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10.4 - extensive review & executive summary
by tdubins＠cs.umanitoba.ca 17 May '05

17 May '05

This may be of interest. Or not. YMMV. Listed below are a pair of links to webpages -- at opposite ends of the same spectrum -- which give a handy guide to what's new! and improved! in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger"... A very long, detailed, comprehensive review, including philosophical ramblings and opinions, from Ars Technica: <http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars>. Apple's own list of the "200+ New Features", with synopses, listed by category: <http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/over200.html>. -- Tom Dubinski Phone: +1.204.474-8841 Computer Science Fax: +1.204.474-7609 University of Manitoba E-Mail: tom_dubinski(a)umanitoba.ca Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~tdubins/

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INTEREST: Microsoft game console Xbox 360 demos running on Macintosh
by billing 15 May '05

15 May '05

As reported in Feb, 2004, Microsoft developed XBOX 2 on PowerMac G5s: ...from: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=14407 Xbox 2 SDK released on cool Apple Power Mac G5s By Paul Dutton: Saturday 28 February 2004, 15:59 WE'VE JUST got word that the Software Development Kit (SDK) for Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox 2 has now been released to Developers. As we reported earlier, IBM processors are indeed the Xbox 2 development platform of choice. The big news to us is that the XBOX 2 SDK has been seeded to developers on dual Apple Power Mac G5 systems running a custom Windows NT Kernel. [...] ..from: http://news.com.com/Xbox+360+demos+hanging+from+Apple+tree/ 2100-1043_3-5706658.html?part=rss&tag=5706658&subj=news Xbox 360 demos running on Macs Published: May 13, 2005, 2:11 PM PDT By Richard Shim Staff Writer, CNET News.com The nifty clips of video games [shown during a pre-taped MTV broadcast on Thursday night] supporting Microsoft's new Xbox 360 console are running on Apple machines, Microsoft confirmed on Friday. "We purchased a number of Apple G5's because very specific hardware components of the G5 allow developers to emulate some of the technology behind future Xbox products and services," a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement. "This is an interim development tool that will be replaced with a more powerful and comprehensive solution later." The current systems shown at product introductions are prototypes. Final systems are expected to come out in all three major regions-- North America, Europe and Asia--by the end of the year. The prices for the new consoles have yet to be announced, but executives have said they won't be released until after the E3 game conference in Los Angeles next week. Some details have been released on the new console, such as its 20GB hard drive, DVD-ROM drive and 500MHz ATI graphics processor, but others will be announced during the conference. Executives have said that up to 40 titles for the Xbox 360 will be announced by the end of the year. The new console from Microsoft is based on a similar IBM PowerPC architecture used in Apple computers--the Xbox 360 uses three 3.2GHz symmetrical cores, according to the company. Apple has been using PowerPC chips since 1994 and Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs has said the company is happy with IBM's PowerPC family of chips. Microsoft recently switched processors from an Intel chip used in the first Xbox console to a custom Xbox processor based on Big Blue's Power technology in its new Xbox 360.

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SPSS on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
by Frank J. Elgar 13 May '05

13 May '05

For anyone else bothered by this incompatibility with SPSS 11, the only work-around I have found to date is to run SPSS for Windows under Virtual PC. One upshot is that some add-on modules (eg, complex samples) are available only for the Windows 13.0 version. Frank J. Elgar, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Family Social Sciences University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2 On 13-May-05, at 12:00 PM, apple-list-request(a)lists.umanitoba.ca wrote: > Send apple-list mailing list submissions to > apple-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/apple-list > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > apple-list-request(a)lists.umanitoba.ca > > You can reach the person managing the list at > apple-list-owner(a)lists.umanitoba.ca > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of apple-list digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. FYI: SPSS 11.0.3 doesn't work under TIGER (billing) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:18:25 -0500 > From: billing <wayne_billing(a)umanitoba.ca> > Subject: [APPLE-L]: FYI: SPSS 11.0.3 doesn't work under TIGER > To: Apple List <apple-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca> > Message-ID: <85EE2D4A-3A05-4F7E-A147-3D81E24C6FCD(a)umanitoba.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > Subject: ***SPSS Proactive Notification***Compatibility with > Macintosh OS X 10.4 > Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 00:05:11 -0500 > From: proactive(a)spss.com > To: Will_Christie(a)umanitoba.ca > > On Friday, April 29th, Apple released Macintosh OS X 10.4, otherwise > known as > Tiger. Our testing has discovered that SPSS 11.0.3 for Macintosh OS > X will > not run on the 10.4 version of the OS X operating system. We are > working on > resolving this problem and a patch will be made available as soon as > possible > to allow SPSS 11.0.3 to function on Macintosh OS X 10.4. A proactive > notification will be sent to you when the patch is available for > downloading. > > SPSS apologizes for any inconvenience this has caused. If you have any > questions or problems, please contact your local SPSS support team. > We are > continually striving to improve our communication to our clients. > However, if > you do not wish to receive further proactive e-mails from SPSS > Support, please > reply to this message with REMOVE on the subject line. > > Thank you for your patience, > > SPSS Technical Support > > -- > Will_Christie(a)UManitoba.CA "Chronic remorse as all the > moralists are > Instructional Software Coordinator agreed is a most undesirable > sentiment. > Academic Computing & Networking If you have behaved badly, > repent, make > University of Manitoba what amends you can and address > yourself > 622 Engineering to the task of behaving better > next > Ph: 204-474-9475 Fx: 204-474-7920 time. On no account brood over > your > wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck > is not > Aldous Huxley-- the best way of getting clean." > > > > ------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________ > apple-list mailing list > apple-list(a)lists.umanitoba.ca > http://lists.umanitoba.ca/mailman/listinfo/apple-list > > > End of apple-list Digest, Vol 102, Issue 1 > ****************************************** >

