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OS X 10.3.6 Expected Soon?

BWhaler said:
With the ati cards, the screen will ripple when scrolling. It's not overly bad, just annoying. I have read it is a driver issue.
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Really? I've got a Rev B G5 and an ATI9600XT and I've never seen that?
Not that I'm complaining... 😉
 
ASP272 said:
A clean install just to update? That's really extreme! 😱 I've run every update since 10.2.0 and 10.3.0 on the same computer without a reinstall or any major bugs. What I do, and what you need to do, is run disk permissions repair after an update or software installation. This will resolve any problems the update may have caused in most cases (unless Apple simply messed something up in the update coding). Don't have any other applications running when you run updates either - that too can cause problems with permissions and file structure. Of course, this advice comes from my experience with single and dual G4s - not the G5. 🙂
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Extreme? I guess it is. However, let me clarify a bit. I don't install every update unless I am having problems. If everything seems to be working well I leave it alone went from 10.3.3 to 10.3.5). Still I am doing a clean install about every 4-6 months. My business is run off of my computers and being used all the time. I find that the 3 hours or so it takes to do it on my G5 is easily made up for in the next 4-6 months because of how well it runs. I look at it as changing oil in my car. This last time I tried an upgrade from 10.3.3 to 10.3.5 without a clean install and am having problems. May or may not be the upgrade.
 
glad to see apple keepig up to date on their side I look foward to any updates they put out it only makes their stuff better than before. 🙂
 
ijimk said:
glad to see apple keepig up to date on their side I look foward to any updates they put out it only makes their stuff better than before. 🙂
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I just want to beat Mac Chess, is that too much to ask?
 
Word saving as PDF

wrldwzrd89 said:
That's why I don't use MS Word 🙂 ... I can choose just about anything because I don't care about compatibility with Office formats - I just make my document into a PDF (using Mac OS X save as PDF printing feature) if anyone else needs to read it.
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I've tried this and my 74 page .doc file got split up into 4 or 5 random sized pdf files. Is there something I need to adjust to force pdf file to stay as one file when using "Save as PDF" from the Print dialog? Is this function controlled by the amount of actual printer ram available even if I don't even go to printer?
 
ddbean said:
I've tried this and my 74 page .doc file got split up into 4 or 5 random sized pdf files. Is there something I need to adjust to force pdf file to stay as one file when using "Save as PDF" from the Print dialog? Is this function controlled by the amount of actual printer ram available even if I don't even go to printer?
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That's an MS Word printing bug, completely unrelated to the PDF system in Mac OS X. Try sending the document to your printer (stop jobs if you don't want to waste paper) - does Word submit it as 4 or 5 separate jobs of random size? If it does, then it's DEFINITELY a Word bug. If it doesn't, it could just be intermittent - try it again and see what happens this time.
 
ddbean said:
I've tried this and my 74 page .doc file got split up into 4 or 5 random sized pdf files. Is there something I need to adjust to force pdf file to stay as one file when using "Save as PDF" from the Print dialog? Is this function controlled by the amount of actual printer ram available even if I don't even go to printer?
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This could be due to changes in the paper size or paper orientation. As far as I know, changing the document orientation from portrait to landscape (or vice versa) between different pages within a document causes Word to split the PDF at these positions.
 
The Mad Hatter said:
I'd just be happy if they added a "CE" clear entry button. Is that to much to ask? 🙄
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Oooh ... is that what the CE stands for. On those manual calculators I usually end up pressing both Cs twice when I want to clear the result to make sure that there's no hidden result in there. I would prefer just the C, but then of course I really prefer the graphical calculators with a better "paper roll".
 
Hopefully some DL DVD burning support...

Then, maybe the manufacturers will start making the DL DVD-R discs already. 🙂
 
ddbean said:
I've tried this and my 74 page .doc file got split up into 4 or 5 random sized pdf files. Is there something I need to adjust to force pdf file to stay as one file when using "Save as PDF" from the Print dialog? Is this function controlled by the amount of actual printer ram available even if I don't even go to printer?
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Use LaTeX, there is an excellent and easy to use program for MacOS X called TeXSHOP. You can get the base files by searching for teTeX or installing fink and fink commander. LaTeX can typeset anything, books, articles, etc...
 
paulypants said:
Really? I've got a Rev B G5 and an ATI9600XT and I've never seen that?
Not that I'm complaining... 😉
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I think the magic combination is D2.5, 23", and ATI card. It's really not that annoying, but when you drop 6 grand, you want perfection. Luckily, it is just a drvier issue.
 
