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From: P. Sture on 4 Nov 2009 18:21
In article <sehix-6A883E.15583703112009(a)nntp.aioe.org>,
Steve Hix <sehix(a)NOSPAMmac.comINVALID> wrote:

> In article <2009110311445575249-not(a)dotcom>,
> thepixelfreak <not(a)dot.com> wrote:
>
> > On 2009-11-01 19:01:06 -0800, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> said:
> >
> > > First the good news (and this time in bytes to remove that confusion
> > > about what a kilobyte/megabyte is).
> > >
> > > Before: 294 895 489 024 bytes used.
> > > After : 281 475 276 800 bytes used.
> >
> > Mostly smoke and mirrors. Apple now considers a MB to be 1000^3, where
> > the rest of the computer science world continues to understand a MB as
> > 1024^3.
>
> Except for large parts of the hardware side of the business.
>
> Hard drive makers have been documenting drive capacity this way for the
> better part of a decade, at least. It's not just Apple deciding one
> morning to confuse the rest of the world.
>

Well, Apple had been guilty of _selling_ systems using the hard drive
maker's figues. For example my 2002 iBook was advertised as having a 20
GB disk and of course it was really only 18 GB. _I_ wasn't surprised
because at work we were migrating from 9 to 18 to 36 to 72 GB disks, but
if not for that I would have been peeved.

--
Paul Sture
From: P. Sture on 4 Nov 2009 18:25
In article <006a3223$0$13108$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote:

> Update: I specified I wanted ROsetta installed. Seems it didn't install
> it because when I first launched a PPC application, it prompted me to
> install Rosetta ! Perhaps it was because of my failed first install.

I've seen that reported before. Is it perhaps downloading an updated
version?

--
Paul Sture
From: JF Mezei on 5 Nov 2009 10:08
P. Sture wrote:

> Does a window come into focus when you click the window's title bar?

nop, when it happens, the windows remains in background, occluded by
windows on top of it. It doesn't happen all the time. But often enough
that I have noticed in the few days since I upgraded to 10.6 on my macpro.

On my laptop (upgraded shortly after getting the CDs in august), I don't
make as much use of X11 so I had not notice it before.
From: JF Mezei on 5 Nov 2009 16:19
Another difference I found:

Now, whenever I get into a file selection dialogue box, Snow Leopard
re-mounts the automount NFS drives (the remote system generates syslog
alarms). And I am not even sure if any of those drives are shown in the
initial dialogue box. They are dismounted a few minutes later.

It used to be that it was only if I navigated to the directory that
contained the NFS aliases/links that those drives were mounted.


Does anyone know if it is possible to extend the time an NFS drive
remains mounted before it is dismounted due to inactivity ?
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