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Okay, I've been complaining about iBook stuff
so I should include a link to
another
excellent Apple bitching site. I mean, they've
probably covered everything that I would notice,
and more. (But I think they have removed some items?!
They used to have one about how the iBook hinge is
badly designed because it causes the LCD to be lower
by an inch or so than a traditional hinge.)
(In case you are wondering, I use Safari
over Firebird because the latter can't keep
up with my scrolling and I quickly lose
sense of where I am on the bloody page. Safari
at least doesn't quite suck so much in that
regard. Sure, I should get myself a real
machine instead of this old G4/500, but whatever.)
Another list is
more
low-level.
- 150)
I think it is funny-sad how many things on a Mac
don't actually "just work" when that seems like
one of the big deals I hear about with Macs.
I, too, have seen
CDs not
mount properly, and wondered why packages
need to be "installed", and how to un-install them,
etc. And I super dislike any windowing
system that has the 'close' box next to the other
things like 'minimize' and 'maximize'. (Oh, and that
the 'maximize' widget is more like the 'smoke some
crack' widget). Maybe Apple needs to get
Cooper
to teach 'em a thing or two.
- 149)
Good thing the Darwin Ports instructions are wrong.
I get the feeling I should be igoring anything
on any site or page that talks about Darwin Ports,
and go only look at MacPorts. Great. Good thing
we can't just get rid of the wrong broken misleading
hateful old junk, now, can we?
- 148)
First off, it kills me that there's too many
different OS package thingies for Mac OS X: Fink,
DarwingPorts, MacPorts, heaven only knows what else.
Trying to figure out which one is the Right One to use
is already suckful. It looks like DarwinPorts has a more
recent version of Erlang than Fink does, so I go for that...
and the installer says "Time Remaining: Less than a minute"
with an un-advancing progress bar
for pretty much the entirety of the installation process:
which is tens of minutes (seems to depend on your
network speed)! So to me it just looks like it
is hung. I guess we can see what bringing the classic
usability of Open Source to the Macintosh has done.
(P.S.: if you open up the Log and then tell it to
Show Everything, you'll be better off.)
- 147)
It is killing me that no method of rebinding the
"caps lock" key to "control" on this iBook actually
fully works. A good 10% of the time the system
emphatically does not see it as "control"
which of course leads to no end of suck in Emacs
and Terminal shells, let alone everywhere else.
Both uControl and OS X 10.4 have the same problem,
so I guess it is something about how the hardware
is set up?! If I weren't too cheap to buy a replacement
laptop, I'd go get something that at least had
the Fn key to the right of the Ctrl key. Lord,
how can anybody who claims to be based on unix (in
other words Apple == Mach, BSD) produce
such a completely broken keyboard system - from the
unix perspective?
- 146)
I know. Let's let people rebind things like the "caps lock"
key to the "control" key, but then when they are entering
their password lets make sure the binding isn't in effect
so that they can end up with their password not working because
they key they've told the machine is control is actually
acting like "caps lock". True usability inspiration for us all.
- 145)
Nice how the login display shows up and I click on my
icon and... nothing happens. I click again and it notices.
So I guess just because the login display is there doesn't
mean it is ready to let me log in. Yeah, baby!
- 144)
So far, for older laptops, uControl
is the only thing that has a way to do scrolling via the
trackpad - but it doesn't work for 10.4, so I'm SOL. People
point to SideTrack or SmartScrollX (by the guy that donated
the code I like to uControl) but as far as I could tell, neither did
the "hold a key to make the whole trackpad a scroll wheel" thing,
which is all I really want. Instead they have a range of insane,
complicated, unsuable, overkill so-called "features" that have
basically nothing to do with what I actually want.
Seems like everybody continues to
miss
the point. Bah, humbug.
- 143)
Speaking of Apple-flavoured Crack, I don't
understand why anybody thinks it is cool
that the "caps lock" light still operates
when I've told Tiger to remap that key to
"control".
- 142)
This doesn't make sense to me: When I go to shut down
the mac, it puts up an "are you sure" kind of dialog
box. The "shut down now" button is filled in. The
"cancel" button is not, but has a halo around it.
Pressing return causes the computer to shut down.
Pressing, instead, the space bar causes cancels.
What kind of special "let's make things incomprehensible"
crack is Apple smoking these days?
- 141)
Sweet. On a machine running 10.4, I got a message
telling me it had crashed and that I had to reboot.
So very Windows 95 like! Thanks! Then, after it
rebooted, some dialog came up asking me if I wanted
to see the details of the crash etc. and I said yes...
and nothing ever happened, no report appeared. Double
sweet. (Looking in the Console app, the logs appear
to have some journaling FS errors right at the time
of the crash. Yay.)
- 140)
Wow. The "Grab" utility is useful... but stupid.
When you grab a selection, it has the coordinates
displayed in a mouse tool-tip. Which. Covers. Up.
What. You. Are. Trying. To. See. So, like, it
is hard to make the right selection. You, know, like,
the entire point of the utility?
Freaking genius.
- 139)
Safari does this pretty neat thing where if you interrupt
it loading the next page, it can end up with an image of
the page you were leaving, but it thinks it is on a blank
new page. So you can't click on anything in the old page.
If you go "back" then the page image you are seeing becomes
usable. Nifty usability trick, there folks.
- 138)
I started trying to use Safari because Camino's SVG implementation
is kinda sad. So then it was interesting to see how Safari (1.3.2,
I'm on Panther) is apparently kind of super crash-tastic. Nice.
- 137)
Wow. And here I thought MS Windows had something like the
patent on stupid unusability, where they pretty much make
the user manually refresh the File Explorer to be sure
it is showing reality. But then along comes the Mac "Open
File" dialog which screws the proverbial pooch as, if not
more, worse. Yay.
- 136)
One of the problems with the NeXT-style file browser is that it pretty
much forces you to lose all context,
because it has a rather limited number
of columns. (Also, BTW, it sucks that it doesn't support
differing sort orders.)
Whereas with MS's File Explorer, there is a
chance that the path you are digging into will still
all fit into the hierarchy tree view on the left of
the window.
- 135)
Now this is what I call user-friendly: I download a dmg (of
Wings 3D) and double-click on it... and nothing happens.
Not even an error message. Cool!
- 134)
I guess the way to Think Different is to create
an ecosystem where even reading a simple PDF
is a freaking nightmare? The OS's "Preview" application
sucks donkey poop - it doesn't even resize to full-screen
if you click on the green "+" in its title bar. So
then I try some other tools including
PDF Viewer, which is out of date and doesn't know how
to scroll upwards well by page, and of course
Adobe Reader - which fails to download because their
servers are unreachable. Even though, you know, I obviously
have an internet connection since I downloaded their bloody
downloader. So I'm left with no un-hateful way to read
a simple PDF. Great. Lovely. The happy warm comfortable
alternative universe vs. MS Windows, everything Just Works
so well in OS X... hurl.
