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Early Mac OS X Leopard Notes and Observations

kitki83 said:
Thats what I wanted to know Famiy Pack or Family that lives with you Pack? Since in few years we will all be on our own.
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Well, if you all move out to separate locations. Technically then yes, you need to all have your own copy of it. I wouldn't considerate that a question of morality though.
 
matticus008 said:
A serious geek and hardcore whiner, maybe, but these are some seriously ill-informed observations and rehashing of the old "I don't like the top menu, waaahhh (and other I Wish It Were Windows poutings)" all over again.

So skip it.

Just like every other release? Just like every Windows release since 1995?

Or the one in Tiger. What was he expecting out of file previews, exactly? It shows the file--the only innovation is opening file types beyond simple image formats and PDFs.

Wrong. Good grief, just create a new partition on it using the new tools, and choose that new partition for Time Machine. His precious photos are saved.

Did he archive his previous installation? Did he check swap file usage? I'm going to assume he didn't check these things, given his amateur understanding of everything else.

No OS X updates...just updates for the rest of his system that he hadn't installed yet.

This is where he loses all credibility whatsoever. Short name/user name. Come on. The password is the same, unless he did something very wrong.

Sounds like he's a Windows user out of his element and complaining about things he doesn't understand and wanting things to be the way they were on XP. If he wanted things to be like XP, maybe he should use XP.
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Very good reply, i could not have said it better.
 
matticus008 said:
A serious geek and hardcore whiner, maybe, but these are some seriously ill-informed observations and rehashing of the old "I don't like the top menu, waaahhh (and other I Wish It Were Windows poutings)" all over again.

So skip it.

Just like every other release? Just like every Windows release since 1995?

Or the one in Tiger. What was he expecting out of file previews, exactly? It shows the file--the only innovation is opening file types beyond simple image formats and PDFs.

Wrong. Good grief, just create a new partition on it using the new tools, and choose that new partition for Time Machine. His precious photos are saved.

Did he archive his previous installation? Did he check swap file usage? I'm going to assume he didn't check these things, given his amateur understanding of everything else.

No OS X updates...just updates for the rest of his system that he hadn't installed yet.

This is where he loses all credibility whatsoever. Short name/user name. Come on. The password is the same, unless he did something very wrong.

Sounds like he's a Windows user out of his element and complaining about things he doesn't understand and wanting things to be the way they were on XP. If he wanted things to be like XP, maybe he should use XP.
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I really enjoyed reading this post.
 
Steve Jobs=God said:
Just installed Leopard onto my machine, very impressed except that the finder is showing my next door neighbors PC on my shared machines, and i don't even know them, let alone have permission from them to access their computer!
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damienvfx said:
That's awesome, that means they have been stealing your internet connection! I would ask them to help you pay the bill if you trust the guy/girl. Otherwise you REALLY should close your network.
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No it doesn't mean anyone is stealing anyones connection or knowingly has their network open, It means they have an unsecured wireless network, and if their files can be accessed then they probably have file sharing activated (whether it's a Mac or PC). If your network is secure and you havenn't enabled file sharing to anyone then they probably can't see you, you can just see them. If you know your neighbours you may want to go talk to them and teach thema little bit about securing their network. It's interesting that it pops up in finder, Leopard must automaically go out and pole for any shared networks and make them visible.
 
yoppie said:
LOL, mine did that earlier but everything turned out ok. Just leave it alone.
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PHeww Thank you Yoppie , i was getting scared a little there, hope it finishes what it's doing within the hour because if have to take it to work by that time, going to take the risc and dj with it straight from the start ;-). Hope itues runs faster now, speciale the starting up ,lol.
 
This has probably already been posted, but I smiled when I found this :)
 

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yoppie said:
LOL, mine did that earlier but everything turned out ok. Just leave it alone.
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I left my blue screen alone but it just stayed there. I was on the phone with Apple Tech Support (first call was a foreigner who spoke broken english, couldn't understand him and he couldn't understand me) over an hour and the installation (well, multiple installations in my case) took almost 3 hours total. The last Apple Product Specialist, after trying numerous things that did not work, ended up having me do another install but this time archived. That did the trick . . . no more blue screen.

