I'm definitely smelling upsell fishiness, and it's making me strongly consider canceling my iPad order.
Una, I have a hard time seeing this as some kind of update game. Tiger was released in 2005. It's now a 5 year old OS that has been through many updates. The most recent updates to that system were back in 2007 when it iterated up to 10.4.11. As it is Apple is supporting the iPad on Leopard back to 10.5.8, which is an OS released in 2007. There have been huge changes in the underlying structure of Quicktime and the media tools in OS X over this time period and I'm sure the versions of the software needed to work with this iPad leverage these changes.
I think what she's defining as "upsell fishiness" is the fact that Apple doesn't offer an OS-only disc that she (a Tiger user) is "allowed" to install. Instead, Apple, on their website, says, basically, that the only way she's allowed to install Snow Leopard is if she pays for a bundle that includes iLife and iWork.
The OS-only disc is billed as an "Upgrade from Leopard" entirely to convince folks like meara and Una that their only choice is to pay $169 for the bundle, which includes tons of software they may or may not need, OR purchase Leopard, install it, THEN install Snow Leopard.
Very tech-savvy users know that this is ridiculous (crippling an OS install disc by requiring ANOTHER disc from the older OS is actually rather dangerous, and Apple is not that stupid) but the wording on the site is distinctly misleading in that regard.
It's especially bad when you realize that Leopard was $129 at first release, and the Snow Leopard upgrade disc is $29, which means that if you were to buy Leopard new AND Snow Leopard new it would still cost less than the "You should really get this if you have Tiger, guys" bundle.
I like iWork and iLife. But I wouldn't want to pay for them if I didn't need them.
Yes, what Gris said. It was mostly the iWork/iLife bundle that was annoying me. (Also, I'll cop to thinking that the iPad was requiring the latest OS, but 5 ≠ 6. oops.)
So I can buy the $29 Snow Leopard and it will update from Tiger?
Also, since I may be about to upgrade, who makes good external drives?
I think the issue might be that the versions of the iLife apps that work on Tiger won't work on Snow Leopard. I'd check and make sure someone I know has been happy with the OS only upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard before doing it myself.
OK, yeah, that'd be bad, to upgrade and then not have my photos cause I can't open iphoto....except that's seriously the ONLY application that I use, that comes with iLife. Hrmph.
So no one has any idea about my ForceType question here: ita "Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."" Mar 14, 2010 6:26:02 pm PDT ?
I've removed the independent index.rss file and replaced it with a symbolic link to index.rss.php, and they still give different results when run. I'm going crazy here.
My only experience with using PHP to generate an RSS feed is a program I wrote that outputs the feed dynamically (that is, it doesn't write to a file). The first line is
header('Content-type: text/xml', true);
and from there it outputs the xml. ForceType is new to me.
That's in the PHP. It's been writing XML files fine. What's up is that the PHP file doesn't have the suffix PHP, but RSS. ForceType is to make the index.rss be processed as PHP, and since they removed PHP 4, it's not running the same anymore. Which means all the people linked to index.rss are getting junk.
This is possibly the dumbest question ever, but...
I am on Windows xp.
I have what I think is the latest version of itunes.
When itunes is maximized, the itunes store is bigger than the opening for it, and there is no scroll bar on the bottom. I can't buy anything because the buy button is on the right hand side which I can't see. I cannot drag the itunes window any larger, even though I have 2 monitors, so theoretically could drag it across both.
The window is too small for the contents in other areas of itunes, but there is a scroll bar.
