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latourfl -- I know what you were asking for. This would be a useful thing to do and I am trying to help you. (Just making an app disappear is also useful, but less so for end users and more so for developers.) So tell me, which things worked? The NSBGOnly and NSUIElement in the Info.plist...

DJ -- do you have this "20 times faster" version? If so, what is the build number? To see the build number, from the terminal, type more /System/Library/CoreServices/software_version Mine prints out: Mac OS X Public Beta (build 1H39) This is the standard PB build. The international...

Here's how I think it is done. (From sourceforge's openstrip developer mailing list archive and my own experimentation). Control click on the desired application. If it is a .app bundle (like most OS X native apps) there will be an option to "show contents." Do this, and open the Info.plist...

Scruffy -- could you run that by me again? The config programs run as "root" even before you "authenticate" them? What in OS X stops any application (possibly malicious) from doing this same thing? Hearing this pains me. I certainly hope Apple, at the very least, decides to ask for a...

Careful with this though... I've had stability problems with this trick. Big, filesystem-eating ones. I also was never able to convince carbon apps to launch as OS X native (and not in classic) with this trick, and opening .app bundle-type apps was also impossible for me. If you know how to...

ITz -- The problem is that it is people like techoncall, who control networks for graphics houses and their ilk, are in no small part going to make or break OS X 1.0. I also think that it is people like techoncall who will most benefit from OS X. No crashes = less lost work = more $$. Better...

I, too, used to be a strong proponent of porting Yellowbox to windows et al. However, I have heard some arguments that have made me think a bit, and now I don't really know how to feel. The argument that yellowbox for windows would bring new and otherwise unported windows apps to the mac...

Nice thinking, amadaeus and scruffy. You guys know your stuff. This is starting to make some sense to me, probably in time for Apple to change everything. I'm at home, harassing my OS X box over ssh, so I can't monkey with the loginwindow hoo-haw too much. I guess the next step when I get...

I believe that you can only install OS X PB on an IDE internal HD in the master configuration. No "slave" drive, no SCSI, no firewire, no USB. I assume that that will change as of X 1.0. As far as upgrading to 9, having the classic environment is pretty nice. It doesn't work all that great...

Desktop.app (the "finder") is indeed carbon -- mostly. It has wierd elements of coca, I hear.... Anyway, it is not launched by "LaunchCFMApp" (which I assume stands for launch carbon framework application), and runs under its own name. ( I think there is an app on softrack and versiontracker...

I think I've posted elsewhere that Apple guarantees that X 1.0 will ship with all Apple hardware elements supported from the Beige G3 on, except the Beige's internal floppy. This doesn't mean that it wont, but it isn't guartanteed to be with the 1.0. As for USB peripherals, getting drivers...

I've read posts from users of 64 MB cubes complaining about how aqua struggles and classic hardly runs, but never anything about a kernel panics due to lack of memory... Have you reported this to Apple? (They have an article in the TIL or maybe on the OS X knowledge base about how to properly...

Here are my $.02 on how the "services" could become a valuable tool. So for Apple to do, in what I consider order of importance: (all of this is just tenered as discussion fodder only...) 1) Make them work with carbon apps. Especially the finder/desktop. 2) Provide an easy interface for...

scruffy -- thanks. well put. techoncall -- sorry, i really didn't mean to sound combative, especially about the cube deal. my bad. if you care to share your specific complaints, i would still be glad to hear them. zach (ps. i seem to be on a posting rampage tonight. sorry for all the...

AFAIK, Terminal Services do not function unless the terminal is already running. This took me forever to figure out, because I usually have terminal running anyway. Why they do not start the terminal up when they are called (or why they need the terminal running in the first place) is beyond...

The discussion here is of a lot higher quality that at most sites, a fact that I enjoy very much. (No flaming, no rogue or difficult users -- macnn readers understand.) The admins are doing great, too. As far as suggestions, I think a more formal "reference library" of a few links to FAQs...

Every time I go back to OS 9 it hurts a little bit. My mouse keeps rolling down to summon a hidden dock when I want to change apps, and now the app switcher seems downright clunky. OS X is so much nicer to use, and I have really gotten to liking its asthetic (There was a discussion on macnn...

Gametes -- thanks for the post. What I'm trying to figure out is the specific way Aqua gets invoked from the Darwin startup process. The fact that it is also re-invoked on typing exit after a >console log in is very interesting. I thought "exit" was a script, but it is not -- typing where exit...

Applewatcher, at the risk of repeating myself overmuch, you would really be wise to search the previous posts (the search link is at the top right of the page...) before posting questions. It's all there, and you might get your answers faster. The dev tools are so large because they include...

Update: >power and >reboot work, but only if the buttons that do the same are not disabled in the prefs. It sure would be nice to have password-protected rebooting, though. Also, thanks AppleWatcher, exit from a Darwin login boots you back to loginwindow.app . Now, my question for anyone...