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I got Panther
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by bossesjoe: too lazy to post much:
Where does one find this "bit torrent" program?
And yes I am actually watching this thread, I'm very interested in Panther
[ June 27, 2003: Message edited by: bossesjoe: too lazy to post much ]
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Bittorrent is at:
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html
and the Torrent files for Jag and Dev tools are at:
http://bittorrent.kicks-ass.net
*Quite often you get a tracker error (u will see it when u open a torrent file) just leave the torrent file open and eventually it will start downloading. Oh ya, be good to the community, leave Bit Torrent on after your finished and don't move the downloaded files, this way you can help others download wut u already downloaded. Of course when u need to restart to intsall Panther, don't let it slow you down, but use OSX's multitasking and just leave it there until the last possible second.
[ June 27, 2003: Message edited by: jeffberg: Mac Capitalist ]
billy_gates:
after about a day of use, Panther is starting to calm down. Getting a little bit slower and a lot more stable. The finder hasn't crashed on me yet today. I have my whole site back online on Panther and on Jag, so I can be in either OS and my site will work fine. Since school is over I think I'm gonna start working on actually building my Web Site. I love Panther, Expos
M51DPS:
Actually, I would prefer the Systems Preferences to close when you close the window because I always winde up leaving it open and I don't use it very much. Maybe there should be a way to customize this . . .
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by M51DPS:
Actually, I would prefer the Systems Preferences to close when you close the window because I always winde up leaving it open and I don't use it very much. Maybe there should be a way to customize this . . .
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I guess it is a matter of opinion.
More updates...
The finder is very cool, the User Centric Finder as Stevey calls it. However it has one flaw (a bug type flaw, not a design flaw). When you have items stored in the left column then u access those items by any way other method than that column it shows the entire path to what you selected. The path starts with "Computer" which is no longer even necissary in the Finder and should be removed completely. After that is just finds it how you would find it in Jaguar.
I am pleased to report that in the prefs when you select "Open New Windows in Column View" it actually opens them in column view, unlike Jag.
Also in the Finder is a Network Neighborhood type feature, very similar to Windows. I like it much better than the Connect to box, however it sucks. It rarely works, and I have never gotten it to work with a windows box. So generally I end up using Connect to anyways, which is much different. It no longer searches for computers on your network. You just have to know the path. Thankfully the macs can access eachother with Rendezvous names (which is the name of your computer, spaces replaced with -'s, then.local.. so My Computer's name is PowerMac, my Rendezvous name is powermac.local) I have not tried to connect with a Windows computer because I don't want to go searching for its IP address and I have had no reason to do so so far.
More on the Finder, you can still drag files and stuff to the toolbar on the top if you don't want to use the one on the side... however, there is no way to hide the side toolbar without hiding the top toolbar. Its either all or none. Also when u select Use Small Icons and Text the back arrow, action button, and view buttons don't get smaller, they just look more embedded into the metal (a bug, I'm sure)
A sign of a bad hack... The network neighborhood thing I was talking about seems to just find the network drives u want to connect to.. then it mounts them but hides them, if I look in /Volumes they are mounted there, but if I look in "Computer" or on the desktop or on the left column of the finder they are not there. Then comes the problem of them getting unmounted which doens't always happen and errors happen. It is just a bad hack, mounting stuff on the fly then hiding it. Apple should find a new way to do this. Nothing good can happen from this sort of hack.
So that is probably that for tonight, I'm sure I'll find more stuff to post tomorrow.
*Edit* Never mind about what I said about hiding the left column. You can hide it without hiding the top column, no worries.
[ June 27, 2003: Message edited by: jeffberg: Mac Capitalist ]
sway:
i also have the panther preview, and it doesn't seem like too much of an improvement.
some good changes, like the finder, font book, expose, etc.. but nothing too major. to me, expose would be the feature i like best.
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