Woo hoo! Mac OS X 10.2! Yay!

Like a new version of Windows this is minor tweaks and new features. There are umpteen lists out there so I won’t go into too much detail. Suffice to say that there are enough changes to give it a slightly disorienting feel but by NO means enough of an improvement to warrent the huge sticker price! Bastards always have to charge so much for what is essentially a very big bug fix.

• There is proper Samba support, both as a client and a server, which is nice. Users can be Samba users or you can stop them logging in from System Preferences.
• As usual they’ve over-written Internet Explorer. You’ll need to follow this tip in order to get it to search Google again (link mainly for my benefit). The server appears to be dead right now. Basically, change “http://home.microsoft.com/access/autosearch.asp?p=%s” in Localized.rsrc to any URL that’s 52 characters long. %s will be replaced with what you type after ’? ’.
• I found the new version of Mail to be totally incompatible (like, instant crash incompatible) with Sen:te’s GPG bundle.
• Spring-loaded folders is OK, but they fucked it in column-view. It opens a new window instead of moving forward a column! Stupid stupid stupid! I’m definitely writing to Apple about that one.
• Sendmail isn’t working properly again either. It’s not open on 25 (no this has nothing to do with the new firewall config). It has another different config file. But I still can’t understand it :-). Silly Sendmail. Update: This is the group-writeable root problem that has surfaced before. You can get around it by doing chmod g-w / or you can edit sendmail.cf to tell it not to worry about it.
• PHP is turned off! Can’t quite work out how to turn it on again, maybe I need to download the module again
• It has connection sharing for PPP connections, a la 2000/XP, which is a nice feature.
• Tab-tab to display a list of completion possibilites in TCSH seems to have died. I know this one, it’s probably in Linux in a Nutshell (buy it! now! essential book). If I could just stop typing long enough to stand… yep, add set autolist=ambiguous to your .tcshrc file. If you haven’t got one it needs to go in your home folder.
• New libraries have broken my Vim! Aaarrrggghhh! Ben need vim, vi no do! Wait, the MacVim people have already built a new version. Nice one, guys.