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Mac OS X 10.2.4 Is Out
J. Ventura writes "Mac OS X Update 10.2.4 has been relased. The 10.2.4 Update delivers enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, services and technologies: Address Book, Classic compatibility, Finder, FireWire, Graphics, OpenGL, and Sherlock. It includes AFP and Windows file service improvements, as well as audio, disc recording, graphics, and printing improvements." Get it via Software Update.
Installing 10.2.4 screwed my network settings. I have my Network preferences panel set to "Manually" configure, but after the upgrade, OS X lost it's memory. The panel still showed the settings correctly, and I repeatedly hit "Apply," but it would not set the parameters.
/etc/resolv.conf
I had to resort to ifconfig, route, and hand editing
Thanks Apple!
Installed sucessfully on my Quicksilver 867 and iBook 700. No problems thus far =P
After the update, it is probably a good idea to fix your permissions (which can be done via the Disk Utility).
They fixed the bloody bug where everything on the desktop got moved when you dropped something on the edges.
OSeXy!
-Brett
10.2.4 seems to have fixed the problem - much snappier performance in Mail, and NetNewsWire (going from headline to headline was sometimes sluggish.)
No problems on the update that I've noticed so far...
nothing new or revolutionary.... but things just seem to be a bit snappier (i know most people will say, "thats just the prebinding after the install"...), mainly things like redrawing windows when i resize them, or scrolling speeds and what not. also, i'm glad they made address book act like most other os x apps, after you close the app, it still runs in the dock until you close it.
all in all, nothing special, just seems like they squashed a lot of bugs and added some behind the scenes goodness.
*** For a better tommorow, change your life today ***
hmmm... trashed my php install on my desktop machine (overwrites httpd.conf) and now my TiBook can't boot because of kernel panics.
I thought I'd be more pissed, but frankly I've had so few update problems with OS X I figure I must be ahead.
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They did something to iChat but I can't tell what they did yet. Can anyone see what that is yet?
It moved on the dock, that is how I can tell. I realised that it sounded like i was psychic back there.
Anybody know if they fixed the bug in mail where if you mistakenly create two accounts with the same email address and delete one it deletes all the associated emails?
The update replaced Apache's httpd.conf and saved the old version as httpd.conf.applesaved. The problem is that the new httpd.conf has the PHP module commented out, and apparently the PHP module is not included. Anyone else having this problem or my installation that is broken?
I've always been impressed that Apple's patches for Mac OS X fix such a short list of not-too-serious bugs. Microsoft's Windows service packs, on the other hand, often fix hundreds of serious bugs. And Windows service packs seem to get increasingly unstable in later service packs.
cpeterso
"Rendezvous-enabled computers that have Personal Web Sharing turned on appear in the Safari Rendezvous bookmark collection."
Taking a quick look at the Rendezvous bookmarks on Safari, I see a bookmark for each user made on my mac ("User's website") and then the one made by Eric Christopher is still present. Admitabally, it doesn't seem that they used Eric's mod, but I can't be 100% about it.
AnamanFan - Trying to find the Truth, one post at a time.
I've been encountering a problem in the Applications folder where, if I'm using the icons view style and I ask it to arrange the icons, it puts a large block of empty space between the top 2/3 and bottom 1/3 of my icons. Sometimes there's an app in the empty space, mostly not. Anyone know if this is a bug or just an undocumented "feature"? In any case, are there any workarounds?
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Everything went smoothly I'm happy to report. I'm still going through my personal list of bugs to see how many of them were fixed, but it appears to be a solid release!
...to everyone, and the fact that it happened to this one poster is a fluke. As far as that goes, it shouldn't happen to *anyone*, but as with every OS update, there will be a very, very small subset of people who say "it fouled up my x" or "totally screwed my settings for y", but the vast, vast majority of people have no problems at all.
Wow browsing the web is as fast as Steves demo was...yay
Perfect upgrade. The finder is much faster on my iBook and my fathers G3 blue-n-white.......Apple kicks ass
Does anyone know if the drivers for the nVidia cards in the Ti1ghz models have been updated? I recall that in 10.2.3 the ti 1ghz' were still using the old drivers.
... is included. Handy.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
I did a remote/command line update and held my breath to see if the box would come back. It came up ok a few moments later. Apache seems ok...PERL is ok...PHP is broken. Nothing I can't fix.
Check out my HOWTO for enabling PHP (written for newbies) and some (scarce) info on Apple's mod_rendezvous.
