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I've had Leopard on my MacBook since day 1, and I haven't any any kernel panics. The only thing that's crashed has been Safari occasionally, but that sometimes happened in Tiger. I suspect a faulty Flash plugin.
I run tons of stuff on my MacBook, and I use this thing all the time. Leopard does have some bugs, but they're minor spit-n-polish problems that Apple will certainly fix over time. As a major upgrade, this has been the most problem-free one yet. Comparing Leopard to Vista is laughable -- I can run almost anything in Leopard I could in Tiger. Can't say that for Vista.
You are a forgiving user, but it should not be the way while dealing with a paid product. Simple: they must not publish misbehaving products, it results in losses for many.
Releasing an OS to the public while knowing it contains plenty of bugs - is just unacceptable. Having competitors that perform worse is not an excuse.
Edited 2007-11-30 19:54
"You are a forgiving user, but it should not be the way while dealing with a paid product. Simple: they must not publish misbehaving products, it results in losses for many.
Releasing an OS to the public while knowing it contains plenty of bugs - is just unacceptable. Having competitors that perform worse is not an excuse. "
I think this is totally the wrong way, to wait until you know that your product is bug-free. Nobody is going that way (not Linux, not Windows), why should Apple go that way? I think there must be a reason for that :-)
Every product ever made has problems that happen after the initial sale. CPUs, semi conductors (ship with errata docs), Cars, DVD players, TVs etc. and some that are known before hand and are not considered critical or show stoppers.
I strongly suspect you are not involved in any soft of product development with such a narrow view.
I agree with u, but again we living in the world which not always as perfect as we think. In reality, take example of Ms XP and it is very mature product, but still having plenty of bugs...the worse things is Microsoft soon to discontinued XP product and forcing the Vista to go market which making business partner not quite happy, but this is reality.
At the end, as user, we all know what is the errors/bugs, but since you depends on them (OS X, XP/Vista) therefore you just need to wait for patches and bug fixes. but as the vendor of product, they need to put the product to market and gain some profits from it and put the bug fixed later in few weeks...
Sorry for bad english...
It's not about being a forgiving user. Most people simply don't have any problems whatsoever with Leopard. I haven't had a ton of experience with Vista, but I have had some and I know a lot of people who bought it. It just isn't that great of an OS. I know a lot of people who are bailing on Vista for Linux, XP, and OS X. You simply don't see that with Leopard.
The only people trying to make a "suckiness" comparison between Windows and OS X are jaded Vista users; it seems.
You are a forgiving user, but it should not be the way while dealing with a paid product. Simple: they must not publish misbehaving products, it results in losses for many.
-and what do you know about keeping a large codebase bugfree?
besides, or rather to the point, the only way to ensure non-misbehaving tools is to make them yourself.
that doesn't mean I want to encourage you to take on a life as programmer, only get you to notice that perfection is a hard to reach goal that can never be achived in a complex product. at least not if it has a deadline to meet
Releasing an OS to the public while knowing it contains plenty of bugs - is just unacceptable. Having competitors that perform worse is not an excuse.
-well, it's working good enough for us to build large databases and complex networks and those work just as well on tiger, panther, leopard, gnus, hell even on windows. so what's the fuss about?
if you want stability use a stable os like freebsd who doesn't care about meeting a profit margin.
if you want "the coolest new thing" try leopard or use windows, but don't be disappointed at crash. they happen. in a system that has billions of bytes to calculate with a huge number of subroutines, somewhere there's GOT to be glitch. and if the glitch is in plain sight you've looked the horse in the mouth and ought not to buy it. simple as that.
so try to get a grip
software isn't everything, hardly perfect and certainly not worth buying. not. ever.
"- Older Office Versions
- VS 2006 without SP1 (SP1 changes the compiler and breaks some code)"
Firstly what the hell is VS 2006? We have Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, and I don't think by 2006 you mean 2005 SP1.
In my personal experience I've had zero problems with VC++ 2005 under Vista but that is basically what I use Vista for, no idea about other software.
And back to Leopard, three of my problems:
1- VLC while playing videos full-screen, brings system to a halt, more frequently if I press Next/Previous, the keyboard/mouse stop working and I have to hard-reset; that didn't happen with Tiger.
2- Newer issue is with sleep on my MBP, in fact waking up from sleep, the trackpad/mouse starts acting weird, the pointer, instead of moving smoothly, it just jumps from one point to another, the only fix I found is to restart the machine. It doesn't always happen and as much as I tried, wasn't able to find out what's the source of the problem. Anybody has a similar issue?
3- I frequently get disconnected from school's wireless network and have to turn airport on and off to re-join, no such problem with Tiger.
There are other issues, but so far not troublesome enough to make me go back to tiger, especially since I can't live without Spaces.
Edited 2007-12-01 00:56
In my personal experience I've had zero problems with VC++ 2005 under Vista but that is basically what I use Vista for, no idea about other software.
I think it's safe to assume he meant VS 2k5. However, both of the apps he mentioned will run just fine in Vista. The only issues I'm aware of aren't compatibility, but privilege issues, depending on usage (IIS ASP.NET debugging in VS 2k5 RTM, for example, IIRC). Simply running the app as admin solves those issues.
> waking up from sleep, the trackpad/mouse starts acting weird, the pointer, instead of moving smoothly, it just jumps from one point to another, the only fix I found is to restart the machine
Same problem on my 17" mbp 2.4 Santa Rosa; a co-worker has it as well on his 15" 2.4 Santa Rosa, whereas our two co-workers on first-gen MBPs do not have the issue. It was an issue in Tiger, Leopard, and 10.5.1. We have tried to come up with some sort of reproducible pattern but have yet to identify one.
Occasional super-long wake-up times (1 to 2 minutes) are the only other nuisance I have had with Leopard. Other than that, it's been a painless in-place upgrade from Tiger, and system was/is rather heavily customized. I was on 10.5.1 when I had my permissions seriously wonky, crippling a bunch of apps, and no utility I had could properly fix them (I'm sure the issue was caused by a failed attempt to use the boot camp assistant) and had to do an archive/reinstall from the Leopard Disc. Twenty minutes later, I was back in business, all my apps worked fine, and all data was intact; didn't have to touch my backup. That was rather impressive to me.
//// I can run almost anything in Leopard I could in Tiger. Can't say that for Vista.//
Such as ... what? Examples?//
Obviously not anything in Classic mode. (I still have some games that need it).
Also, Tiger isn't exactly bug-free. As I type this, my desktop wallpaper is randomly changing every two seconds. I have the 'change wallpaper automatically' feature set to OFF, and no third party desktop-enhancing software.
Edited 2007-12-01 10:01
Comparing Leopard to Vista is laughable -- I can run almost anything in Leopard I could in Tiger. Can't say that for Vista.
I gotta agree with you! But then again, I also agree atleast with the point made by the author about Time Machine.. The most obvious place you'd look for preferences would be inside the app. And the strange Star Wars effect? It's rather confusing and not in the least intuitive. Atleast that's my opinion, haven't made any real-world study about how even less technically experienced people would feel.
Operating system have so many users/groups of users that you simply can't take ones experience(in this case yours). Because there will always be some claiming that he as no problem.
Many of his points are good. The problem is that he make the link by looking only at the flaw of OS X against Vista. To make a valid match, he would have better take the sum of goods and bads of both system.
I've had Vista on my HP pavilion dv9000 since three weeks after launch, and have yet to have the OS crash. The only serious stability issue at the moment is firefox freezes up an astonishing amount, but my guess is that it is firebug mucking with ajax sites.
