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05.29.2002
The world desperately needs another weblog. Specifically, it needs a weblog that will speak out against the three major peeves of Mac OS X:
- When you open a file from within an application, you can't type the first few letters of the filename in the open dialog box and have the system find it. Instead you must scroll, scroll, scroll, though your heart and mouse grow weary.
- If a filename on a mounted drive is longer than OS X desires, it just doesn't show up at all. It becomes invisible, unreachable, and you must go on a renaming quest to fix it.
- Internet Explorer 5.1 - sometimes it won't render at all, sometimes it will, but you are guaranteed a nice wait while it decides what to do.
If I had planned for a fourth peeve, it would probably have to do with bad support for Arabic. The letters are all there, but they just don't connect.
Dixi.
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