check the whole post on this site for a simple explanation, from which the image comes:
Syncing the quantity of information that people handle today (a normal iphoto library per se) via the net is nigh impossible due to ADSL upstream speed. ADSL doesnt enable the possibility of syncing large uploads, we should of had SDSL from the start. But thats not in the favour of isp’s and hosting services.
Apples priorities? lack of polish on ichat ? except perhaps the icon !
No sooner do they add a feature to the operating system, they then fail to update it. Logged on to ichat again recently and tried to have a chat between me and a friend. I had just about forgotten about the troubles I had setting ichat up 5 years ago so I thought it might be worth a try today, only to discover similar flaws to the ones I experienced 5 years ago. Joy joy for whatever reasons we spent an hour and a half trying to make the heap of shit software behave and then gave up.  ichat v4.0.8 on both sides.
Initially I knew he was logged on but it perceived him to be offline. Resolved that issue by recreating him as a buddy or something, then he could hear me but I couldnt hear him. Then set up tons of port forwarding on the router including trying dmz my own machine. Still couldnt hear the other guys voice. He could see his own voice input on the meter though. Could have been his router, although I went through setting up all the port forwarding on his machine GRRR to no avail. I could screen share to him but not the reverse ? Also my machine kernel panicked with a grey screen of death crash with my dual monitor setup when he was controlling my machine and the pointer wandered onto the second screen, GRR .
Then I thought maybe I have to upgrade to a mobileme account from my dotmac acct which was still functioning from a buddy list point of view in ichat. So I signed up for a free trial entered in my card details blah blah blah. Did it then function any better with both of us on mobileme accounts ? No not at all, all the issues were the same.
Answer – ichat is still a pretty poor program. Why is it they plough all this new investment into new stuff and features and yet they can barely maintain the stuff they’ve already written ?
ichat is still a dog in comparison to skype, and why oh why is spotlight and file searching still an absolute dog in mac os x ? no control whatsoever in that department.
Apple your priorities are all wrong. Get it together man, why the hell should I pay you £59.99 a year when I cant even get ichat to function properly, let alone syncing issues with multiple users on a single account ? As I know from trying to support it from an IT perspective is a nightmare. All this apple mobileme stuff seems to break if you fall out of some small ill defined parameters setup by apple.
Why when your dragging a folder into another folder does only work if you drag it to the icon of the folder, if i drag it onto the name of the folder what does i think i want it to do make them rub against each other and not go one inside the other ??? GRRRR. mac os X needs allot of polishing still 5/6 versions in ? when will they get it right ? actually im doing this on leopard but as per asual I doubt theyve fixed this on SL either ?
Having previously allowed my itunes to organise my music folder, this time when re-associating my itunes mp3 containing folder with itunes its attempting to reorganise my music into a different folder layout than it decided on previously ?! now it wants to shift all 40gb about to satisfy its organisational structure ? anybody got any reasoning as to why the damn thing is attempting to do this on the basis that shuffling around 40gb worth of files for the sake of putting them in a new folder orientation compared to the ones it was using previously seems ridiculous as in reality there was nothing wrong with the way it had previously organised stuff, and this shuffling of every file around takes huge amounts of time and wear on my disk ?
more bizzare stuff from apple ?
why oh why do nearly all plist files start with
com.apple.blaah blah blahh ?
I mean when one is scanning up and down the list with the eye to find one in particular ? it becomes difficult, and orderering them by name forget it ?! the only way is to search hurumph.
more signal less noise please louise
theyre better be something other than an inane reasoning behind this naming schema.
OH also why do I have 7 of a program preference but postfixed with gibbersih like this ? bad form of backup ?
0017f2d21416
before the .plist part of the name ?
did you link to this does it ring bells for you also ? did you search for this and come here ?
Am I Dreaming of a computer brand called Almarc ? I remember a long way back a computer which you turned on with a key, brand Almarc ? anyone else remember this or is it my memory playing tricks on me ?
Beware Belkin skypephone do not buy it unless you like to waste your own time
avoid this model number at all costs : F1PP000GN-SK
just spend two days messing around with it on behlaf of someone who blew money on it dissappointed. the thing barely connect to some wifi networks and when it does can fail to connect ot the internet even with manual known settings dont ask why just trust my experience in avoiding it.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/servers/savvio/savvio_15k/
or is this all pointless as solid state will wipe it out ?
whenever you want to search on any problem/troubleshooting with mail, you end up getting loads search results related to mail programs in general due to the silly naming of mail, why not imail ? at least we can then differentiate it. also while were at it “Address book” isnt too smart a naming either. Other people have made equally silly mistakes when naming things windows being called windows for instance. though searching for xp or vista solves dodgy results, but now with windows seven we have to type “windows 7” i guess as lots of pages will contain windows and 7 in them.
Hmm anyway it all shows how important naming is really.
I hate the way in macos x if you start a process thats slowing the machine down to a crawl, you cant do a control D and stop the action you set in motion, like you used to be able to on older operating systems, the only way is to force quit the program ? and run the merry risks of some form of file corruption, it should always be possible to instruct a program to stop doing what its doing ?