I run tons of stuff on my MacBook, and I use this thing all the time. Leopard does have some bugs, but they're minor spit-n-polish problems that Apple will certainly fix over time.
I am a freelance developer, and as such I am constantly on my pc using professional software packages. The only bug in Vista I have really been affected by is that in some open dialogues, the order of my favorite links sidebar gets messed up. This is a minor issue though, and I'm certain microsoft will fix it over time.
As a major upgrade, this has been the most problem-free one yet.
This is really the first version of Windows I have ever actually liked. During the XP years, i used Java based platforms for my development so I could work in linux, and would dual boot or use WINE for the few things in windows that was part of my workflow. Now, I am fairly happy on it, I find it to be the most problem free environment by MS I have ever used.
I have Office 2k7, Adobe CS3 Web Design, Visual Studio 2k5 standard, and SQL Server 2k5 developer installed, and all my professional applications work flawlessly. In fact, I have yet to run across a single app that doesnt work after applying compatibility settings.
I have a Macbook Pro running Leopard and have no issues. I've installed Leopard on several Macs without an issue.
The software used on my personal one is: Adobe Web Premium CS3 (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, etc), OpenOffice v2.x, Filezilla, Eclipse IDE for PHP, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Firefox 220.127.116.11, XAMPP with (Apache, MySQL, PHP5), Opera 9.x, Joost, GCC, etc.
Vista isn't too awful. I can use it without an issue (just need 2gb ram). However, I hear a lot more bad things about it than good from customers.
Customers keep wanting to go back to XP and the most common complaint: Why does it keep asking me questions every time I want to play with the settings (control panel for one)? UAC you are a pain, but I understand your existence, but dang!
1. Wait For a Service Pack
I agree with JaredWhite. I've been using Leopard since day one on both a MacBook Pro and an old Mac Mini. I have been running apps like Nisus, Scrivener, Final Cut, TextMate, PostgreSQL, Subversion, Ruby on Rails, Photoshop CS3, several Omni Group products, etc. I have not had a single issue on either machine (with the exception of Adobe Photoshop's retarded requirement of a case-insensitive filesystem -- way to go Adobe developers!)
2. Needles Graphic Glitz
I like graphic glitz myself, but I can see why some people wouldn't. Not liking it sells articles, for instance. However, I don't think Apple has gone overboard, and some transparencies are actually a good thing. For example, when I'm working on a complex BASH script and and referencing a "howto" article on the web, it is nice to have my terminal transparent so I can read the web page through it as I'm typing. Also, today's graphics cards are very powerful. If you're not using it for games, why waste all that power on a Windows 3.1 style interface? Glitz makes your computer fun to use. There's nothing wrong with that.
3. Pointless Interface Fixes
Personally, I like the new dock. It looks nice. I did darken the default to a charcoal gray and I think it looks even better that way because the blue dots show up a lot better, but other than that, it's great.
I don't use Cover Flow much. It is nice, but I just don't use it. I do use QuickLook a lot though. Isn't choice a nice thing?
4, Networking
I don't use Windows, so I have no need to connect to Windows Shares. This may very well be a problem, but if you're using Windows on your network, you probably have bigger issues than not being able to see Shares.
5. Time Machine
"Buried in System Preferences..." What? It's right on the main page. It's one click away. What is the author smoking? System Preferences is where you go to configure stuff. It's called a consistent UI. Duh.
The author's rant on Time Machine actually ruined all his credibility for me. All along he came across as an angry Windows user trying to show that his OS isn't the only one that sucks and shouldn't have been released, but I don't think he spent more than a minute clicking around in Time Machine so he could whine about it in his article.
Time Machine has already saved my butt twice, it works as advertised, and it works well. Also, you don't have to have a working Leopard install to restore from Time Machine. OS X's installer will let you restore from Time Machine during an installation. Time Machine isn't a disk imager, so one shouldn't expect to do a bare metal restore from it. Bare metal restores are a waste of hard drive space anyway.
The author calls Leopard a "popped balloon of disappointment". Nobody who actually uses Leopard says that. I have been a Linux user since 1994, and even I liked OS X enough to buy two machines. The author is just a scorned Windows user. At least that's how he comes across in the article.
You have to admit, though, Vista does have the advantage with the block-based backup system. The author's examples of the Entourage database and Virtual Machines are just two out of many examples where large files would cause extreme loss of disk space due to Time Machine's backup method (and probably performance hits during the copying operation, as well.) The Time Machine method does have the advantage of the files being stored in their original form and thereby being accessible even without using Time Machine, but this really isn't too much of an advantage considering you still need Leopard or a Leopard install disk to get at the files. They could have instead implemented it to look as if entire files are stored in the backup folder, while behind the scenes storing just the changed blocks and the references to the older versions.
I can see advantages and disadvantages to both Time Machine's mechanism and a block-based backup system.
In my opinion, Entourage is a piece of junk, and if you are using it for email, you have much bigger problems than the amount of disk space its backups require. Also, you can exclude Virtual Machines and Entourage database from your Time Machine backup (although I wouldn't recommend doing so for Entourage given its proclivity to database corruption). I keep one copy of my Virtual Machines on an external drive. There's no need to do more than that, so they get excluded.
Also, while you do need Leopard to create a Time Machine backup since Time Machine is new on Leopard, you do not need Leopard to access your backed up files, which is one of the nice things about it. You can take your external drive, plug it in to another machine (running Tiger, for instance), and access the data. My experience with block-level backups is they require the software that created them in order to access the files. With hard drives being cheap and large, I don't mind wasting some space for the convenience of not being tied to a particular software to restore my files.
Also, regardless of the pros and cons of Leopard's backup mechanism (Time Machine) vs. Vista's, you're forgetting one important factor. In order to use Vista's backup utility, you have to be running Vista, and that is a sad, sad situation to be in.
linux-boys are trying to spread a lot of FUD.
What the heck does Linux have to do with this?? No one mentioned the word "Linux" before you, not in the comments or the article! In fact, the author states he's been using OSX for a while now and I got the impression he's been using XP before that.
Mod -1 for being a grammar fascist. OSNews is a very international site; all you're doing is serving to create a culture of elitism that discourages the participation of people who can't speak English perfectly. Get over it. And stop encouraging the modding-down of people based on their grammatical mastery, rather than the actual points they are trying to get across.
For reference English is my native language. And I will fight to the death for the right of every internet user to abuse and break its grammatical conventions.
Edited 2007-12-02 12:59 UTC
This deserves to be modded down because it is off-topic flamebait. As someone else already pointed out, this has *nothing* to do with Linux. The original article doesn't mention Linux at all, and the author certainly isn't a "Linux boy", to use casuto's immature expression.
Also, being dissatisfied with Vista isn't "MS hate". This would imply that those who don't like the product are acting solely on an emotional, irrational basis. I find that attitude a bit simplistic.
I have been wildly swinging back and forth on whether or not time machine is a Cool Thing.
When I read about it, it sounded very cool. Implicit versioning is a sweet feature, and I figured apple would do a better job of the UI then MS with shadow copy. Then I saw the UI and was horrified. But then I saw vids of the UI, and figured it wasn't so bad. Then I read that the versioning applied ONLY to backups, and you HAD to use an external harddrive. That baffled me, as a programmer I know the benefits of versioning, and I didn't know why apple would deliberately gimp it by tightly coupling it with backups. I do freelance work on my laptop, and even though I rsync it to a network drive every night, I don't know what I would do without my local svn repository. But I read about how you could install it to another partition, and figured that would nt be so bad.