- 133)
It is almost as if Apple wants to make an operating system
they could market as having, "All the warts of MS Windows, and almost
none of the games!" I had a DVD in the machine and it got "stuck" where
no application that I could find was using it (lsof didn't
report anything, and ps uxww didn't reveal anything obvious - and
even if they did, a regular user shouldn't ever have to resort
to that kind of thing, duh), yet it wouldn't eject.
The Finder insisted it was in use by some application,
but of course wouldn't name what application it thought
was using it. Genius. There are some
ways
or
two
to kick the bloody machine in the head, fortunately. I guess.
At least. Whatever.
- 132)
I don't think I will ever get used to the crappy Finder
browsing. The Windows File Explorer mode with the hierarchy
on the left and the details on the right is the only even
half-way decent file system browser I've seen to date.
Sad.
- 131)
Like Tog
said,
the fact that the green "+" icon in the window title bar sometimes
actually makes the window smaller is completely insane.
And we're on, what, version 10.4/10.5 now?
- 130)
I have a dream - of a day when whoever writes the sorting rules for
things like the list of files in the Finder (or Windows
File Explorer, or whatever) realizes that 123-456-1 should
come after 123-456.
- 129)
The two-fingers-on-the-trackpad-to-scroll thing is cool.
Too bad the MacBook we have is in a state where I've
disabled that, and now if you have two fingers on the
trackpad, it basically freezes. This is bad because if
you brush the trackpad with anything while you are trying
to mouse around, it freezes. Which happens a lot. Bad.
- 128)
Dell laptops have some serious suckage, but at least they
have the double set of mouse buttons around the trackpad so I
can use both hands to move-and-click, rather than ending up doing
the thing where my right hand is contorted so it can be used to
do both moving and clicking, which is what the ergonomics of
Mac laptops ends up being. (Also, somebody really needs to learn
how to make trackpad areas that won't get hit while I'm typing.)
- 127)
Wow. We just got a brand-new MacBook Core Duo 2, and... the
Finder is a flying piece of excrement! This completely boggles
the mind. Two examples: When I delete a file via an icon view,
there remains a horizontal gray bar on the screen where the
bottom of the icon was, until I scroll around to cause that
area to repaint! Also, the layout algorithm for "Clean Up"
was written by some utterly crack-smoking dumb-ass; it is
more like a "Grid Align with Random Gaps and Heck Put Some
Icons Off the Side of the Window For Fun". This is for what
people are switching?
- 126)
Ha ha. Under OS X, the mouse tracking from my iBook's trackpad
is juddery and often unresponsive. The same thing under Ubuntu is super
glassy interactively heavenly smooth. WTF? I guess Apple long ago
got rid of the idea of a having the mouse pointer be 60 FPS no
matter what?
- 125)
Yes, the Preview app still sucks. To wit: I'm looking
at the bottom half of page 1. I want to go on to page 2.
Pressing down or dragging up to move the view down does
nothing; the end of Page 1 is a wall. You can only get
to page 2, apparently, with the page controls. So that
seems kind of really annoying to me. Guess what, there's a
kicker! The 'next page' command surely does take me to
page 2, but it takes me to the end of page 2
because I was at the end of page 1. Complete and utter
insanity when it comes to usability.
- 124)
Yes, the Preview app still sucks. To wit: if the document takes
up the whole application window then when you go to drag
the bottom-right of the window to resize it, the mouse cursor
remains the hand. It should change to the regular mouse arrow
pointer to let you know you are over the clik-drag area, but
no. Only if the document is smaller than the window will it
change to the arrow. Whatever.
- 123)
Some
commentary
regarding Linux vs. OS X that I can get behind
(on both sides).
- 122)
I haven't complained about the Dock in a while: It
bugs me that it is translucent in parts, rather
than opaque, because (I've seen this repeatedly)
people might try to click on the window that is
behind the Dock in an attempt to get the click
to that window rather than the Dock. Yes, that
is logically stupid of them, but I think the blame
falls on the shoulders of the usability testers
and UI folks at Apple.
- 121)
When you insert a blank DVD for recording, a dialog
box comes up asking you want application or action
you want to have in response to the DVD. There is a button
labelled "Ignore" which I clicked because I didn't really
want any application or action or window, in my mind - I just
wanted the blank disc to appear in the Finder windows I already
had open so that I could copy stuff over for burning. Well,
it turns out that is not a good button to click because the
geniuses at Apple have decided it means you should never
see anything about the disc, and thus you should not even
be able to eject the thing to try starting the process
all over again. I had to start Disk Utility to eject the
bloody thing. This is the best OS UI in existence?
- 120)
It is nice how Mac OS X doesn't have the same problem
as MS Windows, where application windows (e.g.
dialog boxes) can end up being beneath other windows
and thus hidden, with nothing else to indicate their
existance; nothing in the Task Bar, or sometimes
even the Alt-Tab list. Oh. Wait. Ha ha, OS X does
have that same bloody stupid problem! Nice! (The one
difference is that Cmd-Tab to an application in OS X
will cause all of the windows for that application
to come up, so that ameliorates the situation a little
bit.)
- 119)
I do not like how OX S presents the
"Alt-Tab" (Option-Tab? Command-Tab? Whatever.) list because
the icons are just too bloody large. When I am working in
some program my attention is generally focused on a small area
of the screen. Using the application switch list brings
up huge icons which are impossible for me to parse
until I mentally take a step back and re-look at them to figure
out what they are. That's jarring and needless; the implementation
in Windows is better because the icons are smaller. Having said
that, I think in both versions the systems suck because they only
use icons and no text; when I have more than two or three entries
in the switch list it is hard to know what the icons really represent.
- 118)
Firefox is killing
me.
- 117)
I'm impressed how iTunes on WinXP completely
locks up the UI at the very end of every file download,
for like 3 seconds. I guess they've never heard of
'threads' over at Apple's software engineering?
The real kicker is that not only is the UI locked
up, but any mouse clicks I do during that time
are not even in the queue when it wakes up; I have
to click again.
- 116)
Holy heck, this is supposed to be
the OS for media folks? The frickin' preview
app doesn't even match up to what you get in
Windows for crying out loud! I download
a bunch of camera pictures and no I don't want
to use bloody hateful iPhoto, I just want to open
them with Preview and quickly remove the ones that
are obviously dud pictures. I can do that under
Windows XP no problem, but the Mac OS X preview
application doesn't know that I'm in a directory,
so it doesn't have next and last buttons unless
I manually select all the files first (sure, that
is more consistent but it is also less useful),
and it doesn't have a delete button to ditch
the file from the folder into the Trash. No, the
'lickability' factor does not make up
for the lack of actual functionality.
