The big themes [in 10.4.2] seem to be networking and minor annoyances, with a secondary focus on iChat and Mail, which always seem to have problems in the first release of a major Mac OS X version. It’s those changes—along with improvements to Tiger’s disk repair tools—that we’ll focus on during this inside look at Mac OS X 10.4.2.
Hello!
😀 I love my Tiger.
ditto
I don’t know if it was a bug or what, but I see it all over forums and I’m experiencing it myself with my brand new Mac Mini. When I’m online the internets, pages take absolutely forever to load, if they load at all. It will sit there at the “contacting [site’s url]…” part, and then it’ll load bits and pieces at varying rates. Sometimes it loads them straight away, but normally it gives me that, or it takes me to the page saying that the host could not be found etc. One site said to disable IPv6, which I did, to no avail.
I hope that if this is indeed a bug, that it was fixed.
Sounds like your DNS settings r wrong
no’m them isn’t wrong none. i’m on an ethernet connection right now, and everything loads just fine. i’m going to move this thing back into my room and see if the wifi works then, as i have just downloaded all the updates that were waiting for me. they called to me, ‘carl, come get me” and i said “i’m not carl” and they said “but you are. the new iCarl. from apple. our marketing staff is incapable. of writing. in complete sentences. only from iCarl.”
it was like pure nirvana, except instead of kurt cobain i downloaded the internets online my computer.
10.4.2 went a long way to getting Tiger to a stable, usable OS, but it still falls way short of that bar in my opinion.
Tiger is simply too buggy for words, still. I hope we see a major update in 10.4.3, and Apple doesn’t pull crappy moves like this again–especially with 10.5 which will be going head-to-head with Longhorn.
What is still buggy for you?
Kokopelli
What’s still buggy? Too much to enumerate, really, but check out the Apple boards to see the long lists of ugly bugs still in .2.
Can’t believe my first post got modded down into the basement.
Ironic given I am an Apple-only guy. But to be a true supporter, you’ve got to be willing to call a spade a spade, and give Apple the tough love they need when it is warranted.
unfortunately, the samba version shipped with tiger doesn’t work with samba 3.0.14 which is what’s availible in debian. that’s only problem I’ve had with tiger.