Complaints about 10.4.3
[Cross posted from
Well, I guess I’ll be the first to complain about 10.4.3 here.
#1 — The Mail.app problem I complained about before (and submitted a bug report to Apple on) has not been fixed.
#2 — Despite adding more RAW support, the Coolpix 5400’s RAW (NEF) files remain unsupported. This is supported by dcraw so Apple has no excuse for not making it work. This too has been submitted as a bug back in April or May.
#3 — While Safari has gained the ability to render the ACID2 browser test I have been able to make it break. I visit the ACID2 test page itself, then after the rendering is complete I spin the ball on my mouse (a Mighty Mouse, in this case) and the face breaks and scrolls even though there is no scroll bar. Here is a screenshot of the problem.
#4 — The out-of-the-blue failing of my attempt to rsync lots of data to an external drive continues to fail as follows:
Documents/iChats/Erika Alpert on 2005-09-09 at 23.57.ichat
3500 100% 18.99kB/s 0:00:00 (6610, 10.0% of 185201)
rsync: fstat failed: No such file or directory (2)
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Then after being sent a break:
^Crsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-20/rsync/rsync.c(231) rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 103 bytes: phase "unknown" [generator]: Broken pipe (32) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at /SourceCache/rsync/rsync-20/rsync/io.c(909) mercury:~ c0nsumer$
This hasn’t yet been reported to Apple as an official bug report yet because I don’t have a standard test case for it yet. However, it worked under 10.3.9 just fine. Unfortunately this is the bug I can’t work around, because even copying data to the external drives with Finder fails in the same manner.
So, Apple… Drop the ball much?
You done broked my friends page.
Really? With what?
I think that second chunk of code did it.
Oh, odd. Sorry. It’s wrapped at 80 columns.
Oh, I see, your LJ is normally quite narrow.
Heh, don’t worry about it. It just scared me when I loaded up my friends page the first time. Hahahaha.
what trouble are you having with the NEF pics? my computer has always been able to preview NEF’s. actually rhondas PC needed special software to view them, but the apple has been fine.
…with what kind of camera? Despite having the same file extension, an NEF produced from, say, a D70 will not be the same as from my CP5400. Apple has apparantly chosen to support only some times of RAW formats, and definitely not as many as are out there. It really pisses me off.
Also, I want to buy Apeture, but I have a feeling it won’t support the CP5400 either.
i see. the nef’s i’m veiwing are from the d70. i assumed that all nikons would produce the same type of nef raw format. that seems silly that nikon wouldnt have a standard format across their entire camera range. (at least the ones that do raw formats)
Actually, the whole point of a RAW-type format is that it’s straight off the CCD. As each camera has a different type of CCD, the file has to be different.
If a company wanted to standardize them, then they wouldn’t be completely RAW. Adobe has developed DNG which works towards this by making a more ‘standard’ RAW format.
Until this is widely usef it’s fortunate that there are tools like the aforementioned dcraw which work with almost every RAW format out there.
that makes sense about different CCD’S. i understand now. but i still dont see why the apple will view one and not the other. that would be getting into an area over my head though, i think.
It’s because Apple hasn’t written in support for one format, but they have for another. It’s stupid.
very stupid on apples part.