- 115)
The finder doesn't even know
the size of files (yes, that's
the Get Info for the highlighted file on top).
And it doesn't even have Windows's
(pathetic) "Refresh" command to compensate.
- 114)
Apparently, Macs have managed
to push their hate of folks with disabilities,
or folks who just like to use the Tab key
to move through web forms, into Firefox as
well! Great! It took me a while to stop just
seething and do some googling to find
what is
hopefully
a resolution. But I'll always find it
a shooting offense that Apple ships software
like this.
- 113)
I dislike having to do something
weird to turn things on and off; the iPod's
manner of turning off bugs me no end.
- 112)
It also really annoys me that
Apple can't just settle on one bloody
look-and-feel: even their metal look
is different between Safari and iTunes.
Whatever.
- 111)
It bugs the crap outta me that
Apple's brushed-metal apps, like Safari,
don't gray-out the title bar when they
are not active. Only the text changes
color a little bit. That's <expletive>ing
stupid!
- 110)
This takes the biscuit! I'm running
OS X Tiger on a B&W G3 upgraded to a G4/450,
with a standard Yosemite graphics card - and
Quicktime trailers on the bloody Apple trailer site
doesn't show anything other than blackness! Sweet!
- 109)
It completely sucks that
Safari's right-click "google search"
of hilighted text doesn't do the
search in a new tab or window,
but completely replaces what you've
already got. Stupid! Haven't these
people ever heard of Firefox?
- 108)
It really freaking annoys me that
I can't use the Esc key to get out of an
informative dialog box (one that only
has an OK button, nothing else) in OS X.
- 107)
Good thing Safari's New Tab command
doesn't go to the home page. Yeah, great.
- 106)
It is nice how all computers apparently
have to suck - because humans suck. OS X
went to sleep or started the screen saver or
something, and kinda ignored my "shutdown +120"
that was supposed to turn the thing off over night.
So when I checked it in the morning, many hours
after the time it should have shut down,
I moved the mouse and it came out of sleep -
and immediately shut down! Greaaat.
- 105)
Freaking genius user interface, here, people:
when iCal is in the Dock is shows "Jul 17" even though
today is Dec 17. When I launch iCal, it shows the correct
date in the Dock, and when I quit it reverts to the wrong
date. So that's really useful.
- 104)
I love how I can hide anything other than the
Finder, apparently. So getting rid of Finder windows
requires a completely different approach than
for any other application. That is just plain stupid.
- 103)
It is pretty impressive how there are large
differences between the world you see through
the Finder, and the one visible via the shell.
A couple small examples: A program that I can double-click
on to launch in the Finder is reported to be an
unexecutable file via the shell, with no hints
as to how to fire it up from there. Also, when
I try to 'cp' the file, I end up with something
that can't be launched be either the
shell or the Finder. (Then, there's all sorts
of whackyness with permissions.)
- 102)
Here's something worth patenting (not!): Apple's
Preview doesn't select text from a single column
in a dual-column PDF file. When I'm trying to select
text from one column, the selection is ends up being
the entire width of the page, so it is including text
from the next column over! Utterly nuts. Note that
Adobe Acrobat does not suffer from this broken
functionality, and successfully selects only text
in the column I want.
- 101)
The lickable look-and-feel gets to be grating
pretty quickly. This is especially the case when
you have many UI controls on the screen because they
are all trying to look 3D so the gestalt is a wavy
screen where each little area is demanding to be licked.
There is a lot to be said for flat or super simply
beveled widgets. Don't forget that
most
people are idiots when it comes to UI, so the glossy 3D
is only going to exacerbate such issues.
- 100)
I find it funny (as in, pathetic) that
Apple still releases mice that do not have
a scroll wheel.
- 99)
MS Windows lets you change the size of
controls like the scroll bar. I don't know
of a way to do that in OS X. Kinda sucks because
I find the scroll bars to be too narrow.
- 98)
I'd like to use
darcs
but the binary is available through fink, which doesn't
work on my machine. Amongst the various problems
with fink is that trying to do "fink update-all" hits
a point where it is trying to update ncurses and
says "you have to switch to gcc 3.3" since Tiger
has gcc 4.0. So I switch to 3.3 and run "fink update-all"
again... and it just immediately says "oh, you need
to use gcc 4.0 buddy." So then I try to use 3.3 and
only do "fink update ncurses" but that either isn't
the right syntax, or ncurses doesn't exist ha ha ha ha ha.
- 97)
Why do Apple programs not have keyboard shortcuts
for choosing windows? Terminal does, but Safari doesn't.
Nor does the bloody Finder for crying out loud!
- 96)
Nice how there's seven zillion different
ways of installing software on OS X, so you can
end up with like four different versions of
emacs, with questionable abilities to update
or remove said installations, or something fun like that.
I guess
other
people
have felt this pain, too.
- 95)
Good thing there's no 100% decent version
of Emacs for OS X Aqua. Personally, I think
the Aquaemacs people are utterly
insane, and actually sorta just plain dumb.
Back to the DarwinPorts
version, I guess... or, maybe not:
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../src/epaths.h', needed by `yow'.
Stop. make: *** [lib-src] Error 2. Everything sucks, but
right now at least Aquaemacs actually runs on this machine, so I
guess I'm stuck with it.
- 94)
Aquaemacs sucks in so many ways... find-file opens a whole new
frame, rather than just a new buffer. Bastards. It starts up really
quickly... not. I'm dying because I've sorta found
indications
that I can make find-file work the way I want
yet there isn't sufficient documentatio or info to
tell me how to actually set the bloody option. Maybe
I've died and I really am in hell?
Oh, and then going into the customization mode is
pretty funny because they've made it
look
like utter crap, making it harder to parse wtf is going on. Yes! And
these are the folks that claim to be improving emacs's usablity!
(Update: the "open buffers in separate frames" thing is under the
Options menu, as in the standard Apple menubar. Nice that nowhere
was that explained, at least as far as Google could determine.
Oh, and the kicker is that it doesn't save the changes until you
explicitly tell it to. Whatever!)
- 93)
I'm trying to figure out why Java is broken
under Tiger for me. Yay. I'm looking through the
Apple Developer downloads to see if there are any
Java patches I should apply (even though Software
Update claims I'm totally up-to-date). To do that,
I'm searching for "Java" and I want to see the results
in chronological order. Unfortunately, the results
do not show their date, so even though I've told
it to sort by time, I have no idea which way
it has sorted. (Since the top hit is something for
Mac OS 10.3, I'm guessing it is sorting from earliest
to most recent, which is exactly the wrong way for
my - and I suspect just about 99% of folks' - purposes.)
