My latest CC Installation experience

Just some comments about my recent experience installing CC. I already have CC on other machines, but decided to do a complete installation from scratch on a brand new iMac running Mavericks 10.9.2, to see if the process had changed/got better since previous installations. I am based in Sydney Australia.
All other software I installed on the iMac worked quickly and as expected, including over 4GB of updates for Apple OS and software. My internet connection is reliable and did not interrupt any of the other installations. The Apple software, in particular, downloaded incredibly quickly - about 2 hours for all 4GB. Microsoft Office updates were a bit slow but all done within 30 minutes. Microsoft's "Flip4Mac" wmv components for Quicktime was very slow to download, as was a CUDA driver from NVIDIA.
But the CC installer was fraught with delays, mis-steps and problems. All Adobe downloads were excruciatingly slow - from the outset with the initial CC Installer (30 minutes), and then much worse with the applications themselves. The After Effects download failed 4 times, and had to re-start the download from scratch on 3 of those 4 occasions. When it failed part-way through a download, it would just wait for user interaction rather than restarting the download.
After several hours of watching this comedy of errors, I decided to just download standalone installers of After Effects and Photoshops. Googling "Adobe CC standalone installers" takes you to
Download a free trial or buy Adobe products | Adobe downloads
You use the "Try" button for each application on this page to go to a specific download page for the application trial. But the "Try" buttons on many of the applications on this page are dead links: in particular, After Effects and Photoshop.
And so, the only thing left was to babysit the CC application manager for hours. Eventually it took 9 hours for After Effects to download. After that, it took another 3 hours for Illustrator, Bridge and Photoshop combined - much more acceptable time frame, but also kind of slow.
We commonly see complaints about the install process over in the After Effects forum, and I've generally been fairly dismissive of them, but I've got to say this has been an eye opener. If my experience is common, it's no wonder people get annoyed.
Was the process slowed by the forums downtime over the past two days? (It shouldn't be, I imagine.) Is there a problem with the Adobe download servers (Akamai, I believe?) and their speed capabilities? Is this problem location-specific for Australian users? And can someone address the dead links on the Downloads page?

Andrew Yoole the experience you had is not expected. Are you on a managed network? If not I would recommend reviewing Sign in, activation, or connection errors | CC, CS6, CS5.5 - http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/activation-network-issues.html for several common configuration issues which could affect the stability of your download.
As an alternative please see Download New Adobe CC Trials: Direct Links (no Assistant/Manager) | ProDesignTools which provides information on how to download the base installers directly through your web browser. If you continue to experience slow downloads via a direct download then I would recommend utilizing an alternate Internet connection or contact your Internet Service Provider.

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My Oracle Experence1
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5.7.2.2 Using Enterprise Manager Database Control to Unlock and Change Passwords
To unlock and reset user account passwords with Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control:
Log in to Database Control.
See Also: "Logging in to Enterprise Manager Database Control"
Click Schema.
In the Users and Privileges section of the Schema page, click Users.
Enterprise Manager displays a table containing all database accounts. The Account Status column indicates whether the account is locked and whether the password is expired.
Select the user account you want to modify, then click Edit.
Use the General page of the Users property sheet to change the password and lock or unlock the selected account. Click Help for additional information.
*** OK, Clicked Scheme! (Goes to scheme ok)
Looking everywhere - What section "Users and Privileges" - Where? Its not on the pag i get!
I see, Database Objects, Programs, Change Management, MAterialized Views, XML Database, Workspace Management,...
And i am om the Database Instance: orcl - Schema Page!
Oh boy!
Not loged in as the Doc says i'm supposed to be...
No Users and privileges like the doc indicates...
Where do i go from here?
Like the saying goes, When your up to you bottom in alligators its hard to remembe you just wanted to drain a little swamp...
(I just want to see the usuers, unloac/loac and change some passwords)
What am i doin wrong, where did i get off track?
Where's the Users and Privilages like i'm supposed to be seeing?

