I haven't seen that RI is going to be implemented.
After all the work that has gone into Resolution Independence and the opportunity to sell new Macs and high-margin, high-value 200 dpi monitors to every graphics professional in the world, it would be astonishing if Snow Leopard failed to achieve Resolution Independence. Resolution Independence already works fairly well (some work remains), but doesn't look great on 100 dpi monitors at scale factors other than 1.
No, actually if I understood the way the trojan horse took advantage was to exploit an issue with ARD allowing root access when it was inactive. That surely seems like a security issue.
To be specific, the Trojan runs an applescript that activates ARDAgent.app that, by testing default in closed environments had suid/guid settings completely wrong for any sense of security.
you can change the suid/guid permissions yourself and this script will fail.
LoL I thought he meant what were the numbers behind the chart, and was going to say that the whole point of a pie chart is to hide any mention of numbers . What a strange time we exist in.
On the point updates, I don't remember any UI changes, ever. Maybe there was one or two when the UI had a bug in it somewhere, then fixing it might be a UI change.
What about the UI change in Spaces with 10.5.3? Now when you go to add an app to a space in System Preferences, you see a drop-down menu with all the running apps listed. This did not appear in 10.5.2 and earlier. The beauty of it is that you can now assign Finder to a Space!
I was hoping that in this update they would have sorted out the long suffering bug where my Macbook misses out the first letter or two of anything typed if the system hasn't been used for 30 seconds or more it is extremely irritating.
LoL I thought he meant what were the numbers behind the chart, and was going to say that the whole point of a pie chart is to hide any mention of numbers . What a strange time we exist in.
I think he meant did he use Numbers to produce it. I was thinking Keynote but I think either will do a nice chart like that.
Does anyone know if this update has addressed the issues with Notes and To Dos in Mail?
Or is this another well-documented bug that Apple is ignoring?
Several colleagues have dumped Mail due to its sporadic duplication and deletion of Notes and To Dos. I've stuck it out, but patience is wearing thin...
Our router, one of the best and most popular in the world (a Netgear) has the latest firmware and works fine on all the PCs in our house, my EEE PC Linux edition and Nokia N95 8G. This is a massive bug in Apple's software - else why did all these problems only start with 10.5.2 as well documented across the net?
Apple are shooting themselves in the foot big time here - I for one am losing masses of time which is money having to use a much slower (and more pricy) method to get online.
I smell class action lawsuit.
I don't doubt you are having issues but I'll be danged I've not seen this issue at all in the 70 Macs we employ in our Church. Most are Intels & range from the first Intel Mac released all the way up to current.
Just cause Netgear is popular doesn't mean it is quality, I'd say that has more to do with it's price. I've owned 4 Netgears & never had one that worked exactly right, though the last has been the best. I've been a Netgear owner longer than a Mac user & had issues even when I had a PC. I know 3 people who have Netgears as well & 2 of them have had constant issues (the one not having issues is a Mac user, other 2 are PC users).
All that being said there are a few things you might try.
1. If you are having ghosts in the machine you might try holding Command+option+P+R at boot, before the chime
2. Run a permissions repair on your main drive in Disk Utility, I find permissions to be the issue with many airport issues.
Also, make sure you reboot after running a permissions repair so running services can load using the corrected permissions.
If you are within your warranty you should also have it checked out by Apple, try that first.
Today I installed the Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update on my MBP. It worked fine. Then I made a new bootable backup and defragmented my main disk with Drive Genius 2.0.3. This process terminated successfully. I was happy and tried to start my Mac from the main disk. Ha! No way!
Now i'm restoring my backup to my main disk ( about 4 hours ). My question. Did anybody out there make similar experiences? What's the problem? I thought that Apple uses this tool also in their Apple Service Centers. Didn't they test?
My disk is absolutely ok. I did a surface test and it was also successful. It seems, that Drive Genius corrupted the partition table or something else.
This is a general discussion forum. Not a forum for specifically helping people with problems so Abster2core is well within the rules of this forum to contest anything written here, so long as he doesn't personally attack anyone. Just as you are well within your right to contest his post.
As for your WIFi problems, the few times I've encountered anything that resembled dropout using iStumbler to see if your router's channel is conflicting with other routers in the area has been the answer. If there are routers on the same channel and you have access to alter the channel then change it and see if it's better.
Beyond that, a complete reinstall is often the answer when you have many little issues and no clear cut reason.
I agree absolutely. I had the same problem until I checked with iStumbler, if somebody shares the same channel. After changing my channel settings it worked fine.
It seems modestly better than 10.5.3 but it still is not up to Tiger standards. This is the first Mac OS since 9.2.2 (I skipped 10.0 and 10.1) that I've had stability issues with. It fell apart for me a couple of hours ago after finishing a print job over airport. I think Time Machine is doing it in.
