NJF
Joined: 05 Oct 2007
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OSX 10.5.5 has been released 
Let's hope it fixed the wireless networking bug that Apple distributed with 10.5.4, which has made life miserable for many iMac users. It seems better so far, but my console still shows some airport drop-out, albeit much reduced. 
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simon
Joined: 11 Jan 2005
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What AirPort drop out ? 
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| Tue Sep 16 2008 11:31pm |
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NJF
Joined: 05 Oct 2007
Location: Luxembourg, Strassen
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?m...p;#7884667
Seems much better now. Whilst Apple's summary of the latest update doesn't mention the airport fix, it's probably hidden within the security update. Apple forums have been saying for weeks that the 10.5.5 update would contain this fix.
My lesson is to use Time Machine and not to upgrade the OS before setting a restore point.
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| Wed Sep 17 2008 4:36am |
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AndrewW
Joined: 06 Aug 2007
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Macs with problems? 
We PC-peasants spend our impoverished days yearning for the stable, virus-free, bug-free environment of Mac-dom. Now you have shattered the dreams of many....  06 TDV6 SE Tonga Green
Mantec Plate (with three "dings"), BCB rope, Hidden winch (hidden in garage...), Webasto timer (in box), TorqTuned ((tee hee)²), Origin b2 (in case), Traffic master jam warner (in expectation), FT8800, Motorola GM360, INTEK H-520+ (in a tangle)
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| Wed Sep 17 2008 6:45am |
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BLFarrar
Joined: 02 Aug 2006
Location: Deepest, darkest Halifax, West Yorkshire
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NJF wrote: the wireless networking bug that Apple distributed with 10.5.4, which has made life miserable for many iMac users......
Yes I got hung up on this one as well......on checking these was a whole bunch of resource working with or on the time machine.......but this seemed to be a "delayed action glitch" - it only stared late last week for me....my iMac slowed down to about the same level as a PC running XP.
10.5.5 fix seems to do the trick now back to quantum speed. ....have Disco3 HSE TD6 Auto...
....also S Type 2.7 Auto....
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| Wed Sep 17 2008 5:04pm |
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NJF
Joined: 05 Oct 2007
Location: Luxembourg, Strassen
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Oh-oh, the console shows Airport beacon being lost again, but service is still much more reliable than it was. Maybe I'm just seeing the residual effect of my router being on the wrong side of a reinforced concrete floor.
AndrewW wrote:We PC-peasants spend our impoverished days yearning for the stable, virus-free, bug-free environment of Mac-dom. Now you have shattered the dreams of many....
 Andrew, Macs aren't perfect but for the home they're a whole lot better than PCs IMHO. Very impressive, how Steve Jobs showed the world what UNIX and a pretty face could do. It must be said, though, that Mac's stability has got a lot to do with the fact that Apple controls the hardware and firmware to an extent that MS can't even begin to do. I'd still choose the Wintel platform for work, though ... not that I have any say in the matter.
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baart
Joined: 03 May 2007
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still on 10.4.11...
...and no problems at all | Il boit pour oublier qu'il vit
Il dort pour oublier qu'il boit
C'est un bien triste
Un bien triste sort |
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BLFarrar
Joined: 02 Aug 2006
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NJF wrote: I'd still choose the Wintel platform for work, though ... not that I have any say in the matter.
If you explore the suppliers offerings you will now find software that will allow an Apple application to run in Windows......which to me is admission enough that apple applications are not only accepted but in most cases superior in both usability (I mean real work tasks) & presentation - simple to the point not like the latest Windows version of office.
I have both systems operable on my home computer (iMac)...if I have a task to complete I always use the Mac version...it just works ....have Disco3 HSE TD6 Auto...
....also S Type 2.7 Auto....
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Pelyma
Joined: 06 Jan 2005
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My work software is only XP compatible, not even Vista, so I run a virtual machine on my imac using Fusion, so I have an XP machine and a mac at the same time and it works well. DS3 TDV6 HSE
Silver with Alpacca (old one)
DS3 TDV6 HSE
Silver with Alpacca (new one)
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Bill Wright
Joined: 03 Nov 2007
Location: Mid- Devon
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Will this update fix the known problems with wireless connection to Orange/Wanadoo router? I had problems with Time Machine and returned it and got my money back. The techies in the Apple store offered me a special tuition session specifically for setting up with Orange systems but it seemed way too complicated. Likewise, I can't connect to the wireless system with my Ipod at home but anywhere else it's fine.
Other than that, I'm well pleased with my Mac conversion and thanks to Barry G  for pointing me in the right direction.
Bill Wright D3 TDV6 S 06/56 Silver
Honda Pan European 2005
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| Wed Sep 17 2008 9:45pm |
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BLFarrar
Joined: 02 Aug 2006
Location: Deepest, darkest Halifax, West Yorkshire
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Reading through the thread & looking at the iMac software update list I now realise the issue with Time machine only started when a second computer logged onto my network up til then it worked A OK.
I took Peylma's lead & bought Fusion for my set up to use (instead of Parallels) this does the business & means I have both a Mac & an XP machine (that works very very well)......."Windows XP in a Mac window" I can close it down & then use a real computer....one that use an OS that isn't bought until the first update or has compatibility issues with mainstream software.
Microsoft ought to get real & make operating systems that are backwards compatible....there any many people with "old" Macs that are using the latest software & getting the benefits. ....have Disco3 HSE TD6 Auto...
....also S Type 2.7 Auto....
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DSL
Joined: 11 May 2006
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Another post I don't understand any of, well at least not the one word in five that I skim read!!!  Honda Dog U better DUCK!!!!!
and Honda Dog supports
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NJF
Joined: 05 Oct 2007
Location: Luxembourg, Strassen
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Don't understand? Try this:
Judith Butler, professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley, in a 1997 article in the Diacritics journal entitled Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time wrote:The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
Feel better, now, DSL? 
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ronp
Joined: 29 Nov 2006
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DSL wrote:Another post I don't understand any of, well at least not the one word in five that I skim read!!!
I'm with you on this one Derek.
Even tried to understand Steves 'Linksy' thread, but that was no good either.
slowly re-building my gallery after the wipe out !!!!
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darrind
Joined: 04 Jul 2008
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I was never a fan of Althusserian theory, their first album was good but then when they changed Bassist, it all went downhill............................
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