Now I read that when it versions, it doesn't just do diffs, it stores multiple full copies of the same file. IMHO, the only thing about time machine that is really any good is the whole "I plug my firewire drive into my computer, it asks if I want to set it up for automated backups" thing. Other then that, time machine is in the stone ages as a backup solution, in everything from technology to flexibility to user interface.
Time machine does not do diffs, and I thought that was a bad thing too (backups take more space for sure, etc.). Until you actually start using it and you realize that the way Time Machine does things is actually ingenious and very useful.
Every backup is a complete copy of your hard drive using hard links, so you can browse any previous state of your system using the Finder without using Time Machine. Also applications such as iPhoto and Adress Book (and any other) can show you previous states in *real time*! This would simply not be possible using diffs. So yes it would save more space, but then again recovery would be slow, impractical and you would have to use Apple's solution to recover file (in the current way, you could restore your files manually or eventually through a 3rd party solution, Time Machine is just a GUI but is not necessary to restore your files because no undiff is needed). It's brilliant and it's the way that personal backups should be implemented (but perhaps not corporate backups). So I give it full points and more.
Also applications such as iPhoto and Adress Book (and any other) can show you previous states in *real time*! This would simply not be possible using diffs.
Except that ZFS can in fact do it differentially and still show you the different snapshots of the filesystem in real time. Hopefully Apple will adopt that approach in the future.
Apple's target market isn't developers. It want's to make things easy. If you have ever used a versioning system, you can understand the difficulty average users would have with merging conflicts should they arise, can't you?
Considering Apple's target market, I can understand why they did things the way they did.
This guy complains about the technical issues of Time Machine, i.e. no bit level backup, etc. Then talks about Windows having the same functionality. He, and others, need to get past the spec sheet and look at the results. I know 4 non technical people using Leopard that now backup hourly! I know zero windows users doing the same. Why is that so hard for people to understand? Apple should be praised for making backup available and usable by the average Joe; that my friends is huge!
As to Leopards stability, I see no real change between it and Tiger, or Windows XP/2000 for that matter.
//Sorry, but that is not a backup.//
True enough, I stand corrected.
Still, though, I think Windows users need to investigate the features of their OS a bit more. System Restore would have saved dozens of borked systems I've come across. Much like Time Machine likely will. If folks use it.
�and pretty much every experienced (i.e., not first- or second-line support) Tech Support person I've spoken to will tell you not to touch System Restore with a bargepole because it's known to cause all manner of problems with on-disk files being completely out of sync with registry entries.
Unless it's been updated in Vista (it might have been, of course�feel free to correct me if that's the case; I don't have it installed any more to check) System Restore is for a very specific class of problems, it's not a generic rollback tool. That's what Volume Shadow Copy (IIRC) is for
Apple market Time machine as the next big thing. They make video, that shout how revolutionary it is. No wonder users knows it's there an what to use it.
Microsoft were so much concerned with sideshow and aero, the never market the backup utility. Windows user just aren't aware there is such utility.
Marketing is often more powerful than technology. But it doesn't withdraw credit from Apple, while it's an crucial feature, it is somehow a marketing/information responsibility that MS didn't take.
Edited 2007-11-30 21:07
"Apple should be praised for making backup available and usable by the average Joe; that my friends is huge!"
Ok, not owning one, but just a guess here. Buy any of those network storage backup device type things, and it will come with perfectly useable backup software useable by the average Joe. And Windows home server will have something similar no doubt.
God why is that whenever Apple does something that it is suddenly seen as "innovative", even though its been done before?
On the Mac...
Buy ANY external USB drive plug it in. A OS X asks you if you would like to use the disk for time machine. You say yes and your done. (Beauty is, even if you had no intention to use the drive for a backup it asks you and gets you thinking about backups)
When you need to restore something, click on time machine icon and find the file in a familiar finder interface. Click restore.
On the PC...
Think to yourself hey I need to backup my stuff and find a USB drive that has backup software. Plug it in. Install the software. Configure what files to backup and set a schedule. You find out the backup software is a lite version, which will not allow you to backup network drives or other computers or requires you to remember to press a button on the drive to start a backup.
When you want to restore from the external drive provided software, you have to remember what was the name of the funky backup software? Find it in the start menu. Start the application. Figure out the 3rd party restore function and, most likely, pick only the last available copy.
Now chances are next time you buy a external drive, you will get a totally different set of backup software or you have to decide I only want to buy drives from manufacture X.
Which scenario do you want your grandma/mother-in-law/cousin/neighbor using? If you say PC than you probably have too much time on your hands or enjoy getting calls on the weekend. Oh and by the way each of your callers will have a different backup program installed.
i own a macbook pro and a dual g5, i really like apple and felt every os upgrade so far added new features which improved the os.
leopard is different, leopard changed things which did not need changing, the dock is the best example. the reflection and "3d" view add absolutely nothing to the usability, it actually made it worse. i always liked the eye candy in osx serves a purpose, like the genie effect for minimizing (you see where the app goes to). also the dock shows the the name of the application when you hover over it, any interface designer will tell you this is a extremely bad idea. why the hell did they change the icon of the system preferences that much? man, i could go on and on. how the gods of interface design have fallen..
To make dock 2D go to terminal and type the following:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES
killall Dock
To make dock 3D
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean NO
killall Dock
Granted it should be a preference item, but why does everyone whine so much about this?
Because it means Mac OS X is not ready for the desktop. Or at least thats what many want us to believe if you need to open a terminal in Linux to do something like this. Then again, every time someone wants network information in Windows as well, they are also told to open cmd at almost every tech support place I've heard of, so I'm not sure if we have a OS ready for the desktop yet.
People whine for two reasons:
1) It was a pointless and horrid addition; it adds nothing and makes usability worse. Heck, I was spending a few seconds when trying to place an application the dock whether it was 'in the dock' before releasing the button.
Why didn't they stick with the glass one? the general consensus by people around the web as that it was the prefer option - so why not?
2) The fact that it requires a hack when it should have been a visible option in the dock preferences - rather than having a broken concept rammed down our (end users) collective throats.
I agree, my point is that this is such a minor ascetic part of the OS (along with the translucent menu bar) that I just don't get why people spend so much time talking about it. Can't we move on to something more substantive? Like why is resolution independence is not included?
IMHO, it seems like people are grabbing for stuff to complain about. And they aren't trying very hard if the dock and bar is the major complaint. This reminds me of the tactics used by political parties i.e. lets attack something minor, repeat it over and over, until the populous thinks its a real problem. This goes for any minor attack on Linux, Windows or OS X.
Edited 2007-12-01 15:48 UTC
Well...... yeah.
I don't think they've really fallen, but the change for the sake of changing, on the dock and on the menu, were pretty lame. I've tried the -noglass hack on a laptop I had access to and it improved the looks of the Dock considerably. There was already a 3rd party utility that painted a white strip on the top of the desktop image, so the menu looked pretty sane and sober already.
All in all, those are the two things I can single out as lame on Leopard. Everything else was peachy, and I've not encountered a single victim of the .0-itis in person, but heard news of a poor soul acquaintance of mine experiencing a weird share of glitches. Ouch
Tiger did this, I think. The difference is now it's on a black background so you can read it easier. You're the only person I've read about who's had an issue with this... seriously, what's wrong with it? I don't always remember what my dock icons are and it's hardly intrusive.
Back to the article... As far as Windows shares not working properly, this is a pain, however, no operating system I've used functions properly in this respect, including Windows.
