I woke up early today so that I could arrive at the Apple store early and get in line, but then I realized that they're not releasing it until 6pm today. Rats! Well, it might be an early day in the office.

Luckily, my Verizon contract expired yesterday, so I'll be picking up an iPhone as well.

I work in the printing industry and we DREAD the new OS releases. The worse was back in the OS7 - OS9 days.

We tell all of our clients to sit on their hands until we test the new OS and can give our seal of approval.

When Apple comes out with a new OS it seems like they throw the old OS out the window and start from scratch. So each version brings on it's own set of bugs ranging from network connectivity to software compatibility.

The network stuff has been the worse the last few releases. We literally had files on network shares disappear because of the way the OS tracked files. The 3rd party Macintosh file sharing software vendors had to scramble to make patches (Band-Aids) to try to prevent the problems until Apple got it fixed.

According to FedEx tracking, mine will be here in the next hour, supposed to be here by 10:30am EST. I cant wait!! New OS and a new office chair all in the same day!!

@ScottP - I'll work on that. ;) I'm just happy it is Fedex, not UPS. Fedex delivers in the morning while UPS arrives between 5 and 6.

I've heard as well - but I'm not concerned. I have a Windows box here I can run CF on, and for the laptop (which I'm converting first) I can run VM Fusion for the lappie when I'm remote.

I didn't realize that if I preordered it would get here on release date. Now that I've waited this long, I'll probably wait another month and see how smoothly (or not) everyone says the transition is.

I'm really relunctant to have any mishaps because I just spent so much time getting this one how I like it.

Of course, I'm also a little upset that I received it 10 days before Oct 1, when I could get it for $10. Now, I've got to come up with 130! I thought I read that I would get to upgrade a bit cheaper since even then we knew it was close to being released. But, now I think that was about IntelliJ IDEA, not MacOSX

Well, be sure and let us know about how smooth or not the transition is. And I don't want any fanboy excuses either - you better be honest. =)

My TNT tracking has said out for delivery all day, it's 3:41pm (in the UK) and no sign yet...

Have both my Macbook and new Mac Mini for it to go on :)

I'm going to wait a few weeks I think. I run CF on my Mac so need that to be working straight away which it apparently it doesn't at the mo. Some Firefox addons are having problems as well although I'm not sure which ones. Firefox itself is fine though. Bit gutted I don't have my ADC Select membership any more so didn't get the developer seeds :(

Gonna get another 2gig of RAM and a larger external HDD for Time Machine before upgrading. I've heard great things about Leopard but my Mac is my main machine at home and I'd be lost without it so I'm going to hold off.

Unless I used CCC to clone my current Tiger installation to my Firewire drive, installed Leopard on my main, then I could boot and run Tiger from the external if things went belly up. Hrm...

Let us know how you get on, Ray!

How's the Kool-Aid guys?

mine just got here too :)

It's on a truck for delivery according to the courier's website. I'll be looking out my window until it arrives.

Ray,

May I suggest a "10.4 to 10.5 migration guide - what you need to know" blog post?

Ray,

Keep us appraised. I'm running CF8 on my current OSX install and am holding off until CF runs on Leopard OK.

BTW which version of CF are you running, enterprise or standalone.

thx,
larry

Still waiting for my copy :( I have to admit, if I get it today, I will be installing it at home right away. Figuring out problems from new system installs has been a favorite pastime for years. :)

Ray, does Leopard still come with Apache 1.3 installed? I've always found the JRun connector for 1.3 to be flakey, so I've been running it on a custom install of 2.0.52 for some time now on OS X (and 2.2 on Ubuntu - which reminds me that I need to upgrade 2 more dev servers at work with 7.10 - it's a good week for non-Microsoft operating systems!)

What about just using the CF built in web server?

The exact Apache version is posted on Matt Woodwards blog.

(I don't use Apache in production so I'm happy using it.)

Ah, gotcha. For some reason I thought you where trying with Apache.

Its Apache version 2.2.6

Next week I'm going to transition my web stuff to my Windows box and then I'll upgrade my OS on my desktop.

So far - only one thing concerns me. Finder. There is a noticeable pause as I migrate. The pause is maybe .5 seconds... and maybe I'm imagining it. But I see it.

To be fair, I barely used Leopard today as I had some complex ecom work I was doing. Tonight (barring the amount of beer I drink) I'll play with it a bit more.

I actually didn't know a lot of the new cool features. It looks like RDP type stuff is built in and NOT extra now? If so - that is quite cool.

I'll also blog again in a few days if I have anything major to say.

Woo hooo... just got mine!!!!!!! First of 3 macs are in the upgrade process.

I upgraded my MacBook yesterday and I sill can't get mysql or cf8 to go. I upgraded mysql to 5.0.45 but still on luck, both worked on Tiger.

