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solipsistnationOkay, the quick report:
Feels zippier. Not sure if it is or not, but oh well.
Expose is very nice. I've already used it-- the "clear all the windows so I can see the desktop" feature is very nice indeed.
The new Finder windows seem a little clunky-- they use a lot of real estate for the borders and things. The little window-sized dock is kind of neat, although it also seems to be a bit real-estate-heavy. I did make use of the toolbar shortcuts in the old Finder, though, so it's just moved the space I'd be using anyway to the side rather than the top of the screen. I detect a theme-- they're designing everything for screens wider than they are tall. This brings us to...
I do not like how the newest version of iCal does event info-- it slides a little drawer out the lefthand side of the window, which means I have to leave space there for it. It used to pop up a little floating window, which I could leave hovering around whereever I wanted. This has made iCal notably less useful for me.
Network control is improved. There's finally a "Renew DHCP Lease" button. That'll make life easier for people who have to help other people troubleshoot their network connections.
The terminal has a few new features, but I'm so used to typing out ssh commands that I probably won't bother setting up files for them. Transparency is now built in, with a little slider, which is handy. (Although it may be less necessary with Expose.)
There are a bunch of little things-- separators in lists of installed screen savers and desktop pictures and other things like that, for example, to differentiate between files installed globally (in /Library) and files installed in a user's /Library directory.
There's a neat Hardware control panel that lets you disable the L2 and L3 cache, if you ever want to see how much that does for you, or for troubleshooting.
I haven't looked at iChat AV yet. Ideally, this version will no longer do strange things to my Airport Base Station...
The iTunes randomizer appears to mostly pick really good songs now. 8)
Overall, I'm happy with Panther. It's been worthwhile, and the little touches are becoming more noticable as I go on. It'll be interesting to see how my reflexes change around things like Expose, until I become annoyed at systems that don't have it.
Feels zippier. Not sure if it is or not, but oh well.
Expose is very nice. I've already used it-- the "clear all the windows so I can see the desktop" feature is very nice indeed.
The new Finder windows seem a little clunky-- they use a lot of real estate for the borders and things. The little window-sized dock is kind of neat, although it also seems to be a bit real-estate-heavy. I did make use of the toolbar shortcuts in the old Finder, though, so it's just moved the space I'd be using anyway to the side rather than the top of the screen. I detect a theme-- they're designing everything for screens wider than they are tall. This brings us to...
I do not like how the newest version of iCal does event info-- it slides a little drawer out the lefthand side of the window, which means I have to leave space there for it. It used to pop up a little floating window, which I could leave hovering around whereever I wanted. This has made iCal notably less useful for me.
Network control is improved. There's finally a "Renew DHCP Lease" button. That'll make life easier for people who have to help other people troubleshoot their network connections.
The terminal has a few new features, but I'm so used to typing out ssh commands that I probably won't bother setting up files for them. Transparency is now built in, with a little slider, which is handy. (Although it may be less necessary with Expose.)
There are a bunch of little things-- separators in lists of installed screen savers and desktop pictures and other things like that, for example, to differentiate between files installed globally (in /Library) and files installed in a user's /Library directory.
There's a neat Hardware control panel that lets you disable the L2 and L3 cache, if you ever want to see how much that does for you, or for troubleshooting.
I haven't looked at iChat AV yet. Ideally, this version will no longer do strange things to my Airport Base Station...
The iTunes randomizer appears to mostly pick really good songs now. 8)
Overall, I'm happy with Panther. It's been worthwhile, and the little touches are becoming more noticable as I go on. It'll be interesting to see how my reflexes change around things like Expose, until I become annoyed at systems that don't have it.
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printers?
Date: 2003-11-05 09:50 am (UTC)Are they gonna do something about that?
Storytime!
Date: 2003-11-05 10:22 am (UTC)When I wanted to print from my iBook, I spent an hour poking around trying to find out how to install my printer, stubbornly refusing to use Help. Then I looked in my Printers folder, and OSX had installed it automatically as soon as I had plugged in the USB cable.
I'm never going back to Windows.
There is no God but Apple and Jobs is its prophet.
Re: Storytime!
Date: 2003-11-05 11:51 am (UTC)Re: printers?
Date: 2003-11-05 10:31 am (UTC)you add them the other way-- add it in the GUI, and then it'll be usable from the command line.
Re: printers?
Date: 2003-11-05 10:43 am (UTC)But this *was* a while back.
If you claim adding-via-GUI makes printers available to terminal users I certainly believe you, as you've got a mac sitting in front of you....
Re: printers?
Date: 2003-11-05 10:51 am (UTC)Yeah, I tried it first, before being snarky. 8)
You have to use the whole name after -P to get it to work. So, I set up ccc-laser.wpi.edu as ccc-laser.wpi.edu and then went off and typed "lpq -Pccc-laser.wpi.edu" and it got the info.
Okay, and I just checked and that doesn't work if you don't have the printer set up in the Print Center control panel thingy. (So I can't type lpq -Pccc-entry.wpi.edu if I haven't set up ccc-entry first.)
The thing with MacOS X is that it ignores the files in /etc for almost everything... It's best to just do stuff they way they want... It ends up being all fine in the end...
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Date: 2003-11-05 11:52 am (UTC)I hate that feature too. I've tried to love it, but nope. I still hate it. My faith must be imperfect. Forgive me, Apple!
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Date: 2003-11-05 11:59 am (UTC)Yeah, that was in the iCal update a couple of weeks ago, which is also included in Panther...