I've not had Leopard crash on me yet, though since using it, I've had my remaining Tiger system crash twice. I think, as with any operating system, some people are going to have more luck than others. I'm certainly having more luck with Leopard than I was with Tiger. It resumes from sleep faster, crashes less frequently and is more reliable at dismounting and mounting my USB drives. Overall, it's been a great upgrade for me, and I'm appreciative of most of the UI changes.
I have to say though, in my fairly limited experience, Windows Vista has been far more unreliable than OS X.
Some specific points from the article:
Either he's being pedantic or he needs glasses. Infact, I do need glasses and I can still see it just fine without my glasses on. If he doesn't like the new dock, he can disable it, but it's not that bad... perhaps a little unrequested though.
Not everyone uses coverflow, particularly on every folder, and of those who do, you might want a closer view. It's not like it's adding any negative features or causing problems... if you really hate it, you can get rid of the icon from Finder and not think any more about it.
If you hate it, you can change it to a fan. Admittedly, they probably should have added an "open in finder" option as well, but I personally like the stacks, and I'm using them for those "suites" of applications you get. The subfolder issue doesn't really matter, since I only ever look at stuff one level deep in there and don't really have the inclination to do otherwise. Had they put the subfolders opening in "substacks", you'd probably get more people complaining about that.
It's a non-issue in the dock stacks, since when you actually put something in the folder, the icons change to the contents of the folder. As for the icon within the finder, it's just a preference. I like the visual consistency of the new icons over the old ones, but some people don't. Maybe the solution is an "Icon theme" option. Though I don't understand the "nonintuitive" criticism...
Not even an argument that time, just that he wasn't waiting for them. Sometimes eyecandy is nice.
I have a different view. Many people follow the "if aint broke, don't fix it" way of doing things. That's all good and well but the product doesn't end up evolving much.
"Change for changes sake" is not a bad thing sometimes. Even if it means you figured out a new way of doing something wrong (does that makes sense? )
lastly, I like the new preference icon!!
I use a plain-vanilla OS X Leopard (Virtually no customization on my part except Backgrounds) and it is very very stable.
What's my secret? Here it is:
- No Kernel Extension/Module
- No Kernel Recompilation
- Use Apple built-in software (Apple Mail, Safari, iWork, iLife, etc.)
My only non-apple software is World of Wacraft and it is even more stable than ever before (It used to crash every 2-3 hours on Tiger).
As for Vista, it is stable, it just slow.
Sorry. I forgot to say that I also use some open-source/free software like:
- Adium ( Instant Messaging with the whole world)
- Handbrake (To transform my DVDs in an iPod Touch format)
- Firefox (For the plugins)
- Thunderbird (For RSS Feeds)
- Eclipse (Java Dev Environment)
I guess my point is that I do not do anything special or out-of-the-ordinary my iMac.
I am not saying that you should use your Mac as I use mine because that would plain stupid. "Do whatever works for you" is my motto.
I use a plain-vanilla OS X Leopard (Virtually no customization on my part except Backgrounds) and it is very very stable.
What's my secret? Here it is:
- No Kernel Extension/Module
- No Kernel Recompilation
- Use Apple built-in software (Apple Mail, Safari, iWork, iLife, etc.)
In other words, it works because you know what you're doing, to the extent where you realize that "if I do X using OSX, bad things might happen." There are similar rules on Windows machines as well, such as don't install Norton anything on your machine, ever!
I don't run Vista myself, but I've talked to a few power users who don't have any problems with it. The biggest issue they had was slow copying of files across the network, but I believe that has been fixed.
Many of the issues I've read about where people are having problems with Vista is because they were doing stupid things (at least in the Windows world), like trying to install Vista over an older version of Windows (instead of doing a clean install), and/or trying to run an old version of Norton something on Vista. (Actually, the fact that you have installed Norton anything on your machine is a good indication that you're clueless to begin with.)
People who have been around the block a few times know better than to do things like that, so they don't have many issues. I can't speak from personal experience yet, but I don't anticipate any major issues when I decide to finally switch from XP.
Also, in terms of 'major' upgrades, comparing Leopard to Vista (as some have been doing) is not really fair. I think it would be more fair to compare Mac OS Class -> OSX to XP -> Vista. Though admittedly Vista wasn't that big of a jump, but certainly a lot bigger than Tiger -> Leapord.
...machines running Leopard that I am responsible for are fine; in fact, great.
There is one MacBook which refused to wake properly from sleeps and could only be rescued via a hard restart.
The client lost faith and sent it back to Apple. If the option had been there to switch to Tiger then they would not have been hit with their own restocking costs and I would have a happy client.
If Apple refuses to sell machines with Tiger on whilst Leopard is not proven then it will hit their bottom line and be a PITA to managers with groups of Apple based users.
As for this article I think it summed itself up with the line:
>> Okay, I probably had a little too much coffee this morning, but ...
Comparisons like this will always generate heat rather than light but if you are a journalist then that might be half the point.
and ehm, my macbook is just faster than with tiger.
Really? It seems every OS and DE claims that the newer version is faster than the old, but I never see it. Any perceived gains come from hardware upgrades. Without those, most any OS I'm familiar with just gets slower.
Addressing Tiger vs Leopard specifically: my grandfather held off ordering a mac mini until it would come with Leopard. Of course, it came with Tiger preinstalled and a Leopard install disk (awesome?). We messed around with Tiger before I installed Leopard for him. On the relatively limited Mac Mini 3d hardware, Leopard's UI (which is after all what users will notice) was perceptibly slower.
Too anecdotal? On my machine, with xbench I got 530 in the "User Interface Test" section with Tiger. With Leopard I get 350. My machine is significantly faster than the mini so I can't say I notice the difference like I do with my grandfather's machine, but xbench sure does.
It's not all a loss: my score on the Text section of the Quartz Graphics Test went up significantly. But the UI speed is down, and it becomes noticeable to me on the Mini. It doesn't ruin anything, but I'd hardly call Leopard undoubtedly faster. I'd be curious to hear your xbench results, but it's such a pain to install an old version of an OS just to run a test that I can hardly ask it of you
Really it's like he's looking for any small flaw or feature he doesn't like, then tries to make it look like it's a catastrophe and everyone hates it.
Calling it "Leoptard" as if that was witty, raising "Wait for a Service Pack�Perpetually" as a point against it when only 10.5.1 has been released...
But I suppose that's why it's an opinion piece, he doesn't have to know what he's talking about.
First, Vista was a complete pile of turd. I uninstalled it after battling with it for about 6 weeks because it was so infuriating. Two steps forward, three hundred steps back.
My Leopard upgrades have been relatively painless. A few niggles, but nothing major.
The author of the article used, at the earliest, Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.4�his first Mac was a MacBook Pro. Had he had the misfortune of using 10.4.0, he would have had a somewhat better sense of perspective. Moreover, why couldn't he have held off on buying Leopard at all if it was that worthless to him? This is supposedly a smart guy, yet he bought a product apparently without researching it in the slightest, and then complains that it doesn't seem to do what he thinks it should. Huh?
I have to say, Leopard isn't flawless, but I've yet to actually meet (rather than read about) anybody who's had any real problems with it. Yes, it'd be great if .0 releases were completely bug-free, but even .10 releases often aren't.
Either way, it's leagues ahead of Vista from my perspective (relatively small sample-set of about ten Macs, some PPC, mostly Intel). There isn't a single application that I use now that either wasn't updated to support Leopard within a few days, or didn't need updates at all. Despite the egregiously long development cycle that Vista had, there are still plenty of Windows applications that just plain don't install, let alone work, properly under it�especially if you don't want to disable UAC and log in as an Administrator all the time.
