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Just installed on my CD Macbook...only thing I noticed it did was rearrange the icons on my desktop (odd...?).
Safari seems snappier too....

Rearranged my desktop too!
Really annoying considering the amount of stuff I have there (mainly aliases), and that I have it sort of organized...
 
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Try testmy.net and after the combined test compare your speed with other Comcast users. 1mbps is very low for Comcast. I get near 6 mbps regularly on this test with a Linksys WRTG54 and an original 20" Core Duo iMac running over the wireless lan.

Download Connection is:: 1318 Kbps about 1.32 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)
Download Speed is:: 161 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 1543 Kbps about 1.5 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 188 kB/s

See? Crap. According to Comcast I should be getting "up to" 6 mbps, but when I've called them about my crappy speed they tell me that they don't guarantee any minimum. And there's nothing I can do about it because they're the only broadband provider that services where I live.
 
Download Connection is:: 1318 Kbps about 1.32 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB)
Download Speed is:: 161 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 1543 Kbps about 1.5 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 188 kB/s

See? Crap. According to Comcast I should be getting "up to" 6 mbps, but when I've called them about my crappy speed they tell me that they don't guarantee any minimum. And there's nothing I can do about it because they're the only broadband provider that services where I live.

If they don't care about a minimum they should advertize it as "up to" 6000 mbps, then you'd have really fast broadband (in theory) :D
 
If they don't care about a minimum they should advertize it as "up to" 6000 mbps, then you'd have really fast broadband (in theory) :D

That would mean that there would have to be a slight chance that someone on the plan would get 6GBps
 
One really really long reboot followed by a kernel panic, followed by a kernel panic, followed by a kernel panic, followed by giving up on booting OS X for now and booting windows =(.

MBP 17" Core Duo here.

Weird. Just installed and ran fine for about 3 hours. Then when I plugged it back in i had the first kernal panic in about six months. Probably unrelated. MBcD
 
Updated with no apparent problems on iMac G5 rev. B.

Double reboot, both times l-o-n-g.
Took ages for top right of screen to go from 'just spotlight icon' to 'airport-and-bluetooth-and-clock-and-spotlight' after second restart.

Adium seems to be working as usual.
No problems with Flash in Safari or Camino.
Desktop icons not rearranged at all!
 
20 minutes and still hung.

Today, of all days, I'm actually going to need it up.

It's rebooted once and now I've been looking at a white screen for 20 minutes.

Should I manually reboot?

Update!

The split second I disconnected my iPod from the Dell display, it booted. Odd....
 

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A re-install of Flash seems to have gotten things working again. Now to see if mplayer behaves when I get home today.
 
Update went fine, Adium works fine over here.
But I just noticed that the quatz update seems to have turned off the smoothing when you use the zooming (CTRL + scroll up) feature. It's all pixely like on old powerbooks now. :-(

Is there any way I can set that to smooth again? I see no option in Onyx and I don't wanna mess around with the command line options too much.
 
Update went fine, Adium works fine over here.
But I just noticed that the quatz update seems to have turned off the smoothing when you use the zooming (CTRL + scroll up) feature. It's all pixely like on old powerbooks now. :-(

Is there any way I can set that to smooth again? I see no option in Onyx and I don't wanna mess around with the command line options too much.

Just look in System Preferences > Mouse. There's an "Options" button for scroll-zooming.
 
Just look in System Preferences > Mouse. There's an "Options" button for scroll-zooming.

Cool. Thank you so much. I use that feature a lot.
I got a 10 meter DVI cable that goes from my macbook to my 20" Dell Monitor that's close to my bed. Since you can control everything with the mouse, I just take the mouse in my bed and have one button mapped to the CTRL key so I can zoom in when I can't make out the text or for embedded web videos. Also great for presentations when the people in the back row can't see the details.
 
Unless you buy ATM connection, nobody is going to guarantee a minimum.

When I had DSL, they guaranteed a minimum of 128 kbps, with no maximum, and actually reliably delivered about 3 mbps. Plus, with my DSL I'd go six months or more without dropping the connection, so I could pretend I had a static IP. My cable reconnects multiple times a day, and they give me no lease guarantee, so my IP is constantly changing. And it actually costs more than I was paying for DSL.

It probably means that near the exchange, people get close to 6mbps...so there is a chance...

I could literally throw a baseball and break a window at the Comcast headquarters here, or hit one of the gazillion Comcast trucks in the parking lot. And I have no throwing arm to speak of. And I still have to wait like three days if I want a technician to come over. I would hope that speeds would be fast near their building.

If they don't care about a minimum they should advertize it as "up to" 6000 mbps, then you'd have really fast broadband (in theory) :D

They have different maximums to differentiate their plans. I have the cheapest plan, which tops out at 6 mbps (if you're lucky enough to actually get anywhere near that speed). They sell more expensive plans that have higher limits.

Anyway, I think it is bad to promote 6 mbps and not being able to deliver, and then just throw a "we don't guarantee a minimum speed"

Yeah, I'd be happy with just half that. As it is now, my wife is always complaining to me because it's not even half as fast as our DSL was, even though when we signed up they kept telling us how cable is sooo much faster than DSL. And every time we see one of those Comcast commercials that say how cable is faster than DSL, we just have to hold our tongues.

At first they used to tell me that it was my Mac that was making it slow, but then I got issued a Windows XP laptop from work and its connection is just as bad. And wired or wireless doesn't make any difference, and my LAN is fast, so I know it must be on their side of the router. That's when they pulled out the "no guaranteed minimum" excuse, and that was that.

Oh, and on-topic, I ran the update on my 2.0GHz Core Duo iMac and everything is fine.
 
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