Oh, boy. Here we go again. Raise your hand if you're unclear on what Cocoa and Carbon mean. Okay, now pay attention:
[localhost:~] twirlip% otool -L Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
Carbon.framework
QuickTime.framework
PowerPlant.framework
DesktopServicesPriv.framework
URLMount.framework
DiskArbitration.framework
DiskImages.framework
CoreFoundation.framework
IOKit.framework
SystemConfiguration.framework
Security.framework
libSystem.B.dylib
I write in my journal
After update:
%java -version
java version "1.3.1"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1-root_1.3.1_020714-12:46)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1_03-69, mixed mode)
You just destroyed your mod_rendezvous config, and a few subtle changes to the httpd.conf layout.
It's kinda hard to use something you don't have source for. It does have some parameters to register each user's site on Rendezvous (so you can see them on Safari), but no docs I could find. Check out my notes on it.
Just to confirm, I can't find anything wrong with my network settings, and I just installed the update, and I certainly didn't have to edit etc/resolv.conf!
I'm getting kind of tired of my iBook bitching at me that it's running on reserve power, when the battery is at more than 75% full. Even worse when it just goes to sleep with NO WARNING shortly after the spurious battery warning, and won't wake up until I plug it in.
I know I'm not the only one who has seen these kinds of problems with OS X-- the iBook power management was rock-solid in OS 9.x.
Please feel free to edit my Wiki to add more info.
How about fixing the random closing of connections to AFP Servers? Every install that I have seen seems to do this. I know that Apple is trying to phase out AFP, but shouldn't they support their own protocols?
Sigh...
OS X Updates always kill PHP. I wish they would stop overwriting my httpd.conf and killing off my PHP setup.
No more beachball of boredom! Wheeeee!!!!!
Doesn't seem to break the third-party utils I use (FruitMenu and WindowShade X and LaunchBar). Also doesn't restore my iBook 500 to pre-10.1.5 performance levels, but I need an excuse to get an AlBook anyway...
Maybe something is wrong with my Software Update, but it's not showing that there's an update available for OS X. It didn't show yesterday's Safari update, either--I had to download that from Apple's Web site manually.
Or maybe it's the fact that I'm running OS X Server--does anyone know if the update to Server has come out yet?
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
This update doesn't appear in my Software Update preference pane. Nor did yesterday's Safari update. Is anyone else having this problem? Is it a problem with my Software Update, or is it the fact that I'm on OS X Server? Is the update for 10.2.4 Server not out yet? That still wouldn't explain the problem with the Safari update.
Perhaps I should trash my Software Update prefs and try again.
I found the meaning of life the other day, but I had write-only access.
Just make it fool proof... Mach-O != Cocoa
Well, I just finished applying a bunch of system patches to my 2K box at work (no choice), and have witnessed, much to my dismay, the return of what I call the 'Instant Death' bug. I click, or open one of two applications (my two 'big' apps), then watch the memory count up on a black screen, with an energy star logo for entertainment. This happens 5-10 times a day, for the last 2 days since I updated.
I just installed OS X 10.2.4 at home, and surely will do so tomorrow on the (good) machines at work! As per the usual with these things, I don't really notice what it did. And that is good.
I mean really, since when should a system update f&#k so badly with the (presumably) graphics subsystems that it breaks, and breaks really, really badly, apps that have gotten along just fine for about a year?
Now I am likely going to have to install 2K again from the CD, losing huge chunks of my preferences, hacks and such that had been running (stably ??) for the year, like the ones that disabled that horrid windows key that always to masquerade as an apple key (I do have a nice keyboard ; ) and made a control key like it should be (email me for this one, it is incredibly nice). Well, if I don't lose 'em, at least I am going to have to find every, single, bloody one of them that made that horrid os tolerable (though still not by choice).
Just to bring things full circle, I did once have to re-install jaguar after having screwed pretty badly some of the boot files (completely my bad). I remember the horror when I realised that the only hope was a reinstall. I also remember the sheer joy as I discovered that every bloody single preference, login item, font, and what-not was exactly as I left it, and functioning perfectly.
I always get excited at mac update time : )
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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety." -- Isaac Asimov
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. Isaac Asimov
not sure why, or how to get it out of the belly of the beast, but I am no longer able to run finder. Most other apps run fine from the dock which also works. Anyone have any suggestions? Repair permissions fixed a lot of permissions, but still no joy in whoville.
