I upgraded to Snow Leopard this weekend. It seems to be significantly buggier than 10.5, which is extremely disappointing.
- WiFi is incredibly unreliable. It seems to freeze up often, requiring me to turn it off and back on to reconnect. Must frustrating, particularly as I’m trying to perform multi-GB Time Machine backups over it.
- It takes an extremely long time for my Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to connect after a reboot. Around thirty seconds. I’ve taken to powering them down and back on. Lame.
- For no reason I can discern, the system will refuse to let me launch new shells. Not in Terminal, not in Emacs, not in Screen, not anywhere. I can launch new apps, but any
/bin/bash process hangs when I launch it. Logging out and back in fixes it.
- OpenVPN doesn’t work anymore. I was using Tunnelblock 3.0b14 on Leopard; that complained about incompatible kexts and refused to launch. I upgraded to 3.0b16, which launches okay, but refuses to connect with no error message whatsoever. Nothing in the logs. No idea why it doesn’t work. I installed Viscosity, but that doesn’t work either; it complains about command-line arguments. I hacked on the configuration, but didn’t get anywhere.
iPhone OS 3.1
I upgraded my (new) iPhone 3GS. There isn’t much to report, except that audio-only playback has returned! Sort of. It’s buried really deep, but I found it in 3.0, and it still works in 3.1.
- Start playing a video podcast. It doesn’t work with movies anymore, only video podcasts.
- Press the home button. The podcast will stop playing.
- Press the play/pause button on the headphone remote. The audio will play, and you can pocket your phone.
Sucks, but at least it’s still there.
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