I managed to get MySQL running... Im going to blog a solution just to keep it from getting lost in the comments.

My CF 8 install will not start though, get this error in the log:

The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
Break on __THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___YOU_MUST_EXEC__() to debug.

Upgraded this afternoon. Same problems as Raymond but my MySQL (5.0.37) has been fine.

my acrobat reader is working fine in Leopard

Installed.

Hmm . . . I think I'm going to hold off a bit on upgrading to Leopard until the CF8 issues have been fixed. Being as this Mac laptop is the only Mac I have . . .

Chris, you probably checked this - but just in case - my Apache was set to run automatically before Leopard. After it was turned off. So I turned it on. My Apache is running again - I just had to remove the CFM related lines.

I, too, am a new Mac user. After attending MAX this year in Chicago, I noticed that about 3 out of every 5 laptops I saw in use were Macbooks. Intrigued by this, I decided to spend some of my equipment budget, which I seem to be underrunning this year, to see what all the fuss was about so I purchased a 15" MacBook Pro with 4GB RAM. I was hooked after about an hour. This thing just works and it works well ALL the time. What I was most impressed about was the fact that I could take my VM images (created on the PC version of VMWare) and run them in VMWare Fusion without modification. I generally run two concurrent VM images. They are both Windows 2003 servers. One server runs IIS with CF8 (plus some other Windows services) and the other runs Exchange Server 2003 and serves as an Active Directory PDC. This allows me to approximate my Windows production environment and use the new CFExchange* tags in CF8 without worrying about blowing up my production Exchange box. I think I have arrived at an ideal development environment using this Mac. Host and guest system performance on my Mac is FAR superior to the same environment on my Vista PC. Memory management seems to be better and processor utilization is about 25% improved over the same development environment on my Vista box. I love this thing. Anyway....I received my Leopard DVD at about 10:30 yesterday and I was upgraded by lunch time (although I sort of cheated and skipped the DVD verification step which seemed to be taking an excessively long time to run). Everything ran fine post upgrade....DreamWeaver, Flex 2, Flex 3, and, most importantly, VMWare Fusion and my VM images. Also, Leopard seems to have introduced some new networking interfaces/utilities that make it easier to work in a Windows environment (admittedly, these tools may have existed in Tiger, but I have not been a Mac user long enough to have found them) and map network drives. Overall, I'm extremely pleased with the upgrade. If you have not played with TimeMachine yet, it's great technology. The cover-flow file browser ain't bad either....

Good luck getting your native Mac apps running. I'm sure we'll see solutions posted in the next couple of days.

M. McConnell

I know this isn't the perfect solution for everyone but to fix the problem of mysql not starting change the permissions on the mysql folder to 777.

IE:
cd /usr/local/
sudo chmod -R 777 mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686

@Scott P

I actually didn't need to reinstall the multiserver version and am at the same error. I even recompiled the apache connector using the wsconfig tool. It appears that the wsconfig tool doesn't support apache 2.2.x on OS X intel. I got the impression from Mark's post that he had apache working too so I wonder if there is a way around this. I thought he has an intel machine.

ok even I have gotten it to work.

do a fresh install, choose multi-server, when you get to the connectors screen choose built-in server and install.

that will install it to /applications/jrun4

open up jrun4 and click on the coldfusion launcher which will bring up the jrun panel.

1. start jrun
2. open terminal and put in
sudo /Applications/JRun4/bin/jrun -start cfusion
and hit enter and coldfusion will start, it's kinda the same as it was when tiger launched.
then browse to http://localhost:8300/CFIDE/administrator/index.cf...

Just subscribing to this entry.... Ray, I wish there was a way - with blogCFC - to subscribe to posts w/o submitting a comment. Maybe in v6? *hint*

@Phillip - Is it Safari 2? Safari 3 seems ok with my site.
@Aaron - Agreed. :)

I've never used Automator. Got any good examples of what I would use it for?

FWIW on House Of Fusion's CF-Mac list, Ulf Unger figured out how to compile and run Apache 2.2 on Leopard http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-mac/thread....


HTH,

larry

@Ray: I'm using Safari 2.0.4. This is what I get: http://www.cielen.com/download/rayBlogWindow.gif - if I resize the window and make it wider it gets a little better but the headlines still aren't located where they are supposed to be. I'll try again later with Safari 3.

I installed it last Saturday on an old 1.25 GHz G4 PowerBook and it runs faster. No doubt. With the new Aperture 1.5.6, it's actually useable again. Installed a day later on a separate partition on my Power Mac, no issues at all. Still running OS X 10.4.10 on our Apple XServe though, no need to be overly curious... ;-)

@Chris Mallinson: Sorry to 'abuse' the thread for something off topic. Chris, I got your wishlist items today. Thank you!