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Spotlight Improvements In Leopard
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is set to feature several new enhancements to Spotlight, Apple's desktop search, and ComputerWorld outlines them. The improvements include searching across multiple networked Macs, parental search snooping, server Spotlight indexing, boolean search, better application launching (sorely needed), and quick-look previews.
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I'm supposed to treat my kids like criminals now? No unmonitored phone conversations, mail and all of that? Publisher's profits are more important than my family's privacy and dignity? No thanks, my house is not a jail. I have respect for the people who live here and my visitors.
It's stuff like this that keeps me away from non-free software, regardless of how difficult publishers and non free software companies would like to make my life. I'm not going to trust my life to software that comes with wiretapping as a feature. If Apple lacks respect for my kids, what kind of respect will they have for me? Well, not much considering the restrictions they put into unFairPlay and their OS in general. Apple can keep their pretty laptops and DRM crippled music players to themselves. Make no mistake, this is just one more step in removing your rights, and the future will be worse with non free software.
My wife and my kids get root on their computer. It's theirs, not mine, and what they do with it is their business. No one is downloading music and movies here because it's easier for us to get free stuff at archive.org and netflicks. They are free to share what they want and keep the rest to themselves. Anything more invasive than that, outside evidence of real wrong doing, is for paranoid control freaks.
Respect has to go both ways. If I don't have it for them, they won't have it for me.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Dude, what the fuck are you talking about? Accelerated window manager thingie, ok, OS-Eks had it before Vista. But the rest is just apple-fanboy bullshit. Non-admin accounts? I'm sure the first NT had that. Or do you mean running applications as admin from a regular user account? Windows 2000 had Run As.
"shiny two-tone plastic highlights and translucencies." Again, WTF? At least you don't claim they stole the fugly brushed-metal style. Besides, Win2k had window translucency.
And the filesystem layout is cloned? So MS changed "Documents and Settings" to Users, and now it's cloned from Mac OS? Most Unix systems had a very similar layout (to Mac OS, not Vista), way before the Apple boys decided to drop their PoS OS and start over. Who's cloning now, bitch?