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Comment on MacOS X 10.5 “Leopard” by Boise Apple Developer

Boise Apple Developer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:59:00 +0000

I can see why some people are hesitant to upgrade.

For me, though there were several key technologies:
1) Time Machine - this has saved my butt several times already, the ability to restore a directory of a file instead of the whole OS is great. I recently had a problem with a Java Based SEO software I was using. With Time Machine I was able to roll back the one folder that had the bad settings, thereby saving a clients SEO data instead of losing the whole project and historical data.
2) The upgrade from Apache 1 to 2.x - nuff said.
3) Spaces - If you work with a lot of different applications, the ability to manage multiple spaces on your desktop is a major boon.

-Brian

Comment on PHP 4 is really going away now by Wil Sinclair

Wil Sinclair — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:01:41 +0000

You guys might be interested to know that the leader of the Zend Framework project (me) is a graduate of UCB. In fact, I’m a graduate of the relatively small L&S Computer Science program, so I even hail from the L&S college! It’s great to know that you guys are using (and hopefully enjoying) ZF. I think you’ll find that our use-at-will components make migration relatively simple. Of course we can’t do much about the PHP 4 to PHP 5 migration, but of course our corporate sponsor can if any departments could use a little help. I’d love to here what you’re using our framework for (I can’t tell exactly from the post)- drop me a line if you have any questions or care to give me a little more info. :)

,Wil

Comment on MacOS X 10.5 “Leopard” by Timothy

Timothy — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:51:29 +0000

I was thinking about getting the Leopard, but after reading your post I don’t think I will.
I don’t understand why Apple would release such an inferior product?

Comment on PHP 4 end of life by mactut

mactut — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:34:03 +0000

Thanks for the news! Being a PHP programmer i didn’t know that.

Comment on MacOS X 10.5 “Leopard” by mactut

mactut — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:31:34 +0000

Yeah I agree with you. Leopard has compability issues and also many strange bugs.

Comment on MacOS X 10.5 “Leopard” by Donald Mastronarde

Donald Mastronarde — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 02:28:34 +0000

Tivoli 5.5.0.0 is now listed for Mac OS 10.5.x at http://ucbackup.berkeley.edu:9180/software.html. I haven’t tried it yet, but will be trying it out soon.

Comment on Migration from Eudora to Thunderbird by tom

tom — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:43:25 +0000

Alix: For our customers, we will be handling the migration of both mailboxes and address books. Don’t worry! We’ll be in touch to schedule your department’s migration.

Comment on Migration from Eudora to Thunderbird by Infinity

Infinity — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:56:37 +0000

Is Thunderbird worth of? I mean whats the disadvantage in Eudora??

Comment on Migration from Eudora to Thunderbird by Alix Schwartz

Alix Schwartz — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:12:48 +0000

Tom,

Thanks for this notice and also a sense of the time line. I have one question: you acknowledge that some of us have a considerable number of mailboxes and address book entries but you don’t explicitly say whether the migration LSCR will perform for us will migrate those intact or whether it will be up to us to import them into Thunderbird. Your mention of “documentation to help users with the transition,” placed right after the sentence about mailboxes and address books, leads me to think you might be leaving this part up to us. Please say it ain’t so.

XOX

Comment on Impending FileMaker Pro migration by tom

tom — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:36:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments; MetaData Magic looks interesting, although it’s not inexpensive (pricing starts at $200, based on the number of database files; there is a free demo to download). It could definitely be useful if you have large or complex databases.

And yes, FileMaker 7/8/9 can open databases from earlier versions of FileMaker; when you do so, the database will be converted to the new format, which FileMaker 5.5/6 won’t be able to read. Thanks for the clarification, Robert.