Archive for the 'OS X' Category

Sometimes It Isn’t Maybe So Much The Tester’s Fault

Friday, September 8th, 2006

A few follow-ups about previous posts.
Back in August I wrote about how my iBook headphones port wasn’t working. Turns out, this has happened to other people. A fellow I know purchased an Apple computer some. time ago, and then had the exact same issue, with an Apple computer shipped from the factory set to output [...]

Terminal.app, I Hardly Knew Yee

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Why oh why are there no good terminal emulators for OS X?
I know this is a real UNIX system, yeah Apple, you paid for the rights to say that.
However, Terminal.app?
More like Terminal.crapp!
No tabbed windows, slow as molasses, come on already, you’re Apple. I know you want people to stop using the command line for many [...]

And Sometimes It Is The Tester’s Fault

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

This isn’t totally QA related, however I think it is worth sharing. Several months ago I replaced my older G3 iBook with a G4 iBook after the G3 failed. Almost immediately I plugged in my headphones and got mono sound from the left channel only.
This was extremely disturbing, I fiddled for some time, noted that [...]