Tiger on my PowerBook
Last night, I installed Tiger on my PowerBook. I really like using Spotlight and wanted to see if Tiger had the same effect on my Classic applications on the Powerbook vice those on my iMac where I might have had other problems. As always, I used the Upgrade path to install the operating system. I tried to customize the installation by dropping off printer drivers and languages I did not need; I was able to drop off some printer drivers but I could not deselect the extra languages! Something was wrong there; otherwise, why give me a little box I could check or un-check?
The three applications I wanted to investigate under Tiger were Virtual PC 7.01 (running Windows XP Pro), Outlook 2001 in Classic mode, and ClickNDesign 3D in Classic mode.
I started Virtual PC by clicking on its icon in the Applications folder. An error message popped up telling me there was a problem with “Virtual Switch” networking. I told the system to continue booting, and it did. Networking did not work; so, I checked the setup and found the “Shared I.P” option was selected as expected. “Shared I.P.” was supposed to work. Hoping I might get it going, I deselected it, selected “Virtual Switch” networking, and rebooted XP. I then reselected “Shared” I.P. and rebooted again. This time, networking worked normally; and I used my Windows-based and Internet-hopping AOPA Flight Planner to verify its operation.
Next, I signed onto my Exchange server based network at work using Tiger’s VPN. That was no problem. But when I cranked up Outlook 2001, I could never get it to connect up. To check out the health of the mail server, I tried to sign up to my workplace network using my Windows XP machine but had no luck with that, either. (I often get spotty performance out of my workplace’s VPN and can sign on with one platform but not the other and vice-versa a few minutes later.) A few minutes later, I did get the XP computer signed on and used Outlook 2000 to check out my work e-mail. Shutting that all down, I went back to the network using my PowerBook and got in with VPN and used Outlook 2001 to pick up my mail. So, I now had two out of the three applications I was concerned about working.
I didn’t get as lucky with ClickNDesign 3D. Just like on my iMac, the application would ignore being told to run in Classic mode and would crank up as an OS X application and crash. I submitted a bug report to Apple. I do believe there is a bug involving Classic in Tiger. If the traffic I’m seeing in the Apple Support forums is any indicator, there is probably more than one.
There was other good news about installing Tiger. Airport performance is slightly improved; I’m seeing more signal strength reported on my menu bar at any particular location than I did using Panther. Overall speed, as I reported earlier, seems a bit improved, but not significantly so. They’re revamped the appearance of System Preferences so that there is only a “Show All” button, some “forward/back” buttons, and a Spotlight search bar is all there is in the top row. I like that better. And, thankfully, the menu and window bars aren’t any darker in Tiger; they’re at the limit of what I can stand.
The three applications I wanted to investigate under Tiger were Virtual PC 7.01 (running Windows XP Pro), Outlook 2001 in Classic mode, and ClickNDesign 3D in Classic mode.
I started Virtual PC by clicking on its icon in the Applications folder. An error message popped up telling me there was a problem with “Virtual Switch” networking. I told the system to continue booting, and it did. Networking did not work; so, I checked the setup and found the “Shared I.P” option was selected as expected. “Shared I.P.” was supposed to work. Hoping I might get it going, I deselected it, selected “Virtual Switch” networking, and rebooted XP. I then reselected “Shared” I.P. and rebooted again. This time, networking worked normally; and I used my Windows-based and Internet-hopping AOPA Flight Planner to verify its operation.
Next, I signed onto my Exchange server based network at work using Tiger’s VPN. That was no problem. But when I cranked up Outlook 2001, I could never get it to connect up. To check out the health of the mail server, I tried to sign up to my workplace network using my Windows XP machine but had no luck with that, either. (I often get spotty performance out of my workplace’s VPN and can sign on with one platform but not the other and vice-versa a few minutes later.) A few minutes later, I did get the XP computer signed on and used Outlook 2000 to check out my work e-mail. Shutting that all down, I went back to the network using my PowerBook and got in with VPN and used Outlook 2001 to pick up my mail. So, I now had two out of the three applications I was concerned about working.
I didn’t get as lucky with ClickNDesign 3D. Just like on my iMac, the application would ignore being told to run in Classic mode and would crank up as an OS X application and crash. I submitted a bug report to Apple. I do believe there is a bug involving Classic in Tiger. If the traffic I’m seeing in the Apple Support forums is any indicator, there is probably more than one.
There was other good news about installing Tiger. Airport performance is slightly improved; I’m seeing more signal strength reported on my menu bar at any particular location than I did using Panther. Overall speed, as I reported earlier, seems a bit improved, but not significantly so. They’re revamped the appearance of System Preferences so that there is only a “Show All” button, some “forward/back” buttons, and a Spotlight search bar is all there is in the top row. I like that better. And, thankfully, the menu and window bars aren’t any darker in Tiger; they’re at the limit of what I can stand.
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