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Some people don't agree that Intuit's purchase of Mint was a good thing:

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I think Zumobi started as a WinMo / Berry shop but dropped them and went full-on iPhone. Recently they started developing apps for Palm, Android and (one again) BB.
I don't get what this has to do with Apple. MMS is working fine on other carriers outside of the US.

Move along.
I am a customer and I'm continuously blown away by how much USAA does to help me!

While I've gone paperless where ever possible, I do travel a lot and, unfortunately, have to deal with actual reimbursement checks -- and there's nothing we can do about that.. believe me, we've tried. So, yes, I can totally see times where this feature will save me the trouble of figuring out how to get it deposited.

Why would someone claim something is not useful for anyone just because it doesn't fit *their* particular needs? Ask anyone who is a USAA customer and they'll tell you it's the best bank in the world. I can only imagine the people who work for them must be overjoyed to know their company has such great customer satisfaction.
Huh? I've been using my US-bought MBP in France for 7+ months and have had no issues. Or is "long-term use" a value > 7 months?
To Shawn: not purposely but I do remember finding instances where there must have been some software that changed extensions from something like .jpg to .JPG and then I ended up with blah_image.jpg and blah_image.JPG in the same folder. Maybe I copied files to a USB key or transfered them to a win box to do something on them and then copied them back. I don't know.

I'm just too used to case-sensitivity and the 5 minutes it took me to partition the system is worth my peace of mind. :)
Coming from the world of linux, I couldn't do without a case-sensitive FS because I brought many old files from my old system. I initially created the FS with case-sensitivity enabled but I did run into occasional problems with some installers as mentioned in the post. It would be nice if craptastic things of that sort (along with those that explicitly require you to be logged in as admin to run - looking at you, Canon) will soon be a thing of the past, but I'm not holding my breath.

What I ended up doing was creating a system partition case-insensitive and then a Users partition that was case-sensitive and set it up to auto-mount by following one of the Leopard tutorials on macosxhints, etc. Just make sure your system partition is big enough for your future needs.

Hopefully this will not turn into a "to partition vs. to not partition" argument as the point is merely to have separate case-sensitivity between system files and personal files. Maybe someone will suggest an alternate method.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
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