Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

This afternoon I was contacted by a gentleman named Ronald Florence who wrote to inform me that information I had included in an earlier post about anacron was no longer accurate. Some things have changed in Tiger. Anacron does all the same helpful things, but it has been updated to take advantage of launchd since cron is depricated.

I have labeled the previous anacron post to make it clear that it applies to Panther only. Also, I’m happy to include a link to a Tiger-compatible version of anacron, hosted at Mr. Florence’s site:

Anacron for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

I’ve participated in a multi-way iChat video conference before and it’s damn cool. A friend of mine got an iSight yesterday so we decided to try the multi-way conference. To do that I knew we needed a host with a G5 so I contacted another friend to try it out. We couldn’t get connected because of the famous “insufficient bandwidth” error message, which was pretty crazy since we all have relatively speedy cable connections and some of us were able to chat just fine with others of us one-on-one, while others weren’t. It was weird and complex to explain, and since it’s not the point of this post, I won’t get into it.

Somewhere along the way we looked up the specs for the host in the iChat documentation to make sure the person hosting our chat had the appropriate hardware. Here’s what iChat help said:

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Is it ironic that a company that provides little or no roadmap for their own products uses the roadmaps of its suppliers to decide upon and justify huge changes?

This article from Wired echoes something I said on Your Mac Life last year when Tiger was revealed: Spotlight is a compliment to the Finder that indicates the future, non-Finder, direction of file management.
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I saw these items in my RSS feeds today:

This afternoon when I clicked on the links to read those stories, they were gone. What happened? I was excited for a moment to read that OS X ran on quad-processor systems, and that Apple had built one. Were those stories withdrawn because of inaccuracies, or because they revealed something Apple would rather keep quiet for now?