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Tuesday, September 6th, 2005

loving the G5 and tiger

I’ve finally migrated to the new G5. There were a few hiccups, but I’ve worked through them, for the most part.

Impressions that must be noted:

(As a comparison: I wrote an inverted index search engine that can do full-text searches, with stemming, orders of magnitude more quickly than this. Against a corpus of 1.5M documents (37M total indexed words), matching either subject or body, it returns results in about a tenth of a second. The server in question is not significantly faster than this dual 2.0 GHz Mac.

While it’s true my 2004 mail archive has a lot of messages in it, there are a whole lot fewer than 1.5M in there.

Fortunately, thanks to the BSD goodness underlying OS X, I could actually run my inverted index database app on my desktop machine and do my mail searches in MySQL. The UI would suck, though; maybe it’s time to learn RealBasic or Cocoa.)

Anyway, a recent MacWorld article promises Secret shortcuts. Hidden helpers. Mysterious menus… insider power-user tips for OS 10.4, aka Tiger. It’s worth a read. Nothing earth-shaking there, but a few potentially useful things.


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updated: 2005-09-09 04:11:13

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