10.2.4 includes new ATI Radeon drivers (v 1.2.12.11) but they don't fix vbl-sync in windows which 10.2.3 broke. This is really awful, every operation (dragging windows, scrolling, quicktime, etc etc) exhibits noticable tearing and gives me a headache.
I can't understand why Apple/ATI did not fix this, every version of OS X UP TO 10.2.2 syncs to VBL perfectly, how can they ignore this?!
Those of you that installed Apple's preview IP over Firewire drivers back in the day might have the same problem I did:
/sbin/fsck -y then /sbin/mount -uw / /System/Library/Extensions/IOFireWireIP.kext/ /
Kernel panic upon reboot.
Apparently they broke the kext's support in 'updating firewire'
Just reboot holding down apple-s , that'll drop you into single-user mode, run the obligatory
then get rid of the FirewireIP kext by
mv
Trash it or do what you will with it after you successfully reboot.
Hope this helps!
...and some people just have to bitch.
Even if it's another $150 for 10.3, it would be worth it.
OS X is the world's best operating system.
Apropos of Mail vs. Eudora + SpamSieve, a friend of mine has been alternating between the one arrangement and the other. Mail is prettier but produces false positives for spam, which ain't good. Eudora looks dated (though familiar) but SpamSieve has not produced one false positive for him (or for me, for that matter).
So far, SpamSieve is in the lead...
I understand now why Windows user bitch so much...I've been using XP for a month now and yea it sucks big time. I don't seem to feel this way about OS X and I will glady pay for 10.3 and any other system Apple comes out with.. if and only if its this good or better.
I just about died when I minimized Fire and Chimera. I dont think I've ever seen it be so fluid and responsive... Part of me wonders if its not some mind trick that you get after updating a system (the infamous sugar pill), or if they really did something to the system this time. Granted, its a new version and not just some patch, but still...
This is what seriously bugs me about Apple's updates. They tell you the applications and *general* area of stuff that has changed, but rarely do they tell you specifics, and some times random things such as speedups that werent anticipated occur and you cant figure out why... Maybe its just too late for me to be thinking about this stuff... bleh.
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We don't need an "overrated" so much as we need a "you completely missed the parent's point, dumbass..."
The easiest way to track the number of swap files is to use the "Go To Folder" command in the Finder's Go menu, and type "/var". Drag the "vm" folder to the right side of the dock (bottom if the dock is oriented vertically). Now you can click and hold on that folder in the dock and the pop up dock menu will show you the swap files. Another way is to run Memory Stick.
10.2.4 comes with AppleAirPort2.kext version 3.0.3. This version appears to perform an extra check designed to thwart those of us who have managed to get the 3.0.1 version of the driver to talk to Linksys WPC54G and WMP54G cards.
If you have used this (admittedly unsupported) hack to get 802.11g for older hardware, you might want to move the 3.0.1 kext out of the way and put it back. At least until this extra check is found and neutralized.
Well, that didn't take long.
The procedure to get your WPC54G to work with Apple's AirPort2 driver is a little more advanced now (it involves patching the driver), but it once again works.
here is where you can get the details.
hmmm, my iBook still doesn't seem to have any kind of reasonable max volume. I mean max volume just seems quiet! I was really hoping they had fixed that annoyance.
And I was hoping I would be able to set the MAC address on my airport. I mean how else am I supposed to test MAC based crap?
* Improves wording in the progress indicator window when copying a large file to an iDisk or WebDAV volume ("5 seconds remaining" could previously for much longer than five seconds).
Classic.
I did notice that drag and drop is much smoother though with the new update. I found with 10.2.3 that if I had a Finder window with lots of files and was dragging a file - even to the dock - when it passed over the Finder window things ground to a halt. Oh, the cursor continued to move smoothly, but the icon it was dragging was way back at the edge of the Finder window. I've not noticed it doing that with the update.
Still I suspect the main Finder updates won't be seen until 10.3.
Nick:
I've been using your driver hacks and it works marvelously. With the 802.11g linksys card in my tibook I get not only a faster connection but also a MUCH stronger signal. Has anyone confirmed that this works with the slightly cheaper Buffalo cards?
I delayed OSX10.2.4 upgrade today until I could figure out whether they broke your kext hack. It is really disappointing that Apple is playing games and going to such extreme effort (intentionally breaking hardware support for legacy workarounds) to coerce us into upgrades.
Thanks, and I'll contact you directly about making an installer for this. The world needs to know that Mac802.11g is not just for people with $3k to drop on a new PowerBook.
