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- MtheoryX, on 10/30/2007, -6/+451.) Is there a reason you can't connect your main backup drive directly to your machine? Seems like less of a problem, and more of an inconvenience to just you.
2.) Lack of support for SuperDuper! is not Apple's problem. Talk to SuperDuper! if you have questions: dnanian@shirt-pocket.com
3.) You don't "need" third party apps to do a bootable backup. Read here: http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/mac_support/ma ... Again, you're just pimping SuperDuper! So contact them with your concerns.
4.) Lack of features in Leopard have nothing to do with the iPhone. There was none of this syncing in Tiger, so this isn't a Leopard-specific issue. Save this gripe for another ***** blog post on the iPhone subject.
5.) Filemaker is not made by Apple. Again, if you have issues with Filemaker, contact Filemaker: http://www.filemaker.com/support/phone.html Don't bitch about their ***** support in Leopard. As a side-note, serious database developers don't consider Filemaker to be a serious database development platform, just so you know.
6.) You're running Classic still, and you're bitching it's not supported in Leopard? Great, you can get together the other, maybe, 20 people that this seriously affects and bitch about it together. Other than that, you'll find that there are a large majority of people who don't care.
In general, I'm burying this because it's pointless, stupid, subjective blog spam.
You, Mitch Wagner, are a douche, and a hack. - mattledger, on 10/30/2007, -4/+36Those are the six most minor "problems" I have ever heard
- MCMookie, on 10/30/2007, -2/+11This is just a list of this poor fat *****'s minor, nit-picky frustrations. If these are the only things wrong with 10.5 (haha, not even a solid list of ten!) then I will certainly be updating.
- FknGoAway, on 10/30/2007, -3/+11I have had no problems with Time Machine. I did the first backup with the drive connected directly to a MacBook Pro. Once that was done I installed Leopard on a G4 PowerBook and hooked the external to that, Time Machine found it and continued to do backups. I tested this by deleting and seeing if it was definitely doing the backups. Today (Monday) I arrive at work and tried out the "back to my mac" thing. Once I connected, I saw a lot of network activity, low and behold, Time Machine saw the attached drive, mounted it on my desktop, and backed up again. It took almost 10 minutes and it was only a 4.4MB upload, slow but I am pleased it worked.
Incidentally, the G4 (1GHz 1MB RAM) PowerBook is much faster with Leopard and working very well as a little backup/media server. - D3koy, on 10/30/2007, -0/+5Part of me wants to digg you down, but the rest of me hopes your head will explode....I guess I'll just digg you down...
- autoy, on 10/30/2007, -1/+5Nah, just read siracusa's review to see what's new under the hood. Those are the fundamental changes in Leopard, the innards.
Regarding your second point, backing up is important but making this easy and appealing to the masses is genious. Time Machine is a mjaor feature, GUI and functionality-wise. - WaterMedia, on 10/30/2007, -0/+4There are many legitimate issues with Leopard:
- The menu bar being hard to read
- The trapper keeper dock
- The "improved" running application blue dot
- The hard to read folders at small resolutions
But SuperDuper support? Notes? Wired hard drive support? All of these WILL be updated, except for wireless hard drive support which proves he is missing the point. Give everyone more than 4 days to program their new apps, okay pal? Oh - and none of these are Leopard issues. These are choices mixed with wishes for third-party developers. - iDiggIt42, on 10/30/2007, -1/+4I love you.
...in the manly kind of way. - inactive, on 10/30/2007, -3/+6Someone should write a counter article.
1000 Problems With Microsoft Vista - Zero2aHero, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2While just about everybody you know owns one, I know nobody who owns one.
Isn't the stat something like 2/3 of Apple computers sold are laptops? If 2/3 of their computers sold are laptops, how many laptop users have a USB hard drive hooked up to their laptops at all times? I would say not many...
I hadn't thought about using Time Machine over a network drive, but after someone mentioned that feature I actually got really excited for it. Now that it's not there, it is a letdown because having a constant backup solution over a network where I don't ever need to worry about it would just be amazing. I'm sure it just wasn't ready yet, and they will patch it in later. I hope... - doublem9876, on 10/30/2007, -1/+3This is stupid
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2dude, learn to ***** type in english.
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -1/+3im getting mixed messages...
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Old Macs, maybe. New Macs, nah.
- llamapalooza87, on 10/30/2007, -3/+5Absolutely none of these problems have affected me.
I can see why some wouldn't like Leopard; some people don't value Spaces, Quick Look, Cover Flow, and the redesigned UI as much as I do, but for me they're HUGE improvements worth every penny. - AZooYorkMystery, on 10/30/2007, -1/+3"Super Duper support?" WTF? How can you even classify this as a problem without an open AND closing sarcasm tag? Buried as blog spam.
- zioxide, on 10/30/2007, -2/+4If you still run software that needs Classic, then I think it's time to upgrade that software.
- gordeaoux, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1No kidding. He's holding a candy-colored G3 iMac.
- gordeaoux, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1I agree with the transparency, there's no reason not to have that controllable. Otherwise I like the updated UI.
- MtheoryX, on 10/30/2007, -2/+3I've already used Time Machine a couple of times to get a previous version of a Motion document restored. Works perfectly.
Time Machine is no replacement for a full, bootable backup, but it's a lifesaver for intermediate stuff. - inactive, on 10/30/2007, -2/+3It's been out for like 3 days...
