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Mac OS X 10.3.8 Released
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socamx said:
My Uptime (23h GMT): 55 days, 21:35
I updated to 10.3.7 something like five hours after it was released, so it really is pretty much exactly 56 days. According to appleinsider it was released at 21h GMT, 10.3.6 according to my calculations was released around 20.30h GMT as well.
I guess this time, I'll try to beat my personal uptime record of 84 days since it just 30 days more...
my preview on itunes store is better then normal almost instant BUT i have just noticed that my wifi sig is dipping 1 bar every say 10-15 sec where before i had full sig all over the house ? weird but still works a treat
So far this has been a good week, upgrade-wise, first MacRumors and now OS X... What's next...? 
- a bug fixer for Firefox would be nice...
- a bug fixer for Firefox would be nice...
Doctor Q said:
YES!
On my powerbook this wasn't such a rare occurrence, probably happened 10% of the time. I wonder if it addresses the "shut down while sleeping" issue as well, or if they're related. Sometimes when I sleep my powerbook for a matter of a few hours, on a full battery, I'll open it only to find the computer has shut down. This has happens less than 1% of the time, but still quite annonying if you have a bunch of open work, or any unsaved documents!
My uptime is near 60 days, and I'm a week off from a new personal record (since keeping track). Is this a good reason not to update?
~Tyler
Doctor Q said:
I have a similar issue with Mail, sometimes when I mouse over one of the buttons in the toolbar, the yellow text starts flickering for about 10 seconds during which I cannot do anything else in Mail.
It seems like I have about ten issues with OS X, and with every update one them get's (almost) fixed. As if even with all 10.3.x updates they manage only to fix about 10% of the (admittedly quite minor) bugs I see. So they would have to put in ten times more effort in bug fixing to fix really all bugs. Or is this to pessimistic a thinking.
Mac OS X tracks it for you. Just launch Terminal (in the utilities folder), typeDavidCar said:
uptime
and press Return...and Mac OS X tells you how long it's been up!
There are GUI programs that show this information too...I can't think of any off the top of my head though.
DavidCar said:
There are Konfabulator widgets that do this (that's what I use), there are also stand alone apps, or you can into the terminal and type a command I can't remember off hand (but I'm sure another member will
) that will give you the uptime since your computer was last shut down. Interestingly enough Logging out of an account doesn't effect uptime, so I often times use this instead of a full shut down. What does a shut down do for a computer (in regards to the OS and software) that restarting the Finder, or logging out and back into an account doesn't achieve?
~Tyler
DavidCar said:
Easiest way: type 'uptime' into the terminal
If you want to get really involved have a look at: http://www.hitup.org/
Update went fine here. No noticeable changes. I also ran WoW, but performance seems to be exactly the same as before (read: 10-15fps outdoors on lowest clipping plane). My specs are in my sig.
Problem no 1 may not be solved
I just downloaded the update and installed - no probs. Then I removed the DNS fix to the number 1 problem. Mail took ages to start, replacing the DNS entries made it start immediately.
Not enough time to test fully now but would be interested in any feedback.
John
I just downloaded the update and installed - no probs. Then I removed the DNS fix to the number 1 problem. Mail took ages to start, replacing the DNS entries made it start immediately.
Not enough time to test fully now but would be interested in any feedback.
John
Smooth
Updated my 867Mhz 12" PowerBook and all is well. No apparent differences, but no obvious problems either. I used the combo updater, just for the heck of it.
My new uptime is 14M 28S according to Terminal.app!
Updated my 867Mhz 12" PowerBook and all is well. No apparent differences, but no obvious problems either. I used the combo updater, just for the heck of it.
My new uptime is 14M 28S according to Terminal.app!
Hmmm... it seems to have introduced this issue on my PM G5. I have never had any unusual fan behavior for a long time (since 10.2.x).
But now with 10.3.8 it will suddenly rev up very high with no apparent provacation for about 10-20s and then fall down again.
I have the original 2003 dual 2.0 model.
mkrishnan said:
Steve should give that entire blizzard dev team that wrote WoW for the Mac Platform the first dual G5 3.0GHz with the xt800 standard and TIger off the line the week before they ship for releasing WoW that was PC and Mac co-existing.
I'm not much of a gamer, and I bought WoW on a whim because my brother was getting it on his PC. Then when we were able to meet in the battlefield and neither one of us could tell who was on a mac or PC I was an avid blizzard worshiper after that.
Proof that SOE was full of crap when they said Everquest needed it's own server.
Thanks for all the replies. I generally avoid Terminal, but sometime I should look for a "Terminal for Beginners" book, or something. (So I can look up things like what "load averages" mean)
I restarted two days and four minutes ago so that I could monitor my memory pageouts more easily. I don't think there is another way to reset this.
Earendil said:
I restarted two days and four minutes ago so that I could monitor my memory pageouts more easily. I don't think there is another way to reset this.
YESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Doctor Q said:
WOOOOOO HOOOO
finnally that thing was pissin me off
now that cpu needs to get replaced so i can get my baby back....
When they said "improves performance of" what they really meant was "makes it work." It looks gorgeous now, just like on my PC (like it's supposed to).Laslo Panaflex said: