General 10.6.5 Status Question

For the first time in perhaps 10 years, I held off installing an OS release with 10.6.4. The issues with 10.6.5 discussed in this forum caused me to delay installing it too.
Can anyone give a current summary status of 10.6.5? Should I stay with 10.6.3 or upgrade?
I know this is not a black-and-white question. I'm looking for some general comments. I have a pretty vanilla installation and use Time Machine.

In my opinion, the issues discussed for the last two updates aren't materially different from the ones mentioned for any earlier updates. OS updates alway "break" some software & reveal faults in the design of a few hardware peripherals. Every update is at least slightly more demanding of the Mac's own hardware than the last (especially true of RAM) so an update sometimes will reveal a failing or out-of-spec part in the Mac itself. Users often do not know that they have some "special" software installed -- a lot of it is included in what appears to be normal or well-regarded software & that is infrequently documented in release notes or promotional literature.
Of course, Apple does sometimes introduce an obscure bug in an update, & it must be considered serious if affects your Mac's usability, but that happens much less often than it seems from the reports claiming that here & elsewhere on the web. Many users jump to the conclusion that the update is the cause of their problems without considering anything other than that those problems became evident after applying it. (This is a logical flaw so common it has a nickname, +post hoc+, short for +post hoc; ergo propter hoc+, Latin for "after this; therefore because of this.")
So part of it is that some users never check for any other cause. Another is that they diligently search for post-update reports of problems sounding like their own, which is relatively easy to do, but not for reports of no problems anything like their own, which is harder to do. (It can be done, for instance by wading through thousands of Discussions posts from users running the update asking about some minor issue or just for info about how to do something. Presumably, if they had serious issues, they would mention them.)
This tends to feed on itself -- when one reads about a similar sounding post-update problem, it is only natural to post a "me, too" comment as well. Once enough of these posts appear, it is tempting to believe it is a widespread problem (& thus must be caused by the update) without considering that all those posts might represent only a very tiny fraction of update users or that there are many common causes that have nothing to do with the update itself that might be responsible for all the posts.

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recently recieved an email welcoming me to level 2 and it begins with:
Please include the line below in follow-up emails for this request.
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I dont understand what this is..some type of id? Thanks!

shldr2thewheel wrote:
Follow-up: 11111111 (random numbers in place of actual ones in the email)
I dont understand what this is..some type of id? Thanks!
It's only for answering the email in case you have any questions or remarks about your status and so on.
On that you should include that "follow up number" in the subject line of the eMail to identify the "follow up" mail and group all mails relating to you.
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I'm creating a custom page in OAF, and I have a question about row status. I am curious to know if there is a way to determine if a row has been committed to the database yet or if it is just sitting in the cache.
Basically, we have a 1-1 relationship between two tables. When a user tries to a new record in table B, it must be associated with an existing record in table A. When the user goes to the create page for table B, a new record is immediately created (per the examples in the toolbox tutorial) and the user can enter data and select a record from table A to associate with, via an LOV.
If a user tries to create a new record in table B using a record in table A that already has an existing association, our client would like us to move them to the already existing record in table B. If we do this, we'd need to discard the new record we originally created so that it does not get entered in the database.
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I'm imagining a user goes to the create record page for table B does something like the following while deciding which record from A to associate with:
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Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
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Anybody care to give their opinion on naming standards to use when deploying EBS?
My understanding is generally oracle own's the database and applmgr owns the application tier. Is that an oracle standard?Correct.
What about Test and Dev environments and is it common practice to use different userid's for them (ie 'appltst' for Test app tier).You could either user applmgr/oracle for each environment, or just use the appl<sid>/ora<sid>, both should be valid -- The latter is less confusing.
My other question is whether the database should be owned by oracle or not on a server shared by others non-ebs databases.
Any opinions/best practices?Database should be owned by oracle, and it is recommended not to have any other database running on the same server. This also depends on the hardware resources on this server and what type of environment (i.e. Prod, UAT, Test, Dev, ..etc).
The directory naming standards I think we can develop on our own so I am not as concerned about that unless I am overlooking something.Correct, you could just go with the default when you do the installation (as RapidWiz suggests) and make sure you are laying down the software under the correct mount point.
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I currently work for a company that prints "Fathead" like wall graphics, i set the images up to print for them, but im looking for a better way to do what i do. Specifically my working with illustrator and Photoshop to setup the cut line for each image. Here is my current step by step procedure:
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8) I then copy the CutContour line, paste it onto the TIF image, and line it up over the subject
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One side note that might be a direction for me to head in,...
I recently was given a jpg file from a guy who said he had already made the selection for me. I wasn't quite sure what he meant but when i saved the image as a tif, opened it in illustrator, and hit CTRL-A to select everything i noticed a cutline was already present. After further examination of the jpg in Photoshop i noticed a "Path 1" on the paths tab, and more importantly that cutline when opened in illustrator was nuts on! Meaning none of the anchor points and handle's needed to be adjusted at all.
Now the person who sent me this file was a customer so i can't rightly ask them how to better do my job :-) lol ...but maybe someone here can tell me how they (for lack of a better word) embedded a cutline or path i guess it's called into a jpg file like that? This would at least save me the step of exporting my selection to illustrator as an AI file and im wondering if however they did it is more accurate then the "Make Work Path" option i currently use.

