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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 what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I have recently upgraded from a Mac 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM to a new G5 dual 2GHz with AGP 8X and PCI-X to help me at my freelance gig where I needed to copy a 17 Meg file from my home network to a desktop folder. On the G5 it took about 20 minutes. 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. If that.
In addition, during this file transfer, my iPod will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Safari 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 8MB of ram running MS Windows for Workgroups 3.11 is faster than this G5 dual 2GHz machine 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.
free ipod and free gmail!
But .. it's a MAC! I thought it "just works"? I thought it "doesn't crash"? I thought it "works effortlessly"?
But I guess that's what happens when you believe apple's PR department.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
right, right - because only M$ does buggy update releases. It's because those people are a vocal minority, not a problem on Apple's end.
At least this was not yet another paid update from apple. Suck it down MAC fan, more evidence that Apple is just like every other company, only more expensive.
"Minority of Apple users", so that means what exactly? About 5 people give or take a person?
I am jizzing on this whores face and kissed her head and fell from the sky akin to sw. fjall a ridge or valley.
It must be true I saw it on google.
As soon as you get past Apple's poor quality assurance on their hardware, the happier you'll be.
Sincerely,
A tibook owner whose only still-original part is the keyboard
There is no gravity...the earth just sucks.
This just in, homosexuality among *BSD users has skyrocketed. The cause has yet to be determined, however most sources indicate that it has something to do with *BSD users comforting each other in an strictly unusual way due to something strictly unusual, to be quite a frank about it, gay sex. On Monday *BSD was giving a sad prognosis, it is dying. An operating system dying you may be asking yourself? Your probably thinking how can an operating system like *BSD be living in the first place? Well, for that we will go to our market share expert Bruce "Netcraft" Petterson.
Bruce states that an operating system is considered dying when it's marketshare has decreased rapidly, like *BSD, another OS that shares the same pattern is BeOS. Following the course that BeOS took well I think it's fair to say Nothing short of a miracle can save *BSD.
*BSD probably won't have much longer to live. When news broke out, all hell broke loose. Jimmy an avid *BSD user had this to say:
"When I heard this news I was utterly devastated, so I went to my friend Darl, who is also a *BSD user. He didn't yet know of the unfortunate, and he didn't take it well. He broke down in tears, this is the second blow to him in a week, he found out that he contracted AIDS from a black prostitute on the street one lonely night. I said to Darl, well you know something *BSD is dying well I'm going with it, I pulled down my pants and bent over, Darl took care of the rest. I don't know if I have yet to get AIDS, but we have gay anal sex everyday, without any lubricant for maximum ripage. The *BSD mailing list I joined reports the same thing happening among the other *BSD users. We are all planning on having one massive gay orgy on Saturday, so if you want to go out and be with *BSD up in heaven, come join us."
Similar events such as Jimmy's have been seen popping up all over the U.S. and the rest of the world. It should also be noted that when this news had been release, Catholic Priests such as Father Randy "Pudge" O'Day have installed *BSD along side OS X on his Mac. He told our reporters this:
"I knew Apple Computers has a reputation for being the "Gay Computer", but I had no idea that Apple went to such great lengths to make sure OS X itself was totally queer, I'm glad they chose a *BSD core for OS X."
Well there you have it, *BSD because of its impending demise has turned it's users into homosexuals. On a related note, Apple computer sales are up 500%.
FACT: *BSD users are FAGGOTS!
I need to vent guys and here I hope I find sympathy!
Today I spent the good part of five hours helping a friend with a titanum powerbook put an 802.11 card in, she bought an apple Airport one. The first amazing thing comes when it doesn't fit in the slot, but a quick call to the apple seller and they tell me it has to go INSIDE THE MACHINE. My friend had opted not to get them to install it as it was an extra $20 fee, so she took it home and I got the job as I'm the "Computer Guy" and can generally help friends and family with there computer problems. I have never seen such a tragedy of design as the TiBook!
First I had to take the entire thing apart. This if youve been inside a laptop is not an easy trivial task. It needs the batteryu and case to come off, the drive and optical drive to come out, and apples STUPID design inside them mean I had to file away some parts as they were put in without obviously meaning to be taken apart again. Now I know computers are throwaway things nowadays but that's rediculous? We also had to use snips to cut some tiny pieces of shielding off to get to the right screws. I can see why they were charging so much to put the card in, she should have gone with that option! In the end finally I was able to lever up a part of the inside to push the airport card inside and click it in place. But that wasn't enough, an aerial cable then needed to be connected, and getting it out of its holder was another half hour of work where I had to pull the airport card out again!. Finally with it all back together it works. The inside I think is back where it should go. the back doesn't go back on how it should either and I think is a little bent.
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!. Why they couldn't put it in an easily accessed slot like normal PC notebooks I dont know. Anyway Ive talked my friend into getting rid of her mac addiction, she will definately be buying a Dell next
You are either:
A) a damned liar, or
B) a complete nimrod fucknut pissant know-nothing.
Then my G4 wouldn't boot
I boot from the OS cd... the drive is WIPED CLEAN
Where are all my files, Apple?? Does someone have to sue Apple before they fix their fucking QA?
goatse
You do realise by your obtuse statement you ironically pointed out what the parents were getting at.
You state that all mac users are elitist, but it really is a vocal minority that you hear/see, and therefore you equate all mac users to that zealotry. Its the same as the problem they are discussing here. 10.2.8 was a major gaff, but all proper evidence points to only a minority of people/systems are affected, yet it seems to all the world that every man and his dog is having problems with it.
So im my roundabout explantion, you actually supported the arguments of your parents, but you could likely be to conservative (for lack of a better word) to realise it.
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
you fucking fags. hahahaha. your untested sub-enterprise grade piece of shit fucking garbage ass shit OS.
with a shit deprecated mach kernel that is slow as fucking ass and error prone.
with your fucking shit *nix userland that barely makes the grade.
with your fucking robbing Jordan Hubbard, who went from being christ to the FUCKING FALLEN ANGEL TRAITOR FUCKING BASTARD.
FUCK YOU STEVE SLOBS, and your DRM crusted fucking music low quality shit.
FUCK YOU APPLE, for living solely because you made an Ipod, a rip off replacement for a staid tired concept: Walkman (with DRM).
and finally, your spyware crusted shit ass fucking software, your heavy CPU wasting shit UI, your fucking shit hardware, overpriced and underpowered fucking cunt shit lie on BENCHMARKS like spec you fucking asshole liars.
And your fucking JVM is shit.
YOUR FUCKING JVM IS SHIT.
Fuck you.
FreeBSD rules, and you cunts suck this crap down. You fucking suck it good, and pay out the ass. Steve needs your money for his fucking Gulstream. And you give it like the little stupid fucking bleating pigs you are.
FUCK YOU ASSHOLES.