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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 it fixes sleep issues on certain Mac Hardware.
``when this story was posted, this link was not yet working''
So...10.2.2 features a reverse slashdot effect - the site only gets working when a certain threshold of connections per second is surpassed?
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
"- Improves the Find function of the Finder by no longer finding items in invisible folders." I hope this doesn't break the runaround I use on my brother's iPod: In Jag, I open his iPod on the desktop and do a search in that finder window for any .mp3 and voila!, all files available for drag and drop. We'll see soon enough...
veni vidi vamos
How much?
KIDDING!
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
Yes. I like my system insecure by default, too.
when this story was posted, this link was not yet working
Did the submitter just guess the url of the article? Damn, you gotta teach me how to do that.
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Digital Hub and Peripheral Device Enhancements
Networking and Modem Enhancements
Address Book and Mail Enhancements
Application Enhancements
Other Enhancements
Journalling will be great. especially on the disk servers with 480GB worth of storage. But what the Xserves are missing is raid 5. I was pretty upset when I discovered that they only came with raid1 and raid0.
...). The macs have dual Gig-E too. ANd in a very nice move Apple will sell you a spare parts kit with everyhing you are likely to need to fix a deadXSERVE in the field. Plus 24hour tech support.
the missing raid mode is worse than it seems. The mac xserves come with 4 big IDE disks. If you want to you want the Xserve to play nice in a unix environment then its a good idea to format the disks UFS. (you dont have to, NFS works fine with HFS+, but you risk screwing yourself with the file name case insensitivity of the mac. A rare event since most people dont have important files that differ in name only in their case but it's lurking.
But wait! you cant format the whole thing UFS becausesome of the mac apps break unless they are on HFS+. So this means you need to format atleast one of the disks HFS for the OS and apps. that leaves three disks. But in RAID 1, you cant use an odd number of disks. So that leaves two disks for raid 1 UFS.
Thus the best you can do is 120GB HFS+ Raid 1 and 120GB UFS Raid 1. So out of four disks the most you can get is 120GB UFS redundant storage. Ah you say, why not just make a small HFS+ partition and let the rest be UFS. Well apple does not yet support partitioning a disk with different File systems. Thus you cant split the disk into UFS and HFS+ partitions.
Two companies are promised a partionalble raid 5 system (Xraid and NXraid) but both suddenly announced delayed shippments. My guess is they are trying to incoporate this new journaling system.
I spoke to apple about this several times. It was hinted to me to keep watching because big things were coming. I suspect these are the Journalling FS and and an outboard mass storage disk sytem. but that's a conjecture.
That's the bad news. The good news is that these Xserves are otherwise a very good deal. The throughput is better than comparably priced linux systems. Also they occupy only 1U but hold 480GB of hot swapable storage. Yes there are some NAS systems that are 1U but they are about 10 X slower in throughput, not to mention that they dont support as many services as the macs (LDAP, NFS, SAMBA, SSH, SCP, FTP, MAIL server, RSYNC,NET info, Net boot
the other nice thing about the Xserve is the construction. In addition to tool-free hot swap drives, the entire chasis slides out to the front revealing everything with no screws to undo or panels to remove. It's a clever design lacking the usual add-on slider rails of your gneric linux boxes. There's even a firewire port on the front for quick access. Another nice feature is that you dont need a terminal to set them up, they will auotmatically find the administration computer on any DNS system. And if you need to have a terminal attached, you can buy a UPS based KVM switch rather then the usual clumsy Video/mouse/keyboard KVMs.
Anyhow the bottom line is this as soon as a partionalble journaled raid 5 system is avaliable the Xserves will be one of the least expensivie full featured HIGH QUALITY 1U half terrabyte disk servers you can own. (note I said High quality). I just wish they would hurry up since I have two of these cooling their heels waiting for raid 5.
Probably a good thing, there doesn't seem to be many (or any?) security problems with OSX, and all the risky stuff like Apache and remote login is turned off by default. JP.