Apple, clean up the code, fix what wasn't broken before Leopard.
I just got my Adobe CS3.3 update disk and I am dreading the installation, after how it took TWO HOURS to deal with CS3. Apparently the problem is that Apple switched some UNIX commands that affect the installer and Adobe didn't get the memo.
As for wireless performance, it is a bit difficult for me to say how it does with third party routers as I switched from a LinkSys 802.11g router to an Airport 802.11n one during 10.5.2 -- so I have no idea what features 5.3 and 5.4 might have broken. Too soon to say how this new router firmware is going to do.
The sad part is that it's giving me that Vista feeling. I certainly hope they make some serious progress this fall or my PowerMac is going to be orphaned on 10.4.
The sad part is that it's giving me that Vista feeling. I certainly hope they make some serious progress this fall or my PowerMac is going to be orphaned on 10.4.
Ironically in my experience running Vista (32- and 64-bit) in boot camp has been without issues, other than those created by the last boot camp update from Apple, which I am convinced was intended to make Vista seem worse.
It is, however, good to be able to restart into Vista for working FTP/SMB shares, no graphical corruption, no wake-from-sleep issues, and better recognition of the Apple wireless mouse and keyboard than Leopard.
On the point updates, I don't remember any UI changes, ever. Maybe there was one or two when the UI had a bug in it somewhere, then fixing it might be a UI change.
How about restoring to the user the option to kill the transparency in the menu bar?
Hmmm. Between the OS update and today's Airport firmware update, I'm noticing what might be the beginnings of an improvement in MBP battery life to something approaching the promised five hours of "wireless productivity." 4:54 indicated remaining time in Safari on this website on Airport with 95 percent of a barely 95 percent battery. I'll post back if this turns out to be for real.
It's not hard to find iSync phone plug-ins to for almost any BlueTooth-capable phone. Agreed we shouldn't have to do this but it's not that big an effort to do once.
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Originally Posted by Wiggin
Anybody know when was the last time Apple added any new phones to the iSync compatibility list? Even though the banner at the top of the page says "Mac OS X Leopard" I think that just got slapped on all of the OS X pages when Leopard came out. The notes at the bottom say the page lists phones compatible iSync version 2.4, yet we are now on version 3.0.2.
Does Apple expect everyone to run out and buy an iPhone? Ain't gonna happen. iSync (the application) is practically useless. Yet another one of Apple's cool ideas ignored into oblivion.
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Wow! That is a beautiful pie chart! Numbers?
Keynote more likely.
I too was prompted to update my AirPort Extreme firmware to 7.3.2.
15" MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz C2D 2GB RAM 320 GB HDD
Would you not consider Resolution Independence a major UA overhaul?
I haven't seen that RI is going to be implemented. in fact, I've heard the opposite. link?
I haven't seen that RI is going to be implemented.
After all the work that has gone into Resolution Independence and the opportunity to sell new Macs and high-margin, high-value 200 dpi monitors to every graphics professional in the world, it would be astonishing if Snow Leopard failed to achieve Resolution Independence. Resolution Independence already works fairly well (some work remains), but doesn't look great on 100 dpi monitors at scale factors other than 1.
No, actually if I understood the way the trojan horse took advantage was to exploit an issue with ARD allowing root access when it was inactive. That surely seems like a security issue.
To be specific, the Trojan runs an applescript that activates ARDAgent.app that, by testing default in closed environments had suid/guid settings completely wrong for any sense of security.
you can change the suid/guid permissions yourself and this script will fail.
Keynote more likely.
LoL I thought he meant what were the numbers behind the chart, and was going to say that the whole point of a pie chart is to hide any mention of numbers
On the point updates, I don't remember any UI changes, ever. Maybe there was one or two when the UI had a bug in it somewhere, then fixing it might be a UI change.
What about the UI change in Spaces with 10.5.3? Now when you go to add an app to a space in System Preferences, you see a drop-down menu with all the running apps listed. This did not appear in 10.5.2 and earlier. The beauty of it is that you can now assign Finder to a Space!
My request answered! Thank you, Apple!
LoL I thought he meant what were the numbers behind the chart, and was going to say that the whole point of a pie chart is to hide any mention of numbers
I think he meant did he use Numbers to produce it. I was thinking Keynote but I think either will do a nice chart like that.
Or is this another well-documented bug that Apple is ignoring?
Several colleagues have dumped Mail due to its sporadic duplication and deletion of Notes and To Dos. I've stuck it out, but patience is wearing thin...
