Mike Wilks' Blog

I finally got around to doing some upgrades on my MacBook recently. Snow Leopard has been sat on my desk for a little while but I was put off by PGP Whole Disk Encryption being a known issue with it. My MacBook spends a fair amount of time in hotel rooms so I wasn’t keen to remove it. I weighed the risks of going with the Snow Leopard friendly Beta of PGP and decided to give it a go. The thing that actually put me over the edge was the new Version (3) of VMWare Fusion.

So in order here is what I did:

1. Paid for an upgrade from Fusion 2 to 3 and installed.
2. De-encrypted with PGP and uninstalled
3. Installed Snow Leopard
4. Installed PGP 10 Beta and re-encrypted

All this worked fine. I actually also bought a download delivered Windows 7 Home Premium to run under Fusion also. Windows 7 itself is pretty impressive and works well under Fusion. I probably didn’t need to shell out £80 for an OS that is secondary and only going to be used under Fusion but I like new shiny technology. I’d had an RC version which had pretty much replaced my Vista install as my windows operating system already so this was a natural progression.

So I now have a nice shiny version of OSX with the new Windows running under the new VMWare all protected by a (too) new PGP – good stuff.

After I updated to 10.5.6 of OSX my MacBook suddenly denied all knowledge of having a bluetooth device. The fix was simply to reset the PRAM by holding down Option, Command, P, R while booting until the start-up sound played for a second time.