Now that Leopard is up and running, I like what I see but it was a rough road getting there. :p
 
AJsAWiz said:
I left my blue screen alone but it just stayed there. I was on the phone with Apple Tech Support (first call was a foreigner who spoke broken english, couldn't understand him and he couldn't understand me) over an hour and the installation (well, multiple installations in my case) took almost 3 hours total. The last Apple Product Specialist, after trying numerous things that did not work, ended up having do another install but this time archived. That did the trick . . . no more blue screen.

Now that Leopard is up and running, I like what I see but it was a rough road getting there. :p
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Wow. :eek: Mine didn't stay blue. I was on the blue screen for about 8-10 minutes and then Leopard appeared. :apple: Total installation time for me took about 50 minutes with the blue screen time included.
 
yoppie said:
Wow. :eek: Mine didn't stay blue. I was on the blue screen for about 8-10 minutes and then Leopard appeared. :apple: Total installation time for me took about 50 minutes with the blue screen time included.
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I'm glad that your blues went away. LOL
The Apple Product Specialist seemed to know nothing about this blue screen thing even being a normal Leopard installation annoyance. While I was on the phone with them we just waited and waited but it didn't go away.

All things considered . . . . Leopard is still stunning :D
 
acutal size of install question

i'm aware of the 9 gb install if you put in everything in the disc. but how big is it when you strip all the extra language support and printers and other junk? thanks.
 
Loving leopard

I installed leopard...i'm really loving spaces and quick look... way to go apple


it also feels faster than tiger

Ben
 
yoppie said:
Wow. :eek: Mine didn't stay blue. I was on the blue screen for about 8-10 minutes and then Leopard appeared. :apple: Total installation time for me took about 50 minutes with the blue screen time included.
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Damn then i'm in trouble , its blue for like an hour already now, and i chose to upgrade, i realy don't know what to do next, HELP.
 
AJsAWiz said:
I'm glad that your blues went away. LOL
The Apple Product Specialist seemed to know nothing about this blue screen thing even being a normal Leopard installation annoyance. While I was on the phone with them we just waited and waited but it didn't go away.

All things considered . . . . Leopard is still stunning :D
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How did you fix this if i may ask, i'm sitting here looking at at blue screen for 45 minutes now ?
 
Leopard Install Take Two

Mac Pro quad xeon, 10GB. Installed Leopard to a new 500GB disk and when it completed I copied over data from my Tiger installation (I checked all of the boxes).

Everything appeared to be okay. One application was excluded from installation - no big deal. I got Time Machine set up on another blank drive I installed just for that purpose. TM started backing up and a moment or two later, the machine froze. I had to restart with the power button.

After the restart, Leopard wouldn't recognize any of my accounts or passwords...

Starting over again with Erase and Install to the same disk. This time I will only copy over users accounts and reinstall everything else manually.

Just FYI...
 
First Glance

A couple things I noticed after archive & install:

-I store a lot of video on my airport disk. Accessing it through Front Row is now MUCH faster. When I left Fron Row it had 1GB virtual memory in the background. (Right now my VM Size is 43GB).

-Do not see the screensavers that were shown in previous builds.

-Cannot have custom icons in the dock for folders.
 
Well it looks like i'm in trouble, all i get is blue screen no matter what i do, i'm going to be losing al my files on the machine , now, i see no other way the to ersa and install
Damn.
 
Data said:
Well it looks like i'm in trouble, all i get is blue screen no matter what i do, i'm going to be losing al my files on the machine , now, i see no other way the to ersa and install
Damn.
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You didn't do a backup? :eek:

I've been Carbon Copy Cloning my iMac all week and I will be installing Leopard in a moment on my MacBook to make sure everything is perfect before I then install it on my iMac.
 
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