I HATE APPLE

i'd hate to be fake steve in that case

OK I'm on the Mac now and in my Firefox settings it's on "Direct connection to the internet".

Under System Prefs - Network it did have Web Proxy ticked, so I unticked that thinking maybe it was the opposite, that it was set to use a proxy that doesn't exist, but unfortunately the problem remains.

If it helps, the error I get when I try to do a Software Update = A networking error has occurred: timed out (-1001).Make sure you can connect to the internet, then try again.

If I open a terminal, and ping google.com I get a response.

Ooh actually, Safari now works. So I think Tracer was right - that was part of the problem - for some reason use proxy was ticked when it shouldn't have been.

Maybe the Software Update is set up wrong somewhere...

Sorry to bug people with dumb shit when I could probably google for it... I'm completely new to Macs.

delete the "login" keychain, create a new one with exactly the same password as your user account.

ok, it's back again :-( Safari and Skype are both demanding the login password again - is there anything else I can try, or am I going to have to resort to the Genius Bar?

Pageouts are fine. It's pageins that cause thrashing.

keychain properties, timeout

Since I installed Leopard, I can't burn DVD9s aka DL-DVDs anymore, It gives an "internal target failure" message. Anyone else get this?

show us the text you get in System Profiler > Disc Burning

(you can get sys profiler quickly by holding 'alt' while opening the apple menu)

you might have firmware issues - did you upgrade the optical drive, or did it come with the mac - and what model mac?

Thanks Alan--

it's a an intel core MBP. I had no problems burning DLs efore upgrading to Leopard and three different programs get fuxored in what seems like the same way when I try it now.

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E:

Firmware Revision: ZA0E
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, DVD-DAO
Media: Insert media and refresh to show available burn speeds

I have a number of these entries showing up on my phone bill and I wondered if anybody has an understanding of what's going on here:

11-Feb-08 14:03:58 Accessing other sites £0.00
11-Feb-08 14:03:58 WAP Chat £0.00
11-Feb-08 13:44:33 Accessing other sites £0.00
11-Feb-08 13:44:33 WAP Chat £0.00
11-Feb-08 13:32:44 Accessing other sites £0.00
11-Feb-08 13:32:44 WAP Chat £0.00
11-Feb-08 12:50:32 Accessing other sites £0.00
11-Feb-08 12:50:32 WAP Chat £0.00

I've never had these before btu I'm on an iPhone now - which obviously has Edge, and though I've not configured it it seems to be letting me access it. Why is it doing this persistently, in the background? I.e. is this how Edge works? Obviously I'm not too fussed given that it's not costing me anything but I want to know how it works (in case it does start costing me something). Also would I be able to get push e-mail (via Gmail) using Edge? I.e. if it keeps on accessing like this, can I configure push to harness this?

Sorry, very noobish but I've never used internet on a phone and so have no understanding how it works.

All right, I'm starting to get sick of a little something here -- am ripping some discs and about every sixth disc or so, iTunes will contact the CDDB as per usual and then refuse to display the disc anywhere, and neither will the desktop or Finder window. I end up having to fully restart the computer, at which time the disc will appear on the desktop with the appropriate CDDB info. Any way I can get the disc to appear on the desktop/in iTunes properly without having to go through a full restart?

-- Ned Raggett, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 12:13 AM (3 weeks ago)

Ned -

don't know if you solved this problem, but you should be able to see the cd by using Disk Utility and mounting it that way.

Noted -- I switched to an external and while the problem still recurs at a couple of points it's not a worry as much now.

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/11/10-5-2-in-software-update-right-now/

about to take the PLUNGE

hey they fixed the itunes screensaver

duh I can't believe I needed Ned to make me think of just buying an external DVD-R instead of dealing with Apple Store bullshit. cristian vogel can just sit in my iMac forever, see if I care.

ok the menubar time machine icon is rad. I can hit alt+click "browse other disks" to restore from other attached volumes

10.5.2 finally fixed the maddening MacBook loses WiFi connection bug that has been driving me up the wall for almost a year. At least so far it has...

L-Tom, there's a way to get stuck discs out of even iMac drives. I used a dental tool last time I did this, but you can probably use a paperclip.

God the wifi instability was annoying

lc, yeah, I know, I was using a credit card to some success but this one was being a bitch so I just left it in. external drive is in the mail for probably a lot less than the 1 hours' worth of "Genius" labor

Meanwhile, my WiFi is shitting itself right now after a few days at full 130 mb/s speed. I think some people have gear that hop channels a lot.

Poor Vogel.

i kinda wanna crack people's networks just so i can brick their routers to cut down on interference.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/02/21/jamiejennedy_narrowweb__200x413.jpg

Don't be hatin'

hey- may finally update to Leo soon, though I'm worried about some conflicts with adobe CD3. But as far as time machine goes...I have two internal drives, stock 160gig and 500gig I installed. Can I back them both up to an external 1TB with Time Machine real easy or will it only want to back up one?

I'm pretty sure it will work aok.

seriously though how funny is it that the cristian vogel album I'm talking about that's stuck in there is "All Music Has Come To An End"

Took my laptop to the Genius Bar last night - I think they may have managed to fix the keychain error, but in turn have introduced me to what googling suggests is an "obscure bug" related to security certificates for email. Oh well.

Does 10.5.2 seem to be sorting out people's problems with Leopard? I've just discovered that our educational store sells it for $69, so I'm wondering if it might be upgrade time...

Oh, and is it true that Quicksilver is essentially broken in Leopard? If so, do people miss it? I guess that Spotlight is now a half-decent application launcher - is there an easy replacement for Quicksilver's ability to set up keyboard shortcuts? And what about emailing a file with a few keystrokes - is that easy in some non-Quicksilver way?

duh I can't believe I needed Ned to make me think of just buying an external DVD-R instead of dealing with Apple Store bullshit.

Hey, anything to help! Christian V. can be your computer's mascot or something.

any experiences running leopard on powerpc machines?

@antextit:

MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857E:

Firmware Revision: ZA0E
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
DVD-Write: -R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW

Emphasis added - shows DL support. And I'd be surprised if Leopard made an Apple shipping drive need updating (that didn't come with a simple apple updater).

as an intel mac user - try http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319 and run any SMC firmware updaters you can find too.

sorry - not a real sugegstion as such. best of luck. also try googling "Firmware Revision: ZA0E" to see what you find

PS i find most burning issues come down to duff media bought on the cheap.

once i finally get a new computer (in a couple of years i guess) i sort of have a hankerin to format my powerbook and install OS9 on it just to see it really blaze

toby: I use QuicKeys. It's not free, and it's not as flexible as Quicksilver, but it does an awful lot and it's about 1000000x more stable than QS.

TH: Yes. No problems on G5.

toby: I use QuicKeys. It's not free

$80?!

no quicksilver? i'll never upgrade

QK is worth maybe $35, yea. Definitely overpriced.

I've all but ditched Quicksilver in Leopard because Spotlight is zoomy but, as you say Toby, Quicksilver has a lot more power when trying to manipulate files quickly.

The only time I have used Quicksilver in Leopard for any amount of time, actually, was last night when I booted it up to install the Leopard-style bezel that's just been released by someone or other. Nice but I'll stick with Spotlight, I think.

10.5.2 finally fixed the maddening MacBook loses WiFi connection bug that has been driving me up the wall for almost a year. At least so far it has...

Fixed it for me too...The having to reset the wifi connection was really annoying

I was just looking at this hilariously out of date mac site:

http://www.essentialmac.com/index.html

and it reminded me of something. Am I the only one here who misses windowshade? There's some shareware that brings it back, right?

there is but it doesn't work (yet) in leopard:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12243

I've all but ditched Quicksilver in Leopard because Spotlight is zoomy but, as you say Toby, Quicksilver has a lot more power when trying to manipulate files quickly.

The only time I have used Quicksilver in Leopard for any amount of time, actually, was last night when I booted it up to install the Leopard-style bezel that's just been released by someone or other. Nice but I'll stick with Spotlight, I think.

Quicksilver is dead. You can't really trust it to do any of the things that make it stand out from an application launcher (the stuff that elevates operating your computer to the level of Grammar and does away with infantile, crufty concepts like "windows" and "dialog boxes" and "applications" and "mice") and the developer has chosen to take an infuriating/amateurish/bushleague approach to software that could make him a lot of money and make a lot of people happy. He has, iirc, promised that it will become open source, but I don't think it's happened.

He's also been able to control what people say about QS, and the extent to which they are able to agitate for its development, by randomly shutting off the QS forum, delivering cryptic or glib postings, etc.

Fuck it.

^^^this

I dl'd windowshade, it's decent, I like the little minimize here thing, that's cool, but it doesn't have my favorite which was the ability to command double click and windowshade all the windows. I guess thats no different then the third expose option, but still...

I don't know if it was 10.5.1 or 10.5.2, but I'm immensely happy that the Finder will now offset desktop items to the left if you position the dock on the right. Before, the dock would just overlap icons, names, etc.

Current biggest annoyance with Spaces: Windows are sometimes arbitrarily reordered when switching apps that are on different spaces.

Spaces really is about 1/3 of a piece of software.

spaces is mostly rad except for the way it loses dialog boxes behind other apps

Features I wish Spaces had:
1. On-screen pager, preferably a pop-down from the menubar
2. Space-assignable background images
3. Keystrokes for moving windows between spaces without assigning them to that space
4. Space-sensitive dock and desktop (i.e., only the apps and icons on a current space would be present)

Bugs I wish Spaces didn't have:
1. Horrible window-order handling
2. Inappropriate auto space-switching
3. Incorrect popup handling

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'm seriously thinking of upgrading my old Virtual Desktops license when it's 10.5-compatible.