Yeah, I wanted to know if it was just my perceptions being fooled by my expectations after installing a OS upgrade or if this was indeed a real effect. Hardware: Powerbook G4 667 MHz Gigabit Ethernet,768 MB RAM, 30 GB HD
10.2.3 => Cold Boot = 1:06, Shutdown 0:45, Login 5-7sec, Logout 6-15sec
10.2.4 => Cold Boot = 1:07, Shutdown 0:15, Login 6sec, Logout 5sec
The shutdown time has definitely been trimmed, but most of us OS X users will not be enjoying this speed advantage much as...we just don't have to shut down that much when the sleep/wake state is so quick and stable to use unlike my WinBlows computers.
The following times are in seconds, timed from when icon clicked on in the Dock to when the application window was fully loaded and ready to go.
(Task or App--10.2.3 1st run/Subsequent run--10.2.4 1st run/Subsequent run)
Safari----11.5/03.5--14.0/03.0
Chimera--12.0/5.1--11.0/05.2
Mail------05.5/03.5--05.3/02.2
Address--03.0/02.8--05.3/02.0
iCal------04.0/03.5--04.0/04.0
Sherlock--14.5/12.2--12.0/08.2
Word-----05.5/02.5--05.0/03.0
iTunes----05.2/02.2--04.5/02.0
iPhoto----05.8/04.2--05.2/04.0
QTPro----02.0/01.5--02.8/01.0
Sorry the formatting is so lousy, /. won't let me do a table. Also, the errors are like +/- 0.2-0.3 sec depending on if I was reaching for my beer during the timing and missed seeing the window pop up.
Sure it ain't scientific, but I think this update has gotten things moving along a tad faster, as have all the other .1, .2, .3 updates. Which is nice as many other OS's just seem to become more bloated with each iteration.
DaveC
There are no stupid questions...just stupid people.
My brand new powerbook (less than a week old) is now unable to reboot -- OR EVEN POWER OFF -- after upgrading to the new version of OS X.
After running the upgrader, clicking "restart" like it asked me to and then waiting for it to restart - it stopped on a completely gray screen. I unplugged the external monitor and mouse just in case that was glitching it up somehow.. no luck. Now the power button won't even make it turn off.
1. If you previously had VirtualHost directives in your http.conf file, you will have to redo those.
2. For whatever reason, OS X loves to mess with sound output every now and then. If you notice your sound just died, visit Sys Prefs and make sure your correct sound output is still selected. (For example, mine switched from my SoundSticks to my MacAlly USB mic. Why?)
As previously mentioned, the update will break PHP. Between this and the VirtualHost issue, you may be tempted to copy your old conf file back. If you do, don't forget to copy the new Rendezvous stuff into it (assuming you want that stuff).
Gah! I still don't get full screen visuals in iTunes with my ATI Radeon 9000! And there are still two things in tranquility that don't look right: the compass and the spinner! These broke with my new card, not an update. I'm wondering if the stock 16MB Rage card in my dual 450 was a better idea...
As far as I can tell, with few exceptions the point releases from apple always seem to make the machine work faster. This seems to be true since macos 8.
I think the philosophy is get it out there then spend some time optimizing it.
I still find it odd getting speed improvements without updating hardware, but I'm getting used to it.
But it's NDA, so go the http://connect.apple.com and download it yourself.
But remember, it is still pre-release.
I haven't been able to confirm this beyond announcements and bits of scanning, but Mac OS X 10.2.3, and likely 10.2.4, adds basic driver support for the SoundBlaster Audigy and Extigy PCI sound cards.
Some of you may remember that support for the Mac SoundBlaster Live card for OS X has been long in coming. But, perhaps, I'll be able to go home and toss in my SoundBlaster card and get 4.1 surround sound back.
Or, if I had money, I'd just pick up an Audigy card normally branded for PCs, toss it in my Mac, and live the dream, baby. We'll see. Has anyone tried SoundBlaster cards with 10.2.3 or later?
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
Try connecting some headphones or computer speakers and remove them after a few seconds. It always works with my iBook
After grudgingly downloading this via Software Update (network congestion?)... this installed nicely and blew away a list of bugz that I had personally.
:)
I am running a G3/300 Beige MT with 768MB RAM and OS X is (so far) running very nicely.
So far so good... I too get excited when there are new Apple releases.
