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iDisk improvements, but who cares now?

So Apple made iDisk fast enough to actually use, but did it after they basically made iTools worthless. Who cares how fast you can upload files to your iDisk, if the stuff is not reachable because of their ridiculous bandwidth limitations?

I posted some pictures there for some of my friends to look at, and the site was "shutdown due to excessive bandwidth" after only a few hours. What a crock.

Arcady
 
Re: iDisk improvements, but who cares now?

Originally posted by Arcady
So Apple made iDisk fast enough to actually use, but did it after they basically made iTools worthless. Who cares how fast you can upload files to your iDisk, if the stuff is not reachable because of their ridiculous bandwidth limitations?

I posted some pictures there for some of my friends to look at, and the site was "shutdown due to excessive bandwidth" after only a few hours. What a crock.

Arcady
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You do realize you're complaining about a free service don't you?:rolleyes:

If you need more bandwidth you'll have to buy an account.
 
Re: Re: iDisk improvements, but who cares now?

Originally posted by Rower_CPU


You do realize you're complaining about a free service don't you?:rolleyes:

If you need more bandwidth you'll have to buy an account.
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not only that, but i've never had any problems.

and dignan, an itools user to the extreme, has never mentioned any problems. he's got like 10+ accounts/pages. with pretty big movies on all of em. and no such issue that he's mentioned.

go figure.
 
JS in IE seems to be about twice as fast (doing certain functions)

and command-shift-n, then name folder, then command-down arrow now works without having to click out of the folder's text field :D :D
 
Re: Unsanity released Silk

Originally posted by eallison
In case anyone missed it, Unsanity just released the haxie Silk that gives aa to all Carbon apps. This works ok in IE on my iBook 500. Some of the text renders "fat" but not much, and highlighting isn't exactly right. It's free, too!
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Awesome! AA in Mozilla! Thank you!
 
OSX Question

Hi everyone...

It appears i have outgrown my OSX partition, as I couldn't install the update.
On this partition I have System, Apps, Library and Users. I'd like to move some of this stuff to another partition. Do any of these items have to live on the same disc as the System?

Thanks
 
Re: Re: It's a miracle!

Originally posted by fuzzylumpkins


does anyone know if this works with the ibooks? i have a 500mhz ibook and i've had the same problem with external monitors. the lid must be open. unfortunately im at work and have no access to a monitor.
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You don't want to have the iBook on and closed... it's not a good idea because the heat ventilates through the keyboard
 
Re: This "AA" thingy.

It means no jaggies in your text. Nice 'n smooth.

When you install Silk, you'll understand. A damn-fine freebie.:D
 
Starcraft and 10.1.5

Starcraft (Carbon) no longer works with 10.1.5 update. I'm running it on a G4 450 (sawtooth).

Anybody Else have this problem?
 
Re: Re: Unsanity released Silk

Originally posted by alex_ant

Awesome! AA in Mozilla! Thank you!
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if mozilla is the only real reason you will be using silk, you may as well uninstall it. a patch to utilize AA with 10.1.5 has already been checked in and is currently being built into the nightly build.
 
well its not really due to that 'tho. the bug you speak of has been put off about 8 weeks because the owner of it (sfraser) has been on vacation. now that 10.1.5 is giving people the opportunity for cheap easy AA, they have written an easy patch that was checked in today. we will wait and see if the mozilla crew decides to continue their quest for true ATSUI text.
 
ah. sweet. my next question is if apple was apple to allow carbon apps to have access to AA, then how about some access to other services. more specifically how abot access to spell checking. now that would be sweet. spell checking is my favorite feature in ow and adium. although i wish the spell checking dictionary was better. i still have to pop open word every once in awhile to use their spell checking feature.
 
I'm glad Apple has made an combo updater for people that have been wanting them for several reasons. And I'm glad that for most people here the update was smooth and without a hitch (Then again, many posting here are beta testing officially unreleased versions all the time anyway)

But I have still been stuck in my tracks since 10.1.2, because of the trouble reports I read such as those at:

http://www.macintouch.com/mosxreader10.1.5pt01.html

Which I first have to sort through and decipher as to whether they might effect me at all, as it is often old powerbooks and beige G3s that cry the most. But it is still disconcerting that there seems to be so much breaking, with every little fix an update provides. I don't want to have to reinstall everything from scratch, even If I knew how (I forget my registration codes as soon as they are filled in the forms)

And back up and restore is a bit daunting. If the updates have done anything for me, it has had me look closer at Carbon Copy Cloner. Its a shame you just can't undo an update, as a feature built into Apples installation. Apple really needs to improve its act on the installation front, and with getting with developers, whose work tends to flip flop between Broken/fixed depending on the OS update applied.
 
i think people having problems with any of the updates are generally people who have non apple hardware or who just have issues before the update that become exasperated by the update. i have installed every update on a number of machines from g3 powerbook, bw g3s, and newer machines and NEVER had a problem. but i keep my machines in good working order.

i dont think you should be scared off by these sorts of things. they are not common, and not usually caused by anything to do with the apple update. but mostly if you do have old machines you should update simply because osx will run better with the latest systems.
 