To further rub things in, their Advanced Search doesn't
let you specify any ordering by date. I'm not sure
which particular pack of monkeys on crack they used
to make this search engine, but I wish they would
spend another ten dollars and get the good
crack instead.
- 92)
Funny how the Dashboard coming and going
animations don't work well on my B&W G4 (lame
PCI ATI card), stuttering at like 1 frame a second,
yet the QuickSilver animations,
which look pretty much the same (scaling, alpha),
work absolutely perfectly smoothly.
- 91)
In the Finder, you can show things via
the "List" view, which can have several
columns of information per row (which is
a single file). You can resize the column
widths, but the cursor doesn't show you that;
it doesn't change from the arrow pointer
to the 'resize border' pointer until you
click on the little 'border' graphic. This
all kinda sucks because clicking on the
title of a column selects that as the new
sort order, so you are running the risk
of accidentally resorting when all you wanted
to do was move things around. Of course, if
you didn't know that you could move things
around then you'd also possibly get into
that mode surprisingly, because the cursor
never changed to show you there was this
other mode, etc. etc. So, all in all,
it is all kinda bad.
- 90)
Spotlight is supposed to be the dope-shinola,
and yet it can't even find emacs. In Terminal
I get "/usr/bin/emacs" when I ask "which emacs"
but Spotlight doesn't find that. Oh, and there
is apparently no way to get Spotlight to show the
size of files it has found, so you can't sort by
that profile. Great. So useful. Worth every penny.
Whatever!
- 89)
I'm connecting over the web to get a dmg of
lots of Tiger Packages. It took bloody for ever for
the icons to show up. Then, I clicked to change the
view in the Finder window to List... and the bloody
thing is locked up again, apparently re-fetching
everything! And this time around, the Finder is
freaked out and I can't even select other files.
No, the little psychadelic disk wait cursor of doom
is spinning away, and I'm screwed.
What the hell!? I cannot fathom how anybody
thought this was a good scheme for anything!
Death too good for them?
- 88)
Apple's Terminal program isn't entirely evil.
It has plenty of foibles that bug me, but it mostly works.
Right now, probably the most suckful thing is that there
is no way to change the mouse cursor color; it is always
a gray/black 'i bar' text entry cursor when it is in the
main window area. If you have a dark background the cursor
is nigh impossible to see and there's nothing you can do
about it!
- 87)
Well bend me over and ram me with a
pogo stick. I tried to install ghc, it told
me I had to make it build with gcc 3.something
rather than Tiger's default 4.0.0, so i
told it to switch, and then when i tried
to switch back to gcc 4.0.0 it refused!
The following is missing from your gcc 4.0.0 compiler installation.
Reinstall the 4.0.0 compiler, or use another release.
/usr/bin/gcc-4.0.0
/usr/bin/g++-4.0.0
/usr/include/gcc/darwin/4.0.0/stdint.h
/usr/include/gcc/darwin/4.0.0/
Now, some of you might already know that what I probably
should have done was "gcc_select 4.0" rather than "4.0.0"
since when I "ls /usr/bin/gcc*" I see "/usr/bin/gcc-4.0".
(Also, the man page for gcc_select made it look like
I should pass it "4.x" which gave me errors like
"/usr/bin/gcc-4.x" not existing.) But the reason that
I used "4.0.0" was that the bloody system told me
it was 4.0.0.
This package must be compiled with GCC 3.3, but you currently have 4.0.0
selected.
To correct this problem, run the command:
sudo gcc_select 3.3
You may need to install a more recent version of the Developer Tools to be
able to do so.
- 86)
If you "Pause" the Software Update in OS X
and then start it up again, it makes you go through
all the license agreement questions again. So I
think 'that word does not mean what they think
it means', at least to me. Update: it now says
"Stop" instead of "Pause".
- 85)
The other blatently suck-ass-ful thing about Software Update
is that it doesn't give an obvious way of dialling
down the bandwidth it consumes!
- 84)
Upgrading from 10.3.8 to 10.3.9 made it
so my machine would not boot. Disk Repair didn't
help. I had to downgrade by installing off of
the 10.3 CDs I had, and now I'm trying to go
straight from 10.3 to 10.3.9 in the hopes that
it won't screw up the disk again. So it totally
sucks to have to go through all this. The only
saving grace is that I can do this;
I thik with Windows XP I'd have been even more
doomed because so much is kept in the Registry,
which would have gotten wiped out during a
reinstallation or even a restore, no?
- 83)
I'm using one of those flower widescreen iMacs.
All along I've assumed they are great, and I've
always wanted one. Now I'm realizing they suck
in new and interesting ways. The first is that the
mouse which comes with it is the "whole mouse is
a button" mouse which actually sucks stinky
buttocks, because the places you can comfortably
place your thumb is greatly reduced. And you are
more likely to accidentally click. So that's
basically a device I would never want to ever
use again. Then, there's the fact that the LCD
monitor is affixed to the base of the iMac, and
that whenever I'm typing the entire monitor
shakes because the setup doesn't dampen out the
shaking of the desk. So the whole thing is
constantly shaking around! I don't understand
how people can make and sell things which take
all of five minutes to see that they are crap.
- 82)
The OS X NeXT-ish file browser doesn't
have a right-click menu item to open a
folder in a new window. That sucks.
- 81)
OK, they've spend how many zillions
of dollars buying NeXT and then on getting
OS X out, and yet the system still freezes
an application whenever you are using its
menus! (At least, for Firefox and Terminal
it did.) Yeah, that's some really advanced
OS/UI capabilities there, folks! Kick that stock
price up!
- 80)
Apple tends to go too far in the direction
of form over function. A fun example is
the window for
reading a software license
where they've shoved their big fat X under
the text, making it hard to read. Who knows,
maybe they are explicitly trying to prevent
people from reading these things?
- 79)
Why does everything have to always
suck? If you get down the list far enough,
the Open File dialog box in OS X ends
up
keeping the selection at the bottom
of the window, which is a pain because I'm going
through the folders one by one, and so now every
time I use Open File I have to scroll down before
I can select the next thing (or move my hand from
the mouse to the keyboard). The thing is, it doesn't
do that when you are looking through the set
of items at the top of the list, where it wouldn't
have to scroll at all. What I think it ought to do
is have the previous
directory you used appear in the middle when it is
farther down in the list, so you can easily pick
items that are immediately neighbouring. If you
catch my drift.
- 78)
Allrighty, then. I think that I've come to the
conclusion that the NeXT-based OS X Finder file browser
just plain sucks. Compared to the Win XP File
Explorer, which also sucks in some ways, the OS X
thing is just a usability nightmare.
- 77)
The Windows control panel for the mouse is
better than the Mac OS X one. I feel like the Mac
one never gets the mouse pointer movement right
for me. Windows has a better implementation where
the parameters end up working out better and I
don't find myself being as frustrated with it
as with the Mac (or, god, X Windows).
