Posts by Mr Beardsley

Quote: Originally Posted by vandil I can understand businesses not updating to Leopard, especially those doing prepress work, but I think a lot of home users should have updated by now. Time Machine, improved Spotlight, and other great...

What a great move by Apple! I have to wonder if they will expand this idea beyond just iLife and iWork. I would guess that they used all their latest advances (Obj-C 2.0, Core Data, Quick Look, Quicktime, etc). It's a great move...

Hasn't Apple always been in a bad place using different firmware (OF/EFI) that forced manufacturers into making Mac specific cards? I'm curious if Windows has started supporting EFI to the point where graphics card manufacturers are...

Quote: Originally Posted by hillstones Simple. Power interruption, computer freezing, files not being written to the disk properly. All are examples that can cause corruption. Those problems are precisely why a journaling file...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kolchak One incredibly annoying thing I wish Apple would fix. How about keyboard navigation of dialog box buttons? How long has OS X been out now and yet they don't have that basic feature that Windows has...

Quote: Originally Posted by yama No way. The tech press would kill Apple if they came out with a new OS in early 2009 that dropped support for carbon apps and PPC hardware. It would be like Vista all over again. Oh what's that?...

Have you tried %u? That's for 32 bit unsigned ints.

Quote: Originally Posted by Bonsai1214 one update i'd like to see is the ability to enable and disable spaces in the menubar. its annoying having to go to system preferences every time i want to turn it on and off. i usually turn it...

Quote: Originally Posted by Cato988 i was excited for spaces because I thought they it would be like having multiple desktops. After installing leopard, I discovered that it really only separated applications. My thoughts were that if...

Quote: Originally Posted by sc_markt Anybody use a hardware firewall on their mac? And does anybody know a good hardware firewall for the mac? - Mark Why would you want to? The built in firewall in OS X can pretty much do all...