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Tuesday, November 11, 2003
So who writes "Darl at the Bat"? 
| | Prophesy: There will be no joy in Fudville. Mighty Darl will strike out. |
Cue the road music
| | Hitting the road today, by car. Might check in along the way. Not sure. Gotta sleep first. |
Pawsing
| | I want to like Panther, I really do. But so far all it's done for me is subtract value. |
| | First, the new finder won't let me scroll leftward up the directory in the column view beyond the current leftmost column. Not sure why, since this blocked feature now requires long-cuts back down from higher spots in the directory that might or might not be in the in the left-most pane, or "sidebar," which replaces stuff that used to go in the toolbar at the top of the window. Maybe there's a way to restore leftward scrolling in column view, but I can't find it. (Oh, the Help also hasn't been updated, and still offers pointless instructions for to the now-gone Jaguar generation of the Finder.) |
| | Second, Starry Night Pro, the program the kid and I use every night when we go outside to look at the heavens, doesn't work at all anymore. It "unexpectedly quits" at launch. Here's hoping the Pro 4.0.5 updater does the job. Welll... nope, it doesn't. I still get this: |
| | Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000038 |
| | Third, keyboard illumination on the 17" PowerBook goes non-functional as soon as you try to use it in the dark. The only way to make it work again is to take it indoors where there's partial light (go figure) or to reboot the machine. |
| | Context. Up to this point, the combination of the 17" Powerbook and OS X Jaguar has been the best I've ever experienced in any computer, in my life. Especially for a laptop. I loved it. The system never crashed. Ever. The occasional program might crash, but could generally be brought right up again, with no harm to the system. So far Panther has only crashed once. But that's more than Jaguar ever did. |
| | [Later...] So I searched for blogs devoted to Panther, found Ken Bereskin's, and located the "customize toolbar" feature via this post here. Turns out you still can't scroll leftward of the current "top" level of the directory, but you can install a "path" icon in the toolbar. Higher levels of the directory appear in a drop-down menu when you click on the path icon. That helps and it's nice; but I'd rather have the option to go back to the two-way scrolling we had with earlier versions of OS X. |
| | Of course I might still be missing something. Or lots of things. Hope so. |
There are responses to this message:Not a feature and not a bug, Howard Fore, 11/12/03; 1:26:03 PM Re: Pawsing Leftward, jaskerr, 11/11/03; 5:05:40 PM Leftward Ho!, W. Ian Blanton, 11/11/03; 3:15:38 PM Re: Tuesday, November 10, 2003, Dave Rogers, 11/11/03; 7:56:53 AM Re: Tuesday, November 10, 2003, Brian Lenihan, 11/11/03; 4:35:42 AM Re: Tuesday, November 10, 2003, chuqui, 11/11/03; 3:12:22 AM
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