[DM-MUG] New Lion OS

[Chris Van Cleve]

On Jul 24, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:

> Chris:
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> 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.
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> 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.

Ahhh, very interesting. Thanks for sharing that. I have a business partner with a 3rd part NAS. I'll expect his call soon then. Heh.

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> 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.

It will be interesting. I find kids always try to go with "natural" scrolling first when set in front of a device, be it iPad or Computer, so I think this will win out in the end. Food for thought: if using the TouchPad is not direct manipulation (agreed), what difference does it make if you think about pushing the content or pushing a scroll thumb? It's the same concept, just a difference in what you are expecting to move. It's more "natural" to think you're pushing the content, not a control. We'll have to see where it ends up. :)

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