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Ars Technica OS X 10.1 Review
Joystickit writes: "John Siracusa over at Arstechnica has posted his review of OS X 10.1. He comes to the conclusion that 10.1 is much improved but still leaves much to be desired. It is an excellent read. He always seems to have the most in-depth reviews. Check it out." John's earlier OS X reviews are excellent as well; seeing what Apple does right and wrong is informative reading no matter what OS you prefer.
On my 2001 iBook (with DVD drive) I am able to do the following (among other things of course):
1. Capture DV footage, edit it, and output it right back out onto a camera (or play it to a tv).
2. Run Apache, PHP4, and mySQL flawlessly together and then replicate my work onto my "real, live" server on the web.
3. Watch DVD's with no stuttering or slowdowns while working in the shell, editing code in BBEdit, listening to iTunes, and stress-testing the above Apache setup.
Make no mistake, OSX still has a way to go, but give it a year and it will be the propriatary OS to beat!!!!!
Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
Considering the MAC is primeraly used in the DTP/Graphics area, does anyone know when the real graphic apps (native mode) will start flowing.
If I could get a OSX native copy of Quark, Photoshop & Illustrator we would switch all of our OS9 desktops to OSX immediatly.
One thing to be wary of when inter-operating OS X 10.x with Windows machines is the Mac approach to links/shortcuts. When you make a shortcut in Windows, it's a bit like a soft link in Unix- it's only a pointer. When you copy a shortcut in Windows, you don't do anything with the target .exe
or whatnot.
When doing backups of OS 10.x laptops from an NT-based backup system, I found that OS 10.x was sending the remote client (the backup agent) into a filesystem loop. I had the user's home directory shared and the Agent backed up files similar to \\computer\share\Library\Documents\Library\Documen ts\....
Which made for a drawn-out backup of a 300 Meg set of folders.
On a personal scale, this is easy to remember, but IIRC Apple has been preaching about how good of a network citizen OSX is. Quoting their site,
"We've also added support to natively connect to Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Unix-based SAMBA file servers with the built-in SMB client. These servers appear right in the Finder like any other file server. This makes Mac OS X fluent in all of today's network languages."
I'm not flaming Apple, but it seems that when it comes to interoperability between OS's, Apple could learn a lesson or two from the Unix side of the market.
On a side not, was anyone else annoyed with the way Apple promised OS 10.1 is September, announced it on the 23rd, then waited until the last possible day of the month to actually ship it? I can't find the Register article stating it, but an Apple rep was quoted as saying something to the effect of "we promised September as a release date, and we are still technically on-target for that".
Um, all programs I have ever used on Mac use the same typecode for JPEGs JPEG. The creator code varies (JPEGviewer, JVWR; PictureViewer, ogle; GraphicConverter, GKON; etc.). Granted it could be done and the four-char codes dont even have to be ASCII, they can be any of the Macintoshs 8-bit charset but I cannot think of a single program that doesnt use JPEG for JPEGs. Same goes for text files and most other common filetypes. The only one that sticks out that I can think of is Mp3 and MPG3 for MP3 files; but whatever Apple uses in QuickTime is probably the right typecode.
.jpg and .jpe (and even .jpeg) for JPEGs on extension-using OSes. I have also seen both .txt and .asc used for the same kind of US-ASCII textfiles. And then theres .htm and .html files, and the myriad of extensions used for SSI-HTML files (.shtml, .sht, .stml, .ssi-html, ...).
Ive seen both
Maybe MIME is the right way to go; its a recognized cross-platform standard and codes are registered with some kind of central authority so we dont end up with audio/mp3 and audio/mpeg-level-3 or whatnot at the same time.
Liberty in your lifetime
It listed localization packs for Japanese, and other Euro langs..
Although there's no localization pack for the 'other' east asian language, does anyone know the status of chinese support under OS/X (ie, displaying, rendering fonts, input methods, unicode conversion etc...)?
Windows 2000 and Linux supports se asia l10n pretty well now, though w2k is really good! Everything is stored 'internally' as unicode, and the input/output can be converted to other (popular) encodings such as big5. Even the input methods are fairly complete.
I want to convert to mac for DTP stuff (but requires chinese typesetting for many clients). I tried searching for Chinese support (like truetype fonts, input methods) and the only thing I can find is old 3rd party software for Mac 7.x or something...
Man, it never fails...I always have moderator access to stories involving me. Anyway, now that I've forfeitted it, but while I still have a chance of being scored up, I'd like to pimp the Apple topic icons I emailed to Malda (where procmail no-doubt sent them to /dev/null :-P) The current one is just plain ugly, IMO. How about this instead? (Two versions of the same thing)
c ap ple-1.gif
c ap ple-2.gif
http://siracusa.home.mindspring.com/images/topi
http://siracusa.home.mindspring.com/images/topi
(Without the space...grrr)