usability

Spreading the abuse around

September 11, 2005 15:28:43.872

Just to be fair, minutes after my rant on the defects of Outlook, my Mac Mini locked up, hard. Victoria was playing SimCity 4, and then bam - screen blanked, the box disappeared from the list of attached devices at the router, and hitting the power button failed to get its attention. I had to pull the plug. Now, maybe it's a bad sign that in the registration list, OS X 10.4.2 wasn't listed (it stopped at 10.3.x). Still, a crash that hard is inexcusable - and something that I've seen pretty darn rarely on Windows XP (last time I got something that required the same level of restart was when I hand hacked the registry). Bah

Update: - looks like Aspyr is aware of the problems - there are downloadable patches available.

Comments

Movement in the OS X kernel

[ Troy Brumley] September 11, 2005 17:21:49.728

Comment by Troy Brumley

Apple is changing some OS X control blocks and the like with TIGER, and there are varying levels of compatibility problems that this causes. Some access are binary compatible, and some no longer are. Sometimes, to move forward you just gotta break some things.

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