Pros and Cons to Upgrading System

I have been running 10.3 on my ibook dual usb g3 for a while now. There haven't been any problems, but the machine has slowed down a bit and I want to update some programs that would require me to upgrade to Tiger. My questions are:
1. Is it worth the upgrade? Headaches afterwards?
2. Will I lose the capability to open Classic?
3. Can I upgrade from a set of CDs that someone gave me from their Mac Mini or do I need to buy the full retail DVD?
I'm sure these questions have been asked a million times already, but I wasn't able to find anything specifically with the search function.
Thanks!

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions.
1. I wouldn't do it. I left my iBook G3 800 MHz in Mac OS X 10.3 and bought an iBook G4 when I wanted to upgrade to Tiger.
2. Not if you upgrade the right way (Archive and Install instead of Erase and Install).
3. No. You need to buy the full retail DVD in order to upgrade.
If things are running slowly, you may want to check available space on the hard drive. Things will
slow down if the hard drive gets full. Be sure to keep at least 15% of your total hard drive capacity
as available (free) space.

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INFO: Severity:IGNORABLE
INFO: OverallStatus:VERIFICATION_FAILED
INFO: -
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INFO: -
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INFO: Hard Limit: maximum user processes: This is a prerequisite condition to test whether the hard limit for "maximum user processes" is set to at least 16384.
INFO: Severity:IGNORABLE
INFO: OverallStatus:VERIFICATION_FAILED
INFO: -
INFO: Verification Result for Node:p19849dev136
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INFO: Severity:IGNORABLE
INFO: OverallStatus:VERIFICATION_FAILED
INFO: -
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INFO: Error Message:<CV_VAL>root,|super,|zero,|</CV_VAL><CV_ERES>0</CV_ERES>
INFO: Cause:Cause Of Problem Not Available
INFO: Action:User Action Not Available
INFO: *********************************************
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I recently purchased a Mac Mini and am using it with my TV. Here's what I found:
Using the HDMI connection on the Mac Mini, the image on the TV is very harsh. It's very bright, high contrast and garish colors. I did a lot of testing and am convinced this is due to the HDMI Display Profile in OS X Yosemite. I could not find any way to change the display profile in the Mac Mini as long as HDMI was the connection.
Using the miniDisplayport/Thunderbolt connection on the Mac Mini, with the Apple miniDisplayPort-DVI adapter and a DVI-HDMI cable the picture is perfect. (Note, however, that this connection only carries video; if you want audio you will have to use a separate cable to connect the Mac Mini audio line out port to your TV's audio line in port.)
That said, the larger the TV the less quality you will have displaying text. I suggest using a 21" or smaller TV as a monitor if you will be doing text work.
My setup is with a 40" Sony Bravia 1080p HDTV and the primary use is for video (concerts, movies, Skype, etc), not office apps. As I said earlier, the picture is perfect - brightness, contrast, colors, resolution are as nice as I could ask for.

Pros and Cons of putting jspx pages under WEB-INF

Greetings All,
I have been using JHeadstart release 10.1.3 Prod for a while now and was generating pages in various subdirectories under WEB-INF/pages/ and things are working fine.
However, recently I came across a post in jDeveloper forum Re: Access JSF Pages within WEB-INF directory where Frank Nimphius has mentioned that there is no sense in putting JSP files that are used with JSF into WEB-INF.
I know that in struts world it makes sense to put the jsp files under WEB-INF to prevent the users from directly accessing them and force them to access them only via struts actions/navigation rules; but in JSF world we anyway expose the jspx names to the user and in-fact if we keep the pages under WEB-INF the url to access the pages also contains 'faces/WEB-INF/...'
Thus, I would like to get opinion from various experienced professionals participating in this forum and more so from JHeadStart team members on Pros and Cons of putting jspx pages under WEB-INF
regards - rutwik

Rutwik,
From your reply it seems that, for now, there should not be any impact on us as long as we don't upgrade to JDeveloper 10.1.3.1, as anyway the current JHS version is not certified against it.
Correct.
However, to be compatible with future releases of JHS and JDeveloper, will it be good to change the location of pages in our JHeadStart definitions to move them a directories above the WEB-INF etc and re-run the JHeadStart generators?
Yes.
Or, will the patch take care of modifying the current JHeadStart definations?
No, Service Update 1 has a different default value for the pages dir , it is now /pages/ instead of /WEB-INF/page/, that's all.
Also, with this patch, will we be able to upgrade to jDeveloper 10.1.3.1, which we would like to do once we have a production release?
Yes, Service Update 1 is compatible with JDev 10.1.3.1
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart Team.

What are the pros and cons of running iTunes from an SD card with a Retina MBP?

Hello,
I'm thinking about getting a Retina MBP, but I think the default storage of 256GB is way to small to be used as a main computer and the upgrade to 512GB is very expensive. I was thinking of ways to reduce bulky files and was considering running iTunes from an SD card. Does anybody have any experience with doing this, what pros and cons did you discover?

I wouldn't even try storing multiple iTunes libraries on SD cards. Better idea - what I do - is store the majority of my music on an external hard drive and just my 'must have' tunes on my internal SSD. I have a 512GB SSD and use around 170GB for iTunes. On my external drive, I had about 440GB in tunes (last time I checked).
You can 'switch' libraries by holding down the option key when you launch iTunes. It's the best of both worlds - storage for on-the-go, must-haves, and an entire library of "all" of my music.
256GB should be plenty of space - I just store so much music on my internal SSD because I can!
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