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Odd Window Management Issue If you've been reading Odyssey for a while, then you know that I'm never in any big rush to try OS version updates until I've had a chance to see how the bleeding edge early adopters fare. And apparently, with the OS X 10.2.8 update, whose release I reported here yesterday, some have not been faring so well. Late yesterday, Apple removed the Mac OS X 10.2.8 Update from Software Update and also links to the 10.2.8 standalone updaters, presumably due to reportage of user-problems heavier than usual for such upgrades. Particularly serious are widespread reports of disables network connections affecting Ethernet boot problems with iMacs and eMacs, loss of the ability to repair permissions, and video loss with Lombard PowerBooks.
Other reported problems encountered by some users after installing the 10.2.8 update include:
If you've already installed 10.2.8 and lost your Ethernet support, a reported fix is to replace "AppleGMACEthernet.kext" version 1.3.0 from 10.2.8 (in system/Library/Extensions/) with the OS 10.2.6 version (1.2.4). This can be facilitated by booting into OS 9 if you rmachine is capable of doing so and overwriting the old file. If you find you can't repair permissions, try booting from the Mac OS X 10.2 install CD to run repair permissions. If you have a Lombard, my suggestion would be to avoid the 10.2.8 update until the dust clears on this one. I expect that the Apple OS X skunk works is feverishly addressing the bugs and that we will see a re-release of the 10.2.8 Update soon. This is preferable to what happened with 10.2.4, which caused a number of problems for some users (although it worked fine on my Pismo) but which was never pulled and fixed until the 10.2.5 release. Let's hope they get it right the second time around. I've personally encountered a much more minor but still annoying problem on my iBook this week. Eudora has stopped responding to window clicks to bring an open Eudora window in teh background forward. For example, if I have another application's window in the foreground and click on a visible Eudora message or mailbox window, it stays in the background unless I click on the Eudora icon in the Dock. This is a pain, however, otherwise Eudora seems to be working normally. The only application that has been affected by this behavior is Eudora (version 6.0). I'm not sure if it's a coincidence or not, but the issue forst manifested after I ran a bunch of disk maintenance routines from Mac Pilot 1.0 which I'm testing (review here soon). I tried doing a clean reinstall of the Eudora 6.0 application, but no joy. If anyone has any suggestions..... Mac OS 9 Still Overwhelmingly Dominant In Creative Fields MacMinute reports that Vincent Naselli, a director at research firm TrendWatch, has informed them that 71 percent of professional graphic designers still use Mac OS 9 as their principal Mac operating system, whileonly 17 percent are running OS X.
Among corporate designers, the report says that 60 percent use OS 9 and 13 percent use OS X. At professional ad agencies, 72 percent have OS 9 and 20 percent run OS X based on the latest data available as of June 2003, which was before the release of the OS X version of QuarkXPress.
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