charlesoutcalt said:
Yes it is! Oh, don't worry, you are not alone.... logged into SPSS thrice today, not that they will not send me a message.
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Yes it is! Oh, don't worry, you are not alone.... logged into SPSS thrice today, not that they will not send me a message.
Konfabulator is free now since Yahoo bought it recently.discoforce said:Well, then I won't be upgrading to Tiger anytime soon...
Bummer, the widgets looked like fun
Edit: It has similar widget features to Amnesty for Dashboard.
I emailed asking why the patch hasn't been released today (Friday).
They emailed back with a smart aleck comment that the first week in August doesn't end until Monday, August 8th.
Since when do business weeks (or 7 day weeks, period) end on a Monday??
They emailed back with a smart aleck comment that the first week in August doesn't end until Monday, August 8th.
Since when do business weeks (or 7 day weeks, period) end on a Monday??
Even by SPSS's strange accounting. . .
. . . the first week of August must be over today, right? Any progress so far?
mkrishnan said:Since when you don't have your patch ready.
. . . the first week of August must be over today, right? Any progress so far?
heidii said:
I'm sorry you're having trouble. Clearly, the rest of us have been waiting for some time also, to get a Tiger patch. But, ahem, do you think, perhaps, if you used less exclamation points and profanity, and more proper punctuation and capitalization, that they might respond more positively?
yes mkrishnan, you are right, there is no use to be unpolite. but ofcourse i didn't write them an unpolite mail. first i called the spss office to ask if there is going to be a patch for tiger, they answered me, that they are working on it, and can't say how long it will take, this was in may!
and now they still don't do anything. isn't this crazy? it is really annoying. i have to boot my computer from the external hd with panther, to use spss.
but sorry for my rudness.
and now they still don't do anything. isn't this crazy? it is really annoying. i have to boot my computer from the external hd with panther, to use spss.
but sorry for my rudness.
! It works !
Hurrah--just downloaded the Tiger patch, and it works!
Hope it works for all of you, too.
Hurrah--just downloaded the Tiger patch, and it works!
Hope it works for all of you, too.
Since I have a GradPack license, I still have to contact them and get them to tell me how to get the patch, which hopefully they will do.
Well, I'm glad they finally released it. And I will indeed remember to send them a nice note as soon as I see it actually run on my computer.
Well, I'm glad they finally released it. And I will indeed remember to send them a nice note as soon as I see it actually run on my computer.
I have the Grad Pack as well and just requested the patch be sent out to me. I also downloaded the patch from the SPSS website and it works fine with the Grad Pack.
However, the customer service agent told me not to use the patch available for download on their website with the Grad Pack. But, I've been running analyses all day with no problems. I'll probably do a complete reinstall once I get the patch on disc just to be safe, though.
However, the customer service agent told me not to use the patch available for download on their website with the Grad Pack. But, I've been running analyses all day with no problems. I'll probably do a complete reinstall once I get the patch on disc just to be safe, though.
ShermDog said:
Thanks!
I suspected the same. Silly gits. I started downloading it on that suspicion, and forgot to resume the download when I came home. So thank you for reminding me!
The downloadable upgrader worked just fine for me, as well.
By the way, did anyone else notice that there's a tab in the about SPSS box that indicates that MacKiev is responsible for the OS X port? I don't remember that being there before. MacKiev acts as an outsourced porting company. They also did the Mac Printshop Pro, I believe, which came up in another thread here....
Interesting....
Anyway, if they hired a porting company, I wish they would hire them to port 13.0.
But it probably explains the delays....
I will still definitely send them a thank you note for finishing the patch.
By the way, did anyone else notice that there's a tab in the about SPSS box that indicates that MacKiev is responsible for the OS X port? I don't remember that being there before. MacKiev acts as an outsourced porting company. They also did the Mac Printshop Pro, I believe, which came up in another thread here....
Interesting....
Anyway, if they hired a porting company, I wish they would hire them to port 13.0.
But it probably explains the delays....
I will still definitely send them a thank you note for finishing the patch.
well said
Well said, Mohan. Supporting SPSS in their service to Mac users can only help.
I think that they've been using MacKiev for a while now--I seem to remember MacKiev being involved in one of the very first ports to OS X.
Completely agree that it would be great if they ported the latest version, but for now I'm still very happy that I can finally use my G5, instead of my trusty and rusty old G4 laptop. . .
BTW, has anyone noticed a repeat of the old dual-processor bug, in which SPSS would crash if you tried to run more than a few lines of syntax?
Well said, Mohan. Supporting SPSS in their service to Mac users can only help.
I think that they've been using MacKiev for a while now--I seem to remember MacKiev being involved in one of the very first ports to OS X.
Completely agree that it would be great if they ported the latest version, but for now I'm still very happy that I can finally use my G5, instead of my trusty and rusty old G4 laptop. . .
BTW, has anyone noticed a repeat of the old dual-processor bug, in which SPSS would crash if you tried to run more than a few lines of syntax?
charlesoutcalt said:
On DP macs only? I haven't tried to execute syntax yet. I will give it a try though, and tell you if I get a crash!
I just ran on few syntaxes (logregressions and MVA; n=3859) on a iMac G5 2.0 Ghz 1024 DDR but it seems to run smoothly. Nothing compared to a P4 3.0 Ghz though, but this should keep me happy for a while
crashes on dual processors
Sorry to be ambiguous: Yes, I meant that, in the pre-Tiger version, SPSS routinely crashed on my dual processor G5 when I tried to run more than a few lines of syntax.
On my pokey old G4 Powerbook, I could run 200 pages of syntax (many thousands of lines) at a time, without a crash. However, my dual processor G5, even with 3 GB of RAM, would crash if I tried more than a few lines. I haven't tried any long syntax runs yet.
Keeping my fingers crossed. . .
Sorry to be ambiguous: Yes, I meant that, in the pre-Tiger version, SPSS routinely crashed on my dual processor G5 when I tried to run more than a few lines of syntax.
On my pokey old G4 Powerbook, I could run 200 pages of syntax (many thousands of lines) at a time, without a crash. However, my dual processor G5, even with 3 GB of RAM, would crash if I tried more than a few lines. I haven't tried any long syntax runs yet.
Keeping my fingers crossed. . .