...useing File | Export | Paths to Illustrator is what i outlined above that i currently do...
My apologies for not catching that. Honestly, my eyes glazed over at about step 2 of your procedure.
I'm not happy with the quality of the cutline Photoshop exports to illustrator (the ai file) after i make it a work path.
A couple of possibilities come to mind. What Tolerance value are you using when you first make a work path out of your selection in Photoshop? 0.5 pixel is the highest precision available, and that's what you should use if you want your path to accurately reflect your selection. Be warned, however, that your path will likely end up with a lot of points, making for an unnecessarily complex path. (Try it with a simple circle.)
Another possibility is that you're working with a low-quality, low-resolution JPEG as your source image. JPEG compression artifacts can affect selection accuracy (with automated tools, like the magic wand or eraser), and overall resolution, of course, will limit path precision. Not much you can do about that other than to start with better-quality images.
After further examination of the jpg in Photoshop i noticed a "Path 1" on the paths tab, and more importantly that cutline when opened in illustrator was nuts on!... maybe someone here can tell me how they (for lack of a better word) embedded a cutline or path i guess it's called into a jpg file like that?
Using a low tolerance (high precision) value make a path from your selection in Photoshop and save the path. Save As a JPG, and the path will be saved along with the image. Do not use Save for Web to create your JPG file.
As others have pointed out in earlier posts, learning to use the pen tool is your best bet... and an absolute necessity if you're going to be doing a lot of this stuff.
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Thank you. I will try changing that setting.
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My parents ordered an iPhone via the At&t store 7/23. I just checked the order status today but no iPhone 4 order shows up on the page. Does it take this long for At&t to process an order or is there something I'm missing? Thanks.
Message was edited by: henryjlu

henryjlu wrote:
My parents ordered an iPhone via the At&t store 7/23. I just checked the order status today but no iPhone 4 order shows up on the page. Does it take this long for At&t to process an order or is there something I'm missing? Thanks.
Message was edited by: henryjlu
If the order isn't on the page, then something has happened. And yes, it takes up to 3 weeks for the iPhone 4 ships. So an order on 7/23 is not going to arrive until 8/15.

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}catch(IOException ioe){
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java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 5
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:691)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:337)
at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:448)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
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The Question:
What changes or modifications can I make such that the Stack Trace I receive will map to exactly where the problem occurs in my code� does that make sense?

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Unless I'm barking up the wrong tree.
J

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I don't know what i'm missing. Any help, please?
Best regards

Hi,
I've changed the work status as you have indicated me but it doesn't work.
user 1 can set the work status to closed but he can reverse this work status to Open.
I don't want the user2 closes the work status because below 001 there are many branches
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I want that every user close his branch and not be able to enter data. Unless the user 2 opens this branch.
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