Read more carefully next time:
The 10.2.2 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications and technologies: Address Book, iChat, IP Firewall...
The firewall was in there before. There's just bugfixes for it now.
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
Mac OS X Update 10.2.2: run Software Update for enhanced functionality and improved reliability of various applications.
Note that the link above does indeed go to the correct AppleCare article.
Once they fix pam, I won't have many bitches with OSX. As it is, you cannot kerberos login and exect a screensaver to work wihout a local password.
-- Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him? --
I'm still waiting for VCD support. >:(
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
60 months:
- Can use many descriptive words spontaneously-both adjectives and adverbs
- Knows common opposites: big-little, hard-soft, heave-light, etc
- Has number concepts of 4 or more
- Can count to ten
- Speech should be completely intelligible, in spite of articulation problems
Now, a simple guestion: how is Apple going to handle the immense problem with increasing version numbers....11 is not very far anymore :)
... but I'll bite anyway.
I work for Apple's East division, there is no such thing as 10.2.2.
That's funny... I just installed it...
When did we release 10.2.1 ?
09/18/02, according to Apple.
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
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and see the broken parentheses under high magnifications.
TANSTAAFI: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free iPod.
Many of us have been waiting awhile for this release. Certainly I have. Perhaps this new software will solve the stability issues many users were having with the older version.
occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
If only I had to worry about this situation!
# Addresses a potential issue in which an unauthorized user could log in as a deleted user.
Glad to see Apple still on the top with security.
# Improves Address Book compatibility with users that are already on an AIM Buddy List.
Good, this was an issue I submitted through Developer bug reporting, glad to see it fixed!
"Improves time needed to wake some portable computers."
Uh oh. If my TiBook wakes up any faster than it already does, it'll resume before I even open the lid. Brings a whole new meaning to the term 'race condition.'
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
Nice PR term for "bug fixes". I like it :-).
Yep.
/. is when they came out with hardware or sued someone.
Back in the day, the only time you'd see an Apple on the front of
Now I'm getting my update news here. Scary.
I use XDarwin full screen with a black background. For whatever reason now the mouse pointer is now always black, which makes it invisible on black background. What a bummer...
grisha.org
Apple announces purchase of the slashdot domain for announcement of OS-X update information.
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just use Disk Copy to make a .dmg image. Mount it and install your 'HFS+ only' software to it.
Before I erased OS X, I did this sucessfully with Bryce(now running under MoL) and Flash MX (now running under MoL).
If I do go rackmount, it will be with Xserves, provided I can return OS X and go Linux.
You can't judge a book by the way it wears its hair.
I personally have formatted a Mac with a small (20mb) HFS partition for the MacOS, and the rest for UFS for linux.
I used Apple's own HD partitioning util, too. Its just an older version. (3.5 or something like that)
It can still be found on the web, and will still work.
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
Last time I checked on the status of that project it wasn't ready. Thanks for bringing it to my attention again.
VideoLAN.
I don't need large brains to have a good time.
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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.
Interesting that Apple and OSX are the antitheses of everything Linux. Not the same
1. Development model - obvious
2. Costs of buying - obvious
3. Target audience - Linux (and BSD?) has been about doing more with less - how to get over BIOS restrictions on old PCs, run enterprise-level systems on inexpensive hardware; Apple's been about people who will pay for glitz
4. Freedom - IBM, unlike Apple, is almost evangelizing Linux, they don't even hide behind euphemisms like 'open-source'. The motivation of free, or at least open source, software is as important to Linux software as the utility itself, Because given the former, the latter will soon follow. Apple? That little song and dance about their derivative license? Yeah, leech off free software.
5. Glitz - If we wanted glitz, we'd stick to Windows. But if we want 4 different journaling FS we know what OS to pick.
OSX gives some of what Linux's had all along. They'll find it hard to catch up with the evolutionary pace of Linux. But just the same, some people will pay extra for glitz, even if it means supporting a company that used UNIX to save itself and didn't even bother to give something back.
I have the tool for you! It's called a "faq"...
