Okay, yes, sure, last night was "Night of the Panther" at all Apple Stores, and you would have expected me to be there waiting in line for my copy of the latest Mac OS, but it didn't work out that way. So I'm going over now, head in hand, a full 16 hours late. I'm hoping they don't take away my secret Apple decoder ring. I promise to be on the ball for the next release.
Details of the new release to follow...
All installed on the powerbook. No problems. I backed up, in case of disaster. But I didn't wipe the hard drive. I decided the "archive and install" option is good enough. It's certainly very easy - everything about your old system, and all your data, is preserved. But the OS is a completely new installation.
I think OS X is finally living up to it's promise. This is very nice work.
I am really liking this release. I love the new finder (and new open/save dialogue boxes,) love expose, love fast user switching.
My only small gripe so far is: why don't mounted network volumes show up in the finder sidebar? Okay, sure, this isn't a big deal, but what is the reasoning for them not showing up there? One obvious advantage would be that UNmounting these shares would then be very straightforward (love that little eject icon...)
And one more, I guess: Appletalk is off by default and it seems like you need to enable it in Directory Services (in the Utilities folder) to get it working. Shouldn't this be controled from the Sharing preference pane? Or am I missing something?
But, again, great job Apple!
Some people are having a scary problem where upgrading to Panther is borking their external FW hard drives. Ouch. It *seems* like you can prevent this by disconnecting the drives during install (specifically during the reboot required by the install.) Also it seems like this is only a problem with the 922 chipset, which means only with combo FW800 / USB 2.0 external drives. But regardless, disconnect those drives before updating.
If you have lost data, see this Apple page for details on how to get your data back. Short version: buy Data Rescue X 10.3.0
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Details of the new release to follow...
- jim 10-25-2003 7:30 pm
All installed on the powerbook. No problems. I backed up, in case of disaster. But I didn't wipe the hard drive. I decided the "archive and install" option is good enough. It's certainly very easy - everything about your old system, and all your data, is preserved. But the OS is a completely new installation.
I think OS X is finally living up to it's promise. This is very nice work.
- jim 10-25-2003 10:59 pm
I am really liking this release. I love the new finder (and new open/save dialogue boxes,) love expose, love fast user switching.
My only small gripe so far is: why don't mounted network volumes show up in the finder sidebar? Okay, sure, this isn't a big deal, but what is the reasoning for them not showing up there? One obvious advantage would be that UNmounting these shares would then be very straightforward (love that little eject icon...)
And one more, I guess: Appletalk is off by default and it seems like you need to enable it in Directory Services (in the Utilities folder) to get it working. Shouldn't this be controled from the Sharing preference pane? Or am I missing something?
But, again, great job Apple!
- jim 10-27-2003 9:39 pm
Some people are having a scary problem where upgrading to Panther is borking their external FW hard drives. Ouch. It *seems* like you can prevent this by disconnecting the drives during install (specifically during the reboot required by the install.) Also it seems like this is only a problem with the 922 chipset, which means only with combo FW800 / USB 2.0 external drives. But regardless, disconnect those drives before updating.
If you have lost data, see this Apple page for details on how to get your data back. Short version: buy Data Rescue X 10.3.0
- jim 10-29-2003 8:57 pm