Originally posted by AmbitiousLemon

I dont think you should be scared off by these sorts of things. they are not common, and not usually caused by anything to do with the apple update.
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As I said, I try to sift through the problems, to see what could possibly apply to my setup. The problems generally are with peripheral drivers and software (if it were nothing but Apple stuff involved I'm sure it would go smooth as silk).

Only two of the following would concern me, I use my Firewire LaCie CD-r constantly, and was planning on getting a Radeon 8500. But why should I have to worry at all?

Following is a condensed 'bad news' report from the macintouch link I gave earlier:

I had a kernel panic during optimization
SCSI card screwed
AA in Word eats up CPU cycles
"Power Delete" app screwed
g4 no longer shuts down properly, lost user preferences
Breaks Epson C70 driver, and Twain acquire via Classic
Word cursor wanders, except with TrueType fonts
Monitor settings more limited
Kernal Panic during optimization
Lost ability for Net Info Backup
scroll using the arrow keys disabled in Mail
Pismo driving outer monitor broken
Kernel panic with emac and DP
Lost Fkey swap
Kernel Panic with "Power Delete"
Lost IDE Volume, iDisk still slow
Kernel Panic with "DoubleCommand"
Kernel Panic with any keyboard remapping app
Lost keyboard brightness controls on 2000 firewire ibook SE
Kernal Panic on iBook (500MHz, dual-USB, Airport
Lost keyquencer macros that used to work in classic, now OS X rules keyboard
Sleep Loses network connection
3 hours on Apple Help line due to kernal panic, must restore all apps from scratch
Hang on install, kernal panic, classic icons reassigned, lost classic Dreamweaver function
Change in prompt booting into console
update hangs 95% in, can only boot from classic.
Kernal Panics on TiBookand quicksilver, airport broken along with other Network choices
Broke shell script for fetching mail
Dual monitor problem returns with g4 867 and GeForce 2 twinview
installer crash, kernal panic, ran Norton Disk doctor
Can't install new ATI radion 8500 in 10.1.5
Dual g4 800 Won't wake from sleep, PB loses IP during sleep
Lost iTunes visuals
McGees Alice causes Kernel panic g4 350 with radeon agp.
Lost internal SCSI Apple OEM, problem in adaptec kext pkg
Lost resolution on external monitor from TiBook
Another installer crash due to leaving room as update downloads
Monitor resolution greatly limited
Lost LaCie firewire CDr, no longer burns
Kernal Panic with Radeon
can't open DVD drive
Lombard still sucks
sleep loses IP
 
Wow, every conceivable problem under the sun...and what makes you think that these varied problems are caused by 10.1.5?

I'd be concerned if I heard 100 reports of a the same problem, not 100 reports of completely different ones.

I myself have had some issues with connecting to remote disks via AppleTalk...sometimes my Finder just goes out to lunch and not even force quitting it brings it back. I've had to completely reboot my machine twice today, where it had been on continuously for weeks at a time before hand. If I hear about many other people having the same problem, I'll take it as a sign of a bug.
 
Originally posted by Rower_CPU
Wow, every conceivable problem under the sun...and what makes you think that these varied problems are caused by 10.1.5?

I'd be concerned if I heard 100 reports of a the same problem, not 100 reports of completely different ones.
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Did you read the list? There is considerable repetition and thematic similarity to sort out some possibly repeatable bugs. Its even harder to see this reading it in its original form however, it could be consolidated more. As it is Each line represents a separate report. Installer issues. Driver issues, sleep and monitor issues.

Regarding Choppaface question about Twain, it has not been a problem with my USB scanner ( I don't have the recurring epson printer driver probs others seem to have either) But SCSI problems seem to be an issue with X, and they were equally as flaky going back to 8.6 and the first g4s, for what that is worth. I have an adapted SCSI card on the shelf I wouldn't even consider using without doing a lot of research and tracking down drivers first.

Overall the problem is, Apple updates break third party drivers maybe because Apple and the third parties aren't on the same page or helping each other , and there is seemingly no simple way to restore to what worked if the update does takes you down. It isn't always the hardware and software companies fault however, it is often due to user error. But having to reinstall the OS and all your apps from scratch is simply not a good enough solution.
 
Re: Re: Re: Unsanity released Silk

Originally posted by sparkleytone
if mozilla is the only real reason you will be using silk, you may as well uninstall it. a patch to utilize AA with 10.1.5 has already been checked in and is currently being built into the nightly build.
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Awesome! AA in AppleWorks too! Thank you! :)
 
10.1.5 is great

I think apple has done a great job with 10.1.5. I always wanted AA for AppleWorks.. Silk + 10.1.5 rules. . Alas, AOL crashes with AA turned on.. hope we will have an update for AOL as well..
 
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