters and got 9,8,8,8,8 6 score for the show so it's good, very good actually. We did not expect it.

So here comes the time where I expose everything about our team...

The day we got accepted



1st & 2nd draft sketches



70/1 scale design (it flew)


Workshop | Tools section


Chassis & chassis mounting



Wing bars & wing holders



Wings and body surface installation


1st coat painting


2nd coat painting



Transporting & setting up the plane at Marina


Campaign site


The "safety issues" we had to deal with


1st place winners.


Practicing the "slow motion" kick


THE bad@$$ PHOENIX team
They should have won 1st place


Imperial72 taking a dip.


The funniest show in the event


Blackbird Pearl taking a dip.


diet center taking a dip.


Us waiting for our song to come up
They played the wrong song *a-holes*



Some action then a nasty crash! xD


R.I.P.


Team logo | my design

I would like to thank all those who have supported my team... family, friends, others and especially the bloggers; those I met before the event, during the event, and the ones I met after the event... It was a pleasure meeting you all.

ps #1: If you have any pictures/videos of my team please send them over to my email.
----> email: macaholiq8@gmail.com
ps #2: More pictures of other teams to come soon. I'm just bored to write/encode more.

UPDATE

Almost done

Nissan Al-Babtain

To whom this may concern,

We have come across your previous blog posts and read the comments that you published and we deeply regret that you have encountered problems at our Garage Centers we really are sorry for any inconvenience the Al Babtain Group has caused you and we would love to help you in anyway The Al Babtain Group would like to make up for any wrong doings from our side, for the record we have released an email to you previously and are still waiting for a response...

Please this is my personal phone number : ******* contact me for any assistance or any suggstions and comments i will be greatly thankful for your valued input

Best Regards,
Ghazi Saleh Abdulmohsen Al Babtain
Relationship Manager Al Babtain Group

Well what do you know? I never thought this would happen. Looks like there are people who care after all.

I'd like to thank Mr. Ghazi for his concern. I will take my car there first in the morning tomorrow. Hopefully this will put an end to my misery.

UPDATE: They're working on the car right now, thanks to Mr. Ghazi. I really appreciate the help.

To "anonymous": I have spoken to Mr. Ghazi in person so please refrain from presuming that he's too young or he doesn't exist. He helped me in every way possible and I appreciate that. All he wants is our feedback on their services and trust me when I say he does care for their customers, otherwise he wouldn't have contacted me in person.