Monday, October 29. 2007
The reviews of the new features of Leopard are everywhere on the Net, so I am not going to regurgitate them here. Instead I am going to list, very briefly, what works and what don't during my third day of using Leopard. NOTE: I was the first customer to pre-book Leopard from machines.
What works:
- Abiword, NeoOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox all work well.
- Finder's coverflow is awesome, and certainly the most advanced file manager out there at the moment, but it uses up to 1Gb of virtual memory
- Safari 3 is fast - I've been using Camino in Tiger. Let's see how long I can be patient with Safari this time
- macports installed just fine - the first package I installed was zsh. At the moment though, compilation of PostgreSQL failed - I'm yet to look into it.
- iterm. Apple's improvement to Terminal.app is laughable - it support tabbing, of course, but I cannot make it to: go full screen and: remember the settings i've configured automatically - you have to go Apple-I, then configure the settings, then "Shell->Use Settings as Defaults". Counter intuitive.
What don't work:
- Onyx and Cocktail, of course
Annoyances:
- The Help windows for each application - when you open "Help", the Help window will hover on the desktop and over the app, Apple-Tab won't make it go away. I want to be able to have full view of my app window, and Apple-Tab to view the Help.
- Bluetooth mouse - some way or another, it seems like Leopard and my Wireless Mighty Mouse fail to pair/detect each other after a short period of separation. Extremely annoying - I have to pair the two everytime.
- Opening app from the command-line fails for the first time for each downloaded application. Well, not that the app is not launched - it is launched, sits nicely in the dock, but unresponsive. So you have to force-quit it, then launch it from Finder.
What I haven't tried:
- Time machine. At the moment, I don't have an extra external hard disk (well, I have 3 actually, one for media, one for backup, one for packet captures). So I am still content with using rdiff-backup for daily incremental backup. Some words about Time Machine: the gooey eye candy will make people (esp. the non-technical ones) want to do backup. This is a good thing about Leopard - Apple is simply enticing people to make backup (a chore! a chore!) a practice by creating stunning eye candy application.
Friday, October 12. 2007
nothing much has been going on aside from work, some side projects, and blogging about security at security.org.my. some things to look forward to over the holidays:
- listening to the new radiohead album - in rainbows
- watching some old new movies - crank (had it for ages), tron (had it for ages)
- reorganizing my music collections into several libraries, if i'm up to it. right now i'm having difficulties finding music that i've listened to last year because i don't remember name of the artists or the songs, but have a vague recollection of what it sounded like
- reading the rest of the carpet people by terry prattchet
this blog will be my personal/open-source blog from now on, and anything security-related can be found at security.org.my.
happy raya, yo!
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