Re: OSX vs XP

Andrew J. Brehm wrote
(in article <1h0dnxb.ob5vyt10odvswN%ajbrehm@xxxxxxxxx>):

> Yes. The feature Spotlight replaced found files a lot quicker. I only
> needed to know a part of the name. And my files I know.

locate still works from the CLI, and is very fast. Or, you
could use something like quicksilver, which I prefer to
spotlight for most things, since I'm usually looking for apps,
not a strange phrase in a document. The demo party thing with
images only works if you spend days or months putting search
tags in every image you have. nice idea, never happens in
practice.

> I installed Konfabulator yesterday, just to check it out. It didn't use
> any screen space and was activcated with, I think, F8.

didn't google or yahoo just buy them out? so much for that
product.

> There is either swapping or a waste of RAM. And data that is swapped out
> is loaded faster than data that hasn't been in memory before at all.

It should load at almost exactly the same speed, unless the
application is stored on a different drive (with different
performance) than the drive with the swap file(s) on it. How
much difference depends upon the startup complexity of the app.

> The idea that programs must not run when not used comes from the old
> days, before memory was cheap, disk space available, and swapping
> possible.

We wouldn't need GB of RAM in systems if people didn't think
this way. Fortunately it's cheap.


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