[Corinth]

Scofflaw, some universities are apparently selling it for 70USD. Shop around.

Also:
HOLY SHIT SCREEN SHARING WORKS WITH MY PC'S VNC SERVER THIS IS PRETTY AWESOME

(try a vnc://IP URL in your browser. go on, try it!)

[sync-swim]

Why is Apple naming all its OS incarnations after German panzers now?

[Lestrade]

I played with Leopard fo' realz on Saturday. QuickLook is just about the most useful feature in years. It looks and works perfectly.

Stacks seemed okay, and I could see that getting a lot of use. I like the "BWORAAAAANG" (Super Mario World springy sound) in my head every time a stack turns into a fan.

I really, really, really hate the new silver-grey them though. It actually turned me completely off from upgrading. And the menu bar is completely pointless. Somewhere Jonathan Ives is crying.
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[Corinth]

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars

This is a very well-written, very educational, very interesting, very large, very comprehensive article about Leopard.

[Lestrade]

GREY MAKE HULK ANGRY
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[Scofflaw]

$69.99

Hello B.U. bookstore.

Thanks thatbox.

[sawtooth]

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i just noticed that when you click on a filename to change the name of the file, when it shifts into edit mode only the name of the is highlighted -- it leaves the period and the file extension be. man! that took a while for those genius software engineers to figure out, i swear!
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[Kappuru]

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[Corinth]

[Panoptic]

I'm posting from OS 10.5 from my "Hackintosh." Everything worked out of the box on my mobo (network, video acceleration, sound, etc). Sorry for the huge pic, but I don't have Photoshop installed: [LINK]

Anyway, I'll have some questions for you guys about this later. For now though, bed.

[Panoptic]

So is there a way to actually turn the mouse acceleration off? I've tried four fixes thus far, and a couple got close, but it was never really off.

Completely deal breaking, in my opinion.

[Corinth]

[gooktime]

I have a weird question someone might be able to answer: a friend of mine wants to dump his old iMac G5 on me for a ridiculously low price, it's still a capable machine (2ghz, 2gb ram) so I'm gonna take it and use my mini as a HTPC or something.

Anyone know if screen spanning doctor, i.e. the utility that lets you use dual monitors properly works?

[Corinth]

What do you mean by "use dual monitors properly?" I don't do much dual monitoring on my Mac so I'm not familiar with what it does wrong.

[Panoptic]

Picked up and used my 2nd monitor just perfectly in Leopard. Could move stuff back and forth between the two, fullscreen video, etc. The screensavers also operate in dual-monitor mode, which is neat. Reminds me, I really like how OSX handles video acceleration; there's no bullshit when you move windows from one monitor to the other like there is in Windows. Only bad thing was, if you fullscreened video on one monitor, then brought something into focus on the other, it'd kick the video out of fullscreen mode. Perhaps there's a way to change that, though.

[gooktime]

[rye]

apple frequently chooses very odd defaults in their software. safari actually defaults with tabbed browsing off, and when i installed leopard (which went very smoothly, by the way) spaces, a hyped feature, also actually defaults to being switched off. there are more examples, but these are most glaring cases of their strange strategy that makes users actually hunt for features that they are already expecting to be in place.

[Corinth]