I think it's official, I'm now a 24 addict. I picked up DVDs for the first season last weekend, and am almost halfway through. Not sure how anyone can deal with waiting a week between each hour.

The Mac Mini continues to work fine. There are a couple things I've been annoyed at, though:

1) The Terminal.app doesn't have any of the PgUp, PgDn, Fn keys defined correctly. I had to add them all in manually.

2) iTunes doesn't have a Sort-By-Directory feature. This stinks, because some of my audio files have incorrect tag info, so it can't group them by album. (ie, I can't listen to just the songs from one album automatically)

3) Everything eats up too much CPU. Camino is probably the lighest browser (well, besides Links or telnet) compared to Firefox or Safari. They all eat up tons of CPU just sitting there, though. Also watching a DVD with XinePlayer or iDVD eats up around 32%. That's rediculous, with Linux 2.4 on XFree86, I remember being able to watch DVDs on my laptop (P4M-2GHz, at the time) and only see around 5% CPU used. I'm not going to even start about memory usage.

4) The Unix that comes with OS X is pretty crappy. Maybe I should just criticize Darwin instead.  For example, I have a script that will ping a certain address, and then re-authenticate me to the Hotel's network. Of course, this doesn't work on OS X, because /sbin/ping returns 0 for both success and failure! Gah! Also, top uses too much CPU. Maybe Darwin needs a /proc ... ahem.

5) The software update always requires a reboot. Why? This thing uses a Unix file system (well, I use UFS, at least), it shouldn't have to reboot to update shared filed, or other things. There needs to be a "I don't want to reboot, I'll just suffer the consequences, if any" option. Oh well, I guess I'm a little late in submitting a feature request for Tiger.

6) All the hotkeys kinda suck. They're not consistant. For example, if I have a minimized window for some app, there's no standard way to bring it to the front. Apple-# will work for some apps, like Terminal.app, but it'll try to load a bookmarked page in Safari, and do absolutely nothing in Camino.

Except for those ... the system is pretty neat :) Anyway, please comment, if there's a fix for any of those.

Oh, yeah, we lose an hour this weekend. I hate daylight savings time. Let's all just use GMT.

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