Now that it's suddenly much more important to get it ASAP, I went ahead and ordered Panther. Since it's still somewhat early in the game, I should be one of the many lucky people to get it delivered on the evening of the 24th, so I won't have to fight my way into and out of the new Cleveland Apple retail store which is rumored to be opening that night.

I know what you are thinking: only a total geek would think that getting a new operating system makes for an exciting Friday night. Don't worry, I'm not that much of a geek.

Ok, yes, I am that much of a geek. Deal with it.

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The habit of skipping disk image checksums is a very bad one to get into... it really comes back to bite you when you, say, install a system update from a corrupt disk image and hose your system to the point that it won't boot.

On the bright side, I have another bootable partition I use for beta testing, so I still have a totally usable computer, making this just a minor annoyance instead of a colossal headache. And on the really bright side, Panther is almost here—and this vastly simplifies the decision of whether or not to do a totally clean install of Panther.

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