Comments on: Faint Praise

By: Jack Mottram

Jack Mottram — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:55:54 +0000

You can change the Expose keys in System Preferences... dunno if that would help though.

Panther problem of the day: my cousin's Panther woes mentioned elsewhere now include a bug where every time he hits a volume key all his apps force quit and he gets logged out!

Oh, and might've said this in another thread, but I managed to ge the Speedtouch working fine with Panther on my iBook first time - maybe it's a Powerbook-specific problem?

By: stirmonster

stirmonster — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:26:41 +0000

apart from the world of pain modem hell, i love it. my only bugbears are that some of the keyboard shortcuts in abelton live don't work now (expose seems to have stolen them!) and weirdly, if i have safari open, peak (an audio editing app which i use about 50 times a day) goes absolutely haywire. threaded mail is the greatest thing ever!

By: Jack Mottram

Jack Mottram — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 14:35:32 +0000

you got a performance boost, which should have been a free download

Can't argue with that. Between annual upgrades and the not-quite-pointless .Mac account I'm being stung for lots of money. It's a con, I'm a mark - but I don't really mind. It's laziness, really - I could go linux and save an absolute fortune, but I'd have to learn how to use a computer all over again from scratch.

Clicking shiny buttons is easy and fun!

By: Donna

Donna — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:25:57 +0000

i resist the panther!

i am strong!

By: Donny

Donny — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:50:38 +0000

I’d like to shed light on the fact that you’ve spent Â£99.01 on an upgrade which basically means you can press F9-F11 and show your friends some pretty OpenGL magic and you got a performance boost, which should have been a free download. It’s called a service pack in the Windows world.
It goes to show that advertising works. A bit of shiny metal and a white background and everybody whips out there Apple ID and places an order.
I’m sorry to belittle Apple, but I manage 25 Macs at work and they are a nightmare. They crash and people can’t work efficiently on them. Microsoft offer substandard software for them. I can understand animosity towards Microsft, but just use use linux if you have that sentiment. This whole lifestyle, iPod, digital media hub (i.e. make media available at a granular level, a track at a time, and eventually extract more money from us) thing is, in my eyes, just hype and showing you shiny ways of doing things you could already do for free anyway.
Linux, Open Source, Free Software, that’s the new cool!

By: Jack Mottram

Jack Mottram — Sat, 29 Nov 2003 00:24:43 +0000

Brian - I started fresh too, but then restored all my old prefs via Backup. I suspect that was a terrible mistake.

Len - mad props, word, etc., on use of soi-disant. Considering the context...

By: Leon McDermott

Leon McDermott — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:48:44 +0000

I installed over the top of a previous version of Jaguar, and everything seems to be working as intended. Indeed, the soi-disant beachball of death only appears when using BitTorrent, but that's such a memory sink that I'm not surprised. Waking from sleep is, indeed, a drag, but I'm willing to let that slide since, like Jack says, everything else is--and in quite a remarkable way, i should add--much faster. Not tried any CD burning yet, but I've got some backing up to do over the weekend, so we'll see. I'm just glad that I got my modem working, unlike some. (Scroll down for the comments.)

By: brian w

brian w — Fri, 28 Nov 2003 19:18:31 +0000

I replaced my Music folder with an alias to the one on the external drive when I first set it up; haven't had any issue with iTunes trying to revert to a local drive. As for your other issues, I can't say I've seen any of them, although Panther certainly has its share of new wee bugs. Did you install over an existing version of Jaguar (I started fresh, just in case)? Maybe try rebuilding permissions?