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Dale Sorel · Jan 28, 2003, 02:02 AM

Yea

Misanthrope · Jan 28, 2003, 02:11 AM

Post of the week right here, ladies and gentlemen.

Nonsuch · Jan 28, 2003, 02:28 AM

The little point upgrades are hardly worth getting excited over any more. Wake me when we get some solid scoop on Panther.

CharlesS · Jan 28, 2003, 04:05 AM

Originally posted by Nonsuch:
The little point upgrades are hardly worth getting excited over any more. Wake me when we get some solid scoop on Panther.

Yeah right.

I've heard that this version is supposed to fix the problems in hdid so that it can remotely mount disk images on virtual hosting sites. That is awesome if true.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Jan 28, 2003, 04:57 AM

I don't think it will have anything even slightly exciting.

When 10.3 comes around I will be naked and hard with the rest of us obsessive Mac users

Floyd · Jan 28, 2003, 07:49 AM

I just got word from Apple that it will be released in the next 2 weeks

starman · Jan 28, 2003, 09:00 AM

This build is SUPPOSED to have built-in Extigy drivers. AWESOME!

Mike

GRAFF · Jan 28, 2003, 09:35 AM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:

When 10.3 comes around I will be naked and hard with the rest of us obsessive Mac users

Hmmm. I think I'll save that level of arousal for another occasion.

Person Man · Jan 28, 2003, 09:57 AM

Originally posted by starman:
This build is SUPPOSED to have built-in Extigy drivers. AWESOME!

Mike

10.2.3 already has Extigy drivers.

10.2.4 is supposed to have built in AUDIGY (and rudimentary AUDIGY 2) drivers

DoctorW · Jan 28, 2003, 10:49 AM

Originally posted by GRAFF:
Hmmm. I think I'll save that level of arousal for another occasion.

Yeah, like when FTP in the Finder works.

Mrjinglesusa · Jan 28, 2003, 10:53 AM

Originally posted by DoctorW:
Yeah, like when FTP in the Finder works.

It does work. In fact, if you click an FTP link in Safari, it automatically mounts the site on the desktop. I did this several times last night with no problem. What is it that's not working for you?

KaptainKaya · Jan 28, 2003, 10:59 AM

Originally posted by Mrjinglesusa:
It does work. In fact, if you click an FTP link in Safari, it automatically mounts the site on the desktop. I did this several times last night with no problem. What is it that's not working for you?

I think he was talking about mounting your own FTP disk and being able to write to it.

Angus_D · Jan 28, 2003, 12:32 PM

FTP write support is difficult because you can't do partial writes or anything - you have to "upload" whole file. The only thing you can do is append data to the end of a file, you can't, say, change bytes in the middle, or anything like that. I think that's basically the reason that it's "read-only" - it doesn't behave like a filesystem enough when it comes to write.

mfessenden · Jan 28, 2003, 12:34 PM

When 10.3 comes around I will be naked and hard with the rest of us obsessive Mac users

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Oh, that's just wrong...

karbon · Jan 28, 2003, 01:57 PM

Originally posted by Angus_D:
FTP write support is difficult because you can't do partial writes or anything - you have to "upload" whole file. The only thing you can do is append data to the end of a file, you can't, say, change bytes in the middle, or anything like that. I think that's basically the reason that it's "read-only" - it doesn't behave like a filesystem enough when it comes to write.

Yeah, I think you're right. But still, there are workarounds for this, and Apple can do it. It's just a matter of developer resources you'd want to commit for such a feature.

Anyway, it would be awesome to have!

xtal · Jan 28, 2003, 02:24 PM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:
When 10.3 comes around I will be naked and hard with the rest of us obsessive Mac users

Tell me you have a screen protector...

That's just dirty!

Jerommeke · Jan 28, 2003, 04:50 PM

I think 10.2.4 comes today. Many OS updates of OS X come on tuesdays.

Disgruntled Head of C-3PO · Jan 28, 2003, 05:12 PM

Originally posted by xtal:
Tell me you have a screen protector...

That's just dirty!

Ya well I just said what everyone else is thinking!

typoon · Jan 28, 2003, 05:25 PM

Do you think that was one of the reasons why iLife was delayed a week? Maybe they both will come out the same day?

JB72 · Jan 28, 2003, 05:26 PM

Well I hope 10.2.4 helps make MDDs less crashy.

Mediaman_12 · Jan 28, 2003, 05:36 PM

Bet the new OSX ONLY G4's will be running a updated version of the OS so it's gota be out soon

piracy · Jan 28, 2003, 09:37 PM

Originally posted by Mediaman_12:
Bet the new OSX ONLY G4's will be running a updated version of the OS so it's gota be out soon

No, these aren't related like that; the version of X on the 17" PowerBook and the new Power Macs are in a different development branch than the conventional 10.2.4 update.

Yes, 10.2.4 for all hardrware is coming soon; no, it's not coming soon *because of* the new hardware.