LeeTom said:
As far as the Calculator update goes, I remember reading an article about how it is actually not very accurate for even some intermediate math.
Ah... here it is:
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/apple-calculator

It was written in August, so it's nice to see Apple turning it around this quickly with a fix, if that is indeed what they are doing.

Lee Tom
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I had noticed some weird results with the Calculator a while ago. I just tested it again and the problem is obvious if you try the following:

4096.1007 - 0.1
= 4096.0007

4096.1006 - 0.1
= 4096.000599999999

You will also notice that the zeros typed after the decimal point don't show up when you type them until you type a non-zero digit.
4096.100 will stay as 4096.1 until you type the 7 for 4096.1007
 
They're here

Warlock7 said:
Then, maybe the manufacturers will start making the DL DVD-R discs already. 🙂
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Three packs of Verbatim DL are now available here ($34.99 at Best Buy, EPA and $39.99 at Fry's Sunnyvale).

High priced now, but if you have an 8 GB ISO file to burn you don't have a choice....

The price will drop. Do you remember when $5 was a good price for a DVD-R? Do you remember when $5 was a good price for a CD-R?
 
orb said:
I'd like to see Java 1.5 in 10.3.6 so that at least we can pretend that OS X isn't a second-tier Java development platform.
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Lord, not the Java 1.5 crud again... I think we beat this topic to death in another thread. Hell if J2EE is the best we can do for a software development platform, we're all in trouble.
 
reorx said:
Lord, not the Java 1.5 crud again... I think we beat this topic to death in another thread. Hell if J2EE is the best we can do for a software development platform, we're all in trouble.
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What's wrong with J2EE?? I thought it was one of the two biggest development platforms in the enterprise segment. The other biggie is controlled by Microsoft (.net).

Even if other smaller platforms have their supporters and strength, being a first class java supporting platform sure can't hurt Mac OSX.
 
Foocha said:
There are some major bugs in 10.3.5 - like the Safari cookie bug and the NFS bugs I already mentioned, and the Firewire bug mentioned by Gopher (I haven't personally encountered that one).

Also, performance of sharing in general seems to have deteriorated significantly since 10.3. We have several PowerBooks at my company, and they all used to rediscover AFP shares when woken from sleep, even when moved to a different network, connected via the AFP share via VPN. Since 10.3.2, this has not worked so well - the connection just times out. Shame - hope they can resolve it.

Also, the log in screen - when connected to a network with a Mac OS X server with Open Directory, the "Other" login option takes some time to appear. If you have already selected an account from the list and have started to type in your password, the window goes funny and it takes you back to the list again. Very annoying!

I could go on and on - Apple has plenty of work to do!
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Yes, and some of my aliases in column view takes one click to open and others take 2. These are aliases to network drives.
 
battery bug

Probably been said before, but the bug where my PB goes to sleep with no warning on a supposedly ok battery charge. See Macfixit for details.
 
reorx said:
Lord, not the Java 1.5 crud again... I think we beat this topic to death in another thread. Hell if J2EE is the best we can do for a software development platform, we're all in trouble.
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Trust me when I say that Java developers are moving to OS X in large numbers. When they wake up and realize that it OS X isn't really a viable platform for Java development, it'll be quite a blow.
 
orb said:
Trust me when I say that Java developers are moving to OS X in large numbers. When they wake up and realize that it OS X isn't really a viable platform for Java development, it'll be quite a blow.
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Like I mentioned: In the previous thread about the Java Update 2 we discussed the 1.4.x vs 1.5.x issue. No one in their right mind is "betting the farm" on 1.5 in the enterprise now. Its too new and unproven. Most of the "Java server container" vendors in the industry are just getting 1.4.x pushed.

And don't tell me that 1.5 has some kind of "must-have" feature that all Java developers absolutely can't live without -- and thus won't use Apple hardware and development tools. The JVM version, minus serious bugfix releases, is just not that important to a stable, mature codebase...
 
skvngrx said:
1280x720 so I can use my DLP RPTV without a hack app!
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i agree. i sent feedback to apple and if you do too, we double our chances of getting the support for it 😀
 
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