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Printed Page 1
3rd "box"

I am reading this book via Safari Books Online <www.safaribooksonline.com> and therefore do not (as far as I can see) have access to page numbers.

In the Introduction...

In the "What's New in Tiger" section...

In the "UP TO SPEED - Mac OS X: The Buzzword-Compliant Operating System" box...

In the "Preemptive multitasking" section...

The author states:

"Unfortunately, the Mac OS 7/8/9 (and Windows 95/98/Me) version of multitasking works by the rule of the playground ..."

The Windows part of that sentence is inaccurate. All Windows versions PRIOR to 95 were cooperative - but 95 fixed that and had true preemptive multitasking. [It did, however, continue to suffer from a global resource pool.]

Anonymous 
Printed Page 8
box, column 2, 2nd line

"(see p.10)" should be "(see p.11)" for the Intel box

Anonymous 
Printed Page 11
Future Shock - Intel Inside Box, 7th paragraph, 2nd sentance.

"..., you can install commercial programs like called Paralles, VMWare, or Crossover..."
I believe the word 'called' should be removed from the sentence.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 361
7th paragraph

Preview section header is spelled "Peview"

Anonymous 
Printed Page 367
Entire page is missing--book has page 361 repeated instead page

The section on Stickies is missing the entire page 367. Pages 366 and 368 are fine.

What appears instead is a repeat of page 361.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 367
Entire page is missing--book has page 361 repeated instead

The section on Stickies is missing the entire page 367. Pages 366 and 368 are fine.

What appears instead is a repeat of page 361.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 367
entire page

in my copy, instead of page 367 i have a second copy of page 361.

page numbers go 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 361, 368

the two pages 361 are identical.

kinda disrupts the section on stickies

Anonymous 
Printed Page 389-390
bottom half 389 & top half of 390

Backing up /creating image (.dmg file) of entire hard drive.

Pages 389-390 imply/state that using Apple's Disk Utility it's possible
to image the start-up disk. I tried many times yesterday in different ways
and always got the error message "Resource Busy". AppleCare was not very
helpful, saying I couldn't do it. I tried again, this time booting from
Install Disk #1 (10.4.x) & running Disk Utility. I was able to get it to
work. I suggest you modify pp. 389-390 for when users want to image/backup
their root HD. I'm using 10.4.7 on a 1.67GHz G4 PB.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 390
Last paragraph.

Text reads (2nd line / at '('): (or, alternatively, Control-click the .dmg icon and choose Burn from the shortcut menu).

The choice 'Burn' does not appear at all.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 390
Last paragraph.

Text reads (2nd line / at '('): (or, alternatively, Control-click the .dmg icon and choose Burn from the shortcut menu).

The choice 'Burn' does not appear at all.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 821
Last entry on page in "Managing Programs" section of Appendix F

In the appendix of key commands (the last appendix in the book) the description for the key command "Shift-Command-3" reads "Captures the screen image as a PDF file on your desktop". It should say that it saves this as a PNG file, like the rest of the book says. Since this appendix is something that people will cut out and look at for quick reference, this is marked as a serious technical error.

Anonymous 
Printed Page 822
First entry on page

In the appendix of key commands (the last appendix in the book) the description for the key command "Shift-Command-4" reads "Produces a crosshair; drag to capture a selected portion of the screen as a PDF graphics file". It should say that it saves this as a PNG file, like the rest of the book says. Since this appendix is something that people will cut out and look at for quick reference, this is marked as a serious technical error.

Anonymous 


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