[Am-info] [OT] I've gone over to the brightly colored side.

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by Eric Bennett on 1/18/02 2:24 PM ---

>Mitch Stone wrote:
>
>> I've seen it become temporarily unresponsive when an application takes a
>> dive, but generally cmd-opt-esc brings up the force quit dialog box and
>> the OS kills it gracefully.
>
>I have two network cards so I can use IP masquerading to share my broadband
>connection with my laptop, and with 10.0.x after I had started natd, the
>system would *always* kernel panic when I tried to restart or shut down. 
>10.1 fixed that.  Yesterday, for no apparent reason, the networking died
>completely.  Couldn't even "ping localhost".  I went down to single user
>mode and brought it back up, and it hung trying to start the networking, so
>I aborted that with control-C and it started up the rest of the way.  Then
>I could ping localhost but nothing else, so I had to reboot completely to
>get my networking back.

It sounds like something in networking isn't quite up to speed yet, but I 
suppose that's obvious. I haven't encountered any problems running one 
NIC. Also, I didn't spend much time in OS X until it got to v.10.1, 
which, from what I've seen and heard, was the first "real" version of OS 
X.

>At work, only one machine is running 10, and it often gets into a state
>where Classic programs crash almost immediately after starting until OS X
>itself is restarted.

I haven't seen that, but Classic can be kind of bizarre. I think it 
doesn't always wake up properly after it goes to sleep. Claris Emailer 
(an ancient piece of work) sometimes generates strange Finder error 
messages running in Classic mode after the system has slept for a while, 
though it does not crash. Not all the time and with no pattern I can 
detect.

>> Have you found an e-mail client you like? Mail.app just isn't going to
>> cut it.
>
>I was using Eudora 4 in Classic until a week or two ago.  Now I am using
>the OS X Eudora 5 beta.  After a few days of use it told me my mailboxes
>were corrupted, but at the same time all my OS X apps started crashing and
>I couldn't load anything new until I restarted.  I'm not sure if Eudora's
>behavior was cause or effect.  It hasn't happened again.

Never been a Eudora fan myself and I've been hearing bad things about 
their OS X verion (though granted, it's a beta). I'm hoping either Apple 
decides to take Mail.app seriously, somebody builds a new client from the 
ground up using Cocoa, or something is ported over from the -nix world.

 Mitch Stone  
 mitch@accidentalexpert.com