Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S2144 )

[mergatroidal]

Tiger is a great OS ...

On my PowerBook G4 667MHz 512Mb.

I almost always have system.log priviledge errors that need fixing every time I run Disk Utility. The last time I ran it I also got iTunes:

Permissions differ on ./Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/InternetUtilities.bundle/Contents/MacOS/InternetUtilities, should be -rw-rw-r-- , they are -rwxrwxr-x 
Owner and group corrected on ./Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/InternetUtilities.bundle/Contents/MacOS/InternetUtilities
Permissions corrected on ./Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Frameworks/InternetUtilities.bundle/Contents/MacOS/InternetUtilities

+shift+U can have me and the infamous spinning wheel sometimes waiting a full ten seconds for a Finder window to present the Utilities folder.

Sometimes I'll click an icon in the Dock, and the cursor and icon will hang for a number of seconds before the Dock will crash, disappear, and then reboot itself. Everythings fine then.

Graphic Converter to Safari to Pages can have the spinning wheel present itself for inordinate amounts of time.

But hey, after five years of writing a one hundred and seventy-four thousand + word manuscript with AppleWorks using Puma (10.1.5) , I had enough and jumped straight to Tiger and Pages April this year. Yahoo!

With 10.1.5 I could receive though couldn't send mail through the Mail app from the NYC public library ethernet link. Port changes did nothing.

At all times on the NYC Public Library ethernet, Terminal in Puma and Tiger 10.4.9 would inform me my hostname is some jarbled named server from who knows where, such as this one in the UK! I thought I had a serious problem (my computer is targeted by Homeland Security for survellience?) Only after the 10.4.10 upgrade did the boys and girls at Cupertino fix Tiger and the hostname fiasco ended. I use to have alot of saved pic screenshots of all the different hostnames from Terminal, but these two are all I have now.

I never could tell what the server slee45141 or any of the dozens of other sever names I would see, are doing to the NYC Public Library. Homeland Security possibly not even aware their cover has been blown? IT person at the library was uncooperative, clueless. I didn't pursue my curiosity further.

Puma allowed me to get the bulk of the manuscript written. Tiger is great icing on the cake now to polish it up with. I really like interacting with the Aqua candy on the Darwin rock. Boo's just thinking of writing my script on a Windows all these years. Not a thrilling thought, though, unless I happen to replace my present laptop I won't need anything Leopard is about. I don't need Time Machine, etc. for what I'm doing.

Tiger rules ...! Definitely. I'm very satisfied with the Apple computer I bought just to write my 'script with.

The fun of writing this post is over. Back to the 'script ...

 

[Fairly]

Flawed Versioning System

10.4.11 is wrong, just wrong, and again wrong. 10.4.10 was wrong too. As it followed 10.4.9 it should have been 10.4.91. As this follows 10.4.91 it should be 10.4.92. And the proof is that 9 + 2 == 11.

 

[torchwood04]

10.4.11 is wrong, just wrong, and again wrong. 10.4.10 was wrong too. As it followed 10.4.9 it should have been 10.4.91. As this follows 10.4.91 it should be 10.4.92. And the proof is that 9 + 2 == 11.

Geez, can't you people just shush about version numbers? Apple's releasing a bug fix, why aren't people happy? Apple could have given up on Tiger months ago, but they didn't..

 

[vicious7]

Tiger works great for me. No problems, so far. I am looking forward to trying out Leopard a couple of months after the release. It looks to have some interesting new functionalities.

 

[heisetax]

Quality?

For an OS that has had 10 major updates; still having issues with modems and hanging on shutdown is pretty damn sloppy for a company that is supost to be "quality" driven.

That quality that you are talking about must be in the iPod & iPhone. That is if you are not talking about batteries.

Bill the TaxMan

 

[chuckiehina]

Glad for the update but I'll be waiting.

Sorry, I got burned going to 10.4.10 as soon as it came out and had a devil of a time reverting back to .9. This time I will be waiting a month or two to make sure THIS update really makes things better instead of making things worse.

 

[flyinmac]

Sorry, I got burned going to 10.4.10 as soon as it came out and had a devil of a time reverting back to .9. This time I will be waiting a month or two to make sure THIS update really makes things better instead of making things worse.

Strange... I didn't have any problem with 10.4.10 (on either Intel or PowerPC - Several PowerPC systems). But, then again, I've never had trouble with any OS X update (all the way from 10.0 to today). I always repair permissions both before and after all my updates, and they've always gone perfectly smooth.

I always update on the day the updates come out. Usually within about 5 minutes of their release.

Guess I must be fortunate.

 

[minkie123]

Airport/Wireless Issue

Wow, I have this problem too, though I experience it both on battery and while connected to a power supply. I wasn't sure if it was my computer or my router, as I upgraded my router's firmware (Linksys WRT300N) at about the same time that I upgraded to 10.4.10

Not sure if this is the same issue that you are having.

AFter spending about an hour on the phone with AT&T high speed internet customer service - my older imac could get on our closed wireless network, but my newer MacBook couldn't - it turns out that there is an issue with 10 Digit Passwords. This is only specific to 2Wire Wireless Modem and Some Linksys modems.

When we changed the password to the higher encryption with a WEP 128Bit/ 26 character password and i was able to get onto my network. Hope that helps.

 

[MikeTheC]

This issue, i have not.

Understand what you mean, I do, for use the Force, my laptop does. And a powerful laptop it is.

 

[MikeTheC]

Likely this be out Friday or Monday.

Most of the issues you allude to are in the Intel side, which has been around for about 18 months or so and were just revised not that long ago to use pre-N 802.11. Part of the growing pain. I have PPC and see few if any issues.

Same here, though I will say I have the nagging impression that 10.4 isn't as entirely solid as it used to be. Maybe that's just my imagination, but it seems the case. My two workstations at home are PPC-based (iMac G4/800, PB 1.5/15"), both function fine, and are quite serviceable for my needs.

 

[exigentsky]

10.4.11 is wrong, just wrong, and again wrong. 10.4.10 was wrong too. As it followed 10.4.9 it should have been 10.4.91. As this follows 10.4.91 it should be 10.4.92. And the proof is that 9 + 2 == 11.

Don't you know how decimals work?