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Saturday, February 9, 2002 |
A discussion thread about The future of PDAs on the Tidbits-Talk is starting to get interesting. Adam Engst, the publisher of Tidbits, posted this morning and sent the discussion to a new level...
1:31:20 PM 
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Dan Shafer notes that problems can indeed crop up when using OS X 10.1.2. A quick note for Dan: When you restart after a kernel panic (which is what happened after the text had overwritten your screen saver), hold down the Command key and S at the same time. This boots your machine into Single User Mode, and you can then type in the command line interface the command "fsck -y" without the quotes. This runs a disk utility that will fix any problems with the system caused by the crash. If the system is modified when you run fsck the first time, run it again until it says no changes were made and that the volume appears to be fine. Then type in the command "reboot" and you are back in business, secure in the knowledge that the machine should be fine after its crash.
Another note: The folks at Bare Bones Software told me with an earlier version of OS X that the screen saver application puts a terrible stress on OS X. Although it seems that something as benign as a screen saver should be easy for a mult-threaded system like OS X to handle, it in fact stresses the processor and can lead to other problems. My advice...turn off the screen saver.
12:00:34 PM
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One pet peeve I have working with OS X 10.1.2 and using multiple Web browsers is the time it takes to switch from one browser to another. I see the spinning multi-colored disc more when I switch from Internet Explorer 5.1.3 to OmniWeb 4.1sp39 or back the other way than at any other time when working with OS X. I wonder if this is because of shared code? These are Web browsers...why does it take more time to switch from one browser to another than it does to go from a browser to an e-mail application? 
11:14:35 AM
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Anna Silliman responds to my article about computing without Microsoft products, Tired of viruses and bugs? Ditch Microsoft:
Nice article about MS-free environment! I use AppleWorks 5 in conjunction with DataViz MacLinkPlus and together they can do almost anything. (I worked on some book chapters with a co-author using Word 98 and things translated back and forth just fine.) This team can also handle cross-platform stuff nicely!
You could add Panorama to the list of databases. I am a new user but I just love it--there was an interesting review in TidBits 19 Nov 01 by Matt Neuburg that got me to try it. He's right about the learning curve but it's very worth it. Filemaker by comparision seems like a kludge to me; and unfriendly like MS products.
9:53:46 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Rob McNair-Huff.
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