Bahoot? Kersplat!
bahamut
– December 09, 2007 05:56PM
Well, it's about time.
El Jeffe
– July 09, 2009 04:27AM
What a journey.
I'd hate to go back to the 50s! (not)
stan adams
– July 09, 2009 07:46AM
Pounds packets on table at UN: We will bury you with a simplistic DOS attack that will crush maybe 1% of the average switches ability to filter us out of existence...
Bruce Robertson
– July 09, 2009 07:57AM
Hey, while the whole world runs on CriminalOS, what's to stop them? Maybe recognizing that will be the outcome.
ddt
– August 11, 2009 06:07AM
r. i. p. eunice kennedy shriver
ddt
ghidorah
– August 26, 2009 04:20AM
Raise taxes on cavemen.
--jw
r.i.p. teddy Kennedy
bahamut
– August 27, 2009 04:42PM
installed snow leopard today.
it's finally the OS we were waiting for. remember that the old promises of the OS being faster when they remove the debug code? well, they did. it's great. nimble.
it goes all the way around. even as my parallels is consuming 113%-156% of cpu, i've got plenty of leeway on this 13" mbp.
the only thing that hasn't worked is netnewswire's widescreen mode. also parallels needs 32 bit mode, not 64 and the whole 32-64 thing is far from intuitive.
otherwise, it's a nifty little critter. wish they got rid of the orbs of weakness and defeat, but you can't want everything, i guess.
bahamut
– August 28, 2009 05:32AM
looks like the power management is much better. i'm getting 30% more time out of my MBP 13" in snowy (anybody here ever see 7 into snowy? googling it is NSFW).
bahamut
– August 28, 2009 03:54PM
A whole day of snowy and i'm still thrilled by her performance. ;)
Firefox is a dream. Switching applications is nice and fast. There's little extra cruft built in. This may be the turning point for Mac OS.
bahamut
– August 28, 2009 04:24PM
honestly, i can see this taking a dent out of Mac sales. its like i bought a machine three years ahead of this Mac.
but it could also take a dent of Windows sales.
and btw, what's up with the boards, a new OS and i'm the only one posting? eh? eh?
bahamut
– August 28, 2009 06:11PM
http://www.macfixit.com/ -> cnet... rembering teh old days... guess our lives have changed...
ddt
– August 28, 2009 07:05PM
ohh, major cosmic suckage. well, there's hope that this'll raise cnet's average intelligence, maybe even to double digits.
ddt
stan adams
– August 29, 2009 09:59AM
The scary take aways for me from that column, which I fully believe to be true:
unaware of the existence of copy and paste.
how to locate a file in the Finder (instead, they access documents entirely from the Open and Save dialogs of applications).
Whenever something goes wrong, it's time to call a repair person
No wonder some feel an iPhone OS will be fine for a "larger device"...
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 30, 2009 01:15AM
>(anybody here ever see 7 into snowy? googling it is NSFW)
Baha, without your posts I would lead a very sheltered life...
Bruce Robertson
– August 30, 2009 08:02AM
how to locate a file in the Finder (instead, they access documents entirely from the Open and Save dialogs of applications).
Mostly I have found the problem is the other way around. Users with no idea how to navigate a folder hierarchy in open/save dialogs. Resulting in saved documents who knows where. Could ONLY use the Finder.
tliet
– August 30, 2009 08:11AM
Anybody remember the extension in Mac OS 7 where you could click on a Finder window to take your SFDialog to that location. That worked pretty neat.
johnny k
– August 30, 2009 10:00AM
The various modes and windows into the file system can be confusing. Still waiting for the next paradigm. Wonder how many people just use Spotlight to find things. For it to be more useful, I think tags/Spotlight comments have to be used more by the creating apps who know more about the document's context.
Tony Leggett
(Moderator)
– August 30, 2009 02:16PM
I have to admit I often absentmindedly just save documents without checking the folder they're going to - mostly because I assume they're going to the "default" folder (documents usually) and some applications seem to randomly change save locations (sometimes based on where the last one was saved, sometimes based on voodoo) while others always save to the same place unless told otherwise.
Some consistency would be good.
stan adams
– August 30, 2009 07:31PM
Tony:
The 'save where ever" thing happens to me all the time -- but w/o the Finder I could never "see" where I did really save the damned thing. If I recall one of the many quite elegant features of Newton was the way it forced every document into the 'soup' and used an inescapable DB to never have the ability to misplace anything. I think this was a unique feature of Newton and one that is possible to recreate even in a highly networked type world. I believe IBM's iSeries / AS400 uses an always their DB2 implementation in a similar way to always allow 'views' to documents /data while magically building queries on the fly to keep all that hidden from regular uses. Far more elegant than the temp files that Windows relies on...
tliet
– August 31, 2009 12:44PM
Just discovered that one can throw a file from a Finder window in an OS X Open/Save dialog and it will switch to the folder that contains the file. Neat.
bahamut
– September 07, 2009 07:29PM
Oh that's been a trick I've done for a very long time. Very important!!!
