That's all I need to know, Jerry. Only 11 1/2 months until I install
Leopard! ):
Chris
On 8 Dec 2007, at 21:32, Jerry Freeman wrote:
> what's more, said firewall is turned off by default, even if it was
> turned on in your migrated tigger install. Block All Incoming
> Connections would be the simple choice for a single user, but then
> things rapidly go south. as i understand, apple is using an
> indeterminate black box rather than ipfw, so it doesn't configure by
> ipfw rules.
>
> after a month plus of daily use with 12-15 open applications, i find
> spaces no more productive, and the zooming around tiring. when an
> unassigned application reverts to the space in which it was opened, it
> is a non-productive inconvenience.
>
> asking mac users to configure a time machine lan in terminal is
> heresy, i think apple will fix that soon. i have time machine up for
> the experiment, but it certainly eats disk. 1.4G a day here setting on
> a 500G disk which might last a year and i'm a lightweight. my raid is
> still intact, but were i on a single disk machine, or generated large
> amounts of input files, i would consider other solutions. better than
> nothing and remembering it took more than a year to get 10.4 straight.
> best...jf
>
> On Dec 8, 2007, at 7:17 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
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