More Leopard goodness. The office infrastructure I work in is all Windows, with a Windows 2003 AD controlling it all. I was having all sorts of issues with Tiger and the AD. I could use it as a directory, but because of AD and it’s proprietary Kerberos implementation, I could not use printersor any of the network shares. Just to print a document I was having to Remote Desktop into a Windows server.
There are some fixes. See: http://allinthehead.com/retro/218/accessing-a-windows-2003-share-from-os-x. But I am not the Domain admin, and the change was refused.
I was hoping that Leopard’s implementation of Samba would fix the problem, but in the list of 300 improvements, samba was not mentioned. Anyway, my first time in the office in the 2 weeks since Leopard’s release, and it works! I can interact with the windows network seamlessly. I guess if it’s not one of the 300 new features it’s one of the +’s.
Either way I am happy, whether it was deliberate in the apple’s implementation of Samba, or simply a feature of the newer version included in Leopard, it works.
So Scoble is having a rant about his apple, see here - Caught in Apple restart hell. And I understand his frustration I really do. But all I can say is good luck with vista buddy.
He is having some issues with his macbook pro, and this type of thing does, from time to time, happen to a select few that I like to call the unlucky muppets. And yes there are some horror stories of Apple support. There are also some great stories. Apple will eventually get around to fixing his computer, and he will be able to return the happy user experience that is OSX, but instead he chucks a tanty and returns to his “trusty” windows machine.
Well you can trust windows. You can trust it to give you constant frustrations, usability hell, virus scares and firewall issues. All the reasons why vista now asks you incessantly whether or not you want to do something you just explicitly executed. As though the user were suffering a multiple personality disorder, and it thought it better check, in case you changed your mind about running solitaire since clicking on the application icon.
So, yeah apple isn’t perfect, but on the whole it is a better computing experience. I guess it is a choice, put up with a speed bump, a glitch, on an otherwise good journey with apple, or jump on a very smooth, fast highway straight to Hell with Windows.
According to Apple’s front page, iTunes plus tracks are now 99c in the US Store, the same price as regular iTunes tracks. Yippee! Haven’t confirmed it in the Aus Music Store yet, but a step in the right direction.Hopefully this is indicative of DRM across the industry, and this bad experiment in greed can finally go away. I hope Sony are paying attention.
I like Leopard, but the default background is far too Xanadu for me. To change the background image on the login screen open a terminal and type:
$ sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow DesktopPicture "/path/to/your/picture"
To change it back – just remove this preference:
$ sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow DesktopPicture
The only thing to watch is permissions, the image file needs to be readable and accessible to everyone. Either make the image file permissions 755, and make each parent directory executable, or just copy your image to the “/Users/Shared” directory.
I got leopard, and I love it. The pop-out preview doodad makes the upgrade worth it alone. I was a bit confused though when “Connected Server” icons weren’t showing up on the desktop. No iDisk, Webdav, SMB icons on the desktop. I like having those icons on the desktop. It’s an easy fix, just open the preferences in the finder, and tick the “Connected Servers” dialog.
Title says it all, I have my leopard box. And it was a gift from daveb, one of my fellow sumostylers, so the upgrade costs didn’t sting …. well it didn’t sting me anyway.
I haven’t installed it yet, I had to use my mac for some video and keynote stuff this weekend, and I didn’t want to tempt fate like an baboon waving it’s massive red butt at a bull. Yessiree, this baboon is much smarter than that.
So I will add to the already cluttered posts, from people who’s opinion doesn’t matter, on what I think of leopard this week. Well if I get time, my wife is having a baby this week and she might want me around a bit.