/. your students would have one.
Perhaps if you were doing your job instead of reading
But you're right, it is far better to blame the OS then your failure to educate the students.
honestly, i thought that was what apple.slashdot.org was for. don't get me wrong... im a mac user and it's neat to see mac news on slashdot. but, i was kind of thinking relatively minor things like this wouldn't make the front page, just the apple.slashdot.org page.
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browsing with one mouse button in IE was driving me fucking nuts
/., bitching about how a multi-button mouse still isn't included with Macs.
Okay, Mr. Power-User, then cough up $20 or whatever for a mouse with the number of buttons you need. For the millionth fucking time.
I always thought that it was just an old joke/troll but seriously, why?
The one-button mouse is designed to have a very clear function, so when Grandma tries to use her new iMac, she doesn't get confused. Apple performed usability testing when they were developing the Mac, to find the optimal number of buttons for the uninitiated user. The results of their testing: one. Any more than that confused people.
You might say, "Well, that was twenty years ago, surely people are more clued in now!"
Wrong. If I had a buck for every exchange like this I've been a part of in even the last two years, I could retire to my own private island:
Me: "Sure, I can help you with that. I need you to right-click on [icon] and select 'Properties.'"
Client: "I clicked on it, but it just went dark. Where is this 'properties' thing?"
Me: "Did you right-click on it, or just click on it?"
Client: "What do you mean, 'right-click?'"
Me: "Right-click, as in, click the right mouse button."
Client (incredulously): "You mean, it does something different???"
My point: Some people STILL find multiple mouse buttons confusing. Since Apple is marketing in large part to people who are confused/frustrated/confounded by Windows, it makes sense to include an unambiguous mouse.
Most people who want a mouse with more functionality either right from the start or after they get up to speed with the Mac will purchse one, and put the Apple one in a drawer somewhere. Those who don't post on
~Philly
Now to wait until all 24.4megs download on my horrid connection (24.0kbps right now!). Wow, I think the download status bar just twitched!
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.
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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i don't read slashdot anymore.
I think certain editors are trying to get everyone who still vehomelently hates apple to soften up by showing them article after article of apple geeks.
I don't agree with this practice, it's just my theory as to why it's happening.
I live in a giant bucket.
I have a two button USB scroll mouse and the right click opens the context menus just like I would expect them to as a former windows user.
At least it's moderately more important the Quicktime getting a point release. Oh wait - that made the front page too.
Very simple... To prevent poor programming. Contextual menus should speed access to features, but is should not be the only way to access a feature. If you force developers to consider single button mice, then they must provide all options in the regular menus, as well as contextual menus.
There are plenty of people in this world that I would not want to have to explain the difference between a right/middle/left click.
Microsoft Powerpoint X makes this mistake on MacOS X. If you want to group objects together, the only way to do it (unless you customize your menus) is to use context menus.
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The internet is the greatest source of biased information in the history of mankind.
i think they're just trying to justify the expense of 3 new tibooks (bought a little under a month before the 1ghz models came out). isn't this an apple.slashdot.org article? judging from the "aqua" look, i'd guess it was...
moox. for a new generation.
I know apple clearly states that you are going to take a 10 to 15 percent disk performance hit when enabling the journal. I'm not sure about everyone else, but with the update and the journal everything seems even faster than 10.2.1. Anyone have similar experiences? I'm launching apps and just generally messing around. I've noticed that photoshop 7 loads in about 7 seconds as opposed to the 13 that it used to as well. Could be imagining it...
It took me a minute to find the button that was going to give me a context menu.
Simply holding the mouse button down for a second or so brings up the context menu. It comes in handy for those one handed surfing sessions...
After about three months of relentless Willy action I reckon I'm now as good as when I was 10.
See, I don't think this is a minor update at all. Journaling is a HUGE deal in corporate markets. This release single-handedly makes Apple a real player in the server market. There's not a deal breaker anymore. For instance, my Dad refused to install Xserves at his office until they introduced journaling. Now that they do, he now feels compelled to suggest them as a viable server system.
