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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."
Hi. My name is Rob. I'm an attractive young man. I'm a few years over 20 and I work on a geek website. I would like to share with you an incident from a year ago that changed my life.
It was late at night and I was alone in the basement of the geek compound. I'd lost track of the time, but was sure it was at least 1 or 2 AM. I'd lost track of time because I was so busy enjoying my collection of gay porn. The week before, I had stolen a CD with anal sex videos on it out of Michael's room. I don't think he knew it was missing, yet. He had been very busy censoring people for the past week and just didn't have the time to masturbate.
I was watching a video of a black man giving a blow job to a large asian man when I heard a soft moaning noise. I wasn't sure if it was part of the video or if it was real. It was a middle of the night and I was a bit uneasy about being in the basement, even if nobody dared come within 20 miles of the geek compound because of the horrible odor from the building. Quickly, I paused the video and listened closely.
For several seconds, it was dead quiet, but then I heard the noise again. I was sure it was real and it seemed to be coming from the room across the hall. Now I was quite afraid. I sat as still as possible and I heard a grunting noise coming from the same place. Immediately after, I heard a second grunt. Despite my fear, I quickly made up my mind to go investigate. Even though I was terrified, it was very important to me to be able to masturbate in peace.
I stood up, but I was so afraid, I forgot to pull my pants up. My tiny cock was straight as an arrow and hard as a rock, pointing about two inches in front of me. It was quiet now as I walked toward the doorway, still shaking from fear. The room across the hall was dark, and the hallway in between was lit only by flickering lights on the ceiling. Because the company I work for was (and still is) nearly bankdrupt, there just wasn't enough money to replace the light bulbs.
Slowly I walked to the doorway and out into the hall. It was still dead quiet. I glanced to my left and then to my right. I couldn't see anyone in either direction, so I proceeded into the room opposite mine. The door was open and the intermittent light from the hallway provided the only illumination. There was no sign of anyone in the room from the little I could see.
Suddenly, the silence was broken by another grunt. This time, it was louder and I was sure it was coming from inside the room. The noise startled me, though, and I had already begun to shit myself. I wasn't wearing pants, so I can't really say I shit my pants. But the shit hung down from my asshole as I fumbled along the wall to find the light switch. Another grunt came, this time louder, and it startled me enough that some of my shit hit the floor. I was still shitting myself, though. The smell of fresh shit was usually refreshing to me, but I was so afraid I barely noticed.
Finally, after several seconds, I found the light switch on the wall. While the lights flickered on, I heard the same grunting noise, and was sure it was coming from my right. I looked in that direction and saw piles of dirty clothes along the wall and a closet. The closet door was closed. I was terrified, but I knew I had to inspect.
As I approached the closet, I heard the same noise again. My hand was shaking, but I fought the tremors and swung the door open. To my surprise, I saw Jeff bent over with his pants down. Jon was standing over him with his pants also off and his tiny penis was rock hard and covered with blood.
I was mad. I was furious. How could Jon be doing this with my boyfriend. In my anger, I blew my load all over the closet, and at the same time, let out a huge fart.
"How could you? What the fuck?" I screamed as loud as I could. In my anger, I grabbed Jon's hand and pulled him out of the closet. After that, I grabbed his neck and bent him over. I stepped behind him, and with my bare hands, I tore his asshole open. He let out a scream. In
At last they reached the last of the little booths, set down Marvin between them and rested in the shade. Fenchurch bought some cufflinks for Russell, cufflinks that had set in them little polished pebbles which had been picked up from the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains, directly underneath the letters of fire in which was written God's Final Message to His Creation.
Arthur flipped through a little rack of devotional tracts on the counter, little meditations on the meaning of the Message.
"Ready?" he said to Fenchurch, who nodded.
They heaved up Marvin between them.
