Hi Eded wrote:leopard got fleas??SteveTheShadow wrote:In fact this was the easiest, smoothest OS upgrade I've ever done on a Mac. No issues with drivers or third party software on my system at least.
Apple and it's developer community clearly did their homework with this one.
There has been an improvement in sound quality with the upgrade too. Apple have made extensive upgrades to the CoreAudio layer in the OS and it shows. All my stuff is now Apple Lossless which SlimServer hands off to CoreAudio for decoding before transmission to the SB. Not for everyone of course but I can't see me moving to any other OS, therefore compatibility is not an issue in my case. All in all a very nice OS upgrade indeed.
Steve
http://tomkarpik.com/articles/massive-d ... n-leopard/
tee hee
Well I'm not in the habit of moving data and deliberately dropping the connection half way through. But yes that's a showstopper. I also realize that, with thousands upon thousands of possible Mac system configurations, anything can happen and probably will at some point in time. Again, this is nothing unusual, and any of the serious problems will be taken to heart by Apple and repaired, if need be, in a forthcoming system update. However in the meantime there is a concept known as backing up.
IMHO there is no excuse for losing data. Whatever the system does (no system is perfect) it is entirely one's own fault if one loses something important.
As a computer person yourself Ed, I expect you back up the back ups of your backups and have important stuff stored offsite; but the trouble is only about 5% of people outside of industry bother to back up anything, then they are the first to whine when something disappears.
If any of us who have ripped our CD collections and digitised our vinyl for streaming via Squeezeboxes or similar do not have complete up-to date backups of our music then we should be afraid - very afraid.
Do it folks before you lose the lot, And you will lose it eventually, believe it.
There is also another one doing the rounds and that is a shock horror piece that Leopard's Firewall fails every security test. However unlike the data loss one, the firewall piece is total FUD. Nobody else in the computer press knows what the hell the German security firm that reported this is on about. All tests of the firewall both I and thousands of others including respected security types have done show that all services are off by default and where services are turned on, PCs running Leopard are completely invisible to all 65536 port probes.
Steve
