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Now here’s a thing -- for cool cats

Avatar Euan Williams
Readers who seek respite from our national media troubles may enjoy a chuckle over this supremely technical take on divining the actual Lion release moment:

Neither Asti Spumante nor Sekt will really do in face of this tour de force.

Question: do these techniques really work? Answers, please on a WaMug Post card.

Re: Now here’s a thing -- for cool cats

Avatar Lionel Ogden
Hmm! Might as well just wait for it to appear. Apple will make something of a roar when Lion pokes its head out of the undergrowth so we are not likely to miss it. I expect it will stay on the App store for a little while at least.

Re: Now here’s a thing -- for cool cats

Avatar Trevor Hewson
I wonder how Apple has set up the App store to cope with the initial wave of download requests? They are surely going to need a huge bandwidth to deal with it.

Meanwhile, I shall follow my usual policy of waiting for the x.0.1 update.

Re: Now here’s a thing -- for cool cats

Avatar Lionel Ogden
Maybe that is why Lion has not yet appeared

Re: Now here’s a thing -- for cool cats

Avatar Tony Sullivan
After my experience with Snow Leopard, I too will be leaving it till at least 10.7.2 or .3... SL was buggy as hell to start, and they have only just fixed one of them in the last release. :-(

Re: Now here’s a thing -- for cool cats

Avatar Gordon Clyne
Bandwidth is handled by a tree of multi-cast servers, and load balancers.... Don't ask, it's another black art we don't need to understand!!! But I guess the huge data warehouse in Carolina will solve the lion download issues, they must have modeled this to cope, otherwise they wouldn't have done it this way.
 
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