This is ridiculous. The reason that things "didn't just work" in this case is surely that the OS was fiddled with to the extent that the kernel was recompiled more than once every 3 weeks. It is hardly valid to compare that to a bog standard release of an OS. If you are reading this and for some reason have not tried Linux, this experience is not remotely representative. The laptop I am typing this on (Thinkpad, Ubun…
How I ended up with Mac
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Re: How I ended up with Mac
#92I'm always amused by these posts praising how everything just works on the Mac, and how it's so nice not having to worry about [annoying linux/windows stuff #351]. Am I really the only one blind to this effect ? I've used a mac. It's nice. But it "just works" only until you want to productively use Finder, or you want to connect to a Samba server, or you want to shuffle files with UTF-8 filenames around, or a dozen o…
No. I used a MacBook Pro (2007ish model) for about 2.5 years. It was a miserable machine, where nothing ever "just worked" [1]. If I'd ever needed to use it more seriously than for occasional VPN access for ssh / a web browser, I'd have ditched it within months rather than wait for it to die of natural causes. [1] It'd crash if an external monitor was connected after the machine had been asleep since the last reboot.…
With the SSD I don't seem to hit this and in any event the restart speed seconds instead of something like 10 minutes in the example above.
Re: How I ended up with Mac
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was unbearable because the abstraction was inconsistent when it came to: a) talking to the library from the command line - the mapping between the UI and the filesystem was completely abstract. b) talking to the library from apps - the UI was horrible and inconsistent. c) metadata was entirely non transparent and hard to get at. Bearable was removing iPhoto and installing Nikon ViewNX which came with my D70. This…
> a) talking to the library from the command line - the mapping between the UI and the filesystem was completely abstract. So... doing "find . -type f -name '*.jpg' -print" is outside of your capabilities? > b) talking to the library from apps - the UI was horrible and inconsistent. What were you trying to do? > c) metadata was entirely non transparent and hard to get at. man mdls
No but doing that when iPhoto stores backups of your images is a pain in the arse.
b) talking to the library from apps - the UI was horrible and inconsistent
Automator + Photoshop.
> c) metadata was entirely non transparent and hard to get at.
Yes but that doesn't deal with folders which aren't indexed. For example if you do an iPhoto import it can lag for a while before Spotlight catches up. Bang - synchronisation problem.
This shot me badly.
The whole solution is just bad.
Re: How I ended up with Mac
#94If I only could to quit mac apps with a single click...
Why do you want to quit an app so badly?
Yes, so badly that I even wrote a small menu bar ("tray") utility labeled as "[ X ]". When clicked, it quits an app with the currently active window. But well, this is not an ideal replacement...
I'm just very used to quit an app when I'm done working with it, no matter how soon I'll need to re-open it...
Re: How I ended up with Mac
#95Perhaps I'm strange. I always seem to be going the opposite way to everyone else. I've fallen in love with Windows again. It just works. Power management rocks, battery life is good (8 hours on my 2007 Lenovo T61!), the hardware is damn cheap, the licenses cost me virtually nothing, literally everything I plug into it works, the tooling is pretty damn good, utils I wrote for Windows NT4 literally 14 years ago still j…
Windows 7 really is quite good, and I don't much care for the directions Mac OS X is heading.
Re: How I ended up with Mac
#96If I only could to quit mac apps with a single click...
Do you find that you quit apps so frequently that going through a one-level menu is a hardship? Because I don't know a lot of people who use their computers that way.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
No - email on iOS is a piece of shit. It regularly drops connections to exchange, mail bombs people when sending a message and IMAP is unreliable as hell as well. Not only that, it starts to lag unbearably after a few days (up to iOS 6). I send and receive a LOT of email - it just can't handle it well. Yes in contrast of iOS. That reputation is bullshit. Regular crashes of Mail, Safari as in multiple times daily. I'v…
> No - email on iOS is a piece of shit. It regularly drops connections to exchange, mail bombs people when sending a message and IMAP is unreliable as hell as well. Not only that, it starts to lag unbearably after a few days (up to iOS 6). I send and receive a LOT of email - it just can't handle it well. Fire your email and/or network admins. I'm serious. I only receive a couple hundred emails and send a few dozen, s…
I don't think so. We're a large Microsoft consultancy. We have 2 certified exchange admins who know their shit. it's not misconfiguration. One is an Exchange MVP as wlel. This is a regular problem with all iOS devices connected to Exchange. We've had a large insurance company who is a client ban all iOS devices as well due to this issue. They've switched to Android.
> All the recent "iphone won't play mp3s" query hits were problems with iTunes Match. I absolutely agree that it's had its issues, but it's been running smoothly for quite a while.
Look harder.
> I guess I didn't. So it's like one of the apps listed at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple_iOS#Navigating_feat.... then.
Absolutely nothing like any of them. I've spent about £200 on iOS navigation apps and nothing comes close. Only a real piece of dedicated hardware is anything like it for accuracy and reliability.
> "My mailserver is obviously misconfigured because I'm having symptoms that almost no one else is describing. I shall blame my phone vendor."
This is not a mail server issue. By elimination, Android devices, Windows Phone devices, Blackberries, Outlook on desktop all work fine. The only odd one out is iOS.
This is surprisingly common. Most people just don't talk about it as they don't give a shit or don't get annoyed by app crashes etc. They assume that's the status quo, then shout at their ops team who sort it out.
Re: How I ended up with Mac
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
TotalFinder makes it a lot less stupid. Not particularly expensive either.
The answer to every OS X gripe: "oh, I just replaced that (Apple software) with this (paid software)."
Re: How I ended up with Mac
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
The people who are limited by Finder use Terminal... The people who can't use Terminal don't need more than Finder. Apple is great at hitting sweet-spots that way.
Very true. If you are using an IDE, it already affords a great FS browser (like dired for example). If not, you're probably not a developer in which case the Finder is great!
The brokenness of the Finder affects users of all stripes. You don't need to be especially technical. It has been reviled for years and years by developers and non-developers alike.
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No - email on iOS is a piece of shit. It regularly drops connections to exchange, mail bombs people when sending a message and IMAP is unreliable as hell as well. Not only that, it starts to lag unbearably after a few days (up to iOS 6). I send and receive a LOT of email - it just can't handle it well. Yes in contrast of iOS. That reputation is bullshit. Regular crashes of Mail, Safari as in multiple times daily. I'v…
> No - email on iOS is a piece of shit. It regularly drops connections to exchange, mail bombs people when sending a message and IMAP is unreliable as hell as well. Not only that, it starts to lag unbearably after a few days (up to iOS 6). I send and receive a LOT of email - it just can't handle it well. Fire your email and/or network admins. I'm serious. I only receive a couple hundred emails and send a few dozen, s…