- 76)
Safari was loading a web page. The form was
done loading, but all the images were not.
I entered the data I wanted to in the form
fields, and hit enter... did Safari then quit
loading the page and just submit the form? Noooo,
it kept loading all the stupid images, and only
after the entire page was done loading did it
submit. Sweet!
- 75)
Safari sucks because it doesn't have a keyboard
shortcut to switch windows. You can switch tabs
but you can't switch windows. Nice!
- 74)
All I'm saying is, the UI for Bookmarks in
Safari is about as weird, twisted, evil, stupid
and just plain wrong as I have ever seen. With
the possible exception of
Opera.
- 73)
The green 'maximize' title bar button in Preview
ends up putting the horizontal scrollbar off the
bottom of the screen. Admittedly, it seems to only
do that when it knows everything is visible,
horizontally speaking. If things are too wide it
will keep the scroll bar around. But it kinda bugs
me, I prefer having both scrollbars visible.
- 72)
It bugs the heck out of me that Preview
doesn't seem to ever hide the mouse cursor.
- 71)
Windows uses the Alt key to let you
use the keyboard to open a menu. I don't
know if you can do that in OS X at all.
Certainly, nothing like the letter underlining
of Windows happens when I try various special
OS X keys (Option, Command, Control with or
without Shift). Seems like a blatant accessibility
problem, if nothing else.
- 70)
It kills me that Preview automatically shows the
Drawer. I hate that crap, and apparently there is
no option to turn it off for good - at best, you can
set it to only appear on table-of-contents pages.
(And, no, Preview doesn't seem
to remember that I had the Drawer turned off between
application uses, even though it apparently remembers
that I wanted Continuous Scrolling.)
Whatever. The other nice thing about Preview
and the Drawer is that there's no checkmark next
to the Preview item in the View menu. So the first
time I'm trying to figure out how to turn off the
damned thing it doesn't even look like it could
possibly be the right menu item to use because it
wasn't checked. Has Apple forgotten everything they've
ever done in UI before?
- 69)
At first, I liked how OS X has a larger set of
icons for its version of Alt-Tab. It looked a lot
more professional than the Windows implementation,
what with the pretty icons and everything.
But over time it has turned out to be overkill
and hard to actually use - I think the main problem
is that the background for it is partially transparent.
That means it doesn't stand out from all the other things
alread on the screen, so it is harder to parse what
is going on. Furthermore, I think the fact that the icons
tend to all use the same pretty color palette means that
there isn't a lot to differentiate them. The Quicktime logo
looks a lot like the Safari logo at a quick glance, etc.
But the text for the icons is very small relatively speaking
so you don't get any differentiation there, either. So
all in all, in the end, I think the whole thing just
doesn't work as well as the horribly cheesy looking Win XP
version!
- 68)
Safari's "Show in Finder" sucks skinty buttocks because it
opens up a Finder window that does not have the 'Toolbar'
showing. I always want that on. I'm so used to it
being there that when Finder windows appear without
it I'm a little confused as to what the window even
is because the look so different.
- 67)
When the Finder is copying things, you only get to see
the progress bar when the dialog box is expanded to show
all the details. That seems like a real step backwards
from the history of the Mac UI. They pretty much brought
the use of the progress bar into the mainstream, and here
they are purposefully hiding it. That doesn't make any
sense to me. (The kicker is that when burning something,
the progress bar is visible even in the reduced view.
Whatever!)
- 66)
I hate that the only way to burn things is to have
them copied first. When filling a DVD, that takes a long
time. I don't even know where they are being
copied, it certainly isn't the DVD itself since that doesn't
happen until the burn actually takes place. I would like
to have some option for not doing the copy, rather having
the files get locked. Or having some more intelligent
aliasing happen or whatever. Waiting for the copy just
sucks, especially because the dialog box says
'Copying items to "Untitled DVD"' which, to somebody who
doesn't grok computers, shounds like as soon as it finishes
they will be able to take the DVD out and it will have
the files on it. Oh, and the double kicker is that when
you do go to burn it says something like "Checking to
see if the contents fit on the disc" because, you know,
you wouldn't have wanted the system to be checking all
along to make sure things fit as you are copying them over?
(Windows XP pretty much has the same problem.)
- 65)
I can't right-click on a disk in the far left area
of the Finder window (the "Toolbar" area) to e.g.: Get
Info on it.
If I go to the Desktop entry in the Toolbar area,
it doesn't show any of the disks even though they
appear on the actual Desktop. So there are two views
of the Desktop which don't match. Great. Sweet.
Genius. Awesome.
- 64)
Great. If you select "Ignore" when you put in a new blank
DVD for writing, you end up with no entry in the Finder and
no apparent way to ever get one for it. I had to resort to
arcane use of disktool to eject the disc and then
re-insert it to get the Finder to see it again. Nice.
- 63)
Why is there no man page for disktool? Whatever!
- 62)
Usually when you add something to the Deskop by plugging
it in (like a USB CompactFlash card), you get a little
eject icon in the Finder for it, and the Trash becomes the eject icon
as well (the logic of that escapes me but whatever).
However, when I put in a blank CD in a burner, the icon becomes
the burn icon and there is no eject to be found. I kinda hate
that inconsistency. I would guess they figured that most people
would most of the time want to burn something before ejecting
and so it made sense to have it turn into the burn icon, but that
seems to me to make it harder for the user to build a mental
model for predicting how the UI is going to work - the model
just got a lot more complicated which I think is just a bad
idea for usability.
- 61)
It kills me that in the Finder's Column mode, you can have something
selected and
that item's background is a hilight color, but when you try to drag and
drop something into it you have to point the mouse cursor to the text of
the destination, rather than just the line it is on. (I think Windows
does a similar thing, and it is equally hateful.) There is some business
about a different kind of hilight that appears when you sucessfully have
the mouse over the destination, but that is basically just indicating
that the whole thing is crap to begin with, as far as I am concerned.
- 60)
Drag and drop is a horrible UI. Apple then has to go and
make it utterly incomprehensible and useless in the Finder,
at least when using the Column view when the destination folder is off
the end of the list. If you don't pre-scroll to get that folder in place
you are seemingly doomed to failure to get there once you've started the
drag process. Trying to move down in the list automagically like what
you can do in Windows XP only results in severe pain and trauma because
the list doesn't move, rather folders start to open up in undesireable
ways. Nice! (If I could at least turn off the "if you hover over the
folder for more than a split second it will become selected and open"
thing that would make things a little less hateful to me.)
- 59)
Maybe it is just because I am running on a slow G4 500 with
only 768 megs of ram, but
it seems to take a long time to show a Preview image, even for
items that I just looked at (where the preview image should
already be cached).
