[Swordmaker]

"Macification" and iPhoto limitation...

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[jdm]

FYI, not sure if you're on this ping list.

[Swordmaker]

The iPhoto issue appears to be a problem with a corrupted image file. Several commentors on NetworkWorld reported similar problems that were traced to a corrupted file and one reported his iPhoto contained over 25,000 photos with no problem.

Another suggested holding down Option-Apple key combination while starting iPhoto forcing a rebuild of the library.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... the problem is, people who use -- and program -- computers (in general, not just Macs) are so visually oriented, they only worry about how things look, rather than how they work. Oh, sure, I can't get the Trash to empty under OS X, but oooh, look at the pretty colors.

[jdm]

"The operating system has a remarkable polish - just as if someone had thought about the design as a whole rather than finding and assembling a collection of spare parts and forcing them to fly in formation."

That's a bit brutal. Fair enough to criticize an operating system, but not when you're really criticizing the computer itself, not the operating system.

[jdm]

...and contrary to the masses, it is possible (very possible) to tweak IE so that it runs as fast as Firefox and/or Opera, Maxthon, Avant, etc. Of course you don't have tabbed browsing with IE, but the speed is there.

[general_re]

From my experiences with Windows and now OS X...

And now this silliness. What does iPhoto falling over have to do with the OS? I can write crappy software for any platform you can name, but that doesn't make my failings the fault of the OS or its programmers. If iPhoto crashes, blame iPhoto, not OS X.

[SolitaryMan]

Part of the problem with Mac is the limited software and games available for it compared to Windows. I have several thousand dollars worth of software that I use nearly every day that is simply not available for Mac. At the same time, publishers will not support these programs if they are running under some emulator.

Additionally, Mac has to run dual processors just to keep up with Intel P4.

[MarineBrat]

I just wish that MS would finally ship a version of Windows with multiple desktops like Linux has.

Desktop and taskbar gettign cluttered? Well, just have ANOTHER desktop with taskbar, and switch gears. It's such a beautiful concept that I can't believe that Winders hasn't done it yet!

[Publius6961]

< digression > It is amazing that XP systems can get to a condition where it is easier to erase and re-install everything than diagnose and fix what's wrong. < /digression >

Another friendly and important reminder that every Windows XP system should have two partitions: One for the Operating system and installed software, another just for data...

If there is brain fade, after doing it wrong once, remember...
Ghost is your friend after a "rebuild".

[js1138]

All this suggests that the Mac is perceived to be trouble-free because there aren't many users, or there isn't much software, or users haven't been very demanding.

I might add that in my years as a software developer I always assumed that data would be corrupted and always did sanity checks to any incoming data befor accepting it. This means readin a byte or fixed length block at a time.

It really annoys me that so many programs crash with corrupted data.

[ThePythonicCow]

Maybe there's a sort of code-complexity limit that we have crossed in the latest generations of computer systems that makes software stability probabilistic rather than deterministic. If so, it makes for some interesting implications for systems engineering.

To begin with, managing systems in the future might be more like psychiatry than programming.

A duh - we crossed that Rubicon a few decades back ;).

[mercy]

IPhoto sucks. Get something like Photo Mechanic or just use the browser in Photoshop CS.

Your files were probably corrupted by your windoze machine anyway.

[Question_Assumptions]

In my experience, iPhoto seems to be quite a memory hog. Could be an application running out of memory. I've never seen iPhoto behave like that but I have seen it run painfully slow on my older hardware.