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By: VeronicasLore.com » Windows share as seen on Leopard

VeronicasLore.com » Windows share as seen on Leopard — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:09:26 +0000

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By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:35:31 +0000

Ruh Roh! Looks like the iFags have come out in full force to defend the Company and the Steve!!!

Our $h!t works and MSFT crapware doesn’t!! Bleat away sheep! Bleat away!

LMAO. 2.49% Cult of Mactards continues. I hope leopard ‘accessorizes’ well with your ‘lifestyles’.

By: A View from Home » Has anyone compiled a list of what's been pulled from Leopard?

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:19:39 +0000

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By: peter

peter — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:49:36 +0000

I was just about to go buy a new macbook. I wonder if I should wait. I don’t want to upgrade after a few months.

By: gwhiz

gwhiz — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:46:51 +0000

I’d say Web Worker should love a LOT on Leopard Server. Mongo goodness there!

By: David Russell

David Russell — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:14:24 +0000

Mac OS X Leopard at WWDC: What’s a Web Worker to Love?

Certainly not Safari 3 if the garbage they pass off as a Windows version is anything to go buy.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:48:14 +0000

nevermind; apparently ZFS will not ship with Leopard after all (via slashdot):
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903281

(what IS IT with OS vendors being unable to ship improved filesystems anyway? Microsoft letting WinFS slip is predictable, but I expected better from Apple … or it could be another case of Steve retaliating for vendors stealing his thunder on product announcements.)

too bad; ZFS’ built-in volume mgmt capabilities (among other features) would have made for some fascinating user-land app/utility possibilities.

By: Leopard — I’ll be delaying my upgrade « Iain’s Chips & Tech

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:36:40 +0000

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By: jetteroheller

jetteroheller — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:05:16 +0000

Every time I read something about MacOS X Leopard, I think it says, MacOS Leotard. Is that a Freudian slip?

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:52:31 +0000

As is often the case, the biggest improvements are likely to be under the hood, visible only to sysadmins and UNIX geeks, and will go unnoticed and unappreciated by 90% of the Mac user base. One of those improvements will be replacing Mac’s antiquated filesystem (HFS+, resource forks and all) with the most advanced filesystem currently available (Sun’s ZFS). In fact, Apple could have used ZFS’s snapshot capabilities to build Time Machine functionality (although I’m not sure whether Time Machine is just a GUI to ZFS snapshots, or if Apple reinvented the wheel here to preserve compatibility for users that want to use other filesystems). Other welcome updates will probably be seen in launchd, ACL/MAC controls and other security improvements (will Apple finally adopt OpenBSD’s memory randomization across the whole OS? Microsoft will still have beat them to the punch here; Vista supports a layered approach to security that includes address-space randomization that Apple still doesn’t support, even though Apple is built at least partly on BSD …)

The stuff I’m most interested in will probably never make it into a keynote and will remain unknown to most users – but will be foundational to the stability and security of the OS in ways that shiny new widgets never will.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:57:46 +0000

The improved functionality provided by the new sidebar in Finder has been around in Windows Explorer since at least Windows 98. For this latest release, I’d say Apple is copying a few of Microsoft’s tricks!

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:17:05 +0000

@Jr. Shabadoo: Because upgrading one’s operating system is never trivial. For me, it’s not the money. It’s the time and research that has to go into making sure the upgrade goes smoothly. More than just a backup, you have to make sure that all of your utilities and applications won’t have problems in the new OS. Perhaps it’s trivial for those that only use Apple software, but for those of us that have a mix of old & new, on & offline applications it’s way more than a purely financial decision.

I love the concept of QuickLook. I just hope Adobe has a plug-in for InDesign files.

By: Jr. Shabadoo

Jr. Shabadoo — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:08:02 +0000

leopard in and of itself may be a little less than some of the more ravenous among might have hoped, but apple’s engineers are *smart* and *creative*. the “stack” metaphor was recently ballyhooed as a brilliant experimental desktop replacement metaphor–granted that apple’s implementation is dumbed-down; but with the concurrent release of core animation, any kind of stacking, shuffling, and grouping mechanisms become not only possible, but trivial. the future is much closer in leopard than in vista, unless you like coffee tables crammed with video cameras.

also, the current blob of commentary gives (extremely) short shrift to quicklook, or whatever it’s called. arguably, apple is undercutting itself by breaking it out as a feature-unto-itself; but in conjunction with the other enhancements to finder, like cover flow, it addresses the largest and hungriest time sink in my computing life: farting around the damned file system for files, and suffering while apps load merely so i can have a look to see if i’m where i want to be.

and a solid, 64-bit os is nothing to sneeze at.

sure, the thrust of the article is “the web worker”, and there, too, writers are fundamentally misapprehending the importance of some of these new features: mail, for example, is slowly morphing into a free-form database as well an adequate mail client. with the right api’s it’ll become something marvellous, especially if it gloms onto the ichat collaboration api’s.

and it looks damned magnificent. what’s wrong with that? why the reticence to plunk down $129 bucks for an os in which you spend most of your workday, ever day, when we piss away money on trivial nonsense without a second thought?

By: Judi Sohn

Judi Sohn — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:18:13 +0000

@MonkeyT: That’s true. But when that feature was tied to iChat, it was part of the OS and available to anyone who was running Leopard (both ways). Now, it appears that it requires .Mac *and* Leopard, which will severely limit its usefulness, don’t you think?

It’s no longer about collaborating with a colleague I’m chatting with about that file we’re both working on by letting us “sit next to each other.” It’s now a way for me to control my living room computer from my bedroom computer, which I couldn’t care less about.

Unless I’m reading it wrong. What do you guys think?

By: What does Leopard have for us. « b3n’s Mind

What does Leopard have for us. « b3n’s Mind — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:56:30 +0000

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