Check it again, sparky....
Now, if there was just a ~$20 way to have multiple buttons on the trackpad on the ibook/TiBook. I understand shipping desktops (esp. low-end iMacs) with a one-buttoner, but having only one button on the trackpad keeps me in linux/thinkpad mode for the apps I need to use.
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
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
My thoughts exactly. But I think ipfw is turned off by default, however no network services are turned on by default so it's not that insecure. You can enable/disable all this stuff including the firewall from the System Preferences under sharing. And if you want to watch your system log (tail -f var/log/system.log) in the terminal you watch ipfw deny connections in the log (at least that's what I assume those entries mean). It's kind of frightening how many attempts there are to access a networked computer on any given day....
there is no thing
what else could you want?
oh no I'm not saying people aern't interested. I'm just saying the number of inane apple stories has been rather high.
:)
Then again this is slashdot, I can normally guess 3/5 of the top headlines before I visit each morning
I live in a giant bucket.
What does journaling do for me? For average usage (email, web, etc) do I need it? Should I use it on my internal drives? FireWire drives?
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
This post is identical to a post I put up this morning on and news leak of this. amazing that this clown copied it verbatim an posted it.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I don't know if anyone else had this problem, but this update seems to have killed the man command in the terminal. no matter what you type now man says "invalid option -- C" did this happen to anyone else, and can anyone else give me any tips on fixing it? How shall acheive my UNIX-Guru status without my precious man pages!? I mean, I just started growing this beard and not showering :-P
Viva La Revolucion! Buy a Mac!
Umm, Rendezvous?9 /25/1754218.s html?tid=177
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/02/0
Raid sets cannot be mixed file system partions. your comment only applies to single disk partions which can be mixed. Raid sets cannot
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
I tried using Mail a few times and though I love its spam filtering capabilities, everything else is working wrong. It won't save copies of outgoing messages. It doesn't warn me if a message couldn't send. I switched to Eudora, which I used to use on OS 8, and it is great. In the free version you get all the features plus a relatively unobtrusive ad box.
On the laptops it's even easier to use the keyboard to access alternate mouse functions because your hands are right there anyways. It's really not a big issue. Try it for a littel while.
T Money
World Domination with a plastic spoon since 1984
I find things to be the exact opposite. For low end configs, RAID 5 is best usually because of cost considerations. At the high end, RAID 1 or 0+1 is found most often because of the performance, redundancy of controllers/paths and tolerance of multiple failures. Your experience may vary though as this whitepaper explains.
_damnit_
It's my job to freeze you. -- Logan's Run
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.
I expect a hack to be out within the hour.
actually, about six hours ago
but using the CLI can hardly be considered a hack...
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
A little known feature of Mac OS X is the Full Keyboard Access function - it's in the System Preferences, Keyboard pane, under the "Full Keyboard Access" tab.
Asside from the Ctrl-Click contexual menus, you can completely control Mac OS X from the keyboard. the default behavior is for the F-Keys (F1, F2, etc) to highlight keyboard focus on various on screen elements, including any properly API-created Aqua control.
Basically, you can run the computer almost completely without a mouse. Or CLI. With your own custom key layout if you desire. Awsome.
Oh, and my $20 Logitech Optical mouse works great with my G4. Right-click functions as-Windows-expected. Users of OS X and above also enjoy the scroll-wheel goodness, and 10.2 even introduces the "Copy & Paste Files" concept to the Mac for the first time, availible contexualy got all those adjusting Windows users.
Even better is my sister's Logitech Wireless Optical mouse, connected to her TiBook. $40 too expensive? Get the cord version. TiBooks have USB ports, you know.
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
...they seem to have some pretty robust update servers.....I also grab every update pretty much immediately and never have trouble getting them.
