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

Fri Jul 13 15:57:27 BST 2012

I upgraded to mountain lion and I can see that vmware fusion 3.1.4 is not supported. I downloaded a trial of version 4 which seems to be working OK though...
cheers
Thanassis

On 13 Jul 2012, at 14:41, electronic Max wrote:

Dear OS X Mountain Lioners,

Are any of you using VMWare Fusion?  Do you have any issues?

Am planning on trying Mountain LIon but need to make sure there are no outstanding issues with VMWare before I make the upg as that would be a total showstopper for my dev process.

Googling about I saw there were tons of issues with pre-4.1.3 version of VMWare Fusion and ML DP1 but I can't find any issues with the Gold Master

Cheers in advance,
eMax

On Jul 13, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Colin Williams wrote:

Looks like that might be a slight improvement.  On 10.7.4 it seems to expand to fill the primary display rather than the one it was on before you expanded it.

Colin Williams
crw104 at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:crw104 at ecs.soton.ac.uk>

On 13 Jul 2012, at 11:44, Jules wrote:

Just tested that for you.
The window expands to fill the same screen it started on, but the other screen just becomes a gray textured background that appears to do almost nothing. The only thing that I can make work on the grey textured monitor is get up my Dashboard widgets.

I can't remember what the behaviour was before, so I don't know if that's any improvement at all. :-/

Jules.

On 13/07/2012 09:56, Luke Teacy wrote:
Don't suppose they've fixed the fullscreen mode yet, so that it works for multiple screens?

On 13 Jul 2012, at 00:18, Jules Field wrote:

The Lion installer/upgrader app did exactly the same thing too.
Make a zip of it first if you want to keep it after you've run it. :-)

Jules.

On 12/07/2012 17:29, Hugh Glaser wrote:
Bloody hell, that was sneaky.
It deleted the installer after installation.
Now I'll have to download again for my other machine.

On 12 Jul 2012, at 13:31, Jules <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:

I wonder if it's a quirk of the 3GS?

No-one on a 4 or a 4S has seen this on their phones.

I assume you've done the iCloud migration stuff once?

Jules.

On 12/07/2012 11:56, Nick Gibbins wrote:
Yes - so why am I being told that I need to "Create a free @me.com email address to turn on Notes"?

Nick

(this is iOS 5.1.1, fwiw)

On 12 Jul 2012, at 11:55, Les A Carr <lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:lac at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:

Didn't all the MobileMe, me.com<http://me.com> and mac.com<http://mac.com> services and users get transferred to iCloud last month?

Sent from my iPhone

On 12 Jul 2012, at 11:53, "Nick Gibbins" <nmg at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:nmg at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:

Possible, but everything else works with iCloud.

We may need to do a compare and contrast at lunch...

Nick

On 12 Jul 2012, at 11:48, Jules <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:

On 12/07/2012 09:56, Nick Gibbins wrote:
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.
I've used Notes on iCloud, and I never saw anything about MobileMe, it all "just worked" for me.

Are you sure Notes doesn't just work with iCloud on your phone?

Jules.

Nick

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

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