- deadbaby, on 10/30/2007, -1/+2I think you're under estimating how popular external hard drives have become. Just about everyone I know owns one.
- DaffyDuck, on 10/30/2007, -2/+3"Time Machine is no replacement for a full, bootable backup"
I'm pretty sure it is. You can't boot directly from it but you can completely recreate your drive if it fails. - DaffyDuck, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1You probably need to change the permissions on your shared folders, specifically, add access for Guest and give guess the proper permissions.
- deadbaby, on 10/30/2007, -1/+2Bootable backups using Time Machine: SuperDuper's developers note that, even with free backup built into Leopard, their software still has a role: With SuperDuper, you can boot your Mac directly from an external backup hard disk,
When you do a fresh OSX install it will look for a TimeMachine volume and let you restore it. - Socram, on 10/30/2007, -1/+2I agree with you on all points but the Filemaker... Apple actually make it, as FileMaker is a subsidiary of Apple. http://www.filemaker.com/company/index.html
- meatmcguffin, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1You could always make an automator action and set it as a login item
A bit hacky but it works - Firehed, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Well he's right - for the moment, you can't back up via Time Machine to an AirDisk. At least, not without a hack.
- eibrahim, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1This is scary... If you still think this is a fluke, there is another scary story at http://www.thetechbrief.com/2007/11/02/leopard-let ...
- MtheoryX, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1But having an external bootable backup is what you would use in the meantime while you get a new drive put in your machine.
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1Please stop replying to text you don't understand. I was pointing out that Spotlight and Expose were killer, and that Time Machine pales by comparison.
- harryterry, on 10/30/2007, -2/+3buried for being ***** retarded
- Firehed, on 10/30/2007, -0/+1I agree, although IMO, network shares are the one area where OS X really is outshined by any version of Windows made in the last decade and a half. Why the hell can't I map/mount a network drive and have it reconnect at logon/startup/resume from standby? Shame on you, Apple.
- hungerf3, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1The biggest problem I've seen is that it wipes the crontab files for all users when you upgrade.
Annoying, and inexcusable that it's not documented, as it's deleting user data which the upgrade has no reason to touch. - codywalton, on 10/30/2007, -2/+2to the author of the article... "Would you like some cheese with that whine?"
- iFungus, on 10/30/2007, -2/+2I use Spotlight and Exposé a lot. Please stop talking about something you don't know about.
- potterboy, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1I run Leopard and I am missing the OS9 support. Time to pull our sheepsaver.
- 04TL, on 10/30/2007, -0/+0um...Leopard found my PC the instant I joined the same workgroup as it...and vice-versa...
- agilligan, on 10/30/2007, -2/+2With the exception of wireless backup, not one of those is a problem with Leopard.
Even at that, it's not something to cry about - just connect a disk like you're supposed to.
Buried. - HolyChimp, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1Someone likes both, but can find flaws with either? My god that sounds like a balanced argument! Get off the Interwebs!
- agilligan, on 10/30/2007, -0/+0No problems here at all. In fact it's a hell of a lot better than Tiger at connecting to network drives.
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1Even then, those "issues" are mainly UI annoyances that can and will most likely be taken care of a bit in the future (hopefully; but of course, I'm not complaining, it is still more usable than a Linux GUI, dig me down)
- Firehed, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1I only think your first point is really valid (I won't excuse it with "and only on some backgrounds at that", as it's a stupid issue; there should definitely be an option for a solid menubar). I greatly prefer the new dock and open app indicator, and have had no issues with being able to read folders. You can't make points that revolve around subjectivity.
I'd argue that SuperDuper not working yet is a bigger issue than any of those, but like you said, the OS has barely been out 100 hours if that, and given the nature of SD!, I want them to make sure it works perfectly with the final, shipping code. - Firehed, on 10/30/2007, -2/+2If you want to go that route, I can find dozens of things that Vista (and Windows in general) does better than a Mac does, and numerous other issues with Leopard. Of course, the difference is that Apple tends to actually FIX those issues. While Leopard is leaps and bounds ahead of Vista in terms of compatibility and usability at day one, it's got several oddities that make me look forward to 10.5.1.
- Firehed, on 10/30/2007, -1/+1Just buy a copy and download the OSx86 kernel patch off of Bit-torrent. Apple will NEVER release their OS to run on any hardware, and for good reason. Or just buy a Mac Mini - they're pretty cheap, even more so if you were going to buy the software anyways.
- wetmetalthong, on 10/30/2007, -3/+2I think the world "problem" is too subjective and apparently very offensive to the fanboys out there. Otherwise, I happen to agreed with wireless backups. Otherwise, who cares?
- inactive, on 10/30/2007, -4/+3and you are a ***** douche. don't like macs? stay the ***** out of the apple section dumbass. so tired of you ***** trolls.
- ramsinks.com, on 10/30/2007, -2/+1"Hypercard user groups and the three printshops still running QuarkXPress 4."
Yes, and we haven't heard of them. - ramsinks.com, on 10/30/2007, -3/+2classic.
nice man. - adroit, on 10/30/2007, -2/+1 I like how he doesnt even know if you can backup via airdisk. he just refers to appleinsider (the most credible source!! OMG). Maybe you should try doing some real reporting mitch.
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