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Apple Releases Disc Recording Update 1.0
micah_lanier writes "From Software Update: The Disc Recording Update delivers additional iTunes and Finder support for a number of LaCie, EZquest, and Iomega CD-R devices. For a specific list of supported devices, visit the Apple CD-R Compatibility site."
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I've been using home computers since the VIC-20 and I've come to dread and fear the possibility of being forced to adopt Linux as a result of Microsoft's heavy-handedness. After being hyped by friends and co-workers about the pleasures of this great and fantastic open-source operating system, I attempted to load Linux, not once but four times on three year old PC that was previously running Win98.
The first time took me about an hour to realize that I had to reformat the hard disk and wipe out years worth of work (after backing it up on CD-R). Then I had to figure that the only way to get the Linux CD to actually start loading was to boot it from the CD by modifying the CMOS settings as the PC was starting up. A simple line suggesting this that could have been printed on the CD would have saved a lot of time!
After loading a whole gigabyte of stuff onto the empty hard drive (do I really need to load 50 megabytes of TeX fonts when I'm just trying to get a demo of Linux????), the entire process halted when the floppy disk drive didn't respond. The Linux loader demanded a working floppy backup of some obscure file be made and since I've never used the floppy drive, I didn't know that it didn't work. The installation process locked up and I had to reboot.
The reboot left me in UNIX hell: a black screen half filled with incomprehensible characters with a single flashing dollar sign as the only indication that the entire PC was still working. No matter what I typed or tried (simple intutitve commands like 'help' 'review' 'exit' 'restore' 'dir' 'What the fuck is happening?') nothing made any intelligent response except for returning me to the flashing dollar sign. Shit! I'm in Dante's seventh circle of hell for misers. I was forced to reformat the hard drive and reinstall Windows in order to confirm that I still had a working PC.
I bought a new floppy drive that I will never use in order to load this wonderful and fantastic operating system. Reformated the hard drive, reset the CMOS, and loaded a whole gig of worthless junk from the penguin CD. Everything loaded and I made all of the selections for keyboard and mouse ect... The system rebooted and got to the point where it should have started to work and simply stopped. No response to mouse, keypress, or anything. I reloaded Windows (it worked perfectly) and decided to load Linux on my new good computer.
I ended up back bashed back in UNIX hell and having to load Windows and ALL of my programs and files from CD backups, which took hours. I convinced that Linux is some kind of really bad joke or else an 'emperor's new clothes' type of mass hallucination. How can anyone with a pretension of being a computer professional seriously believe or claim that this junk is ready to take on Windows?
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It's also available via software update panel in the preferences application.
Surprisingly, it does not require a reboot.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
I was wrong, rebooting is required - for whatever reason, I wasn't warned that a reboot would be required before I installed the patch.
Whatever...
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
Interestingly, the compatibility page lists exactly zero scsi drives. Why do they wish to be like that. Im guessing they are being lay to the z here.
...instead of screwing around trying to get your CDRW drives to work?
Those drives have worked perfectly for years in Windows.
What amazes me is that you actually pay more for this crap!
I ama homosexual. I boughtan Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
with much gayness,
Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day, S.J.
What amazes me is that you actually thank your sister for that pathetic fumbling around that you call a handjob.
Rebooting is required to load the drivers into kernel space. Say you have an unsupported drive - to save memory and not cause trouble burning is disabled in finder, etc. We want to detect our newly supported drive and then we can enable such things - could probably do it on the fly, but it's always good to reboot if one's ego can handle it.
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
-E. W. Dijkstra
that there are only 10 comments. aparently nobody cares.
How many slashdotters use macs? of those how many use OS X? of those how many have cd burners? Of those how many have incompatable ones?
He who knows not and knows he knows not is a wise man. He who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool.
I wasn't warned that a reboot would be required before I installed the patch.
Did for me, I think you just glossed over it...
I really like Software Update. It just plain works. I'm installing the Disc recording Update as I write this, I can't wait to see if it will finally allow me to burn iso's I get from various places, not just Mac specific iso's. I can't seem to burn FreeBSD iso's using desktop software (DiskCopy), is there anything in Fink I can install into X that allows for full-featured burning on a SuperDrive? I haven't looked yet (yep, I'm a lazy bastard).
