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Updates for Jaguar Compatibility

Posted by pudge on from the making-my-life-better-one-upgrade-at-a-time dept.

Rob McKeever writes "I have just posted WirelessDriver 1.0.0b5.1 to both my iDisk (robm) and to the usual spot on SourceForge.net. This build has been compiled specifically for Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) and will not work on earlier versions of Mac OS X. There will be a separate version coming shortly to fill this void. The installer will fail the first time you try to do this; please try to run the installer at least once more before asking for assistance." Wonderful! The panic-on-reinsertion bug appears to be fixed too, making it much more useful, as I only need to use the PC Card when the internal card is out of range. Also, SharePoints, for making arbitrary folders available via file sharing, was updated for 10.2 compatability. LiteSwitch X still isn't updated, but note that hot keys other than cmd-tab still work with the older version.

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  1. Other updates that make me happy by moof1138 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Application Switcher Menu has been updated, and while the installer warns that it is not supported, it works. I as an old school OS 9 guy, I love ASM, it makes the OS X UI work so much better. ASM's 'Classic Window Mode' that brings all windows associated with an app to the front when you click on one kicks butt. is another app I use all the time that has been updated for Jag.

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    Hyperbole is the worst thing ever.
  2. Re:Apache Panic? by foobar104 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    does anyone know if this "bug" is fixed yet?

    Given the fact that the article you quoted, which dates back to 1999, refers to Mac OS X Server 1.0, I'd say, "probably."

    And given the fact that the script included with the article which can allegedly crash a Mac OS X system did absolutely nothing of interest on my machine, I'd say, "definitely."

    And, finally, given the fact that this post is clearly intended to spread FUD about Mac OS X, I'd say, "troll."

  3. iDisk? by mlknowle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Using an iDisk for distribution like this is silly - I'm sure that the bandwidth allocation has already expired. Linking to an iDisk from /. is like linking to Geocities or something - it's a waste of time. Instead, why not ask Apple to host the file in the software section of idisk?

    At least it is on SF as well...

  4. Re:What about being able to burn CD's?? by foobar104 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thanks to Apple, they want you to "switch" but don't want to make it possible for you to "switch back" by preventing OSX from burning cd's from the finder that can be read on PC's. In 10.1 you could make ISO9660 disks, now in 10.2 all you can make are HFS disks.

    1. Wrong. Mac OS X burns hybrid CDs that can be read under either Mac OS or Windows. I have verified this personally. I even did a quick check just this minute to make sure that nothing changed behind my back. It works perfectly.

    2. Roxio Toast is an excellent tool for burning discs of all sorts. It'll burn a plain-Jane ISO 9660 disc if you want, and it's absurdly easy to use. It can be yours for the low, low price of $89.95. So quitcher bitchin.

  5. What are these things? by SandSpider · · Score: 3, Insightful
    All right, perhaps I'm just out of it, what with the long weekend at all, but would it kill people to perhaps submit what things are rather than simply the name of the program? I understand that Wireless Drivers are probably some sort of drivers for wireless products, but what kind of wireless products? Non-airport 802.11? Bluetooth? Some sort of GSM direct-access? Creating a software circuit that allows you to receive FM Radio transmissions?


    Oh, maybe I could find out from the SourceForge link (and eventually I did, but it took some finding, since my first inclination was to go to FAQ rather than Home), but maybe a quick "Hey, WirelessDrivers, which is, according to the SourceForge home page

    The WirelessDriver is an open source driver supporting Prism/Prism2 wireless cards such as the WaveLAN/ORiNOCO, Cabletron, SkyLINE and D-link PCMCIA cards for use with MacOS X and the Darwin operating system from Apple.
    etc.


    Or at least a direct link to what it is, rather than having to go to the site and then look around. Yeah, I know, I'm lazy, but it's a lot easier for the poster to make the information easily accessible than to have everyone who doesn't know what the thing does have to look around for it.


    =Brian

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    There is nothing so good that someone, somewhere, will not hate it.
  6. gcc 2 - gcc3 by jbolden · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm reading the long time Mac users here whine on and on about little tiny issues of this or that feature. Do you have any idea how big a change it is to go from one system compiler to another? Its huge. Even with source and make (and therefore in theory no issues) Linux distributions that have made this switch lost months doing nothing but working out bugs. Apple has done an amazing job. (Look at Fink for example where there wasn't the direct support and the number of issues they are dealing with, and again they have source). As far as I can tell virtually everything ran, and a few system hacks are having problems -- of course OS extensions are going to have problems with a change of OS!

    Or of course you could always "reverse switch" (i.e. the windows way) and have APIs that grow in a never ending fashion using different sets of system libraries, conflicting with one another having horrible problems communicating....