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any news on whether it is for 64-bit processors ONLY? my core-solo mac mini wants to know :-S
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There are quite common things which are impossible or rather clumsy to do with folders, for example produce a view by specific composers then a view by performers. Can not be done with folders unless suffer large amount of duplicates. If you listen to your music in a rigid way where folders works fine then obviously iTunes and other music management software are of no use to you. But you are not typical.
> example produce a view by specific composers then a view by performers. Is this really common? I might be out of touch, but I doubt anyone really uses this.
If you are into pop music, there are easy examples as well. Sometimes I need all the dance music, other times I only want dance music that are retro, or dance music from certain group etc. Folders will never be as flexible.
Hallelujah! "OS X Lion [Terminal] includes editable ANSI colors in preferences and support for 256 colors and BCE (background color erase). The default TERM value is xterm-256color." Cite: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#unix
Full-screen terminal is [sadly] the only feature I really want in this update.
Oh come on apple now we have to do everything through your stores?
This is not a total change in direction for Apple, just a fleshing out of what they've been wanting to do for a while. Expect more of this in the future, not less.
When you first log in to your Google, Yahoo!, or AOL accounts in Safari, you’ll have the option to use them with Mail, iCal, Address Book, iChat, and other applications on your Mac."
Thats pretty smart to keep Mail.app relevant in the web age! (I hope it handles "guest" logins on the web gracefully though!)
any news on whether it is for 64-bit processors ONLY? my core-solo mac mini wants to know :-S
Hallelujah! "OS X Lion [Terminal] includes editable ANSI colors in preferences and support for 256 colors and BCE (background color erase). The default TERM value is xterm-256color." Cite: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html#unix
The other updates/features are looking solid too. Well worth the $29.99.
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On Unix systems you can replace files on disk without issues because of the way it does reference counting to the underlying file system. Unlike Windows where this is not possible. I am better there is still one single reboot to start up the new kernel and whatnot. Although I can't find any details on it.
The reason why you can replace executables on Unix is because unix loads the entire file before executing where as Windows does not need to do this, hence executables are opened with out FILE_SHARE_DELETE which would allow you to delete the file while it's open on Windows. If you create a file and open it with FILE_SHARE_DELETE you can delete it while it's in use. This has absolutely nothing to do with the underlying…
For a more technical explanation see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode
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There are quite common things which are impossible or rather clumsy to do with folders, for example produce a view by specific composers then a view by performers. Can not be done with folders unless suffer large amount of duplicates. If you listen to your music in a rigid way where folders works fine then obviously iTunes and other music management software are of no use to you. But you are not typical.
> example produce a view by specific composers then a view by performers. Is this really common? I might be out of touch, but I doubt anyone really uses this.
Any given Indian movie corresponds to an 'album' of songs. However, each song can in the album have a different set of artistes associated with it. Hell, sometimes there are multiple composers within the same movie's soundtrack. And Indian movie soundtracks are more tightly coupled than "Western" movie OST albums, so you can't just treat them as an independent collection of songs either. (Indians typically identify songs first with the movies they appeared in, rather than the composer or performer)
Basically, a majority of Indian movies are musicals - and a simple folder structure is just not enough to deal with such a collection of music!