DiskWarrior doesn't do 'defragging' of the hard drive. It rebuilds a feature of HFS disks called the 'directory' -- the listing of where files are on the disk. Analogous to defragging the disk's contents, but not the same thing at all.
Yes, ever since Panther, files (under some conditions) are defragged on-the-fly.
Here's the difference -- Arial is FUGLY! (IMHO.) Check out the capital 'G' and capital 'R'. And the numeral '1'. Urrrgghh. I know I am being finicky, and I know it is a totally subjective judgment, but I hate reading anything composed with Arial. Helvetica makes for a much more pleasant experience.
I hope Arial is banished from Vista. I like these new MS fonts.
Unlike iTunes, these "third party programs" do not take advantage of the iPod's database. So when you load up your iPod using a non-iTunes program, the iPod cannot browse through the song files as quickly, leading to much more rapid depletion of the battery.
This is a good reason to only use iTunes to load up your iPod.
Apple is pleased that the Supreme Court of Canada let stand a lower court ruling that blank media levies on iPods are invalid, and will shortly announce a claims process so customers can request a refund for the levies they paid.
Google Maps works perfectly well in Safari. Ture, it didn't when it first came out, but they quickly added Safari support.
The new Microsoft johnnie-come-lately map thing also works in Safari.
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I can't resist the opportunity to blatantly plug my favourite keyboard for the Mac: the Matias Tactile Pro, which has the excellent IBM-style keyswitches.
I also hope Usenet continues to be ignored, but are you sure about this?? -- "The Usenet supplier won't monitor your downloads because shopping your customers to the **AA/Police isn't good for business."
How many 'big' Usenet providers are there?? How much competition is there? As the number of suppliers decreases, the likelihood of caving to the lawyers goes up, I bet.
As others have pointed out, you can exchange your install DVD for CDs via snail-mail, for US$10. A DVD drive was one of the listed requirements for the Developer Previews of Tiger, but there's no mention of that requirement on the Apple site now. The fact that CD-ROM install disks are available indicates that a DVD drive is not required.
The CNN link as given in the story leads to a static, out of date AP story from yesterday. Their 'breaking news' page for Mt. St. Helens is continually updated.
When you update your 3rd gen iPod to software version 2.2, it will now recognize playlists that depend on the 'Grouping' tag introduced in iTunes 4.5. This must be part of what is meant by 'compatibility with iTunes 4.5' in the release notes.
Looking back on my comments, I overstated the case -- there is only a slight, though noticable difference between Panther and OS 9. But when I boot from my OS 9 partition it always blows me away how fast everything seems by comparison. Of course, in just about every other respect, I can't stand to use OS 9 since switching.
All I can say is, that hasn't been my experience. On any given machine, Panther is still less responsive than OS 9. I'm talking about window resizing, web pages loading, switching apps, etc. Unless, I guess, I run enough apps in OS 9 to slow it down to Panther-speed.
Still, Panther is miles ahead of Jagwire in this area, and I look forward to yet more improvements in future releases. Now when I use Jagwire it seems like such a dog. Tiger sounds like it's on track to deliver another boost.
What you're describing is definitely true for 10.0 --> 10.1 --> 10.2 --> 10.3; I suspect that much of that has to do with how new OS X is/was, and how many improvements they needed to make to the 'not ready for prime time' releases 10.0 and 10.1. (Don't be surprised if 'snappiness' of performance starts to 'plateau' with subsequent OS X releases.)
But I don't think your generalization holds prior to OS X. Many users who moved from OS 8 --> OS 9 found they had to upgrade their RAM to achieve the same performance and responsiveness (depending on their machine). I suspect the same was true during the transition from System 7 --> OS 8.
Panther is, aggravatingly, still not nearly as responsive as OS 9 on the same hardware. They still have some way to go. I hope Tiger finally closes this gap.
If I follow, it seems that Poisoned also provides a front-end to access FastTrack. Does this mean Poisoned will also be getting a letter in the mail soon? Or will Sharman lay off Poisoned because there is no official KaZaa for Mac OS X?
Alright, I'll grant you the iMovie thing and I guess the.ds_store thing (though I thought I read that that was fixed in the latest Panther version). But as for the iTunes/Ogg thing -- anyone who knows what "Ogg" is, knows enough technically, with a bit of Googling, to be able to tease Ogg playback out of iTunes. Apple wants to steer people towards AAC, and that's their prerogative as a commercial company, but as a bonus they were also nice enough to build-in Ogg support for the geek contingent. Your 'complaint' on this one is pretty meagre. Oh, and if you "paid money for" iTunes, you got ripped off! You should have downloaded VLC for free instead.
The day that open source Linux desktops are able to match Aqua, I promise I'll hook up with you to buy you a beer!
re..DS_Store files on network drives -- I understood that Panther did away with this bug;
iMovie is consumer-level, not pro-level; if you want that feature, get FCP or something;
iTunes can play ogg files natively, with only a tiny bit of jiggery-pokery; the.ogg file icon may be found in iTunes' resources;
luckily, the iBook 'spanning block' can easily be overcome with a firmware hack (though yes, your point is taken that Apple would disable even this if they could).
BBC insisted that Real provide a version of their player that doesn't invade their listeners' privacy. You can download it here. I haven't used it myself, but I understand that it lacks the annoyances that folks are complaining about here (eg. pop-ups, spyware).