;-)
Funny how Apple can have software update facilities that must be handing out several hundred thousand 25Mbyte updates a day.....and many websites can't even cope with the traffic Slashdot sends their way
-psy
Sheesh, how was that last comment flamebait? I honestly can't see anything different; I want to know other people's experiences. How is that flamebait? [sigh]
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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You wouldn't have seen stories like this on Slashdot a couple of years ago because the Mac OS was just some POS OS in those days. Now it's another UNIX distribution, arguably the largest UNIX distribution shipping today. Cool beans.
Cool, but for the x-windows based app I have to have running, all three mouse buttons are used for selecting, manipulating, zooming in and out, and opening context menus. All of this is going on in a 3-d space in which you have to rotate/translate both items in view, and your viewpoint.
With a two-button scrollpad under linux, I can chord buttons 1 and 2 to give me the third button, without the "3rd button" the app is all but useless. It's not a major big deal, since I'll prolly be using a three-button external for serious fitting sessions. Just wishing I could get the functionality for those occassional emergency fitting sessions in a meeting. The cost of the mouse is irrelevant, but there are times when I need the third button without having to drag a mouse out of my bag and plug it in. If I could get three buttons to replace the one mongo button on the TiBook, the extra cost would be totally worth it.
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.
it wil be interesting to see what happens when apple broaches the unicode file name issue. Will they drop case sensitivity, or retain it for just english users.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
You find me a quad Xeon notebook then that fits in the same space, has the same battery life, and costs roughly the same as the iBook.
;) Just because Apple makes some overpriced, underpowered desktops doesn't mean their laptops suck.
You're going to look awful silly hauling around a quad Xeon notebook. You'd have to strap a reservoir/radiator on your back and watercool the laptop.
Hey, you said any machine....
i'd really like to see some more speed increses, even system 7.5.3a3c3 seems fast compared to X. jaguar was a start, though it made my ibook 300mhz feel much slower. but back to the topic, i like this journaling file sytem business.
blah, give me speedy, reliable-ish system 0.1 anyday
-krel
karma: ouch!
Upgraded both the Pismo Powerbook and my Dual G4/450. No problems whatsoever, with the install, or post-install. I also enabled journaling on the dualie. I don't use iCal so I can't comment on that. However, I'll be testing iChat stability over the next few weeks.
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Apple gives jobs to the people who wrote the open source software, writing Mach and the BSD subsystem got Avie Tevanian a great job as did Jordan Hubbard who was one of the original free BSD founders. The corporate embrace of BSD has meant good things for the people who programed it. Apple ensentially is rewarding the people who wrote the software. Also they give out their source on many things, such as Darwin Streaming Server, Rendevous, Darwin which has its own unique ways of doing things. Also Apple has what linux and most other OS's don't have and that is modern OO frameworks that greatly aid development. Why are you so down on apple, get a life. Support everyone even MS but do it based on the quality of the product.
This is not a showstopper, but just a word of warning - don't do what I did and upgrade in the middle of your work day when you don't have time to fix it. :'}
Can someone explain how this guy removed my identical post of this morning? He cut and pasted my text. The only change he made was removing the word sure from the title. I guess this is one way for me to be modded higher than 5.
It is cowardly, and a betrayal of whatever it means to be a Jew, to act as a white man
-James Baldwin
Creepy. How did he do this?
It is cowardly, and a betrayal of whatever it means to be a Jew, to act as a white man
-James Baldwin
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
For the "average user" case means nothing. Grandma picks files by clicking on the little pictures and would never notice if many files had the same name. The *ONLY* use for "case insensitive" is for CLI interfaces, and it is amazing that the same people who say "Unix sucks because of case sensitive filenames" are the same ones that say "it sucks because you have to use the CLI". Hey, if you don't need a CLI, you have eliminated the only reason for case insensitive filenames! Not only that, case insensitivity actually interferes with user-friendliness in a CLI as it makes it more difficult to do really advanced things in the user program, such as spelling correction of filenames.
OS X literally runs in the background these days around here. Didn't you see the posts about CT moving onto a Ti?
:)
./ seems to have the info first, so it seems natural to look here first. If CT ever abandons the Ti, we're all in for a shock when these items become 2nd page fodder.