--- Think of it as evolution in action ---
Does anyone know if there is any planned support for
Neo Jukebox on OS X. Even a generic usb-ide driver would d0, if possible.
Not at my Mac at the moment. But normally when a reboot is required a little blue icon of the Apple power key is shown next to the update, denoting that installation requires a reboot.
posted by apple lied yesterday:
.Mac service be more reliable? .mac member. .Mac membership and an active net connection?
Q: Will the new for-pay
A: No.
Q: Will there be a phone number to call for technical support?
A: No.
Q: Will there be an e-mail address to report outages?
A: No.
Q: Will there, in fact, be any support at all?
A: No.
Q: Will the 100MB of storage come with an increased bandwidth limit for web sites?
A: No.
Q: Will you be telling us what the bandwidth limits are?
A: No.
Q: Will you support CGI, PHP, SSI, SQL, servlets, JSP, WebObjects applications, or anything else beyond regular static HTML files?
A: No.
Q: Will I be able to get access to my web logs? Or any other realtime webspace access statistics?
A: No.
Q: What about backup--our files are safe if we back them up to iDisk, right?
A: No. Apple does not guarantee the integrity of any files on iDisk, even if placed there by the Apple Backup software.
Q: Well, we can at least use the Backup software to back up our computers to CD-R, right?
A: No, not if you have any files bigger than 650MB.
Q: What about using my external tape drive, DVD drive or Firewire hard drive?
A: No, Backup only works with Apple-supplied internal drives. And only if you're a
Q: So the backup software doesn't back up from my local hard disk to my local CD burner, unless I have a
A: Correct.
Q: OK. The service also includes anti-virus software. Are there any Mac OS X viruses at all?
A: No.
Q: If I don't use Microsoft Office, do I need to worry about macro viruses?
A: No.
Q: Umm... OK. So how much for this invaluable service?
A: $99 for one year. Plus tax. In advance.
Q: Can I get two accounts, for me and my wife?
A: Sure, that'll be $198 plus tax. In advance.
Q: No, I mean can I get a second account at a discount because I've already bought one?
A: Oh, alright then, quit whining. You can get a second account for $10 a year if you buy one full account.
Q: And it'll have the backup, anti-virus, and web functionality?
A: No, only an e-mail address.
Q: Ah... but at least it'll be a full e-mail account, right?
A: No, you'll only get 5MB of space. But that's nearly enough to hold five days' spam.
Q: Can't my two accounts just share the same space for a nominal extra fee?
A: No.
Q: Is there a satisfaction guarantee?
A: Yes. Apple reserves the right to terminate your access to the online services and the software, without cause, without notice and without refunding your money, if it's not satisfied with your behavior.
Q: What kinds of things am I not allowed to post on my web site?
A: Anything "lewd" or "vulgar", anything "embarrassing" to anyone, or anything that counts as advertising for any product or service.
Q: So you want $99 a year for an e-mail address, useless backup software, anti-virus software I could buy for $50, and web space limited to inoffensive pictures of fluffy kittens? $99 even if I only want to keep the "lifetime e-mail address" that you previously said was free just for buying a Mac?
A: Yes. Pay up now, in three weeks we'll delete your files and bounce your mail.
Q: I have one more question... What exactly are you smoking out there in Cupertino?
A: We think it's crack. Think different.
...Apple has announced that future iTunes updates will cost $29.95 each and will work only if you have a paid .Mac subscription.
Any time an update is displayed with a left-pointing-triangle-in-a-circle next to it it requires a reboot.
-- thinkyhead software and media
Now, instead of pulling a freeze then a dirty great kernel panic, iTunes recognizes my Lacie USB CD-RW (weirdly, after turning it on, then off then back on again :/ ).
The cool thing is the update works transparently with Titanium, where as with OS 9 the two sets of drivers would often screw around with each other.
These two points together with lots of other little things (uummmm, flurry...)make me steadily more comfortable with the whole X thang. peace.
I mean, who doesn't regularly check software update manually anyway?? but maybe I'm mental because I'm used to looking after loads of big servers and I check for security updates daily. what would be good would be a discussion of what has changed. I use Toast - will this update affect me?