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FYI: SPSS 11.0.3 doesn't work under TIGER
by billing 12 May '05

12 May '05

Subject: ***SPSS Proactive Notification***Compatibility with Macintosh OS X 10.4 Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 00:05:11 -0500 From: proactive(a)spss.com To: Will_Christie(a)umanitoba.ca On Friday, April 29th, Apple released Macintosh OS X 10.4, otherwise known as Tiger. Our testing has discovered that SPSS 11.0.3 for Macintosh OS X will not run on the 10.4 version of the OS X operating system. We are working on resolving this problem and a patch will be made available as soon as possible to allow SPSS 11.0.3 to function on Macintosh OS X 10.4. A proactive notification will be sent to you when the patch is available for downloading. SPSS apologizes for any inconvenience this has caused. If you have any questions or problems, please contact your local SPSS support team. We are continually striving to improve our communication to our clients. However, if you do not wish to receive further proactive e-mails from SPSS Support, please reply to this message with REMOVE on the subject line. Thank you for your patience, SPSS Technical Support -- Will_Christie(a)UManitoba.CA "Chronic remorse as all the moralists are Instructional Software Coordinator agreed is a most undesirable sentiment. Academic Computing & Networking If you have behaved badly, repent, make University of Manitoba what amends you can and address yourself 622 Engineering to the task of behaving better next Ph: 204-474-9475 Fx: 204-474-7920 time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not Aldous Huxley-- the best way of getting clean."

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FIREFOX: Security Advisory (May 8, 2005)
by billing 09 May '05

09 May '05

...from: http://www.mozilla.org/security/#Security_Alerts Security Advisory (May 8, 2005) The Mozilla Foundation is aware of two potentially critical Firefox security vulnerabilities as reported publicly Saturday, May 7th. There are currently no known active exploits of these vulnerabilities although a "proof of concept" has been reported. Changes to the Mozilla Update web service have been made to mitigate the risk of an exploit. Mozilla is aggressively working to provide a more comprehensive solution to these potential vulnerabilities and will provide that solution in a forthcoming security update. Users can further protect themselves today by temporarily disabling JavaScript. For more information about the vulnerabilities, see the advisory at the mozilla.org site. Further information including the availability of updates will be posted at www.mozilla.org.

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[Fwd: ***SPSS Proactive Notification***Compatibility with Macintosh OS X 10.4]
by Will Christie 06 May '05

06 May '05

Doug's notification to me about the Mac mailing list was timely. SPSS has sent me an E-mail outlining problems with SPSS 11.0.3 and the latest version of OS X. As soon as they notify me of the patch I will pass the information on. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: ***SPSS Proactive Notification***Compatibility with Macintosh OS X 10.4 Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 00:05:11 -0500 From: proactive(a)spss.com To: Will_Christie(a)umanitoba.ca On Friday, April 29th, Apple released Macintosh OS X 10.4, otherwise known as Tiger. Our testing has discovered that SPSS 11.0.3 for Macintosh OS X will not run on the 10.4 version of the OS X operating system. We are working on resolving this problem and a patch will be made available as soon as possible to allow SPSS 11.0.3 to function on Macintosh OS X 10.4. A proactive notification will be sent to you when the patch is available for downloading. SPSS apologizes for any inconvenience this has caused. If you have any questions or problems, please contact your local SPSS support team. We are continually striving to improve our communication to our clients. However, if you do not wish to receive further proactive e-mails from SPSS Support, please reply to this message with REMOVE on the subject line. Thank you for your patience, SPSS Technical Support -- Will_Christie(a)UManitoba.CA "Chronic remorse as all the moralists are Instructional Software Coordinator agreed is a most undesirable sentiment. Academic Computing & Networking If you have behaved badly, repent, make University of Manitoba what amends you can and address yourself 622 Engineering to the task of behaving better next Ph: 204-474-9475 Fx: 204-474-7920 time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not Aldous Huxley-- the best way of getting clean."

