[X4U] Re: Lack of sleep

[RR]

Now now kids, no need to degenerate into OS religious fanaticism.   
The fact is- Tiger is still better than Windoze (ugh what a dung  
mound).  Panther was very stable but Tiger was railroaded out the  
door! (mostly to collect some cash, which is ok as long as they  
deliver something good)  I anticipate that 10.4.6 or 10.4.7 will be  
just as nice as 10.3.7+.

In the mean time, Apple has gone backwards in many areas.  If you  
haven't run into the bugs yet, you will, unless you're a superficial  
user (mostly office automation, mail/web/wp/spreadsheet).  If you're  
lucky you'll install 10.4.6+ before you encounter one.

But guess what, the lack of sleep problem that was the original topic  
is REAL and impacts a very large number of users.  Just because you  
haven't been whacked by it doesn't mean that all is roses at apple.   
Spend some time on apple's discussion boards and you'll see that the  
Tiger release was one of the rockier ones.  Zane's security  
observations are legitimate as are the usefulness of widgets.   
Someday widgets may be really cool, in the meantime they're stupid.   
You may like em, but you use your mac differently than me.

Grandma likes her imac and tiger, but her head would explode if she  
encountered one of the many bugs.  The good news for her is- most of  
the bugs are "esoteric".  This sleep problem does not seem to impact  
imac's.


On Sep 1, 2005, at 3:54 PM, John Baltutis wrote:

> On 09/01/05, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> ranted:
>
>>> On Sep 1, 2005, at 4:47 PM, RR wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tiger, quite frankly - SUCKS.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm sorry it hasn't worked out well for you, but you do realize that
>>> the vast majority of people aren't having a problem, so it seems a
>>> bit overboard to register a verdict on the entire OS.
>>>
>>
>> I'm going to have to agree.  Tiger SUCKS!!!
>> 1. They broke Appletalk support
>>
>
> Yeah! It's a shame that six or so years since Apple stopped  
> shipping Mac OS
> 8, they stopped supporting that ancient OS. What will they think of  
> next?
> Stop shipping machines that boot with OS 8 and OS 9?
>
> According to <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106461>:
>
> "Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, and Mac OS X 10.1 to 10.3.9 support file  
> sharing (AFP)
> connections over AppleTalk  Mac OS X 10.4 and later don't support  
> Personal
> File Sharing (or other AFP) over Appletalk, though by initiating the
> connection from the opposite direction you could still achieve an IP
> connection from a Mac OS 8 computer to a sharing Mac OS X  
> computerŠMac OS 9
> and Mac OS X can both connect over TCP/IP without AppleTalk."
>
> So, either run Panther w/OS 8 or upgrade OS 8 to OS 9.
>
>
>> 2. The memory footprint is OUTRAGEOUS, suddenly my G5 2x2 with  
>> 1.5GB of RAM
>>    needs an additional 2GB of RAM to continue to perform the same
>>
>
> Hmmmm? My G4, 450 MP, 1.5 GB RAM runs appreciably faster in Tiger than
> Panther, but I'm not doing intense video/music/movie processing,  
> just word
> processing, spreadsheet manipulations, web surfing, and some image
> processing. YMV.
>
>
>> 3. No way to turn off that stupid widget mess, and lets not forget  
>> that the
>>    feature shipped with a dangerous security hole.
>>
>
> You haven't looked very far. Granted, it's not an Apple SysPrefs  
> setting,
> but you can disable it using the Terminal's default
> command-<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? 
> story=20050723123302403&query=disable+dashboard>
> has the details. There are even easy ways to disable journaling and
> Spotlight.
>
>
>>
>> Those are just the issues I can think of off the top of my head.   
>> Thanks to
>> an unfortunate incident involving a dead hard drive I'm back to  
>> running
>> 10.3.9 and *MUCH* happier.
>>
>
> Sorry for you loss. Glad you're smiling again.
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