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Bad Fiducci
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Wilson, WY
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Oct 30, 2015 - 05:33am PT
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Just installed El Capitan the other day... and accessing internet sites became brutally slow. One suggestion, which was to turn off wifi, rest it a while, then turn it back on, solved that problem. Otherwise, so far so good.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Oct 30, 2015 - 09:27am PT
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no problem...except the update rendered printer and scanner drivers obsolete.
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cleo
Social climber
wherever you go, there you are
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Oct 30, 2015 - 09:39am PT
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I do NOT upgrade. I'm still running Snow Leopard, and it works great. Why?
- I bought my computer, added software and data, and it worked great on SL.
- One week later, I upgraded to Lion. Computer became slow as molasses, and some applications couldn't run at all without crashing.
- One more week, decided to wipe the hard drive and reinstall SL. Computer worked awesome again.
All with a brand new computer, in the first 2 weeks...
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado, Nepal & Okinawa
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Oct 30, 2015 - 09:47am PT
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In my Mac world it's plug and play while my Microsoft friends spend three days trying to reconnect their peripherals after every small upgrade. I have some friends who refuse to upgrade Microsoft at all and just buy a new computer with new software every couple of years instead.
One problem for everybody is trying to add complicated new software on a machine that doesn't have enough memory.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 1, 2015 - 04:06am PT
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A bit off topic but does anybody know anything about speedfixtool.com?
I downloaded the free version but I am afraid to try it. And I am not sure it works on Macs.
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jstan
climber
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Some UNIX variant runs some huge portion and possibly most of the internet. This seems like a pretty positive contribution.
At work I badly needed to get working a parallel processing (580 CPU's) system for analyzing microscope images of defects in semiconductors. It was Unix based and as I had two departments to deal with plus crystals to grow for a thousand person manufacturing line, I no longer had the time personally also to solve programming problems. I hired two different programmers who were supposedly proficient in Unix to get me up and running. Neither one would work with that software. I had never before encountered even one programmer who was reluctant to sling code. I have been made very suspicious.
I think Unix has a problem of scale perhaps similar to the F-35 which was sold as able to do everything and anything. That platform may well prove to be just a sitting duck (apologies to Mr. Braun). To write portions of a large body of code you have to break it down to psects and define excruciatingly well the inputs and the outputs. Today, with all of the new devices, security demands, and functions coming into use, both inputs and outputs are never really known. While, as you have noted, Unix is involved in almost everything, it is hard to believe it chose the right path. We may well have gone wrong and created something that is unable to handle diversity and threats.
Operating system 9 was built for a stand-alone computer and it was superb. I am nearly to the point of using my G4 purely as a stand-alone computer that can resurrect system 9 and using a second computer for external communications. One task is not changing year to year and the other is different week to week. I may accept being tied to the mast so as to be freed from the F-35 siren song.
The current trend for hyper-connectivity (Facebook, clouds, etc) escapes all logic in the threat environment. People are putting their sensitive information out there to be handled by a jumbled mass of code. As Charley said, "good grief"
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alannamal
climber
B.C.
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Just upgraded to El Capitan yesterday after five years of running on the original 10.6.8 Lion. Smooth transition, no problems. Even my pirated office suite still works!
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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My favorite new feature so far is this:
if you click hold the right 'expand' button it will load it into a new screen and then give you the option to select a second screen to place next to it.
on a 29" monitor it gives you full screen (split) for the two pages so you can work side-by-side. you swipe left to get back to your tiled screen.
This is incredibly useful for me while i'm developing. The CMS BE is open on the left and the front end site is open on the right.
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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Apr 27, 2016 - 10:06pm PT
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Just upgraded to El Capitan yesterday after five years of running on the original 10.6.8 Lion. Smooth transition, no problems. Even my pirated office suite still works!
So has enough time gone by now?
Are folks happy with their upgrades?
I'm on 10.6.8 as well. Just haven't pulled the trigger yet.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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