"I'm not ashamed I can't function in society like I'm supposed to." - Paul Westerberg
From the "Other Enhancements" section:
Improves compatibility with Firaxis Civilization III when the application's "Quartz text rendering" option is enabled.
And who says Apple doesn't care about making the Mac a gaming platform?
I'm sorry to hear about your troubles, but...
:^)
Before I got even partially through booting up, I knew that Apple had fixed a very annoying LITTLE problem they'd introduced with 10.2.3 -- the monitor geometry of my iMac rev A would get lost upon reboot and I'd have to stretch, move, and rotate (slightly) it to my taste.
Now it remembers! I'm sure that very few people have this problem, as it didn't happen on my G4 at home, but it's nice to see that they're keeping up with some of the little things, too.
Whenever a unix system starts swapping memory out to disk it's gonna slow down. I keep an eye on the number of swap files - when it goes from one to two...
It seems odd that Mac OS X would resort to creating multiple swap files and, then, allow cruft to build up in them. That is very unlike my experience with other UNIX; it seems much more like Windows. It appears that there must be memory leaks or other types of object leaks that collect like dust bunnies in the swap files.
I'm not necessarily knocking Apple in this, as I've seen how hard it is to deal with memory leaks in C programs. However, it may indicate that they either use malloc() directly too often without adding leak-detecting code or tools.
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
I had problems with d10. Notably, jEdit complained about a number of missing classes and, while it would start (from the jar, not the bundle) crashed after a few minutes. Swing componants seemed no faster (as opposed to 1.4.1 in Win), but everything else worked.
Upshot: wait it out, unless you desperatetly need regexes and assertions.
Sorry for the nubie question, but on a recently purchased mac (I could reinstall without too much pain), what are the critical items to backup?
You mention the system folders. I have also heard mention of preference files, although I am not sure exactly which/where these are. Any other items I should be looking for?
McFly777
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"What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?" -Marilyn Pittman
It happens. The swap files are 80mb in size. One is created at system startup. As you accumulate running applications, those application's memory requirements may eventually exceed your available RAM + 80 mb, so the system starts allocating additional swap files. I find that once this happens, system performance takes a distinct hit.
In early iterations of OS X the growth of swapfiles was a one way street - once created, they would stay around. But lately the system has gotten better about getting rid of them when they aren't needed any more.
After reading the Knowledge Base article on changes made in 10.2.4, I was wondering about two items:
I assume that this means changing MAC addresses on NICs is now possible using ifconfig, as has previously been possible in Linux. Has anyone successfully done this yet, either with built-in Ethernet, AirPort, or third-party cards?
I'm hoping this refers to the kernel panics on logout that have been affecting PowerBook G4 owners, and that have been discussed frequently on the Apple Discussion Boards. Anyone know if this is true?
....where would i find the httpd.conf backup?
Not being lazy, I'm a newbie who doesn't want to screw anything else up (or have go through the process of turning everything back on).
BTW
would the upgrade have screwed up anything else... like say mySQL settings?
thanks
D
My iBook (12", 700mhz) only bitches about reserve power when it hits 10% or so, and doesn't fall asleep until about 5%. No problems there.
But the battery life is kinda frustrating. The specs claim it can get up to 5 hours, but I only get around 2.5, and that's when doing stuff like typing the whole time. Is this normal? Do any of you guys get 5? I'm wondering if i have a bad battery...
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I find that once this happens, system performance takes a distinct hit.
Perhaps Apple could learn a few lessons from Solaris. Solaris allows any number of swap partitions and swap files to be combined into the system's virtual memory. There doesn't appear to be a performance degradation (at least that I've seen), and the OS can take advantage of any multiple disk/multiple controller situations for possibly even a performance boost.
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I find that accessing ftp sites using the "connect to..." option is slow, and will only allow me to download (no uploads).
I can't find any documentation anywhere about the OS X Finder's ftp functionality and what I should and should not be able to do. Any advice would be much appreciated.
BTW I have not yet installed 10.2.4 (I'm not at my own machine right now), but if anybody could offer me any insight into this I'd be most grateful.
. . . the update also modifies your syslogd.conf file without creating a backup for you . This is for the 0.002% of you out there, like myself, who might be doing some extra logging or just diverting firewall information to its own log file.
Cheers!
Excerpt from 'man ifconfig' (after 10.2.4 update):
ether Another name for the lladdr parameter.
lladdr addr
Set the link-level address on an interface. This can be used to
e.g. set a new MAC address on an ethernet interface, though the
mechanism used is not ethernet-specific. The address addr is
specified as a series of colon-separated hex digits. If the
interface is already up when this option is used, it will be
briefly brought down and then brought back up again in order to
ensure that the receive filter in the underlying ethernet hard-
ware is properly reprogrammed.
