I'm writing this on my second MacBook Pro, in our house we also have MacBook white (My fiancee's), an iPod Shuffle, an Airport Extreme base station and an Airport Express with Airtunes. Although I wouldn't agree with you, it wouldn't surprise me if you took me for a JAFAF (Just Another Fucking Apple Fanboy). However I make an effort to keep a realistic view on Apple's products and if I felt that an open source operating system could enhance my workflow as much (or nearly as much) as Mac OS X, I would switch, but currently there isn't. I work on FLOSS all day every day -- that's my job, as a web and drupal developer and consultant.
Response
Oliver is clearly having a bitch in this article, and no doubt intentionally to aggravate JAFAFs and motivate discussion responses and click-throughs on the ads. Hence I won't give him or PC mag the pleasure of a long detailed approach, but merely attempt sieve out the parts inspired by T.O.M., and add my own $0.2; a realistic count of my Leopard experience to date.
"Apple turned a stable OS into a crash-happy glitz fest"
This is clearly a premenstrual hyperbole, proven by;
"A month of using Leopard with the same software I had under Tiger and the OS has dumped six times."
I guesstimate that Leopard has crashed or frozen about 8 to 12 times in the last 5 weeks since I installed it on October 26. Given the weight of use and the limits I take Leopard to, I consider this edging on acceptable, definitely not enough to go back to Tiger. Most of these times I got apple's designer-screen-of-death.
However, all of the applications I used on Tiger, also work on Leopard, and almost all without a glitch. (I don't count Apple's Safari 2, as this has clearly been disabled in Leopard at the call of management at apple and I'm confident that there's no technical reason why it couldn't run on Leopard.)
I repeat; All the applications I used on Tiger work on Leopard.
Komodo IDE had a few issues initially, but Komodo's update has smoothed that out. Parallels on Leopard needs some serious love. I believe it's the cause of at least half of the crashes. I think Skype, or the combination of skype with a bluetooth headset or bluetooth stereo headphones is another combination causing crashes and freezes.
For anyone too lazy to read the above article, here's the link to an unofficial, but working patch; http://www.mactcp.org.nz/nzdt.html
It works for me. It offsets google calendar by one hour for this week. But I think that's more related to Google calendar also not fixing it's DST changeover stuff.
Get real Cringely. Please stop theorizing reality. It requires you to be unrealistic and uncredible. I think I just gave up on your column. You answered your own question:
"Apple might tell us that the Apple TV can play video from the hard drive without requiring a Mac or PC on the network. This is an answer that I would believe and I really hope it is the case, because wouldn't it be great to still watch a movie even when your computer isn't running in the next room? And it might be true because Apple loses nothing since you'd still need the host computer to load video into the Apple TV."
Slashdot Mirror
Great Article. Unfortunately the site owner didn't turn caching on and the server can't handle the slashdotting. So I set up a couple of mirrors of the article content: http://lucion.co.nz/files/digifreedom.html.gz http://drupal.geek.nz/files/digifreedom.html.gz
How is this different to what Thinkfree does? They have been doing it for at least a year.
Reblogged from http://drupal.geek.nz/node/48;
Oliver Rist 'reviewed' Mac OS X Leopard and his article was slashdotted.
Disclaimer
I'm writing this on my second MacBook Pro, in our house we also have MacBook white (My fiancee's), an iPod Shuffle, an Airport Extreme base station and an Airport Express with Airtunes. Although I wouldn't agree with you, it wouldn't surprise me if you took me for a JAFAF (Just Another Fucking Apple Fanboy). However I make an effort to keep a realistic view on Apple's products and if I felt that an open source operating system could enhance my workflow as much (or nearly as much) as Mac OS X, I would switch, but currently there isn't. I work on FLOSS all day every day -- that's my job, as a web and drupal developer and consultant.
Response
Oliver is clearly having a bitch in this article, and no doubt intentionally to aggravate JAFAFs and motivate discussion responses and click-throughs on the ads. Hence I won't give him or PC mag the pleasure of a long detailed approach, but merely attempt sieve out the parts inspired by T.O.M., and add my own $0.2; a realistic count of my Leopard experience to date.
This is clearly a premenstrual hyperbole, proven by;
Back in the day when I ran pretend operating systems like those from that scummy vendor in a place near Seattle. The crappy thing crashed at least daily. That would be 'crash-happy'. Not you're slightly-more-than-weekly.
I guesstimate that Leopard has crashed or frozen about 8 to 12 times in the last 5 weeks since I installed it on October 26. Given the weight of use and the limits I take Leopard to, I consider this edging on acceptable, definitely not enough to go back to Tiger. Most of these times I got apple's designer-screen-of-death .
However, all of the applications I used on Tiger, also work on Leopard, and almost all without a glitch. (I don't count Apple's Safari 2, as this has clearly been disabled in Leopard at the call of management at apple and I'm confident that there's no technical reason why it couldn't run on Leopard.)
I repeat; All the applications I used on Tiger work on Leopard.
Komodo IDE had a few issues initially, but Komodo's update has smoothed that out. Parallels on Leopard needs some serious love. I believe it's the cause of at least half of the crashes. I think Skype, or the combination of skype with a bluetooth headset or bluetooth stereo headphones is another combination causing crashes and freezes.
I'd like to emphasize how impressive this is. Take a look at my dock; http://drupal.geek.nz/files/my%20dock.png
I use all but two of these applications daily;
For anyone too lazy to read the above article, here's the link to an unofficial, but working patch; http://www.mactcp.org.nz/nzdt.html It works for me. It offsets google calendar by one hour for this week. But I think that's more related to Google calendar also not fixing it's DST changeover stuff.
Plus drupal already has integrations to google maps; http://drupal.org/project/gmap
Is this THE Chris DiBona? Or just some Troll pretending...?
Get real Cringely. Please stop theorizing reality. It requires you to be unrealistic and uncredible. I think I just gave up on your column. You answered your own question: "Apple might tell us that the Apple TV can play video from the hard drive without requiring a Mac or PC on the network. This is an answer that I would believe and I really hope it is the case, because wouldn't it be great to still watch a movie even when your computer isn't running in the next room? And it might be true because Apple loses nothing since you'd still need the host computer to load video into the Apple TV."