Well, when last we visited this issue, we were having problems saving, among other things, Final Cut Pro files. After working long and hard with the Panasas folks, I was confident I’d found a solution. And I had, but the solution has created new problems. I want to kill Apple for Tiger. To refresh, the [...]
This month Apple has announced an almost completely revised product line, including new software. But still, no Tiger update. Today my Powermac became unable to output sound. On reboot it suffered a kernel panic. I also discovered today, on the heels of the latest wave of product announcements, that my Tiger clients cannot launch documents [...]
Tiger has caused me no end of headaches. From the home account problems in the lab, to the bugs in the Finder, Spotlight problems, and overall system wonkiness. Here are just a few more little problems I’ve noticed. And while I can see why 10.4.3 is taking so long, the wait is killing me. And [...]
I’ve discovered something I can really appreciate in Tiger. Finally. It’s subtle, but wonderful. In Panther and earlier, if your computer was asleep, after waking it up you’d have to wait maybe 5-10 seconds before the computer would accept any input from the keyboard. Typically this manifested itself like this: Wake computer; watch the login [...]
Let’s get one thing straight: Tiger is buggy. If you have any doubts about this you might just try playing around with Speech Recognition. Speech Recognition is by no means new. It’s been around since the Classic days, and it hasn’t changed much since. I first played with it in grad school, in Mac OS [...]
Well, except for my Tiger home account traumas, and forays into the wacky world of Windows and Linux, and the giant staff upheavals at my workplace, it’s been a pretty slow news week for me. Which is really to say, I’ve been way too busy-as-Hell for any sort of recreational writing, and pretty much everything’s [...]
Boy have we got troubles. Sure I tested everything. Sure I did everything I could to make sure this upgrade went smoothly. But does that ever matter? No. It doesn’t. Everything tested out fine. Tiger was able, from day one, to mount our NFS home account server — a network RAID known as the Panasas. [...]
Well, we’re getting close. We’re down to last, wiggly-niggly little tidbits. Here’s where we’ve been in the last few weeks: The Master SystemWe have completed a very nice build of Tiger with most of the software we need on all machines, though we’re lacking all the most recent Adobe stuff due to not having received [...]
See? Now this is what I’m talking about. Spotlight just doesn’t work right. Now, I will admit, I’ve been using it a bit, and a couple times, over the past couple months, it’s actually come in somewhat handy. But today, it lied. And I can prove it. I was installing the nifty GoogleMaps plugin for [...]
So this is the part of this epic in which I build what I call the “Base Config” or “BC.” The idea behind the BC is simple, really: Build a machine that’s got it all (well, almost all), from which all subsequent machines in the lab can be cloned. Building the BC is always a [...]