Giddy like a schoolgirl when updates come out
What gets me is I now find myself foregoing other mac related sites for such tips...
The stories were essentially the same in everything but tense. He helpfully pasted my post into the new one to save me the trouble. BTW, so far the answer is no, it doesn't fix WINS.
It is cowardly, and a betrayal of whatever it means to be a Jew, to act as a white man
-James Baldwin
Obviously, I don't know how much QE depends on this feature, but I suspect it is fairly fundamental.
And, as the owner of an unsupported ATI GPU, I would be extremely pleased to be proved wrong.
Protoplasm. Quiet Protoplasm. I like quiet protoplasm.
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 think you missed the whole using the computer at a lab in school.
Id rather educate people on scary two buttons then to have to be lacking!
I think it is a fair bitch. Like I said and the mods missed, I assumed it was just a bitching session and trollish but shit - I sit down to a Linux Box and I can right click for menus. I can do it in windows. Why the hell am I doomed to one mouse button? It really is a lacking feature on these iMacs for how much is paid for what comes out of the box.
Just sitting down and using it, I found it lacking.
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Do you label your file names in english or with binary numbers. Do you sort them alphabetically or by INODE number? I'm betting you use english. If so then there are hierarchies of linguistic preferences that do apply. Humans read english with case insensitivity, its reasonable to expect a file system to keep its files organized according to human expectations, such as alphabetical listing and case insensitivity.
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If I want to enable Journaling, but my internal hard drive is partitioned in 3 (logical) disks:
/' and that's it, or should I repeat this for every partition on my disk (like '/Volumes/***')?
Should I just type 'enablejournal
EVERY Mac user I know does the same thing upon un-boxing their new Macs: They throw out the POS Apple mouse and plug in a REAL mouse with 2+ buttons and a scroll wheel. WTF can't Apple understand that a two button mouse is EASIER to use because it doesn't require the user to memorize a bunch of arcane keyboard/mouse button combos to bring up contextual menus? OS X is even written with a two button scrollwheel mouse in mind! It's things like these that really burn me up over Apple. I'm a total Mac freak, but sometimes Apple's inane stubbornness actually hurts the functionality of macs. In the case of Apple's idiotic, totally un-ergonomic one-button mouse, it forces new Mac buyers to cough up another $50 for a REAL mouse right after taking it over a barrel on the price of their new Mac. It's not right and Apple is INSANE to keep shipping garbage like their POS mouse that everyone just throws in the trash! I'd really like to meet a Mac user who LIKES Apple's one-button idiot-mouse. Such a person must be a real TEAM PLAYER, the sort who regurgitate all the marketing blabber from www.apple.com as if it's gospel and base friendships and relationships on computer platform orientation.
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Maybe instead of targeting Grandmas, Apple should aim to please the majority of Mac users by bundling a two-button scroll wheel mouse with Macs. Then the minority of users who can't understand how to operate anything but a one-button mouse can be the one's who have to cough up the extra $50 for a mouse. Why should a small minority of Mac users determine what sort of mouse gets pushed on the majority of sophisticated and intelligent Mac users? Your argument is senseless, and based on its logic we should all drive 40 mph on interstate expressways because driving any faster is too confusing and stressful to senior citizen drivers. If Apple is aiming for markets like digital video & audio recording/editing/producing, then I highly doubt that such users would have any difficulty with multi-button mice. Based on my own experience and on a British study (sorry, don't remember the link), mac users are more intelligent and more highly educated than their Wintel using counterparts, so I find it more than a little unrealistic to argue that Apple uses a one-button POS mouse because Mac users are too stupid to figure out an extra button and scroll wheel.
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If it isn't announced yet, I wouldn't trust it. Considering Windows SMB support *was* announced and was a total mess, I'm not sure I'd trust software Apple didn't consider good enough to announce.
