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Mac OS X 10.2.2 Update Available
Fork420 writes "Apple has released the 10.2.2 update. According to Apple: The 10.2.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications and technologies: Address Book, iChat, IP Firewall, Mail, Print Center, Rendezvous, Sherlock and Windows file service discovery. The update also includes the updated services previously delivered in Security Update 2002-09-20.
For detailed information on this Update, please visit http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n107140 (when this story was posted, this link was not yet working)
Enjoy..."
is included too! :)
Hopefully they fixed the mail.app program. If you have only 1 account, and it's imap, you won't see folders on the account. You have to add another account, even a dummy one that has no mail, to see folders of the first imap account. Stupid mail.app proggie.. had me using that stupid enterage program.
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ping -f 255.255.255.255 # if only
Digital Hub and Peripheral Device Enhancements
Networking and Modem Enhancements
Address Book and Mail Enhancements
Application Enhancements
Other Enhancements
VideoLAN Client works fine for me.
Sound waves should be free!
I was pretty upset when I discovered that they only came with raid1 and raid0.
Standard practice nowadays is to use RAID 0 and RAID 1 together instead of using RAID 5. The data protection is better, and the performance is too. You should make mirror sets, and then stripe them rather than the other way around. That way your system can keep running at full speed if any single disk breaks. The other thing you may consider (I don't know if this is possible under OSX, but it should be) Is to RAID your partitions instead of partitioning your RAID. This should overcome your filesystem issue.
With the low cost of storage these days, RAID 5 is basically obsolete. Spend the extra few gigabytes, and use RAID 0+1
enter the terminal.app and type:
diskutil
You'll get a list of diskutil options, two of them are "enableJounal" and "disableJournal".
Happy hunting
-todd
It took me a minute to find the button that was going to give me a context menu. Sigh. I always thought that it was just an old joke/troll but seriously, why?
Because the right-click context menu is a windows-ism, and as such, people who have never used windows don't care. In fact, if you gave them another button they wouldn't use it, much like how windows users don't care they are missing the ever-so-useful middle button.
People who do care plug any old multi-button USB mouse into their mac and forget about it.
Voila, you can search invisible files. All this update does is set the default search to visible files only, as it should be.
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Apple claims CIFS compatibility, but they horribly broke WINS in their Samba implementation. If you add a WINS server you can't browse across subnets. All you can see is the WINS server itself. If you remove WINS you can browse your local subnet normally.
For some reason, I seem to be the only person who cares about this. I have never seen it mentioned and nobody responds when I post about it. My local Apple Tech rep didn't even know aout it. I did find it documented in this technote.
Samba can be configured that filenames are insensitive (which is default since samba 2.2)
Control-click does the right mouse button thing on Mac OS X. Of course if you have your own 2-button USB mouse you can hook it up to any USB Mac and use it with Mac OS X. Wheels work too.
Of course Apple only includes a 1-button mouse with their systems, but 2-button optical mice are so cheap that it's just not worth complaining about.
Odd that Apple doesn't sell their own 2-button mouse, though. It's almost as if Apple is trying to help hardware manufacturers get business from Mac users. What could be the advantage of that?
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Well I don't know of which support exactly you are speaking of, but I've been running 2 HFS+ partitions and 1 UFS partition on my iMac (with a single 40GB disk) since 10.0.3 (client) and continue to do so until now (10.2.2).
And in case you forgot to setup the FS types correctly when partitioning, here's the hint how to do it afterwards. You cannot normaly just select "Erase disk" and put a different FS type on it. It will offer only the same type as the partition already has. BUT if you reboot with an OS X install CD and launch Disk Utility, you will be able to change the format of the partition without touching the rest of the disk.
What to do, what to do? /me strokes beard. Hey! How about using "A HARDWARE RAID!"
Why waste your CPU cycles calculating stuff when you can have a dedicated processor taking care of your storage issues?
Call your nearby raid vendor and get a box in. It speaks SCSI, it gives you lots of bonuses. Me? For high performance RAID at a decent price (too much for hobbyists and home users, don't waste your time), try these guys. Just a personal favorite, I'm not part of their company, just a customer.
Why hardware RAID? When your MoBo/CPU/Disk dies and you can't get that software RAID reconfigured, you unplug the hardware RAID, plug it into a new machine and just go.
When you want real speed, those baydel guys have a screaming, mirrored RAM cache so you get to write at 160MB/s.
Jeez, you put all that money into your server and network connections and want to cheap out by using slow IDE disks and your CPU to do all the work?
HFS+? Yeah, I still have it for my Mac Classic II on an 80MB drive.
THanks, I'll use FFS with softupdates or ReiserFS (or XFS mmmmmm) on my real volumes.
