Having thrown caution to the winds and installed the sucker the moment it appeared in Software Update, I'm pleased to say my G5 hasn't caught fire or gone careening out my 7th-storey window.
Yet.
But there's a difference between whining about how hot the water is, and actually getting out of the pot. (The link in my original post pointed to a story about the whining.)
The difference: Opera 7 for OS X is available. Adobe Premiere Pro for OS X: eh, not so much.
Nobody has a monopoly on innovation, and the presence of another browser in the playing field helps spur new features, leaner apps and all the good things we know and love.
(There is a knock at my door. A SCO process server has handed me a cease and desist order to the effect that, in fact, SCO does have a monopoly on innovation. I stand corrected.)
Kudos to Opera for not bailing on the Mac in the face of competition from Apple. Must be nice knowing you have bigger cojones than Adobe.
Not quite. Steve Jobs has given the keynote at January's Macworld San Francisco for donkey's years. The one held every July,Macworld New York (sorry... it's 'Creative Pro'! no, wait, it's 'Macworld Creative Pro'! no, wait, it's 'MacWorld Essentials LE'!), is the one that Steve has been blowing off.
I never thought about it before, but my new dual G5 is measurably faster than my WallStreet, which has, yes, shown certain signs of age since it was released in 1998.
In retribution, I will not only download Panther, but shoplift a 17-inch PowerBook and steal Steve Jobs' turtleneck collection.
My theory? This is Apple's way of conditioning us to wait a prudent interval before installing a software update that has a small but measurable risk of causing spontaneous combustion in goldfish, draining your lymph nodes and shrinking all your synthetic fabrics. I, for one, am grateful. Really.
I suspect the French hold anyone in disdain who doesn't reserve the word "rendezvous" for one of the following meanings:
moonlit trysts on a Paris rooftop between a bitter nihilist revolutionary fugitive and his naive yet somehow worldly girlfriend, leading to their violent deaths in a bloody shootout with the gendarmes as their bullet-riddled bodies plunge into the Seine.
musketeers, fleeing Richelieu's spies, furtively exchanging the princess's ransom with a man they believe to be a lowly messenger but who reveals himself to be - mon dieu! est-ce que c'est possible? - the true king himself!
the moment when the melted chocolate merges with the whipped cream, freeing the aroma of the cognac and reminding the palate ever so delicately of the bitterness of the foie gras that began the meal, only 14 hours auparavant.
Were you having trouble with the MS driver? Mine has been working flawlessly since I downloaded it months ago. Kept working with the Jaguar initial release, too, which was a relief.
Have to agree. Most of the news sites I visit use Real and little else. (The CBC abandoned QuickTime a while ago, the swine.)
And beta or not, it's playing very nicely with the other children. The frame rate is quite nice on this old Wallstreet, and the sound quality is fine. (Good enough that a barking dog in one news story got my black lab yapping for a good five minutes, anyway.)
My real beef is that most of the clients I develop for insist on it... or, worse, WMP. Without OS X tools for generating those formats, I'm still stuck with OS 9 on my system for the foreseeable.
1. The iSheila
2. Opening number: a big "Some Enchanted Evening" singalong
3. Steve Jobs resplendent in a koala-fur turtleneck
4. Seminar: "Networking for Sheep"
5. Anything that SpyMac says will be there
6. Delegates from Canadian Samoa
7. New USB-to-MIDI-to-didgeridoo interface
8. Announcement of Microsoft lawsuit against Micronesia for trademark infringement
9. Crowds jamming the "Download bootleg 'Crocodile Hunter' AVIs!" booth
10. The G5 (sigh)
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Having thrown caution to the winds and installed the sucker the moment it appeared in Software Update, I'm pleased to say my G5 hasn't caught fire or gone careening out my 7th-storey window. Yet.
The difference: Opera 7 for OS X is available. Adobe Premiere Pro for OS X: eh, not so much.
(There is a knock at my door. A SCO process server has handed me a cease and desist order to the effect that, in fact, SCO does have a monopoly on innovation. I stand corrected.)
Kudos to Opera for not bailing on the Mac in the face of competition from Apple. Must be nice knowing you have bigger cojones than Adobe.
Not quite. Steve Jobs has given the keynote at January's Macworld San Francisco for donkey's years. The one held every July,Macworld New York (sorry... it's 'Creative Pro'! no, wait, it's 'Macworld Creative Pro'! no, wait, it's 'MacWorld Essentials LE'!), is the one that Steve has been blowing off.
In my day, we'd crack open the drive on our Mac SE30s, sharpen a magnet on a whetstone, and defrag that sucker by hand.
Kids these days. It's the MTV, ya know - makes 'em lazy.
Are we sure it wasn't just Cher downloading "Do You Believe" a million times?
I never thought about it before, but my new dual G5 is measurably faster than my WallStreet, which has, yes, shown certain signs of age since it was released in 1998. In retribution, I will not only download Panther, but shoplift a 17-inch PowerBook and steal Steve Jobs' turtleneck collection.
Not at this end. And contrary to what Apple's G5 10.2.8 update page says, the Apple downloads page doesn't list it.
My theory? This is Apple's way of conditioning us to wait a prudent interval before installing a software update that has a small but measurable risk of causing spontaneous combustion in goldfish, draining your lymph nodes and shrinking all your synthetic fabrics. I, for one, am grateful. Really.
How to do absolutely anything to a Mac
- Back up your hard drive.
- Repair permissions.
- Zap the PRAM.
- Rebuild your desktop.
- Run Conflict Catcher, Norton Disk Doctor and DiskWarrior.
- Launch Terminal.
- Close Terminal.
- Reboot in single-user mode.
- Reinstall the previous version of the operating system, using the archive feature.
- Reboot in OS 9, and run ResEdit.
- Reseat the RAM board.
- Reset the PMU.
- Boot from the system disk.
And you're done!It's not a crack. It's a molding line.
Indeed. Check out XLR8 Your Mac for details. (Reposted to make link clickable. We're nothing if not full-service here at Speechpoet, Inc.)
Indeed. Check out http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/OSX/itunes2_erased_driv es.html for details.
That became a certainty the day I pre-ordered.
King & Ferlauto could have taken it on contingency, and received their fee in Apple Store coupons...
My PowerBook's still a WallStreet.
I just drag mine to the Trash.
Yes. And in German, it's someone's name.
Were you having trouble with the MS driver? Mine has been working flawlessly since I downloaded it months ago. Kept working with the Jaguar initial release, too, which was a relief.
..."ex-tunes."
Have to agree. Most of the news sites I visit use Real and little else. (The CBC abandoned QuickTime a while ago, the swine.)
... or, worse, WMP. Without OS X tools for generating those formats, I'm still stuck with OS 9 on my system for the foreseeable.
And beta or not, it's playing very nicely with the other children. The frame rate is quite nice on this old Wallstreet, and the sound quality is fine. (Good enough that a barking dog in one news story got my black lab yapping for a good five minutes, anyway.)
My real beef is that most of the clients I develop for insist on it
1. The iSheila 2. Opening number: a big "Some Enchanted Evening" singalong 3. Steve Jobs resplendent in a koala-fur turtleneck 4. Seminar: "Networking for Sheep" 5. Anything that SpyMac says will be there 6. Delegates from Canadian Samoa 7. New USB-to-MIDI-to-didgeridoo interface 8. Announcement of Microsoft lawsuit against Micronesia for trademark infringement 9. Crowds jamming the "Download bootleg 'Crocodile Hunter' AVIs!" booth 10. The G5 (sigh)