Some of the newest Santa Rosa chipset MacBooks have been deployed without Boot Camp Assistant in the Utilities folder. I’m sure this will be fixed soon. Here’s the quick fix if anyone else needs it:

Put the Install Disc 1 in, then in Finder, to to Go -> Go To Folder… and type:

/Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc 1/System/Installation/Packages

in the dialogue box. There you should see BootCamp.pkg. Running that with all the defaults puts the Boot Camp Assistant in /Applications/Utilities/ (source)

So glad I wasn’t going crazy…spent a lot of time poking around my new MacBook muttering “but it’s supposed to have boot camp!”.

The to-do list goes into high gear now as I have a couple of programs to write for BTP500, some database stuff due for BTS530, and of course all the DPS909 labs and project updates.

All this and setting up the new mac with a windows vm so that I can continue to work on the source server with Visual Studio.

For my 5 hours between classes on Friday. Hopped into Litmus and joined in on Test Day. Managed to do 58 tests and filed my first bugs: 402219, 402228, and 402238.

I feel very accomplished. It’s fun to find a bug, and I had an especially great crash that I was able to reproduce 3 times, and after Vlad’s talk yesterday I am also looking forward to working on a patch and fixing a bug.

The past few days I have also been testing the waters over at Miro. What a difference size makes. Miro has only 11 staff – how many does Mozilla have? I would guess at least 20 or 30 times more. So far I haven’t done a build of Miro yet, I’m going to work on that over the weekend. Can’t wait to look at the source code and see what makes a video player. The funny (and somewhat frustrating) thing is that I have had to create new bugzilla and litmus accounts for Miro as my Mozilla ones don’t carry forward. Someone hurry up and get that OpenID stuff working on everything!

Since FSOSS my brain has been churning with many thoughts about my place in open source. According to Dave in this week’s class we are all more elite than we may think and we all have potential to do great things in open source. It’s hard to think that I can be in any way elite when I just failed a test in my data structures class…this is the first time I have failed anything school related and it doesn’t inspire a sense of “I can take on the world”. However, I know that it’s just a glitch in my otherwise strong school record and so I will get beyond this.

What I’ve been thinking about lately is how I came to be in this program, in this open source class and how I seem to be experiencing a bit of a feeling that I am reverse engineering all the concepts that make up the open source community. My background *is* community whether it’s theater, experimental films, activism, journalism, or just cultural – I have been and continue to be very active in a lot of communities. To me, a lot of the discussion about open source seems to be directed at technically sound cowboy coders who don’t know how to work with others, trying to extol the virtues of a larger community and their immersion in it. I’m in the opposite lane – I know that community works, how it works and why I should be involved with it but I am constantly playing catch-up with the technical knowledge that others seem to eat and breathe.

Learning can be so erratic, it’s challenging to stay focused and to not get discouraged at the fact that I often don’t understand what it going on around me. In order to keep my head up I try to do something every day that is connected to school and open source learning. That can look different depending on the day. A couple of nights ago it was doing a build on a MacBook to practice for when I have my own. Yesterday it was signing up for Miro’s tester mailing list and lurking on their irc channel (though that netted nothing…they are quiet folk).

One foot in front of the other, I will walk backwards and try to keep working on being a super user instead of just a user, try to be a contributor instead of a watcher, and keep telling myself that someday I will be an expert about something. That’s the dream, that someday people will say “Oh you need _______, Lukas is the best person for that”.