The old method of creating a bootable USB — pull a DMG file out of the installer package and restore it to a USB drive using Disk Utility — seems to have been superceded by this just-as-arcane method which has the added benefit of creating a recovery partition.
UPDATE: DiskMaker X (formerly LionDiskMaker) looks like an excellent, free tool to do the same thing without futzing with the terminal.
Apple has another event coming up on Wednesday morning my time, and it’s set to be a royal clusterfuck I will not be able to avoid. New version of OS X (I’m getting it), new iPads (I want one), and even if I wanted to ignore all the press around that there are strong rumours of a FCPX 10.1 demonstration to go along with the new Mac Pro.
So I guess this bizarre article from The Guardian - which simply must be the result of the modern keyword-stuffing approach to journalism - is just the start.
