@matigo Nope, the carrier is too slack to push through the update for older phones. It's on 8.1 & wotever vesrion of Internet Exploiter comes with that.
A fella who'd upgraded his & his wife's Lumia 1520s to Lumia 950 XLs sold me one of the 1520s today for $120, about 10% of its original cost price. Alas, the browser won't let me blurb here: there's no response to tapping the Send button.
Also unable to use Blurbybot because /register is out to lunch.
@streakmachine For some reason a couple of names in this article are familiar. http://www.mirror.co.uk/tech/thirty-year-old-prototype-mac-9832832
Driving home from a Mac User Group meeting. A bit over halfway home, back is rather more painful than normal. Sciatica being mean & nasty as well. 35 km to go.
Made a bit of an oopsie with the rebuilt backup drive. Both Time Machine & CarbonCopyCloner completed their backup duties but then I noticed I's swapped partitions, the clone of the 512 GB SSD was on the 1.5 TB partition & the Time Machine backup was on the 500 GB section, not what I had intended. I try to have Time Machine backups of at least 2.5 times the size of the boot drive.
Back to Disk Utility to erase the drive. It failed, the two partitions were unmounted & wouldn't come back up, no matter what I tried.
So I switched the drive to the MacBook Pro & erased it & redid the partitions as I should have done in the first place, hey, it was 4:30 am & I should have been sleeping.
Ejected the HD & reattached it to the MacBook Air. Set up backup apps to the correct partitions. Backups commenced on correct partitions.
In 14 hours I'm supposed to be doing a 50 minute presentation on Mac backups at a Mac User Group meeting. And wouldn't you know it, an external HD I partitioned for Time Machine & CarbonCopyCloner has run into problems on the Time Machine partition & refuses to back up.
Only one solution after TechTool Pro & DiskWarriors timed out when trying to fix the partition: erase & start again.
I have other Time Machine backups & the clone is a just a full copy of the Mac's startup drive anyway.
Erased & repartitioned the drive, Time Machine and CCC are both backing up to their respective partition.
I also told CCC to resize the Clone partition to allow for the creation of a Recovery partition as well.
@kdfrawg This was with a downloaded & pre-annotated PDF. Any annotations I made and any that had been done pre-download had been stripped out. Turns out there's major PDFKit problems with Sierra- apparently Apple concentrated too much effort into getting PDFKit to work with iOS 10 & the Sierra variant just got fucked up.
Some sources report that the issues are rectified in macOS 10.12.3 beta.
Looks like I'll have to reclaim the 2008 El Capitan MacBook Pro from Mum's place. I keep it there as a convenience and because it's limited to a maximum OS of 10.11, its PDFKit is unaffected.
// @jws
That was odd. Connected the Seagate GoFlex Thunderbolt drive adaptor fitted with a 250 GB HD to my MacBook Air, intending to do a backup, but it wouldn't mount. System Information showed the drive adaptor as "Unknown Device." Trying other drives on the adaptor didn't help, nor did a restart. "Maybe the T/bolt cable is faulty," thinks I. So I started up the MB Pro in target disk mode, connecting it to the MB Air via the same T/bolt cable. The MB Pro's SSD was mounted, so the cable was OK.
Now I tried a diagnostic SSD (TechTool Pro-created ProToGo drive.) - it mounted OK & System Info correctly identified the adaptor as a GoFlex. Ejected the ProToGo & attached the backup clone. It mounted & SuperDuper! app commenced the incremental backup as expected.
Me no understand but me happy as the price of T/bolt GoFlex interfaces is now ridiculous. The cheapest I've seen them now they're a discontinued item is US$280, crazy, I paid AU$135 for it when new.