[Macworld]

Post your comments for Leopard, four months later here

[TheTSArt]

From today's show, it sounds like Rush Limbaugh worked with Apple to get his Back to Mac and Time Machine email problems worked out and that those updates might eventually be rolled out to all of us, so perhaps you'll be able to remove it from your "Bad" list. :)

[macgreiner]

I agree about the kernel panics.
Not a good step forward.

[cjedj]

I'm confused - under the good you say Screen Sharing, using it for family and at work, then under the bad you say Back to My Mac using Screen Sharing.
How are you using Screen Sharing successfully outside your LAN without using Back to My Mac?

[yamagato]

For your crashes, I would put your Mac Pro on an Apple Hardware Test loop (Check Extended, hit Control-L) for a day or two. You may have a marginally flaky piece of RAM causing your KPs, and I've seen it take 10 or more loops in AHT to generate an error. I seem to recall that when 10.3 came out people had issues because it was more sensitive to RAM quality. Or something like that.

[douglux]

Completely agree on the stability. I too erased my whole system for the Leopard upgrade (on my Macbook Pro) and have had continual crashes, hang ups and freezes which really annoy me.
It feels like they pushed out the release before it was ready.

[fireblue]

Check your memory if kernel panics are a regular occurrence. I had my PowerMac G5 into the Apple Store and to a local dealer because my machine was so unstable. Apple replaced the SATA cable (??) but luckily the independent store ran a 24 hour test which showed memory issues.

8Gb RAM later and it flies. Could be because Leopard uses more memory that you're hitting this problem more often. Worth checking as I find Leopard to be extremely stable.

[Dan Frakes]

cjedj said:

I'm confused - under the good you say Screen Sharing, using it for family and at work, then under the bad you say Back to My Mac using Screen Sharing.

How are you using Screen Sharing successfully outside your LAN without using Back to My Mac?

You can use it via iChat or by connecting using an IP address (assuming you've set up your router appropriately).

[Dan Frakes]

yamagato said:

For your crashes, I would put your Mac Pro on an Apple Hardware Test loop (Check Extended, hit Control-L) for a day or two. You may have a marginally flaky piece of RAM causing your KPs, and I've seen it take 10 or more loops in AHT to generate an error. I seem to recall that when 10.3 came out people had issues because it was more sensitive to RAM quality. Or something like that.

I've actually used memtest, which I believe is more thorough than Apple's Hardware Test, to test my RAM; it all checks out.

[scrooks]

Why does no one ever talk about the completely and totally broken parental controls in Leopard? Do a Google search about it and then try it on your own and you'll see. An account doesn't get logged out when time is up, chat logs aren't created, etc. I love Apple, but they really dropped the ball on this one. Macworld needs to do an article on this subject and take Apple to task.

[Dan Frakes]

scrooks said:

Why does no one ever talk about the completely and totally broken parental controls in Leopard? Do a Google search about it and then try it on your own and you'll see. An account doesn't get logged out when time is up, chat logs aren't created, etc. I love Apple, but they really dropped the ball on this one. Macworld needs to do an article on this subject and take Apple to task.

Honestly, it's probably because so few people actually use the feature. I tested it and wrote it up for our original coverage of Leopard, and it worked fine for me. But I haven't used it much, day-to-day. I have heard complaints, however.

[JScott]

Something for the bad column. Printing setup is STILL a horrible experience especially if you have non-admin users. They can't add their own printers without an admin authenticating. Half the time added printers don't show up in the printers list but can be selected from the print window in an application. Printers served from a Windows print server don't get authenticated with kerberos so it asks you to enter your user name and password every time you print something.
All in all its a mess.

[douglux]

dupe - sorry

[mistersquid]

But more often than not, Back To My Mac has made me want to smack my Mac,
The honesty and truth of lines with an internal rhyme scheme just . . well . . . make me LOL. Thanks for the hearty laugh at the expense of Apple engineers (who do, as you note, get a lot right.)