If they go to "Mac OS X 11.12" or whatever, will they finally abandon this stupidity that "X" is supposed to be pronounced "ten"? Think about it -- "Oh, I'm running OS ten eleven twelve." You really WILL sound like a 5 y.o.!
Ahhh, yes under XDarwin or Linux is a different story...I was under the impresion that you meant you'd rather use your Linux machine (well actually, you would ;-) )...In an emergency though, this would be nice to have. I do remember under LinuxPPC I had XFree86 configured so that F1 and F2 where middle- and right-click respectively, but that acted as the buttons themselves, i.e. I didn't have to click the mouse button as well, the FKey acted as a click on it's own, which is a Big GUI No-No. Then again, at least the functionality was there, and Linux and X-Windows aren't exactly taylored for newbies (or at least, was to a much lesser extent in 2000).
;-) )
I'd imagine chording could be implemented under XDarwin for the Mac, but it would be up to the XFree86 developers, not Apple. Toss them a line about it, maybe they'll throw it into the next release (and I'd actually start using it again
For the really bold, how about modding an iBook/TiBook to have three buttons? Lots of close-call mobo soddering, and a bit of Dremel work I'd imagine. THAT would be impressive.
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Says you. I'm a Mac user myself and know many others and that is not he case except for the Power User crowd.
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.
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I'm afraid to tell you this but, the majority of Mac users use single button mice. It is the power user that uses two button mice.
It may be surprising to you, but there are actually languages where the same word starting with a capital letter means something different than without.
I was once fired from an Eastern European cleaning product company for accidentally overwriting all our Polish sales data with polish sales data.
They are a company that delivers content for you. You pay them to hold your stuff. However they don't just put it in a fast datacentre, they actually have little cache engines that they give to large networks (like universities). This means that if you happen to be on one of those networks, your downloads are incredably fast.
They just did this at U of A, where I work. They shipped us 3 servers and a switch (for free) and then are helping us get them set up. The effect, when they are running, will be that any traffic bound for Akamai's network will instead get serverd from those local computers. So instead of loading down their and our internet links, they will come form a LAN connection.
Really it's a win for all involved. We are happy because it reduces our traffic at no cost to us. They are happy because it reduces the traffic on their network. Their customers are happy because it means fast data delivery to lots of people.
You say the only use for case insensitivity is for CLI.
Wrong.
The whole idea is to remove any possiblity for confusion.
If I have a picture of my pet then what's the difference in meaning between Dog and dog? They are the same I don't want the complexity of the possibility of those two files being able to exist in the same place at the same time.
This is another reason why file extensions being part of file names is evil. Dog.jpg, dog.gif or dog.png? Surely they're all just the same picture of my dog?
Coding case-insensitivity into a file system is a lot harder to implement than doing without it. The Macintosh filesystem and other subsequent systems have gone to lengths to include the feature for very good reasons. It reduces complexity and eliminates an area of confusion.
It is the UNIX world that should change for the better. Do you not want Linux to succeed on the desktop? Features such as this subtly improve the user experience.
One reason why Mac OS has been considered easier to use than Windows for years. Fundamentally they are the same, it's the many small considerations that make all the difference.
I've seen some people in the Linux crowd really getting a handle on this which is great and I really respect what's the Red Hat team are trying to do. The Nautilus project was also a big move in the right direction.
I also don't see how case insensitivity makes it more difficult to spell check filenames. If you'd like to explain the problem then maybe I'll be able to understand your point of view better.
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It has been stated that the performance hit is 10-15% when doing disk writes.
Wouldn't that preclude its use for video importing and editing where write time determines whether or not you drop frames?
I would love to have the benefits of Journaling, but I am afraid of losing video quality.
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How many people have used a computer but never, ever used Windows (or Linux, or RISC OS, or ....) ?
And if it's a Windowsism, why do Mac apps have context menus at all?
Aparently we can not discuss this on the apple slashdot realm with out being told we are trolling
What bullshit.
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After updating my Ti Powerbook and heading to bed, all was well, but I awoke to a different story.
