[OSX-Users] Re: OS X Mountain Lion (Gold Master) released

[Nick Gibbins]

I've taken the plunge too.

Apart from a couple of graphic glitches with the genie effect, it seems
okay. I can see the notification centre killing off growl.

The main niggle I've found so far is with the new notes app; it allows you 
sync with iCloud, but the iCloud sync in the corresponding notes app on iOS5
requires you to set up a MobileMe account! I assume that this will be fixed 
in iOS6, but it's surprising that Apple has let this happen.

Nick

On 11 Jul 2012, at 21:05, Hugh Glaser <hg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Well I cracked and did it on my Air :-)
> No problems at all so far.
> Just started it off and went for a bath and it was done when I got back.
> And I seem to have an extra more than 15G free space on my disc!
> 
> On 11 Jul 2012, at 13:38, Vladimiro Sassone <vs at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Still waiting for the first negative report from early installers....
>> 
>> (from iPad)
>> 
>> On 11 Jul 2012, at 13:36, "Tim Chown" <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> I can confirm it's OK from eduroam using VPN (to staffvpn.ecs.soton.ac.uk).
>>> 
>>> Run the VPN first, then in the Finder do "Go.. connect to server", and then plug in cifs://software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software, and then enter your ECS credentials to complete the drive mount.
>>> 
>>> If you're not VPNed correctly, you'll not get the login window to mount the drive.
>>> 
>>> Tim
>>> 
>>> On 11 Jul 2012, at 10:02, Neil White wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jules,
>>>> 
>>>> I can't seem to get access to the software server from my new Mac Air. I
>>>> can only get a signal for ECSWlan (not Eduroam from my office!!!), so I'm
>>>> guessing that this is the issue? I have tried to vpn but that doesn't
>>>> work. Any ideas?
>>>> 
>>>> Neil
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 10/07/2012 19:57, "Jules Field" <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Folks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> The waiting is basically over.
>>>>> Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.0) has reached Gold Master status.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This means that Apple still have the right to change it before it is
>>>>> released for download by the general public, but it's very rare that
>>>>> anyone does change it due to the astronomical cost of doing so. They
>>>>> start building it into new hardware coming off the production line
>>>>> today, so any changes have to be applied to new Macs that are already in
>>>>> their shrink-wrap on their way to the Apple Stores and distribution
>>>>> centres around the world.
>>>>> 
>>>>> So if you want to download it, you can get it from
>>>>> cifs://software.ecs.soton.ac.uk/software
>>>>> then look in the images/apple/Mountain Lion directory.
>>>>> Copy the Gold Master installer application to your /Applications folder
>>>>> and run it. It will upgrade your Mac and reboot again when it's finished.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Note: If you have installed the beta release of "Messages" at any time,
>>>>> uninstall this and restart *before* you start installing Mountain Lion.
>>>>> The option to uninstall it is in the "Messages" menu of the Messages
>>>>> application.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Jules
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
> 
> 

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