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Our router, one of the best and most popular in the world (a Netgear) has the latest firmware and works fine on all the PCs in our house, my EEE PC Linux edition and Nokia N95 8G. This is a massive bug in Apple's software - else why did all these problems only start with 10.5.2 as well documented across the net?
Apple are shooting themselves in the foot big time here - I for one am losing masses of time which is money having to use a much slower (and more pricy) method to get online.
I smell class action lawsuit.
I don't doubt you are having issues but I'll be danged I've not seen this issue at all in the 70 Macs we employ in our Church. Most are Intels & range from the first Intel Mac released all the way up to current.
Just cause Netgear is popular doesn't mean it is quality, I'd say that has more to do with it's price. I've owned 4 Netgears & never had one that worked exactly right, though the last has been the best. I've been a Netgear owner longer than a Mac user & had issues even when I had a PC. I know 3 people who have Netgears as well & 2 of them have had constant issues (the one not having issues is a Mac user, other 2 are PC users).
All that being said there are a few things you might try.
1. If you are having ghosts in the machine you might try holding Command+option+P+R at boot, before the chime
2. Run a permissions repair on your main drive in Disk Utility, I find permissions to be the issue with many airport issues.
Also, make sure you reboot after running a permissions repair so running services can load using the corrected permissions.
If you are within your warranty you should also have it checked out by Apple, try that first.
Today I installed the Mac OS X 10.5.4 Update on my MBP. It worked fine. Then I made a new bootable backup and defragmented my main disk with Drive Genius 2.0.3. This process terminated successfully. I was happy and tried to start my Mac from the main disk. Ha! No way!
Now i'm restoring my backup to my main disk ( about 4 hours ). My question. Did anybody out there make similar experiences? What's the problem? I thought that Apple uses this tool also in their Apple Service Centers. Didn't they test?
My disk is absolutely ok. I did a surface test and it was also successful. It seems, that Drive Genius corrupted the partition table or something else.
thanks for your replies.
Daniel
This is a general discussion forum. Not a forum for specifically helping people with problems so Abster2core is well within the rules of this forum to contest anything written here, so long as he doesn't personally attack anyone. Just as you are well within your right to contest his post.
As for your WIFi problems, the few times I've encountered anything that resembled dropout using iStumbler to see if your router's channel is conflicting with other routers in the area has been the answer. If there are routers on the same channel and you have access to alter the channel then change it and see if it's better.
Beyond that, a complete reinstall is often the answer when you have many little issues and no clear cut reason.
I agree absolutely. I had the same problem until I checked with iStumbler, if somebody shares the same channel. After changing my channel settings it worked fine.
I miss not having any issues with OS X
Apple, clean up the code, fix what wasn't broken before Leopard.
I just got my Adobe CS3.3 update disk and I am dreading the installation, after how it took TWO HOURS to deal with CS3. Apparently the problem is that Apple switched some UNIX commands that affect the installer and Adobe didn't get the memo.
As for wireless performance, it is a bit difficult for me to say how it does with third party routers as I switched from a LinkSys 802.11g router to an Airport 802.11n one during 10.5.2 -- so I have no idea what features 5.3 and 5.4 might have broken. Too soon to say how this new router firmware is going to do.
The sad part is that it's giving me that Vista feeling. I certainly hope they make some serious progress this fall or my PowerMac is going to be orphaned on 10.4.
The sad part is that it's giving me that Vista feeling. I certainly hope they make some serious progress this fall or my PowerMac is going to be orphaned on 10.4.
Ironically in my experience running Vista (32- and 64-bit) in boot camp has been without issues, other than those created by the last boot camp update from Apple, which I am convinced was intended to make Vista seem worse.
It is, however, good to be able to restart into Vista for working FTP/SMB shares, no graphical corruption, no wake-from-sleep issues, and better recognition of the Apple wireless mouse and keyboard than Leopard.
Maybe 10.5.5 will save the world?
On the point updates, I don't remember any UI changes, ever. Maybe there was one or two when the UI had a bug in it somewhere, then fixing it might be a UI change.
How about restoring to the user the option to kill the transparency in the menu bar?
How about restoring to the user the option to kill the transparency in the menu bar?
10.2.3 or so brought in the sunken titlebar widgets across all brushed metal apps. Ahh those were the days
Anybody know when was the last time Apple added any new phones to the iSync compatibility list? Even though the banner at the top of the page says "Mac OS X Leopard" I think that just got slapped on all of the OS X pages when Leopard came out. The notes at the bottom say the page lists phones compatible iSync version 2.4, yet we are now on version 3.0.2.
Does Apple expect everyone to run out and buy an iPhone? Ain't gonna happen. iSync (the application) is practically useless. Yet another one of Apple's cool ideas ignored into oblivion.