Well, today, I managed to “hose” my OSX 10.4 install on my MacBook.

Last night, whilst I was working away on my new layout, I downloaded a shed load of fonts to install.

I installed them, and everything seemed brilliant to start with. I put my macbook to sleep, and went off to do something.

I came back an hour later, went onto the web, and noticed that my fonts had changed from normal arial, to some hand written font, which was impossible to read. So I fired up Terminal, as I wanted to get rid of the fonts I had just added.

Terminal refused to work. I assume that the font that terminal uses was corrupted, so couldn’t load.

So I removed all the fonts from the system, and copied fonts in from my PowerPC OSX install… terminal still refused to work – but the web worked…

So I then removed the terminal application, and copied it over from my PPC OSX – the only difference between my MacBook and my PPC is that my MacBook is Intel based. Needless to say, Terminal then refused to even open – it bounced on the doc, then disappeared. Then my MacBook’s fan went crazy.. I had to reboot.

So anyway, a few other problems later, and I formatted my MacBook.

Lesson of the day: don’t install foreign fonts that you aren’t sure of.