Archive for November, 2007

Article on Leopard has … nothing to do with Leopard

Check this mess of an article presumably about Leopard problems “plaguing” Apple. The problem with it? Virtually none of the issues mentioned have anything to do with Apple and/or Leopard.

The “blue screen” problem is due exclusively to an unsupported “haxie” from Unsanity. He fails to link to this apple support document which explain the problem is due to Application Enhancer. That’s what happens when people use unsupported hacks – you get problems.

The other is the imac screen freeze issue. This has nothing to with Leopard whatsoever – and it’s been fixed. See here.

The “data loss” bug when moving (not copying) files to a network volume had actually been around since 10.2 (which, I suppose in some eyes makes it worse) so while it should have been fixed long ago, it’s not a Leopard-specific problem.

And the reports of hard drive problems with Macbooks is, while troubling, related entirely to some subset of Macbook hard-drives and have nothing to do with Leopard.

The only real problem he mentions is the new application firewall which, with its “signing” of applications is breaking some things like Skype and Blizzard games.

So, some bad headline writing in the least, and mostly just an unfocused, confusing article.

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