Update on some software updates

A couple of quick updates on some recent software updates…

After waiting to see how Snow Leopard worked with others, I decided to take the plunge and update. Overall, the update’s done pretty well for me, with two exceptions:

My home wifi is broken; DNS connectivity fails. There is a fair bit of discussion on this (see here and here), and whether you see it depends on how your upstream DNS is configured; I don’t see it at work, I do see it at home on the DSL line. I’ve solved it (okay, “solved”) by switching to an ethernet cable for now. Hoepfully, Apple will fix this one soon.

I’ve also had Entourage 2004 kill out the entire login environment three times — each while forwarding an email. that’s rather impressive, and yes, I know how out of date Entourage 2004 is… The solution here is to shift to using mail.app for my work (aka outlook) mail, but I haven’t had time to experiment and see how it works. Maybe soon. Until then, it’s more “Doctor, it hurts when I do this!” “Don’t do that!”)

Overall, though, I’m happy with Snow Leopard.

I also upgraded to iPhone 3.1, and count me as one of those lucky travellers who are seeing the random shutdowns. It’s particularly annoying because it tends to shut down when you put it to sleep, and you don’t know that until you try to open it up to check your mail or use an app — and nothing happens. Which means in the meantime, you aren’t getting notifications and phone calls. So I find myself forming a new habit, which is to put it to sleep, then hit the button to bring up the screensaver immediately, just to make sure it actually does. My high point for it turning off was four times in 1 day, but I’ve now gone two days without it shutting down at all — I’ve seen seven or eight overall. Lots of blogs are talking about this, including Engadget.

That one’s a minor annoyance in a way, but it impacts a device like that in a huge way. Here’s hoping they fix it quickly.

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