They rounded the foot of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains, and there was the Message written in blazing letters along the crest of the Mountain. There was a little observation vantage point with a rail built along the top of a large rock facing it, from which you could get a good view. It had a little pay-telescope for looking at the letters in detail, but no one would ever use it because the letters burned with the divine brilliance of the heavens and would, if seen through a telescope, have severely damaged the retina and optic nerve.
They gazed at God's Final Message in wonderment, and were slowly and ineffably filled with a great sense of peace, and of final and complete understanding.
Fenchurch sighed. "Yes," she said, "that was it."
They had been staring at it for fully ten minutes before they became aware that Marvin, hanging between their shoulders, was in difficulties. The robot could no longer lift his head, had not read the message. They lifted his head, but he complained that his vision circuits had almost gone.
They found a coin and helped him to the telescope. He complained and insulted them, but they helped him look at each individual letter in turn, The first letter was a "f", the second an "a", the third a "c", and then a "t". Then there was a gap. An "b" followed, then an "s" and a "d". Another gap.
Marvin paused for a rest.
After a few moments they resumed and let him see the "i", and the "s".
The last one was a long one, and Marvin needed another rest before he could tackle it.
It started with an "d", then "y" then an "i".
After a final pause, Marvin gathered his strength for the last stretch.
He read the "n", and at last the final "g", and staggered back into their arms.
"I think," he murmured at last, from deep within his corroding rattling thorax, "I feel good about it."
The lights went out in his eyes for absolutely the very last time ever.
Luckily, there was a stall nearby where you could rent scooters from guys with green wings.
I've had 2 bad power adapters, 2 bad motherboards, and bad memory for my iBook. Which I got in March.
That's less than a month and a half between problems, on average. It's been a real pleasure.
They've honored the warantee at least.
When someone might yell at me, it has to be OpenBSD.
Did anyone else see the same advertisement I did, with the two G4s, one monitor and a KVM switch? "Can't you guys just take turns?" "How cute, a happy threesome, all thanks to our KVM switch."
That is some funny s**t, but it's also so blatantly sexual and "perverted" that I was really surprised it was allowed on a non-adult website. Funny as hell though.
God, have you trolls have no shame????? GO back to the hole you came forth from and think a little longer about better troll posts.
What? Mac OS X has no virtual desktop support?
Oh, I'll just install X Darwin and get virtual desktops that way.
What? I can't run regular Mac OS X apps through X? What the hell?
That's why I don't run OS X. That and... oh yea, to me, the GUI seems completely counter-intuitive. It's really a shame you can't run regular OS X apps through X, because then I might pay the ridiculous price for OS X. Panther looks promising (steps in the right direction, like Expose), but it cannot compete with a good X desktop when you need to get *real* *work* *done*. I still love the hardware though. Worth every penny.
"Nature doesn't care how smart you are. You can still be wrong." - Richard Feynman
god you're a dumbass...
Do you also charge your Segway as soon as the Low Batt light turns on?
Amen to that!
Is that it does not run on x86 or Opteron processors.
I installed the Airport card into my TiBook G4 in about eight minutes. And that includes the time I spent digging for the torx screwdriver I needed.
The bottom of the machine came off easily after removing the screws. I had no problems getting the card into its slot or connecting the antenna cable. Re-assembling it was a snap. Either you have REALLY clumsy fingers, or the unit you received had a serious production problem of some sort. Removing the optical drive? Hard drive? I didn't have to do any of that!
My only real complaint was that Apple used Torx screws on the Powerbook; most people don't have screwdrivers for those lying around and it took me a while to dig up mine (which I don't need often).
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 MAC'S
Today I spent the good part of five hours helping a friend at his freelance gig with a titanum powerbook while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 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. 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!
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I 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. 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.
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.
I don't, I really don't, see how Apple can claim to be tops in design. Even my A600 was a dream to work on compared to this and it was pretty compact too!. Anyway Ive talked my friend into getting rid of his mac addiction, he will definately be buying a Dell next!