[X4U] Re: Lack of sleep

[RR]

On Sep 1, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>> deliver something good)  I anticipate that 10.4.6 or 10.4.7 will be
>> just as nice as 10.3.7+.
>>
>
> I'll keep this in mind since I'm happy back at 10.3.9 :^)  I do  
> anticipate
> needing to upgrade at some point in the future.
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> The security issue really bothered me, as they *should* know better.
>
> As for usefulness, to me they're totally useless, but if  
> implemented such
> that they were on the same desktop as all your other apps, then I  
> could see
> them being of use (though I also dislike how memory hungry they are).
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> INTERESTING!  So is the sleep problem that everyone else is having  
> like mine
> (where after haveing been up for a certain amount of time it  
> doesn't like to
> go to sleep on its own)?  Or am I experiencing a different  
> problem?  It
> sounded like the original poster had a slightly different issue.
>
> BTW, here is an interesting/irritating tip for people running  
> 10.3.9.  If
> you have multiple users logged in at once, having any of them with  
> it set so
> you need to give a password to wake up from sleep or clear the  
> screensaver,
> can cause major problems.  The problem we saw was my account was  
> password
> protected for wake/screensaver, and the second wasn't.  After  
> waking the
> computer up and switching to the second user, the computer would go  
> back to
> sleep after about 30 seconds.  Once it was woken up again it would  
> be fine.
> As far as I know this is fixed in 10.4.
>
>         Zane
>
There seems to be an interesting time problem in 10.4.  For some  
people after two hours (from bootup) their computer freezes when they  
mess with anything full screen quicktime.  For others, after two  
hours their USB and Firewire conks out.  Others still, after 2 hours,  
computer no sleepy.  Near as I can tell, they all have this two hour  
or so "time fuse".  After that time all hell breaks loose.  It seems  
confined to G5 towers, but particularly the SP 1.8Ghz G5.  I've seen  
sporadic reports on imac g5's, which is surprising considering the SP  
1.8Ghz G5 tower mobo is nearly identical to the imac G5.  The apple  
discussion board has a report of a user claiming the apple care babe  
said "apple is aware of the problem and is working on the fix".  
(how's that for 5th hand info?)

Meantime, if you're running a DV-camera directly from iMovieHD and  
iMovieHD likes to crash on you, don't use the cameral control  
softkey's on iMovieHD's screen.  Switch to the native camera controls  
and the crashes will end.  There is a Firewire timing problem.

And if you want to use Tigers FAX capability- just don't.


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