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Mac OS X 10.4.3 Released
parry writes "Software Update just delivered the Mac OS X 10.4.3 update to my PowerBook.
Key changes include improved responsiveness when searching in Spotlight, Safari now passes the Acid2 test, better performance for MS-DOS formatted volumes and numerous bug fixes."
I'd be surprised if it did, since the update is delivered as a single package and there's no changes listed for iTunes, hence no reason to include it in the package. In any event, couldn't you just right-click iTunes.app and make a backup archive?
Q2DE Quartz 2D Extreme gets LESS support? WTF? I turned on right away, to see if it would crash. So far it is working BETTER! It would previously be unreliable.
Machine Name: Power Mac G5
Machine Model: PowerMac7,3
CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0)
Number Of CPUs: 2
CPU Speed: 2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 1 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.2.4f1
here is probably the easiest way, since I don't know if you're using Apple's Finder or not. Path Finder (which I use instead of Apple's Finder) allows you to look at the contents of a package or app, which would be easier for this edit if you want to use the GUI all the way.
first of all, you may want to make sure you have version 2.6.1 of Pith Helmet (the latest version). then open the Terminal. paste or type this line, all on one line:
open "/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/PithHelmet.bundle/Contents/Info.plist"
(this will open the file you need to edit in the Property List Editor.)
click the triangles to expand "Root", then "SIMBLTargetApplications", and then "0".
Change "MaxBundleVersion" to "416".
it should look like this.
then hit Cmd-S to save, Cmd-Q to quit, and you're all set to use Pith Helmet. i've tested it for a bit, and so far it works perfectly.
let me know if you have any questions.
Quartz 2D (often just Quartz) is the 2D rendering system used on OS X. It uses a display list format that has a 1:1 mapping with PDF display lists, allowing resolution-independent UI elements to be drawn.
Quartz Extreme was the hardware accelerated compositing system introduced with (I think) Jagwyre. Each window in Quartz 2D is rendered to a buffer. Originally, these were then composited in software. With QE, they were rendered to OpenGL textures and then composited in hardware. This allowed things like translucent windows to be drawn quickly, and made effects like Exposé possible.
Quartz 2D Extreme moves a lot of the things in Quartz 2D into hardware. For example, each character in a font is rendered into an OpenGL buffer with Q2DE, and then composited in the window by the GPU. This makes text rendering much faster with Q2DE (assuming that the GPU is fast enough).
Apple never advertised Q2DE. It was mentioned at the WWDC, but that is a developers conference - and developers can enable it for testing purposes. They advertise Quartz 2D and Quartz Extreme, because these are shipping features.
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Quartz 2D Extreme is a developers-only feature that could be enabled for testing in previous versions of Tiger. It was never enabled by default, you had to run a special application to enable it. And it was always buggy.
This is not the same thing as Quartz or Quartz 2D - those are still enabled. There is a post a few above yours that explains the difference more fully.
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to disable spotlight try spotless
and instructions on disabling dashboard.
If you are one in a million, then there are six thousand people who are just like you.
If you archive iTunes.app before updating, you can always restore it later. Let us know how it goes... I'd be pretty disappointed in Apple if they'd go behind your back like that, updating iTunes without your knowledge. I can't remember that they've ever done it before--but that doesn't mean they haven't, or won't.
I'm new to Apple and their package updating scheme, so I'm worried the update might change other dependencies or my ability to update it back to 6, later.
:)
There speaks a Windows refugee...
Fear not! A - the iTunes updates are always separate, so if it shows up in the list just deselect it and B - it is just an app, so if you make an archive of whatever you've got then if you did accidentally grab 6 by mistake just delete that, un-archive and you're good to go!
Seriously.
I had been watching Activity Monitor, and an app called WindowServer was taking vast amounts of CPU, especially during startup of other apps (things would bounce 'forever' in the doc before opening.) It wasn't a pre-binding problem either. I finally thought I might clean off my computer's desktop (there were about 340 items there, as it's both my default download folder and the place I drag images and clippings to from Safari.) I simply dragged everything into a folder that I created on the desktop, restarted for luck, and all the snappiness was back.
