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Mac OS 10.4.7 Update Soon?
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longofest
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simply258 said:
Have you ever seen Firefox? I start out with 35 MB memory usage, and I can easily grow to over 100 MB with just 5 minutes of browsing. No browser should use up that much memory, I don't care if it is for a purpose or not. Use the hard disk.. that's what it's for.
As for other comments on stopping at 10.4.7. I don't want to see Apple stop until ALL buggs are quashed. So if we have to go to 10.4.15, so be it. Even if Leopard comes out and Tiger still has bugs, keep updating Tiger for pete's sake (other than just security updates). I know it doesn't normally happen, but they really should.
KindredMAC
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Its not like you don't already know when details of Leopard are coming (WWDC). Be patient!! 😉realityisterror said:
The processing of digital camera RAW file formats is handled by Core Image which is part of Mac OSX. The need to keep this up to date will require frequent update "forever"
I work in software development, not on OSX but on any large software system developers can make any number of improvments every day even to software that people use and like. Every week we have a meeting (users, managers, developers) to review the "to do" list and set priorities and decide if enough is done to call it a new version. What typically limits the release is the need to do configuration control, full regression testing and other quality controls, these all eat into development time. So you strike a balance and release every six to eight weeks.
So what I'm saying is that I would expect if they are doing their job, updates to come out every so often, forever
I work in software development, not on OSX but on any large software system developers can make any number of improvments every day even to software that people use and like. Every week we have a meeting (users, managers, developers) to review the "to do" list and set priorities and decide if enough is done to call it a new version. What typically limits the release is the need to do configuration control, full regression testing and other quality controls, these all eat into development time. So you strike a balance and release every six to eight weeks.
So what I'm saying is that I would expect if they are doing their job, updates to come out every so often, forever
longofest said:
100mb is really nothing. How much RAM do you have in your machine? OSX will use the hard disk and page in/out when you switch apps. It works wonders. You don't want it using the hard disk for RAM vs. RAM for RAM. Hundreds of times slower. Terrible idea. The hard disk is not there or that! Get some RAM. A couple gigs at least.
i use safari and i have no problems, my biggest gripes are that i can't make a new tab by double-clicking the tab bar and that there is no separate bookmark that automatically contains all of your rss subscriptions. other than that, i think safari is the best (at least for Mac)
Hopefully right-click on mbp's !!?? Its such a neat feature, I am using the hack right now, but I have to go into preferences every time I reboot
longofest said:
Have you ever seen a plot of the estimate of bugs remaining in sodftware vs. time? It's a curve that is steep near zero (new software has many bugs but these are removed quickly) and then the curve flattens to become nearly horizontal and in theory only reaches zero at infinity.
Bottom line here is that modern software theory says that "ALL buggs are quashed" only in infinite time. The Sun will explode before the last bug is found. The positive way to say this is that as software matures the rate of bug _discovery_ approaches zero. When uses don't see and discover bugs the software LOOKS good but that does not mean they are not there. The low discovery rate drives the low removal rate and the low removal rate means some bugs will stay in basically forever.
ImAlwaysRight
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I have no trouble playing cnn.com videos on my iMac G5. Cannot play them on my Intel MacBook, though. 🙁4God said:
Mike Teezie said:
Does a little red light come on near the power button (but inside the case) when the fan are "going crazy"?
If so then the computer thinks that the air dam isn't in place. If it is in place then the one likely source of the issue is a faulty door sensor which is based on an optical sensor. Look for the silver / white covered tab on the plastic air dam (lower right tab IIRC). When the fans are going crazy try shining a flashlight down into the slot related to that tab to see if causes the fans to go back to normal (sense is toward the inside of box in the slot).
If the sensor appears to be at fault you may want to get your system serviced.
Jpeg Cmyk
Maybe we can get a proper JPEG CMYK preview instead of an inverted one.
The fact that bug like this could survive for so long in the platform that invented the Desktop Publishing industry is truly sad.
Maybe we can get a proper JPEG CMYK preview instead of an inverted one.
The fact that bug like this could survive for so long in the platform that invented the Desktop Publishing industry is truly sad.
OSX is done really.
OSX is done really, there are few bugs and no major changes are needed fro PPC. Lepoard is really for Intel, I am sure of that and doubt I will get lepoad for any PPC machines.
However, Safari is dog slow now. I don't know what has happened to it but compared to browsers like Camino it is hopless. I use Safari as default because my bookmarks sync with iSync and I know where I am but it still cannot render many pages correctly and is very slow. I prefer the Safari Tabs to those of any other browser. iPhoto is a mess, we have had several updates and yet we still cannot make sub albums/folders consequently my Album list just gets longer and more un-manageable.
OSX is done really, there are few bugs and no major changes are needed fro PPC. Lepoard is really for Intel, I am sure of that and doubt I will get lepoad for any PPC machines.
However, Safari is dog slow now. I don't know what has happened to it but compared to browsers like Camino it is hopless. I use Safari as default because my bookmarks sync with iSync and I know where I am but it still cannot render many pages correctly and is very slow. I prefer the Safari Tabs to those of any other browser. iPhoto is a mess, we have had several updates and yet we still cannot make sub albums/folders consequently my Album list just gets longer and more un-manageable.
a2dp
Has anyone heard anything about Apple adding support for a2dp bluetooth? From my understanding the hardware used currently should be able to support the profile and it would make bluetooth headphones 3 million times better on a mac.
Has anyone heard anything about Apple adding support for a2dp bluetooth? From my understanding the hardware used currently should be able to support the profile and it would make bluetooth headphones 3 million times better on a mac.