Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update Brings Welcome Fixes 433
jetpack writes to make sure we're aware that Apple's OS X 10.5.2 update is available and that it contains plenty of improvements and fixes that users have been asking for. Macworld enumerates some of the big ones, saying that the update "shows Apple listens to users" (sometimes). A couple of the new features simply restore Tiger (10.4) capabilities that Leopard (10.5) had inexplicably withdrawn. You can now shut off the much-maligned transparency of the menu bar, and organize your Dock stacks hierarchically and display them as folders. And Apple has provided welcome access to common Time Machine functions in the menu bar.
Menubar! how to make it not completely obnoxious (Score:2, Informative)
Re:AEBS backups (Score:2, Informative)
Re:AEBS backups (Score:3, Informative)
1) defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1
2) Buy leopard server
Re:What about the Parental Controls/Dashboard bug? (Score:5, Informative)
Addresses an issue in which Dashboard widgets may no longer be accessible after switching to or from an account that has Parental Controls enabled.
Re:AEBS backups (Score:4, Informative)
I have an external drive hooked up to my debian box (Formatted HFS+, RW). I have it shared via SMB as smb://debian.local/TimeMachine.
After running the command on my machine to backup to 'unauthorized' shares and enabling time machine on the drive, time machine works great.
I hadn't planned on this when I started, but time machine knows that it's a network drive and will mount it in the background to do the backup. Even if I've rebooted, taken my computer out for a while, etc. As soon as I come back the Time Machine drive will mount and start the backup.
The only thing 10.5.2 added was a fancy new icon for it.
Re:Without reading the reversion list (Score:5, Informative)
You do not want "two-way copying of MP3 (non-AAC, really) songs in iTunes", you are talking about bidirectional iPod syncing in iTunes. That is to say if there is a song on an iPod that is not in the iTunes Library, iTunes would copy the song from the iPod onto the computer.
That got yanked a while ago, and it's an irritating functionality loss.
Huh? I still have my (still functional) 2nd. Generation iPod. I have been syncing iPods with iTunes for a long time and I can assure you that "feature" was never in iTunes.
Apple has to walk a fine line with the recording industry, and cannot do anything too blatant to piss off the record labels.
Having my friend walk over with his 160GB iPod and give me his entire music collection, facilitated by Apple themselves? Yeah, I can see some issues with that.
There are plenty of very capable third-party programs out there that do exactly what you are talking about (Senuti being the big one on the Mac right now). They do what you are talking about, and Apple does not get into trouble for it. I do not see the issue here.
And please stop saying it was functionality that was dropped from iTunes. It was never there.
Re:MIA: Tiger's split Terminal window (Score:4, Informative)
Trust me, it works great, especially in conjunction with Visor, which provides a "Quake like" terminal window that pops down from the top of the screen.
Re:MIA: Tiger's split Terminal window (Score:3, Informative)
You have a couple of other options. Leopard's Terminal lets you use tabs. That's not quite as nice but it saves you some screen real estate. Another option (my favourite) is to use GNU Screen in a single terminal. This gives you multiple tabs and the ability to split the screen in two (or more) windows within the terminal and use those windows for any combination of terminal sessions you want. Ten or fifteen minutes of learning gives you an incredibly useful tool at your disposal. Screen is included with OS X and most Linux distributions.
Re:Without reading the reversion list (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.apple.com/support/ipod/tutorials/beyondthebasics.html [apple.com]
http://www.apple.com/itunes/sync/ipod.html [apple.com]
Re:right direction (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Does it bring back the "Windows Shade"? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Any New drivers in it for hardware that is not (Score:4, Informative)
Re:right direction (Score:4, Informative)
1. Command-click (or right click) on the folder name in the title of the window.
2. Press command-up (or select Go/Enclosing Folder from the menu)
3. Turn on the Path Bar (view / show path bar)
4. Customize the toolbar and add the path button to the toolbar
Re:Does it bring back the "Windows Shade"? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:AEBS backups (Score:4, Informative)
>Well, it has been for the last two months and I doubt they disabled it.
If the unit of back up is the entire file system, then you are of course correct. I suspect the parent poster was looking for differences within files...that is, only backing up the 'diff' between two files, not the entire file when it changes.
I doubt we'll see this until zfs.
Re:How about fixing Finder? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Does it bring back the "Windows Shade"? (Score:3, Informative)
- Screenshotting needs to be waaaay easier (i.e. single key rather than shift-command-3 or whatever)
Do not take away my quick renaming keystroke.
I agree that Command-O is cumbersome, but were you aware that Command-Down arrow works too? I find this easier, and it's perfectly logical if you also use Command-Up arrow frequently.
Screenshotting isn't a single button, because there are several ways to do it. They are:
I agree that these are not intuitive, but it's what we've been using for years, and I certainly don't want to dedicate any extra buttons on the keyboard to something most people never use. Besides, as someone else pointed out, you can remap a different keyboard shortcut in System Preferences if you don't like the default.
Re:Bah (Score:1, Informative)
Also, krdc is 10x faster than the standard vnc-viewer in Ubuntu.
Here's to another 1-week of uptime with OS X Server.
What's included? (Score:4, Informative)
This update delivers several improvements for both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs (as well as improvements provided in the Mac OS X 10.5.1 update.)
Active Directory
* Addresses issues which could hinder or prevent binding Mac OS X 10.5.x clients to Active Directory domains.
AirPort
* Improves connection reliability and stability
* Includes 802.1X improvements.
* Resolves certain kernel panics.
Back to my Mac
* Adds support for more third-party routers, as detailed in this article.
Dashboard
* Improves performance of certain Apple Dashboard widgets (such as Dictionary).
