Finally!
the fix on the Buenos Aires Local time couldn't come one hour too late, and don't even get me started on the swiss german calculator issues....
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Mac OS X 10.5.6 Release Imminent... Friday?
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Finally!
the fix on the Buenos Aires Local time couldn't come one hour too late, and don't even get me started on the swiss german calculator issues....
Um? how can you fix the sound a cd drive makes when it ejectsa cd with software
Hopefully airport is fixed....
I think it is pretty likely that something related to Snow Leopard will be announced at MWSF. Hopefully a release... and I think 10.5.9 will be released the following week after MWSF.
Key word: Should.
Unless Steve has had an aneurism, it'll be free. This is good news, but 10.5.5 is stable like nobody's business.
I am not sure if you are being serious or not...but I still have issues on my late '07 MBP with CS3 and even CS4 as well as Drive Genius.
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Um? how can you fix the sound a cd drive makes when it ejectsa cd with software
Hopefully airport is fixed....
Possibly when it ejects for seemingly no reason. For example, a video chat in iChat failed last night (like that never happens...). I send the report to apple, the computer hangs for a couple of seconds with a beachball, and the superdrive makes the eject sound. So I'm guessing it's something along those lines.
I'll give you a 4 fingered gesture right here...
Nevermind. That's just a 1 fingered one.
Your iChats fail to connect, you must be doing something wrong then. Yea i'm just kiddin, mine hardly ever work either. We just do them to possibly be surprised if it does connect.
But actually I checked my firewall and had the ichat connection blocked. Allowed incoming connections and he opened his firewall and it connected no problem. Granted this only one person i've tried it with and we both have macbooks.
Looking forward to .6 Though I havnt had too many issues with .5
Key word: Should.
Unless Steve has had an aneurism, it'll be free. This is good news, but 10.5.5 is stable like nobody's business.
Since when point updates are not free
I think we should stop using the "should" for the newbies around here.
10.6 *won't* be a free update but all the updates from 10.5 *will* be free...
...Theoretically...
The CD always makes that Eject sound when a crash report is sent to Apple because the crash reporter polls the hardware to report what it is to Apple, and this has the effect of waking unused hardware (e.g. the CD drive) from sleep mode, which makes it do the eject sound.
Isn't Snow Leopard 10.6? At least, I thought it was. Still waiting for the 10.5.6 Update...
I'm old enough to remember System 7.5.5, probably one the worst OS headaches there ever was.
I've long said that system 7 was the best gift Apple ever gave to Microsoft.
It was very hard to remain a Mac user back then. I stayed on the platform only because my job at the time made it easier for me not to switch, but I was also exposed to Windows at work as well as by friends running it. Apple was very definitely losing the game. Windows was a far better platform than the Mac back then.
The worst part of system 7 was the extensions and startup problems. All the hours I dumped into troubleshooting that crap! Ugh! That's one of the many reasons I love OS X. What's funny is I just spent time at work troubleshooting a startup problem in XP and I ended up having to disable services and startup items and turned them back on half at a time, using the same troubleshooting strategies I learned with system 7 extensions. Funny how things change.
Hmmm, in the course of my work, a resolved issue would mean that that a workaround has been identified and put in place. The issue remains unfixed, but is now a "known issue" and can be "resolved" by using the workaround.
A fixed issue is such. It is fixed and will never occur again.
However, that is only the terminology that we use.
I havent had any problems with it, and most of the people I know have no major issues. What about it isn't stable???
The worst part of system 7 was the extensions and startup problems.
That's one of the problems that kept my brother with Windows as well, and just the other day he mentioned "this is how many years later?"
The report collects information about your drives. Same thing that happens when you start Disk Utility. Nothing unusual.
He's not joking. 10.5.5 is very stable. Have you been toying with your system files by any chance?
10.5.5 is very stable for me as well. I'm only interested in 10.5.6 for improved security and maybe one or two things on that list I'm not even aware of. This is in stark contrast to 10.5.0-10.5.3.
Some people mistakenly believe that more updates equate to a poor quality product.
Not so; resolving an issue merely means that it is closed. An issue may be resolved by simply saying that it will not be fixed, or that it will be fixed in the next hardware revision, etc.
It does have many bugs though. Look at the list. I'm sure you are having some of these problems too.
For Me .5 is not stable at all. I have seen that beach ball coming up randomly.
So today is friday where is .6
The key thing I need is the dropped Airport connections and slow speeds on the new MacBooks. It sucks.
There also seems to be a bunch of MBP 2008 bugs. I hope they all get stomped out.
Leopard is almost shaping up to be a stable OS. Given the bugs and pretty bad experience I have had, I may not jump on Snow Leopard that fast this time around.
I am normally a very early adopter of Apple technology, but given all of the quality issues with the hardware and software in the past 2 years, I think I am going to slow down my purchases.
I like the fact that Apple ultimately fixes most issues, but the "beta culture" that has seeped into Apple is a real turn-off.
There also seems to be a bunch of MBP 2008 bugs. I hope they all get stomped out.
Leopard is almost shaping up to be a stable OS. Given the bugs and pretty bad experience I have had, I may not jump on Snow Leopard that fast this time around.
I am normally a very early adopter of Apple technology, but given all of the quality issues with the hardware and software in the past 2 years, I think I am going to slow down my purchases.
I like the fact that Apple ultimately fixes most issues, but the "beta culture" that has seeped into Apple is a real turn-off.
I've long said that system 7 was the best gift Apple ever gave to Microsoft.
It was very hard to remain a Mac user back then. I stayed on the platform only because my job at the time made it easier for me not to switch, but I was also exposed to Windows at work as well as by friends running it. Apple was very definitely losing the game. Windows was a far better platform than the Mac back then.
The worst part of system 7 was the extensions and startup problems. All the hours I dumped into troubleshooting that crap! Ugh! That's one of the many reasons I love OS X. What's funny is I just spent time at work troubleshooting a startup problem in XP and I ended up having to disable services and startup items and turned them back on half at a time, using the same troubleshooting strategies I learned with system 7 extensions. Funny how things change.
Ahh... that brings back memories. I remember those days. There was a guy who I worked with and he was trying to get as many extensions in his start up folder, so he could watch all these icons loading on his screen - And I said - Umm... yeah, you really don't want those - only the ones you need becasue they'll conflict with one another. Yeah, eventually understood why his computer would tank...
System 7 was, indeed, a lot of trouble shooting, that's for sure.
No one said it would come out today. If it does come out today it'll be early afternoon PST.