mac and iphone question...

[rmd]

osx 10.5, leopard: worth the upgrade? should i wait for whatever's next? does 'time machine' work as it should? can i use that with any old external hard drive? how about to a drive mounted with nfs?

iphone extended care warranty: i assume it's worth it. any reason not to?

thanks, people of the livejournal!

Comments

[cz_unit]

I hate the management of it; everything that I have used for years is missing. I prefer 10.4.

However everything requires it. Also note: If you go to 10.5.6 apple has broken the USB support so it's harder to jail break your iphone.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

hm. i'm new to the platform as of 10.4, and i'm using it as a plain old vanilla user (modulo occasional use of CLI things like "tcpdump"), so i'm not sure i'd miss much. anything in particular that's missing that might be visible up here at the surface of the pond, as it were?

i haven't bricked jailbroken my iphone, so i'm not concerned about that so much.

[cz_unit]

breaking the phones doesn't seem to be that big of a deal; if they get bricked it looks like they can be cold-reloaded. I'd do my Touch, but it's got new loaders that are a lot harder to crack. Maybe this weekend.

That said, I run my macs as servers. And the startup scripts I use don't seem to work on 10.5. Neither does netinfo it looks like, which means I have a problem authenticating to the 20 year old NeXTStation domain master here at the house.

CZ