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Re: [APPLE-L]: Fwd: [C-REPS] SAS for Macintosh usage
by Will Christie 06 May '05

06 May '05

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Juris P. Svenne wrote: > >4.) Do you know with whom you need to speak regarding software > >licences held by the University, or do you know which webpage lists > >the existing software licences held by the University? > > No, would like to know. Hi Juris (et al), I'm copying the list on this E-mail as they may be interested in this section. The typical inquiry for software should go through: 1. Your LAN administrator, if they don't know then, 2. Myself. If I don't have it or know about it then, 3a. ACN's Software Team to request funding (for a course). 3b. The Bookstore (to purchase an individual copy). I try to keep a list of all licenses held by the University. The information I collect is done on a voluntary basis, so I won't claim to know all of the available licenses the University has. http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/sw-team/distribute/dept_sw.html I also keep a list of the licenses that ACN maintains for the general use of the University. Online application forms are available here. Most of these include at least a media fee, and some of them require yearly licensing fees (although their costs are significantly cheaper than if you purchased the package on your own). http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/sw-team/distribute/acn_site.html Over the years ACN's Software Team's discretionary budget has been going more and more into maintenance agreements for existing packages, which leaves little for course requests. We'd still like to support funding for student courses, so this has resulted in licensing fees for some packages, and our most recent request to discontinue the SAS for Mac usage. If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to contact me. > >5.) If you aren't using SAS for your statistical analyses, which > >software application(s) are you using? > > I foresee a need to use Mathematica. We have an application form here: http://www.umanitoba.ca/acn/support/pdf/mathematicaapp.pdf Home-use licenses are available however there is a yearly license fee for those. -- Will_Christie(a)UManitoba.CA "Chronic remorse as all the moralists are Instructional Software Coordinator agreed is a most undesirable sentiment. Academic Computing & Networking If you have behaved badly, repent, make University of Manitoba what amends you can and address yourself 622 Engineering to the task of behaving better next Ph: 204-474-9475 Fx: 204-474-7920 time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not Aldous Huxley-- the best way of getting clean."

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Fwd: [C-REPS] SAS for Macintosh usage
by Doug Hamilton 05 May '05

05 May '05

Hello Everyone, Many of you might not realize is that there is an internal email list, like the apple-list, but for University computer support personnel. ACN (Academic Computing and Networking) recently submitted a request for input to that email list. ACN is looking into the possibility of recovering budgetary dollars by terminating unnecessary software licences, of which SAS for the Macintosh is a potential candidate. To that end, they are asking Macintosh users to respond to the following questions: 1.) Are there any users of SAS for the Macintosh on campus? 2.) Are the University's SAS users being served via the Windows, Unix and Linux versions instead? And I'll add three more questions, 3.) Were you even aware that there was a SAS licence for Macintosh systems on campus? 4.) Do you know with whom you need to speak regarding software licences held by the University, or do you know which webpage lists the existing software licences held by the University? 5.) If you aren't using SAS for your statistical analyses, which software application(s) are you using? I would ask that if you know of any graduate students, staff or faculty whom you believe should be given an opportunity for input into this issue, please forward this message onto them. For the sake of thoroughness, I've including the original posting from Will at the end of this message. Please respond directly to Will Christie (chrstie(a)cc.umanitoba.ca), and if you don't mind please 'cc' me as well, as I would be curious to see the responses. ACN will be renewing the SAS contract in August, so they would like feedback as soon as possible. Regards, Doug ------------- Doug Hamilton, BA, MA, APP Senior Apple Computer Consultant Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 204-474-6196 (Ph.) 204-474-7556 (Fax) http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/ Begin forwarded message: > From: Will Christie <chrstie(a)cc.umanitoba.ca> > Date: May 5, 2005 2:03:20 PM CDT (CA) > Subject: [C-REPS] SAS for Macintosh usage > > > The University has an enterprise license for SAS that is not based > on machine count but rather on the number of operating systems that > are required by our institution. The cost of this contract is > substantial and ACN is looking at discontinuing the licenses for > unneeded operating systems. SAS for Macintosh is one potential > candidate. > > The current version of SAS is 9. SAS for Mac is still on version 6 > with no plans to bring it up-to-date with other OSs. Are there any > users of SAS for Mac? Are the University's SAS users being served > with the Windows, Unix and Linux versions instead? ACN will be > renewing our SAS contract in August, so your feedback before then > will be appreciated. > > -- > Will_Christie(a)UManitoba.CA "Chronic remorse as all the > moralists are > Instructional Software Coordinator agreed is a most undesirable > sentiment. > Academic Computing & Networking If you have behaved badly, > repent, make > University of Manitoba what amends you can and address > yourself > 622 Engineering to the task of behaving better > next > Ph: 204-474-9475 Fx: 204-474-7920 time. On no account brood over > your > wrongdoing. Rolling in the > muck is not > Aldous Huxley-- the best way of getting clean."

