As most Mac owners know, yesterday Apple released OS X 10.5, code-name Leopard. Some lucky customers, including those of us in Computing Services here at Thayer School received our copies and have begun installing and playing. I have successfully installed it on my MacBook Pro, but have run into a few software issues that I thought I’d document in the hopes that it may save someone some time and effort somewhere.
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Due to recent changes to Dartmouth wireless networking and limitations on one of our print servers, wireless printing for Mac and Linux is only available from Dartmouth Secure and Dartmouth Wireless Portal. You will be unable to print if connected to Kiewit Wireless.
All Windows PCs and Mac & Linux computers connected to the wired network are not affected.
Instructions for connecting to the new wireless networks can be found at our help pages.
If you run into trouble connecting, please e-mail [snip...]
Here’s an obscure one, about as far from Frequently Asked as you can get, but if it can help but one stumbling interneter then it was worth the typing.
If you’re getting getting an error on your Mac whenever you try to use the built-in iSight camera complaining that “Your camera is in use by another application“..
and you’ve made dag-nabit sure there’s no other iSight hogging app running…
and you’ve rebooted…
and you’ve cmd-opt-P-R-ed…
and you’ve Software Updated…
and you’ve tried every hair-brained tip from every far-flung forum that comes [snip...]
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