Indeed, this could change everything. Trust me - it will. (Image courtesy of Apple)
I didn’t jump all over posting anything a few weeks back after the keynote address announcing Apple’s new iPad, but I’ve been chewing on it ever since. Indeed, I believe that this could change everything. And, I do mean everything. A decade ago I was entirely convinced that as HTML standards became more refined, and as Java began to pick up steam as an open standard, that the “Web” would become the center of the universe. I mean, I was truly convinced that everything we used to do via atoms could & would be done faster, more efficiently, more enjoyably and more sustainably on the Web as bits. I also believed that we’d eventually be able to watch any TV show, movie or home made documentary ever made…
Well, I was kinda right…
Mail.app insisting on re-importing all of my INBOX. Joy.
Okay, so I use some funky Mac OS X configurations. You know, for speed & performance enhancement. Yeah, right. The one particular “enhancement” I use is the symlinking of my home directory to a 2nd internal drive. This one has the nasty habit of forgetting where the mount is for my home directory, and then basically zombifying all the running apps, which no longer know where to save their data or write their prefs.
So, off to single user boot land to fix the symlinks on /. Not a big deal, but kind of an annoying hassle. The really fun part is that all the Spotlight indices get wiped out and every once in a while Mail.app loses its entire index too, so we get this: