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TextEdit sucks, it behaves like a UNIX app. ugh.

Problem with Sun is they don't own or do anything useful |-p BTW Java sucks! I hate the language, the API, and the platform. What was going through Apple's head when they tried to improve Swing is beyond me.

I just disable JavaScript.

Sigh... Look dude, I'm trying to get the facts STRAIGHT! You said: psync for resource-fork dependent files. To which I pointed out that backing up the resource fork is NOT going to copy all HFS+ data. You then attempted to correct me by saying these data are backed up because psync...

Heh, that's petty cool... Of course exposing the Foundation and AppKit API to another language is probably one of the easier things to do since it's all a matter of passing messages (instead of a function call where the structure of every call is static). I think I'll stick to ObjC and C...

Finder flags, creation dates, icon location, file types, and file creators are NOT IN THE F***ING RESOURCE FORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Before you post maybe you should know WTF you're talking about!

Nobody else has said it so I guess I will... RealOne for OS X SUCKS!!!! I mean WTF, are they STILL using the Event Manager?! It gobbles idle CPU like a mofo! Its even worse than Acrobat Reader! They should just make some QuickTime codecs and stop trying to sell their Real Player Plus...

If you encounter a misconfigured VISE installer you can bypass the stupidity by using AppleScript like: tell application "badly configured installer" to doinstall It will install without quitting the apps. As for Explorer itself the primary reason it's faster is probably due to fiddling...

Uh guys, you SHOULD tell him that HFS+ has other file attributes which will not be copied this way. Things like finder flags, creation dates, icon locations, file types, file creators, etc.

POSIX are just a set of standards. Some of them are good, some of them are crap. I especially hate POSIX file paths, but that's just me. I wouldn't worry about it. HFS+ isn't POSIX anyway since it defines file attributes POSIX does not, and also doesn't allow two files to be in the same...

System 7 revised a large chunk of the toolbox API not to mention adding a lot more functionality. I don't know where you've been getting your misinformation, you're dead wrong here. Your comments about the 'kernel' is quite odd considering there wasn't even a nanokernel until System 8.6. Your...

Actually Java Swing apps do NOT conform to Apple's HI guidelines! grr!

Actually the hardware's unit of storage is NOT the file or even the block, but the sector. Files are a wholly unecessary metaphor and abstraction. In fact they get in the way of more finely grained storage units. As for floppies, I didn't find ANY resistance to get rid of those. In fact I...

Why not just USE ObjC? perl is just a useful file groker. You can mix perl and C already |-\

If Tk were an API actually capable of making apps which behaved like Mac apps I would support the effort. Needless to say, I don't |-p

Assuming "much" means "must", that's 100% bullshit. The Darwin kernel loads kexts using the firmware. That's why you can boot and root from disk controllers for which there isn't a driver for in the kernel, or even supplied for by Apple! If you want further confirmation check out the Darwin...

As far as filesystems go the primary problem there is UNIX itself doesn't have an API to deal with filesystems which are more rich than those used 30 years ago. Furthermore UNIX lacks API abstraction for things like links. I also really hate the fact that the filesystem root is the root of a...

erm...using what API? If it's Tk, forget it unless you just want to make crappy apps for your own enjoyment.

Services might actually be useful if the hotkeys would stay the same, grr! As it is now it's pretty much useless. Command-what now? Oh I'm using App X, that means a different modifier. AAAAAGH! Apple doesn't appear to be in a rush to fix such issues either |-\

If gcj works with gcc 3.1 it should, try compiling it. g77 works. You might want to ask the Darwin Dev email list.