Comments on: Panther: So Broken

By: Chriatian Oettinger

Chriatian Oettinger — Thu, 01 Apr 2004 15:17:23 +0000

I upgraded to Panther with a bit of fear, for you are runing a risk with any new version of a system. (What do you expect? This is the world of affordble Home Computers that must be able to do anything for the price of nothing.)

I have absolutely no problem at all with panther but Macromedias MX2004 products, and I can tell you who is to blame in this case. And the new features are breathtaking (although I have to admit that normal users can’t appreciate them. To name only 2: PS and pdf-support inside the system, Font-management inside the system). There is no other system that offers something compareable.

By: Kent

Kent — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:38:00 +0000

SJC,

You did the right thing when you bought a Powerbook instead of the ugly fisher price boat anchor that is a Dell laptop.

That it is of course, unless you *ACTUALLY LIKE* an OS full of ads, getting a new virus or worm every two days, trying to repair fuxored registries, having to clean out 85 lbs. of spyware every week, and looking at an interface that resembles window’s 2000 in a blue and green plastic bubble clownsuit.

Actually, XP is the best OS to come out of Redmond yet. But despite what the Blurbonator says, OSX is still better than XP in many fundamental regards.

By: sjc

sjc — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:21:05 +0000

My name is SJC, and sometimes I skim.

Just tell me I did the right thing by buying that Powerbook instead of a Dell, and it’ll all be OK.

By: Kent

Kent — Sun, 28 Mar 2004 20:16:44 +0000

My box has become MORE stable after installing Panther.
hm…

The only issues I’ve had are with Macromedia products doing flaky things and crashing more than usual. Apple
has recieved scores bug reports for me do to MX2004 products going *poof* and dissapearing in a cloud of smoke.

One thing that has helped me gain application stablity (besides fixing persmissions regulary) is using font agent pro to manage and most importantly REPAIR damaged fonts. Repairing damaged fonts seemed to help things greatly.

Did you upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3 during you install?

By: dj blurb

dj blurb — Sun, 28 Mar 2004 02:01:14 +0000

I do mention that Apple and Adobe need to work it out.

Computers suck, don’t they?

By: sjc

sjc — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 22:05:24 +0000

Er, dumb question: if a third-party application is causing the OS to crash, doesn’t the third party share some blame as well?

By: Emily Petrick

Emily Petrick — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:43:22 +0000

I ordered the Panther upgrade right away, and then, like everything else, it sat on my desk for weeks and weeks. In the meantime, I’d upgraded to 10.2.8 via auto-update whatever it’s called, and then lo and behold, Panther will not install at all over 10.2.8. So here I sit. Non-upgraded, but actually quite content.

By: Marco

Marco — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:06:21 +0000

Agreed here too. I’ve been building all my files off the server for quite some time. Happy as a clam, Quark-ing, AI-ing, Pshop-ing…

By: Rengirl

Rengirl — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:39:23 +0000

No problems with Panther here either. I do a lot of Adobe CS-ing, Flash MX-ing, and Dreamweaver-ing but none of this server linking you speak of.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:39:17 +0000

Dude, you need more sleep. Maybe you need to get a rubber chicken to ward off the evil spirits (I keep plenty on any for the data center at work) but my G4 has been rock solid since I installed Panther. Granted I don’t use Adobe anything (except Acrobat Reader) so I can’t speak to the problem you were running into.