[G4] snow leopard

[Eric Smith]

Gee Harry, 90% of what comes across this email list is of no interest
to me, but a quick click sends it off to oblivion.

But go ahead and build your email rule, if that's what you must do.

Eric S.

Harry Freeman wrote:
> Keith, Eric, Richard would you three please take this conversation 
> off-line.
> Otherwise I'll have to build an eMail rule to send them to the trash.
> 
> Please don't take offense, it's just that you are not offering anything 
> of interest.
> 
> I have Snow Leopard, got it the first day that it was available, and 
> there's not much you can do or say that will change what they are going 
> to do over in Cupertino.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Harry
> San Jose, Ca
> ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø
> 
> On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Keith Whaley wrote:
> 
>> Eric Smith wrote:
>>> Keith Whaley wrote:
>>>> Eric Smith wrote:
>>>>> Richard Klein wrote:
>>>>>> Furthermore, when you hear that Snow Leopard takes up less hard drive
>>>>>> space and runs faster than Leopard, at least some of that is because
>>>>>> they trimmed the extra code to support PowerPC Macs.
>>
>>>>> Some of the disk space saving is due to the removal of PPC code,
>>>>> but that is not the major factor. The greatest part of the space
>>>>> reclaimed came from optimizing localization files.
>>
>>>> Aren't localization files those files necessary for using the Mac OS 
>>>> with languages other than English?
>>
>>> That's right. Here's an article that explains it much better than I can:
>>> <http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/06/27/solving_the_mystery_of_snow_leopards_shrinking_apps.html> 
>>>
>>
>> Wow! Impressive site.
>>
>> I just downloaded Monolingual and saved 1.23 GB of HD space.
>> Not impressive in terms of "freeing up space" but in fact, all thse 
>> meaningless language files loading had to take a toll somewhere...
>>
>> I'll be keeping track as I go along.
>> Just DELETING all those files took nearly 6 minutes, as fast as my 2.0 
>> Ghz processor chip could handle it, so how can it NOT make a 
>> difference...
>>
>> Thanks,  keith
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