[DM-MUG] New Lion OS

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Bailey Ford <bailey at me.com> wrote:

> I am surprised to hear about the scrolling issue. Has your spotlight
> reindexing completed? That can slow a system down while it is busy. Lion
> starts off by reindexing everything.  What apps do your see this in?
>
>
Excellent question, I think that it had not yet finished indexing because I
cannot today reproduce the problem.

The corruption issue is recorded here:
http://screencast.com/t/noH5HlDAfnpU(don't mouse over the video and
after a few seconds the controls disappear
and you can see the corruption. I think that is in Chrome.

I'm rather shocked about the battery life change. I haven't seen that
> reported anywhere else and there shouldn't be any extra system resources in
> use when compare to snow leopard. I'd check the activity monitor to see if
> you have a process eating cycles in the background.
>
>
I'm starting to suspect that the algorithm that shows the estimated time may
be out of whack because over the course of about 10 min it only dropped by
one min. In Snow leopard when I unplugged it said 4 - 6 hours (depending on
screen brightness usually) but with lion it ususally says 2.5 to 3 hours.
However I've been on the computer for 2 hours now and it says 1:33 left.


> What is confusing about Mail? New messages have a blue dot next to them,
> but I think you knew that. One change that might be affecting you is that
> the indicator that an account is offline is more hidden that before. Click
> the show button to reveal a column that shows all of your accounts and
> folders. The offline indicator is that little circle with a bang inside a
> triangle. Just a guess. I freaking love the new mail.
>
>
I will give it a try but not yet. I'm a bit too impatient at the moment to
deal with it. My scenario is that I have 4 accounts, two I regularly check
via web/phone, 2 I only check in mail because they get far fewer messages. I
couldn't quickly see how to only view the accounts that are mail only. All I
could find are tons of messages from my more frequently used accounts.


> Dashboard and Launchpad are totally different things. I suspect you are
> talking about mission control, which combines dashboard, spaces, and exposé
> features all onto one screen. You can add new spaces with the plus button
> that appears when the mouse is near the top of the screen.  Spaces can be
> deleted my mousing over a space and then clicking on the X. Spaces are also
> dynamically created every time an application goes into full screen mode.
> Unlike snow leopard, spaces are arranged in a horizontal  line. In snow
> leopard they were in a rectangular grid. The default gesture for mission
> control is four fingers swipe up.
>
>
You're right, I meant the mission control. I like it a lot. I'm cool with
four desktops but now that you pointed out I do see if that if you hover
over the top portion some other options appear. It's good to know.


> I'm happy to hear that python is getting some update love from apple, and I
> am intrigued to hear about the changes to terminal. On my system, long
> commands wrap normally, so that is probably specific to your setup.
>
>
Hmm... also, when I ssh into a Linux server and run the 'less' command it
tells me that I'm using a terminal with limited capabilities (or something
like that). It seems to work OK though.

Chris:

Thanks for your comments: About the TimeMachine backup, the open source
netatalk server which makes afp shares available is limited in some of the
more specialized afp extensions which were not really needed in the past.
This is the software most (all?) 3rd party NASs used for sharing with Mac
OS. With Lion, the shares work great but apparently TM uses some of the more
specialized extensions were are only available in the latest netatalk
source. To make matters sad, the author's of the software are grumpy and
have effectively un-open sourced the code so that the non-beta version that
supports Lion's TM is not free. The beta one works fine as far as I can tell
though.

Since your airport is made by Apple it does not use the netatalk open source
package and it makes sense that it supports all the necessary features.

Time will tell about the touchpad issue but I do disagree with you. I think
the reason it works well on touch screen devices is because they use direct
manipulation, in the sense that you see something, touch it and drag up to
move it up. However on the track pad you're not directly moving the object.
Instead, your hand is down here and moving something up there. It'll be
interesting to see how it pans out.

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