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Here are a few little improvements I like in Leopard :

• Using Spotlight as an application launcher is easier than before because Apple decreased the response times for showing Applications that match the search criterias
• Print preview in now embeded in most Print dialog. Nice !
• The Airport menu is much more responsive and shows an indicator for open/close networks

Update

• Subversion is standard
• Maven 2 too

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I installed Leopard yesterday. The good news is that its really beautiful and that it seems to add a lot of improvements. The bad news is that it removed admin rights to my user. It seems funny but because you need admin rights to give admin rights, well …

Here is the solution :

1. Boot in single user mode. (press AppleKey + S at startup)
2. Add your user to /private/etc/sudoers
3. Reboot
4. From a terminal, add your user to Admin group with this command

sudo dscl . append /Groups/admin GroupMembership myusername

5. Quit and Open Preferencies to check that your user now has admin rights.
6. Remove your user from /private/etc/sudoers. Being in admin group is sufficent

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Gwt 1.4.59-RC2 was just released. If you use Maven2 to build your project, this latest version can be found on xi8ix repository.

Here is the configuration:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>xi8ix</id>
        <url>http://maven.xi8ix.org/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google</groupId>
    <artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.59-RC2</version>
    <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.google</groupId>
    <artifactId>gwt-servlet</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.59-RC2</version>
</dependency>

I had to tweak a few things in my SpringDispatchService. Maybe it’s time to find a more stable solution…

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