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Thats very interesting.
I have to say though, that I think the "real-world" situation on many Macs out there flys in the face of that particular Daring Fireball article, as interesting as it is.
I tend to agree with most of what he writes, but on this occasion have my reservations, as much as I can see his points.
I myself have experienced problems with Delta Updates and solved them with Combo Updates.
I also am part of the group that think Repairing Permissions is a healthy option for routine system maintenance, as is a quick boot to another partition and running a Disk Utility check of your main System drive periodically.
I don't think OS X is bug free (no piece of sftware is) and regular intelligent maintenance is required, and on occasion files do get trashed... Annoying, but true.
For example, I am using Missing Sync to share appointments and contacts with a mobile device at the moment and the whole Bluetooth syncing crap went down the other day for no reason whatsoever. I tried everything, including Reparing Permissions and in the end had to resort to an uninstall and re-install of Missing Sync. I had not had any catastrophic failiures on my machine recently, nor run any nasty haxies, or pieces of 'naughty' software.. In fact the most radicle thing that I had done was a shut down a re-boot to clear out some memory that Photoshop had stolen permanetly! Somewhere along the line a file must have become corrupted and was causing the problem. Re-installing all the files from scratch was the only solution.
I particularly think that Delta Updates have yet to prove themselves as 100% problem free when being used update after update. Anecdotary (spelling!??!) evidence tends to suggest that Combo Updates are more reliable.
On the flip side running a machine for four years without any 'maintenance' shows what a reliable and solid system we are lucky enough to have. Hat's off to Apple for that...
Last edited by scratt : 2005-01-26 at 23:24.
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