Additional Note on Leopard Blue Screen of Death

Everyone is waking up to the Leopard BSoD problem and beginning to wonder how extensive the problem is. I think it is more extensive than reported and the small software company Unsanity has been made the scape goat. Even if the problem is Unsanity, the responsibility for the problem lies with Apple's QA department who are supposed to catch such things. The Unsanity software is in wide enough use.

In addition, I am not buying into all the excitement and hype associated with Leopard. It seems like a flakey and premature release to me. I still have not yet been able to sync my iDisk, I've seen various font muddling and artifacts in the finder menu, Spaces does not have consistent behavior (but it takes me back to Fedora, whose implementation seemed just as good three years ago).

The migration utility is, essentially, useless. This is the source of my earlier reported problem when I first booted. It still only finds my son's profile and not my old one. As a consequence I have many files on my system now owned by an "unknown" user (no, these are not causing the other problems).

A bunch of things simply do not appear to work. For example, I have a sync conflict resolution problem but nothing happens when I attempt use the conflict resolver.

In addition, the new mail app sucks, it seems impossible to get a consistent set of fonts and the mail header bar is in some horrible fixed font that cannot maintain proportional size if you change the message font. The ALLCAPS sidebar titles - which are the same through-out finder - are grey and stay. The desktop image is way too noisy but the old Tiger desktop doesn't suit. It shouts design incompetence. Tiger was a better animal.

Including Apache 2.X was well overdue. Numerable other questions exit. Like, why is iWeb no longer placed on the dock but the other iLife apps are?

Sorry these notes are so rushed, I don't really have the time to f*** with this.

Comments

[Gene Plantz]

I have the same problem with Conflict Resolver when sync runs. No window. I located a copy of Conflict Resolver app on my backup hard disk containing Tiger (10.4) files and used it and it works. It lets me continue syncing until Apple fixes Leopard.