My Leopard installation experience....

I installed Leopard on a new 400GB WD SATAII HD last night.
First I used Tiget to format the drive HFS+ Journaled and then I started the install. Leopard took about 15 mins. checking theintegrity of the installation DVD and then about 30 mins. to complete the installation. The program re-booted afted taking a few mins. to clean the boot cache.
The setup program came up and asked for details on my IP address but I just told it I was on a cable modem and it seems to have aquired my DNS details on its own with no problem. It asked if I wanted to carry over settings from another installation but I said no... figuring it would really be a clean install.
I next installed CS3 Design Standard. During the installation I saw something flah by saying Acrobat 8 was already installed... *After the installation I noticed that there was no entry at all for Adobe Acrobat in the Applications folder! I knew that there were problems with Leopard and Acrobat but I figured that it would get installed but just crash if opened... it looks like Acrobat 8 never even gets installed!*
All of the CS3 Design standard programs seem to be much faster in Leopard. Very nice... but I have not had that much time to play yet.
One strange thing is that *at first Safari seemed quite slow*... but after a while it speeded up nicely... maybe it was caching files...
Loaded iLife 08... also without much of a hitch. Repaired permissions after all of this and got one user permission that needed to be repaired and this one linethat will not go away no matter how many times permission repair is run:
*"2007-10-30 23:48:53 -0700: Warning: SUID file "System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent" has been modified and will not be repaired."*
this seems to reference remote access that says has been changed bit will ot need repair...
All-in-all a good experience. I look forward to learning what's under the hood.

From what I understand, there is a definite difference although I do not know what it is. So I don't really know about what the upgrade disc does. But I am surprised it gave you no options. Did it have anything you could print out like the "Mac OS X v. 10.5 Leopard Installation and Setup Guide" that comes with the full retail version?
As for doing an erase and custom install with the full retail version, yes you can do that. My MBP came with Tiger and I later installed Leopard with an erase and install and left out all the printer drivers and languages I would never use. I then had to reinstall iLife 08 and the other bundled applications from the Tiger install discs.
The real problem is that your friend needs her own set of discs for troubleshooting etc. I don't know if it's permissible for you to make her a copy of the Leopard Retail disc, but maybe you could since you did buy the family pack.
There should be some way to do what you want with her discs--it may be worth printing out whatever information there is and reading it closely and see if something is possible. I do know that the "options" box on my copy of Leopard was so subtle that I missed it the first time. It appears on the "select a destination" page in the lower left corner.
Hope this helps.
Good luck!

Firefox will not complete the latest update/installation.

I went through latest firefox update. All messages stopped during the update process, but firefox icons eventually dissappeared, so I couldn't access firefox. I thenwent through latest download and install on firefoxt to reinstall Then I got message that the other installation was waiting for reboot, it asked me if i wanted to restart, I clicked yes. After restaring computer the installation of firefox doesn't resume and does not appear to be installed if i try to install firefox again i get the same message about the other installation needing to complete and to restart. How do i finish the update? Or how do I remove and reinstall if needed?

Try to run the Firefox program once as Administrator (right-click firefox.exe: Run as Administrator).
If that doesn't solve the problem then remove the Firefox program folder (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\) to do a clean reinstall.
Download a fresh Firefox copy and save the file to the desktop.
*Firefox 9.0.x: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html
Uninstall your current Firefox version, if possible.
*Do NOT remove personal data when you uninstall the current version or you lose your bookmarks and other data in the profile folder.
Remove the Firefox program folder before installing that newly downloaded copy of the Firefox installer.
*It is important to delete the Firefox program folder to remove all the files and make sure that there are no problems with files that were leftover after uninstalling.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Uninstalling_Firefox
Your bookmarks and other profile data are stored elsewhere in the Firefox Profile Folder and won't be affected by a reinstall, but make sure that you do not select to remove personal data if you uninstall Firefox.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Standard_diagnostic_-_Firefox#Clean_reinstall

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