On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 07:48 AM, Ask Solem Hoel wrote: > Work faster? Well my only problem with this MacOS X thing right > now is that the responsivness of the terminal is so slow. > Hitting ^F in vim in Terminal.app or xterm is slow, scrolling up and > down with j,k /jumps/ not floats. > > It feels like how the DOS commandline in Windows95 felt while > playing MP3 in the background on a 200Mhz Pentium PRO with 32MB ram. > I am running an original TiBook running 10.1.5 and I don't have this problem, even when running iTunes. Sure, if I'm using JBuilder's Application Server/Debugger or running Virex then there's some lag, but that's to be expected.
What version of the OS are you running? What tasks are running behind it? Are you saying that this happens with nothing else running? > And this is a iMac 800Mhz, 768MB RAM, GeForce 4MX. > > [...] know I can pay for it in shareware > but never /ever/ will I pay for shareware. Shareware sucks, and there is > too much of it in the Mac world. That is why we need to re-create every > useful shareware application as free software and kill those egomaniac > shareware authors. > Egomaniacs? This is SERIOUS flame-bait on a software developer's list. Tsk tsk, Shame on you. People deserve to EAT. And not just Bill Gate$ or $teve Job$ either.... Those guys release broken or incomplete products & charge for tech support or "upgrades" (aka PATCHES) and are apparently fiercely defended for doing so on this list. It's exactly this ideology, or lack thereof, that has caused business columnists and pundits alike to compare the Open-Source and Freeware markets (I'm not lumping the two together, but they are) with outright Communism. This is much the chagrin of developers like me who now have to ask during a job interview what the company's position is regarding the Open Source movement i.e. "can I participate on open projects while I work for you?" And yes, just asking the question has an impact on the good first impression you're trying to make. I've even had recruiters give me crap about mentioning it during the interview. Then I have to launch into an explanation using someone like Ben Tilly of Perlmonks.com (handle: Tilly) as an example of how you can get screwed by this. All of this while trying to boil it down to fit into their attention span and sound credible...