- 58)
Once you have become accustomed to Windows XP's right-click
menu in the File Explorer, you really miss that in Apple's
Finder. I want to right-click in a Folder and create a new
folder that way, but you can't. Sad. It sucks in the 'columns'
view because it is unclear where the new folder will get created.
You pretty much have to think about operating one level above where you
want to be which just seems wrong. Being able to directly act in the
place you want to (namely, inside the folder itself) makes more sense to
me.
- 57)
There is apparently no way to 'cut' a file in the Finder.
You can only copy and paste it, and then manually trash the original.
Or, you have to drag and drop it. I hate all those! Why can't I just
bloody well cut it?
- 56)
The Finder is killing me. When I use the keyboard to move through a
list, like when going through digital pictures, if I then try to use the
mouse to shift-click it treats that as a regular click. The shift-click
only works when the mouse was used both times to set the position in the
list. Which is just plain st00pid. The kicker, the bloody
kicker, is that if you use the mouse to click on the selection
you navigated to with the keyboard (in an attempt to get the position
set up for the shift-click), that doesn't work either because now you
are in "change the file name" mode and then trying to shift-click only
results in getting out of that mode and selecting the other item, with
no range selected. A complete and utter nightmare.
- 55)
I have yet to find a way to see my photos in the Finder window as
thumbnails, which you can do in Windows XP. Maybe Apple expects me to
only look at things using iPhoto? I <expletive>ing hate
iPhoto and will never use that piece of excrement.
- 54)
Wow. I changed a bunch of file names via the shell, and the Finder
window didn't get the updates. When I clicked on the old file name in
the Finder, that entry then suddenly disappeared with no explanation for
why. And none of the other entries updated. And there is no View/Refresh
that I could find (like what exists in Windows XP). I had to manually
select a completely different folder to view in the Finder window, then
come back for it to get the changes in that folder! How completely
useless and obviously lame is that?!
- 53)
Burning an ISO with Apple's OS X Disk Utility is
one of the more obtuse and unintuitive things
I've ever had to do. Yay.
- 52)
I guess Safari was explicitly designed to screw
people with disabilities? Like, you cannot Tab
over to a drop-down (or pop-up, whatever you want
to call it) menu in a web page. No, apparently you
have to use the mouse to make a selection in those.
Genius! (Turns out there's a Preference under
Advanced that will make it work - but the feature
is off by default which is utterly backwards
dumb-ass wrong, in my opinion.)
- 51)
There is no explanation for how to enter multiple
DNS addresses in OS X Network Preferences. Do you
use a space? A comma? A semi-colon? A new line?
Feel the hate.
- 50)
I'm amazed at how badly Safari manages bookmarks.
This should not be a hard problem, this should be
a completely solved UI thing. Or at least like
90% solved, I just don't get how they could cock
it up so badly?
- 49)
OSX's Software Update can leave you with a dialog
box saying you either have to Shut Down, or Restart.
You are given no other option. Now, there is no timer
in the dialog box, so as long as you just leave it
there you can continue on your merry way. Which means
their dialog box is just plain stupid; either it should
force a reset soon, or it should let me quit out of
Software Update without any reset. Whatever!
- 48)
I love how I'm trying to get the specs
on my used B&W G3 and:
- The specs
for it are currently missing at
the Apple support web site.
- To tell them their site is a piece of crap,
you must first register with them. I. Hate. That.
Bull. Crap.
- All the other documents that I find talking
about it state that
the
graphics card is an ATi RAGE 128. However, when
I look on the ATi web site to find drivers for it,
they don't have anything called that. They
have several cards based on the RAGE 128 chip set,
but there's this huge disconnect between the Apple
specs and the actual cards which exist; the Apple
specs are not specific enough. All in all, I just
plain and simple hate everybody.
- 47)
The Panther Finder window bugs me in that the
title bar looks like no other OS X title bar
(well, except I guess for those other annoying
programs like iTunes). All my other windows
like Safari or Terminal have a gray-white
title bar whereas the Finder has a steel gray
one which visually merges into the rest of the
window. So you have less visual information
telling you where to click your mouse when
you want to drag the window. Whatever!
- 46)
Safari's text search has no indication
of when it wraps the search back to the
start of the document. Nice. At least Text Edit's
search dialog box lets you choose wrapping.
- 45)
As a friend pointed out: Why can't
we resize OS X windows from any corner?
It is so utterly prehistoric to require
me to adjust in two steps (title bar
movement then bottom right corner movement)
rather than just one (any corner movement,
or at least both bottom ones for crying
out loud). It pisses me off that they'd
rather spend time making it lickable rather
than actually functional.
- 44)
I don't like that Safari's progress bar
is almost the only indication that you've
clicked on a hyperlink. If the hyperlink is
a graphic image then it really is all you
get, if it is plain text, you get a dotted
border around that text. But all in all it
just isn't enough to tell me that something
is happening, because the progress bar is outside
my focus of vision. The mouse cursor should change
to a wait cursor of some ilk,
or the clicked on thing should more drastically
change; the text hyperlinks don't even change
color from "never visited" to "visited" until
you return to that page later!
- 43)
It bugs me that the Finder keyboard
shortcuts are more primary than those
for applications. For example, Cmd-H hides
the current application, which means that
Safari has to use Shift-Cmd-H for going
to the home page. Now, I'm way more likely
to accidentally do Cmd-H when I want S-C-H
rather than vice-versa, which means I'm
more likely to get screwed in a really
annoying (if easily recoverable) way.
- 42)
Bloody hell. I customize my Terminal window
and then later quit the program. It doesn't
ask me if I want to save the changes I made.
So then I have to do it all over again, and
notice the button to save the settings. It just
strikes me as utterly stupid to expect that
I'd go through the trouble of changing things
(font, color, window size, etc.) with the
desire of not retaining those. Hate.
- 41)
The Apple Store
web site says, at the time of writing, "We'll be back
soon. We are busy updating the store for you and will
be back within the hour." And then has telephone numbers
to call for ordering stuff. This completely blows my
mind. This is the web. There isn't a physical store front
display that you must clean out before you can put in
new stuff. There is nothing physically preventing them from developing
the new store off-line, and then switching it over with
no down time at all. So are they desperately trying
to lose my, and other's, business?
- 40)
Something I don't like about the Terminal
that comes with OSX: there is no window border
on the bottom and left sides. That means if you
have overlapping Terminal windows, it looks
as if they bleed together. I wish there was
an optional border, even a single pixel width
line would help.
- 39)
You know, for a while there - maybe at most
a day - I was pretty excited to get the Apple
Developer Tools so I could start doing some cool hacking of stuff
on Apple hardware, under OS X. Well, I was sorta excited until
I had to sign up with their stupid site and maybe agree to
all sorts of licensing bullpoop. But at least I was going
to get those tool, and could start programming, yeah baby!
