Panther - first impressions
Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to the world of osx, so easily impressed.
- Expose is awesome.
- Mail filtering actually finds spam now. Previous version marked it very rarely..
- Safari still has a huge memory leak.
- GUI is definitely faster.
- Postfix is a nice touch.
- Disk utility changes are neat.
MySQL!-- I don't know what I was smoking.. there's a mysql user & group but the server does not appear to be installed, I'll try to do that later.- shell still defaults to bash, but that's easy to change.
Took me about 5min to remember how to copy MP3s off of my iPod to import into my iTunes library. This shouldn't be such a pain..
For future reference...
Mount iPod, make sure to not allow iTunes to take over it (this will erase it).
in a shell cd /Volumes/<ipod name>/iPod Control/Music
Using a simple shell script, copy files from each dir (foreach dir (`ls`) etc..) then import the files into iTunes and all works...
Comments
Indeed - new iTunes installs that don't have any music or playlists with it will make the iPod nice and clean. Same for the Windows version, actually.
I wasn't that impressed with Panther as an upgrade... didn't seem to be all the much new. Expose reminds me of Tile/Cascade Windows from Win 3.1 I can't comment on speed because my G3/500MHz makes anything slow. Either way, I wonder if it's worth the $129 to upgrade (I'm on the EDU discount, so it wasn't as large a price tag) although I'd want it on the new iBook/G4 I'm eyeballing. :)
Posted by: Randy | October 25, 2003 01:36 PM
a) you dont WANT to be expose(d) on the internet
b) your e-mail is not an appropriate substitute for a pantry
c) must have got sick while on sarafi... i hear its a real problem when leaving to less civilized places
d) no snappy comment
e) bah, i like qmail
f) ok
g) !!!
h) whats wrong with bash?
just had to make myself a n annoyance again for a bit, cheers!
Posted by: apokalyptik | October 25, 2003 01:53 PM
Um, for importing the iTunes content back in, can't you just put the iPod into firewire drive mode and then do a simple drag-and-drop via Finder? :)
Posted by: fluffy | October 25, 2003 02:01 PM
Fluffy, I don't believe that works since 'drive mode' only allows you access to certain parts of the ipod and not the music library.
Posted by: kasia | October 25, 2003 02:05 PM
I always thought the sync was kinda annoying, my pal lost part of his mp3 collection doing that.
I don't have an iPod (or an Apple computer for that matter), but was Apple kind enough to incorporate a read-only switch or something just in case?
Posted by: David | October 25, 2003 11:54 PM
Or at least thats what he told me :)
Anyway, have (again) a good one Kasia.
Posted by: David (again) | October 25, 2003 11:58 PM
What IS rather neat is that you can get music off the iPod with either Xplay or iTunes in Windows. Of course the file name can be mangled, depending on version and type of iPod, but at least you can get the bits back.
I don't think anyone with iTunes has thought about the damange it can do to an iPod. I get the impression that it's a "oh, you should know not to do that" type thing... I learned it by accident.
Posted by: Randy | October 26, 2003 05:27 PM
Kasia,
why did you need to set the shell again ??
was it a clean install ??
why were you impressed that it shipped with MySQL ??
why are you still using Terminal.app ??
all the cool stuff in Panther is hidden away, but I'm glad that people are impressed with the glimmer ;p
Posted by: sam | October 27, 2003 04:52 AM
Mail.app's spam filter has a quirk that caught me for a while: I was playing with various spam-filtering tools, so I was moving my caught spam into an archive instead of deleting it from the junk folder.
It turned out that if you move flagged spam instead of deleting it, Mail.app will assume you've decided it's not really spam. As a result, my junk mail filter got progressively less effective until it was only catching 10% of my junk.
After resetting the filter and retraining it, it was much more effective.
Posted by: Charles Miller | October 27, 2003 02:58 PM