[G4] snow leopard

Harry Freeman gifutiger at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 15:25:06 PDT 2009


Done, all emails will now go directly to TRASH.

Cheers

Harry
San Jose, Ca
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On Sep 22, 2009, at 3:13 PM, Eric Smith wrote:

> 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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