Wow

[Robert Brandtjen]

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 01:21 pm, Pete Peters wrote:
> ...and everyone, including the "reviewers," complained about this lack =
of a
> basic and familiar Macintosh usability, so Apple put it back. Now why t=
he
> heck they didn't rewrite it...

they were silly and closed minded, OSX server 1.2 had a much faster and m=
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powerful file browser then the finder can ever hope to be - in the arly d=
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OS 8.x, the big theme guy for Macs ported a version to it and it was his=20
biggest download.

I had never had any problems traversing the directory structure with an=20
RBrowser type interface - Apple should have made the finder an app which=20
could be turned off and the old file browser then turned on.

Apple also knows it has major problems with HFS+, hence the hiring of the=
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former BeOS file system guys. HFS+ has a myriad of problems with it in th=
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short term, let alone the long term - while we're at it, HEY JOBS DROP TH=
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DAMN ONE BUTTON MOUSE. I can no longer imagine life without a 3-button mo=
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- truly enabled system. And I much prefer the unix copy/paste method over=
 the=20
Mac way, love that "highlight/click middle button" routine, fast as hell.

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 Robert Brandtjen
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