I HATE APPLE

Anyone else find that DVD Player just doesn't work under Leopard?
No matter what disc I put in my G4 Powerbook, as soon as DVD Player opens I get a spinning beachball and the only way to recover is to force a shutdown.
I'm using VLC to watch the same discs on the same machine, so it's got to be a problem with DVD Player.

dan i think that happens when the attributes of another file/folder in that directory change at the same time that that you're typing the new name of the file/folder; i.e. if something's downloading in the same directory and you're trying to rename something else, it keeps losing focus. i consider that a bug. however i THINK if everything is static it lets you wait as long as you want?

treefell i always use VLC to watch DVDs because i need to change the aspect ratio to make it work on my TV, which DVD Player can't do (= it is lame)

nah-there's nothing else going on in those directories. It's really sudden and random, and very frustrating.

Dan, I have this happen to me on network drives I think. I think it has to do with the access time changing when Finder descends into the subdirectory to generate previews (QuickLook) for images, mp3s, etc.

yeah i was going to say it's a network drive thing too. but then i couldn't think of why that would be.

trefell: it's probably the DVD Player's perference file (where it keeps track of which discs you've watched) is corrupt. Trash it and see.

I'm not on a network. This is happening on my own harddrives. I'll live with it.

i hate sh*t like that though, there's no rhyme or reason to it. for the record this DOESN'T happen to me.

I'm guessing its quicklook

2) all of my mail (in all of my mail folders) disappears for no reason at all.

This happens to me too. Mailbox -> Rebuild should fix it, at least until the next time.

Folks who are having mysterious issues: Run

  % ps axwww | grep '[ a ]pe'

If it returns something, you gots trouble. (Remove the spaces around the 'a' before 'pe'.)

Run that in Terminal, by the way.

axwww?

BSD ps options. w = wide. ww = extra wide. ax = all processes.

System V options are fine, but ps -elf is traditionally narrower.

% ps -efl | grep -i '[ p]ainter'

  501 65840   158   0   1:52.83 ??         5:37.50 /Applications/Corel Painter X/Corel Painter X.app/Contents/MacOS    4000  62  0   572440  99620 -      S    115fb090

% ps axww | grep -i '[ p]ainter'

65840   ??  S      5:37.50 /Applications/Corel Painter X/Corel Painter X.app/Contents/MacOS/Corel Painter X -psn_0_2863803

this is where i quietly slink away.

what you guys don't like ACTIVITY MONITOR?

Anyone else find that DVD Player just doesn't work under Leopard?
No matter what disc I put in my G4 Powerbook, as soon as DVD Player opens I get a spinning beachball and the only way to recover is to force a shutdown.
I'm using VLC to watch the same discs on the same machine, so it's got to be a problem with DVD Player.

-- treefell

^^ i had the same problem w/ my g4. major contributing factor to my decision to go to macbook pro.

i looked on macrumors and official apple forums and there were hundreds of people complaining about the issue.

-bash: %: command not found

Anyone else's MBP have the issue where it misses the first letter you type after sitting for a minute or two?

Did you install firmware update 1.2?

Hmmm, no, it's never come up on my updates screen. Weird.

-bash: %: command not found

Sorry, dan. I meant that to be a shell prompt. Try the command again w/o the '%'.

lol TCSH

Interestingly enough, % was only the default tcsh prompt on OS X in early versions; old-skool UNIX nerds know % as the csh prompt; > is the out-of-box tcsh prompt. Now, I'm not trying to say that yr first experience with UNIX was OS X or anything, but perhaps you should consider growing a beard.

I think the TCSH at college was configured to be % as well!

My first unix experience was using SCO in like 1989

so you're already way past beard age in unix years. Hey, it's not so bad. Doesn't shaving kinda suck anyway?

http://ozguru.mu.nu/Photos/2005-11-11--Dilbert_Unix.jpg

uh oh, i think i just posted a dilbert cartoon. :(

nothing came back.

I guess you don't have any Unsanity crap, then.

has anyone ever tried uninstalling the developer tools (ie using /Developer/Tools/uninstall-devtools.pl)? i could do with freeing up the HD space on this powerbook but i've read a couple of horror stories about things like software update not working after people have tried doing this.

i can't even remember why i installed it in the first place: i ain't no developer. (stet: you any ideas what i was thinking of?)

thoughts, advice gratefully etc.

Hey, does anyone know of a free/trial thing that can mount disk images?

For complex reasons, the disk image mounter that comes with OSX won't do, but I've been assured that Toast would do it fine. However, I don't want to buy that.

Thx etc.

you could try using hdiutil in the terminal eg

hdiutil mount jamie.iso

try

man hdiutil

for more options

I am an idiot who likes things done for me, but I may try that. Thanks.

(I've never used Terminal! But I can learn, maybe ...)

http://images.apple.com/chatterbox/us/2008/04/wwdc4/img/mainimage4.jpg

Ungh. They really ask for it, sometimes.

tbh that ad is targeted to WWDC attendees so in that regard I suppose it did crawl up the right ass to die

Hope you like seafood.

...bitch

would have been better if it said "save some turkey for me".

All-night code fest?

ALLEN?

DO YOU LIKE SEAFOOD, ALLEN?

all night crab fest

all-night cock fest is more like it

i hope you like steaming hot chowder

"Hope you like seafood" -- lol doesn't the gay in play misty 4 me say this?

upgrading a G4 MDD, manual says nothing about snazzy drive doors blocking the drive tray :(

I upgraded my G5's DVD and the drive door blocked the drive tray. Then I noticed the drive made it really easy to just slide off the front "lip" of the tray, and now it works fine.