* Addresses an issue in which Dashboard widgets may no longer be accessible after switching to or from an account that has Parental Controls enabled.
Dock
* Updates Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option, and an updated background for Grid view.
Desktop
* Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences.
* Adjusts menus to be slightly-less translucent overall.
iCal
* Improves iCal so that it accurately reflects responses to recurring meetings.
* Addresses an issue in which a meeting may remain on the calendar after being cancelled.
* Addresses stability issues related to
* Resolves an intermittent issue in which editing an event with attendees would cause the event to shrink and not register that the event was updated.
iChat
* Addresses an issue with simultaneously-logged in accounts in which iChat sounds generated from one account might be heard in another account.
* Fixes an issue in which iChat idle time is affected by Time Machine backups.
* Improves connectivity when running iChat behind a router that doesn't preserve ports.
* Enables logged chats from previous versions of iChat to open faster and more reliably.
* Addresses an issue with text chats in which users may be unable to receive messages from the sender.
* Addresses an issue that may prevent rejoining an AIM chat room without reopening iChat.
* Addresses video chat compatibility issues with AIM 6 and third-party routers.
* Fixes an issue with case-sensitivity of AIM handles.
iSync
* Adds support for Samsung D600E and D900i phones.
Finder
* Addresses an issue in which Finder could unexpectedly quit when displaying folder contents in Column view.
* Addresses an issue in which Finder could unexpectedly quit when accessing Users and Groups in a Get Info pane.
* Resolves an issue that prevented setting permissions on a folder alias.
* Resolves an issue in which the Eject command could write to a disc in the optical drive.
* Fixes an issue in which the scroll bar might disappear when deleting a file within a folder that includes files that are out of view.
* Fixes an issue in the Sharing & Permissions section of Get Info windows, in which the gear icon appears to be gray/disabled after authentication.
* Addresses an issue in which the Show Icon Preview preference might not be not sa
Re:AEBS backups (Score:5, Informative)
Don't overwrite your Leopard copy of Terminal.app (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Send window to back? please? (Score:4, Informative)
You can Command-drag a window by the titlebar that is not in the focus without bringing it to the front.
You can also Command-drag to resize a window that is not in the focus without bring it to the front.
You can press Command-` to cycle through all the open windows in the current application.
You can press Command-H to Hide the current window in focus.
You can press Command-M to Minimize the current window in focus.
Command-Tab will bring up a list of all open applications. You can use your mouse while holding Command-Tab to select an application to switch to, and furthermore while you have your mouse pointer over the application you can press H to Hide that particular application or Q to close that particular application.
Per Apple's Developer Connection [apple.com] applications do have an API in Cocoa to use methods to manipulate the Window Z-order, so I would imagine there might be some applications out there already that could perform more specifically what you're looking for.
Re:AEBS backups (Score:5, Informative)
It's not broken, so don't ever expect it to be "fixed". When designing the backup system, they chose to use fewer real-time computing resources so that it was essentially invisible to the users (and thus wouldn't get turned off by everyone for "slowing down the computer") and make restoration trivially simple and fast, at the expense of disk space. You can disagree with their choices, but they're the same tradeoffs every backup system designer has to make.
I use rdiff-backup for some of my data where frequent small updates of large files are an issue, but I'm under no illusions that running a CPU at 100% for 30 minutes for every backup would be acceptable out-of-the-box behavior for most consumers. It especially wouldn't be acceptable to spend days or weeks calculating deltas when restoring a hard drive full of files that have been modified over the course of months or years.
It's a lot easier and cheaper to add disk space than processing power, as much as I'd love to see deltas offered I think I would have made the same choices Apple did if I were in charge of designing TM.
Re:Fonts fixed yet? (Score:4, Informative)
George Ou is not a good person to quote as an authority on fonts. He's not a graphic designer and he happily uses the wrong information whenever it makes his point.
His examples of OS X font rendering are just poor. There's an update which shows something, but none of the images reflect the default font smoothing on OS X.
Nice troll though. You link to a Dvorak-wannabe, use his bile to spit on OS X and say how good your "humble" Linux box is. You've missed the chance to slap Windows though, so your troll is a bit weaker than it could've been.
Re:Hey ! (Score:3, Informative)
Have a look here [macosxhints.com] or here [macosxhints.com] to start with.
Good luck.
Re:Without reading the reversion list (Score:2, Informative)
Re:AEBS backups (Score:4, Informative)
Re:AEBS backups (Score:4, Informative)
AppleInsider | Apple yanks wireless backup from Leopard last minute [appleinsider.com]
I guess now you'll want to scream "illegal" when people pass along something they read on the front page of the paper.
Re:I was immune :) (Score:3, Informative)
So, neener-neener
A logical explanation to transparent menu bar: Apple had reports of "screen burn" because of a white menu on top of the screen 24/7, decided to do it so as wallpaper changes hourly (generally on plasmas, good trick), the menu bar will change too.
You also notice the top menu bar is dark grey, it is the most friendly thing to Plasma and LCD if you have to display a thing 24/7.
Deal with Plasma is: It is good with moving images but if you show an image at exact location with exact colours for a long time, there is a huge possibility to get "burn in". Burn in can be recovered by full white or moving grey pattern but... If you really meet with the "real", evil burn in, there is no recovering back. No guarantee cover either.
LCD has the same problem but it must be days or weeks to occur. Also their "move image 4 pixels" trick is designed for TV station logos (see below), it is near worthless for Apple menu.
Your TV station doesn't do "colour cycle" or "slightly animated" or "almost transparent" logo for nothing, they do especially for Plasma owners so they won't be watching "same channel" in case logo burns there.