From: RobertB 

In article ,
 "Rich Gauszka"  wrote:

> I agree about the grasping at straws. I can understand certain portions of
> the user community keeping the myth alive but I see similar solutions
> offered at waht I would regard as knowledgeable web sites, magazines and
> books that should know better.

Well, the Web sites often simply parrot information and feed it to their
user base. There have been discussions about this on the newsgroups that
include developers, for exammple, and I've read several articles where the
myth of permissions is debunked. There's another great, fairly
sophisticated, Web site for OS X, that contains some topnotch information
about the workings of the OS, along with some Unix info.

I think this is the sight: http://www.thexlab.com/index.html

MacInTouch is another good Mac site.

>
> The .plist delete didn't work for me as when I brought the Macbook out of
> sleep now it couldn't find my wireless network.

Is it supposed to do that automatically? I don't use Airport. Which base
station are you using? Or are you using a non-Apple  wireless router?

I assume you have the latest Airport updates.


It's only a minor irritation
> for me as turning the laptop's airport wireless off and on cures it's
> brain-dead status and finds my wireless network.

Interesting. Is that a bug or a feature? 


It's just that with OS X
> 10.4x in it's final stages right now ( 10.5 supposedly due out next month ),
> one would expect Apple to have their act together especially for their
> current equipment

The OS is not without bugs.



>
>
> "RobertB"  wrote in message
> news:missinglink-8A39F8.10263521022007{at}news.barkto.com...
> > In article ,
> > Rich Gauszka  wrote:
> >
> >> I just tried the remove .plist files fix. Why is there this standard
> >> offered fix solution of removing .plist files or repairing permissions
> >> for a supposedly stable OS ?
> >
> > Grasping at straws, basically. The permissions thing has been bandied
> > back and forth almost since the inception of OS X. Many experts claim it
> > does nothing other than reassure the user. I'm not sure why removing
> > .plist files would work. They're simply preferences files, used to store
> > user settings and are created when you restart if they don't exist
> > already.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=200702021409519
> >>
> >> The files to be deleted are located in the ~/Library/Preferences/
> >> directory (this is the Library directory within your User folder), and
> >> are as follows:
> >>
> >>      * com.apple.internetconfig.plist
> >>      * com.apple.internetconfigpriv.plist
> >>      * com.apple.internetconnect.plist
> >
> > Did it help? Removing them, that is?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> RobertB wrote:
> >> > In article ,
> >> >  "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> I've also experienced a similar problem as the one
below. Apple given
> >> >> the
> >> >> limited number of configurations it has to be aware
of ( especially a
> >> >> new
> >> >> Mac book ) has a less than stellar performace with updates IMO
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070126190822382
> >> >>
> >> >> AirPort Extreme Update 2007-001 Connection problems,
> >> >>
> >> >>  "I installed this update on my MacBook Core 2
Duo yesterday. Since
> >> >> then,
> >> >> when my MacBook sleeps for an extended period, it
will not reconnect
> >> >> to
> >> >> the
> >> >> wireless network. In fact, it doesn't even see any
wireless networks.
> >> >> iStumbler does not see any networks either. If I
reboot, everything is
> >> >> fine,
> >> >> until sleep. Even logging out and logging back in
does not reconnect
> >> >> me."
> >> >
> >> > I agree, there's no excuse. It's Apple's hardware. But
it seems some
> >> > people have been experiencing problems. Generally, there
updates are
> >> > without problems, however. For most of us anyway.

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