Apple Snow Leopard update sets stage for Lion If you plan to install Mac OS X Lion on your Mac when that new operating system becomes available next month, you'll first want to install the latest Mac OS X Snow Leopard update, 10.6.8, which was released on Thursday. After all, Lion will be distributed through the online Mac App Store, and the Snow Leopard 10.6.8 update …
When Lion was announced the other week, I figured it was time to get our iMac upgraded to Snow Leopard (yes, I *know* I left it late...). During the process of getting all the associated updates, I spotted that one of them was an HP printer software upgrade (we have an HP LaserJet network printer).
To my amazement, said HP bundle weighed in at a backbone-troubling 1.2Gb - suffice it to say I left that one going overnight.
Makes you wonder what they put in there (flight simulator? artificial intelligence? SkyNet?)...
I did this a couple of times (on Windows things) with varying success... if you have a calendar month bandwidth cap, start the download around the end of the month, use most of the remaining bandwidth allowance, pause it or just time it right... then complete the operation using the next month's bandwidth.
But it may be more convenient to replace the printer.
I have 5 macs.
1. that hardly ever happens to me when I shut one down.
2. I hardly ever shut one down - suspend is king. why are you shutting it down all the time ??? unlike windoze: suspend works reliably every time on laptops and desktops.
3. if it happens... you've got stuff you've not saved or that's hung... probably summit you want to know about I'd have thought.
Lucky you, I don't have a single Windows machine that will successfully do that more than about five times before it either BSODs or flatly refuses to suspend/hibernate because of one of the drivers and I have to reboot meaning I find it far from reliable.
It's possible that it's just you, but I seriously doubt either of us a unique.
Now, to complete the Bingo Card of Meaningless Anecdotal Evidence, we need a Mac owner who always has problems with suspending their machine.
Any volunteers?
When it no longer boots because the filesystem is corrupt someone like me can charge you for fixing it :)
The time out is a safeguard, it's designed to allow you to intervene if an app can't quit, maybe because there are unsaved changes but in my experience it's usually because 10+ apps are all trying to quit at the same time and the disk can't respond quickly enough.
Quit apps manually (cmd+tab+q, q, q etc), or get a faster disk (like an SSD), or be prepared for when it inevitably fails from the forced power outages.
Regardless of the size of the driver, the support & functionality is still lacking on Mac's. I have a multifunction scanner/printer/wotever and it runs fine on Win 7 in bootcamp but on OS X either the scanner works or printer works or nothing at all.
Tried every print driver from Apple & manufacturer to no avail, the support thread is pages long but no-one has achieved getting it all working.
Skeletor - he looks healthier than Jobs.
If you don't link to the support site or provide details this just looks like trolling.
I've never had any problems with printer or scanners, just remember to dump the software that comes on the discs and use the Apple provided drivers.
Plus shouldn't somewhere called Greyskull have belonged to the skeletal guy anyway...
As a non-Mac user (would like - can't afford) I am used to 'printer drivers' coming with all sorts of unwanted dross. All the majors seem to need to bundle in crap tey think you might need to ensure that you only use thier product ever again. Even for separate printers form the same company it's usually one big file that spawns numerous 'helpers' (the there's uisng Ccleaner afterwards to stop half a dozen new things from calling home once every fifteen minutes)
Could it be that it's this extra baggage that is causing the bloat - actual drivers themselves don't seem to take up much space?
I've just spend a fun morning recovering from this... The Kernel Extension used by HandsOff (a firewall from Metakine) causes a kernel panic with 10.6.8. Safe mode won't let you bypass it either.
Simple solution: upgrade HandsOff before installing 10.6.8
Fix a mess solution: boot from OSX install DVD, go to terminal
cd /Volumes/yourharddrive/System/Library/Extensions
mv HandsOff.kext /
reboot
Enjoy a once again booting mac, then run Hands Off and update the app...
el cheapo Lexmark z25 bought in Lidl for uni back in 2002.
i) horribly expensive ink got me for years on windows (prices have come down, but they must have stopped grinding whole unicorn horns into each cartridge when they made the new Vizix formula. I gave up on compatibles and refills because the ink was useless)
ii) ancient Classic-era drivers on OS X actually worked better in 10.5 than 10.4, but no longer works in 10.6 and isn't listed in the latest update :(
No I do so little printing I use my parents' Epson (which scans beautifully in OS X, but the printer driver is pants and doesn't properly support changing cartridges - hopefully this update will fix that)
Unfortunately, some printer companies seem to only make their official drivers available in huge bundles. If you want a Mac driver for a HP laser printer, for instance (direct from HP, not from Apple), you have to download a 200MB package with drivers for every HP LaserJet ever. Alternatively you can get a much smaller CUPS profile and install it manually, but this is generally more likely to lack control of certain printer features.
And HP is actually _good_, as far as these things go; at least they separate out laser printers and other printers, resulting in two very big packages rather than one vast one.
Don't feel bad about it though, it's a common mistake.
Therefore the sub-heading should read:
"The installation before the installation"
The same applies to invite/invitation. You may invite someone to a meeting, but you always send them an invitation (not an invite).
Journalists these days.... tsk tsk.
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