On Dec 8, 2007, at 6:29 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > actually it's articles like this that are p.....g me off. anytime you > have 'anything' new, the exceptions make the greater noise, because > the productive people have better things to do. do you remember the > same criticisms of tigger, and jugware, and, and, and.
While the article was certainly written as flame-bait, I do think the Leopard was given its freedom a little early. I'm using it on three different machines and it's not crashed on any of them, but there are some rough edges. ? The firewall, as it installs right out of the box, is a joke. It took me a couple of weeks to get back the security I had with Tiger because the IPFW interface apparently doesn't work the way IPFW is supposed to work and the controls in System Preferences are both confusing and anemic. ? Spaces is the right idea, but they should have looked more closely at other virtual desktops. I've been using Desktop Manager under Tiger forever and the virtual desktops built into Gnome and KDE in Linux for many years. None of them have the annoying interface rigidness of Spaces. I never find myself suddenly whisked over to another desktop in Linux or with Desktop Manager just because I changed programs. In Spaces, it happens all the time, and no matter how I jigger the settings, it keeps happening. The desktops should be more tied to windows than applications. ? Why can't Time Machine be easily made to work over a local network? ? Apple's desktop sharing seems a lot more finicky than other VNC implementations. It took me forever to connect to my office Mac from home because I had to tweak routers and firewalls. Making a VNC connection to the Linux machine in my office from my Mac at home was easy. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2452 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071208/068cefb4/attachment.bin
