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Monday, October 27, 2003
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I just received a review copy of Panther from Apple. I'm installing the system on my 600 MHz iBook to see how well it performs on an older system. First I have to see how long the installation takes. Update: it took 42 minutes for the install to go through and the login window to appear. I tweaked the installation a bit (custom Archive and Install setup), which took some minutes, so the real time for the installation was a bit over 30 minutes. Update 2: apparently I was too hasty: the login window appeared but then the installer continued and asked for Install Disk 2. So this will take still some time. Now the installer is apparently installing the iApps (iMovie currently). I'll skip these comments and wait for Panther to start. Am I impatient? Yes!
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Panther? What panther? "Horst has been kind of nervous lately. He seems to be anxiously waiting for some panther, or at least that's what he's mumbling about most of the time. Now according to my encyclopedia, a panther is just what I thought it was, "a black-colored variation of a species of big cat", which can be either a black leopard, jaguar, or puma." [The Aardvark Speaks]
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Ken Bereskin's "Panther" Weblog discusses - what else - Panther: "If you haven't seen the Panther box yet, here are the features that we highlight on the inside flap. The box, by the way, is quite impressive - black with a beautiful embossed metallic X on the front cover. I'll give you my own comments on each of these (and many more) in future posts."
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Creating Easy-to-Deploy Unix Applications for OS X: "With OS X’s Unix foundations came the promise of access to thousands of Unix applications for Mac users. But if those applications are hard to install, configure, and use, everyone loses... The good news is that software developers can remove these obstacles for users, often with only small changes to their development practices." [ranchero.com]
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Developing Mac OS X software with Xcode: A First Look: " James Duncan Davidson looks at the new user interface and new features such as Fix and Continue, Zero Link, and Distributed Builds." [ranchero.com]
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Using encryption and digital signatures in Mail: "The version of Mail that ship with Mac OS X 10.3 has gained the ability to sign and encrypt email messages. This is terrific news, because it allows us to verify the identity of the sender of a received email message, it allows us to verify that the message has not been tampered with in transit and finally it allows us to send encrypted email messages - in other words the ability to put an envelope and a seal on our email messages." [via visakopu.net]
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F11: "MacOS X.3 is the topic du jour and I don't want to miss that one. Most new features have been presented and discussed at length and many of us Mac people have been itchy of anticipation. If you missed the whole buzz, read Apple's propaganda, how it's favourably reflected in the Guardian or Mark Pilgrim's roundup with nice screenshots. Those reflect the majority of the new features, meaning I can dig in and start commenting right away." [Quarter Life Crisis]
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