Oh, but wait, their developer tools are a 300 megabyte
download, and... they don't have a widespread set of mirrors in the US.
If you are lucky, they have 2 servers at most to choose from.
So of the literally eleven or so times I've tried to download it,
the server has either been full, or the download hasn't been
successful in the end. Could I hate Apple any more? Could they obviously
really not give a flying damn about me wanting to write
software for their system? They seem to be actively doing
their damnedest to discourage me. To tell me to sod off.
Great, yeah, I might as well just go do some Linux,
or even Windows development instead, thank you very much.
Die, Apple. Die and go to hell. (Oh, and P.S.: their
developer website sucks my buttocks. Too much stuff
and it was confusing to figure out where the stupid
developer tools were - the sort of thing that once you
know, you know, but the first time yer kinda outta luck.)
- 38)
OS X has the same pathetic thing as Windows where
it says "something is using that file" when I try to
delete it. But it doesn't tell me what the something is,
or what I can do about it. And, as far as I know, I've
already quit the program that was using the file many
minutes ago... impressive!
- 37)
Kill, maim, destroy. If I'm in my Desktop via
a Terminal shell, and I change things via the
Finder, the shell doesn't show the updates! It
is only when I cd .. out of the Desktop
directory that it gets updated. Blah! (Okay,
sometimes it does get updated, sometimes it doesn't.
There isn't a clear rhyme or reason to it. At least
be consistent - don't be apparently random!) What's
more is that if I update something via
the shell, the Finder doesn't update the Desktop
image until I make it the foreground app (or it
was super slow and I beat it to the punch). More
lameness! Too much seeing the man behind the
curtain, as it were.
- 36)
Double blah! The Installer takes way
too many button clicks to get it to install. There
are pages during the process where it basically
says "Click "Next" to move forward" - the page
itself serves no useful purpose in that it doesn't
give you any options or anything. They oughtta
redesign this poo.
- 35)
Holy poop! I install Lynx. It's installer
puts it in /usr/local/bin/. When I use Cmd-F
in the Finder to search all Local Disks for
anything with "lynx" in the name, it doesn't
show up. What. The. Bloody. Hell. Kind. Of. Feature.
Is. That? (Oh, I guess those are hidden directories.
Blah!)
- 34)
Argh. They completely screwed the pooch on title
bar colors, as far as I'm concerned. They make the
in-active windows look a lot more grabbable than the
active one, which is completely ass-backward!
- 33)
I like how, even though I change the selection / hilight
color in the General System Prefs, lots of things including
the Date and Time System Prefs completely ignore that color,
and continue the bloody impossible to see (on my LCD monitor
at any rate) very pale baby-blue as the hilight. Kill. Everyone.
- 32)
Every time I try the Software Update, it fails.
It tells me it failed, but it doesn't give me
any kind of log or further information so I have
absolutely nothing to go on to figure out what
I could change to fix things. So I'm doomed to
never be able to get and install any updates.
Sweet!
- 31)
Opera: Yeah, what
they said.
- 30)
Nice how they tell me to upgrade the Firmware
but then nowhere in the doc does it tell me that - as
I discover once I try to install it - I can only do
so if I have OS9 installed. I can't do it at all
from OSX, alone. Yeah, great, nice. Blah! I mean,
does that mean I don't have to upgrade it if I'm
running OSX? They don't explain any of this to me anywhere.
- 29)
I swear, in OS X I'll have the mouse cursor
over the bottom edge of e.g.: a dialog box OK
button and I'll click
and nothing will happen. If I move the cursor
up a few pixels, then it will register the click.
Like the click region is actually smaller
than the graphic image of the button. Whatever.
- 28)
This is killing me: In the NeXT style finder view,
I can shift-click to get a bunch of folders selected.
When I'm doing that, I don't have to click on the actual
text of a folder, I can be clicking in the whitespace
after its name in the row. But when it comes to registering
my desire to drag-and-drop, I apparently must
click on the text for it to start. Argh!!!
- 27)
The original iMac is such a blatantly horrible
machine with respect to ergonomics. like, you have
to put four phone books under the thing to get a decent
reading height for the monitor. What. Ever!
- 26)
Is it me, or is the UI for QuickTime just
completely stupid? It doesn't even
have a simple "Open" menu item,
as far as I can see
. I. Just. Want. To. Open. The. Movie. In.
The. Current. Player. You. JERKS.
- 25)
The implementation of Classic on my iBook just
plain doesn't work. Real nice. So then I go to the
Help to try and find out more about what I can do,
and it gives me some items, and I click on one and
it says the item is actually only available via the
Internet (there wasn't any icon or anything in
the first list of results to indicate that), but
I'm not hooked up to any ethernet or anything so
I click on cancel or whatever, to not try and connect,
and then it brings up a dialog box telling me there
was some error connecting to the Internet, as if
I had told it to connect and it couldn't
because of some horrible failure somewhere. Yeah,
like the horrible failure being the people who wrote
this software in the first place.
- 24)
Since Classic locks up so much, I was bringing up the
Force Quit dialog box a fair bit. It is really lame
when compared to the equivalent (at least Mach-based) Windows
Task Manager because that thing will tell you if the
application is responding while the Apple one just says
something like "hey, if you think something hasn't responded
to you in a while then you can force quit it" but it doesn't
offer any input on the issue. Sure, maybe the Windows Task
Manager is guessing in some fudgy way, but the user experience
is a lot better.
- 23)
The login screen/dialog has "Restart" and "Shutdown"
and if you click on one it doesn't bring up
any confirmation dialog. Great.
- 22)
I boot up my iBook. As I'm doing stuff, it figures
out there are software updates to download. I tell it to
go ahead, and it does it, and installs them. Then I'm all
done with the machine so I just want to shut it down.
Some of the patches require the machine to be restarted
but that's okay since I'm just going to shut it down; when
I boot the next time the patches will finish being applied
just as if I were to reboot right there and then. But I'm
in a hurry to leave so I just want to shut down. The kicker,
as you might have already guessed, is that I literally cannot
shut the machine down. I am forced to reset. Like,
trying to quit the software updater doesn't work. Either you
restart or you don't quit it, basically. So then I try the
Shutdown menu item in the Apple menu. It tells me I can't shutdown
because the software updater won't let me. Okay, that's definitely
in the category of non-user-friendly stupid annoying bull crap.
- 21)
The OS X screen saver lets you do a slide show. So I set the folder
for it to run through and I hit the Test button because I want the screen
saver to start immediately. Well, that doesn't actually start the screen
saver, so after five or ten minutes or whatever suddenly the whole screen
dims down - presumably because the screen saver is kicking in? Or I guess
because of some power saving feature of the portable Macs? Anyway, there
you are, trying to watch the whole slide show and suddenly everything goes
dark. So then you hit a key or move the mouse cursor to try and wake it up
to get the brightness back, but then that gets out of the screen saver. If
you start the screen saver again then you are back at the start of all
your images. So you are screwed. Yay. Basically, the slide show is
something that people like to watch even not as a screen saver. It is kind
of screwy that it is in the screen saver because you get such UI
stupidness.
