On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 09:52  PM, Ken Shmidheiser wrote:

> Heather wrote:
>
>> I remember the shift from 68k to PPC and it wasn't as big a 
>> shift as this is.  The re-learning
>> curve here is a little steep.  Instead of the OS working the 
>> way I want it to, I'm having
>> to figure out how things work and how to make them work the 
>> way I want or how to change
>> my habits to accommodate the OS.
>
> I read an article sometime back that held the key to peaceful 
> coexistence with OS X. Paraphrased, it was something like this:
>
> "Through Mac OS 9.xx, the user maintained complete control of 
> the computer. Under OS X, the OS has complete control of the 
> computer."
>
> This is probably why newbies are having an easier time adapting 
> to OS X.
>
> I was struggling with OS X until I resigned myself to the fact 
> that I had to get permission from the OS to do things I had 
> done on my own for more than a decade. Digressing, this is one 
> reason Bowerbird may neeeeeeeeeeeevvvveeeerr make a successful 
> transition to OS X.   ;-}
>
> Since that epiphany, I have used OS X exclusively at home 
> because I know the time is coming at work when we will be 
> forced to make the switch. Since I handle the stickier tech 
> support issues there, I needed to learn the new OS inside and 
> out.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, the dock is the biggest waste of CPU 
> cycles ever invented. I keep it hidden, but it always manages 
> to pop-up and cover the lower right hand corner expansion 
> handle of any window I am trying to resize. Since windows can 
> now be moved only by their name bar in OS X, what once was a 
> simple one-second task now becomes a cumbersome time-waster. 
> (The only redeeming factor of the dock is my jumping Eudora 
> mail icon.)
>
> I won't soon forgive Apple for killing:
>
> 1.) The elegant Classic Apple Menu that actually did something useful
>
> 2.) Windowshading. Instead of flicking the mouse forward in a 
> simple, easy-on-the-wrist movement and closing a window with a 
> quick double-click anywhere on the title bar, we are now forced 
> to take time to target the yellow button located in the left 
> hand corner, collapse the entire window, then head to the dock 
> at the opposite end of the screen and try to find a silly icon 
> to re-expand it. Apple in its wisdom has taken a simple 
> two-second operation and made it into a six-second, 
> carpel-tunnel inducing chore.
>
> 3.) The menu bar Finder icon that worked.

Huh ?

>
> 4.) The desktop trash can. I am now forced to target a tiny 
> icon in the hated dock.

Command - delete is the same as dragging a file/folder to the trash

>
> 5.) Painfully sluggish file searches. For years I have used 
> Fast Find that ships free with Norton Utilities. Under Classic, 
> it offered instantaneous searches. There is nothing similar for 
> OS X. Sherlock runs forever, and I have yet to find a faster 
> alternative. (Does anyone know if Sherlock eeeevvvvveeeerrr 
> finishes indexing a drive?!?!?!)

I think the trick is to select specific folder that you want indexed
>
> There are some after-market solutions for some of these 
> shortcomings, but it amazes me that Apple couldn't do it right 
> the first time out. In many ways the NEXT guys are still stuck 
> in the early 1990s as evidenced by their GUI and even their 
> development tools. Now the user is forced to pay more money to 
> fix their incomplete interface.
>
> I could go on about the lack of scanner and printer support, 
> space-wasting icons, and the fact that the only way to fix a 
> badly broken OS X volume is a total reformat of a drive (which, 
> in my opinion, is the single most important reason that I 
> cannot yet recommend OS X for production use.)

That's the price for being an early adaptor.

I do miss floppy disk support.

>
>> I could go on but I'm sure I'll get used to it, just like I'm 
>> going to get used to Obj-C,
>> Project Builder, Cocoa, and say bye-bye to CodeWarrior and 
>> FB3.  The Development Tools
>> are free and from what I've heard easy to develop with.  I've 
>> been told that building
>> an application with PB is probably easier than building with 
>> RealBasic.  I just need
>> some time to wrap my head around object oriented programming, 
>> I've been thinking in
>> procedural programming since about 1980 so I have another 
>> learning curve.
>
> Yeh, if you believe that, I have a nice bridge in New York you 
> might be interested in buying.
>
> The dang thing about OS X is that it is pretty and is getting 
> more stable all the time. Apple's arrogance has been its own 
> worse enemy.
>
> Now we have to learn the new lingo:
>
> After any kernel panic:
>
> Command/S on the next startup.
>
> Then run:
>
> /sbin/fsck -y
>
> until there are no more error messages.
>
> (In its UNIX interface wisdom, the system sits there appearing 
> to be doing nothing during most of the several minutes fsck is 
> running. No nice appearance status bars here, boys and girls.)
>

That's UNIX and CLI for you

> Apologies for the rant,
>
> Ken
>
>

Pete…                          (the other one)