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Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released
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Too scared?
Yeah my fans not sleeping has my buddy scared to upgrade his dual 1.8 to 10.4.3, and I am not going to recommend the update to any of my family until its been a couple days to see if anything else creeps up.
I am probably not going to downgrade back to 10.4.2. I have had no problems with any update on my 1.6 until now. I am sure that with the number of people clamoring about the fan problems Apple will have another patch out soon... I just hope they remember people like me with older G5s in the fixes. Other than the fans... I haven't had anything else bad happen...everything is nice and quick.
Yeah my fans not sleeping has my buddy scared to upgrade his dual 1.8 to 10.4.3, and I am not going to recommend the update to any of my family until its been a couple days to see if anything else creeps up.
I am probably not going to downgrade back to 10.4.2. I have had no problems with any update on my 1.6 until now. I am sure that with the number of people clamoring about the fan problems Apple will have another patch out soon... I just hope they remember people like me with older G5s in the fixes. Other than the fans... I haven't had anything else bad happen...everything is nice and quick.
bousozoku said:
So it doesn't apply the new "special permissions" just reports them? I'm confused here... can someone clarify or rectify this?
davincitek
macrumors newbie
woohoo!
Updated last night, but waited til the end of the day to verify that this update fixes the random crashes I've been experiencing on my new 15" powerbook hi-rez since i got it last week (at least 2 a day). Was a bit freaked out over it since I just switched back after 5 years of dual-booting Linux & M$. Hopefully that helps all the other folks out there who've been dealing with the same issue.
Everything seems a bit faster as most have noted, but Safari still can't properly render colors in PNG files worth a damn. I really wish they'd fix this since PNG's make for much nicer gradients & shadows than jpegs. X11 stuff also seems much zippier especially NXClient (wondering if X11 was the size discrepancy folks saw?). BTW if you haven't tried NXClient you should nomachine.com. I ditched the KVM switch to my SuSE 10.0 box after finding it. It's WAY batter than VNC (even before the update) and encrypted too. Runnning VMware 5.0 for Win2k & XP testing on the Suse box and even over this encrypted connection it still blows away VirtualPC's performance. I have no affiliation with these guys at all, was just truely impressed with the product. Found them because there's a freeware version of the server called freeNX that came bundled on my SuSE 10.0 install. Was exstatic to find there was a free mac client. Am now one damn happy mac re-convert!
Updated last night, but waited til the end of the day to verify that this update fixes the random crashes I've been experiencing on my new 15" powerbook hi-rez since i got it last week (at least 2 a day). Was a bit freaked out over it since I just switched back after 5 years of dual-booting Linux & M$. Hopefully that helps all the other folks out there who've been dealing with the same issue.
Everything seems a bit faster as most have noted, but Safari still can't properly render colors in PNG files worth a damn. I really wish they'd fix this since PNG's make for much nicer gradients & shadows than jpegs. X11 stuff also seems much zippier especially NXClient (wondering if X11 was the size discrepancy folks saw?). BTW if you haven't tried NXClient you should nomachine.com. I ditched the KVM switch to my SuSE 10.0 box after finding it. It's WAY batter than VNC (even before the update) and encrypted too. Runnning VMware 5.0 for Win2k & XP testing on the Suse box and even over this encrypted connection it still blows away VirtualPC's performance. I have no affiliation with these guys at all, was just truely impressed with the product. Found them because there's a freeware version of the server called freeNX that came bundled on my SuSE 10.0 install. Was exstatic to find there was a free mac client. Am now one damn happy mac re-convert!
I can't get Gmail to load in Safari at all. In fact, the app just completely locks up now. I get to the gmail homepage, try to log-in, then beachball. Anyone else? Only started happening after the update...
FadeToBlack
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I've reset Safari, cleared the cache, and repaired permissions, but it's still no good for Gmail. Same problem; beach ball on log-in.
15" 1gh PB
1gig RAM😕
15" 1gh PB
1gig RAM😕
davincitek
macrumors newbie
Ive experienced this behaviour on a Mac mini and a new iBook. Applications suddenly refuse to minimize, and after a while the yellow minimize ball turn grey. Quitting the application, and restarting it usually helps. I dont thing Ive seen anyone else reporting this, but perhaps that yellowish ball isnt something most people use.
davincitek said:
Ironically, that's my secondary browser when Safari gets out of whack. One last thing to try thought, and that's getting rid of the plist file for safari. Do that in the morning.
