Archive for May, 2005
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Quickies
Some pictures from this weeks weblog meetup. Sorry, no wookies.
Tiger still has some issues for me. Mail.app is still terribly slow reflecting that the status of mail messages has changed, either by showing the new mail notification in the dock for minutes after items have been deleted as spam or not showing the notification when new items come in.
X11.app has some issues with copy and paste, so that pasting from an xterm to aqua sometimes crashes the xterm with a bad atom error message. I’d never seen this before Tiger,and reverting to Panther’s X11.app helps a bit.
I really like the dashboard, but especially the ‘dev mode’ setting. (see item 2 here) The setting allows you to drag dashboard items off the dashboard layer and into a floating layer above the rest of your windows. I’m using this for an ambient monitor of a server, a green dot if it’s up, red if it’s down. On my bigger display, I’ve got the weather widget shining light or raining on whatever window is under it. Someone should hack this so that the window underneath starts to ripple an run.
Tiger Impressions
UPS was nice to me on Wednesday, delivering a shiny new lens for the camera and a DVD of Tiger. Three installs later, I’m pretty happy with Tiger.
On the desktop, a g4/400. Ancient machine, has 10.1 through 10.4 installed and runnable, as well as 9 and 9.2. While adding a new drive for Tiger, I discovered that the dual drive Oxford 911 firewire case doesn’t boot off of the second drive. That’s only a minor issue, as I have a ton of other partitions to work from.
On the ibook/500, we did an upgrade install, pretty much uneventful. It’s had a couple of issues attaching to the airport network when waking from sleep, but that seems over now.
The tibook was going to be an upgrade install (after a full backup), but drive errors forced the wipe of the os partition. So that became a clean install. My home directory was on a separate partition, so it was unaffected, but I do still need to go find all the little bits and pieces that I’ve installed all over the place, (python stuff, subversion, mysql, postgres, imagemagick, …)
All in all, it’s not a huge update. It seems faster in most cases, shinier in almost all cases. I’m starting to poke around with CoreData, which was the real driving force behind the upgrade right now.
My one major disappointment is mail.app. It’s always had some issues with my mail server (dbmail) but it’s worse with this version. It churned on importing my existing messages (100k) overnight, then all morning hammered the server downloading everything again. It’s taking far too long to deal with junk mail or anything that’s not in the main inbox. That said, it is snappier for my one pop account, so I may need to rethink what I’m using as a mail server.
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At the zoo…
Wandering around the zoo last weekend, we found Tigers and Penguins, but there were no Longhorns to be found. Perhaps they haven’t shipped yet?
And trying very hard to be respectful of this otter, but I only got the hind half.