KeyCaps is gone? I have it here in my Jaguar 10.2.8 install. Are you saying that when I upgrade to Panther, I should put KeyCaps to one side beforehand? (A la Disk Copy, Internet pref pane, and Clock?)
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DiskWarrior doesn't do 'defragging' of the hard drive. It rebuilds a feature of HFS disks called the 'directory' -- the listing of where files are on the disk. Analogous to defragging the disk's contents, but not the same thing at all. Yes, ever since Panther, files (under some conditions) are defragged on-the-fly.
Here's the difference -- Arial is FUGLY! (IMHO.) Check out the capital 'G' and capital 'R'. And the numeral '1'. Urrrgghh. I know I am being finicky, and I know it is a totally subjective judgment, but I hate reading anything composed with Arial. Helvetica makes for a much more pleasant experience. I hope Arial is banished from Vista. I like these new MS fonts.
Did you not know about the screen spanning hack?? Check it out!
I sit corrected. Thanks.
Unlike iTunes, these "third party programs" do not take advantage of the iPod's database. So when you load up your iPod using a non-iTunes program, the iPod cannot browse through the song files as quickly, leading to much more rapid depletion of the battery. This is a good reason to only use iTunes to load up your iPod.
Google Maps works perfectly well in Safari. Ture, it didn't when it first came out, but they quickly added Safari support. The new Microsoft johnnie-come-lately map thing also works in Safari.
I can't resist the opportunity to blatantly plug my favourite keyboard for the Mac: the Matias Tactile Pro, which has the excellent IBM-style keyswitches.
Hint: if you search for Enterprise on Isohunt, and use the torrents from 'NiteShdw,' they will work....
I also hope Usenet continues to be ignored, but are you sure about this?? -- "The Usenet supplier won't monitor your downloads because shopping your customers to the **AA/Police isn't good for business."
How many 'big' Usenet providers are there?? How much competition is there? As the number of suppliers decreases, the likelihood of caving to the lawyers goes up, I bet.
Hooray for consolidation....
As others have pointed out, you can exchange your install DVD for CDs via snail-mail, for US$10. A DVD drive was one of the listed requirements for the Developer Previews of Tiger, but there's no mention of that requirement on the Apple site now. The fact that CD-ROM install disks are available indicates that a DVD drive is not required.
Plenty of competition for long distance cards in this city. I always use CiCi cards -- there seems to be a consensus that they are the most reliable.
Read about 'How OBL got away' in this article, which ran in the CS Monitor back in March/02.
The CNN link as given in the story leads to a static, out of date AP story from yesterday. Their 'breaking news' page for Mt. St. Helens is continually updated.
When you update your 3rd gen iPod to software version 2.2, it will now recognize playlists that depend on the 'Grouping' tag introduced in iTunes 4.5. This must be part of what is meant by 'compatibility with iTunes 4.5' in the release notes.
I have 640 MB!
Looking back on my comments, I overstated the case -- there is only a slight, though noticable difference between Panther and OS 9. But when I boot from my OS 9 partition it always blows me away how fast everything seems by comparison. Of course, in just about every other respect, I can't stand to use OS 9 since switching.
All I can say is, that hasn't been my experience. On any given machine, Panther is still less responsive than OS 9. I'm talking about window resizing, web pages loading, switching apps, etc. Unless, I guess, I run enough apps in OS 9 to slow it down to Panther-speed.
Still, Panther is miles ahead of Jagwire in this area, and I look forward to yet more improvements in future releases. Now when I use Jagwire it seems like such a dog. Tiger sounds like it's on track to deliver another boost.
What you're describing is definitely true for 10.0 --> 10.1 --> 10.2 --> 10.3; I suspect that much of that has to do with how new OS X is/was, and how many improvements they needed to make to the 'not ready for prime time' releases 10.0 and 10.1. (Don't be surprised if 'snappiness' of performance starts to 'plateau' with subsequent OS X releases.)
But I don't think your generalization holds prior to OS X. Many users who moved from OS 8 --> OS 9 found they had to upgrade their RAM to achieve the same performance and responsiveness (depending on their machine). I suspect the same was true during the transition from System 7 --> OS 8.
Panther is, aggravatingly, still not nearly as responsive as OS 9 on the same hardware. They still have some way to go. I hope Tiger finally closes this gap.
Here is the registration-free link to that article.
Courtesy of the NYT link generator.
If I follow, it seems that Poisoned also provides a front-end to access FastTrack. Does this mean Poisoned will also be getting a letter in the mail soon? Or will Sharman lay off Poisoned because there is no official KaZaa for Mac OS X?
The day that open source Linux desktops are able to match Aqua, I promise I'll hook up with you to buy you a beer!
BBC insisted that Real provide a version of their player that doesn't invade their listeners' privacy. You can download it here. I haven't used it myself, but I understand that it lacks the annoyances that folks are complaining about here (eg. pop-ups, spyware).
No, I meant *I* am the karma whore, by providing an URL which any slashdotter could have googled, just so I can get cheap karma points. Cheers.
KeyCaps is gone? I have it here in my Jaguar 10.2.8 install. Are you saying that when I upgrade to Panther, I should put KeyCaps to one side beforehand? (A la Disk Copy, Internet pref pane, and Clock?)