Level 1: You don't like Leopard.
Level 2: You need to tell everyone about it.
Level 3: You write a big incoherent rant in which it is revealed that you don't really understand what's going on and what you're talking about, and that you have a lot of misconceptions about how things really work. But somehow you're angry.
Level 4: You hate Leopard so much that you're "pissed off"
You had already lost me at 3. My advice: relax, take a vacation and stay away from computers in general, or stick with Vista, the "half-baked" OS that you're able to tolerate somehow because it took longer to develop, or something (I admit I didn't really get that part). Life's too short to be pissed at such truly insignificant things. Some of us are glad that Leopard was finally released and are enjoying it a lot. Leopard is a superset of Tiger, so I'm not sure how you could logically like the latter and not the former. (As for your crashes, it's not Leopard but some kernel-modifying buggy 3rd party utility you probably installed and shouldn't have, Apple can't prevent you from doing that.)
is rather odd on how he does it in the beginning of the article.
How so? The version of Tiger that came with his MacBook Pro is near the end of Tiger's release cycles.
Version 10.4.11 is stable and yet still has a few glitches here and there.
Every OS at it's most mature state still has a few annoying bugs.
Leopard should not have been released until this January.
This would have allowed them to iron out the rest of their Installer issues, preferences, Time machine with wireless router features and more.
I'd expect 10.5.2 or 10.5.3 to be available by January.
Hopefully, the next retail stamped DVD will be 10.5.4 or greater so that when I plop down $199 for a Family Pack I don't get the "Essentials Package" error prohibiting me from installing off of DVD.
I'm not in the mood to buy more RAM to randomly solve this problem, or to buy an external drive to then Restore the Image to and try to buy pass something that still breaks even if I partition my drive 120Gig Drive.
The Installer with Essentials package checking is broken and it breaks randomly from the G4 to the Core2Duo MacBook Pro with stock RAM configurations.
Further SQA cycles are necessary before this baby gets stamped out.
Second solution since there are some interesting issues with non DVD DL read-only drives: Offer the option of buying multiple single layer DVD copies of Leopard.
At the beginning of the cycle, Tiger was skittish. Apple brought back some USB-related bugs and if you detached a USB device, there was a kernel panic. Many things didn't work until 10.4.2 but Tiger didn't run smoothly until 10.4.8 for me.
I expected to wait for 10.5.3 before upgrading to Leopard and, while 10.5.0 and 10.5.1 have been very stable, 1 kernel panic so far, it's not been very good or very bad. Third party software compatibility being the worst problem and to a point, Apple is responsible. I still find the swiss cheese-like firewall to be a big mess for most people.
However, Time Machine is brilliant for most people and the consistent user interface is quietly harmonious. Some people just want to use the computer, they don't want to know how technical it can be. Once the bugs are out, Leopard will be everything they promised.
People here act like tiger or panther were great releases initially. They weren't. I wasn't a mac owner back when 10.4 first came out but I had a mac-mini in the office (1st gen) and when we installed tiger on it it was a mess. This wasn't a production system so it didn't matter and it was for testing purposes so the flaws were important to keep track of. The point is that Tiger and Panther were not flawless releases and any one here who thinks otherwise is naive and must be a newb because this is a matter of course for apple. 10.x.0 releases are ALWAYS buggy with major issues that get fixed in subsequent releases. The same crap will happen when the next major release of OSX happens. People will bitch about how 10.6.0 isn't as good as leopard and that everything worked fine in leopard and the upgrade screwed everything up, that apple should do more testing ans should not have released the software, that they should have done this and not that. Its the same sorry story every release.
All these f--king articles are stupid. First of all vista on first release was a a nightmare. Software would not work. VNC wouldn't work without major workarounds or hacks, citrix wouldn't work properly, other major software that we used had issues, Firefox would crash when trying to access the media player. These issues have been resolved because both MS and the software vendors have been updating their software. The same thing will happen with Apple and has happened in the past. Get over yourselves people. Either learn patience or stop being a f--k an downgrade to tiger if it worked so well for you.
Edited 2007-12-01 00:05
"Vista was supposed to be a ground-up redesign, whereas Leopard is really just a juicy point release."
Vista is a mid-tower high redesign as well as OSX 10.5.
There are thousands of changes on 10.5 under the hood never mentioned because they don't need to mention them and they improve the quality of code a lot.
I've had a few issues with Leopard but nothing beyond a minor niggle really. I've only had one crash from OS and that was only the dock.
The apps all seem to work fine, I use a mixture of Apple and non-Apple apps, some of these are complete memory hogs and I often run them simultaneously so it's not as if I treat it easy.
There's always going to be some problems with a new release of an OS, but comparing Leopard to Vista is just plain nonsense.
Frankly these stories smell of a FUD campaign to me.
My life revolves around operating systems.
I use OS X and Linux at work as-well-as a virtualized XP install in VMWare. I have to run XP just because there is one legacy product that is Windows only and because I have to test out certain things for our Windows users.
I use OS X at home. Both installs at work and home are Leopard. Both installed without fail and have not suffered a single crash. I have a Mini at home and a 20" iMac at work.
Do I go around hitting other computer users because one uses Windows another uses Linux, OS X, Solaris or another? No.
I believe several people here need to look into getting a life or taking Prozac. Maybe both.
In any case, the comparison in the article is not really accurate. There are going to be good installs of Vista as-well-as good installs of OS X. We've had several imaged Vista installs at work go down while the majority are rock solid.
Edited 2007-12-01 05:34
Open Terminal
Paste the following code:
sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.WindowServer 'EnvironmentVariables' -dict 'CI_NO_BACKGROUND_IMAGE' 0.62
Probably you need to enter your password, to give MacOSX permissions to change the setting. Reboot and voila! 0.62 is a value that is rather bright. Try 1 for full white and 0 for a grey-ish look.
I have been using Leopard on 2 Macs since the day it came out, 1 at work, 1 at home. I have had 0 problems (knock on wood) with anything in Leopard - Time Machine has worked exceptionally well on both machines, as well as Spaces, the new Dock, Dock Stacks (which I use extensively), and the new iChat is bloody brilliant.
Vista, on the other hand, tested out so poorly with our in house applications that it is forbidden in the office where I work.
Vista, I've used Leopard: I know Leopard; Leopard is a friend of mine.
Vista, you're no Leopard.
I'm pretty tired of all this bashing of ANY Operating systems. Critisism is good but this ranting is pretty boring. And all these Operating system A vs Operating sytem B articles are as interesting and stupid as Freddy vs. Jason (http://imdb.com/title/tt0329101/) or "Who has the longest dick" battles :-P
All these generalisation is pretty stupid too. My Vista doesnt work, so no other Vista can work either. My Leopard works fine, so no one else can have a problem either. Apple is great, Microsoft sucks, and Linux is only used by long-haired hippies....
The fact that it requires a hack when it should have been a visible option in the dock preferences - rather than having a broken concept rammed down our (end users) collective throats.
I don't want to point out the obvious here, but Apple has always preferred to do it there way not necessarily the way their users want it. That is why die hard PC fans that stuck with Windows or Linux stay away from it. The company has always had a boutique-type attitude of "We know what you want. Don't worry we are Apple." Changes to the UI without easy theme alternatives to set is not Apple's concern. They want it to look nice all together as they envision it, not their user's tastes.
are the EXTREME case of YMMV - and for the most part it's a craps shoot. It comes down to what software you use, what hardware you bought, etc.
