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Posted on 04/04/2006 8:45:02 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Yesterday, Apple Computer Inc. turned 30 years old. But an equally significant anniversary occurred two Fridays ago: March 24 marked Mac OS X's fifth birthday.
Four major updates later, that operating system ranks as one of Apple's greatest successes. First, it broke the company's long streak of unfinished operating-system projects. Second, OS X has shown that it's possible to fix three of the worst parts of computing: adding programs, removing them and keeping everything in good working order...
...Mac OS X lives by three basic principles, which together make it easier to live with than any competitor.
The system is separate from everything else. (more)...
Each user's files are separate from everybody else's. (more) ...
Each application acts as one, indivisible file. (more)...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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I just upgraded my MacBook to 10.4.6 and rebooted. just as you posted this.
Just upgraded to 10.4.6 and Final Cut Studio Universal. Life is good.
It's probably a good idea to go to Disk Utility and repair permissions after installing 10.4.6.
I wanted to run Alsoft Disk warrior to put my directory in good order after installation but the computer refused to boot from the Alsoft CD until I fixed the permissions.
do you work for apple or something?
Love, love, love my MAC. Will never own anything else.
Years ago I used to have a Cub Scout Pack, and we had a room full of Macintoshes; vintage ones like Mac SE's and Mac 30's. We would hurry up and do all the Cub scout stuff for the first half hour then the rest was time on the Macs, 1 per boy. They would stay as late as their folks would let them. We had them all networked with Appletalk, with games like Mazewars and DeJaVue. This was the 1987-1989 era. Now those boys are all grown up and have become police men, dentists, and other professionals, and they still come back and we marvel on how far ahead of the times we were.
Happy Birthday OS X ping
10.4.6 update in process ....
....and you do a bang-up of job of it, too.
Need a link that explains how to copy the iMac hard drive (OS 10.4.2) onto an external hard drive.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
It's probably a good idea to go to Disk Utility and repair permissions after installing 10.4.6.
Do you want to clone your iMac to a Firewire drive, is that what you're asking?
I have a friend who used to do medical conferences in the late 80s. She and her coworkers all had Macs. They would get to their hotel room, set the systems where they could, plug them in and immediately be working together networked. And none of them were IT types.
Try that with any other system back then.
I want to back up my entire iMac hard drive onto an external hard disk (model: Fenton Drives) in case the iMac hard drive explodes or something. I'm using USB, not firewire. I've also read that you can make a bootable back-up copy of your hard disk.
Once in a while I get that little beachball spinning and spinning. I've read it could be an indication of a bad hard drive and I don't want to lose all my data.
Permissions
The beachball you're seeing may be a simple thing, and not an indicator of a problem.
Find the Disk Utility program on your Mac (probably in the Utilities folder which is inside the Applications folder). Run Disk Utility. Select your hard drive on the pane on the left, then on the right click 'Repair Permissions'.
This typically improves performance by 'reminding' the Mac of all the connections that need to occur between all of the files on your disk, in order for it to run smoothly. The beachball delay occurs because the Mac has to look for things on the disk. Once you run permissions repair it should speed things up. Do it once a week and things will stay fixed.
I use a program called MacJanitor that takes care of a bunch of routine tune-up type tasks.
Resources
Here are some great resources for keeping your Mac in shape:
Suggestions on improving OSX Speed (Technical Stuff)
Good luck-- let me know if you have any questions.
I use a shareware application called SuperDuper (cost is $20) to copy my Mac Mini drive to an external drive. However, if you want to be able to boot directly from the external drive, it needs to be on a Firewire connection.
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