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New Snow Leopard 10A380 Screenshots Emerge
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I am very disappointed that Apple didn't change the security settings back to the way it was in Tiger 10.4. The firewall settings in prefs (under security) in Leopard is terrible and much too confusing as compared to Tiger 10.4. For Snow Leopard, I was hoping Apple would see the error of their ways and put it back like it was in 10.4.
The security settings in leopard are awful and I have not seen any documentation that explains any of this simply:
Allow all incoming connections
Allow only essential services
Set access for specific services and applications
Was much easier to understand in Tiger!
New software does not mean its better!
The security settings in leopard are awful and I have not seen any documentation that explains any of this simply:
Allow all incoming connections
Allow only essential services
Set access for specific services and applications
Was much easier to understand in Tiger!
New software does not mean its better!
Outcry? What outcry? You mean nerd-rage that only happens on tech forums that the average user has no clue about and doesn't even care about? We represent a hopelessly small minority, and our assumptions about what's good and bad about SL is in no way necessarily true when the average user brings it home.
"Marble" is just a rumour. It's vapour. It was never officially announced for Snow Leopard. It was something John Gruber "heard" from an "independent" source. It was a prediction. If it somehow, miraculously makes it in to the full release, great. But it has nothing at all to do with PowerPC or PowerPC Mac users.
The attitude about PPC at Apple is much like Steve Jobs' attitude about old Macs in general: it's finished. Forgotten. Done. It's dead like QuickDraw GX. Jobs would gladly forget all of the PPC years if he could. The real "Flowering of Apple" in our time occurred when Apple moved to Intel. PPC was left behind three or four years ago. There is no point in pleasing PPC users when the entire organization is working with a completely different architecture, wanting to push the Apple/Intel paradigm. Apple no longer sells PPC units. Discontinued. Why on earth should they continue to develop for them???
"Feelings" have no role in this. Apple PPC is legacy-ware. Apple wants you to get into Intel, not to give you an excuse to hang on to your PPC. Then again, there are many users that are perfectly happy with their old Macs as they are. All this angst over Snow Leopard being unavailable for PPC users lives and dies on these forums. The rest of the Mac userbase could care less.
Did you see people at WWDC booing SL's lack of PPC support? Did you hear or read about it? Do you see the newsmedia going crazy over the issue? Do you see tech blogs moaning about this? We all know that bad tech and lousy products get what's coming to them, like the tons and tons of bad press Vista has gotten. Vista has become synonymous with "flop" and "failure", and Apple rightly plays on this. Meanwhile there's a huge chunk of the Apple userbase that doesn't even know what "PowerPC" is, and who probably wouldn't care to know anyway.
Since Mac OS X only will replace system files you do not have to worry about that.
For example, I just updated to this Snow Leopard version over the former Leopard (10.5.7) without any issues.
Although it is always recommendable to backup your important files before installing a new operating system.
i haven't had any problems understanding the security settings... and if you are really worried about your files you could always password protect them, or use something like lil snitch to set up app privileges a lot easier
Well, In 10.4 Firewall was either off or on. Very easy. With 10.5 is too confusing. Which one of these is off or on? The information on this is so minimal and I have yet to read anything that fully explains it. I guess Apple just expects us to all ready understand it.
Which one of these is off or on?
Allow all incoming connections
Allow only essential services
Set access for specific services and applications
The gui mashup makes my eyes hurt. I thought 10.6 was supposed to make things more uniform, not more jumbled as mismatched.
That being said, does anyone know is xbench results for SL exist? It would be interesting to see what xBench says for Leo and SL on the same machine.
That being said, does anyone know is xbench results for SL exist? It would be interesting to see what xBench says for Leo and SL on the same machine.
Visit this website and tell me what happens to Safari... Seems to me that each tab is NOT there own process... you tell me.
Then for sh¡ts and giggles... visit the same site on Firefox and tell me what happens.
Why can't Safari handle animated GIFs!
To follow up on this, I thought I'd have a look at what Apple themselves claim on their website. Unfortunately that doesn't sound like real tab-process-seperation either.
Apple said:
FAAAAIL.
They could start by fixing the ton of bugs in the current version.
Leopard was ment made things more uniform (expect it didn't), SL leaves it mostly untouched.
I completely agree Apple needs to sort out whether they want bubbly aqua and blues (probably not), greys, blacks etc.
That said with the “eyes hurt” comment I think you are being a bit too critical…
EDIT: Just to be clear, this isn't a random wallpaper, this is an official Microsoft Windows 7 wallpaper.
Good to see little niceties...
Windows has had Airport Signal strength prior to selection/joining for a long time... (5 years, at least) I'm glad it will be coming, no reason for little enhancements like this to avoid inclusion into SLeo. Still prefer Panther finder window searching though...
Windows has had Airport Signal strength prior to selection/joining for a long time... (5 years, at least) I'm glad it will be coming, no reason for little enhancements like this to avoid inclusion into SLeo. Still prefer Panther finder window searching though...
But Windows (out the box at least) has always had a clunky way to join. Only in 7 are they making it as easy as the Mac OS X menu bar item solution.
1.) Not true, it doesn't work out of box without a slight tweak. You'll need to close Safari and do a "Get Info" on it. Select "Open in 32-bit mode." That should resolve your adblock problems. You won't even need to install it again, it'll just work next time you start Safari. This also allows the "Cookies" plugin to work as well.
2.) Xmarks does not work on SL, at all it seems.
3.) Saft was a bit of a pain to get working. But ultimately, the solution is modifying a plist file of Saft application and changing the Safari Max Version Bundle to "6530.15" and that should make it work. Use as Input Manager. Done.
Is iStat menubar app working for anyone?
Also, did anyone notice the color profile changing after upgrading to SL?
It was on Color LCD after the install, but I switched it back to the one I had when I was on 10.5.7 and it looks very different from before.
Also, did anyone notice the color profile changing after upgrading to SL?
It was on Color LCD after the install, but I switched it back to the one I had when I was on 10.5.7 and it looks very different from before.
No, it doesn't appear as if iStat Menubar works with SL.
Yes I thought SL made my screen colors change slightly, for the better. But I wasn't really paying hard attention before, so it just might by Steve Job's RDF working on me again!