Vista is saddled with an absurd amount of legacy hardware because you simply have more hardware choices. You get Vista on a new machine with specifications that actually MATCH what Vista really wants (dual core, 2 gigs or more RAm) and don't try to do anything fancy using legacy win32 apps (vmWare, uTorrent) and don't need legacy applications that just don't work in Vista (IE standalones) you probably won't have too much to complain about... Friend of mine uses Vista 12 hours a day the past three months, has not one complaint. I didn't last 24 hours before the lack of being able to run stuff I NEED every day and the absurd instability of the OS on my hardware (like the headaches and instability of running a Ge7600 alongside a Ge8800GTS to run more than two displays at once - functionality I've expected since 1991) made me rip it out by the nerts for WinXP.
Leopard is the same thing - While the vista side has an absurd combination of hardware to support, Leopard has a much narrower install base to work with - too bad said base is Apple hardware, meaning some of the shoddiest piles of junk to come down the pipe. Only Apple could get away with selling e-machines castoffs at premium prices. (I say, I say, that's a joke son). Maglock connectors that fray and catch fire, 18 bit displays being sold as 24 bit, cheapest hard drives they could get from Seagate that the heads become detached from the swingarm in less than three months use, Apple wouldn't know cooling if it stripped naked, painted itself purple, hopped up on a table and started singing 'oh look at what a big cooling fan I am', etc, etc, etc. Every time someone holds up apple hardware as an example of quality, I feel like handing out a Darwin award.
That Tiger was as stable as it was given said hardware was quite impressive... But one has to remember HOW many problems were there at the transition to 10.4? 10.3? 10.2? 10.1? EVERY time they've had a baseline release of a major revision we've heard these same complaints. 10.4 was not 'great' until 10.4.3 - what are we up to now on that branch? 10.4.8? 10.4.9? Comparing a 4.9 branch to a 5.0 is like comparing an OS with six years of patches to an OS that hasn't even had a service pack yet - oh wait!!!
I have access to a crappy white plastic MacBook that runs Leopard without a hitch - then there's the disaster area MacBook Pro that leopard vomits on three times a day that had to go back to Tiger... It's a craps shoot with no rhymne nor reason.
I think the biggest problem both operating systems have though is that they are trying to sell goofy ****ing eye candy as valuable 'features' - the crap experienced users who want something to appear when they click on it NOT five seconds later after some bullshit animation would turn off (if they can - ****ing apple) - when frankly it's garbage that they wasted absurd amounts of time coding and hyping instead of making sure the underlying technologies themselves worked. It seems ALL operating systems are increasingly guilty of this - Flip3d, expose, beryl/compiz - **** that nonsense - NONE of them provide any better functionality than the simple task bar! (because of course those four copies of a text editor I have open are so easy to tell apart as 200 pixel wide thumbnails at distorted aspect ratios)
Did anyone actually WANT a different UI in Vista or Leopard? How about instead of the goof assed eye candy they instead focused on making the underlying OS faster, leaner, more stable with better hardware support?
But at least Vista lets you turn all that bullshit OFF... Something OSX doesn't let you do - and the third party crapplets that do let you disable rubbish like shadows add MORE overhead: BRILLIANT! (but then, I consider the Windows 98/2K UI the pinnacle of interface design, everything since then being little more than window dressing or worse, steps BACKWARDS)
Oh, and on the subject of goof assed eye candy... what happened to the USEFUL addition they promised in Leopard of actually letting you change/set font metrics? Get axed when they realized their legacy crapplets and bloated image based UI elements couldn't handle the idea? They brag about this new 'corefont' and device independence yet you can't do SHIT with it...
Edited 2007-12-02 00:47
Not to keep beating this dead horse, but I had to comment on this quote, "Before Apple makes any more smug OS-related attacks on Microsoft, it ought to take a good look in the mirror."
That is the most ill informed comment of the whole article. Let's compare:
1) Vista delays are measured in years. Leopard's in months.
2) Vista doesn't run well on many brand new PCs. Leopard runs well on all new hardware as well as older hardware.
3) Vista's UI has been drastically rearranged since XP, which confuses users. Leopard's UI is consistent with Tiger's. Old features are right where you expect them to be. Leopard's new folder icon set doesn't provide information about the folder as clearly as Tiger's did, but at least things are in the same place.
4) Vista comes in one full flavor and numerous watered down flavors; and all are overpriced. With Leopard, you get the full experience for a very reasonable price. There is no retarded stripped down versions.
I don't think it is possible to compare Vista's horrific failure to please with the minor problems and complaints (like the new dock's fuzzy blue buttons and folder icons) that people have had with Leopard (for which there are at least a couple of workarounds). Vista has been a deployment disaster with people begging for a downgrade. Leopard has not.
I'm afraid any attempt to make comparisons between the two with regards to their market failings is baseless hyperbole.
Apple, Microsoft, and some Linux Distros, are in such a rush to put out new features, or redesign/re-implement old ones, and appease the appetites of fanboi geeks, or appease media buisness partners, or entice upgrades, that they are putting out pure, bug riddled, bloated, unstable, dog poop.
That's why I've grown to appreciate Linux distros like Debian (stable branch) and Slackware. With those distros, stuff just works, the system is efficient and stable beyond belief, and the overall user experience is awesome.
Point being, Fedora, Leopard, Vista, et al, are perfect examples of rush to feature bloat and the bugs that come with it. And it's time for producers of software, proprietary and open source alike, just need to get back to basics, and strong QA.
BTW - I'm typing this on Debian Etch install - efficient, stable, easy, just plain excellent.
Gnome is stable, but damn is it conservative on features.
If I want to upload an image, I'd better have that directory's window already open somewhere on the desktop so I can tell what I'm uploading.
I can have compiz, but an animated GIF for a desktop? Nope.
Individual screensaver configuration? You'll be told flatly you don't need that feature.
Consistent interface for wireless encryption settings regardless of chipset? They'll wait for Novell to write it for them.
Hell, the printer wizard only changed because they imported KDE's, lock stock and barrel (down to the same Apply/Save buttons).
Gnome 3.0 implies that there's room for improvement in Gnome, and Gnome's dev staff is miserly about admitting this.
but EMC's Retrospect worked just fine under Tiger
Bahahahahaha no.
Retrospect had unicode problems that screwed the pooch on backups and they took at least a year to fix them. A misnamed preference file from Broderbund's Kid Pix borked the entire thing because management at Dantz insisted cross-platform compatibility was more important than functionality.
As far as why Time Machine doesn't do block-level backups... it's a good idea in theory but a serious problem down the road for an OS designed to run multiple filesystems (and by multiple I don't count FAT). Faster is not always better. It's more desirable, I'll give him that.
Oh, and I haven't bothered to upgrade to Leopard either. Tiger was underwhelming enough as it is, crapped all over a major system update to the point of wrecking the HD, and in the past year I've been examining what I can do with Ubuntu Linux.
Y'know, I love my Macs, and OS X, but if I have to hear one more dingbat go on about system crashes... well, I'll just be really annoyed.
I haven't seen a mainstream OS crash regularly since 2000. Windows has been pretty rock solid, in terms of stability since Windows 2000, and Mac since OS X. And for what it's worth, I thought the whole Wndows crashing aspect of the "Switch" ad campaign was disingenuous. I mean, c'mon, nobody's seen the kind of crashing they're were going on about in those ads since Windows 98SE. C'mon Ellen, what're you, stoned?
I run a pretty mixed shop with various flavors of Windows (including Vista), Linux, and Tiger and Leopard. And system crashes are about as frequent as hard drive failures. That is, it does happen, but hardly ever.
So, all you "journalists" writing about operating systems, and you ad people, lose the "crash" yap. It's not an issue, really, and hasn't been for nearly a decade.


