Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Ouch: Apple spanked by benchmarks.

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 6/4/05, Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 
> >Uh...that's not what I see.  Seriously, Michael; what OS  X apps crash
> >frequently for *you*? 

[snip]

> Finder, Font Manager, Firefox, Mozilla, IE, Safari, Terminal, iTunes,
> BBEdit,

There must be something seriously wrong with your set-up, then.  I
actually don't know about Font Manager or BBEdit, but of the others...

Yup, Gecko-based browsers do/did crash from time to time.  I don't
think Firefox or the latest versions of Camino has ever crashed on me.
 IE is a steaming heap.  Terminal has some annoying issues, but
crashing has never been one of them for me (and it ain't for want of
use).  iTunes has crashed on you?  Man, that *is* weird.

>  half a dozen different ftp clients,

Again, I don't understand your fascination with "ftp clients", or even
ftp the protocol.
Command line ftp works fine; scp is obviously preferable.

> iTerm,

Yes, that did do something goofy to me once; I had forgotten that.

> and virtually every
> other app I use. Everything crashes. 

There's something wrong with your system, in my opinion.  The only
other thing that I know *is* prone to crashing on a Mac are older kid
games run under classic mode.  I had forgotten about those, too.

> I do put the system under
> a lot more load than most users would and I use a wider set of apps.

Don't be too sure about that. :-)  
 
> >I also never did figure out what you hate about OS X's interface that
> >you couldn't change easily if you wanted to.
> >
> You can't change hardly anything without third-party tools.

Specifically?

> It's at
> least as bad a situation as Windows in that regard. The entire interface
> is poorly designed. Things as basic as config files and standard UI
> behaviors are broken on OS X for no reason other than to be different.

Huh??  You have to be specific here.  Man, one of the things I like
*best* about Mac OS X is the extent to which I Just Don't Care about
config files much anymore.
 
jking

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