I couldn't
wait and installed Mac OS X 10.3 on my PowerBook. First I had to clone
my current machine onto my backup PowerBook. Then, because the CD drive
on the PowerBook G4 is a bit recalcitrant, I mounted the PowerBook G4's
drive on my PowerBook G3 and installed from there. Unfortunately, the
PowerBook G3 just did not want to read Install Disk 2; it read the
other disks fine but wouldn't even try to read disk 2. So I had to boot
up the PowerBook G4 and had it struggle to install disk 2. You only
need disk 1 to have a bootable volume but disk 2 includes extra
applications, extra printer drivers, and extra fonts and language
support.
Safari now works with https and proxies, at least my work proxy
firewall. The Oxygen site also works for me, though Hallmark Channel
still doesn't. Our internal ARU pages still don't quite work and
Tarantella doesn't work (though I never expected that to work). Safari
is quite faster and the whole system seems quite a bit faster. Part of
it is because of the clean install, but 10.3 is supposed to be faster
in any case.
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The new Finder
is ok. Once again I will try to use my computer the way Steve intends
me to. I don't know, I'm too used to using multiple Finder windows. But
the metal looks is pretty cool. I guess some people don't like it but I
think that standardizing on it over the default Aqua look would be nice
looking.
Xcode is the other big application. Certainly much faster than Project
Builder. A graphical CVS tool would have been nice, though if I can get
the built-in cvs to work in pserver mode that'll be mostly good. Xcode
is still not a replacement for BBEdit Lite (or TextBridge as it is now
called) though judicious Applscripts would help -- assuming Xcode
supported running Applescripts off of the menu bar.
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