Category: Apple

Five hours with OS X 10.2 installed

Finally got some face time with a 17″ iMac (awesome machine) and low and behold there was a set of 10.2 discs inside the box. Couple of hours later, I’m running it now on my Titanium/800.

Couple of notes:

  • It’s fast!
  • Build number is 6C115
  • Most of my menu bar add-ons (Classic Spy, Massinova, ScriptMenu) are broken. No big deal – probably the API for the menu has changed and everything needs an update
  • The GPG and SpamCop bundles screw up the menus in Mail.app. Again, just needs an update here.
  • Retrospect client fails. Work around is to script a cron job until Dantz can get their shit together. Will they? Not sure as their OS X support has been dodgy at best. Irritating as I’d love to update the OS X users at work to 10.2 as soon as possible. Anyone want to bet if an updated client is released along with 10.2’s release?
  • The client for CorporateTime fails on launch. This is more problematic as work uses it and I’ve got a pretty big list of stuff up there. At least there’s the web front end to CT so I can get at my events. Complicating factor is that Oracle just finished buying out Steltor and there’s been no mention of how the coding force is being divvied up. Not looking forward to importing it all into Palm Desktop. Wish iCal was released already.

Apple keynote post-morteum

Just got into work after watching the keynote address at the Newport Beach Apple Store. As I expected it was pretty much focused solely on Jaguar with the only hardware news being the new 20GB iPod and 17″ iMac. Curiously, there was no mention of the Xserve. I would have figured that Jobs would have at least mentioned what the early sales numbers are like (or even an acknowledgment that they’re shipping).

I suspect that the big gripe is going to be over the iTools-to-.Mac rebranding and the $99 yearly charge. I’ve already seen a couple of “bait-and-switch” comments over in the Slashdot comments, which I can vaguely understand. But folks, it’s (well, was) a free service. Would you rather that Apple dropped iTools completely? Apple probably could have eased the pain a little bit by charging $49/year outright.

Speaking only for myself, it’s totally worth the $49/year grandfather price for triple the imap mail storage and the ability to publish my calendar and address book across several computers. Your mileage, as they all say, may vary.

As for the rest of the keynote, uh, yeah yeah go Steve. Though for the first time ever, the one object of technolust demoed at a Macworld keynote wasn’t an Apple product… It was that awesome GPRS phone Steve was showing off. I want one. I really don’t want to switch away from AT&T in order to use one though.

Now if only I could get that iDVD 2.1 updater to download.

The return of Fool’s Errand and Cliff Johnson

Eons before Myst, the state of the art in computer-based puzzle games was Fool’s Errand, At The Carnival, and 3 In Three. I burned more hours and brain power on those games than on pretty much anything else before or since. Now you can burn up time too – creator Cliff Johnson has put all three games up on the web.

[via Plastic]