WindowServer is behaving itself now, and everything loading quicker and working more as expected. I don't know exactly what WindowServer does, but I do know it hates a 'dirty desktop.'
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After the initial installation, when Spotlight indexes the whole disk, it hardly takes up any processor time. This can be verified with top or Activity Monitor.
And Dashboard never loads if you never activate it.
So, your wife's machine was slowing down for other reasons.
10.4.3 fixes the annoying bug that prevents X11 windows from raising to the top when switching apps. Dashboard is noticeably snappier.
But hey, I've only been a Mac owner for three weeks. The Finder still drives me batty.
Wrong.
Copyright infringement is the infringement of any of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder, per 17 USC 501. One of the exclusive rights is the right to reproduce the work in copies, per 106(1). As it happens, the courts have generally considered the reproduction of works into RAM, hard drives, etc. to qualify, and to be infringing. The MAI and Intellectual Reserve cases are examples of this.
This is too well settled for you to be able to truthfully dispute it. You can argue that it's dumb, but that doesn't mean that it's not the current law.
The only question left is whether it is criminal copyright infringement, which is a subset of copyright infringement generally. Per 506(a), copyright infringement of the reproduction sort is criminal if it is willful and either a) is for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, or b) involves the reproduction during any 180 day period of works with a total retail value of over $1000.
Private financial gain is defined in 101 to include the "receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works." That's what the NET Act added, to cover warez trading. Presumably it isn't applicable for a mere downloader. Of course, making a copy through downloading, where you anticipate someone will return the favor by making a copy of something for you would qualify. Uploading without any receipt or expectation of receipt would not. So it's more complicated than whether data went up or down, as you seemed to think.
In any case, if the retail value of the downloaded work -- or all the downloads over the last 180 days, as your typical downloader probably downloads a lot -- is over $1000, then it is irrelevant whether or not he planned to trade warez. He's a criminal infringer anyway, if he infringed willfully.
You really ought to try reading the statutes instead of relying on just the laws that tweak them, or more likely, the sort of gossip and hearsay that most people on the net seem to believe in.
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
This is strange. I have iScroll2 and if I go to http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/test.html directly I can't scroll, but if I follow the link to it from http://www.webstandards.org/act/acid2/ I can scroll and things break. Note that this before taking the test, if I take the test if works as expected.
The only two that I remember are a version of--I think--10.2.8 that broke ethernet interfaces on one non-current model of powermac, and a recent 10.4 update that broke fat applications (which mostly don't exist yet). I may very well be forgetting a couple, but twoish instances of very limited breakage in the span of every osx update ever released does strike me as "few".
Certainly true. Unfortunately, the more common data set is "all the people that had problems and complained", which of course isn't any more useful for predicting failure rates.So while yes, there have been complaints in the past, my best judgement still leads me to happily installing updates as soon as they're available, rather than waiting for other people to guinea pig them. Neither I nor anyone I know directly have had any cause to regret this yet.
I guess this puts me with the grandparent, sans jest.
Okay, the update worked fine. No need to pull out the archive. That was my first time using the contextual archive feature, too. Every day I am finding or being shown more cool stuff with this OS.
Looks like I am not the only one.
First reboot after this update WILL BE LONG.
A lot of minutes on G5 2x1.8 (YMMW)
Just wait.
And after second reboot all will be ok.
There are some heavy things system doing during first reboot.
Don't shut it down or hard reset!
He said a Blue & White G3. While the Beige G3s do not have built-in Firewire (or USB), the B&W's most certainly do. I have one sitting right next to me.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.
You you bothered to click "Learn More" it would have brought you to the .Mac welcome page, where it explains you can now get .Mac IM accounts for free. Yes, it kinda sucks you can't use encryption on Jabber or AIM right now, but they aren't charging you to use .Mac IM.
That still was not as bad as an earlier version which would overwrite the partition map of random Firewire drives on launch of Final Cut Pro. An OS update fixed that (10.0 to 10.1 or 10.1 to 10.2--this was also when FCP would run on a non-AGP Mac without modification).
