I am filled with rage 2006 March 13 18:12
Posted by diamond in : Work , trackbackLast thursday, after spending a few months on writing code for the project, it was decided that we had to change target platform. The part of the project that i am working on is highly os specific. The original platform had been ubuntu. The new platform was OS X. I’ve long had a love-hate relationship with OS X. It does some things very nicely. It does others horribly horribly wrong. The last 4 days has been a case of the latter, time and time again.
Things that have pissed me off today:
- Terminal.app (doesn’t render irssi correctly)
- iTerm (incomprehensible settings)
- uninstalling packages on OS X (hunt down and delete secreted directory)
- finder (delete and/or backspace don’t delete files)
- safari (doesn’t render pages until all content is fully loaded)
- safari (caches images that have no datestamp)
- OS X (taking ~4.3s to load python + some libraries. every time. 24 times slower than a p3. and this is on a dual g5 1.8G)
- trashcan (fails to empty. repeatedly)
- trashcan (you can’t delete individual items)
- mac (no physical eject key)
- mac (eject key ignored a lot during reboot cycle)
- mac (silently rejecting + ejecting an _OS X_ cd/dvd for unknown reasons)
- OS X (refusing to install without my postcode, phone number, street address, state)
- OS X (displaying dates in american format even after being told it was in ireland)
- Apple (incomprehensible dvd labling. ‘CPU Drop In Dvd’ == ‘Upgrade only’)
There’s more from the last 4 days. Much much more.
I am filled with rage.
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I’ve got irssi running quite happily in Terminal.app. Well, inside screen, in Terminal.app. Mail me if you’d like my Terminal.app settings and I’ll send them along to you…
The Eject Key shouldn’t be needed during a reboot cycle, it should a disk during the reboot phase, if one is there. Probably not everybody’s ideal scenario, but it is handy at times…
just consider OSX a very strange and delicious piece of sushi. You HAVE to get it, very fast, and enjoy it.