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OSX: Tiger Upgrade. well, where to begin?
by billing 05 May '05

05 May '05

There are various things you should do before you actually move over to TIGER. 1) Purchase a copy of Tiger. Well OK, this could the second last thing on this list but who can wait?! ::-0 The other items should be done before you bring your Tiger DVD near your computer.... just to be sure. 2) Back up your important data. There are various ways of doing this: - burn important data to CD: the definitive source of help for this is.... the HELP menu. In the search field select "Search all Help" and type in the word "burn". This should get you on the way. - burn important data to DVD (if you're lucky enough to have a DVD burner) (see previous HELP suggestion) - copy important data to another hard drive/computer. There are various ways of doing this but the simplest is to connect an external FireWire drive to your computer and use that. You can also connect another computer in "Disk Mode". Search all HELP for "disk mode". You should see an entry for "Transferring files between two computers using FireWire". Check it out. - if you have a .Mac account, you might also contemplate using the .Mac Backup utility. Backup is free with .Mac and fairly straightforward. You check off the bits you want backed up and set the backup destination (.Mac account, CD, DVD, other hard drive, etc.) and you're off. It didn't seem to list everything I had wanted to backup, however, but it did do things like preferences, iTunes catalogue, etc. - lastly, is Carbon Copy Cloner, a free utility (although donations are accepted) available at: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html The downside of this is this won't work under Tiger... yet. The author is making changes even as you read this. I haven't used this but have heard people talk about its use. It is easy to back up everything, apparently, and restore it later..... to versions 10.1-10.3. Like I said, 10.4 is coming.... - all of the above. Just how important is your "important data" to you?! 3) fix your hard drive. Chances are that things have gone slightly awry on your drive over time and you may not be aware of it. Apple provides the "Disk Utility" to handle this. Now you can find this utility on your hard drive but to be able to fix anything you must boot with your original OSX install disk 1 and launch "Disk Utility" from that menu. If you launch from your local hard drive you will be able to Find problems but not Fix them. HELP can be helpful here as well if you search for "disk repair" and also check out the HELP within "Disk Utility" itself. I would suggest that you do both "Repair Permissions" and "Repair Disk" for you drive since they fix different things. 4) Now that you've spent countless hours backing up (you did back up your important files that you can't recreate and won't be able to work without, didn't you?) and fixing things, now you're ready to install Tiger. You have basically two choices (well, technically three but two are just variations on a theme). You can "install in place" (referred to in the "Installation and Setup Guide" as "Upgrade OS X". This basically deletes anything to do with your old system and installs 10.4 in it's place. The variant of this is "Archive and Install". This will install the complete new system for you but first it archives your old System, applications, etc. (into a folder named "Previous System) and then does the install. You won't be able to boot from the "Previous System" but you can copy things out into your new Tigerly world. There is also a "Scorched Earth" option - well, OK, Apple doesn't call it that but, well, you get the idea. "Erase and Install" does just that. It erases your entire hard drive (well, the one you select during the install process) and then installs 10.4 into this pristine space. The upside is that you are pretty much guarenteed no hard drive problems (yes, I know, you did the hard drive repair earlier.... but what if...) and you are definitely guarenteed that OS 10.4 Tiger will be the first things installed onto this hard drive - which might make it perform better since it now has the choice real estate on your hard drive. The downside? No user IDs. No applications. No preferences.... other than the defaults that come with OS X. If you've used the .Mac Backup utility, some of this can readily be restored.... but probably not all of it. For example, user IDs must be created before you can restore the preferences for same. All of that having been said, it's not a complicated process. It just takes some time to be safe. FYI: I did the Archive and Install choice. Things are working well so far and I'm happy (so far) with the performance I'm seeing. Good luck and happy Tiger'ing, Wayne Billing You can also find an audio version of this at: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~billing/casting/Install%20Tiger%20Prep- postprod.mp3

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Invitation - Apple IT seminar on 10.4 (Tiger)
by Doug Hamilton 04 May '05

04 May '05

Hello Everyone: For those of you who have not already registered (and those of you not on apple-list who I'm spamming with message), please find the attached invitation to our OS X 10.4 Tiger Technology seminar. The Winnipeg event is on May 10th from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM at the Sheraton Winnipeg, 161 Donald Street Winnipeg, MB R3C 1M3. Please feel free to invite anyone who you feel would be interested in this session. You can register online at: www.apple.ca/go/tiger_education Regards, Doug

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