Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Apple OS X issues
Some times Apple can not find their own ass with both hands...duh ! :-)
I would admit that it happens far LESS frequently compare to M$... but ... during a few years of using OS X as my MAIN computer I hit a few 'funny' issues. First two only very recently ...
1) See my post on Time Machine ACLs - have 'easy' fix, but you need to run command line
2) I hit similar issue with Update: it refused to save files and gave a stupid message I can not do anything about. Quick Google helped to find a solution : just wipe \Library\Updates - that was easy and can be done from Finder.
Funny, that in both cases I tried reboot and running Disk Utility so called "scan" and "fix permissions": in both cases OS X complained about it, but it found/fix nothing. That is ... a bit alarming.
Apple... you HAVE to do better in these areas. System SHOULD be able to diagnose and fix such nonsenses automatically. Duh!
3) Print dialog "stuck" in Safari. When this happens you can not kill Safari or do anything to it, but it is alive, kind of. They only way to get rid of this is to close computer with holding Power button: I had to do it a few times during last couple years and still have no idea when/why this happens.
I want this fixed ...
4) iPhoto refused to automatically open up when camera connected ; it happened once and been solved by reboot. I would blame Adobe Photoshop Elements that I run from iPhoto before and it was still running. Adobe is a pig... :) Reboot fixed that. Not biggie. :)
5) Last issue to complain about is iPhone SDK. It needs some Voodoo to make "simple" things work. Well, I guess Apple expect developers to deal with it, so we do, not a biggie :) But ... it should "Just work" :) Please ... :)
Last thing to mention: I would suspect that you can just bring your Mac to Apple store and they will help, if you can not Google and all issues I described were minor, so while nobody perfect ( not even Apple !) it is a clear win over Windows experience: a few minor quirks a year on OS X vs major issues on Windows every day :)
OS X is Zen ... my MacBookPro is delight ... iPhone is my favorite toy ... :)
Apple... RULZE
I would admit that it happens far LESS frequently compare to M$... but ... during a few years of using OS X as my MAIN computer I hit a few 'funny' issues. First two only very recently ...
1) See my post on Time Machine ACLs - have 'easy' fix, but you need to run command line
2) I hit similar issue with Update: it refused to save files and gave a stupid message I can not do anything about. Quick Google helped to find a solution : just wipe \Library\Updates - that was easy and can be done from Finder.
Funny, that in both cases I tried reboot and running Disk Utility so called "scan" and "fix permissions": in both cases OS X complained about it, but it found/fix nothing. That is ... a bit alarming.
Apple... you HAVE to do better in these areas. System SHOULD be able to diagnose and fix such nonsenses automatically. Duh!
3) Print dialog "stuck" in Safari. When this happens you can not kill Safari or do anything to it, but it is alive, kind of. They only way to get rid of this is to close computer with holding Power button: I had to do it a few times during last couple years and still have no idea when/why this happens.
I want this fixed ...
4) iPhoto refused to automatically open up when camera connected ; it happened once and been solved by reboot. I would blame Adobe Photoshop Elements that I run from iPhoto before and it was still running. Adobe is a pig... :) Reboot fixed that. Not biggie. :)
5) Last issue to complain about is iPhone SDK. It needs some Voodoo to make "simple" things work. Well, I guess Apple expect developers to deal with it, so we do, not a biggie :) But ... it should "Just work" :) Please ... :)
Last thing to mention: I would suspect that you can just bring your Mac to Apple store and they will help, if you can not Google and all issues I described were minor, so while nobody perfect ( not even Apple !) it is a clear win over Windows experience: a few minor quirks a year on OS X vs major issues on Windows every day :)
OS X is Zen ... my MacBookPro is delight ... iPhone is my favorite toy ... :)
Apple... RULZE
Labels: Apple OS X issues
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