― Ed (dali), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Friday, 18 March 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm pretty happy w/the ST1040/TOS box I use for midi sequencing, heh.
standard font on my SUSE box = Black Chancery.
I was thinking about getting one of those mac minis, loading it up w/a 8x8 midi interface, a MOTU firewire 8x8 audio interface and using it as a replacement for my atari/hdr setup. Maybe I'm not so sure now. Ally + tombot on this thread are great!!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Arial is good for small font sizes on non-anti-aliased screens. If you don't have ClearType turned on and you're reading a small sidebar, Arial is what you want. Otherwise it's pretty ugly.
― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Friday, 18 March 2005 18:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:20 (nineteen years ago) link
If you could push a feature request, or perhaps a bug on yourwish-list to the top of Apples' radar for OSX, what would itbe?Kill Finder X. It's really that bad. But don't justresuscitate Finder 9 -- do better. Finder 9 always needed atoolbar, for example. Finder 9 needed a plugin architecture.Finder X does trounce Finder 9 in terms of built-in search,though.There are people out there who know what the next Finder lookslike. Apple needs to get out of their way and let them deliverit.You seem like a guy who prefers to refactor rather thanrewrite, so I'm going to assume you wouldn't say that lightly,and we'll just proceed on the assumption that Finder X is acomplete clusterfuck. How does a company known for itsinnovation, craftsmanship and software skills let somethinglike Finder X out the door?Finder X is the compromise between the Mac OS folks and theNeXT folks. Neither won, everybody lost.Oh my god, the entire bastardized notion of switching frommetal to aqua and hiding the sidebar when clicking on thetoolbar chiclet in the upper right-hand corner.Bonus: notice how if you click on the extreme right of thechiclet and try to switch back, you fail -- the window themeswitch moved the chiclet slightly to the left and now you'vegot to follow it. Gag. Folks, this type of stuff makes Gnomelook good.I don't know how Finder X shipped. Someone high enough mustbe in love with it that the normal human interface vetting+feedback process didn't/couldn't take place.
Kill Finder X. It's really that bad. But don't justresuscitate Finder 9 -- do better. Finder 9 always needed atoolbar, for example. Finder 9 needed a plugin architecture.Finder X does trounce Finder 9 in terms of built-in search,though.
There are people out there who know what the next Finder lookslike. Apple needs to get out of their way and let them deliverit.
You seem like a guy who prefers to refactor rather thanrewrite, so I'm going to assume you wouldn't say that lightly,and we'll just proceed on the assumption that Finder X is acomplete clusterfuck. How does a company known for itsinnovation, craftsmanship and software skills let somethinglike Finder X out the door?
Finder X is the compromise between the Mac OS folks and theNeXT folks. Neither won, everybody lost.
Oh my god, the entire bastardized notion of switching frommetal to aqua and hiding the sidebar when clicking on thetoolbar chiclet in the upper right-hand corner.
Bonus: notice how if you click on the extreme right of thechiclet and try to switch back, you fail -- the window themeswitch moved the chiclet slightly to the left and now you'vegot to follow it. Gag. Folks, this type of stuff makes Gnomelook good.
I don't know how Finder X shipped. Someone high enough mustbe in love with it that the normal human interface vetting+feedback process didn't/couldn't take place.
― TOMBOT, Monday, 28 March 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Monday, 28 March 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 28 March 2005 22:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link
the thing in the upper right
― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, Tog says: http://www.asktog.com/columns/060MonsterMac.html
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link
People need to stop being such cranks. Iterative improvments are going to come along.
― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Monday, 28 March 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Monday, 28 March 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 00:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link
Um. So I'm not saying there couldn't be a better Finder, but... is that really all the guy can find to complain about?
― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 29 March 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nobody In Particular, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link
(maybe it's a joke)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
I would say applecare is important for laptops, less so for desktops.
― Ed (dali), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link
AppleCare is pretty essential for laptops. They're expensive, they get beat up, and if the screen fails you're already way ahead of the game in overall cost.
I've actually had to use it once and it saved plenty of time being able to leap-frog ahead to the front of the support line. To be fair though, if I don't have my laptop I'm not able to work at all - making that "does it pay for itself" question pretty easy to answer.
― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 23 June 2005 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
(they seem to run xp happily enough 8)
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― banana face (banana face), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― banana face (banana face), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Agreed. My solution was to buy a g4 tower on eBay. I think there's a sweet spot in price/performance right now from the "Digital Audio" models up to the early Mirrored Drive Door g4s. Unless you're doing really processor-intensive stuff, they should be snappy for a few years still. The last batch of g4 towers are still overpriced on ebay, though.
― arch Ibog (arch Ibog), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― banana face (banana face), Thursday, 23 June 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
AppleCare almost pays for itself in resale value for laptops even if you never need them to replace the screen or anything.
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/cs2.ars
seems to suggest CS2 runs as fast or faster than CS1 on same hardware
― mei (mei), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 23 June 2005 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Thursday, 23 June 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link