Updated Leopard to 10.5.3...

Just updated to Leopard and done a couple of restarts. The first thing I tried was the Excel bug which I was unable to reproduce. Finally I thought, they have fixed the bug! Well just to be sure I started Numbers where I had an other easily reproduced bug.

I was able to reproduce a bug in Numbers the same way as before but there was a slightly different result. Earlier the window manager stoped respond to any command directly, now however the window manager froze completely for about a minute (while I was unable to move the mouse etc). After a while I was able to get up the "Force quit" window. During this time a couple of areas of the screen had become black or garbaged. And I could see how the clock in the menu bar was stuck.

So after this quick test I'm sorry to inform that even if Leopard 10.5.3 has fever bugs then 10.5.2 the bugs could still surface when you least want to. I'm sticking with Tiger for now but might try a clean installation of Leopard just to be sure.

Below are two images from slightly after the bug and quite a while after the bug, more than the 8 min that the clock would indicate, the images are retouched to remove personal names but not otherwise modified.

No identified bugs left!

Now I'm running a completly updated Tiger installation, I have installed both Office 2008 and iWorks08 and been unable to reproduce the bug in any of them.

This looks quite promissing, and I actually kind of like the look and feel of Tiger, I might however miss the spaces which I became custom with in Leopard.

I had to erase the partition on my external harddrive to make it appear in the finder, not entirely sure if this was connected with the problem that I was unable to open dmg files and connect to the network. What I ended up doing was to run the update to 10.4.11 (the installation was 10.4.10) from within Leopard and start using Tiger first thereafter, the only problem that remained was a warning of the permissions of a startup folder which was fixed by a reboot, and then the keychain which was handled by copy the X509Anchors from my Leopard installation into /System/Library/Keychains/ on the Tiger installation.

Well as I have said so far so good, now it's finally time to see if Mac OS X is something that can be used seriously or not.

Stay tuned for an update on what I think of Mac OS X as a user...

The Tiger is running...

So atlast I'm running Tiger, no major problems so far except that the Keychain had to be fixed before I could login on the web and make this blog post. I'm also having problem accessing my network drives but I hope this will be solved once the software update has been done.

New update when I have performed the software update...

Change OS, just any OS!

One more crash, one afternoon lost to restarting the computer....

Have to find an alternative quickly before I'm throwing out this computer...

Not to be continued (I hope)...

HELP! I need somebody....

...not just Leopard!

Two more crashes and four restarts since I posted my last post, and hopefully I manage to post this before the computer freshes again!

One thing is certain, this computer will not be a single boot computer in the future.

OmniGraffle is on the list aswell...

The list of programs that has triggered the bug has now been extended with OmniGraffle, the hanging was the same as with all the other applications so I don't blame OmniGraffle but rather the drivers in Leopard.

As with the other hangings I am able to move the mouse around but the time is still and nothing else on the screen updates either. If I remove the external screen even the mouse pointer is stuck.

Do not ask me why but I reported this to Apple Support aswell, well I think I almost have talked to everyone on their level 2 support by now. The good news for this instance is that OmniGraffle autosaved the document so I did not lose any of my work this time around.

How should we be able to help????

Just talked with Apple Support for half an hour again, and they say that they are unable to send out Tiger for Intel.

Just to tired of them now to even write about it.... guess the alternative now is to search in other places for the disk or change to another OS.

PS The window manager hanged the other day again, was unable to even pinpoint which application that was the cause this time around... BUGGY. DS

PSS Get a Mac commercials are getting even more fun these day when you switch PC and MAC around. DSS

See previous post...

What did they think? AGAIN.... 

To be continued...

Disclaimer to Apple Support and Tiger DVD to me...

Before Apple Support could send me the right Tiger DVD they required an disclaimer that they didn't provide any warranty for the installation.

Should I be worried when not even Apple themselves believes in their products? Guess we will see just how expensive this free Tiger DVD will be for me when it arrives.

New Tiger ordered...

After over 30 min in que at Apple support I finally get them to agree on sending me a Intel copy of Tiger.

Let's hope that this once and for all will solve the problems until Leopard is updated...


As always... To be continued...

What did they think?!

When did they think that I had bought the computer? And if I had a PowerPC Mac I wouldn't need to get the DVD since it would have been shipped with Tiger!

Here is the details from the readme file that I finally gave a proper look:

System requirements
You must have a Macintosh computer with:

• a PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor

• ...

Now this explains why I been having so much trouble to get it to boot on my new installation...

To be continued...

Startup disk!

After some research I found that the boot.efi file was required for leopard to recognize the external hard drive as bootable. The file has to be located in /System/Library/CoreServices. Since this file wasn't created by the Tiger installation I copied it from Leopard. The result was that I could select to boot from the device but that it hang at the logo screen.

I found some more information about the boot process and will see if I can make Tiger boot eventually.
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Articles/BootProcess.html

I had a crash while I was copying files to find out the requirement for making the drive appear as a "Startup Disk" and I also got a hanging when I tried to maximize Excel on my external monitor so even if I try to avoid the buggy sections there appears to be new buggy sections appearing.