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You may not have heard it, but it certainly has been posted and talked about for the two previous versions, often as a "sure thing." "Well, when the new Finder and metadata-driven filesystem are released in 10.2..." Oh how quickly we forget See …
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Quote: I keep hearing so much about this new release of Mac OS X.4 Tiger having a meta data driven file system ...just like you kept "hearing so much about this new release of Mac OS X.3 Panther having a meta data driven file system" and you kep…
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HFSX aims to support "inline attributes", which certainly seems like another way of saying "storing metadata without using full-blown forks." More info can be found in this Ars thread, along with my pessimistic predictions about the chances of seei…
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Author/FormatC2: remove crack from diet
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Interarchy is the obvious winner for people like me who have 15+ FTP windows open at all times (each in list view with many disclosed triangles). Remotely editing (in BBEdit via cmd-J) large numbers of files in deep hierarchies (e.g. web sites and …
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Quote: I was hoping he'd get to the bottom of why a 1ghz bandwidth dual 2ghz processor can't resize a window as fast as the user can move a mouse, but he dropped the issue after mentioning it That's because I just don't know the answer! As f…
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Patience...for the writer it is time to upgrade as well, hmmm?
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Eep?
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AlBook 15" 1GHz 80GB - my summary: * Latch hook only catches if you close it just right (bring lid through full range of motion and don't be shy), but stays closed once closed. In my visit to the Chestnut hill Apple store today, one of their ~5 …
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FWIW, my 80GB 4,200 RPM drive is a Hitachi IC25N080ATMR04-0 which has an 8MB buffer according to the specs
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This page has links to reviews (with pictures) of Mac OS X DP2 through 10.2: http://siracusa.home.mindspring.com/john/articles/ars/
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Quote: How much RAM is needed to effectively run OS X? All of it
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Quote: My new G5 also just arrived. You can check out my pics of its birth at: http://homepage.mac.com/fireball1244/PhotoAlbum25.html Heh, I recognize your Crucial RAM box...which is the only part of my (dual) G5 system that I have right now …
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Quote: where I can go to request that the IMAP feature of viewing only subscribed folders be added? I made that request between 10.0 and 10.1 (IIRC), and one of the Apple Mail developers responded by telling me that the fault lies with the IMAP …
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Quote: That seems fair. In case you have insanely great ideas, Apple will have the chance to implement then to your liking AFTER the development phase is done? Great plan! My "insanely great ideas" for the Finder were in an article published bef…
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Didn't I write a big article on this topic or something? Obviously, I will comment on the Finder as it exists in the final release version of Panther. But there's little sense in picking apart reports of developer builds, IMO, since I'd just b…
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Quote: I believe what John wants (speak of the devil!) is a return of spatial navigation in the Finder -- as the central, even primary, means of file navigation in OS X. How much (or whether) the Spatial Finder is used should be up to the indiv…
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Quote: As a matter of fact, it's pretty much what John Siracusa was asking for, except his idea was to break it up into 2 apps instead of 2 modes. You're wrong on both counts.
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Quote: It's somehow smart enough not to draw a rectangle with filleted (bevelled) corners around the content but just draw a line across to demarcate the tab area below. Look closer. AFAICT, the only way to hide the rounded corners is to make t…