- 20)
Could they make the bloody Esc key smaller
on my iBook? Hello? Ever hear of emacs??? Sheesh.
- 19)
This is particularly impressive: I've made the dock in
OS X auto hide itself. It is supposed to come back up when
the mouse cursor gets to the bottom of the screen. That is
especially critical if you want to drag anything into the
trash can. Well, right now, when I try to drag a file on
the desktop into the trash can, the dock absolutely refuses
to come back. If the mouse isn't dragging anything then
it appears just fine, but if I'm moving anything with the mouse
then forget it, nothing happens. The mind reels. I ended
up using the System Prefs to make the doc be on the left
and tested that - it worked. So then I put the dock back at
the bottom of the screen, and it started working there again
as well. Heaven only knows for how long before it wigs
out again...
- 18)
The way the dock shows which thing is going to be activated
when you are using Cmd-Shift to switch among applications is
pathetic. It makes the icon slightly more gray. It isn't sufficient
for me. I mean, if I'm looking exactly at the dock I guess it
works okay, but I want to be able to tell what is going on
without having to move my eyes from the main area of the screen.
So I think the hilight should be something more drastic (like,
make all the other icons darker gray, and make the one that
is selected be regular or brighter, like with pink accents
or something).
- 17)
It bugs me that WinXP has the feature of always keeping
desktop icons aligned, but in OS X you have to manually go
tell it to clean things up. That's just lame.
- 16)
I wish the Finder had a keyboard shortcut for hiding
other apps, rather than itself. That would make
a lot more sense to me (even if it isn't how pre-OSX versions
worked).
- 15)
Strange. I use Shift + right arrow to try and hilight
part of IE5.1's address bar. But the selection doesn't
actually grow.
- 14)
There isn't sufficient feedback when I turn the iBook on. There is the
sound/chime/whatever that happens pretty much as soon as you press the
power button, so that's good, but then the screen stays completely blank
and the hard disk doesn't spin make any noise for a few more seconds
(presumably the power-on self test is happening?). The power button
doesn't light up, either. So there are a few seconds where it is like,
okay, is the machine just completely locked up, or broken, or what?
Rather disconcerting.
- 13)
The system suffers horribly from the new problem of
single vs. double-clicking to activate something. It
used to be that you could tell the difference between an
icon and a button pretty often, but now there is just
confusion.
- 12)
When I start up my OSX machine, it takes a while
for the login dialog to appear. So then I click on
my account name to log in. The stupid system then
takes another two or three seconds to redraw
the dialog to let me enter my password. This is just
plain pathetic.
- 11)
My old PowerMac 6400/180, running OS 8, wasn't
plugged into the network. I started it up and ran
Opera. I tried to connect to google, and the whole
machine locked up and I had to reboot. Impressive!
- 10)
I'm trying to look up the specs on the iBook I just
got, so I go to the
Apple Spec Database. Now, first of all, they make it
really hard to figure out which link is for which machine
because there just isn't sufficient description of any
of the machines. Like, for the iBook category there is a
picture of a late-model white machine, and no pictures
of the original multi-colored iBooks. Anyway, point being
way more difficult to find the right link than it oughtta be.
I mean, even when you click on the link to get to a page
for a specific machine, there still isn't a picture of it!
So I think I find the right one eventually,
only to discover that the link is wrong. So then I try
all of the links for the iBook and none
of them say anything about my machine because none of them
mention the 100MHz FSB. Terrific, guys. Just plain bloody
terrific.
- 9)
An aside: I think OSX just proves that Linux will never
have a decent desktop. I mean, if the people at Apple
end up making such a confusing lame system after all
the years of experience they've had, then how on earth
is anybody in the Linux world going to get it right?
(And it goes to show "
who cares about the OS when the
UI sucks?" Linus points out that "[Linux and others have] a very
different user base" which makes me think at least he
realizes it is hopeless to get grandma using Linux, even if
the Gnome or KDE folks are still drinking the KoolAid.)
- 8)
So everything in OSX uses PDF? Or at least a lot
of things? But then when I load up my first PDF document,
Adobe Acrobat Reader comes up and asks me to agree to
its license! I think that is pretty wrong - if you are
going to have a file format that is core to your OS
then whatever the default reader is should damn well
have the exact same license as the OS.
- 7)
This is killing me: How do I make fonts in things
like the Desktop, the Finder, the Dock and, most importantly
because it seems to use the smallest and most impossible
to read fonts, in the bloody Help, bigger? Lord, give
me strength.
- 6)
Okay, I'm still going to complain about the iBook.
Like, the Keyboard control panel doesn't let me remap keys
so I guess I'm stuck with these bloody Fn and Ctrl keys
in the wrong places.
- 5)
I read in
an O'Reilly book about OSX that passwords
are only stored as the first 8 characters.
What prehistoric alien desolate hell
did the developers of OSX come from? (Of course,
the book also says that OSX is based on BSD and never
mentions Mach, so "whatever".)
- 4)
The Trashcan is in the Dock. When
you drag something toward the Trashcan, the Dock
might suddenly move things aside to make room for
letting you drop the dragged item into the Dock.
So the Trashcan is a moving target. This
is insane.
- 3)
Why in the holy Hannah does it take seven years
for the stupid System Prefs thing in OSX to come up? I mean,
sheez! Maybe it is the first few times and after that it
is cached? (All that lazy evaluation going on in Mach? :-)
- 2)
Okay, this is pretty inexplicable to me: the Apple
iBook I've got has the Ctrl key in the wrong place!
Well, first off, it isn't in the middle because Caps Lock
is there, which I can put up with, but then they go and
hide the control key just inside the Fn key. So you can't
easily get the Ctrl key with the palm of your hand.
Remember, there isn't the excuse of not being a unix
computer any more! I'm going to be running emacs
and stuff, you bozos! The kicker is that on most Intel
notebook computers (like the Dell I have at work)
the Ctrl key is the leftmost key, and the Fn key
is the next one. So with PCs, you can easily
run unixy things. I just don't get it. All this fancy-pants
design and then they go and completely cock this up!
- 1)
I got an Apple iBook.
I installed iPhoto. Within about ten minutes I could tell
it is a complete piece of crap that is designed with the
expectation that the user will bend to its will,
rather than the software trying to go out of its way
to help the user, which is what it should be doing.
So, yeah, great, wonderful, it has jelly buttons and a
cute iName, but is pretty much iSucks my iAss. iHate.