![]() ![]() On Leopard I used the iStat menus in version 1.3, but these don’t work on Snow Leopard. I like these little nerdy monitor items in the menu bar which tell me how much RAM I use, how the system load is or how much traffic is on the network. It needs some effort to upgrade, but with the view ports I use took just a few minutes to select the ports I need and a few hours of building while the system is still usable for other things. As I don’t need all installed ports any more I took the manual approach described, by simply removing all ports and re-building the parts I still need on my system. the new Snow Leopard 64bit.Īfter upgrading to the new Macports for Snow Leopard, the Migration page in the Macports wiki describes how to upgrade your installed ports to a new system. Even after this some port commands will fails, mostly due to architecture constraints of the older 32bit parts on Leopard vs. So I downloaded the Snow Leopard version and installed it to get a working port command again. Thus a sudo port selfupdate failed as well. Having a history with Gentoo Linux I simply love the ports system, so I chose Macports over Fink to add additional Unix/Linux software to my Mac.Īfter upgrading Macports does will simply stopp to work with a somewhat strange Tcl error message, at least this was the case with me. The latest 1.2.3-v61 works for me so far. Up to now now official release of GPGMail was rolled out, but reasonable stable versions are offered by Lukas via hist Dropbox or Github. The GPGMail maintainer seems to have no time to update it to the new API, but fortunately Lukas Pitschl stepped up to update it. GPGMailĪs it seems, GPGMail, a plugin which integrates a local installation of GnuPG to Apples Mail, seems to use a lot of internal API which of course is not supported officially and subject to frequent change, stopped working. Here the minor and major problems I had to struggle with. ![]() This is, I think, the big advantage of a Linux system: usually all the software in the repository, which mostly is all you need, is available in a working version, so it just continues to work. But a lot of third-party software simply stops working, which also was to be expected. Sure, concerning the Apple software, everything works as expected, no problems there. Remembering each and every update on my former windows systems, as well as the dist-upgrade on a deb-based system, I was really astonished how smooth the update went by. When you're the Emperor, you don't have to give any reasons for stomping on kittens.After a long time and struggle I finally decided to update to the snow leopard. There's no word from Apple on why they chose to kill all of the Free Memory apps. ![]() Since this latest kerfuffle has forced Bjango to release a feature-limited version of iStat for iPhone, the company has reduced the price to US$1.99. Bjango (the iPhone arm of iSlayer) has kindly posted instructions for how to use version 1.0 to keep the function intact, but we're all wondering why Apple decided to axe all apps that performed this useful function. As a result, iStat for iPhone version 1.1 was released with the Free Memory function removed. Apple, taking on the role of Emperor Palpatine with gusto, recently forced all iPhone developers to remove or retool apps that use a Free Memory function to display memory usage and/or clear out wired or inactive memory. While iStat's developer, iSlayer, has resolved this disturbance in The Force, there's still a dark and evil presence in the universe. You can download it for free, although a donation is requested. The new Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatible version is running just fine, and less than a week of darkness filled the hearts of all of those who love iStat Menus. This morning, however, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, fluffy kittens are playing again (see image at right for proof), and all is right with the world! iStat Menus 2.0 has arrived, and now my CPU monitor, calendar, and clock are back in the menu bar where they're supposed to be. The world was looking bleak and dreary after Snow Leopard arrived last week, for my little menu bar friend, iStat Menus for Mac, was incompatible with the new version of Mac OS X. ![]()
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