No problems here, upgraded last night. No sound on videos or songs - after repairing permissions everything worked fine again.
Didn't see anyone comenting on the 1.8Ghz PowerMac problem, is that solved yet?
Didn't see anyone comenting on the 1.8Ghz PowerMac problem, is that solved yet?
Size matters!
Has anyone figured this size business out yet? My Powerbook got The Big One, My G4 iMac got The Little One, they both have Mighty Mice. Virtually everything identical on the two machines.
Oh, and everything seems fine, but then I don't use a lot of odd stuff like most people here.
PS The fastest machine I ever thought I was using was the good old SE30, but it wasn't.
Fitzcaraldo said:
Has anyone figured this size business out yet? My Powerbook got The Big One, My G4 iMac got The Little One, they both have Mighty Mice. Virtually everything identical on the two machines.
Oh, and everything seems fine, but then I don't use a lot of odd stuff like most people here.
PS The fastest machine I ever thought I was using was the good old SE30, but it wasn't.
Before upgrade, I repaired permissions first with disk utility, then restart and use diskwarrior to rebuild my startup disk. After all that, I did my upgrade (mien was 97mb for powermac dual g5) then repair permissions again after upgrade. Now everything is working flawlessly. 🙂
Weird. That's all I can say.
I don't know how well tested this update is, but judging by the tons of complaints, I'd say Apple have cut it loose maybe a bit too early.
I've installed it early yesterday and had almost no problems. The only real issues are more of a nuisance than problems - the update remapped my keyboard shortcuts to the defaults (where for some weird reason the shortcut for Spotlight and Input Source are both mapped to Command-Space) and now I can't turn the Bluetooth off. The latter really bugs me, because the Bluetooth is probably draining my friggin' battery.
Well, all in all the update is a great one for me, snappiness and everything, but Apple should try to find a way to test more thoroughly the complex monster of an operating system Mac OS X is.
I don't know how well tested this update is, but judging by the tons of complaints, I'd say Apple have cut it loose maybe a bit too early.
I've installed it early yesterday and had almost no problems. The only real issues are more of a nuisance than problems - the update remapped my keyboard shortcuts to the defaults (where for some weird reason the shortcut for Spotlight and Input Source are both mapped to Command-Space) and now I can't turn the Bluetooth off. The latter really bugs me, because the Bluetooth is probably draining my friggin' battery.
Well, all in all the update is a great one for me, snappiness and everything, but Apple should try to find a way to test more thoroughly the complex monster of an operating system Mac OS X is.
my iTunes is acting HORRID, post update. It's v6, and keeps throwing me a blank error box and mad beachball. Over and over again. With about 10 seconds between lock-ups.
I repaired permissions and still it just ain't kosher...
That, as well as a few other perceived slownesses, makes me wish I would've waited.
I repaired permissions and still it just ain't kosher...
That, as well as a few other perceived slownesses, makes me wish I would've waited.
OpenGL Shading Language!
Apologies if I've missed it, but I'd like to point out the new OpenGL drivers. My iBook G4 (Radeon 9550) and iMac G5 (GeForce 5200) now support OpenGL Shading Language (not to be confused with the fragment and vertex program extensions required for CoreImage). This is a major milestone towards OpenGL 2.0 support. Download the OpenGL Extensions Viewer to see the status of OpenGL support on your system.
It's been a while since I've played with GLSL, because it hasn't been supported that well. I think I'll dust off my copy of the orange book and try some samples.
Edit: linked orange book to author's site, rather than publisher's.
Apologies if I've missed it, but I'd like to point out the new OpenGL drivers. My iBook G4 (Radeon 9550) and iMac G5 (GeForce 5200) now support OpenGL Shading Language (not to be confused with the fragment and vertex program extensions required for CoreImage). This is a major milestone towards OpenGL 2.0 support. Download the OpenGL Extensions Viewer to see the status of OpenGL support on your system.
It's been a while since I've played with GLSL, because it hasn't been supported that well. I think I'll dust off my copy of the orange book and try some samples.
Edit: linked orange book to author's site, rather than publisher's.