The much anticiapted upgrade to OS X hasn’t gone so well. We spent a week testing one machine with all our RIPs, printers and other devices and most seemed fine. With the one or two that wasn’t ok we found a workaround anyway so off we went and upgraded the whole studio. Then things went badly wrong.
We run a Windows 2003 RAID server and the OS X finder seems to have a problem seeing files we’ve just updated, the result being that we have to wait a few minuites for the server to update before we can use the file on OS X. For the first couple of days we couldn’t figure out why the files we were dropping onto the imposition program weren’t the updated ones. Then there are the odd things to do with filename lengths.
There also seems to be an issue with postscripts made in Quark 6 and 6.5 but lets not go there.
Generally while we were able to do things at a fast pace with Mac OS9 and the server we’re now having to wait for OS X to agree with the server on what’s there before we progress with any job. Oh and sometimes doing “save as…” in Quark 6 will make some of the images disappear. I could go on but I’d rather spend the time doing something constructive but needless to say we’re not happy.
Oh joy.
I am so close to Mac OSX that I can smell the leather. I swear my G4 knows what coming as well as it’s started playing up more than usual the last few days with apps crashing all over the place. I’ll give it a couple of weeks and then see if I can get another 512mb of RAM in there.
Remember the remote sentry guns that made an appearence in the special edition version of Aliens? There’s actually a toy version available as “room defenders”.
Sadly the whole concept is ruined by some supposed satisfied customer quotes:
“It looks great, it’s fun and my room has never been safer!”
Er…yeah right.
Did I ever mention that a friend of mine from way back actually worked on the sentry guns for the film?
Hot off the press (or #edevelop as it’s otherwise known) is this nice little screenshot of the current Enlightenment DR17 build.
Your all jealous now aren’t you. Thanks to Codewarrior on #edevelop for the screenshot.
A month ago we were looking at upgrading the machines to OSX but, of course things never go to plan. We currently have one machine running with upgraded apps and spent the last four days trying to get it to talk to our various printers but as it’s not my machine then I only get to play with it after they’ve left work for the day.
Favourite bit so far? Discovering I have an Apache install to play with. Oh and that Expose might be more than just a neat trick.
Least favourite bit? That animation that takes place when minimizing a window. It just makes me feel sick.
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