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At the beginning of the disinformation® documentary Killer At Large Surgeon General Richard Carmona states that "obesity is a terror within. It is destroying our society from within and unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9/11 or any other terrorist event that you can point out…" Now a group of ex-military leaders is making another warning about obesity becoming a threat to national security. Here's the press release from the group, MISSION: READINESS:
More than 9 million young adults – 27 percent of all Americans age 17 to 24 – are too overweight to join the military, according to a new report released by MISSION: READINESS, a non-profit group of more than 130 retired admirals, generals and other senior military leaders.
Declaring that escalating rates of child obesity pose a serious threat to national security, retired military leaders joined Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today in support of new child nutrition legislation to help reduce the obesity epidemic and expand the pool of healthy young adults available for military service.
Representing MISSION: READINESS at the event were Lieutenant General Norman R. Seip, US Air Force (Ret.), Brigadier General Clara L. Adams-Ender, US Army (Ret.), Rear Admiral James A. Barnett, Jr., US Navy (Ret.) and Amy Dawson Taggart, National Director of MISSION: READINESS.
While noting other major factors that can keep young adults from joining the military – such as lacking a high school diploma or having a serious criminal record – the report, called Too Fat to Fight, said that weight problems have become the leading medical reason why recruits are rejected for service. The retired generals and admiral pointed to the report's analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing a dramatic increase in obesity among young adults across the country since 1995. In the last decade, the number of states with 40 percent or more of young adults considered to be overweight has risen from one state to 39 states.
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Secretary Vilsack, Senator Lugar and the retired military leaders noted additional research showing that up to 40 percent of children's daily calorie intake occurs at school and that 80 percent of children who were overweight between the ages of 10 to 15 were obese by age 25. They said that improving school nutrition is therefore a crucial area for reducing or preventing child obesity.
The retired military leaders called on Congress to enact a robust child nutrition bill that would:
- Get the junk food and remaining high-calorie beverages out of the nation's schools
- Support the administration's proposal of an increase of $1 billion per year for ten years for child nutrition programs that would improve nutrition standards, upgrade the quality of meals served in schools and enable more children to have access to these programs, and
- Help develop new school-based strategies, based on research, that help parents and children adopt healthier life-long eating and exercise habits.
Despite the high number of young adults with weight problems, the retired military leaders noted that all services of the military currently are meeting their recruitment goals, due in part to the poor economy that is encouraging more young people to enlist.
"While we are meeting our recruitment targets today, those of us who have served in command roles are worried about the trends we see," Rear Admiral Barnett said. "Our national security in the year 2030 is absolutely dependent on reversing the alarming rates of child obesity. When over a quarter of young adults are too fat to fight, we need to take notice. We urge Congress to take action on child nutrition this year."
Amy Dawson Taggart, national director of MISSION: READINESS, noted that military concerns about the health and fitness of children are not new. "In 1946, Congress passed the National School Lunch Act as a matter of national security," she said. "Back then young people were undernourished, and now they are poorly nourished. Too many kids are carrying too many pounds, and improving school nutrition is an important place to start. This isn't about looking good in a uniform, it's about being healthy and fit to do the work of the nation."
Brigadier General Adams-Ender said that national security concerns about obesity and lack of physical fitness today are very similar to concerns about poor nutrition following World War II. "Both demand action from Congress," she said.
"Retired admirals and generals stood up in the past to make it clear that America is only as healthy as our nation's children. Childhood obesity is now undermining our national security, and we need to start turning it around today," Brig. Gen. Adams-Ender said. "For the sake of our national security, we call on Congress to pass a strong child nutrition bill this year."
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With the nicer weather this week most of us can finally see that spring is just around the corner in Montana. Last week I spent the last of a 10 day vacation in Hawaii. I traveled to Maui with my girlfriend Bernadine, we then met up with my brother Dan Ward and his wife Mary who are from South Dakota. It was the second annual trip that we all have taken together. This time is was especially enjoyable because we did next to nothing every day we were on the island. Outside of doing a couple of tourist things we just layed on the beach and did a little bit of snorkeling. Mostly we just enjoyed the beautiful weather with the temperatures in the low 80's for most of the trip.
The warm weather I experienced did get me to start thinking about doing some spring fishing in Montana. There is still ice fishing on selected lakes but with warmer temperatures in store for most of the coming weekend stable ice will start to disappear so be careful. There are reports that Georgetown Lake still has 30 inches of ice and the trout are biting. The latest report out of the Helena Regulating Reservoir is the kokanee fishing has been red hot. Anglers are using an orange, black, or pink jig head tipped with a maggot or corn. The fish are being caught in 25-30 feet of water and the ice thickness is 12-14 inches. Rainbow trout fishing through the ice on Pond 4 on the south end of Canyon Ferry Reservoir has also been good. The trout fishing on Hauser Reservoir in the causeway has been slow but some anglers are doing okay fishing the open water by York Bridge. Holter Reservoir has ice on the north end by the dam but the ice is to stable to fish. Shore and boat anglers are having little bit of luck fishing for trout by the Gates of Mountain. The walleye and perch fishing has been slow on all three reservoirs.
River fishing is really picking up with the warmer temperatures. Look for the skwala stone fly hatch to kick in on the Bitterroot River. Scott Anderson from the Montana Fishing Company recommends to fish the trout on the tail-outs of deep runs, when doing so try a patts rubber legs or a bitch creek of any size and color and you should do well. On the Clark Fork River try using a san jaun worm or any stone fly nymph pattern. Anderson also reports that Noxon Reservoir still has 10 inches of ice and the northern pike fishing continues to be good.
A couple of sportsman reminders you now need a 2012 Montana Fishing License and the Montana Elk and Deer big game application deadline has been moved up and is March 15th this year, which is next Thursday. Another sure reminder that spring is coming! This Sunday March 11th at 2am you need to move your clocks ahead one hour as we spring forward to Daylight Savings Time.
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Native fish reintroduction work continues on Yellowstone's upper Gibbon River
Grizzly trapping slated for Yellowstone Park
"Native Plants and Should I Eat This?"
Animal Wonders at Placid Lake State Park
Fisheries Presentation at Bannack State Park
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EViEWS Safety Systems, Inc. (EViEWS), a provider of leading-edge traffic technology for the rapidly evolving Intelligent Transportation Systems world, signs up TwinCrest Technologies, a premier Texas transportation distributor, to represent EViEWS' full product line in the emerging markets of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
TwinCrest Technologies, a leader in representing ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) manufacturers will be representing EViEWS cutting edge ITS technologies. EViEWS offers emergency preemption, emergency prioritization, transit signal prioritization, as well as their unique product line of dynamic message signs and traffic time synchronization cards to the growing ITS market.
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Business in Nebraska vol. 58, no. 672
Copyright 2002 by Bureau of Business Research, University of Nebraska.
Nebraska did not fully partake in the 2001 national recession , but growth rates in retail sales, employment, and personal income were reduced. The reductions were due to a variety of causes that often were specific to a sector or group of sectors of economic activity. In some cases the growth in employment was restrained by labor availability. In other cases employment growth was restrained by the slow growth and recession in the national economy, especially its manufacturing sector. A falloff in tourism following the events of September 11 was partly to blame for the falloff in the growth rate in services. Growth in personal income was restrained by the reduced growth in wages and salaries and by the loss of income by the holders of wealth. Net taxable retail sales were restrained by the lower personal income growth, coupled with a diversion of spending on other retail sales to motor vehicles. Net farm income continues to crawl at depressed levels not seen in 15 years. Only the willingness of the federal government to continue to support the industry with a system of farm payments keeps the current near disaster in Nebraska's farm sector from becoming a complete disaster.
