OS X Leopard First Impressions
So my copy of Leopard came yesterday. I promptly installed it and I've been poking at it since. I've come up with a little list of the things that have impressed me thus far.
Terminal.app is now a first class terminal. I has all the useful features of Gnome Terminal, with OS X styling. Tabs, a full list of terminals to emulate (even ddterm), and a usable preference dialog.
Vim 7.0 installed by default. Along with the most recent version of many other handy things.
Spaces is nothing new to the Linux desktop user, but is implemented very well. The animations between desktops aren't distracting, and moving apps around is fun. Simple to set an app to a default space. Bonus: when I open a URL from the terminal or other app it moves me to the space my browser is in to view it ...
Early Gripes About Leopard
So I've listed my favorable first impressions about Leopard. Unfortunately Leopard isn't perfect, and there are a few things that really bug me.
.Mac seems to have taken a stronger role. By default the .Mac sync icon was stuck in my menu bar, even though .Mac was turned off. cmd-drag got rid of it. The problem? I still get .Mac errors about syncing my address book and things. I really could do without the random dialog.
Firefox menus. The bookmarks sub folders get more out of line as you go down. As in the little arrow points to empty space, and the box is below the line you've highlighted. This is likely more on Firefox's side, but it is kind of a strange thing to break. While I'm at it, Firefox sure didn't handle the upgrade well. Quicktime videos don't play with audio ...
Leaving Mutt Behind
For years I've been an avid Mutt user. I have a highly tweaked .muttrc with a lot of customizations (I'll post it soon, I swear). HTML mail gets dumped through lynx or w3c (I can't remember which). GPG and SMIME signing. Referencing additional files to allow easy migration between systems. Custom colors.
Then I got to work, and the amount of HTML mail I got made Mutt unattractive. Dumping through lynx or w3c works, but it is rarely readable. Delta and Southwest itineraries often were hard to follow. Messages that otherwise should be easy to read were line wrapped in odd ways, and just not practical. I figured with Outlook being the standard at HP I'd use something close so I could deal well with both formats. I picked Thunderbird. I've been really happy with it at work, it doesn't have great key-bindings, but ...
Mythweb Displays Blank Page in ArchLinux
So a while back I upgraded my mythtv installation, and suddenly mythweb was returning a blank page.
It turns out the problem was a PHP upgrade that changed the php.ini to disable sessions. I just needed to copy over the php.ini.pacnew and enable the extensions I'd need (mysql.so) and restart httpd. Then my copy of mythweb was back up and running.
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