Found on a car in our neighborhood.

I'm in the market for a new mobile phone. I thought this one might be a good choice. ;-)

I'm asking nicely.

Wife:

The password is recorded in several places but not in my brain.

Me:

That must mean that everybody can find it other than you.

Never mind ME!

Update: workaround found. See here.

Has anybody other than me seen this screen before?

It comes up every few minutes when I'm using my MacBook intensely. Just what the hell is upgradedb and why is it "quitting unexpectedly"? Neither a Google search nor a search on the Apple support site brings up anything useful ...

Here is what the crash reporting tool says:

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread:  0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0   upgradedb                     	0x0007a66d 0x1000 + 497261
1   upgradedb                     	0x0007a29d 0x1000 + 496285
2   upgradedb                     	0x00079741 0x1000 + 493377
3   upgradedb                     	0x000797eb 0x1000 + 493547
4   upgradedb                     	0x0003c7fd 0x1000 + 243709
5   upgradedb                     	0x00005c1d 0x1000 + 19485
6   upgradedb                     	0x00006ce0 0x1000 + 23776
7   upgradedb                     	0x00008340 0x1000 + 29504
8   upgradedb                     	0x000095ca 0x1000 + 34250
9   upgradedb                     	0x000022b2 0x1000 + 4786

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
  eax: 0x0007a613  ebx: 0x0007a627  ecx: 0x00000000  edx: 0x00000000
  edi: 0x00132580  esi: 0x00132580  ebp: 0xbffff498  esp: 0xbffff470
   ss: 0x0000001f  efl: 0x00010202  eip: 0x0007a66d   cs: 0x00000017
   ds: 0x0000001f   es: 0x0000001f   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x00000037
  cr2: 0x00000000

Binary Images:
    0x1000 -    0xb4fff  upgradedb ??? (???) <1549a635696db0a1981dc00497a55461> /System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/SyncServer.app/Contents/Resources/upgradedb

Unfortunately, my somewhat mixed feelings about the new OSX 10.5 Leopard release have taken a turn to the worse. I'm now very much inclined to agree with Dave Winer who wrote:

this is not a good operating system release.

In my case:

• For the first time in living memory, OSX actually freezes.
• After freezing, Mail.app loses 80% of my e-mail in-box.
• Time Machine, which is supposely backing things up continually, shows me the content of the old mailbox, but then fails to restore more than 3 messages from it.

So: if I do not respond to your recent e-mail, please resend — you know now why.

And there are plenty of other problems:

• Skype doesn't run as long as the OSX firewall is on. (Come on guys at Apple, you can do better than this!)
• Nobody seemed to have done any testing of Spaces with Java. For that matter, testing of real-world Java apps seems to have been under-resourced. (to put it mildly)
• My iSync application refuses to start at all. (Console says SyncServer[339]: fatal error during sync server initialization: can't upgrade data directory from version 47 to version 75 (/Users/jernst/Library/Application Support/SyncServices/Local) What am I supposed to make out of that one?)
• Addition: Google Earth crashes during the launch, too.

My advice now: stay away from Leopard. It's not ready to be used for anything serious, and I regret that I upgraded.