%su
password:<enter password>
%softwareupdate 3404
(software update progress occurs)
%reboot
You are now updated to 10.2.2
I tried every decent and legal way I could think of to resolve the issue w/the business before I rented the chicken suit
Umm, Rendezvous?9 /25/1754218.s html?tid=177
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/02/0
Go to disk utility and repair disk permissions. I notice everytime I run this the man pages permissions are screwed from various application installs. I dunno if that's the prob you are having but it's worth a try.
VideoLan is more than ready.
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Plays: S/VCD, Mpeg, DiVX
Also, for VCD authoring in OSX, checkout:
Toast (burns
VCD Builder (still pics and Mpegs to VCD)
MissingMediaBurner (SVCD)
for the huge disk servers it means when you power up after a crash you dont have to do a full file system check which could take hours on say a 400GB disk.
what is the cost? a very small amount of disk space (about 8 Megs) and about a 15% reduction in write-to-disk performance. There is no penalty for read performance.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Apple supplies a Quicktime MPEG 2 component from the Apple Store for $19. Won't that enable VCD playback through quicktime?
It as been stated that Quartz Extreme will never run on anything else than Radeon/GeForce or better.
:( ) are faster than under OS 9.
As for older hardwdare support, I'm running it on a iBook SE rev1 (366Mhz with Rage Pro) and a Beige G3 (266 oc'ed to 300, Rage Pro video card added-in). Speed is "normal", everything is usable.. just a little slower than OS 9. Quicktime is fast, games (that run, no Open GL
Only thing missing.. Open GL, only chipset caught by that, Rage Pro.. it's not like it was THAT bad...
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That's probably been broken for awhile but you didn't notice it. It's a common symptom if you haven't updated Fink for Jaguar. Go follow the update instructions.
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10.2.2 kills the moviephone search channel in sherlock.
Before you update, control-click on the sherlock application, view package contents, look in Resources, copy the Channels directory and then paste it somewhere in your home directory before Apple stomps on it.
Hopefully you can find a way to get the channel back in sherlock after the upgrade.
It's too late on my machine, so I'm hoping the wife hasn't updated hers yet (I don't feel like re-installing Jaguar just get a search channel back.)
-matt
The way I see it, upper case letters and lower case letters are different. Simple as that. They have different numerical values, for example. Why should we want to create arbitrary rules dictating that two fundamentally different filenames should in fact be the same just because it seems to make sense linguistically? I think such rules create unnecessary complications.
Overall I really like OS X, but the behavior of the bundled Apple applications is very inconsistent. Some applications, like iCal and Address Book, quit when you close the window while others like Mail, iTunes and Sherlock, continue to run when you close the window.
Also, if an application window is minimized to the dock, clicking the application icon in the dock may expand the window (Mail, Address Book, Sherlock and others) or it may not (iChat, Preview). The hallmark of the MacOS before OS X was consistent behavior. Now it seems each application operates by a different set of rules. Bummer.
One other pet peeve: none of the Apple applications include the keyboard shortcut for Hide Others (shift-cmd-H). Many of the third-party applications include this shortcut.
I'm not a native speaker of Japanese or Chinese, but I'm a little educated in both. Hiragana and katakana are different alphabets with different purposes. The katakana character for the syllable "ka" is not equivalent to the hiragana character for the syllable "ka." There's no circumstance under which you'd want corresponding hiragana and katakana characters to be considered equal.
As far as Chinese goes, traditional Chinese characters are used in Taiwan, while simplified Chinese characters are used in mainland China. Again, they're not equivalent. So you wouldn't need or want to map between them.
The uppercase-lowercase thing is pretty much unique to Latin and Latin-derived alphabets. Some languages have contextual forms-- for example, an initial character in Arabic looks different from the same character in medial or final position in the word-- but that's a rendering issue, not an encoding issue.
I actually think it would be quite straightforward to design a Unicode-based system that's case-insensitive with respect to alphabets that have distinct cases. More work than doing so for ASCII, of course, but not insurmountably more.
I write in my journal
I have used XFee86 on Darwin (not rootless) and there is a simulated keybinding for the other mouse button that you can turn on.
I'm not at that machine right now so, I don't remember what the command line arguments were that turned it on.
Last nite I ran the 10.2.2 update.
Rebooted.
Did a 'df' in a terminal and noticed I had a lot more hard drive space. Gone down from 83%+ full to 77% full. It was late. Didn't think much of it.
This morning I start entourage and all my account settings, email, folders, filters, addresses are *gone*. The DB in microsoft user data was brand new from scratch. It even popped the set-up assistant.
What did stick around was my signature and rules. Weird.
I called apple they're supposed to get back to me today.
Can anyone think of any issue with the new journaling file system and a big file?
Uuuugh :( note to self. Always back-up before update.
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