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Apple Releases 10.3.5
derphilipp writes "Apple just released 10.3.5 via software update.
On the list of changes were - among others - new graphic card drivers, support for reading filesystems and a better samba support. Its size is 43 MB and its available via softwareupdate. Happy updating." Update: 08/09 22:46 GMT by T : EverLurking writes to note that Apple has also released the 5.3MB "'Security Update 2004-08-09' for OS 10.3.4 (along with OS Update 10.3.5) via software update that patches the security hole in the libpng libraries that could crash applications opening up malformed PNG images."
Okay. Let's see...
Microsoft releases a patch for Windows that fixes bugs. The patch is 250 meg.
The next day, Apple releases an update for OSX that adds new features. The update is 43 meg.
Compare and contrast.
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Just installed this on my G3 iBook, seems to have all gone okay.
No major speed increases it seems, but I swear the dock seems a bit more responsive then it did before. This is with 384 MB RAM, by the way.
Before the dock would stutter when I opened up my normal amount of apps on boot (6, 7), but now it responds smoothly when I roll my mouse over it (magnification on) and the icons are bouncing.
Maybe I'm just insane, but 10.3.5 has finally fixed the problem where the third or fourth 3D app launched would have seriously negative performance. It also nudges up the 3D performance in general, instead of getting 70FPS in BZFlag I now get 85.
You rock apple.
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I had a steady B+ in my AI class until I failed the Turing test...
When the 'show icon preview' box is checked in the 'Show View Options'
pane, the preview icon for images with a portrait aspect
ratio (taller than it is wide) are incorrectly drawn.
View an image of it happening here.
This is a screen shot of two folders I made.
Each one has a set of images that are named to match their size
(in pixels).
'show icon preview' is on for both of these folders.
The icon size is set to 128 pixels.
As anyone can see, the landscape images have correct previews,
but the portrait images get smaller. It appears the more narrow
the image is, the smaller the preview.
It is not using it's 128x128 icon space.
The 8 x 128 image is so narrow, it's preview icon disappears altogether!
I've written Apple and sent them the link... *sigh*
I'm sick of all my portrait images having tiny thumbnails!
10.3.5 - Bug Still There!
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I Hate \.
None of the megaraid stuff is in 10.3.4. The disk utility plugin was there, it's just been updated.
The megaraid manpage seems to indicate support for RAID level 5; but the GUI in disk utility still only offers the old 0 and 1.
So, does anyone know - does the megaraid command support more features than the kernel extension has available yet, or is it just that the GUI isn't there yet? Maybe they just don't put a GUI on it except in the server edition (sneaky buggers!) - anyone with OS X server out there that can check?
And, in general - anyone out there with a bunch of blank disks they can play around with and see if they can make a RAID 5 set?
If anyone has OS X server around, and if they're interested, these md5 sums are from the regular OS X; maybe we could compare results:
807ecfca34f30598207553f1e4a15d28 /usr/sbin/megaraid
/System/Library/Extensions/MegaRAID.kext/Contents/ MacOS/MegaRAID
8cc344ea9edce9138acf8803e267e3f6
What is the robbing of a bank, compared to the founding of a bank? -- Bertolt Brecht
The Finder's 'Show Icon Preview' option is crap (like a lot of other things about Finder). I frequently deal with folders containing hundreds and even thousands of images (wrong - I am a wedding photographer).
.subfolder of the image folder; or save previews in the resource fork of each image (my preferred scheme). Save the f*c%king previews anywhere, just don't throw them away after spending 5 minutes generating them. I thought computers were supposed to minimise duplication of labour.
The Finder chugs along calculating all the previews from the 6Mpixel files. It is slow. Why doesn't it use any available JPEG preview to make the thumbnail? I don't know. Does it cache the results of its hard work? Yes but only temporarily. Tomorrow you will have to wait for 1000 thumbnails to be generated again. Boring. The Finder should: save the previews, or at least allow users to specify that they would like the previews saved; or save previews in an invisible
In 10.3.x at least, use of the Preview option in folders with many images caused a bug. I don't know if it is still there. After previewing a large number of images and then closing all Finder windows, top would show that the Finder was eating up all available clock cycles. CPU usage for Finder would often read 80 or 90 per cent. This would go on indefinitely, and I am sure there are hundreds of machines out there now giving shit performance as a result, because the typical user will never spot this or fix it. The problem persists after a reboot. I learned to fix it by trashing Finder preferences (com.apple.Finder.plist) and not using the Finder's Icon Preview.
There is a very good little free utility called Pic2Icon which generates previews and puts them where they should be, in the resource fork. You just drag a folder of images onto it and it gets on with the task. Unfortunately it doesn't use JPEG previews either, so it is still quite slow, but at least it allows you to avoid using the Finder's awful preview feature. It sometimes chokes if you drag a folder containing a few thousand 6Mpxl files, at least on my G4 800x2/512, but I think that's just memory shortage.