From: "oryoki2000" <>
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> Developers were given a glimpse of the next version of the Macintosh
> OS at the recent Apple conference in San Francisco. Most interesting
> is the search feature called Spotlight. Spotlight runs in the
> background, building indexes of your files, so searches happen very
> quickly.
>
> The most interesting feature of Spotlight is its ability to
> automatically index file metadata. If this includes the metadata in
> Broadcast WAV (BWF) format, Spotlight will make it much easier to
> manage a library of sound recordings.
>
> I haven't owned a Macintosh in more than 15 years. But it's looking
> like my next computer may be a Mac.
This sounds like a minor variant of the older version of Sherlock, which
could index all text content of all files. And was extremely annoying.
Running in the background indexing a hundred gigs of files every so
often. I turned it off. Last iteration of that would sometimes get it
into it's head that you wanted a index of the entire internet as well,
and start in on that. Latest Sherlock is almost entirely a internet
searcher. Though there still is a find in the finder for finding files
on your local system. I assume they are expanding that, putting back in
what they had before, but not letting it link to the internet. And, if
it's typical of the way they have implemented features lately, it will
be impossible to turn off it's endless indexing. I'm not looking forward
to such a feature. I use a proper database that I control to handle
indexing my sound recordings.
I do recommend mac over windows, though the advantages are not as great
as they used to be since the command line unix folks took over. It's
being slowly ground down to windows level of functionality. Won't be
noticed by folks new to it, but people like me who have seen all phases
of Macs do see the considerable failures of the current OS writers. In
some of the most basic things.
And, as I understand it, Apple has or will introduce some G5 systems
that require liquid cooling of their processors. So the advantage in
heat production seems to have been lost too.
I'm kind of hoping that windows will eventually become a acceptable OS,
before Apple makes theirs completely unusable. And get moved to a more
modern processor.
Walt
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