Comments on: Apple Leopard Not As Error Free as It Should Be

By: Kurazaybo

Kurazaybo — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:07:00 +0000

Thomas, I am just curious, when will Zooomr be working as before? Mainly full size photos for those who are not logged in.

By: Mike Downey

Mike Downey — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:18:00 +0000

Hi, Thomas -

Please ask Kristopher to update his upload page on Zooomr to be accurate. Flash Player was updated to address the Leopard issue almost instantly. The text on the Zooomr page is inaccurate and misleading.

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

Thanks,
Mike Downey, Adobe
mdowney@adobe.com

By: Joel Tanner

Joel Tanner — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:54:00 +0000

Thomas,

I _had_ the same problem.

With MCE 2005 there is a great solution to the large music library SLOWNESS problem....

Setup a RAM Disk, have your library files stored there, and then either use a windows junction to point to the file, or change the registry to point to the file. I'm fairly sure there is a thread about this at Green Button, but feel free to contact me directly if you need specifics.

Joelwo

By: C.S. McDonald

C.S. McDonald — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:19:00 +0000

Thomas, the Adobe issue is minor, especially considering that Apple did not give 3rd party application vendors access to the final build of Leopard until it went on sale last Friday (Gotta love Apple and their openness)

I'm seeing way too many problems with networking on Leopard right now, I'm getting very frustrated just trying to get it to see the other Macs on my network, and the Apple forums indicate I'm not alone.

My biggest hope is that the Airport Extreme disk problem will be fixed soon (if your computer goes to sleep it won't reconnect to the Airport disk until the airport station is restarted, nice)

I'm putting blame in Apple's court, not Adobe.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:32:00 +0000

Adobe have just released a Flash update for Leopard.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:36:00 +0000

Wow, Thomas. Someone needs to school Kristopher about Web Accessibility.

Why he wouldn't have a non-flash alternative to the upload page is beyond me.

The number one thing in many web developer's minds is making sure their site is accessible. That means making sure it's still functional with JavaScript and plugins turned off.

Kris is a brilliant developer, but he shouldn't blame Adobe. Why blame Adobe when this problem could have been prevented months ago by just developing with a view to accessibility?

By: brad77

brad77 — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:19:00 +0000

I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised with Vista Media Center's performance with large libraries. It ain't perfect, but it's a lot better. It should be able to handle streaming MP3's from a USB drive over the network no problem. I can't imagine throughput being so low that MP3 playback would be affected. With an effective rate of about 320Mbps, the USB connection should be your bottleneck. This plenty of bandwidth to move your MP3's.

HD video, however, may be another story, though technically it should be able to support multiple HDTV streams simultaneously.

Good luck with the upgrade.

By: Shawn Oster

Shawn Oster — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:34:00 +0000

As a Vista guy I sympathize with Leopard users. When Vista first came out I went through all the same issues like major applications that weren't upgraded to work with Vista even though the beta had been out for a year.

I'm sure Leopard's disappearing volumes, compatibility issues and their own version of the BSOD will be ironed out via a slew of updates, just like they were in Vista. OS software is a complex beast these days and no one is immune from bugs.

The only people I really feel sorry for are vocal minority of Apple fanboys that live in glass houses, they threw a lot of stones at Vista when it first came out because of issues like this and now they're getting them chucked back at them twice as hard by Karma, and she's got a pretty good arm.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:54:00 +0000

I get a kick out of the compatibility chart adobe has for leapard. http://www.adobe.com/support/products/pdfs/leopardsupport.pdf Apparently you need a special acrobat reader update, too, so it makes brilliant sense to post this chart in pdf format. With the delay of leapard due to iPhone, you would hope that folks would have had time to get things compatible, but perhaps Apple did not leverage this delay with key software companies like Adobe or things weren’t ready for beta (though I’m doubtful).

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:56:00 +0000

Oh wow, talk about overreacting
From the page linked to Adobe, the file upload feature does not work properly and it is being worked on.
You made it sound like all of Flash was disabled, *phew*

Why use Flash for uploading files btw? not criticizing but I’m curious.
I agree that the install problems shouldn’t have happened though.