os x OS X Mountain Lion Discussion

[Jub]

The good thing about being in the UK is that you get above and beyond the EU directive and are covered for either 5 or 6 years

Could you elaborate on this fine statement of yours? If this is correct I can say farewell to Apple Care. :D

[Glassed Silver]

Could you elaborate on this fine statement of yours? If this is correct I can say farewell to Apple Care. :D

You definitely can in the UK if I'm not mistaken.

Wasted money over there, unless you fancy phone support which still is exclusive to the 90-day period/AC (afaik).

Glassed Silver:mac

[Depicus]

Still getting the odd graphic glitch when waking up, not a big problem - just scroll and it all comes back to normal.

Does anybody else not get a dock when they boot out of Bootcamp, I have to reboot again just to get the dock.

[CPressland]

Could you elaborate on this fine statement of yours? If this is correct I can say farewell to Apple Care. :D

Yeah - EU Law says that any product sold must be fully functional and supported by the manufacturer for 6 years.... or something.

I think it's in this... http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/54

[DeadEndAccount]

Yeah - EU Law says that any product sold must be fully functional and supported by the manufacturer for 6 years.... or something.

I think it's in this... http://www.legislati...k/ukpga/1979/54

It is probably fits under the 'fair wear and tear' clause where a product will have an excepted life that the vendor must support it for - the length of time will depend on a product. For example, whiteware will have a limit of 5-7 years where as a laptop will be 3-4 years. Where the AppleCare does help is in the area of resale because the consumer guaranteed warranty in the legislation is only for the first buyer and it is non-transferrable which is where the extended warranty is valuable because it helps you maintain the value on the item when you go to sell it later on.

[.Neo]

I know I kinda started this, but shouldn't we go back on topic? :p If people find it interesting enough we can always start a separate thread regarding Apple warrantee.

[Glassed Silver]

I know I kinda started this, but shouldn't we go back on topic? :p If people find it interesting enough we can always start a separate thread regarding Apple warrantee.

I agree, it's much more interesting to talk about stuff where everyone hopes to find new tidbits of info about something that will maybe make a significant impact on his or her daily Mac use. :)

Glassed Silver:mac

[Depicus]

Good news - just installed NoSQL Mongo and it works fine.

Bad news - seems to lose focus of Finder when renaming or creating a folder that requires authentication.

I just noticed today as well that the Web Sharing is gone from System Preferences so it's time to remember those terminal skills.

[Glassed Silver]

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I just noticed today as well that the Web Sharing is gone from System Preferences so it's time to remember those terminal skills.

Ugh...

Smart move /s

Glassed Silver:mac

[Elliott]

I just noticed today as well that the Web Sharing is gone from System Preferences so it's time to remember those terminal skills.

Didn't even notice. :p I'm pretty strictly into Ruby development (or just static sites), so I've been using Pow as my web server.

[PyX]

Ugh...

Smart move /s

Glassed Silver:mac

I believe this is in the "Server" app instead. No worries.

[Depicus]

Ugh...

Smart move /s

Glassed Silver:mac

I am not so bothered, I only really used it to turn apache on and off when I was to lazy to type the terminal command but it does seem there is a trend to remove easy access to hard(ish) core features. As long as they don't remove it altogether then not a huge issue for me personally.

One of the reasons I stopped using windows was when they removed smtp in vista, let's hope we aren't going down that road. :wacko:

[Farchord]

I've been on OSX for 3 weeks now, installed Windows on a second partition just in case of emergency (You never know), but I booted it twice. counting when I was updating it....

OSX runs very well, although it sometimes pops a kernel panic (Randomly maybe 3-5 times a week), not too sure why, but I'm happy I switched.

[.Neo]

OSX runs very well, although it sometimes pops a kernel panic (Randomly maybe 3-5 times a week), not too sure why, but I'm happy I switched.

Not to rain on your parade here, but encountering a kernel panic really isn't normal. Let alone 3-5 times a week. :s

[CPressland]

Encountering a kernel panic really isn't normal. Let alone 3-5 times a week. :s

+1, the last Kernel Panic I had was in 2006....

[Brandon H Supervisor]

the last kernel panic i had was when VMWare Fusion 4 was released (it had some problems running VM's from an external hard-drive for awhile)

[.Neo]

the last kernel panic i had was when VMWare Fusion 4 was released (it had some problems running VM's from an external hard-drive for awhile)

That's funny. My current iMac kernel panicked only once and it was due to VMware Fusion 4 as well. I wasn't running the guest OS (Windows 7) from an external drive though, just a virtual HDD image.

[CPressland]

That's funny. My current iMac kernel panicked only once and it was due to VMware Fusion 4 as well. I wasn't running the guest OS (Windows 7) from an external drive though, just a virtual HDD image.

It's the Network Kernel Extensions that cause it. Recent updates have improved stability.

[.Neo]

Glad they improved things. Networking is a pretty essential part of running a guest OS. :laugh:

[Glassed Silver]

Damn, my last kernel panic was due to faulty RAM I guess...

Before that... I seriously don't know. :|

Glassed Silver:mac

[PyX]

I?m getting Kernel panics maybe, be really generous, once every 8 months.

[neo1911]

Till now, I have never encountered a kernel panic so I don't know what a kernel panic is. I guess a BSOD equivalent.

[.Neo]

Till now, I have never encountered a kernel panic so I don't know what a kernel panic is. I guess a BSOD equivalent.

Yeah pretty much. Your desktop dims darker with a solid square in de middle telling you to restart your computer in multiple languages.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3742 (includes a screen shot of the message as it would appear)

[mattking]

Could someone who has ML installed, please check the following apps for compatibility and then update their respective RoaringApps pages:

Notify 2.1 - http://roaringapps.com/app:4540

Final Draft 8 - http://roaringapps.com/app:490

Many thanks!

[kevpan815]

Mountain Lion runs a whole lot better as a Clean Install (I have not had a single Kernel Panic at all) than it does with an Upgrade from Lion (following the same clean install instructions as Lion). XCode Developer Preview 5 fixed the problem that I had with DP 4. Just FYI.