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MacFixIt Details Mac OS X 10.2.8 Bugs
mneptok writes "Premier Macintosh troubleshooting site MacFixIt has just posted a detailed report on the bugs and broken features in Apple's latest point release for MacOSX. As reported previously on Slashdot, the 10.2.8 update was released and pulled within hours earlier this week. Many users upgraded before the update was pulled and are being bitten, and MacFixIt has run down the behavior you can attribute to Apple's goof."
I don't want to start a holy war here, but I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy! I HATE NETCRAFT! *BSD is dying
Yet another cripping bombshell hit my beleaguered TiBook as I spent the good part of five hours helping a friend at his freelance gig while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder on less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. 5 hours. The amazing thing is at home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this MAC, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. This serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Now, I got the job to fix this as I'm the "Computer Guy" and can generally help friends and family with there computer problems. I have never seen such a tragedy as the titanum powerbook! It is collapsing in complete disarray as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
In addition, The hand writing is on the wall; during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, straining to keep up as I type this, having lost 93% of its core developers.
OpenBSD leader Theo won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. MacOS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this TiBook at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine. A recent article put the TiBook at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 TiBook users.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems. MacOS is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
I don't, I really don't, see how Apple can claim to be tops in design. Even my A600 continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, My TiBook is dying.
Fact: TiBooks running BSD at a Freelance gig are dying.
and then the damn patch crashes your machine so that you have to reinstall the OS...
What?!? Apple!
Oh, I thought this was a Microsoft article.
Nevermind.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
It must be that Apple has finally made enough changes to the Mach microkernel that OSX is beginning to act like OS9, OS8, and OS7.
Amazing magic tricks
I've had 2 bad power adapters, 2 bad motherboards, and bad memory for my iBook. Which I got in March.
but it's pretty! what, you expected working hardware in addition to a pretty package? sucker!
I bought a g4 eMac a few months ago and within 3 weeks it was in the shop for over $500 in work. Video card + monitor assembly was shot. A few weeks later, it was in the shop again for a bad motherboard. Not to mention the constant software issues. Aqua locks up solid after a few hours of actual usage. The apps that don't crash just plain suck (mail, safari, iTunes, i'm looking at you.) Don't even get me started on the horror that is printing from OS X.
Typing this from my IBM thinkpad (running Debian) which hasn't had a single hardware or software issue in the 14 months i've owned it.
This a a stupid troll that deosnt know the facts.. but i might a well reply
dude it was one update the had a negative impact on SOME users (including me) and they pulled it. no its not a repeated thing. and they pulled it in hours did ms ever do that with a service pack? nope and its not once a month.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
Come on people, apple is a cool company but you don't have to make excuses for their mistakes.
I can make all of the excuses that I want to make. As a flag waving red blooded American I have First Amendment protected speech, unlike some freedom hating countries like Freedom (formerly known as France).
The middle mind speaks!
Yeah, that's what I hate about Mac users, they're so defensive when you tell them about other good OSes or if you criticize their beloved Mac or Apple.