My guess was it was attempting to communicate with every Firewire device to query if it was a capture device and for drives the query was written atop the start of the disk. After it ate my drive the 5th time I disconnected all Firewire drives and it would run non-destructively.
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Part of the problem is that Safari's default download folder is the desktop - and every time you open a PDF it downloads it there. It's easy to accumulate tons and tons of PDFs on your desktop if you don't clean it up regularly. And Firefox is no better, because if you choose "Open with Preview" instead of "Save to..." it saves it to the desktop as well - even though if you had saved it, you could have chosen a location.
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Please note that I did not change /etc/ttys before or after the Update.
Got my iBook revived! (my blog)
The detailed steps is in my blog, basically, what I did was, download Mac Os X Combo using a working Mac, boot dead Mac into Target Disk Mode, apply the patch using the Combo package, reboot the dead Mac.
Yes, in fact, it does. I've got a Developer Transition Kit machine and 10.4.3 was actually released a few weeks ago (Oct 13) on the ADC site.
(posting anonymously due to NDA)
No, if this were true, they'd make it easier to get windows to open in column view by default. I adore column view, but it's a bitch to get it by default. Sure you can tell it to "open new windows in column view" - but that only works when you actually choose "New Finder window" or hit command-N, neither of which I ever do. If you open a window by double-clicking on a folder or drive, it opens in some other view - anything but column. I finally found out on the Apple discussion forums that if you hold shift when you close a window, the next time you open that particular folder or whatever it will open in whatever view you closed it in. Which is nice, but until I've closed every folder that way I still have to change stuff back to column view a lot.
Personally, I was wondering why they gave us this great new view and then made it so incredibly hard to make Finder use it.
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Turns out that MailActOn or MailTags was at fault! Problem solved.
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WindowServer is responsible for handling moving windows, drawing the frames of windows, hidding and unhiding them and the like. It doesn't handle the desktop and drawing the items on it, Finder does that.
Yes and no. WindowServer, or to be more specific, the Quartz Compositor (itself a part of the WindowServer process) is also responsible for compositing all the windows into one image to send to your graphics card. While the Finder draws the items that reside on the desktop, it sends them to WindowServer to composite the images of each item onto the desktop. one. item. at. a time.*
By having 300 items on the desktop, WindowServer now has 300 MORE things to composite (yes, even if it most of them are covered by a fully opaque window) it's going to start using more CPU time.
*With Quartz Extreme, and Quartz 2D Extreme, some (but not all!) of this work is pushed onto the graphics card. It still takes CPU horsepower to put the data into a graphics card friendly format. [details]
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I've still got iTunes 4.9, and the 10.4.3 update left it alone.
No need to worry about stealth iTunes update.
Found it. From http://www.mac.com/1/mac_faq.html
.Mac Mail address as an AIM or iChat screen name after my .Mac trial or paid account has expired?
Yes. Your screen name will remain valid.
Q: Can I continue to use my
Wow, there's a whole application to make a simple edit to a config file? Sheesh. I'm sure it's good for typical command-line-fearing Apple users, but this is Slashdot. Just edit /etc/hostconfig and change SPOTLIGHT=-YES- to SPOTLIGHT=-NO-. Heck, it even says that right on the Spotless download page.
Say hello to zMac.
Google ad running down the side obscuring the text for anyone else?
Yep, and I'm not even using Safari. I just tested it, and it's doing the same thing for Safari 1.3.1 on Panther, on Camino, on Firefox/Mozilla.
Complain to the people who run the site, their HTML is broken... I suspect they only tested it on one version of Internet Explorer, ever.
No, if this were true, they'd make it easier to get windows to open in column view by default.
Finder > Preferences > General
Tick the box that says 'Open new windows in column view' and be happy.
The Desktop folder is always on screen and all items are visible. Most folders that contain 300 items only show a portion of those items at a time. If my hypothesis is correct, a folder with 300 items opened full-screen with all items showing should result in the same slowdown (or close to it -- as the desktop is a special case and might work slightly differently than a typical folder).