The national economy continued stumbling in 2002. After a huge first quarter, the nation's inflation-adjusted growth rate slowed markedly. Concerns are mounting that the manufacturing sector has failed to mount a vigorous rebound from the 2001 downturn. Consumer confidence has flagged just before the vital Christmas shopping season. Some suggest a second dip is likely, especially in manufacturing. In the face of current information on progress in 2002, it appears that the year will be one of modest recovery at the national level.


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One of the most iconic 20th-century fashion photographers, Horst was responsible for over 150 Vogue covers and will be the subject of a major exhibition in 2014 at London's Victoria & Albert Museum.
"This photograph shows the influence of the surrealist movement. The only surrealist I knew was Dali, because the rest were anti-Cocteau. They thought he was rock-bottom – too much in society, too homosexual."
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David Seidner, Martin Harrison , Lisa Fonssagrives – Three Decades of Classic Fashion Photography, Schirmer Mosel, Munch 1996, p. 125
Valentine Lawford, Horst, His Work and His World, Knopf 1984, p. 168
Horst P. Horst (born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann) was one of the towering figures of 20th century fashion photography. Best known for his work with Vogue—who called him "photography's alchemist"—Horst rose to prominence in Paris in the interwar years, publishing his first work with the magazine in 1931. In the decades that followed, Horst's experimentations with radical composition, nudity, double exposures, and other avant-garde techniques would produce some of the most iconic fashion images ever, like Mainbocher Corset and Lisa with Harp (both 1939). As The New York Times once described, "Horst tamed the avant-garde to serve fashion." Though associated most closely with fashion photography, Horst captured portraits of many of the 20th century's brightest luminaries, dabbling with influences as far-ranging as Surrealism and Romanticism. "I like taking photographs, because I like life," he once said. "And I love photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity."
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Camp Shane isn't a fat camp, but a place kids learn to take charge of their own bodies. Cara will be an inspiration to our campers-David Ettenberg, Co-Owner, Camp Shane
Catskill Mountains, Ferndale, New York (PRWEB) July 04, 2012
Cara Castronuova, trainer on the NBC TV show "The Biggest Loser-Couples" will be visiting Camp Shane, the longest running weight loss camp for kids and teens, on Friday, July 20th, 2012.
She will be there to announce "The Cara Castronuova Get Fit Grant" which her Knockout Obesity Foundation is co-sponsoring with Camp Shane to afford camp sessions (room and board included) to the camp for three lucky applicants.
The winning campers completed a questionnaire detailing why they would like to attend Camp Shane, as well as other questions about how they enjoy learning and why they would like to lose weight. Winners were chosen by Castronuova herself.
The grant winners are David Sloush, who will attend for nine weeks. David lost his mother two years ago and lives with his dad. His sister helped him with the application. The second winner is Lauren Despins who will attend for six weeks. Cara was impressed with Lauren's determination and letter writing campaign! And the third winner is Anthony Rogers who lives with his grandmother and would like to lose weight to help get him back on track with school and a hopeful acting career.
While visiting Camp Shane, located in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Castronuova will present a motivating talk, share a healthy meal with campers and run a fitness class with an emphasis on her specialty of boxing and pugilism.
Castronuova is a two-time New York Golden Gloves Champion, a licensed boxing trainer and a former USA Boxing Coach. She brings the lessons learned in the ring to bear in her work as a certified personal trainer.
"I am able to understand the hardships people have experienced and push them to get back up again," Castronuova says. "A fighter gets back up, no matter what."
On Saturday, July 21st, Castronuova will also visit the parents of the Camp Shane campers at Shane Diet & Fitness Resorts, the companion adult weight loss resort program, held at Honor's Haven Resort & Spa in nearby Ellenville, New York. She will share her own boxing experience and her belief that the sport is a fantastic full-body workout to help lose weight. Castronuova finds that such workouts help condition, tone and strengthen people's physiques and can help both the campers and their parents to achieve and maintain fitness.
"I heard about Camp Shane for many years as I was growing up. I did significant research and believe that Camp Shane is the very best weight loss camp. I love children and want to help kids that are overweight lose weight. I am truly delighted to be able to partner with Camp Shane to offer this chance to kids who want to lose weight, get healthy and face their future with pride, by being the best they can be," says Castronuova.
"Our counselors, fitness gurus, and nutrition experts will give them the tools they need to change their lives," says David Ettenberg, co-founder of the camp. "Camp Shane is not a 'fat camp,' but a place where kids learn how to eat, exercise through enjoyable activities, and get into the best shapes of their lives--while having more fun than they've ever had. They gain the confidence that comes with taking charge of their own bodies. Cara will be an inspiration to them."
For information about Camp Shane or Shane Diet & Fitness Resorts, visit http://www.campshane.com, call (914) 271-4141 or email office(at)campshane(dot)com.


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In all fairness to planners and consultants ("5-Year Plans Often Ignore the Real World," May 11), middle management often treats "the need to plan" the same way it treats "the need to listen to and involve subordinates"--essentially as a luxury that these busy and pressured managers cannot afford. The solution to the "effective planning problem" is not the emasculation of the planning process so prevalent in many of our corporations.
Rather, it is the recognition that effective planning is a continuous process, not one etched in an inflexible five-year mold.
The corporate plan should be the middle manager's access to greater quantities of the scarce corporate assets of people, plant, equipment and top management's time--but only on the basis of guidelines that can be monitored by the (company's) financial and management system, and under which failure and success can be dealt with fairly and quickly. The corporate plan should be the middle manager's road to the top. It should be open continuously, rather than once every five years.
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Samsung WEP300 Bluetooth HeadsetThe Samsung WEP300 is a decent and affordable entry-level Bluetooth headset, if you don't mind average call quality.
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President Barack Obama and company marked the Supreme Court's historic ruling on marriage equality by decking out the White House in a rainbow of colors.
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I had a meeting this morning–4 VP's and me, the new kid. We talked about workflows and technical stuff and what we're going to pitch this afternoon.
After the meeting, I went to the kitchen to get a cup of coffee. One of them came in behind me and said very quietly "You're very good at that…" and gave me a cryptic look.
"At making coffee?" I asked, and then poured the milk.
"No, at meetings. You made all the right suggestions, you kept your focus on the messages we wanted to convey, and you made it all seem like their idea. You're very good."
I laughed and said, "I'm a lady."
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October 5, 2007
Aker American Shipping ASA to become two companies?
According to a stock exchange announcement, the board of directors of Aker American Shipping ASA has decided to evaluate splitting the company into two stock-exchange-listed corporations - a ship-owning company and a shipbuilding yard - and thereby streamline operations.
Aker American Shipping`s activities comprise American Shipping Corporation, which is a fleet owner for ships built at the Philadelphia yard, and the Aker Philadelphia Shipyard.
The announcement says that "both the shipowning business and the shipyard have captured strong positions in robust and promising U.S. markets."
It says that "a streamlining of Aker American Shipping into two independent, stock-exchange-listed companies--the shipowner American Shipping Corporation and the shipbuilder Aker Philadelphia Shipyard--may be viewed as a natural and value-adding step in the development of the two businesses."
The board of directors aims to conclude its assessment of the matter in the fourth quarter of 2007. If the board recommends splitting Aker American Shipping, the action would be contingent upon approval by, among others, authorities and agencies in Philadelphia and the State of Pennsylvania and lenders.