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  Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) Stephen <gratefuldead@xs4all.nl> - 2014-03-04 11:05 +0100
    Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-03-04 16:31 +0000
    Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-04 18:21 +0000
      Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-04 20:07 +0000
        Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-03-04 21:37 +0000
      Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-03-04 15:38 -0600
    Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-03-04 17:49 -0500
      Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-03-05 16:11 +0000
        Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2014-03-05 15:22 -0500
        Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> - 2014-03-08 04:33 +0000
          Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2014-03-07 21:56 -0800
          Re: Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done) Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-08 14:14 +0000

#57548 — Ars article (snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-done)

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-do
ne-here-are-your-os-x-upgrade-options/

Look at what that look is saying: "Why did you do that to me?"
(first pic).

Good, helpful article, IMO.

-- 
Stephen

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#57553

On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 11:05:43 +0100, Stephen <gratefuldead@xs4all.nl>
wrote:

>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-do
>ne-here-are-your-os-x-upgrade-options/
>
>Look at what that look is saying: "Why did you do that to me?"
>(first pic).
>
>Good, helpful article, IMO.

 Agreed, and thank you for this. It answers a lot of questions.
 J. 

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#57557

In article <gratefuldead-46EAC9.11054304032014@newszilla.xs4all.nl>,
Stephen  <gratefuldead@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-do
>ne-here-are-your-os-x-upgrade-options/

Last sentence:

"Snow Leopard has had a good run, but as time wears on you'll either 
have to bite the bullet and buy new hardware or be faced with an 
increasingly less capable, more vulnerable machine."

I'm sticking with the latter path, and it doesn't have me particularly
worried.


Patty

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#57559

On 2014-03-04, Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>
> In article <gratefuldead-46EAC9.11054304032014@newszilla.xs4all.nl>,
> Stephen  <gratefuldead@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-do
>>ne-here-are-your-os-x-upgrade-options/
>
> Last sentence:
>
> "Snow Leopard has had a good run, but as time wears on you'll either 
> have to bite the bullet and buy new hardware or be faced with an 
> increasingly less capable, more vulnerable machine."
>
> I'm sticking with the latter path, and it doesn't have me particularly
> worried.

You aren't alone. While I do run the latest and greatest on my main
workstation, I do also have machines that cannot be upgraded past 10.6,
and don't intend to shut them down any time soon.
 
-- 
E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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#57562

In article <bnmq4mF9cdjU1@mid.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger  <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>On 2014-03-04, Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm sticking with the latter path, and it doesn't have me particularly
>> worried.
>
>You aren't alone. While I do run the latest and greatest on my main
>workstation, I do also have machines that cannot be upgraded past 10.6,
>and don't intend to shut them down any time soon.

Not to mention my MacBook that's running 10.4...


Patty
 

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#57563

In article <53161990$0$52763$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
 Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:

> In article <gratefuldead-46EAC9.11054304032014@newszilla.xs4all.nl>,
> Stephen  <gratefuldead@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-do
> >ne-here-are-your-os-x-upgrade-options/
> 
> Last sentence:
> 
> "Snow Leopard has had a good run, but as time wears on you'll either 
> have to bite the bullet and buy new hardware or be faced with an 
> increasingly less capable, more vulnerable machine."
> 
> I'm sticking with the latter path, and it doesn't have me particularly
> worried.

Same here, and most vulnerability is the user's fault anyway.

-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist

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#57583

On 14-03-04 05:05, Stephen wrote:
> http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/03/snow-leopard-updates-are-probably-do
> ne-here-are-your-os-x-upgrade-options/


> Good, helpful article, IMO.

While it discusses upgrade scenarios from various platforms, it does not
discuss the issue of Snow Leopard users for whom moving to Mavericks is
a downgrade and have no desire to go to it because of the changes done
by Apple in the wrong direction.

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#57619

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> While it discusses upgrade scenarios from various platforms, it does not
> discuss the issue of Snow Leopard users for whom moving to Mavericks is
> a downgrade and have no desire to go to it because of the changes done
> by Apple in the wrong direction.

10.8 and 10.9 fixed a lot of the nastiness that 10.7 brought. And for 
many things that didn't get fixed, many users discovered tricks to 
return those behaviours to how they were in Snow Leopard.

I, for example, dislike versions, strongly dislike auto save, and hate 
resume with a passion. Gladly there is a way to disable them all.

What is it about 10.9 that you don't like? There may be a way to fix it.

-- 
K.

Lang may your lum reek.

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#57627

On 14-03-05 11:11, Király wrote:

> I, for example, dislike versions, strongly dislike auto save, and hate 
> resume with a passion. Gladly there is a way to disable them all.
> 
> What is it about 10.9 that you don't like? There may be a way to fix it.

I am not ruling out Mavericks. However, it is the work required to
research how to turn off/disable all the unwanted features, setting up a
VM to still boot Snow Leopard for Rosetta apps now and then etc etc
which delays the upgrade.  For instance, the change in NFS is something
which affects me, so I have to research that too.

Facetime/imessage is about the only thing I feel I am missing out in
Snow Leopard.

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#57733

me@home.spamsucks.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?=) writes:


>What is it about 10.9 that you don't like? There may be a way to fix it.

No Rosetta
No 32 bit machines such as mine
Scrolls backwards.....


-- 
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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#57735

On 2014-03-08 04:33:15 +0000, David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com> said:

> me@home.spamsucks.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?=) writes:
> 
> 
>> What is it about 10.9 that you don't like? There may be a way to fix it.
> 
> No Rosetta

No fix.

> No 32 bit machines such as mine

No fix.

> Scrolls backwards.....

Fixable in System Preferences; Mouse, and then set the check box 
"Scroll direction: natural" to your liking.


-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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#57737

In article <lfe6ib$j6n$1@reader1.panix.com>, David Lesher
<wb8foz@panix.com> wrote:

> me@home.spamsucks.ca (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kir=E1ly?=) writes:
> 
> 
> >What is it about 10.9 that you don't like? There may be a way to fix it.
> 
> No Rosetta
> No 32 bit machines such as mine
> Scrolls backwards.....

Scrolls the right way, since we hardly need scroll bars any longer.

Meanwhile, no Rosetta or 32-bit machines. Think I GAS? No, you're
right, I don't.

-- 
"People don't buy Microsoft for quality, they buy it for compatibility
with what Bob in accounting bought last year. Trace it back - they buy
Microsoft because the IBM Selectric didn't suck much" - P Seebach, afc

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