{"id":760,"date":"2007-11-06T01:34:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T01:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2007\/11\/06\/wrestling-with-a-leopard\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T01:34:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T01:34:46","slug":"wrestling-with-a-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling with a Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This so called upgrade to the iMac operating is causing me real problems:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The brand new Lexmark X4580 printer  failed to work with the 10.5 OS. Fortunately the <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/2007\/10\/31\/the-leopard-and-lexmark\/\">user forums suggested<\/a> removing the printers PDE directory.<\/li>\n<li>I then discovered that Leopard doesn&#8217;t work with Firefox or at least not  the drop down menus  on the sites that you visit. No cure as yet \ud83d\ude41<\/li>\n<li>Tonight I discovered that Safari and WordPress connive to remove the paragraph formatting when trying to make posts from within WordPress. Now using Opera \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>The Airport utility is useless . When I try to change wireless  networks it fails to see any of the other neyworks in my house.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve yet to get it to connect to my Freecom network hard drive.<\/li>\n<li>Time Machine trashed my external hard drive when it failed to notice that the drive was full.<\/li>\n<li>The provided mouse scroll button has packed up after 8 weeks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the bright side:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/yummyftp.com\/\">Yummy ftp<\/a> client is brilliant.<\/li>\n<li>MacSimpleGPS pulls in the data from my Garmin etrex legend easily.<\/li>\n<li>The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp4converter.net\/\"> DVDto MP4<\/a> converter worked well.<\/li>\n<li>The 24&#8243; screen and audio are brilliant.<\/li>\n<li>iMovie works well with Youtube.<\/li>\n<li>Grab works well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,,2090889,00.html\">Philip Dowsett says in The Guardian<\/a> . &#8220;So what should you do if a leopard gets into your house? &#8220;Don&#8217;t run. They will chase you down like prey. Try to give them an escape route, make loud noises and wave your hands around. I wouldn&#8217;t recommend going for the scruff of its neck&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addendum: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2007\/11\/05\/imNotHappyWithLeopard.html\">Dave Winer is not happy as well<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This so called upgrade to the iMac operating is causing me real problems:- The brand new Lexmark X4580 printer failed to work with the 10.5 OS. Fortunately the user forums suggested removing the printers PDE directory. I then discovered that Leopard doesn&#8217;t work with Firefox or at least not the drop down menus on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","tag-leopard-imac-firefox-lexmark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}