Phat Bastard · Jan 29, 2003, 12:28 AM

I hope 10.2.4 fixes the display-waking-from-sleep problems I'm having with my Tibook. No one has responded to my pleas about this issue so I thought I'd drop the hint in a thread people are actually paying attention to..

UNTeMac · Jan 29, 2003, 03:02 AM

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of C-3PO:

When 10.3 comes around I will be naked and hard with the rest of us obsessive Mac users

Umm...

Originally posted by Disgruntled Head of KaptainKaya:

I think he was talking about mounting your own FTP disk and being able to write to it.

Are you guys talking about the same thing?

Agasthya · Jan 29, 2003, 04:20 PM

Originally posted by Person Man:
10.2.3 already has Extigy drivers.

10.2.4 is supposed to have built in AUDIGY (and rudimentary AUDIGY 2) drivers

Is the news about the Audigy drivers in the developer notes or did you read this online somewhere? I know about the Extigy but I also read that when you try to use it it will kernel panic.

starman · Jan 29, 2003, 08:47 PM

Originally posted by agasthya:
Is the news about the Audigy drivers in the developer notes or did you read this online somewhere? I know about the Extigy but I also read that when you try to use it it will kernel panic.

I actually read it on here, and there was a link to the article. It was a German site IIRC.

Mike

Parky · Jan 29, 2003, 08:52 PM

I wonder if we will need 10.2.4 for the iLife products ?

If we do then they will be releasing it on Friday.

But then again maybe not......

Agasthya · Jan 29, 2003, 09:04 PM

Originally posted by Parky:
I wonder if we will need 10.2.4 for the iLife products ?

If we do then they will be releasing it on Friday.

But then again maybe not......

When the leaked iMovie 3 launches it says something about "Incorrect Localized.rsrc" or some nonsense like that but other than that I think it runs fine in 10.2.3. AFAIK iPhoto 2 runs fine in 10.2.3

Agasthya · Jan 29, 2003, 09:10 PM

Originally posted by starman:
I actually read it on here, and there was a link to the article. It was a German site IIRC.

Mike

Found it. It was ThinkSecret (http://www.thinksecret.com/news/macosx1024.html). Pretty reputable source. I'm pretty tempted to install the leaked build and try my roommates Audigy. Hopefully Apple will release a DVD player that can support 5.1 sound and Dolby decoding and whatnot.

CharlesS · Jan 29, 2003, 11:03 PM

Forgive me for being ignorant, but what are Extigy and Audigy?

Avon · Jan 30, 2003, 12:11 AM

Originally posted by Mrjinglesusa:
It does work. In fact, if you click an FTP link in Safari, it automatically mounts the site on the desktop. I did this several times last night with no problem. What is it that's not working for you?

Same here. I don't know why all the complaints, I mount ftp servers all the time. Works great. VERY nice feature.

Tried copying directly to a mounted SMB server, worked great also, that was surprising, OS 9 would usualy take a **** when copying from mounted drive to mounted drive...

thesearcher · Jan 30, 2003, 12:52 AM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Forgive me for being ignorant, but what are Extigy and Audigy?

Sound Blaster 24 bit.

Producer · Jan 30, 2003, 12:56 AM

how many more "." releases can they have before Panther? What did 10.1 go up to was it .1.5?

gorickey · Jan 30, 2003, 11:30 AM

Maury over at RailHead Design is pretty confident that we will be downloading 10.2.4 before dinner tonight....

(I think I'll eat early this evening...)

Adam Betts · Jan 30, 2003, 12:04 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
(I think I'll eat early this evening...)

Good idea. I'll do that too

kovacs · Jan 30, 2003, 12:29 PM

Yep this is going to be an exciting week, mac os 10.2.4, iMovie 3 and iPhoto 2 and ... updated eMacs and iMacs

They can't wait much longer stocks must have been cleared by now...

Dale Sorel · Feb 10, 2003, 01:49 PM

Hello, is anyone home

schalliol · Feb 10, 2003, 02:14 PM

Yeah, tells you how much to believe macfixit. BTW, the person who was told next two weeks by Apple, who told you this? That's just not something Apple tells people unless they're big clients.

ryju · Feb 10, 2003, 04:00 PM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Yeah right. I've heard that this version is supposed to fix the problems in hdid so that it can remotely mount disk images on virtual hosting sites. That is awesome if true.

i pray that i can finally upload to my ftp server!

ryju · Feb 10, 2003, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by CharlesS:
Yeah right. I've heard that this version is supposed to fix the problems in hdid so that it can remotely mount disk images on virtual hosting sites. That is awesome if true.

malvolio · Feb 10, 2003, 04:28 PM

Back when this thread was started, folks were saying that build 6I20 was looking good as a release candidate for OS X 10.2.4. Last I heard, they were up to build 6I25, which still has some major bugs (like no sound).

Jerommeke · Feb 10, 2003, 04:58 PM

Erhm, it sounds Apple releases something, X11 .2 this time. I guess it's coming today. And it should fix the darn SMB probs

Anomalous · Feb 10, 2003, 05:16 PM

For once, I don't mind waiting for the update, because I am currently setting a new personal uptime record, and I don't want to restart.