Articles posted on August 6th, 2003

Coline Serreau, La crise (1992)

Wednesday, August 6th, 2003 • 6:11 pm

Dans le genre “film léger qui passe tout seul”, je suppose que La crise n’est pas si mal… Ça se regarde, les acteurs se démènent comme des diables, ça fait sourire de temps en temps, presque rire deux ou trois fois, mais… Faut-il vraiment que les choses soient systématiquement gâchées par des lourdeurs, des clichés […]

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Mac OS X Help: Unbelievably Bad

Wednesday, August 6th, 2003 • 5:25 pm

I don’t know if it’s because I’m on a modem connection, but Mac OS X’s Help feature is absolutely, unbelievably, unacceptably bad. Today, I wanted to do the simplest thing: Look up what “directories” are in Address Book parlance. (I have never used the feature and the AB interface doesn’t give me any indication of […]

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More on Mac OS X troubles

Wednesday, August 6th, 2003 • 1:43 am

My problems in Mac OS X yesterday, which I described in a previous item, continued later on in the afternoon, with a weird sequence of events that almost led me to reset the computer, although I was finally able to bring things back to normal. The first problem occurred when I tried to launch a […]

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