Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/04

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Subject: [Leica] Snow Leopard Warning
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:10:55 +0100
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I love it when you talk dirty.

Nathan Wajsman
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On Feb 4, 2012, at 8:46 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> Mark, OS 9 is not Unix. OS X is derived from NeXT, which uses a Mach kernel
> (the core of an OS, from CMU) with lots of BSD Unix stuff on top. The
> majorly odd thing about OS X vs. a vanilla Unix or Linux distribution is
> that OS X uses Objective-C as the prime interface to the OS API vs. plain
> C.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> And that was also system 9. Not 10. Which was Unix not whatever odd thing
>> it
>> was before before Steve Jobs came back on.
>> 
>> --
>> Mark R.
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2012 09:21:21 -0800
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Snow Leopard Warning
>>> 
>>> Roger,
>>> 
>>> Before Apple went to using an Intel processor, they used one jointly
>>> developed by Apple, Motorola, and IBM. It was called the Power PC.
>>> Programs developed in the Power PC era would not run on the Intel
>>> processor. Apple created an interpreter called Rosetta (appropriate
>>> name) so that these older programs would still run on the new
>>> processor. Rosetta was not included in Lion.
>>> 
>>> So, if you had no legacy programs you needed to run, Lion was fine.
>>> 
>>> Herb
>>> 
>>>> Interesting, all this talk of upgrade issues. I went from Snow Leopard
>>>> to Lion with no problems at all.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Roger Hart
>>>> Detroit
>>>> USA
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Richard Man
>>>> <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks, my wife upgraded to Snow Leopard only under duress and she
>>>>> absolutely does not want touch Lion. I will make sure she doesn't
>>>>> auto-download this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Robert Adler <rgacpa at gmail.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> For those of you running Apple's Snow Leopard (O/S X 10.7) please be
>> aware
>>>>>> that a pushed out security update (10.7.3) can really foul up your
>>>>>> computer, especially if you are running any Rosetta based applications
>>>>>> (other applications are crashing too).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>> 
>> http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/03/snow-leopard-security-update-kills-powerp
>>>> c-apps-using-rosetta/
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I currently have a Mac still on 10.7 to run my ImagePrint RIP as
>>>> to upgrade
>>>>>> it to work on Lion costs about $800!!
>>>>>> Good luck,
>>>>>> Bob
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Bob Adler
>>>>>> Palo Alto, CA
>>>>>> http://www.rgaphoto.com
>>>>>> 
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>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>>>>> 
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Leica Users Group.
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>>>> 
>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> 
>>> --
>>> Herbert Kanner
>>> kanner at acm.org
>>> 650-326-8204
>>> 
>>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
> 
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