This may be getting offtopic a bit, but I've found that memory usage and, consequently, swapping decreased substantially when I disabled the unlimited scrollback buffer in Terminal. I do most of my work in Terminal and I found it was taking up over 100M once, and I'm guessing substantially more at other times. Setting Window Settings->Buffer->Buffer Size to 1000 lines sped my system up a lot.
They still haven't fixed the: mkdir test cd test mkdir test mv test ..
bug, which is pretty retarded, considering hundereds of bugreports re: this were submitted.
How do I know this? I tried of course, and have gone prematurely gray trying to get my machine to boot again :-)
fsck -u
Apple has a document about this at:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n107415
HTH
Never saw the bug this update mentions fixing in the Finder, but it appears they've just replaced it with another one:
Step 1) untar a set of files to your desktop via the terminal (possibly using GUI app too?).
Step 2) single-click on one of the files to "verify that it's really there"... it is and is highlighted
Step 3) perform exactly the same untar operation from the command line again
Step 4) single-click on one/any/all of the files to "verify they're really there"... poof! it/they disappear, never to be seen again unless it is via the terminal (or you relaunch the Finder). This also happens if you click-drag to move them or click-drag to highlight multiple, as soon as you release the mouse-click... poof!
Step 5) You're not insane, 'ls' from the terminal and sit back in awe.
biting quips fail me on this one.
...The Beachball of Rumination.
You can't be bored when the beachball is spinning, just amuse yourself while it's working by making the dock animate. Magnify it, drag icons around, but don't drop them making the other icons slide around underneath.
Sometimes I find myself doing it just for fun, and the next thing you know it's dawn, the birds are chirping and you've missed out on 6 hours of sleep.
I took your advice and have been monitoring the swap files, and after only using safari, word and mail I already have 4 swap files. Is this problamatic? Could this be slowing my system? How do I fix it? I only have 256mb ram and I think that might be part of it.
I'm using Java1.4 DP10 for a project involving JDO, Tomcat4.1, Ant 1.5.1, Jini 1.2.1 (JavaSpaces/Rio) and Struts1.1B3 and it's all working sweet except the Tomcat tasks for Ant don't seem to work too well anymore. (caveat - that could be my fault, not Java's but it's simpler to work around by just restarting tomcat between builds than to investigate the problem). Some people have reported a few Swing issues and the readme for Java1.4DP10 does mention a few Swing issues, but as all my work these days is under the GUI hood, I am not too concerned. I don't use an IDE, (BBEdit, SSHAgent and the terminal are the Java developer's friends) but Eclipse seems to work a-okay.
I used to have a better sig than this, but I got tired of it
Putting more RAM in your system will delay the creation of new swap files. Swap files in and of themselves are not bad - they let you keep running when all your RAM is full, but I've found that my system performance (Pismo 500 mhz, 1 gig RAM) slows somewhat once the second swap file is created. To put it in perspective, the slowdown is less than the slowdown I experience when playing iTunes...
How dare you say that Mac OS X is not perfect, or that Steve Jobs is not a god? You are a heretic and you must be slapped down with as much contempt as possible for the unmitigated gall of turning against The Body.
Hail Landrew!
But I have a G4/400 tower w/ 256 MB of RAM and I use a lot of different programs and I only have swapfile0, and swapfile1 Not sure what that means, but I have to believe that there is something else going wrong in your system.
Every version of OS X I have used has had the problem where you have to resize the monitor every time you boot it up...
That's strange I've just tried that and no kernel panic ... And I'm running a stock OS.
Hi,
yesterday I upgraded to 10.2.4, after which I am now unable to "drag-and-drop" files via the Finder.
In particular, when I mount a CD, open it with finder and copy a file to the desktop, the progress bar indicates the file is being copied, however, upon completion the file disappears. I can however copy files using the terminal and the "cp" command.
I have looked up the Knowledge Base, and it seems the same or similar to article 107247.
Any assistance/tips greatly appreciated.
I have to hand it to Apple. It seems that all too often these days everything is a dot-oh release, especially from our good friends in Redmond. And that's when they're not calling things letters (XP) or giving them year numbers (2000). It's nice to see a real three-field version number for a change.
Washington, DC: It's like Hollywood for ugly people.