iTunes also has strange "skips." the music gets fuzzy for a second, like if you unplug a PowerBook, you know how the sound messes up for a second, like a grinding noise. This is either streamed or MP3 on my hard drive. I'm writing Apple on this. This is a terrible update.
My brother (a PowerMac G4 owner) tells me he's had no problems with the ethernet. He also said that the ethernet problems occurred only with dual 450 and dual 500 G4s on 10 base T networks. I don't know if that's true or where he heard it from though. He has a Quicksilver 867, and my mom has a dual 500 but she probably didn't install 10.2.8 and we're on a 100 base T network anyway.
First of all I have not noticed any Network trouble. I did loose my connection a while ago but it came back. I firgure that this is just my University screwing up. I drained and recharged my battery twice but it didn't do any good. I even reset the power management. Nothing!
I get those skips in iTunes as well. I didn't think of 10.2.8 causing them untill I read this though. I wish I had not updated to this fscked up update. Apple you can kiss my ass. Dush Bags! Someone must have been smoking the reefer instead of debugging this update. Smoke the grass on the weekend not at work Dush. I have had no trouble with my comp nothing perfect computer. Now all these small things are going wrong. I hate to think of what else is screwed up that I have not found yet. If this update screws my Battery because of the faulty power management apple is buying me a new one.
I'm with you Algol. I really can't wait for Panther! It seems after a while any version of OS X starts having "problems." I even deactivated all Haxies a while back to avoid problems like these.
My PowerBook 12" is pretty new, I don't know why OS X thinks it has so much less capacity.
fyi I downloaded 10.2.8 on Monday via dialup, and installation onto my 17" PB went fine. I have had no problems at all.... which is a relief considering what I've read here and elsewhere.
Today I used my PB for a Keynote presentation about how to assess aircraft software.
Update: I took the powerbook to work today and got right on the wireless network. Did not have the same trouble posted above. So maybe it was a random glitch unrelated to the OS update?
I figured apple would have an update out by today, but I guess they are going to take the weekend to fix the problem. I am think monday or tuesday next week they will have 10.2.8.1 out. lol I wonder what they will call it?
FINALLY! Finally after 5 restarts, zapping the PRAM, two more restarts where the power would turn on but the screen and hard disk wouldn't spin up, and finally one more restart, I'm into the installer...doing an Archvie & Install.
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I get those skips in iTunes as well. I didn't think of 10.2.8 causing them untill I read this though. I wish I had not updated to this fscked up update. Apple you can kiss my ass. Dush Bags! Someone must have been smoking the reefer instead of debugging this update. Smoke the grass on the weekend not at work Dush. I have had no trouble with my comp nothing perfect computer. Now all these small things are going wrong. I hate to think of what else is screwed up that I have not found yet. If this update screws my Battery because of the faulty power management apple is buying me a new one.
My PowerBook 12" is pretty new, I don't know why OS X thinks it has so much less capacity.
Today I used my PB for a Keynote presentation about how to assess aircraft software.
I have 1:58 on my 12" powerbook now after a full dicharge-charge cycle. (brightness is turned down to 1)
In normal conditions I can easyly get over 3-4 hours on a full charge.
I haven't clocked this time, so probably it's just a display issue.
Some good things about the update:
- Quicktime player doesn't show this quicktime pro dialog at startup
- my powerbook doesn't get hot at all (I haven't pushed it to it's limits yet, but it definitely runs cooler)
- no network problems here
Originally posted by Smircle
I have received two independ reports on problems after upgrading to 10.2.8.
One trashed system after installing Stuffit 8 and 10.2.8 - not even single user would work.
One failure to reboot after installing 10.2.8.
Wonder what went wrong, do you have a lot of beta software that could potential screw your self over? maybe heavy installations of trialware?
option @ boot time?
HOSED an iMac 15" ... would not go to the login screen, and stayed with a terrible blue screen. Shat myself.
Discussions at Apple showed it wasn`t the only one to do this.
Rebooted off CD to do a clean install. Could not mount the hard drive. Could not select OS 9 at startup.
Bad bad bad bad bad bad bad.
Started up in single user mode, blessed OS 9 from the command line, booted OS 9 (phew) and restarted by using the OS 9 --> OS X installer application.
Scary shit.
Browsing in Safari. 10 minutes pass. "You need to restart your computer."
Playing EV: Nova. 3 minutes pass. "You need to restart your computer."
Run Disk Utility. Tests halfway through. "You need to restart your computer."
God dammit my freakin win2k pc is more stable than this. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/downgrade1028.html
What a god damn pain in the mother****ing ass.
Well...I'm trying to downgrade...if it doesn't keep ****ing freezing when I'm trying to start up from the ****ing restore CD.
And it is taking forever.
2:58 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 20 minutes.
2:59 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 25 minutes.
3:00 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 34 minutes.
3:01 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 38 minutes...correction. 1 hour 40 minutes.
3:02 AM -> Time Remaining: 1 hour 52 minutes.
Looks like I'll break the 2 hour mark soon...
Yup.
3:03 AM -> Time Remaining: 2 hours 2 minutes.
God dammit.
IT
JUST
****ING
FROZE
AGAIN!
MUST
KILL
MOE
WHEEEEEEEEEE.
Damn I feel like clubbing a baby seal right about now.