What would my site be without the somewhat frequent geeky post? Not my site, that’s for sure! Ha ha!

After being grumpy about Apple’s shipping fuckup, I finally got Tiger on monday night. Just to be sure, I did a full backup, formatted, and installed.

Everything went quite smoothly. The biggest nuisance I ran into was when, for some reason, mdimport (the process that indexes files for Spotlight) got locked into some sort of a loop and wouldn’t stop scanning. I let it run for a couple days and it just kept taking up lots of CPU time.

Eventually I gave up hope that it would finish on its own and killed the process. Then I ran sudo mdutil -E / in Terminal to restart the indexing. In about twenty minutes, Spotlight was all ready for use.

For the most part, I haven’t noticed major differences from Panther. Safari 2.0 is even faster than 1.3 was, which of course is nice. I’m still using NetNewsWire for my newsfeeds though… Safari’s RSS doesn’t do it for me. Dashboard is ok, but I haven’t found much use for it beyond the weather.

Overall though, performance is a bit snappier and everything feels a bit nicer. There are of course some bugs to be ironed out, especially with the new Mail (which, by the way, I don’t hate. It’s a tad strange looking, but I don’t think it’s all that bad, except for that bizarre light blue folder list.) Apple’s done a good job and once they get a couple of point updates out, Tiger should solidify. It’s definitely a worthwhile upgrade.

PS - Please forgive me for the title. Sorry about that. Though I am surprised I haven’t seen it used elsewhere.

♫ Ben Gibbard - This Is The Dream Of Evan And Chan (Acoustic)