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Apple Preparing to Seed Developers with First Build of OS X 10.8.1

Still waiting for Apple to finally fix screen sharing. Mountain Lion inherited the same screen sharing bugs that existed in Lion. Also, the issue where the sharing name gets renamed when my iMac wakes from sleep as also been inherited in Mountain Lion.
 
\-V-/ said:
The default account you sign up with is an Admin account, not a root account. There's no need to set up a lower privilege account. If you wanted to downgrade your current account, you could make another Admin account, log out of your main Admin account, then from within the new Admin account, go to the Users & Groups settings in System Preferences and turn the admin account into a normal account.
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Hmmmm I'm considering swapping my school work account and my regular admin account's privileges...
 
Hope it fixes the OS's failure to re-attach drives when the desktop wakes from sleep.
 
retinarob said:
Hmmmm I'm considering swapping my school work account and my regular admin account's privileges...
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I just use one admin account. I don't see a point in doing anything else if you're not sharing the computer with someone.
 
Honestly, all I really want is an update to Safari. 6 is incredibly fast, and GPU-accelerated scrolling makes it impossible to go back to Chrome, but man, is Safari 6 buggy! And I mean, I don't expect them to fix all the issues right away, in a month's time, but even just a few would be a big deal for me.
 
ZipZap said:
Hope it fixes the OS's failure to re-attach drives when the desktop wakes from sleep.
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I have not seen this issue. I have two external hard drives attached to my iMac and Mac-Mini and the drives have always reattach (auto-mount) after wake from sleep. Type of hard drives are you having the issue with?

I do occassionally see the issue where the info reported for a external drive will only show the total size of the drive and the used amount is missing. If I unmount and mount the drive in question, the hard drive info is shown correctly again.
 
I thought Lion was horrible, random reboots, slow, lock ups. It just sucked util I removed Flash. Perfect now.
 
I hope they fix the issues with online streaming that ML brought... in Lion HBOGO, MAXgo and other streaming sites worked fine now... buffering. And i hope Apple fixes the apple email issue so I can use my appleid and email outside of just on my ipad and phone.
 
faroZ06 said:
My cousin XD
It's actually quite convenient because you never have to enter your password, which is especially annoying in Finder. It works fine in Leopard, but Mountain Lion hates it when you use root.
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Okay, since we're talking about a real person I'll tone down my rhetoric somewhat. But having to enter your password is really what you should want to happen whenever you're doing something that could impact the operation of your computer and/or safety of your personal information. The inconvenience really is a feature in this case. :D

You only need to look at what regularly happened in the Windows world 8-10 years ago to see why security is a good thing.
 
MacRumors said:
Apple has also likely been working on OS X 10.8.1 since some time prior to the launch of Mountain Lion, as it seeded the final version to developers over two weeks ahead of the public launch and undoubtedly continued to find issues requiring attention after that time.
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If Apple is anything like other major software creators, they're already working on 10.8.2, 10.8.3, 10.9.0 and beyond by now.
 
If it's going to be exactly like Lion and the update comes after exactly 27 days since Lion's launch, then 27 days since the launch of Mountain Lion is August 21st 2012. I know it's unlikely to be that exact, but still, for sake of discussion, it'll probably be roughly in the next two weeks or thereabouts.
 
Westside guy said:
Okay, since we're talking about a real person I'll tone down my rhetoric somewhat. But having to enter your password is really what you should want to happen whenever you're doing something that could impact the operation of your computer and/or safety of your personal information. The inconvenience really is a feature in this case. :D

You only need to look at what regularly happened in the Windows world 8-10 years ago to see why security is a good thing.
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Yeah, root is super insecure, but it's not a realistic problem since there are so few cases of malware on Macs. I actually start my Finder in root occasionally because it's really annoying when I want to change the name or otherwise edit something in the system, but it's read-only for me. Can't it just ask for your password, like how it does when you move something to a read-only folder, instead of just saying "no"?
 
faroZ06 said:
I used to love ClickToFlash, but it seems like they never update it. It used to actually allow you to play all YouTube videos as Quicktime elements, not with the Flash thing, and that was wonderful because it killed the ads and annotations and ran much faster.

Since I have AdBlock, I don't really have a need for ClickToFlash since it only blocks stuff that I need.
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ClickToPlugin replaces it, and is much more current. You also get options for all the other plugins you have (not limited to video and Flash!), whitelisting, preferred resolutions and more. I couldn't live without it. It's not replaced by ad-blockers, since it can add things too :)
 
Taz Mangus said:
Still waiting for Apple to finally fix screen sharing. Mountain Lion inherited the same screen sharing bugs that existed in Lion. Also, the issue where the sharing name gets renamed when my iMac wakes from sleep as also been inherited in Mountain Lion.
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I'm not sure what screen sharing bugs you're referring to, but I just noticed a really nice feature of screen sharing in Mountain Lion...the shared clipboard. It can be turned off I think, but now you don't have to Send/Get remote clipboard between screens. Just one of the many nice touches I've found since upgrading.
 
Robert.Walter said:
All this root business is new to me...

Ok, how do I tell if the account that automatically set-up when I commissioned my MBA is a root account? It is for sure the administrator account, and aside from a guest account that seems to be part of the default set up, is the only account that I have on my unit.
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It's not a root account. Root has to be specifically enabled, and you haven't done that (or you wouldn't be asking. ;) )

If I should transition from using the Admin account, and set up a lower-privledge account for my daily use, how do I go about this? Do I change some settings to downgrade the Admin account, after creating another Admin account with full privileges? Or do I have to move all data, etc from the current Admin account to the "new" daily use acct?
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In Sys Prefs > Users & Groups, click the + sign in the bottom left and create a new managed account. Copy all of the data you'd like to move to this new account into the Shared folder, then log out of your admin account and into the new account, go to the Shared folder and start moving everything into place into the new account, then delete the data in the Shared folder.

BTW, wrt the original question, I would like my battery performance increased from 2.5 hours back to the original 5 hours ... also the single finger flick-scrolling in Safari when going back and forth between pages could be improved ... seems to move, then bounces back to the page one is trying to leave.
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Hope these issues are fixed in an update.
 
pointy said:
In Sys Prefs > Users & Groups, click the + sign in the bottom left and create a new managed account. Copy all of the data you'd like to move to this new account into the Shared folder, then log out of your admin account and into the new account, go to the Shared folder and start moving everything into place into the new account, then delete the data in the Shared folder.
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This works, but I do it slightly differently. I create a new account and make THAT account an admin - I take my username (e.g. "joe") and add "admin" to it (e.g. "joe_admin"), making sure to check the box "allow user to administer this computer".

Once that account is created, and I verify I can successfully log into it, and double-checking it indeed is an admin account... I then remove the admin privilege from my already-existing day-to-day account.

The main advantage to this approach is you don't have to move any of your existing stuff over to the new account.
 
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