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June 8th, 2005, 10:58 AM
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My iMac kept crashing until I realised I should't be repairing permissions. It stopped crashing. Then when I installed Panther it started crashing, and it kept doing it for a few months almost everyday. I changed the RAM last summer (the problem was not Panther) and it didn't crash once since August 2004, and I use it everyday. So basically, if you use commercial apps, if your computer is in good hardware condition, if you do regular maintenance, and if you don't play in OS X where you shouldn't be messing around, you are a lot less likely to get a crash.
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June 10th, 2005, 02:46 AM
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On the lighter side, if you leave the mac switched off - it won't crash at all. 
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June 10th, 2005, 03:07 AM
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My last three uptimes... 93 days, 231 days, 133 days. No crashes (kernel panics) in the last 457 days (actually no crashes on this system since I installed Mac OS X on it on September 19, 2002). |
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June 11th, 2005, 07:15 AM
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My powermac G5 started to crash fairly often a while back, it was around the time that I decided to put a proper backup system in place so I saved the important stuff and reinstalled panther and subsequent updates. I agree with nixgeek, if you install everything you come across and don't maintain the system properly you will have problems. At the moment I have Logic, iLife apps, Office v.x, Firefox (irish language version), photoshop 7, toast 6 ti and chronosync and HP scanjet softeare installed. Unless I need something I refuse to install it. This was about three months ago and the system has not crashed once. Even the apps are far more stable.
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June 11th, 2005, 07:19 AM
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my system never crashes. but it has, in the past. (i wish i'd never started this thread....) incidentally, how do you uninstall stuff? i mean sometimes you drag it to the trash. that works. what about pref panes? or things like media player which integrates with the system?
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June 11th, 2005, 07:22 AM
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Quick question, how does os x behave on large networks? My brother is a software engineer in Intel. He loves os x but works in a solaris/windows environment all day. The systems are well maintained, no unneccessary software etc. and he reckons that windows behaves well for them and gets the job done without much hassle. He was talking to one of his colleagues who seemed of the opinion that os x isn't as stable across a large network such as the one in intel Ireland (more than 6000 boxes) Anybody got any info/direct experience?
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June 11th, 2005, 07:24 AM
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If i'm uninstalling I check for an uninstaller program, if there isn't one I just drag the app to the trash and then check /Library/Application support for any extra stuff belonging to the program. If it's a pref pane, you can find all of these in /Library/Preferencepane.
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June 11th, 2005, 07:35 AM
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i don't know about a macos x controlled network, but i'm on a huge network, across about 10,000 computers all networked. my mac runs fine on it.
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