Powering up this morning, to my horror, my screen remained black, while the HD cranked and I even heard the familiar sounds of iChat automatically going on-line. After half a dozen reboots, and removing the battery and going solo with the power cable, I am back up just as quickly as the even began, but I am worried to try to shut down or even go to sleep.
Any others experiencing this "feature"?
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Yes, back in the days before Apple discovered UNIX.
This should be working. I have version SDDR-05 and would like it work so I do not have to use my PC.
SanDisk and Apple need to work on this together to get it resolved. How much work could it be to make a USB device mount so I can pull files off of it?
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That's simply flawed logic. OS X supports older systems just fine. You're running it, aren't you?
You're bitching that newer hardware is faster than older hardware. WTF?
It's not a driver issue, it's a video acceleration issue. 10.2 ran just fine on my G4 400, it just didn't get as much of a boost as it could have.
EVERY Mac user I know does the same thing upon un-boxing their new Macs
All you've demonstarated is that you know a very small portion of the mac user community. Most mac users use the included mouse. It's no harder to hold down the option key then it is to right click, and there's no memorization invloved. Did you have to memorize the right mouse button?
OS X is even written with a two button scrollwheel mouse in mind!
Really? I don't see how you mean. I have a mac with a three button scrollwheel mouse (I *HATE* scrollwheels, though), and the only time I use a button other then the left one is in Microsoft software.
How many people have used a computer but never, ever used Windows
That is not entirely the point. What matters is which system they used first. A significant percentage of computer users used a Mac before Windows.
And if it's a Windowsism, why do Mac apps have context menus at all?
Because alot of mac software is written by microsoft, and the context menu was brought to the mac with it. Pre OSX, context menus were an OS extension. They weren't part of the system. Also, apple is trying to get people to switch, so they want windows users to be comfortable on the new platform.
I don't know what your issue is. Most mac users use and enjoy the one button mouse. For everybody else, you can spend an additional $5 for another button.
After the update I looked at my apps to we what broke. Sure enough, X11 mouse pointer is a big blotch now. Grrr. How can I fix this?
He didn't say contextual menus were a Windowsism, he said right-click contextual menus were.
The original poster's inability to get a contextual menu without a modifier key or second mouse button is an IE issue not an OS issue. The correct single button action is click-hold. Try it under Mozilla. You'll get the same menu you get from a right-click.
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Put a period (.) in front of the filename.
No, I'd much rather dump the thinkanchor and go with a tibook, and have the budget for it. Open office is great, but the BD types love to embed seven trillion excel spreadsheets inside of powerpoint presentations and word documents that drive openoffice nuts. So I reboot into windows to do that stuff, and then back into linux for fitting. If I could do both without rebooting, it'd be wonderful. It sounds like it may be doable; time to re-investigate.
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This is probably due to a novice user issue. For example, Joe decides he wants to use e-mail from his laptop through a software Airport base station running on the family's iMac. If he has a firewall running on the iMac, he won't be able to surf or send mail from the laptop. Rather than force him to figure out that he has to punch a hole in his firewall, they leave the firewall off by default.
So I want to enable Journaling In a Partition:
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/dev/disk0s11 /Volumes/Docs
Te comand is:
sudo diskutil [device], wich, in thisk case, IT IS NOT
Wich one of this should I replace [device] with?
Device Node:
Device Identifier: disk0s11
Mount Point:
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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That's fine. I do that too.
But if a Mac (or any computer system) doesn't strive to be versitile, what good is it?
The great thing about the Mac is the same thing that makes Perl hated by many: TMTOWTDI: There's More Than One Way To Do It.
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I've never tried another office suite on the Mac, but I warn you: if you decide to go directly with Microsoft Office, it carries a hefty pricetag, and sometimes files that move from Mac to Windows Office and back have problems (especially with graphics on Word documents, it's what's kept me from handing in any lab reports in my Digital Circuits class so far this semester, between a non-working printer here and Windows machines at school).
Ahhh Microsoft Office: A format so odd, even Microsoft THEMSELVES can't read it.
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